Echo Park have brought out two great Christmas paper ranges and Tanyah now has them in store!!
A bright and funky range - Everybody Loves Christmas
and a more traditional christmas range - Merry Christmas
These papers are fantastic to create those Christmas layouts but today I have used them to make some quick Christmas cards.
Card 1. Using the Everybody Loves Christmas range I have used the Ornaments paper and Trim the Tree papers to make these cards.
I have also used cardstock, embossing folder, embossing powder, paper string, mini alpha letters, and an old stamp I had at home.
Card 2.
Card 3
With the Merry Christmas range I have just used the Tis the Season card paper.
As you can see there are a few cards with blank spaces in them so I have decided to use my computer to add a message for my cards.
Here's what I have done....
Cut out the cards from the paper.
I printed out on the computer a few favourite verses sized to fit into the cards I just cut out.
With double-sided tape I attached the cards straight on top of the page I printed out.
Fed it back through the printer, printing out the same page again, producing this....
Here's a really easy card and tags I have made with the card paper: I have just used embossed cardstock but would great with co-ordinating paper from this range.
Hope you have enjoyed checking out the new Christmas ranges from Echo Park!
Happy creating...xxxooo
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Christmas with Echo Park - Nicky Amber
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Monday, October 18, 2010
Step by step layout by Tanyah Payne
Hope the weekend was a wonderful one for lots of you out their, Thankyou to so many of you that pop in here and check out what everyone is up to. We get a buzz when you comment, for your feedback makes it all worth while.
With all this new product coming into the shop lately I had to have a play. As some of you may know texture & mess is my world within scrapping. Getting your hands a bit dirty is heaps of fun!...
So I have decided to use the Dark Room Door NEW products Viva range - Ferro. Man alive this is like a moose like texture to apply you can almost eat it....lol. BUT when it drys the colours are so vibrant, with a sand paper like texture.... it is a fun product to work with and would recommend it to anyone that LOVES TEXTURE......
Here is my creation from friday night... early morning....lol!
Products used:
Check out Nic Creates NEW COLOURS of Rolly Roses... they are divine and beautiful to work with.
Thankyou for reading and hope I have inspired you to create your own paper beyond what it originally was.
If your after any of these products please click on the links or go to our shop
www.scrapncraftwitht.com.au. We will do our very best to help you.
Till next time
have a wonderful Monday
TanXx
Tanyah Payne.
With all this new product coming into the shop lately I had to have a play. As some of you may know texture & mess is my world within scrapping. Getting your hands a bit dirty is heaps of fun!...
So I have decided to use the Dark Room Door NEW products Viva range - Ferro. Man alive this is like a moose like texture to apply you can almost eat it....lol. BUT when it drys the colours are so vibrant, with a sand paper like texture.... it is a fun product to work with and would recommend it to anyone that LOVES TEXTURE......
Here is my creation from friday night... early morning....lol!
Products used:
- Bella Melrose Vintage pattered cardstock
- Nic Creates, - Rolly Roses - Purple mix
- Glimmer mist: key lime, yellow
- Dark Room Door - Viva Decor - Ferro - Silver
- Crafters Workshop Templates - Swirls
- Felt
- Thickers
- 2 Crafty chipboard swirls
- sewing
- Lace
- Distressing Tool
- Sanding Tool
- Prima Swirls/flower blings
- Bella - Fundamentals - felt butterflies
Check out Nic Creates NEW COLOURS of Rolly Roses... they are divine and beautiful to work with.
- Using a place and white patterned paper like Bella Melrose Vintage pattered cardstock your then able to colour your paper any way you need to match your photos.
- Place your paper on a mat or inside a box and spray your Glimmer mist: key lime, yellow across the page. Change over to other colours you require
- Leave to dry
- Find your Crafters Workshop Templates - Swirls and place over your page as desired
- Using your finger or a pallet knife use the Dark Room Door - Viva Decor - Ferro - Silver quite generously and lay it over your template. When covered areas are finished take your template off and wait for it to dry. I did use a heat gun to speed this process up a bit.
- Using one 5x7" photo and 2 smaller 4x3" photos I sanded the edges and places where i wanted them to go
- At the top left corner i cut out a shape and placed Felt in the missing hole
- Using a scallop ruler/ using your corner rounder punch and make a template. I then made a scallop border out of Felt and placed at the bottom of the photo.
- Lay Lace over the top of the Felt
- Using Nic Creates, - Rolly Roses - Purple mix I created my flower cluster along with adding the pearly bling flower from Prima Swirls/flower blings flourishes.
- Placed a raw 2 Crafty chipboard swirls under the Nic Creates, - Rolly Roses - Purple mix flowers
- Using the Prima Swirls/flower blings cut a small amount and placed it at the top left of the page.
- Then using the Bella - Fundamentals - felt butterflies and placed these on the swirls.
