Scrap a Card

A big warm good morning to all your wonderful crafters out there! :)

Winter has certainly set in here, and its sooooo difficult to get out of bed each morning! I wish the lil ones didnt have school! Hehehe.. Anyway..

Thanks for playing along with us at challenge # 23, we shall be announcing the winners soon!!

 Here's our new challenge for this fortnight :)

 CHALLENGE #24 - Use your Scraps 

and here is a card that I made from my left over scraps and embellishments! The idea of this card is that you can make a totally new card from various bits and pieces lying around.

The flowers. laces, paper doilie and the die cuts were all available from previous projects.

The edges of the printed papers are used with "Old Distresser".

Under the image, I stuck of the white lace and the white satin ribbon from my last project. 

Then, I added a small bow with a fall of ribbon " pink Organza " and I decorated it with a small pearl heart.

I used a stamp " Stampart ". I colored it with " Distress ink "

- Ink "Distress Tattered Rose" and "Distress Vintage Photo" for the skin.

- Ink "Distress Tea Dye" for hair. 

- Ink "Distress Walnut Stain" for shoes. 

- Ink "Distress Worm Lipstick" for the dress. 

-  Glitter Stickels Froste Lace (socks, lace of the dress, the flower).

I have stamped my image on the available die cut and then embossed it with "Heat Gun", some ink " Versamark " and some powder " Frantage - Shabby Pink ". Then, I stuck it with the foam 3-d.

All the flowers are covered with some touches of "Glitter Stickels".

I added borders "Butterflies" that was lying around to add some glam. I embossed the second with some ink " Versamark " and some powder " Frantage-Enamel - Aged Pink ". I stuck the butterflies only on their body to give of the volume.

Thats all from me for today! :) 

We hope you play along :) 

Ill be back with a tute on creating gorgeous backgrounds with Lindys! :) 

Thank you for all the appreciation of my work, it inspires me to create more! :) Leave us some love :) 

 Supplies used- Welcome to Lulupu's Challenge #24 - Use your scraps Please click on the blue box below by Inlinkz to add your entry with a direct link to the specific post. Thanks for participating! We'll hop on over to your blog soon to check it out! :) 

 Team Lulupu!

Sponge Daubers 3/Pkg	Melt Art Ultra Thick Embossing Enamel 4 Ounces	Sizzix Big shot Teal	Quilling Fine Tip Scissors	Frost Lace
Walnut Stain Distress Ink Pad	Paper Doilees	3-D Foam Tabs	VersaMark Watermark Ink Stamp Pad Large Dazzle Frost	Ranger Inkssentials� Heat It� Craft Tool
Terrifically Tacky Tape .25"x5 Yds	Koi® Water Brushes Medium	worn lipstick	Tea Dye Distress Ink Pad	Vintage Photo
Inkessentials ink blending tool

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Update on Winner of Challenge #22 - Cook it up.

An extremely unfortunate and disheartening incident has been brought to our notice, hence this post. It breaks our heart to say this, but it needs to be spelled out. We are appalled by the fact that one of our challenge participants has used someone else's layout and passed it off as her own. Had we known about this, under no circumstances would we have selected the entry as the winner. We thank the crafter who brought this up and routed us to the original blog post made in 2010.

Stealing someone's image(s) is immoral and unethical. When a crafter enters a project to our challenges, we trust that it is made by them and do not doubt their abilities and creativity. We believe that as a community of passionate crafters, we are absolutely capable of creating something on our own.

Also, as there are a lot of crafters who do not blog at all, when we see a new entry with a new blog with just that one post, we do not automatically doubt the ownership of the images. And when we were scanning the entries, we loved the brilliant work amongst all and decided to reward the participant as the winner.

We are in the process of addressing this with the participant and simultaneously exploring avenues to ensure such incidents do not happen in the near future. You can expect an update from us in this regard in the near future.

As a word of caution, we would also like to advise our participants that there is a strong possibility that our projects / images can be stolen and passed off as someone else's. So one of the steps one can take is watermark the images at prominent locations which cannot be cropped or makes it difficult for an individual to reproduce as their own. It is difficult to control to actions or desire of an individual to copy someone’s work, but we can safeguard our own work, should it ever land in the wrong hands.

Please be assured that we are working on addressing this issue and will do the needful. Look forward to your cooperation.

Thank you,

Team Lulupu.

How to : Mixed Media Layout Tutorial

Hi All !! Shilpa here, with a Mixed Media Lay out and its tutorial. Hope you are liking our latest Challenge#23 -'Scarp your scraps'  by my very talented colleague Pooja.

New year and we are always tempted to buy new crafty products. I am renowned for not being able to throw the smallest scrap of paper away. There are so many ways to use those beautiful scraps right?  So here is my take on this fortnight challenge theme...

Since I knew I was going to share this project here on the Lulupu blog, I've taken the photos of each step to show what wonders you can make from Scraps!. 

Let's begin the fun...

Here you can see how I have arranged the scraps. always do hit and trial before you stick em all.

