Wednesday June 29 WEEKLY encouragement challenge… continued

****** Feel free to post completed pages to the Mister Link at my blog site, but all contenders for the RAK must be posted at scrapbook.com in the daily/weekly encouragement forum.

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any two to the picture or mat

A) distress the edges of one by rough them with scissors, filing, sanding

B) use paper strips- placed or weaved under pic as mat: [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/527639/view/3126477/-1.html]example[/url]

C) add decorative corners(use punches, stickers, rubons- be creative)

D) Use at least one mat but do not place it directly under the picture. Place it cock-eyed.

STEP FOUR-

Add three or more flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but THREE must be one of the following:

A)[url=http://mycreativescrapbook.invisionzone.com/index.php?showtopic=1743]6 petal rose bloom[/url]

B) [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB_lOpnbJC4&feature=related]Camelot type flowers

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C)[url=http://simplypaperandcreativity.blogspot.com/2010/07/elegant-ruffled-flower-tutorial.html]elegant ruffled flower[/url]

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STEP FOUR-

Add any number of flowers and flourishes of your choice and number but ONE must be one of the following:

A) [url=http://flyingunicornllc.blogspot.com/2010/05/tecchnique-tuesday-another-flower.html]puffy ribbon flower[/url]

B) [url=http://wendysscrappincorner.blogspot.com/2011/06/tutorial-grunge-delight.html]Grunge Delight Flowers[/url]

C) [url=http://increations.blogspot.com/2009/02/fringed-flowers-ii.html]double fringed flower[/url]

D) [url=http://foldingtrees.com/2008/11/kusudama-tutorial-part-1/]kusudama flower[/url]

E) [url=http://scrapperlicious.blogspot.com/2011/06/porcelain-flowers.html]Porcelean Flowers[/url]

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be stickles or glitter type of trim or fiber

Wednesday June 15 DAILY encouragement challenge

STEP ONE- select a sketch you want to complete. Add the URL or link to the post so we know which layout you will lift. If you post a sketch without the correct amount of pictures, be sure to note how you plan to alter the sketch to meet the picture requirement. A great site to get sketches is: http://pagemaps.com/

STEP TWO - gather your papers that you will use today paper do any one of the following to these papers

A) add texture to your page... try embossing or any creative measure you can. here's a tutorial on [url=http://kayskreativekorner.blogspot.com/2011/04/brick-texture-chipboard-tutorial.html]brick texture[/url]

C) Use an old book or magazine page as one of your papers

D) Paint on one or more of your papers

STEP THREE- - select one of your pictures and do any TWO to the picture or mat

1) Crop at least one to a shape other than the original

2) silhouette crop at least one picture (to make it fit the area on your sketch or scraplift place it on a mat that is about the size of the original

example:

[url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html][img]http://www.scrapbook.com/gallery/public/2626557_8_187619.jpg[/img][/url] [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Keep Going & Going- LIFT[/url] By [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/galleries/187619/view/2626557/-1.html]Ms.Schwiet[/url]

3) paper roll (or fake paper roll by glue paper behind picture). Here’s a tutorial on how this should be done, but feel free to improvise. [url=http://52sketches52weeks.ning.com/forum/topics/tutorial-creating-paper-curls]Rolled paper[/url]

4) add decorative corners(use punches, stickers, rubons- be creative)

5) do pleating around the picture- [url=http://www.scrapbookcircle.com/2010/01/faux-paper-pleating-tutorial ]Pleating 1 Tutorial[/url]

or here [url=http://bootscraps.blogspot.com/2010/02/making-ruffled-paper-border.html]Pleating 2 Tutorial[/url]

and here too [url=http://ideasforscrapbookers.blogspot.com/2010/07/circle-punch-demo.html]Circle Pleating[/url]

STEP FOUR- The economy is tough so make your own embellishments! Make TWO handmade embellishments but ONE must be:

1. [url=http://razzledscrapper.blogspot.com/2011/05/counterfeit-kit-may-blog-hop.html]Jean bow ties [/url]
2. [url=http://www.scrapbook.com/videos/?m=view&v=1271]Tissue Paper Butterfly[/url]
3. Homemade [url=http://crystalscraftycreations.blogspot.com/2011/05/homemade-washai-tape-mini-tutorial.html]washai tape[/url]
4. add [url=http://scrappinmargie.blogspot.com/2011/02/how-to-make-decorative-page-pebblesa.html]page pebbles[/url] or [url=http://andreawalford.com/stampin-up-tutorial-tuesday-faux-page-pebbles]more page pebbles[/url]

STEP FIVE- Time to add embellishments. Feel free to add others or more but ONE must be stickles or glitter

STEP SIX-- Title Time with a Twist. It's up to you about placement, product and size, but whatever you use ONE of the following-

D) "bling it up" in some way

E) Glossy Accents: just add some glossy accents

F) make it pop add pop-dots or even cardboard, balled up scrap paper, or anything to make the title the whole or part of the title pop

STEP SEVEN- Add whatever doodles and journaling you want to the page, but you use ONE of the following-

5) at least two lines of journaling on the page or hidden on the page

6) Doodle a flower or florish. Here's some [url=http://www.papercraftjunkies.com/content/2009/01/doodling-made-easy-series-3/]examples[/url]

7) Make an envelop from one of the templates [url=http://www.ruthannzaroff.com/mirkwooddesigns/templates.htm]here[/url]and tuck a note into it.

8) Find a spot to create a Zen-doodle

[url=http://www.squidoo.com/how-to-zentangle]Zendoodle[/url]