Blueprints Blog Hop

Welcome to my little part of the Club Scrap blog hop featuring the September 2014 kit Blueprints. If you got here from Tiare's blog, you're in the right spot. To start from the beginning or see a list of all the bloggers participating today, check out the new Club Scrap blog. 

This kit is so much fun and has great potential for a variety of scrapbook pages and papercrafting projects. I can see this used for pages/projects about home building and renovations, architectural wonders, school projects featuring measuring and/or construction, even Lego creations.

I really wanted to use the Builder's Masking Stencil pictured with the kit items above. I even pulled out the white paper and some sprays and played with it. But, then I realized it was too big for my 6x6 canvas!

So, here's my Blueprints project. The photo is of our home. I took it one day several years ago when I noticed how gorgeous and ethereal the clouds were over the house.

The foundation is a 6x6 canvas inked with Club Scrap's sapphire ink. 

I also used white pigment ink to stamp two blue jumbo photo corners with the large stamp from the Blueprints Borders and Backgrounds sheet. 

Here are a few detail pics of the project. The flowers, brads, and all metallics are from my stash. Fibers are from older CS kits.

Thanks for stopping by and I hope you enjoyed my project. Up next is Marya. Click HERE to see her creative project and continue along the hop. 

Until next time,

Lisa Kay

Playing with "Take Wing"

Club Scrap's kit this month is a fun, colorful one called Take Wing. Here's a picture of the CS kit; the Lite kit ships Monday!

Isn't it fun?! Just love the swirls, feathers, leaves, and birds. It even has some flowers, which endears it even more to me. The colors are a glossy white, two shades of green, a red, and the prettiest navy I've ever seen in a paper. In fact, that navy print in the top right of the picture has a silver print on it--probably my most favorite CS paper of all time!

I decided to play with the kit today. I've been making cards a lot lately. I like being able to try new techniques (new to me, anyway) on a smaller scale. 

These are the materials I picked out: both greens and a navy. All of these came from the HPOPs (half pound-of-paper) that CS offers. I like getting this pack so I don't have to cut into my 8.5x11 or 12x12 papers. It comes with various sizes of the kit papers. I also pulled out the navy ribbon from the kit and the "Thank You" stamp from the Greeting UM (unmounted) stamp set. The embossing folder in the back has a feather design. It's from Paper Wishes. I always label my embossing folders so I can find the one I want quickly.

I only wanted to emboss part of the panel--leaving the top smooth for the greeting. I placed the stamp on the paper and adjusted the paper inside the embossing folder. Ran it through my Wizard, and the beautiful feather design appeared.

After stamping the greeting, I adhered the navy ribbon at the top of the embossing. Sliding a smaller piece under that one, I tied a knot, which makes it look like a bow. Love that tip!

Here is the finished card. I die cut some flowers out of some small papers from the HPOPs bag. I really can't make a project without adding flowers of some sort. The dies are from Paper Wishes. The tiny flower in the center is from Club Scrap's Birds of a Feather collection from a few years ago. The green is a great match with the Take Wing kit.