Then I decided to create a Balloon. I had first cut another piece with Hot Air Balloon shape. Then I cut curved patterns and glued. You can see those all are different and from scraps.

So I started off  with my Chipboard square piece which I use often !! I layered paper strips horizontally  and adhered them with Modge Podge. 

  Here, you will see thin  white layer on the base, that's Gesso. Gesso is a primer which is used in Artwork mostly in painting and mixed media. It gives strength to the base and options to play with lot of colour mediums.

Once the Gesso was dry, I took out my favourite shades of acrylic paints and Gelatos. I smugged the colours on all edges. So this is colour layering.

  Next step was to add texture with stamps and stencils. I used Ranger's black Archivel Ink, Adirondak inks, beautiful Kaiserkraft texture stamps, Crafters Workshop stencils and Studio Calico Masks from Lulupu. I used markers and Gelly roll pens too.

I ended up putting a lot. And eventually I wound up with a background I liked!

I did  the same procedure with Balloon.

And when I put together background piece, balloon and words, Voila !

Such fun and easy to make, isn't it ? I hope you enjoyed the tutorial. So, share with us what you make with your leftovers.

 Some of you might be new to Mixed Media, if you've any questions about this project, add them below in comments, I'll be happy to answer them.

And entries for 'Scrap your scrap' challenge will end on Jan, 31st.

Our Creat a Calendar Challenge is still open till 20th Jan, so you've time to make one and win Rs.500 Gift Voucher from Lulupu Store.

Happy crafting friends !!

Materials used :

Chipboard Extra Heavy 12"x 12" Natural 2pc	Mixed Media MAMBI 12"X12" 48/Sheets	Gesso - Ranger	Script Texture Clear Stamps 2"X5"
3-D Foam Tabs	Archival Dye Ink - Jet Black	Ranger Inkessential Craft Sheet	Ranger Inkssentials� Heat It� Craft Tool
Botanical Odyssey Clear Stamps 6"X4"	Mod Podge Matte Finish	Zephyr Paper Pad A4 48 Sheets	SureCut Deluxe Paper Trimmer 12"

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Lulupu challenge#24 - "Scrap Your Scraps"

Hello everybody ! Its Pooja again

Welcome back to the Lulupu blog for a brand new challenge!

I hope you all are enjoying your winters unless you are in USA in mid of a polar vertex ! 

So keep warm and keep crafting :) 

This time we decided to have a popular theme back ! 

Scrap your scraps ! 

Yes! it means you need to use your scraps for a Card or a LO. 

Challenge #24 Scrap your Scraps !

Challenge #24 - Qualification Guidelines 

{General Guidelines - here}

1. Create a Card (any size or shape) or a LO. 
2. You must use "Scraps" from old projects.
3. We mainly want to see use of left over or scrap pieces of Pattern paper or card stock etc.  
4.  In your blog post please explain how you used scraps 
5. The Inlinkz for this challenge will close on January 31st, 2014 at 11:55 PM IST. 
   
   Easy peasy right?! So get going guys! :)
    

And the winner will get 

STUDIO CALICO-Mister Huey's Here & There Chevron Mask

 

And a

STUDIO CALICO-Snippets Collection - alphabets 200 Pk

Itsnt it superb ?? 

So all the best !

Now time for my inspiration 

Like any other crafter i have bags(and boxes, he he) full of scraps ! Which i hardly use :P but it gives me great satisfaction to know that a lil bit of my fav Paper or CS is still in there somewhere !  

so when we decided to go with this challenge i was very happy to dive into my scraps like uncle scrooge did into his gold stockpile !

I had a few ideas for this challenge but suddenly while going though my scraps i found this beautiful big piece of scrap PP which basically is like a negative and BAM it hit me ! so i built the whole card around it !

 If you are wondering why i have a neatly spaced negative of scrap :)  well i always plan on how to cut out diecuts from the PP , in this case i wanted to use the page in such a way that if tomorrow i wanted to cut out even a smaller design then it would fit into the space in between. (Yes thats way too much planing i know)

So once i found the piece I inked the edges blue ,

Before placing the scrap in place i decided to go with some stamping underneath.

 

 I also had a scrap piece of foil heart cut with the same die , so i fit it together. 

TIP : If you dont have too many stencils , try making your by using dies repetitively on a transparency or a thick foil piece , that way you can use it for masking and it is even good with gesso or texture paste.

 The flowers are handmade and the oval die cut with the sentiment is actually a scrap too 

it was not properly cut oval , (its basically weird shaped underneath the flower placement , so its not seen !) 

The banners on the side are also left overs from the PP i previously used ! 

Hope you liked my card , i find it very refreshing 

cant wait to see your comments and your projects ! 

Thankyou !

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Supplies : 

Crate paper- 14 paper pad	MME on the bright side one	Sponge Daubers 3/Pkg	Pumice Stone Distress Ink
Shabby Shutters Distress Ink	Tumbled Glass Distress Ink Pad	Terrifically Tacky Tape .5"X5 Yds	Tweezer
2 Mini Misters Set	Quilled creation needle tool	Quilling Fine Tip Scissors	3-D Foam Tabs

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