Altering Chipboard with Powderpuff inks

Hi, Donna here today with a layout I did for my Hometown Landmarks album I have been working on for the past couple of months. Here is Berks County, PA there is a lot of history and this Pagoda was built back in 1906 atop of Mt. Penn in Reading (pronounced redding). 

 

 

 

 

Now onto the altered chipboard! I took two different approaches. For the frame I covered it with Gesso and used the material to help give it some texture.

After it dried I added some Sunset Powderpuff ink, doesn't have to be uniform, actually better if not.

Dab some Mocha Mama ink.

 

 

 

And finally added sparsely some Midnight Confessions ink.

 

The finished project, I loved how it turned out!

 

For the swirl piece of chipboard, I simply added some Green Tea ink. Then took heavy embossing powder and heated it up, be careful not to torch the chipboard, mine started smoking (yikes!). My embossing ink pad is starting to dry out and I was going to put a second coat on to even it out, but I kind of like this look!

 

Products Used:

Gypsy Road 100

Gypsy Road 700

Joy Ride 100

Joy Ride 400

Joy Ride Die Cut Stickers

Powderpuff Ink Green Tea

Powderpuff Ink Sunset

Powderpuff Ink Mocha Mama

Powderpuff Ink Midnight Confessions

Other Products:

Chipboard, Creative Imaginations and 7 Gypsies brads, American Craft Foam Thickers

 

Thanks for stopping by today!

Donna Coughlin

Best Mom

Here is a layout I did inspired by Mothers Day. The best mom I know is the mother of my grandchildren, my daughter! She has so much energy, and is such a good person, what better way to celebrate Mother's Day!

Designer Tip: If you don't have room for a title overlap your title like I did here. The center word "best" was cut from the yellow paper but thinking it blended too much with the background so I added Powderpuff inks, a blend of Sunset and Mocha Mama to match the layout.

A really beautiful quote from the velumn pack.

Products Used:

Joy Ride 100

Joy Ride 200

Joy Ride 300

Joy Ride Die Cut Stickers

Powderpuff Ink - Mocha Mama

Powderpuff Ink - Sunset

Itty Bitty Quotes

Tag

Prima flowers

ribbon

Thanks for stopping by and Happy Mothers Day!

Donna Coughlin

 

 

 

Hi today I would like to share a layout I did using a sketch I got from Back Porch Memories, it's my granddaughter eating an apple at the farm. I used lots of different brands of paper and embellishments from my stash.

I think the "doily" I made kind of looks like an apple pie! 

Here is the sketch from Becky Fleck - Pagemaps 

Products Used: Echo Park A Boys Life Rambunction Farmhouse Papers Basic Grey Herbs & Honey - Carrot Cosmo Cricket paper Cosmo Cricket Alphabets Prima wood Misc brads and chipboard Farmhouse Chipboard Basic Grey Chipboard 7 Gypsies Ephmera Kraft tag from Michaels Quick Quotes inks, Bloody Mary and Mocha Mama Twine

Metal from Quick Quotes

Hi everyone, Donna Coughlin here today with a layout I did using Quick Quotes new Unique Rustic Patina Metal Embellishments. Aren't they beautiful?  On my layout I wanted to alter the color to match the layout and below I will give you some tips on how I accomplished this. I just love how shiny and smooth the metals got after embossing.

  

 

 With the holidays approaching I was thinking about how amazing my daughter is, and this is a tribute to her. She does so much for everyone, I really don't know when she sleeps! I cut out everything she is to other people using different fonts.

Designer Tip: Emboss metal embellishments to match your layout. This turned out easier than I thought, but ALWAYS test it on the back before to make sure the color turns out right. My first instinct was to use alcohol inks, but the colors I had did not match when I tried them out. I found some embossing powder that was called Huckleberry and when I applied it worked out great.
The rose below does not look like the rose that comes with package, because I had to pull out the center part so I could emboss it. I just added brad in the middle when done. Also, the metals get extremely HOT when embossing so be sure not to touch them until they are cooled down.

 

 Be sure to press your flower into the embossing ink several times to get into all those nooks and crannies. I had to go back and emboss it again to get underneath. 

Products used:

Unique Rustic Patina Metal Embellishments

			Alton 200 Alton 300 Alton 400   Antique Garden 200 Other products: brad, American Craft Thickers, black cardstock, wood arrows and hearts. Thanks for stopping by Quick Quotes and have a Happy Holidays to all the members of the Quick Quotes team and especially to you! Donna

Gorgeous Girls

Hello everyone, Donna Coughlin here today and we have a super fun month at Quick Quotes. We've teamed up with the fabulous Want2Scrap company, and if you never had any of their bling, you HAVE to go and get some. I used other brands of bling before, but I found Want2Scrap to be superior. I never have any problems laying it on my pages and it always looks fabulous! Look how pretty the rhinestones looks when paired with Quick Quotes paper.

