Weekly Challenge | Make it Pop!

It's time for a new release and a new challenge with Digital Delights by Louby Loo! This week at Delightful Challenges our challenge is Make it Pop! You can add dimension with foam tape or some other substance or use layers. I have highlighted a few elements with my homemade flower fluff---if you've missed the tutorial it's linked in the list below the photo. I LOVE this months cupcake digi--Wendy has been making one for each month. They are precious. This one is all about fall and has sunflowers...well by now you KNOW about the thing I have for sunflowers! Have a FABULOUS Day!! I hope you enjoy my card! Thank you for looking!

Digital Delights Stamps : August Cupcake Set

Summer of Smiles Sentiment Set

Card stock : Bazzill and Neena

Markers : Spectrum Noir [GB1, GB2, GB4, GB5, GB10, OR1, OR2, GG1, LG1, LG2, LG3, CG4, IG5, EB1, EB2, EB7, EB8, EB10

Accessories :  Tombow Aqua & Scrapbook Adheasives, Homemade Flower Fluff

a ~St It Scrap

This weeks theme :

Make it Pop!

add layers or use dimension

Challenge Rules below

Our Delightful Sponsor this week is

www.thecharmbarn.com

Prize:  to be determined
 It hare It

Now it's Your Turn!

You are not required to use a Digital Delights 

Image to join in the fun 

but if you do, you can enter THAT project TWICE.

To enter twice when using a Digital Delight image,

for your 1st entry use your card link.

For your 2nd entry use your blog address

 and add "2nd entry" after your name

Otherwise, only ONE entry person

**Please be sure to follow the challenge theme and rules or it will be removed.

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Bloom Obsession!!

Friday night on my Crafty Gig  I shared with you these awesome dies that I've added to my tools from Cheery Lynn Designs.They have a whole set of Build a Flower dies that when used together create fantastic handmade flowers. While creating these flowers, I experimented with a process for making a flower fluff product for use with my flowers that I had seen on Pinterest. I have since added a micrograter to my tools and perfected the process for creating the flower fluff. I hope you enjoy the replay of my Friday night show--embedded below--along with the quick and easy tutorial on the Digital Delights Tutorial Blog where I show you how to make your own fluff!

Cheery Lynn Dies used

Embellishment #2

Sweet Williams D137

Daisy Strip B259 

***Tuesday Tutorial with Digital Delights by Louby Loo***

Happy Tuesday Tutorial! Leslie-Rahye here to share a super easy method for creating a flower fluff product for use with your cards and paper crafting. I think it's perfect for use with Wendy's digital stamps for adding a textured dimension.

Check out the how-to video on our Tutorial Blog or here

I hope you enjoy my tutorial! Thank you for looking~

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Bonus Tutorial | Homemade Washi Tape

Happy Wednesday everyone! I am sharing a special BONUS tutorial on the Digital Delights Blog today on how to make your own washi tape with Wendy's amazing Digital Paper Packs! Check out how simple it really is!

for this tutorial:

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Challenge #5 | Handmade Embellies

Congrats to Susan!!
She won the last challenge for making mini pages/scrapbooks!!
She won a grab bag from CutNPasteMemories.com!

This month's leslierahye's scrappy gig playback


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The Rules

• Challenge runs 3rd Friday to 3rd Thursday of Next Month.
• Create layouts during that time--no linking to old layouts/posts.
• Link to the blogpost, image gallery or facebook photo of your layout...complete entry form for linkup. 
• You may enter as many items as you like but only the 1st 4 [1 per week if you're playing along with my personal challenge] will be entered into the random drawing at the end of that challenge. Winner will be announced on the scrappy gig. 
• Rules may vary as some months may include a theme or things may come up that were not originally thought of.

Thank you for playing along with me!!

Challenge #5| Handmade Embellies
Create pages with handmade embellishments

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It's all about ME | Viva Las VegaStamps! DT ApplicationCover

Today I am bringing you this fun upcycled project using materials that most would toss into the trash. Many of you know my love for upcycled crafts and this project reflects that as well as my love of rubber stamping. Today I am trying out for the design team to the amazing company Viva Las VegaStamps! I am a new fan of VLVS and *most* of my stamps are of the seasonal variety--which you have seen me using on my Festive Friday's posts. For today's project I wanted to show off some fun and easy techniques while sharing a bit about myself.

Cover is a round coaster painted with acrylic paint and embossed using
Sizzix Tim Holrz Texture Fades. A thin layer of Sakura 3D Crystal Lacquer
and Terri Sproul's Mixers in Aquamarine Pearl and Pink Sapphire Pearl was
added and then a definition background  was stamped over the top using
Stewart Superior India Ink in Black. Cover embellishments include teal
feathers, a handmade ribbon ruffle flower [also stamped] and the title
piece stamped on upcycled packing material.

The reverse side of the embossed coaster was painted black
and then a thin layer of lacquer with the Violet Pearl interference
was added. The statement on this page was also stamped on
upcycled packing material. Embellishments on this page include
hand stamped flower petals and feathers and a pre-made butterfly.

The base of this page is a piece of upcycled packaging
covered in the upcycled packing paper. The surface was stamped
with both definition backgrounds and gears. The quote was stamped
on a separate piece of packing and attached with Mod Podge.
edges were inked and hand-stamped flower embellishments
with feathers and bells were added.

The back side of the upcycled packaging received layers of UTEE
and a couple of layers with Aquamarine Pearl from Terri Sproul's Mixers.
Transparency butterflies were embedded in the UTEE, a texture stamp was
pressed into the wet UTEE to add dimension. The "friend"definition
was again stamped on upcycled packing material and added to the UTEE
coated page with Mod Podge. The feather "flower" was also included
in the embellishments on the page as well as another pre-made butterfly.

In this detail, the cracked cooled UTEE
and the textured UTEE as well as the
swirles of Mixers in the UTEE can be
observed.

This next page is an upcycled toilet paper tube and a upcycled
stained [with Terri Sproul's Mixers from a previous project]
Paper Towel! The Paper Towel was adhered to the Roll with Mod
Podge and then stamped with India ink and edged with Walnut
Stain Ink. The quote was stamped on upcycled packing material
and a ribbon was added to the front as an embellishment.

The reverse side of the Upcycled toilet paper roll was directly
stamped with a fun quote and textured sprocket stamps. The
embellishment on this page includes teal feathers and a knotted
organza ribbon.

The final page is created from a rectangle-shaped coaster
and covered on this side with upcycled packing material.
The surface was dusted on still wet Mod Podge with
Aquamarine Terri Sproul's mixers and Violet Pearl Interference
The gears were stamped with Stewart Superior India Ink.
The glass embellishment was stamped with India Ink, and embossed
with clear Embossing Powder to set the sentiment to the glass.
The slide was attached to the page with Sakura 3D Crystal
Lacquer. 

The back side of the coaster was covered with some left-over
wall paper that a teammate sent to me! I colored the wall paper
with Terri Sprouls Mixers , water and Gum Arabic--a binding
agent. I love using the Mixers as water colors.
The end of the page was embellished with beaded trims and braids.

Thank you for stopping by! I hope you enjoyed my album and will leave me some love. I hope some folks in the west find this project to their liking and give me the opportunity to present more techniques using their amazing red rubber stamps and miracle tape--something that I am POSITIVE I need in my life. VLVS has thousands upon thousands of rubber stamps in as many topics! What a fantastic company! 

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