Hello, my crafty friends, and welcome back to Weekly Scrapper. Our show season is about to start and I am so excited to have the opportunity to craft with you in person. I hope you enjoyed seeing some of the projects that we will be creating together in the Creativity Center.
I am looking forward to another fabulous year creating with all of you at Stamp & Scrapbook Expo. Today I will be sharing inspiration designed by some truly talented paper crafters, so sit back, relax, and enjoy a little creative “me” time; you deserve it.
You Will Forever Be My Always by Cathy Cafun
Cathy’s layout was inspired by her priceless wedding photo, but can’t you also see your Valentine’s Day pictures on a similar layout? I know I can. I love how the gold and white color palette provides the perfect background for the amazing black and white photo. It’s truly elegant.
I hope you’ve been inspired to break out your favorite chipboard embellishments – the gesso, texture paste, your favorite stencils – and create some magic. For a complete supply list click here and I will be happy to escort you over to Cathy’s Blog so you can take notes. Remember our motto: No fear, don’t overthink things, just have fun with your art. You’ve got this.
Pencils Over Pigment Ink By Debby
This sweet card is sure to brighten anyone’s day. What makes these stunning cosmos appear to pop off the card is the technique that Debby used. She stamped the flower using Altenew Stunning Cosmos Stamp Set and pigment inks on kraft cardstock and added the details with some Faber Castell colored pencils, You’ll even get to break out your distress oxides.
I love how Altenew Layering stamps really take the guesswork out of shading; each set comes with both a background stamp and a detailed version of the same stamp. You are going to love them! Debby, being the sweetheart that she is, has linked all the supplies at the end of her article so hop on over and check it out, you’ll be glad you did. Debby always has lots of tips and techniques to share.
DIY Clip Frame Tutorial by Shanty 2 Chic
If you are a true DIYer at heart then you are going to love this sweet clip frame that I discovered on the Shanty 2 Chic Blog. Would you believe that with a little help from the two amazing sisters over at the Shanty 2 Chic blog you can make your own customized frame for about $5.00?! It takes under half an hour and that includes time to print out one of those priceless photos from your phone. Wow!
What a great pishky (small gift) to send to your loved ones. Because of the clip holding the photo in place, think of how easy it will be to update the photo throughout the year. What’s not to love? You have a $5.00 gift that you created in under half an hour that everyone will enjoy all year long. Go you! I highly recommend stopping by to spend some quality DIY time with Ashley & Whitney. I must confess I never used a drill or nailgun in my life until I discovered the Shanty 2 Chic blog and now I’m a maniac. Hugs to Ashley and Whitney for being such an inspiration to their fellow DIYers.
Meatball Tortellini Soup by Sugar & Spice By Celeste
This hearty Meatball Tortellini Soup is the perfect choice for a cold winter’s day. If you are a fan of chunky soups with plenty of yummy ingredients, then you are going to love this one. All you really need to add is a loaf of your favorite artisan bread and you are good to go. You will be happy to hear that this delicious soup is a healthier choice than some, so there’s no guilt (well, until you add the bakery bread and butter). 🙂
Click here and I will be happy to take you over to the Sugar & Spice by Celeste food blog so you can print out the recipe. Bon appetit, my friends! 🙂
Thanks for a great visit; I hope you have an amazing week ahead of you. I’ll catch you next Sunday. Hugs to all!.
OMG! This soup looks absolutely amazing! I am almost drooling over it! I am pretty sure that is what supper will be tomorrow night! TFS!
What a beautiful card. Shading is very good. Love to read these , they are very inspiring!
Hi Lorraine, what a lovely selection above. Thx for sharing!
Love the technique done with the card! Amazing!
Wow, so inspired by the ideas. I can’t waut to try the stamp and color pencil technique! Thanks!
Beautiful card and layout! Yummy soup and darling gift ??✂️?
Lorraine! I can’t wait to see you in Grapevine and in Kansas City! I won’t give you a “police ticket” this year I promise, ha ha. You are always the bright spot at the expo!
Great products. The soup recipe is making me hungry.
This is absolutely lovely!! I’ve seen you on your You Tube channel pencil in this flower. It was memorizing!! Still trying to find some time to try this technique!!
I really need to learn how to color like that….it’s stunning
What a beautiful card!