Thankyou for reading and hope I have inspired you to create your own paper beyond what it originally was.
If your after any of these products please click on the links or go to our shop
www.scrapncraftwitht.com.au. We will do our very best to help you.
Till next time
have a wonderful Monday
TanXx
Tanyah Payne.
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10/18/2010 09:53:00 AM
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Sunday, October 17, 2010
Using Layout Kits - by Annie Zorzo
Have you ever tried using a layout kit? You'll find that everything you need is there in the kit already cordinated, and not necessarily with papers from the same range, so you don't have to go matching things up. You can use it to make more than one layout and with the leftovers, and there generally are left overs, you can make up some cards! So this week, I've used a monthly kit of Tanyah's to make a layout.
In the kit, I had (the ones with an asterisk are the ones I used on this layout):
To make a layout like this:
1. Trim the Floral Lace Paper to the shape I wanted.
2. Peel the self adhesive backing off the lace paper and carefully put the lace paper down somewhere with the sticky side up.
3. OPTIONAL STEP...I used the pale blue cardstock, but I wanted it even lighter, so with the back of the lace paper that I peeled off, I used some blue tack and stick it to my cardstock where I wanted the lace paper to eventually go. I then used white paint and a dry brush to daub some white paint on the cardstock. In hindsight I didn't really need to use the backing paper to do this as I could have just daubed stright onto the cardstock, but I thought I'd let you know incase you want to use the same masking technique on another project!!! Here's how it turned out anyway!
4. Stick your lace paper down onto the card stock. I defined the straight edges of the lace paper with white painted dots.
5. Pleat some mesh ribbon along the bottom edge and top this with twisted lace. You may have to secure it in places with some staples
6. From the Savannah - Fairy Dust paper, cut around the flowers and the fairies, ink the edges and slide behind the upper edge of the pleated mesh ribbon
7. Cut a 5 inch circle from the Little Sprout - Baby's Breath paper, ink the edges and place on the right hand side about a third of the way from the top.
8. Sand the edges of your photo and slide behind the flowers and the faires and over the left edge of the circle
9. Finish with the Kaisercraft Rhinetone word, teeny tiny letters and flower sprays. I also added some pearl scrolls that were not in the original kit but I just like them and wanted too!!
So if you want to take a bit of the guess work about which papers and embellishments to use, go for a kit. You'll be surprised by what...and how much...you can come up with from just one kit.
Enjoy your day.
In the kit, I had (the ones with an asterisk are the ones I used on this layout):
- Savannah - Fairy Dust Paper by Three Bugs in a Rug *
- Little Sprout - Baby's Breath Paper by Fancy Pants *
- Lydia - Light Floral Paper by GCD Studios
- Floral Lace Paper *
- Pink, Pale Blue * and Mid Blue Cardstock
- Teeny Tiny Stickers by Sam & Lucy *
- Rhinestone word by Kaisercraft *
- Mesh Ribbon *
- Lace *
- Floral Sprays *
- Paper flowers
To make a layout like this:
1. Trim the Floral Lace Paper to the shape I wanted.
2. Peel the self adhesive backing off the lace paper and carefully put the lace paper down somewhere with the sticky side up.
3. OPTIONAL STEP...I used the pale blue cardstock, but I wanted it even lighter, so with the back of the lace paper that I peeled off, I used some blue tack and stick it to my cardstock where I wanted the lace paper to eventually go. I then used white paint and a dry brush to daub some white paint on the cardstock. In hindsight I didn't really need to use the backing paper to do this as I could have just daubed stright onto the cardstock, but I thought I'd let you know incase you want to use the same masking technique on another project!!! Here's how it turned out anyway!
4. Stick your lace paper down onto the card stock. I defined the straight edges of the lace paper with white painted dots.
5. Pleat some mesh ribbon along the bottom edge and top this with twisted lace. You may have to secure it in places with some staples
6. From the Savannah - Fairy Dust paper, cut around the flowers and the fairies, ink the edges and slide behind the upper edge of the pleated mesh ribbon
7. Cut a 5 inch circle from the Little Sprout - Baby's Breath paper, ink the edges and place on the right hand side about a third of the way from the top.
8. Sand the edges of your photo and slide behind the flowers and the faires and over the left edge of the circle
9. Finish with the Kaisercraft Rhinetone word, teeny tiny letters and flower sprays. I also added some pearl scrolls that were not in the original kit but I just like them and wanted too!!
So if you want to take a bit of the guess work about which papers and embellishments to use, go for a kit. You'll be surprised by what...and how much...you can come up with from just one kit.
Enjoy your day.
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10/17/2010 07:00:00 AM
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Friday, October 15, 2010
a 'LOVE-ly' card by Ingeborg Dijkstra