 

My tip today is "Don't stress about distressing" I know a few of you scrappy friends are afraid to rip or distress paper, but you really cannot go wrong. Here is an example of what happened to me when doing this layout. I was distressing the edges of my paper, and I don't even now how I did this, but I tore the paper about half way down. So instead of just tossing the paper and starting over I just ripped it some more and and put it on my layout as it was (after distressing some more of course). So when scrapping gives you lemons, make lemonade! If something is ripped or a drop of glue got on your layout, embellishment it, or put another strip of paper over it. Almost always you can cover up your mistake, so don't worry so much and have fun!

 

I learned how to curve a title on the Silhouette today. I forget which you tube I googled, but it was super  easy. I almost always using brads in tags, but these Want2Scrap Rhinestones

 

are perfect!

Another beautiful swirl by Want2scrap and doesn't it look so pretty paired up with this paper line from Quick Quotes?

Products Used:

Serpendity 200

Serpendity 400

Summer Breeze 100

Summer Breeze 500

Calypso Die Cut Stickers

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Ink - Baja Blue

Want2Scrap Frilly Flourish Swirl - Silver Rhinestones

Want2Scrap Rhinestones - Turquoise

Want2Scrap Beautiful Bling Border - Mardi Gras

Petaloo flowers

Other flowers

 

Thanks for stopping by Quick Quotes.
Donna

 

 

 

 

Quick Quotes new summer lines.

Donna here and I like to introduce to Quick Quotes new summer lines Dream Big and Sheer Joy. I absolutely adore the colors in these lines and you can even mix and match both new lines as you can see I did with the layout below. The new lines are great for almost any type of layout you can think of.

Products Used:
Quick Quotes Dream Big 100
Quick Quotes Sheer Joy 100
Quick Quotes Sheery Joy 200
Quick Quotes Dream Big 200
Quick Quotes Sherry Joy 700
Petaloo flowers
Petaloo trims
MME brads

Thanks for stopping by Quick Quotes and be sure to check out the store, to see all that Quick Quotes has to offer --- Club Q, kits,  inks, quotes and paper just to name a few!

Donna

Petaloo and Quick Quotes blog Hop

Hi everyone, Donna Coughlin here with you to blog hop with Petaloo and Quick Quotes! I am super excited to share with you these fabulous Petaloo flowers and embellishments and Quick Quotes new line call Sheer Joy, and what better way with this beautiful picture of my granddaughter.

The frames I cut  from the Silhouette, and the outside frame I dabbed it with a little Quick Quotes Biscotti Powderpuff ink just to make it a bit darker in spots to make it pop out a little. On the chipboard pieces I also used the Powderpuff inks, and believe it or not I add some Biscotti ink to the Petaloo flowers just to soften them up a bit and make them blend in with the Quick Quotes paper better. After I dabbed the ink on the flowers I misted them with water and immediately blotter them with a paper towel just to help the blend and dry faster. Hope you enjoy this later and don't forget to go over to Petaloo and check out what their design has done.

My favorite kind of flower are burlap flowers and these are just so beautiful. The Spring Berry clusters make a perfect accent to the flowers.

Products used:

Quick Quotes Sheer Joy 300

Quick Quotes Sheer Joy 600

Quick Quotes Sheer Joy 700

Quick Quotes Powderpuff ink - Biscotti

Quick Quotes Powderpuff ink - Bloody Mary

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Ink - Coconut

Petaloo Burlap Blossom Apricot

Petaloo Brad Asst Shades of Green

Petaloo Spring Berry Cluster

Chipboard pieces from Michaels

Santaro Metal Frame

Prima Clock

Thanks for stopping by Quick Quotes.

Donna

Sunshine and Spring!

Happy Spring everyone! Quick Quotes has some new lines and today I used Calypso which is just filled with gorgeous flowers and spring like colors. I made this layout using the sketch below drawn by Karan Gerber, she has a sketch site called Sketchabilities and I just love how timeless her sketches are. The flower embellishments I used were raw chipboard and all I did was added color to them using Quick Quotes Powderpuff Inks, my favorite all time, go to ink!

 

 

Also here is a little tip I have for getting out all of those little pieces of paper that seem to get stuck in with your Silhoutte or Cricut.  I took a piece of duct tape, and made it a little less sticky by blotting it with a towel, then laying my die cut on the tape I took a pointy tool and pushed the little pieces through the die cut. By doing this,  all those scraps stay stuck to the tape and are not all over the place. Don't know why I didn't think of this before.

 

 

Products used

Quick Quotes Calypso 200

Quick Quotes Calypso 300

Quick Quotes Calypso 100

Quick Quotes Calypso Chipboard

Quick Quotes Babies/Kids/Family Vellum Box Set

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Inks Moon Blue

Quick Quotes Powderpuff Inks Lemonade

Quick Quotes Calypso Stickers

Miscellaneous brads and ribbon

 

Thanks for visiting Quotes Quotes today!