Love the shading and coloring. Just beautiful and dinner looks yummy too
Thanks for the reminder to pull out some chipboard and create!
Love such creative ideas! Always inspiring.
I love Altenew products! So clever!
I never thought of mixing ink stamping and colored pencils. Another idea to try.
I LOVE the card. Can you talk some more about the distress oxides – I don’t know what those are? I need to use my colored pencils more – this gave me some ideas. : )
Wish my coloring looked so life-like! And the soup looks ever so yummy.
I love that cosmos card. Great inspiration for my altenew stamps.
I’ll just have to try the technique used on the card. Thanks for sharing! ?
I love how the card is stamped and then penciled. Its stunning!!! Such a beautiful technique that is very easy!!!
What wonderful tips, thank you. The soup looks amazing, especially since the windchill is -20 here in Mpls. Just waiting for the Super Bowl to start. Have a super day.
Tortellini soup has me sidetracked from the projects. The pencil card is stunning
Hello. I love the card. It’s beautiful with the pops of pink and yellow.
Wow, those are some amazing projects, definitely inspiring.
I have never been a fan of meatballs, but that soup looks amazing! I love learning new techniques. For years I wanted to go to the creativity center at EXPO but never made it because the lines are so long. Last year I made the Creativity Center my priority and loved it. I can’t wait to see you in Arizona in September.
YES, love the card and technique. I have done this myself, and it just provides such an elegant portrait of the finished product. I love the receipes you include also. I love your articles and seeing you at the Expos.
Great job on your part. You make us all get an incredible……you can do it attitude. Thanks for the inspiration.
I’ve seen you doing demos at expos but what I don’t understand is, do you sign up for one of your demos ahead of time or wait for one to end and grab a seat? LOL
I LOVE SCRAPBOOK EXPO!!!!! Can’t wait until it comes to Chantilly!!!
Love the beautiful card !! Thank you y’all for sharing!!
Lo e the card and the frame too
Wow, some great blogs and things to share! I love the DIY frame. I will check out the blog from Whitney and Ashley on Shabby2Chic. I think my 2 sons might actually “craft” with me if I pull in some tools to do so. I LOVE the card by Debby using Altenew Stamps and pencils. Definitely need to break mine out on this Super Bowl Sunday and take some “me time”. Thank you for the suggestions.
Lovely card! Soup too! Will enjoy trying them both.
Thanks for sharing some great ideas – love the card and will use that technique for some cards I will make. I’m busy “organizing” stamps while reading e-mails and watching videos as a diversion from football today.
The flowers are stunning. Hope you will teach that technique at the Expo.
Counting the days until Chantilly…
Gorgeous!!!
So awesome
Love the scrapbook page and the card is very pretty
Love the Cosmos stamp set and your coloring made them come to life. The scrap page was stunning and the soup looks delish! Thanks for sharing.
Always appreciate and enjoy creative ways to bring florals to life! Thank you.
So pretty!
I live florals, they make great cards.
Love all of it and the soup has my mouth watering.
Love those cosmos! Coloring is gorgeous.
I love love love the cosmos coloring. They just jumped out at me! Thanks for sharing the technique for this.
Oh my I love your card so much! Shading is beautiful?
Love it all!
Beautiful card! Looks so real you could pick it up off the page.
I love the white and gold page but it looks totally intimidating to do. Ahhhh but I can dream!
I love all the ideas, but I simply couldn’t get over Debby’s card! Just beautiful work. Thanks for always sharing such great ideas and so much talent with us each week.
That Scrapbook wedding page is stunning! I am inspired to try something similar. Thanks for all the amazing ideas. Soup looks soo yummy! See you at the Pleasaton Expo. I can’t wait!
Love the colored pencil technique. It really makes the flowers pop!
How beautiful. I am learning so much. Thank you for sharing
I love the layout and the soup looks yummy!
Love the scrapbook wedding page.
That lacy wedding layout should be framed and displayed on a wall. It’s beautiful. I also really like the floral card. Can’t wait to see what’s next.
The card is beautiful. I may have to try that technique on my next card.
I have never worked with chip board but I’ve made soup! And that looks wonderful. Thanks for the ideas!
Love the wedding page layout.
Hi Lorraine,
I agree with Lois you are the highlight at the “Stamp & scrapbook EXPO” I love visiting the creativity center & when I can’t visit the “EXPO”, I love reading your blog & trying the techniques & recipes, sometimes tweaking them a bit to suit me.