I am such a girly girl and I love hearts and pink! So ... I decided to make a card with a big heart and lots of little handmade pink roses! I first stamped the sentiment at the bottom two corners:

With my Sizzix machine I cut a big heart out of patterned paper (KaiserCraft Flutterby Collection) as a base for my 'heart of roses':
I used scraps of patterned paper (from the KaiserCraft Flutterby Collection) to create the little roses (see collage below, please click on the picture to see larger images). First I drew a spiral shape and cut it out. The shape doesn't have to be perfect; once you start rolling nobody will notice ;-) !
Starting at the end I carefully rolled the spiral until it won't go any further. I added a bit of Tacky Glue, held it for 30 seconds and done!
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Thursday, October 14, 2010
Twelve - My Minds Eye SO SOPHIE
LOVE double sided papers - they are so versatile and you can use them as background or use both sides as I have done in this layout.
1. We will use the teal cardstock as the background
2. From the red cardstock we will cut a circle – 19 cm in diameter
3. From So Sophie “In Love” we will cut a piece using the paisley side 6 x 9 inches. Heavily ink all edges
4. Cut a 6 x 8 inch piece from the remaining So Sophie paper. We will use the teal side heavily ink all edges
5. T ake mesh and cut 27 cm and cut angle on one end. Adhere. I just use double sided tape and lay it where the photo will cover it up.
6. Select photo. I have used a 6 x 4 portrait in black and white
7. Using a circle cutter ( Tan has them on preorder ) cut a circle from the red cardstock 19 cm in diameter
8. Adhere photo and circle
9. Adhere Bingo tag
10. Raise Maya road journal tag on pop dots
11. Adhere large red ricrac
12. Adhere small trim of red ricrac on top right of layout
13. Adhere Kaiser key with small rose wrapped around it onto the red ricrac
14. Adhere small roses to journal tag. I have twisted the stalk around a pen to give them curled stems
15. Add title and journaling and owl
1. We will use the teal cardstock as the background
2. From the red cardstock we will cut a circle – 19 cm in diameter
3. From So Sophie “In Love” we will cut a piece using the paisley side 6 x 9 inches. Heavily ink all edges
4. Cut a 6 x 8 inch piece from the remaining So Sophie paper. We will use the teal side heavily ink all edges
5. T ake mesh and cut 27 cm and cut angle on one end. Adhere. I just use double sided tape and lay it where the photo will cover it up.
6. Select photo. I have used a 6 x 4 portrait in black and white
7. Using a circle cutter ( Tan has them on preorder ) cut a circle from the red cardstock 19 cm in diameter
8. Adhere photo and circle
9. Adhere Bingo tag
10. Raise Maya road journal tag on pop dots
11. Adhere large red ricrac
12. Adhere small trim of red ricrac on top right of layout
13. Adhere Kaiser key with small rose wrapped around it onto the red ricrac
14. Adhere small roses to journal tag. I have twisted the stalk around a pen to give them curled stems
15. Add title and journaling and owl
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Mini Album using the Rock Chic range- Nic Amber
My niece recently celebrated her 10th birthday by having a disco party, after playing with the Rock Chic papers I thought they would match perfectly to make an album marking the occasion.
I have used the Bella mini bracket album as the base...
...to which I added some pink paint around the edges and ran a couple of pieces through the cuttlebug with the checkerboard embossing folder to give it a bit more texture.
I have used the papers, Dark Angel
and the Rock Chic cardstock ATC sheet.
This range has a lots of co-ordinating embellishments to enhance your project, from chipboard pieces to journalling tablets and more....
I have left spaces for my niece to put in photos and comments later.
Tip. Getting the most out of your embellishments...In the above picture, you can see I have cut around the shape left over after I pushed out a journaling die-cut and used it to embellish the project (it's the white bracket shape). This uses up something that may have just been thrown away.
Materials I have used include:
Happy crafting...xxxooo
I have used the Bella mini bracket album as the base...
...to which I added some pink paint around the edges and ran a couple of pieces through the cuttlebug with the checkerboard embossing folder to give it a bit more texture.
I have used the papers, Dark Angel
and the Rock Chic cardstock ATC sheet.
This range has a lots of co-ordinating embellishments to enhance your project, from chipboard pieces to journalling tablets and more....
I have left spaces for my niece to put in photos and comments later.
Tip. Getting the most out of your embellishments...In the above picture, you can see I have cut around the shape left over after I pushed out a journaling die-cut and used it to embellish the project (it's the white bracket shape). This uses up something that may have just been thrown away.
Materials I have used include:
