Nuneka and I (Aditi) have started a new Instagram Challenge- Nomadic Soul Diaries.
This is a platform for people to share their creativity. We have out of the box Challenges every month, and it sure will challenge you. Our challenges run from 15th of the month to 13th of the next.
We have a team of 50 designers from all over the world. Yes, you heard us right- 50!!
Do follow us and participate to win prizes. Here’s a look at our sponsors.
The July-August 2018 Edition of Through the Craft Room Door Magazine is now available in the Subscribers Only Area of the Website.
Our theme this month is Elephants, Clover/Shamrocks and Candy and we have lots of inspiration pieces from some of the Designers as well as many awesome tutorials for your creative pleasure like how to make a tote using a digital image, Birds from recycled plastic packaging and stamping with bleach just to name a few!
We have an album video tutorial for you all! Here’s a look at the album you’ll learn to create!
Our awesome and talented Featured Digi Artist is Pattie Gomez of Patties Creations. Her talented team of ladies have created some lovely cards to share with us.
Our Special Challenge on the Website is a sketch challenge. Come check out the great inspiration from the Design team and play along! Please note: this challenge is open to ALL members of the Through the Craft Room Door, but you must be a member of the special challenges group to play along for a chance to win a gift card to Amazon.com.
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We have another fun hop for you all! 12 Artists from all around the world have come together again to spread love and good vibes, showing amazing projects, sharing techniques and tips and, of course, lots of gifts. This time we challenged ourselves to make 12 projects with PURPLE as our main colour. We all share this love for PURPLE and it’s going to be amazing to see this colour across various projects.
Today, I, Sunila have created a Mini Album. I have used Frank Gracia’s Mini Album and altered it. The cover pages have been decorated using mixed media techniques. Here’s a look at the album and below is the Tutorial Video.
This time we have 12 amazing sponsors from across the world, sponsoring our hop. Below is a list of all 12.
To enter the giveaway all you have to do is:Â
This one is not Mandatory but gives you an extra chance at winning- Share and Tag your friends, helping us spread the purple vibesÂ
Some artists have personal Giveaways too. So do check their rules to win exciting prizes!
Thank you and watch out on the 28th of June to see if you are a winner! Â
Today we are on the Papericious Blog with perfect projects to document your travels and vacations using the Papericious Let’s Go Paper Collection and Chippies.
First up is a Document Holder.
Next, we have an envelope style mini album to hold all those perfect pictures from the vacation.
Today we have a new Mood-Board Challenge at the Crafts Dreamy Blog! It’s all about the sea, beach and all things fun :-)!
We decided to create a mini tag album, to preserve summer beach holiday memories. And you know what the best part is? We have a tutorial for it!
Sit back, relax and enjoy crafting with us.
We look forward to your participation in the challenge!
We’re submitting this project for:
Mixed Media World May Challenge– We were inspired by the Sea, the Blue and Brown Tones and the pebbles; it all too us to the beach.
Today we’re on the Papericious Blog with two projects using the “Kiss The Cook” Collection. This collection by Papericious is fantastic for multiple projects. We’ve also used the Papericious Desk organiser and altered it for the Kitchen.
We’ve made a Recipe Folio as well and we have a detailed tutorial for it.
Today we’re on the Papericious Blog with two projects and a tutorial.
We’ve played with the new release shadow box and Gilded Onyx Papers.
Here’s the link to the tutorial and a look at our creations:
We’re submitting this creation to:
Mixed Media & Art January Challenge- Dreams: we were inspired by the colour palette, the sketch and flowers from the mood board.
Here’s mini album:
We’re submitting this creation to
Mini Album Makers- February Challenge– we have a flip through of the album in our tutorial.
Today we’re on the Papericious Blog with a mini album tutorial using their New Release Products Love Actually Paper Pack and Mini Shakers.
We have a giveaway too…
So watch the video to know more about the Giveaway.
Happy December!
We are so excited as this month is mostly going to be fun Christmas projects!
Today we’re on the Papericious blog
with projects using their latest release.
We’ve used the Monochrome Paper Pack and the new 3 D Chipboard Elements.
Here’s our first project- A Snowy Christmas Scene
We’re linking this project to:
A Vintage Journey Winter Wonderland ChallengeÂ
Our second project using this Paper Pack is a Recipe Album. It was a great Christmas Project to keep save Grandma’s Christmas Recipies :)! This Black and White Monochrome Paper pack is so gorgeous, that for our album we felt we did not require any added embellishments! And that for us is a big WOW!
Here’s a link to the video Flip-through:
We’re linking this project to:
Mini Album Makers December ChallengeÂ
Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge- Icy Inspiration
Let’s take you down memory lane, and into a world of fantasy with enchanting memories. Life itself is the most wonderful Fairytale.
