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Studio Calico Nov Kit

I'm sure many of you are familiar with Studio Calico Kit club, i just love their new November Kit! Besides all the new Hambly in there...the dressforms paper, autumn leaves overlays, the sewing and doily rubs...i thought the entire kit has such great colors and is perfect for fall! Do you see the flea market add-on? Yum!

I also love what the DT created with the kits. I posted a lot of my favorites here. There were so many great layouts!

You can see more layouts on thier website!

winners & my costume :)

Here are the winners for the Halloween giveaway. Please e-mail me your addresses :)
Wendy Orme | October 28, 2009 at 09:19 PM

brandigirl | October 29, 2009 at 09:59 AM

Cathy In Chicago | October 30, 2009 at 03:49 PM

hollyb | October 31, 2009 at 04:43 PM

This year my sister, myself and my good friend all dressed up as backup singers!!! It was such a fun costume to put together!  The best part was doing our hair, i never knew my hair could do that (the worst part was washing it out the next day)!  I might have been pretending to sing in this photo :) Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween!
Also a few of you asked about the cupcake wrappers- they were at Michaels from Martha Stewart. (There's also some other cute ones with different patterns as well)

Halloween Inspiration

Rose (from the office) brought some of the moustache rub-ons to her nephews birthday party. They had a pumpkin decorating contest! Aren't they funny, these were all decorated by boys ages 5-13. Such a fun idea for kids! What are you guys doing to get ready Halloween?

Thought these would be fun to share, they're from our DT and past DT! 

By Dina

By Ania

 

By Christina Padilla

By Tracey Odachowski

By Peg

There's also still time to enter in the giveaway below.

 

getting ready for Halloween & a giveaway!

Let me start by saying that Halloween is my favorite time of the year. I'm pretty sure its becuase of this one main reason, my birthday and my mom's birthday are both Oct. 29! We've had many parties either turning our basement into a Haunted House, going to the Pumpkin Patch or just throwing a fun costume party! Most recently the two of us go to Half Moon Bay where we pick out pumpkins together, and then head down to the ocean to spend the rest of the day. 

This year i found these cute cupcake wrappers, and decided to make Halloween cupcakes for work, my mom, and a few parties we are going to this weekend. They were easy & fun to make (i say that now, but still have 24+ more chocolate webs to make).

I also added our new Kraft Halloween stickers on toothpicks for that extra touch! 

Here's a link to the template i used to trace the spiderwebs in chocolate, and you can get the Kraft Halloween Stickers from the Hambly Store. They really are fun if you have some extra time before Halloween. 

Now i need to work on my costume! I've finish shopping for all the supplies, which include bumpits, glitter, boas, & seqins! We just have more sewing/assembly to do. I'll post pics next week, plus there's more Halloween posts coming over the next few days to get you ready for the 31st!

-Allison

Also post a comment below to win some Halloween goodies! They will be perfect to use when you scrapbook this years Halloween photos!

DT tutorial Celine

Here's a new tutorial from Celine Navarro on our design team.

What I LOVE about Hambly products is that the paint they use for the design on their papers is simply amazing : it works as a resist when it comes to painting on it :)

My favorite are the white designs on the kraft paper : simply use Glimmer Mist, or Color Wash, or any kind of spray paint and spray over your Hambly paper.Using a towel, add more paint to your paper.
Spray more paint here and there to have darker parts on your background and use a heat gun to make it dry faster.

On this layout, I used purple Glimmer Mist on my kraft Hambly Couture paper  and used a heat gun to make the paint dry.
Then use an edge distresser to make it look aged. For the background i used the Old Lace paper.

You can also add rub-ons to your layout, the white doily rub-ons give a nice contrast.

and ta-da! your layout has a vintage but colorful feel! You can give unique colors to your kraft Hambly papers now!

Céline

DT tutorial Kara

Here's a new tutorial from Kara {Haupt} on our design team.

Masking with Transparencies and Spray Paint

You'll need-

Hambly Couture transparency
Hambly On Edge Borders kraft stickers
Hambly Owl & Birds Clear stickers
Vinyl letter stickers (I picked mine up at Office Depot. Letter stickers would probably work also)
Spray Paint
Additional scrap paper
Sewing Machine {optional}



Step 1 : Lay out your transparency over newspaper. I recommend doing this outside to avoid the fumes.  Peel the letter stickers off the sheet and apply to them to the transparency how you want them.



Step 2 : Spray the transparency with a thin coat of spray paint about 6 inches away. Add coats until you like the thickness.



Step 3 : Wait until the paint it totally try, peel off the letters, and ta-da! A transparent title! Just add your additional elements, photo and journaling and your layout is complete.

Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Last year we sold these kits and it was very successful so we decided to do it again. Since October is the month for Breast Cancer Awareness, we made up more kits for sale- with mostly pink products in them. 

100% of the sales ($10 per kit, retail value is $20) we are donating to  Susan G. Komen Foundation!

