Crafts U Love Demo - Get The Most From Your Journaling Cards (Continued)

3...2...1...BOOOOMMMMM!

Monday is Go! 


I don't know why but the intro music to Thunderbirds just popped into my head then. Did it pop into yours too?

Ok, so you may not have noticed but it is Monday, I know, it was a surprise to me too! I have an explosive card to share with you today to help you get Monday off with a bang!

It is one of my Crafts U Love demo cards (I told you I had a few to share) and it is another from my 'Get The Most From Your Journaling Cards' series and I've used the Becky Higgins Boys Rule Project life card kit.

I might have told you guys this before but I'm a massive space and Sci Fi geek so this one rings all of my bells plus it is interactive, I've put the rocket on a spring so that it wobbles - too cool for school!

I *LOVE* cards with moving elements! Sorry I get a bit excited about space-y things and interactive things. Don't mind me!

Ok you guys! You GO get your Monday, it ain't rocket science! (Well, it might be for some of you, I mean I have no idea what you do in your job, you maybe a rocket scientist for all I know! In which case it IS rocket science!).

Right, I'm out of here, perhaps I shouldn't drink so much coffee before I write my blog posts?

Kim

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Crafts U Love Demo - Get The Most From Your Journaling Cards (Continued)

After the canvas on Monday and the Face for Show Your Face on Friday I was thinking I would shake things up again with a card. What do you think? I still have some Craft U Love demo cards that I haven't shared yet so let's do this!

This is another card in my 'Get The Most From Your Journaling Cards' series and I've used the Becky Higgins Boys Rule Project life card kit with Tim Holtz Abandoned Coral and Fossilised Amber Distress inks.

How To Make:
It is another simple design, I used a craft knife to remove a star from a journaling card and then I used the card with the star removed as a stencil to sponge the inks through on the card blank. The cut-out star was then stuck on top using 3D-foam with a circle and the date tab, both of which were also cut from journaling cards.

If you like this make then you might want to check out these ones too if you haven't seen them already:



Hope you have a great creative Wednesday.

Kim

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Crafts U Love Demo - Getting Inky

Over the last couple of Monday I've been sharing some of the cards that I made for my demo at the Crafts U Love Birthday Event in July. So far I've just been sharing some of my cards using Project Life journaling cards so this week I thought I would shake it up a bit and share something inky!

If you are looking for a simple, but colourful make then how about trying something like this card, above?

It is easy to make and you can do it directly on the card front to make a single layer design. For this make I wiped the card with pieces of Cut N' Dry foam dipped in Tim Holtz Distress Inks from this year's colour releases, Fossilized Amber, Abandoned Coral and Cracked Pistachio and wiped across the surface of the card.

To get the extra texture flick with water and leave it for half a minute or so then lift the water off with a clean paper towel.

To finish the card I stamped the 'Collect Moments' stamp from the Finnabair range from Prima Marketing in Ranger Archival Jet Black ink.

So it is super simple but quite affective don't you think? The water droplet textures is what makes it, but if you have the inks in the refill form you could also flick some of those over the top to get even more lovely texture.

Hope you enjoyed this spot of inkiness today and I hope you have a lovely inky week!

Kim

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Crafts U Love Demo - Get The Most From Your Journaling Cards (Continued)

Last week I shared with you one of my cards from the demo I did at Crafts U Love and I promised you some more, so today I have another share for you. I was working around two themes for my demo, (1) making the most from your journaling cards and (2) using the new Tim Holtz distress ink colour for this year.

Here is another card idea using the Boys Rule Project Life cards, this pack has a very retro-style and is perfect for making this card for a bicycle-lover.

Awesome! and really quick to do too. I've layered it up with 3D-foam but each piece is either part of or a whole journaling card.

Check out last week's Demo share blog post if you want some more ideas for using journaling cards and Project Life cards.

More cards to come over the next few weeks, so stay tuned!
Have a super creative Monday.

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Crafts U Love Demo - Getting The Most From Your Journaling Cards

At the weekend I got to spend a lovely day demoing at the treasure trove of papercrafts that is Crafts U Love. What a lovely shop hidden away in Surrey about 5 miles from Gatwick Airport.

It was the shop's 9th birthday event and it was full of demoers sharing lots of inspiration and tips throughout the day, as well as holding an auction and raffle to raise money for a local hospice. We got to meet lots of people, play with new products and, of course, eat cake!

This means that I have lots of sample cards from the demo to share here on my blog over the coming weeks. Just so that you know, some of the links in this post are affiliated links and you can find out all about how I use them on my disclaimers and disclosures page.


What was I demoing? 

Well one of my *THINGS* at the moment is using Project Life and journaling cards for more than memory keeping and pocket pages. You might have noticed that I *LOVE* journaling cards – they keep cropping up here on a regular basis; I've even made some of my own with the Cricut Explore and then there are the watercolour gem journaling cards that I shared how to make back in January.



If you are predominantly a cardmaker, you may be forgiven for walking past Project Life and journaling cards, thinking they are not for you. For starters, they aren't marketed at you and have been positioned for the memory keepers amongst us.

But we crafters are nothing if not a resourceful bunch and many of us do a multitude of different crafts – I do anything I can get my hands on as you might have guessed by now!

So why not use journaling cards for projects other than memory keeping and pocket page scrapbooking?


Here Are Some Projects To Try:

I've been using them for various different projects –

• If you get Simply Cards And Papercrafts you might have spotted journaling cards being used as backgrounds and embellishments in my article on cardmaking using printing on vellum for Issue 137. 
• Then there's the planner pocket page (yep, obsessed with planners too!) for a tutorial on Blitsy recently. 
• But also they are a fantastic way to mass-produce Christmas cards quickly like I did for the Blitsy Blog last year. 
• They are also great for adding a quick background for an interesting embellishment that you want to stand out like this jean upcycle card.

Or What About this Cute Card?

You can safely say I'm trying to get the most out of my journaling card kits and I was sharing some more ideas on how to do this on Saturday at Crafts U Love.

One of the great things about the packets of journaling cards is you pretty much have a whole kit ready for making into a lot of cards – add a couple of stamps and you are good to go.

Take the super-quick, super-easy and super-cute hot air balloon card pictured above. It is made using the Becky Higgins Project Life Peace, Love and Sunshine pack with a bit of stamping using the Penny Black Stamps Live It Up! Set.

I hope that has given you a fresh look at getting the most from your journaling cards!


More Demo Cards To Come!

Stay tuned for some more to come. I also demoed some inkiness at the weekend with some of the new Tim Holtz distress ink colours, so there will be some samples using these coming your way too.

In the meantime, what else have you been doing with your journaling cards? Let's see how far we can make them work for us, shall we? I bet they would make great party décor items and maybe even home décor items.

Time to get to work and re-think those journaling cards.

Thanks for popping by.
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Demo Time At Crafts U Love

I'm getting ready for my demo at Crafts U Love on Saturday 25th July 2015 this week. Here is a sneak peek of what I will be up to...

[Photo from Crafts U Love]

It's Crafts U Love's 9th Birthday celebration and there will be a lot of demos going on plus a charity auction. You can find out all about it on the Crafts U Love blog.

Hope to see you there.

Kim