Today we’re super excited to share our latest creation. We’ve created a Pop-Up Book and used a lot of mixed media techniques for our front cover, and paper crafting for our pop- up pages.
We were inspired by the #ccbchallenge Canvas Corp Brands October Challenge- “Books Worth Reading”, the Mixed Media and Art Joint Project Stage 3- “The Breath of Nature” and the Mixed Media Place October Mood Board.
From the CCB Challenge- we’re taking you into the world of Enid Blyton books. All of us as children grew up reading these books, and today with our project we’ve re-created this mystical, enchanted world.
From the MMA Stage 3 challenge, we used natural material- twigs and moss on our front cover and the letters were incorporated in the form of phrases on our focal pictures.
From the MMP mood board, we were inspired by the images of the books, as well as the child’s room. We interpreted this by creating our own little book of adventure inspired by the famous children’s author Enid Blyton.
We’re also linking this project to the Stamplorations October Mixed Media ChallengeÂ
Recently, on a trip to Porto, Portugal, a visit to the famous Livrario Lello Bookshop is a major inspiration behind this project. The bookshop is mystical and magical and happens to have inspired J K Rowling for her Harry Potter series. So the main front cover of our book shows how a visit to this bookshop can take you into this mystical world.
The second part of the cover introduces this mystical land. We’ve used natural materials to enhance the beauty of the world.
Further, we have three pop up pages showcasing different scenes. One in the form of a book page opening to the mystical land.
Next, a cottage scene.
And lastly, the enchanted forest scene.
Below are close-ups as well as video link for this project:
Hello everyone,
Today we’re at the Rainbow Craftykari blog with a fun tutorial! We’re sharing an easy to make album tutorial. This one does not require a hinge system and is a cute small book that can fit into a handbag.
Before starting the tutorial, have a look at the album.
Let’s begin…
First cut two pieces of chipboard for the front and back cover. (measurements in inches)
Next, cut card stock and score for our pages. Score on the 7″ side first at 3.5″, flip the page and at the 6″ side score at 4.5″.
Keeping the 7″ side, fold over the score line upward. Next, turn over and fold over the 3.5″ score line. Do this to all five pages.
We wanted to add some design to the pockets, so we used a punch for this.
Using 5 different pattern paper sheets from the book, cut papers for the pages. (3.25″ x 4″)
Distress the edges and stick onto the cardstock page using tacky tape.
Time to stick the pockets. Add a think line of glue on the extreme ends and fold the flap upward and press to stick. Cut patterned paper for the pockets and stick.
To close the page, add glue as shown below, fold and press firmly. This way, we get a pocket on the top of the page as well.
Once all pages are done, punch three holes on the end that is stuck together; one in the centre and two 3/8th from the top and bottom. You can use one page as a template to mark holes on the other pages.
Cover the chipboard pieces with the same cardstock and add patterned paper (pp- 3 5/8 ” x 4 5/8″). Once done, using the page as a reference, centre on the chipboard pieces and punch three holes.
Add eyelets to the pages and the cover. Initially we wanted to use the rings to put the book together, but later decided to use some ribbon. So you could use either.
For the pockets on top, cut 5 tags using the cardstock. Pattern Paper measurements would vary according to the style of your tag.
With this the basic structure of the album is ready. Let’s move to the decoration.
Now in this tutorial, you will notice that our main focus has been on using a single 6″ paper pack and minimal wastage. For the entire album including the tags and photo mats, only 9 sheets pattern paper sheets and five 12×12 cardstock sheets were used.
Since this is a small album, we made the photo mats according to the left over rectangle pattern paper pieces from the pages and cover. We used the die cut sheets in the paper pack, to embellish further. Some places, we used them to make a pocket and add smaller die cut elements inside.
The composition of the cover page is very important in such a project as that is the first thing anyone sees. We do not like to add anything and everything and clutter our cover, so we decide on a composition before we begin.
For this one, we used a die cut piece and stuck it with glue only on two sides to make a pocket. We inserted some quotes from the sheet, inside the pocket and embellished it with hand made flowers. Here’s a quick tutorial on how we made the flowers.
Stamp the image onto your paper, and die cut it. Next colour using inks you have; we used Ranger Dye Inks, as they dry fast and are rich in pigment giving me vibrancy in the colouring.
Next using the shaping tools, shape the flower. Flip it over and press on each petal dabbing the tool moving outside to inside but not in the centre.
Once done, this is what it will look like.
Flip over and press in the centre. Stick a smaller flower inside a bigger and add some beads, You can add glitter or frosting powder as well.
In the same way, you can shape your leaves.
We then arranged the handmade embellishments, and was careful to not add too many as the size of the album is small.
We added some different flowers, on my tags as well to dress them up.
Here are some closeups and pictures of the pages.
Hope you’re inspired and want to create your own album.
All supplies are listed below, and most of them are available at the store or can be pre-ordered.
Happy crafting!
Supplies:
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