Can’t wait to see you in Pleasanton.
Phyllis
The card is beautiful! I ‘m so excited you’ll come to the Orlando area in April.
Love the wedding page layout!
The flower is beautiful with the color shading. I ‘m so excited you’ll come to the Orlando area in April.
Thanks for all the great ideas!
Lovely card! I’ll have to try your technique soon. Thanks for sharing.
This is my first time here! I plan to visit regularly from now on! Your wedding page really is eye catching… breath taking, too. NICE
Love the cosmos card!
The card is beautiful!! Love the colors!
HI there how do I sign up for these wonderful classes? I live in northern Virginia
Loved the card.
would love to do the shading, my cards would look so great with it
Simply beautiful & flawless! I love the color coordination as well as the card layout. Thanks for sharing
OAN: The soup looks yummy!!
Wow now my mouth is watering, as I dig out my pencils. I will definitely play with this technique while the Super Bowl is on.
The flowers on that card are gorgeous! I love the clip frame too. So cute! Can’t wait to see Lorraine at the Expo in Duluth this summer, she is always such a hoot!!
Loved the flower shading.
See you in pleasanton in 1 month!- yea!
Thank you for all of the inspiration! Love the bright colors of the card as well!
Fab projects! Yummy recipe! Can’t wait to see you in Grapevine, TX!
I’m not a card maker but this is very cute. I could get into the coloring.
I want to fall in love so i can make that layout…while eating meatball soup!
Love the card
Love seeing the new post!
The shading of the card is beautiful. A must try for me as I am always looking for ways to challenge my creativity. Thanks for inspiration.
Amazing. Thanks for sharing these wonderful ideas.
I love your card the colors are so vibrant. Thank you for sharing
That card is gorgeous!! ? the technique!!
Absolutely stunning! Going to have to try my hand at this but I highly doubt mine will come close to your beautiful work.
Simple, but elegant. Thank you for sharing
The birthday card is beautiful. Want to learn how to make those beautiful flowers.
What talent! You make it seem “easy” but it definitely is a gift! Those flowers are gorgeous!!!!
Beautiful card by a beautiful lady. I Love scrapbook expo. I can not wait! I love the creative center and seeing you there with such patience and putting up with all of us! Thank you for sharing with us!
So much inspirations! Going straight to the craft room 🙂
Fabulous card……I almost got my scissors out to cut a small bouquet! Sooooooooooo life-like and beautiful!
Love the simplicity of the cosmos card. I must try this.
I’m inspired to get back to scrapping
Beautiful love the technique I am certainly going to give it a try
Your card is fabulous! I wanted to grab my scissors and make a beautiful bouquet from these beautiful flowers!
Pencils over pigment – who would have thought it would turn out so beautiful!
A snowy day here in Wisconsin, so what better to do than see and read about your awesome projects featured – and I can almost smell the delicious soup!!
The card is just beautiful. I love using the pencils because I feel they are very forgiving They make it very easy to control the color just like you picture it in your head.
Such a pretty card.. I can’t wait to try this
What a beautiful card! I will have to try the technique.
Beautiful cosmos stamp set
This is such a beautiful card. Can’t wait to try this technique
Love the looks of the soup, especially this crazy winter…need soup! Will try the cosmos card..fun!
I love the beautiful flowers..so plain but absolutely gorgeous. Will be fun learning how to make them.
Love the pencils over pigment card. Hopefully I’ll get a seat at the Creativity Center, it’s always packed.
Sundays with soup, crafts and Lorraine. HOW AWESOME!
Beautiful! Please bring this to Atlanta this summer 🙂
Beautiful wedding page! And the soup looks so delicious!
Love the penciling and stamped card.. so looking forward to Orlando!!! I am 66 and love what you have postef!! Thank you!!
lovely especially the monotone one.
Sunday soup!! Soup any day is my favorite. Thank you !
Gee Whiz…how exciting to check this blog out and see creative stamping and delicious menus. What a captivating combo! I love new ideas that are so beautiful but easy enough for us-non professionals to pull off. I truly loved the simplicity and gentleness of the flowers with the bold pop of the greeting – things I wouldn’t usually use together – but seeing the samples draws me in with joy and motivation to get to my craft room. Thanks oodles! Wanting more!!!