 

Donna Coughlin

 

 

Believe Impossible Things

Hello everyone, Donna here today I would like to share you with a layout I did using Quick Quotes NEW line Serendipity. I did this layout of my granddaughter during in her ballerina recital. The background paper was swirly and reminded her graceful dance moves.

 

I want to show you how to make your jute curly so it stays. Of course you can by the kind that retains it shape, but I was out of it, I have used this method before for making other shapes, like a heart or circles.  1. Take a couple of drops of Tacky Glue and mix it with some spritzes of water from a water bottle. Mix that with a brush, and wet the ends of your twine with the glue mixture. 2. Take the end of the twine and wrap it around the end of a paintbrush or whatever you can find that will be the size of the circles you want. I have used a small glitter container also. Take your brush and add another thing coating of glue. Let dry, and repeat for the other end. 3 Remove the twine, and add to your layout.

 

 

Products used:

Quick Quotes Serendipity 200

Quick Quotes Serendipity 100

Quick Quotes Calypso Chipboard

Quick Quotes Calypso stickers

Other: 

Twine, ribbon, bling

 

Thanks for stopping by Quick Quotes and be sure to check out all the new Springs lines!

 

Donna Coughlin

 

 

 

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Altered Canvas

Hi everyone, today I am would like to share and altered canvas I made. Not sure if I am going to use it as a cover for a mini album, or actually adhere to the cover of  a 12x12 album.
The first thing I did was cover the canvas that I had from an older Club Q kit, with a thin coat of Gesso, I also put another layout of Gesso on it using a stone template, but in the end it doesn't show up that well, but does give it more texture, especially after I coated it with Quick Quotes Powderpuff Inks. I having been experimenting with my new love, UTEE, and will show you examples of what I came up with for this project. Here is the finished project.

 

 

 For the hearts inked them with Powderpuff inks and then applied a coated of homemade mists. Around the ended a made a mixture of UTEE and Perfect Pearls, and a funny thing happened when I put my heater on it, It didn't really melt smoothly, but rather made little clumps, I am guessing that was because of the Gesso, but I really love the look.

 

I also put UTEE on every single letter, what a task that was, but I wanted to show you how it changes the paper. Pretty cool huh?

 

 

I hope I gave you some inspiration to go and experiment with different mediums. It really is a lot of fun, and if you mess up, just try again! You never know what you can come up.

Here is a list of products used in this project.

Quick Quotes Baggage Claim 700

Quick Quotes Powderpuff ink Caribbean Blue

Quick Quotes Club Q - Canvas from a previous kit

Other products, Gesso, UTEE, rope, homemade mist, Perfect Pearls, Stick pin.

 

Thank you for stopping by Quick Quotes!

Donna Coughlin

 

 

 

 

Travel Mini Album

HI, Donna here and I am excited to share this paper bag mini album I made using the new Baggage Claim line from Quick Quotes. I made a video that is below to show you all the pages but here are a few of my favorite. Here is the cover,

 I made those tags from leftover pieces.

 There is a mini album to put in my mini album

You can even add things in between the pages.

My last page I made a travel log that opens up into a flap album.

Here is the video, I hope you enjoy it. Please forgive me, this was my first ever video, so if I sound nervous, and I was!

 

Thanks for stopping by!
Donna

Travel Mini Album

Hi everyone, Donna here today I am excited to share with you a new line from Quick Quotes called Baggage Claim. With thoughts of vacation on my mind, I made a  mini album, which I will share with you next time, but I wanted to show you this cute little suitcase that will hold  the mini album. Isn't this line fabulous! I just love this line but what else is exciting is the new 12 pack of Powderpuff Inks with all new colors, and they match this new line perfectly!

The handle is from an old purse which I cut down to fit this project and used super glue to hold it securely. I found some other embellishments in my stash that I added to the front.

 

 The film strip, ticket and stamp are all from the Baggage Claim chipboard and sticker packs.

 

 My mini album will have lots of pockets so I added some extra places inside the suitcase, like the pocket on the cover to put in tickets, maps, passport, whatever. And there is also a panel underneath. Just pull the ribbon tab up.

 

Under the secret panel, is another place to store papers or a mini log.

 
Inside is a travelogue to put underneath.

 

Place to keep notes or add some more pictures.

Here is a sneak peek of the mini album I will share with you next time!

Products Used on this projects:
Quick Quotes Baggage Claim papers
Quick Quotes Baggage Claim Chipboard
Quick Quotes Baggage Claim Stickers
Quick Quotes Powder Puff Chalking Inks
Misc embellishments
American Crafts Paper for journaling pages
twine
7 Gypsies Travel stamp set
Glimmer mist acrylic pieces


Thanks for stopping by Quick Quotes today and be sure to check out the new line here!