- Bella mini bracket album
- Rock chic papers, Dark Angel and Rock Chic cardstock ATC sheet.
- music shaped chipboard
- paint
- flowers
- sequin trim
- paper string
- music note printed twill
Happy crafting...xxxooo
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10/13/2010 06:00:00 AM
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Tuesday, October 12, 2010
Something NEW - Something Different...with a layout by Tanyah Payne
Worth checkout out! our Design Team Member Nicky Amber has started making her own embellishements for scrapbookers, for going out wear and for dressing our little girls...
Nicky's latest creations I couldn't help but be inspired by them and make a layout. Some of you have seen the layout on facebook already.
It is interesting how the background came about, just playing around with some glimmer mist and a large lace doilie
Thankyou Nicky for allowing me to use your beautiful Flowers and my cousin for allowing me to use her beautiful childs photo I had taken at a Church camp.
Thanks again for looking, hope you have a lovely night
till next time
TanXx
Nicky's latest creations I couldn't help but be inspired by them and make a layout. Some of you have seen the layout on facebook already.
It is interesting how the background came about, just playing around with some glimmer mist and a large lace doilie
Products Used in layout:
- Nic Creates - Rolly Flowers
- Glimmer Mist
- Making Memories Paint
- Ruby Rockit - Upstairs Downstairs Range
- Felt
- White string Beads
- Carolee's sleek white alphas
- A2Z scraplet Tree
- Prima Bling
- mesh (from bunnings)
- Crafters Workshop Templates
- Kraft Cardstock
INSTRUCTIONS....
- I placed the lace doilie over the Kraft cardstock
- Using 3 colours of glimmer mist - Autumn night, Coffee Shop, Olive and lightly sprayed from side to side over the top of the lace doilie
- Took the doilie off and waited for the page to dry (which isn't long at all)
- Using the Making Memories Paint, I placed a blob in the middle and then used my cutting mat and swipped the paint all over the place of the centre of the page.
- MY BACKGROUND IS NOW COMPLETE....
- Now my layout...
- Using the Crafters workshop 'Orchid' template I traced the outside scolloped edge onto felt and cut it out. Then adheared the felt onto the page.
- Using the string of pearls, I hand sewn these onto my layout. It is really easy and all i did was put a hole into the cardstock and thread the needle through and then went over the string of pearls and back through the same punched hole. Did this around the entire bracket shape.
- I cut a 8" strip of plasters mesh (from bunnings) and adhereed to the left side
- Then Cut a strip of Ruby Rockit - Upstairs/downstairs range and placed under the sanded/distressed edged photo
- Hand drawn the scollop strip and placed over the bottom of the photo joining into my sewn grouped embellishment of flowers made by nicky @ nic creates.
- Then I glimmer mist the A2Z scraplet tree with Indian Corn Glimmer Mist and adhered to the right of the photo, joining with the group of embellishments in the corner.
- Embellished a bit more by cutting the prima bling into smaller swirls and placing where ever i desired.
- Title
Thanks again for looking, hope you have a lovely night
till next time
TanXx
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10/12/2010 06:41:00 PM
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Step by step layout by our guest Designer Ruby
Today our Guest Designer Ruby has given us a lovely sample using the My Mind Eye papers.
Products used:
Your have now created your own master peice thankyou Ruby for your inspiration.
till next time, thankyou for reading
luv tanXx
Products used:
- My Minds Eye - So sophie
- My Minds Eye - Lush flocked paper
- Making Memories Paint
- Bella Butterflys die cut paper
- Bella Bling
- Green Tara Flower stems
- Carolee Creation mini Alphas
- Thickers
- Lace
- Green Tara Leaves
- Cut My Minds Eye - Lush flocked paper paper to 6.5" x 10" and place in the middle of yourMy Minds Eye - So sophie page
- Tear the bottom edge of the My Minds Eye - Lush flocked paper to give a rough look
- Place your 5"x 7" photo to the left side
- Place your journaling spot to the right side of the pattern paper
- Using Making Memories Paint around the edges of your photo to give a white wash border
- Place Lace over the bottom part of the photo
- Place a small strip of My Minds Eye - So sophie pattern paper over the top of the Lace
- Group your embellishments together and place at the bottom left of the photo
- Make a smaller group of embellishments to go at the top right of the photo
- Title your layout at the top using Thickers and Carolee Creation mini Alphas
Your have now created your own master peice thankyou Ruby for your inspiration.
till next time, thankyou for reading
luv tanXx
Monday, October 11, 2010
Bo Bunny Petal Pushers - a layout by Sue Smith
This week's layout is another creation using the gorgeous double-sided Bo Bunny Petal Pushers range. I just adore these versatile and pretty papers.