Love the inspiration! Beautiful wedding layout.
I love Altenew stamps , they are beautiful in any medium. Ink , watercolour, pencils
Winner please
Love the gold and white color palette on the wedding photo. Beautiful and the tortellini looks yummy. Inspired
So simple but so pretty!
Thank you for the wonderful inspiration.
I lived all your ideas. Especially the DIY frame and picture with clips. I like the idea to change the picture and so easy
Love your style
I think I can take a break from my crafting table for a bowl of this soup. And yes of course with a torn piece of artisan bread with nothing less than butter. I love soup any time of the year and even though it’s 87* in sunny California (not bragging). Looking forward to Pomona.
The pencils over pigment ink is very creative!
The pencils over pigment ink is very creative!
That soup looks yummy. I love the “you will forever be my always page”
Works for wedding or anniversary or going off to college!
Hope to see you in Pleasanton March 2018
Wow! Love the colored pencils over the pigment ink technique! Will need to try that.
Also love the wedding page layout.
Love to accessorize with beads and eyelets. They add so much with just a little. Looking forward to Kansas City.
That Altanew card is gorgeous! Thanks for always sharing such amazing inspiration!
What a beautiful Wedding layout! Love the card as well.
Beautiful Card by Debby.
The pencil over pigment ink looks very interesting. Would love to see this in person in Orlando.
I met you in Schaumburg,IL last Oct at the expo. My daughter and I had a terrific time. Thanks for the chocolates at your class.?
boy, those colored pencils really make those flowers stand out, beautiful!
Love working with the colored pencils. Please bring some of these techniques to the Expo at Marlborough, MA this fall.
Love using colored pencils and would love to make this beautiful card.
Simply beAutiful! Love the gold and white.
AAlways an inspiration…….
Nifty technique using pigment inks & colored pencil. I’ll have to try it!
Those flowers are amazing looking! Fun to be a big kid!
You are so talented!
The pink POPS! Beautiful!
Beautiful page.
There is a first for everything – I’ve always wanted to create using eyelets and I’ve never had meatball soup with tortalinie! I can’t wait to create and enjoy something new!!!
Sunday, yesterday, I made Navy Bean soup (what my husband wanted to watch the Superbowl with……and hey, we – the Eagles – won)!
But, I was in my craft room, as usual!
And that gorgeous floral card is something that I just HAVE to try (as well as the new soup recipe)!
Always love learning new techniques!
I want to learn how to make that card!
The page was outstanding and it does want you to use the chipboard on more pages. The floral card is absolutely gorgeous. I only wished mine would turn out just as nice.
That tortellini soup looks amazing!!!
I love the altenew card. I also love Sundays with Lorraine
love your work
Such a lovely card!
Crafts should transform you out of your comfort zone. When you are done you can officially say I did that and feel really good. Great ideas keep it up!
What better way to boost your creativity! Great combo!
The way you colored the flowers is wonderful!!!!
That wedding LO is absolutely gorgeous! I love the layers of lace and trims but it still lets the photo shine through, which is what any good LO should do. After all the bride should be the focus on her wedding day.
The card is so pretty! I have never tried colouring over the ink. That looks like a great technique.
Thank you so much for sharing all the great projects! 🙂
Beautiful and talented!
Beautiful enjoy your work
I can’t believe those flowers are stamped. I definitely thought they were a sticker or some other type of embellishment to give it that dimension. Also, the wedding picture reminds me just how much work I have to do, since I’ve done nothing with my wedding pictures. Time to get moving!!
Love the things you create.
I love the added touch of the dew drops.
Love the Pencils over Pigment post.
The wedding layout is absolutely phenomenal! Love the inspiration, as well as the Shanty chic frame. Such a wonderful affordable, simple gift idea for friends and family.
Looking forward to seeing you again this year in Duluth!
Great projects and ideas – thanks for sharing !
Sundays have become my fun day – I always start it out with Lorraine
So many cute ideas. Thanks for sharing.
Love the flower card. A great way to use colored pencils. Can’t wait to try it.
I can’t wait to try making flowers that beautiful!
Love the work you do.
So much fun!! So creative!
I love the wedding layout! Your designs are so inspiring!
Beautiful work all around. ❤
Love your work!!!!