Monday, August 31, 2015

Turtle Soup Magazine Issue #6 - celebrating our July Birthday Bash



hi.. we at the Turtle Soup had an amazing month of celebrations for our Birthday Bash. We would like to share with you some of the amazing creative things we shared during the month of July.
Take time to view our magazine in full viewing.
When you love what you see maybe you'll take the time to play along with us in our forum

Sunday, August 23, 2015

August Mini Challenges

It is time for the Mini challenges at Turtle Soup Joan's challenge is to use punctuation on your layout, card or altered item.
 

 Cheryl's challenge is Back to School Memories
   

 Linda's challenge is all about Botany
 

 Karen's challenge is all about Geography
 

 Phillis's challenges is about Math
 

 Toni's challenge is to use a quote
 

Friday, August 21, 2015

Photo Tutorial by Design Team Member Elisa - Easy Mixed Media Background

Welcome Crafty Friends to my first ever Turtle Soup blog post and mixed media photo tutorial! I hope that you find it informative and inspiring, feel free to interchange products; it is the techniques that are important here also make sure you check out the Scrapping Turtle shop for a great range of inks, paints, stencils and other mixed media products. Here is the final layout and the tutorial is to show a few techniques on how to create the background.



Now onto the tutorial!

For the August Mini Crop over on the Turtle Soup Forum I have a challenge for participants to use a poem on your layout. I chose my poem and decided to print it up (using different fonts and a piece of a4 white cardstock) on my computer and cut it into individual pieces. For the base cardstock I have used a smooth white thick cardstock so the paint glides on smoothly and the thickness of the paper will ensure that the layout does not warp. Once you have cut your poem into pieces put them aside (perhaps in a zip lock bag so you don't lose any pieces like I did the first time around)


 
 
As you can see from the second photo I have selected 4 different colours of paint, all acrylic paint. Colour selection is entirely up to you. Squirt lines of paint onto your cardstock. I also cut a wedge from a cardboard box to use as a large palette knife or scraper ( a cheap alternative ).
 
 
 
Using a small amount of pressure scrap the paint across your page, turn your scraper over and complete scraping the paint across the bottom of the layout to your satisfaction. I didn't go completely across the page and I didn't worry to much about it being perfect!!
 
 
 
 
 
Let the paint dry completely before completing next step! Grab your favourite stencil, I used a Crafters Workshop stencil which are stocked at the Scrapping Turtle shop. Lay your stencil on your layout where you want it. Using texture paste or modelling paste (not gesso) spoon some paste onto your stencil and spread with a palette knife or use an old credit card like I did. I like using the old credit card as you can get a smoother coverage.

 
Put aside to dry, while mine dried I used coloured markers to colour in parts of pieces of the poem and I gathered together all of the embellishments and papers I wanted to use.
 
 
Next step! grab your favourite 'texture stamp' I love using Kaisercraft Texture stamps as they have an awesome range and they are extremely affordable. I also used an archival ink - Versafine black but any archival ink will do. Stamp in desired area. I stamped around where I was planning for my photo to sit.

 
HOT TIP!! after inking up your stamp gently use a baby wipe to wipe the ink off around the edges of your stamp so when you stamp you won't get those pesky 'mistake' edges that sometimes appear when you apply to much ink to a stamp or if you apply to much pressure when stamping.

 
Wait to the ink dries and then piece your poem back together in desired position so that you can work out where your embellishments are going to fit in your design, As you can see from the photo below I added my secret to many layouts (plasterers/joiners tape which can be bought from hardware shops) it has a sticky back and looks like mesh and can be coloured by paints or inks etc. Awesome!!
 
 
Now fast forward a bit, as the tutorial was for just the background, after you have stuck down your desired embellishments, I will post a  material's list at the end but please use whatever you like, visit the Scrapping Turtle Shop for supplies or dig into your stash for similar items.

 
And some close ups!!  Poem by Dr Seuss. :-)


 
Well we've come to the end of the tutorial, I really hope you liked it and that you will try some of the techniques and branch out of your comfort zone even a little bit. Make sure you leave some love on the blog!
 
Handy Links:
 
 
My Blog:
 
 
 
 
Materials:
 
Coredinations Cardstock
Lily Bee Paper
Hessian, Joiners Tape
Paint - Jo Sonja, Making Memories, Decoart
Cardboard, Jo Sonja Texture Paste
Kaisercraft Texture Stamp, Versafine Ink
Die cut black frame, Plastic Straws cut into small pieces.
D-Lish Scraps flowers, Unknown Origin of Flower Sprig
Maya Road Love Heart Clip, Colour Markers.
 
 
 
 
 

Sunday, August 16, 2015

Week in Review

Have you checked out what's happening on the Turtle Soup message boards?  There are some great challenges going on like sketches, new techniques, color inspirations, tags made from formica samples and a whole lot more.

Here are just a few of the wonderful creations by our members.


By Beecee
By Cheryl

By Ladybing

By Ural

By Inspired Scrapper

By Inspired Scrapper

If you would like to see more projects please stop by Turtle Soup and maybe even play along!

Hope to see you there!



Friday, August 14, 2015

Friday Inspiration Challenge

DT member, Cheryl, has a great inspiration challenge up at Turtle Soup today! She's chosen a color inspiration board and the colors are gorgeous!


And here's the card she created:


Her card is just so sweet and colorful! Her challenge is to create a project using some or all of the colors from the inspiration board. 

We'd love for you to come play along with this challenge. And be sure and check out our other challenges going on at Turtle Soup!


Monday, August 10, 2015

super fun and easy smooching tip and technique with Lisa

Lisa has a great tip and technique to share with you.. we are always looking for something fun, easy and new to try... be sure to check this out...... here is her post below and the link:  http://www.turtlesoup.scrappingturtle.com/viewtopic.php?t=17564

I am a huge fan of Missy Whidden's work! She recently started making You Tube videos and I love them! I could spent hours and hours watching her thought process. She does a technique she calls "smooshing". I love the results and have tried it lots of times. So today I would like to share one of her videos where she does the "smooshing" technique:http://youtu.be/Sq_udOa3xKw 

Here is one of my pages using the technique: 

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For today's challenge, I would like you to try this technique on a card, layout, tag, etc. You can use whatever you want to smoosh- inks, Gelatos, paints, etc. 
I can't wait to see your smooshing!

Sketches and DT reveal for August


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Welcome to our Monday Sketch to start August. The DT is excited to share today with you and can't wait to see what you share with us.

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Toni

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Phillis

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Joan

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Linda

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Karen

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Elisa

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Bev

You have all month to play along.. add to the gallery and link back here to share.
Here is the link:http://www.turtlesoup.scrappingturtle.com/viewtopic.php?t=17557
We would love to see what you create.

Turtle Soup always has something to share to inspire you to play along

We have a great card sketch to work with!

This is what Tracy has to share with you.

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Here's what I came up with:

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First of all I used a stencil and inked the background. Then I spread some texture paste on the left side, dragged my scraper tool through it and then inked it lightly with black ink. The squiggly circle is a new die that I was dying to try out.

You have til the end of the month to play along. Post your project in the gallery and then link back to this thread.  Here  is the link: http://www.turtlesoup.scrappingturtle.com/viewtopic.php?t=17583