Tulle Flower Tutorial by our November Guest Designer, Tracey Gregory

ScrapThat! would like to welcome our November Guest Designer back to share a fabulous tutorial with you.

Hi there! Tracey G. here!

Today I am going to show you how to make a easy and thrifty tulle flower like the ones below:

 

 

Tulle is readily found at any craft store, but I can find large rolls of it at my Dollar Store in the "Bridal Aisle". If I overheat and melt a layer, it's not a big cost!

You can mist and alter the colors as you wish. I created the black flowers from the ScrapThat! November Kit and the cream flowers were spritzed with peach glimmer mist.

Let's begin!

And there you have it! Some points to note ~ the layers can can get quite hot, so keep your fingers out of the way, please! Try heating the layers separately or all at once for a more cohesive look. I kind of like mine rumpled. I find that the gems adhere better with Glossy Accents than glue. Glossy Accents dries nice and clear, too!

There are so many ways to alter this flower to your project! Have fun with it and can't wait to see what you create!

To see more of Tracey's fabulous work,

be sure to stop by her blog, 

A Lifetime of Pages. 

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Misted Rock Salt Chipboard Tutorial ~ Tracey Sabella

Hi everyone! It's Tracey Sabella here to share my Misted Rock Salt Chipboard Tutorial with you today. I changed up a technique I viewed by Michelle Grant to suit the Maya Road Doors in the November Kit.

 I've recreated this technique for you using a chipboard gear from my stash. If you would like to see more details, click on the photos to enlarge.

Misted Rock Salt Chipboard Tutorial

Supplies:

Chipboard

White gesso or acrylic paint

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist ~ Almost Black

Rock Salt

Ranger Crackle Accents
Mod Podge - Glossy

Prima Distress tool, or other wire brush.

Paint brush

Craft Mat (Optional)

Heat tool (optional)

Step 1: Paint chipboard piece with white gesso or acrylic paint. Allow to dry or use a heat tool to speed things up. If you use a heat tool, don’t hold it too close to the painted chipboard and keep it moving or your wet gesso can overheat and form bubbles.

Step 2: Mist with a dark mist. I used Tattered Angels Almost Black mist, but you could use any non-paint based brand or color that is translucent or even make your own from re-inker.

Step 3: Immediately cover the chipboard with rock salt. The salt draws the wet mist on the surface and leaves a beautifully splotchy and distressed surface as it dries. If you have a more solid chipboard piece, you could use less rock salt and spread it out some. With the door in the kit and this gear shape, the chipboard is narrow so I used a heavy coverage of rock salt. You can let this sit overnight, or give it 10 minutes or so for the rock salt to draw up the ink, then use your heat tool to speed the drying time.

Step 4: Once the rock salt is sprinkled/piled on, mist again.

 

Step 5: Once the mist is completely dry, brush off the rock salt. This really has some nice distressing. I could have easily stopped here but wanted even more dimension and kept on going.

Step 6: Use a stiff wire brush to remove some of the mist, leaving scratch marks.

Step 7: Squeeze some Crackle Accents across the piece, then spread it out with your finger.  Set aside to dry. Do NOT use the heat tool. (You could also use Ranger’s Clear Rock Candy Crackle paint for a similar effect.)

Spread out:

When dry:

Step 8: When the crackle is completely dry, it will be loose in spots and flakes off easily. I decided to go with this and chipped off some of the crackle here and there for a more weathered, distressed look.

Step 9: Using a paint brush, apply a sealant so the crackle will stay in place. I used glossy Mod Podge. If you don’t have a sealant product, you can thin down regular white glue that dries clear. (Elmers or similar product).

Now here is what it looks like when dry:

I hope you have learned something new, and will have fun playing with this technique. You can stop at nearly any point along the way if you like what you see or experiment with different colors and products.

If you give this a try, be sure to share your finished product in our ScrapThat! Gallery.

