Friday, August 1, 2014

Couture Creations | Imaginarium Designs Blog Hop

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Welcome to Day 5 of the
We’re so excited to team up with Imaginarium Designs, sharing inspiring projects created with both our product collections. What could be more perfect than Couture Creations Embossing Folders and Dies and Imaginarium Designs  gorgeous Chipboard designs.
Each day this week the Couture Creations Blog is featuring our Design Team projects and over on the Imaginarium Designs Blog they will feature their Design Team projects all created using Couture Creations and Imaginarium Designs products. So loads of inspiring projects for you to help get your creative juices flowing.
There will be links to the tutorials on each Design Team members blogs on the Couture Creations Imaginarium Designs Blogs, please show all the designers some love and leave a comment on their blog.
Play along and go into the draw to win one of the two $100  prize packages filled with Couture Creations & Imaginarium Designs goodness that will be randomly drawn at the end of the week, so be sure to play along and check back on both Imaginarium Designs and Couture Creations blogs Monday 4th August 2014 to see if you’re one of  the lucky winners!
All the details on how you can play along are on the Couture Creations and Imaginarium Designs Blogs
Hop over to the Imaginarium Designs Blog and see what their Design Team has created using their Chipboard and our Couture Creations products! What are you waiting for – hop over!  oh and don't forget to follow our  Couture Creations Design Team Blogs


Here is my layout and tutorial
As soon as I received this Star Goods Train Chipboard in my Imaginarium Designs pack of chipboard goodness, I knew I had the perfect photos of my son (who is now 19) when he was young playing with his wooden Thomas train set, but do you think I could find them, not in the time frame I had so I messaged my Niece and asked her to send some photos of her son Blake that I could use. When I find the photos of my son I will scrap another page to go with this one.


ok onto my tutorial


Start off by painting the Imaginarium Designs Childhood Memories and Star Goods Train Chipboard with blue acrylic paint and set aside to dry

 Next using Gold Glitter Paste and Moulin Rouge Lace Die add some texture to the top left and bottom right of your base card. Set aside to dry and make sure you wash off all excess glitter paste from your die.


Once Star Goods Train Chipboard is dry emboss the bottom sections of the carriages using 4 Leaf Clover Embossing Folder 


here is a look at the chipboard painted and embossed


lightly sand the train to revel some of the chipboard core


to make the chipboard a bit grungy spray with Walnut Ink and while still wet rough the edges of the chipboard. The Walnut ink also helps tone down the blueness of the paint. Set aside to dry


Next cut 12 x 1.5cm  strips and 2 x 1cm  strips of patterned paper using different but coordinating papers, I have used Simple Stories papers from Homespun, A Charmed Life and DIY Boutique as I feel these papers are just perfect for my photos.


Select 4 x 1.5cm strips and emboss them using 4 Leaf Clover, Small Dots Lg Barb Wire and Zig Zag Chevrons,  and emboss the 2 x 1cm strips using the Christmas Quilt Embossing Folders. Using the folder centre slot to run your strips through the folders.


When using the embossed strips on your page you can change it up and use the debossed side if you like, as I have done with the small dots.



 Cut your 1.5cm strips down half to 28cm and half 26cm 
Apply 6mm double sided tape to the backs of all your strips


Die cut 1 x Chandeliers Lace Border.
TIP; Remember you don't need a extended cutting plate to die cut these dies just carefully run through one section and then the extra bit





Distress the edges of all papers and the base card and then using a sponge dauber ink all the edges with a brown dye ink



Including the Lace Border. Spray the base card stock lightly with Walnut Ink, this will soak in and dry quickly.

Now you can layer everything onto your page. 


 Spray the Imaginarium Designs Embellishment 8 Small Chipboard with watered down Walnut Ink giving them just a touch of colour


Use the off cut pieces of 1.5cm strips to create little pennant clusters


Add some glittered chipboard stars for some sparkle


The 1cm strips along the top and bottom of the page are embossed using the Christmas Quilt embossing Folder.




Don't forget to visit all of today's Designers,
just click on their names for a link to their personal blogs for their tutorials

and don't forget to share the love


 Happy Creating 
Kerrie


9 comments:

Tracey Cooley said...

Love all your textures and the gold stars

Unknown said...

fab creation and my son wants me to make one now as he is into Thomas too xx

Amanda Baldwin said...

So many wonderful elements to this page!!! Love all of it; the embossing, distressing, the chipboard, & composition. All fabulous! Great page, Kerrie! Love it ♥

Glennis F said...

My goodness - there is a lot of work there - but a great result!

Adriana B said...

Awesome techniques ..... Kerry everything looks great :)

TracyM #6773 said...

FUN & FABULOUS layout Kerrie :)
LOVE all the colours & textures of your page!!!
Good luck on finding your son's photos ... isn't it wonderful to have been part of something as timeless as Thomas that is still going strong?
THANK YOU for sharing your CREATIVE INSPIRATION ... and CRAFTY TEMPTATION!!!

cghundley said...

Wow, what a great
layout! All those
layers and work
look wonderful!
Carla from Utah

Lauren T said...

Great tutorial. Don't you hate it when you know you have the perfect photos but can't find them?!

Tina Connolly said...

Fabulous page Kerrie, love all the embossed textures.