Interested in the Ocean, Keys, Summer or Clocks?

 I joined a swap where I needed to create four ATC (football card size) designs. Yep, you guessed it!  The categories were ocean, keys, summer and clocks.  Here are the cards I am sending to my swap partner.

Sure hope Karen likes them.

Brenda

Japan Blossoms Digital Kit

Welcome back to Pelican Crafts.  Today I have a new digital kit to share with you by Paperomia, Japan Blossoms.  This kit is to "die for", literally not figuratively.  The kit consists of 50 full page designs, 15 pages of two-page designs, fussy cuts, pockets, tags, and the list goes on.

Here is a sneak peak of the kit I will be working on in July.  Be sure to check back often to see what I come up.  Enjoy!

Brenda

Ephemera Holder using the Spring Collection by Paperomia

June is drawing to a close and so is the time I will be working with this beautiful SPRING COLLECTION by Paperomia.  It has been a great pleasure working with this collection.  It consists of 105 beautiful floral papers and a 23-page ephemera package.  To end the month of June and my projects working with the Spring Collection, I have created an ephemera holder using tags from the ephemera package.

I resized a tag as large as I could get it (5-3/8" x 9-5/8") and used it as a template to cut out a "tag" from each of the different color groups, decorated them and added a ton of ephemera. To reinforce the hole at the top, I used an 1/8" circle punch to create the center, then I used a 1/2" circle punch to punch around the small hole, viola' a reinforcement. I placed these on the front and back of each tag for durability.

 

Ephemera Holder

I hope you enjoyed watching the video. Be sure to come back often.  I will be creating projects using the Japan Blossoms Collection by Paperomia which can be found here.

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Signature vs Journal -- Spring Collection Digital Kit by Paperomia

I created a signature (a group of papers bound together) for one of my projects as a Design Team Member for Paperomia.  I used a sheet of card stock for the cover and decorated it with images from the White section of the Spring Collection. I added doilies, writing paper, copy paper, journal paper, etc. for the pages and then added ephemera.  I hope you like it. Please let me know what you think.

Signature vs Journal

Master Board using the Spring Collection Digital Kit by Paperomia

When you craft, do you end up with a pile of scraps?  I know I do.  I save these scraps, yes even the small ones, and I create master boards with them.

What is a master board?   A master board is a collage of images.  These images can be random or they can be created using one subject.  It is totally up to you and what look you are trying to achieve. 

What size is it?  It can be any size you want. Most are made using 8-1/2x11 or 12x12 inch piece of paper or light cardboard.

How do you do it?  You take your pile of paper scraps and pick out a piece randomly and glue it to the base (cardboard). Keep doing this until the base is completely covered.  You can go back and add random pieces of ephemera if you choose.

What do you do with it?  You can cut a master board down to create pockets, tags, bookmarks, belly bands, card fronts -- just about anything your creative mind can come up with.

How do I cut it down?  There are two methods.  You can have the design facing up and you can pick and choose what images you want on which piece of ephemera. Or, you can turn the blank side up and cut-a-way creating those tags, pockets, etc. and be pleasantly surprised by how they look when you turn them over.  It is all how YOU want to do it.  There is no right or wrong way.

Shown below is the last master board I made using the scraps left over from projects I made out of the Spring Collection Digital Kit by Paperomia.

I have created a video on how I cut this master board into a belly band, several pockets and tags.  I hope you enjoy it. Please leave me a message and let me know what you think.

Master Board Video

Graphics Fairy Collage Challenge for week of June 17, 2024

Prairie Style images were provided by Graphics Fairy for this week's collage challenge.  Creating with these images made you go back in time to wonder how the early pioneers survived all the trials and tribulations of the time.  So much fun!

Diana's card is on the left and mine is on the right.  Let us know what you think!

     

Graphics Fairy Collage Challenge for the week of June 10, 2024

Under the Boardwalk -- what a great title for this week's Graphics Fairy images.  What fun!  We live close to the beach, albeit no boardwalk, but we do live within 8 minutes of a beach, lol.

These images are fantastic and go so well together.  I really like the seagulls, birds always bring a smile to my face.  Diana's creation is on the left and mine is on the right.  Enjoy!

  

Diana made a beautiful pocket and tag and I simply put every beach image I could find on mine, lol.  Have a great day and come back soon.

Brenda

Graphics Fairy Collage Challenge Week of June 3, 2024

Graphics Fairy Weekly Digitals were called Goldfinches & Geraniums.  Beautiful images, although I was challenged on how to put them all together.

Diana's collage is on the left and mine is on the right.

      

Same images, totally different look.  Love it!

Brenda

Framed Artwork

Diana mentioned to me one day, "What about using a canvas?" My response was, "I have never done anything on canvas before, by why not?"

So from Diana suggesting the idea, my mind wrapping itself around the idea and coming up with a design,  today we have the end result, my first Framed Artwork.

I used the beautiful pink flowers from the corresponding Ephemera Kit of the Spring Collection by Paperomia,  I printed the flowers in several sizes onto white cardstock and fussy cut them out.  Yep, every single one of them, plus the bird (It's probably a good thing I like to fussy cut.)! I was able to purchase the frame and the canvas at our local Dollar Tree store (yay) and I painted the canvas using the Pretty Peacock re-inker from Stampin'Up!

The canvas dried about four days later and I was able to finish the project.

Brenda

DIY DVD Cover

Wow, it is done!  What?  My DIY DVD Cover and contents.  VIDEO has been added.

For one my June projects as a Design Team Member for Paperomia I created a DVD case to hold everything I made using the Pink portion of the Spring Collection.

I took a blank DVD case, measured it, used one of the sheets of paper from the Ephemera Kit that goes with the Spring Collection and started decorating it.  I fussy cut a couple of images from the Ephemera Kit, attached one to the front and one to the back. Used die cuts for the saying (cut three sets out and stacked them).

 

Dimensions of insert:  7" x 10-1/2"

I created four greeting cards, a gift enclosure card, two pockets, a bookmark and three tags.  This is a great gift to give someone for a birthday, Mother's Day or a "just because" day.

   

      

Check out my YouTube Channel Video here.