Colour lovers and the chromatically-challenged have a new best friend. I just discovered Color Scheme Designer 3 and I’m in love!
Everyone needs a FREE UTILITY like this. Whether you need help decorating a room or trying to figure out what colours go with what on a Scrapbook Page, this will answer all your colour-related questions.
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| http://colorschemedesigner.com/ Color Scheme Designer |
It is very easy to use, but just in case, here is a video courtesy DottoTech (love him) .
Enjoy!
~Roberta
I’m glad the July calendar is online now because you can take advantage of our special ‘Beat the Heat’ promotion!
Sign up for any class by June 23rd and get 25% off the class cost. This discount ALSO APPLIES TO CROPS! It’s crazy – sign up for our June Crop (which is this Saturday) and also sign up for next month’s Crop and only pay $3.75 for each.
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| From Roberta Teaches… |
Can you pick out all the techniques I used and surfaces friendly to Smooch in making this frame? I’ll give you a hint: 12.
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| Use inks to enhance stamped images |
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| Decorate a card by applying mists to a wet sponge and stamping/smooshing it along the surface. |
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| Marbling |
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| Marbling |
I designed my own 3D flower template tonight using my Cricut and Sure Cuts a Lot! I can control the size of my petals.
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| Designed on the computer using SCAL and printed out with my Cricut. |
The Pink flower, centre bottom, is the one I designed.
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| I made 4 strips and cut them out with my Cricut |
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| Carefully removing the strips |
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| Here are the 4 strips once I peeled them off the mat |
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| One strip glued on top of the other |
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| rolled flower before peeling the petals back |
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| Slowly peeling the petals back, one by one |
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| I added a third strip using my EKSuccess Punch (the green outside strip). |
Thank you for stopping by,
Roberta
Decorables
A shiny sheet of silver paper intrigued me. I ran it through my Cuttlebug but the impression was not very deep so I rummaged through my scrap bin for tissue paper and also found the inside liner from an old envelope — with a most beautiful green toile pattern.
Using Mod Podge I adhered torn pieces of the papers to the silver shiny paper, leaving slight gaps here and there.
Adding a lovely vintage lady decoupage piece and flower basket, and a rub-on flourish in the top corner, I now have a topper for an altered book cover, greeting card, or addition to a mixed media creation.
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| You can see hints of silver shining through! |
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| Look at the effect of printing it in black & white! Love it! |
Thank you for stopping by,
~Robi
Decorables
If it’s Wednesday, it must be STAMP RELEASE DAY at Addicted-to-Stamps. I loved working with my image this week; it is called Hunting Time by Heather Kilgore. If you are interested in purchasing this image, you may find the details HERE.
I am participating in my first circle journal with 12 other artists. I’m under a kind of ‘publication ban’ – lol – by the group because we want to keep our creations under wraps until we see them when they arrive at our homes. For the uninitiated (like I was ) we each make a journal ( cover and inside pages). We each decorate our own covers and the first double-page spread.
For my journal I chose to use 90 lb cold press watercolour paper for the cover, and 200 lb
warm press paper for
the actual pages. This paper is incredibly durable and I loved using it for this project.
I sealed the front cover with Mod Podge and Liquitex gel medium.
For the back inside cover I used decorative duct tape.
I am kind of sad sending my little journal off into the world and can’t wait to get it back (maybe in about 6 months) when all the participating artists will have decorated 2 pages each and my journal will be a work of art from around the world ( yes, this is a truly International, Trans-continental endeavour.).
Thank you for stopping by!
~Robi
Decorables
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| Collage of various scraps of paper, tissue, cocktail napkins,and paper quilling. Use Liquitex or Mod Podge to apply the pieces. |
During Friday June 3rd’s webisode of ‘Come to Chat’ on the Creative EdVentures Network, Cyn Gagen showed how she wants to make her own business cards — handmade, original and (hopefully) unforgettable. I couldn’t agree more, and as a coincidence, we both have the same base cards to use; leaf-shaped paint chips from Home Depot.
Here are the firs two I ever made. The are evolving and ideally I would like a nice way to ‘print’ my business info on the card or print out the info onto a pretty and/or clear label stamp; we’ll see.
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| Painted with Alcohol ink base, a few scraps of mulberry paper and tissue paper attached. Paper quilling objects, old business card pieces. |
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| This is what the paint chips look like when you get them from the store. |
Thank you for stopping by,
~Robi
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Instructions:
The Box
You will need 3 12×12 sheets of cardstock to form the ‘box’ portion, and you will need a fourth piece of cardstock to form the lid.(6 1/4″ square)
Helpful Tools
paper trimmer
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| Use Paper-trimmer to cut your cardstock |
scissors
scoring tool – like ScorPal or Martha Stewart
Paper clips – they help hold the corners of the lid together while they are drying, so YOU don’t have to:)
Inkpad for edges of the card and papers
Step 1. You are going to take the 3 sheets for the box and using your trimmer, cut:
one sheet to 9 x 9 inches – SHEET A
one sheet to 8 5/8 x 8 5/8 inches – SHEET B
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| Scoring your paper |
one sheet to 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches – SHEET C
Step 2. Now take your cut sheets and you are going to SCORE them as follows:
Sheet A – 3 inches in from each side
Sheet B – 2 7/8 inches in from each side
Sheet C – 2 3/4 inches in from each side
For each sheet you will cut out all the corner squares so you are left with a cross, or small letter ‘t’.
(This is a good time to round your edges and/or ink your edges.)
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| Your sheet of cardstock after you have cut out all corner squares |
You will now attach the 3 cut sheets to form your box. Take Sheet B and place double-sided tape just in the middle square. You will then take Sheet C and place it on top of Sheet B, attaching the back of the middle square of Sheet C to the front middle square of Sheet B. Now put adhesive on the middle square of Sheet A and attach (Sheet B+Sheet C). The only square that will ever have glue is that middle square.
It is now time to make The Lid
The lid needs to be slightly larger than the box, so following the above dimensions, the lid needs to be a piece of cardstock cut to 6 1/4 inches square.
Take your 6 1/4 x 6 1/4 piece and SCORE it 1 1/2 inches in from each side. Gently fold the creases.
Now turn the paper over because we will now make a contrasting crease which will allow us to fold in the edges and form our lid.
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| Pinch the corners inwards and then glue |
You are going to make 4 creases, one from each corner JUST to where you meet the first intersecting lines (it will be a 45 degree angle).
Pinch the corners, fold them inwards and glue them to the inside. I like to use a paperclip to hold the paper in place while it dries.
I like using Scotch Quicky-Dry Adhesive.
Once it’s dry your box is done; and all that’s left is the decorating!! — which really is the FUN part, isn’t it?
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| Secure the freshly glued corners with paperclips until dry |
Remember to cut all your decorative pieces slightly smaller than the page it’s going on so you will have a nice border.
There is room for up to 20 photos.
Have fun with the theme! Here’s a few suggestions:
Engagement box with photos of the couple and anecdotes
Mini-scrapbook box
Happy Birthday — and don’t forget it IS a box and can hold a small present, too!
Use ribbons and pretty embellishments!
Have fun!
DecorablesArt 