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November Kit BAP with Amarilys

Amarilys here and today I want to share with you a BAP. Now, I took a lot of pictures along the way so bear with me. I didn't want you to miss anything! :)

So, let's get started!


Step 1. Distress your pattern paper with the Tim Holtz distressing tool. Tear random areas around the page and crumble the corners with your fingers.


Step 2. Use the Prima ink and ink the edges to give it a worn look.


Step 3. Trim a 12"x1.5" strip of  coordinating paper, distress the edges with the tool and cut to size to fit under the torn areas from the background paper. Adhere the strips of papers to the back of the background paper, making sure that the distressed edges alight correctly.


Step 4. Adhere your pattern paper unto a black cardstock and machine stitch the edges.

 
Step 5. Using Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page Scallop 3 Dot, punch a 8.5" square. Cut out the center part and discard.


Step 6. Fuzzy cut the yellow pattern paper to make scallops and trim a 0.75" paper of the back side to layer.


Step 7. Add your black and white photo over the center over the layered strips of paper.


Step 9. Adhere the black frame but only add adhesive in the corners and one random spot in each side so that the frame looks a little raised. This will give it some dimension.


Step 10. Fuzzy cut some flowers and layer them to give them dimension. It's ok if some have straight edges. You will tuck these in under the picture.


Step 11. Add the fuzzy cut flowers around the photo as shown. Tuck in a Prima wooden door on the left side of the picture and under the flowers.


Step 12. Hand make some flowers using the red cardstock that comes in the kit and the white flowers.


Step 13. Fill in the cluster by adding the handmade flowers, large red flower included in the kit and the leaves from the EAO. I then added some fuzzy cut dragonflies and a title above the picture.

Here's my finished layout which is based on the November Sketch (Tomorrow is the last day to ENTER):


Thanks for stopping! I hope that you are inspired to make something with this amazing kit! If you want to see more of my creations, please stop by my blog.

Tracey Gregory ~ Guest Designer Nov. Kit Projects

I am thrilled to be the November Guest Designer for the ScrapThat! Kit Club. ScrapThat! is a Canadian based kit club with beautiful and perfectly combined papers, flowers and embellishments. I wasn't sure what to expect when I received my kit but-WOW! Love these rich fall colors and all the Prima goodies that came with it!

Here is my first layout-using only items from the
main kit:

The pic is my daughter at the gates of the cemetery - yes, creepy, I know but we were shooting nearby in the leaves and she thought this would make a "cool, Cullen-type" shot. These BoBunny papers were rich and exotic and I water distressed the edges,then highlighted the wrinkles in Rub n' Buff. I made the flowers out of the black tulle ribbon and ZVA pearls that came with the kit. I will post a tutorial on the flowers later this month. I fussy cut the dragonflies and using the cracked glass tutorial by October GDT member Patti Hamil, created their funky wings. I painted the chipboard with black crackle paint and after inking the edges of the brown ribbon with the kit's Ingrid Bolme ink in Teak Wall, I wove it around the page and highlighted it with more ZVA pearls.

This is my second layout, using the inspired sketch by ScrapThat! DT member Amarilys:

This one is my fave! I used the main kit, the flower and embellishment add-ons and some mixed media from my stash. The frame is a $1 Michael's cheapie that I distressed and attached the Prima doors/shutters to. Aren't the Prima leaves and vintage keys just perfect for this palette?

The poem is one of my favorite by Robert Frost,"Nothing Gold can stay."

 Nature's first green is gold,

Her hardest hue to hold.

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

  Nothing gold can stay. 

My Sketchabilities Layout used a totally different color palette with the same kit!

 See how versatile it is?

 

I altered the white Prima flowers in the kit by misting them with Tattered Angels in Cinder, trimming them down and highlighting the edges with Diamond Stickles. The little banner is from the Prima package itself. Thrifty or just cheap? You decide!

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Be sure to visit Tracey's Blog ~

A Lifetime of Pages

to follow her gorgeous work.