To start with I took some Bright Pink Chromatics cardstock that matched the flower colour in the patterned paper I intended to use and sprayed the edge with Glimmer Mist (Sherbert) which doesn't really show up in this photo...

Next I cut down a sheet of Bo Bunny Petal Pushers 'Bloomers' paper on all four sides, rounded the corners, and lightly inked around the edge before attaching to the cardstock....

Then I added some Mesh Ribbon...

I made a mat for the photo out of Green Chromatics cardstock and cut a scallopped edge, then doodled inside the scallops with white and black gel pens, and attached it to the layout on an angle....

To embellish this basic layout, I cut out individual flowers and leaves from the Bo Bunny Petal Pushers 'Bloomers' paper and stuck them on with foam squares. The tri-coloured plastic flowers I used are from a great pack of Dress It Up Floral Revolution buttons. Each of the colours in these buttons can be interchanged with each other and locked into place, giving you the flexibility to choose whatever colour combo you feel like.
Tanyah has a fantastic range of buttons from this company, and you can see all available styles here.
Here is some close-up detail of the flowers on my layout....

To finish off the layout, I added a Maya Road Kraft Scroll journalling spot on which I used Carolee's Creations Tiny Alpha stickers, a title using American Crafts Thickers 'Shoebox' and a pretty pink Green Tara Flower Spray. Finally I added a glittery finishing touch to all the flowers with Kindy Glitz in Pink and Crystalina.

To start with I took some Bright Pink Chromatics cardstock that matched the flower colour in the patterned paper I intended to use and sprayed the edge with Glimmer Mist (Sherbert) which doesn't really show up in this photo...

Next I cut down a sheet of Bo Bunny Petal Pushers 'Bloomers' paper on all four sides, rounded the corners, and lightly inked around the edge before attaching to the cardstock....

Then I added some Mesh Ribbon...

I made a mat for the photo out of Green Chromatics cardstock and cut a scallopped edge, then doodled inside the scallops with white and black gel pens, and attached it to the layout on an angle....

To embellish this basic layout, I cut out individual flowers and leaves from the Bo Bunny Petal Pushers 'Bloomers' paper and stuck them on with foam squares. The tri-coloured plastic flowers I used are from a great pack of Dress It Up Floral Revolution buttons. Each of the colours in these buttons can be interchanged with each other and locked into place, giving you the flexibility to choose whatever colour combo you feel like.
Tanyah has a fantastic range of buttons from this company, and you can see all available styles here.
Here is some close-up detail of the flowers on my layout....

To finish off the layout, I added a Maya Road Kraft Scroll journalling spot on which I used Carolee's Creations Tiny Alpha stickers, a title using American Crafts Thickers 'Shoebox' and a pretty pink Green Tara Flower Spray. Finally I added a glittery finishing touch to all the flowers with Kindy Glitz in Pink and Crystalina.
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10/11/2010 07:00:00 AM
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buttons,
doodling,
Embellishments,
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Step by Step-Single Layout
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