Fiskateers Orange Blog Hop

Welcome!!!!If you are looking for some "crafty goodness" you have come to the right place.  If you have come from Fiskateer Debbie #352 you are where you should be.  If you have stumbled across our Fiskateer blog hop you can start from the beginning  at  Fiskateer Debby #2852.  Ok,  now that the house keeping is done lets get started.
I love to use Fiskars border punches!! I'm always looking for new ways to incorporate them into my scrapbooking pages.  One fun way is  to layer strips of pattern papers using the different Fiskars punches.  I will  be showing you how to make a frame and layer the punched strips of paper to the frame-making a stand alone frame or add it to layout, as I did.

The first thing is to cut two 1" x 9" and two 1"x 7" . That will make a 6" X 8" frame.  This will hold a 5" x 7" photo.
Overlap the top piece with the side piece to make the mitered corner. Cut in the middle of the two strips. Repeat the process for the other side of the frame.

The next step is punch your strips of paper using the same measurements given for the frame.  You will need 4 punched borders for the top and bottom and 4 punched borders for the sides.  Two borders for each piece of frame.  Use as many different shapes as you have or repeat using one shape. It's all good as Martha would say!!!

This is how your frame should be looking!! Pretty cool, right!!!

The next step is to adhere the strip of punched pattern paper to the chipboard strips that make up your frame.  I used the Terrifically Tacky Tape by Provo Craft but any strong adhesive will work fine.

The next step is securing the corners of the frame. I used the Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. A stapler will work just great also.

The finished frame!!!! If you use it as a stand alone piece -adding flowers or trim would make a beautiful addition.  I added mine to a layout and clustered embellishments on the bottom corner!!!

I hope you enjoyed this!! Leave a comment or become a follower of my blog and I will draw for a RAK on Sunday. Make sure you stop back on Sunday evening to see if you WON!!!  Your next stop or hop is to Fiskateer Johanna #2812!!! Have a great blog hop and thanks for stopping in!!!!cm

Inspired......

I was inspired yesterday by Besty Sammarco's blog . I couldn't wait to try it myself.  I don't have the round , percise rocks that she used but I did have a bunch of these. We grow these in Texas!!! I got my rub-ons out and had the best time.

 

I used some Claudine Hellmuth paint on  the dark rocks so the rub-on would show up better.  I don't use rub-ons much so this was a fun project to put them to good use. Hope you  will give it a try!!! Friday is the Fisk-a-teer "Orange" Blog Hop-so I hope you will stop by!!

Try This Tuesday!!

I'm running late today!!!  We are having crazy weather today, compliments of Hermie!!! I love using Fiskars border punches-I love to layer them. I have made borders along the edge of the paper or borders under the photos or a frame!!!
September 10th-11th I'm in a blog hop for Fiskars and I'm going to show you how to make this frame using the Fiskars border punches.  It's a good thing!!! I hope you will stop in Friday or Saturday and become a follower or leave me a comment and you will be in the "running" for some cool scrappy " goodies"!!! Hope to see you this weekend!!!

Love those tags!!

This is a banner I made using the vintage boy tags from heART of Scrapbooking. I wanted to make something fun and different and these tags made that easy to achieve.

The store carries different tags all made by Debby Lewis owner/designer for the store.  The other tags are vintage wedding, vintage girls and vintage boys - the ones I'm showing here.  I hope you will take a look-this is some seriously cool stuff!!!  Thanks for stopping in today and be "crafty" - it's fun!!!

Week 9/ Claudine Hellmuth Class

I can't believe we are going into week 10. It has gone by so fast!!! This week was layering stickers and then painting over them and then peel off for the negative image to be revealed.  I outlined my leaves with a black marker.  I added hemp and an old "vintage" key.  I sprayed with glimmer mist also!!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great "crafty" day.

Queen..I've never been a Queen!!!

I've never been a Queen-but Debby of Debby's Dare and owner of heART of Scrapbooking says I'm one!!!! So I'm just going to enjoy the moment!!  She has a great online Scrapbooking store called heART of Scrapbooking I hope you will go take a look.  She has a wonderful blog called Debby's Dare which she shares tutorials scrapbooking techniques. Her blog is full of "scrappy" info!!!!  Go take a look and tell her I sent you and mark your calendars for the Fisk-a-teer blog hop September 10-11th.  I will be on the hop and will be offering a "cool" scrappy PRIZE!!  Have a great day and be crafty!!!!

Photo mats by Martha

I'm cheating again.  These are photo mats from Martha Stewart Crafts!!!  I put a piece of acetate plastic over the opening to protect the photo then just went to town and blinged it out!!!  I used Glimmer Mist on the frame to make it sparkle.

On this one I did the same thing just used different flowers and used half of a Jenni Bowlin butterfly!!  Added some Kaiser pearls and called it good!!

This one the same thing.  The beautiful flower on the right is from Prima - so pretty!!!  Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!!!!