The kits this year also have some of the newest products from our summer CHA release included. More details about the kit at the online store. A $20 value for $10, and it all goes toward important research!

Here's a picture of a new kit including products from the new release.

DT tutorial Denise

Here's a new tutorial from Denise {Laborde} on our design team.

Mini in Minutes :

Supplies:
Climbing Vines (Antique White) Overylay
Old Lace (Antique White on Lagoon Blue Metallic) Paper
Elephants In A Row (Teal Blue Ink on Lagoon Blue Metallic) Paper
Woodgrain (Antique White Ink on Kraft) Paper
Mini Graph (White Ink on Kraft Textured) Paper
Doilies (Teal Blue) Rub-ons
Baby Boy Clear Sticker Sheet Manilla Tag
White Cardstock
Black pen
2 Small eyelets
30 cm ribbon
Black StazOn
Felt Heart
Thickers
3 4"x4" photos



Cut a 5"x10" rectangle from each patterned paper and the overlay (total of five rectangles.) Cut three 4"x4" squares using white cardstock.



Glue two 5"x10" rectangles to each other back to back. Fold in half. Repeat with two remaining patterned paper 5"x10" rectangles. Fold 5"x10" overlay in half. These will be album cover and inner pages.



Create journaling squares:
Using a pencil and ruler draw titles and borders on the three 4"x4" white cardstock squares. Using black pen trace over drawing. Erase pencil marks. Cut and attach rub-ons and clear stickers to fit into borders. The white space is the journaling area.



Use the crop-a-dile to punch small hole through the top and bottom of the  fold of three 5"x10" rectangles. Attach eyelets on the holes of the rectangle which will be the cover. Thread ribbon through the holes and tie knot on the outside.



Stamp with black StazOn on the cover. Attach felt heart. Add alphabet to heart. Write message on kraft tag. Attach to back cover.



Attach photos and journaling squares to inner pages. Voila! You're done.

All that is left to do is journal. Note that I left the journaling spots blank to offer the mini to friends so they can write their memories from the day their son was born.

DT tutorial Mandi

Here's a new tutorial from Mandi {Graber} on our design team.

Creating a window card :



Supplies: Hambly "home decor" patterned paper, Hambly kraft companion paper, Hambly home decor rub ons, Hambly frame rub ons, Xacto blade, straight edge, adhesive

Step one: Cut cardstock to 5.5" x 11" and the patterned paper to 5.5" square.

Step two: Fold the cardstock in half and adhere the patterned paper to the bottom half.  (Make sure the decor items are going the right direction!)

Step three: Cut out the oval frame and rub it onto the center of the patterned paper square.

Step four: Using an Xacto blade, cut out the inside of the frame and remove it.

Step five: select an item from the "home decor" rub on sheet, trim it out, and rub it onto the kraft cardstock inside the empty black frame.

Tips:

- Make sure when you write inside your card that it still remains hidden from the outside.

- Try making a square envelope out of a large sheet of kraft paper.  (If you need a larger sheet than 12x12, try buying kraft paper in a roll from an office supply store and then cutting it to size.)

DT tutorial KL

Here's a new tutorial from KL {Kerry Lynn Yeary} on our design team.

Halloween flags with the NEW Halloween kraft stickers.

I absolutely adore creating little Halloween vignettes and the new Halloween kraft stickers are so perfect for this. I am so in love with the skeletons, isn't he the cutest guy down there on the base?

Supplies needed :

Hambly Halloween kraft stickers, Hambly black ATC patchwork overlay, Hambly copper companion paper, 3" x 2" scrap of black cardstock, American Crafts black glitter thickers, 3 vintage wooden bingo numbers, gray vintage seam binding {12"}, vintage german book page scallop punch circles, 3 wooden skewers {easily found at your local grocery store}, vintage flower frog spike.

Tools needed :

Foam squares {or Pop Dots}, scissors, pinking shears or decorative edge scissors, ZipDry liquid adhesive, sewing machine {optional}

step 1 : Cut 3 rectangles patterns from the atc patchwork overlay. Cut a piece of the copper companion paper slightly larger using pinking shears on each long side.

step 2 : Cut a notched triangle into one short side of the overlay {you will use this as a guide to trim the companion paper with your pinking shears}

step 3 : Cut the companion paper into a notch using your pinking shears and following the edge of the overlay as a guide.

 

step 4 : Create the flags by using foam squares {hidden towards middle so they are covered & hidden by other elements}. After applying the foam squares glue a wooden skewer to the straight edge and leave a little peeking out the top so you can glue a wooden bingo token to the top. then stack the scallop punched vintage German book page to the top and a kraft sticker ghost journal spot and then apply a "31" with the glitter thickers, use foam squares between each to add dimension. 

Create another flag {point it in the opposite direction, see image above for detail} and apply the word "BOO".

 

step 5 : Follow the directions in step 4 but apply the Halloween sticker by layering it with a scrap piece of black cardstock and layer over the top with foam squares.

 

step 6 : Cut off the end of the wooden skewers so they can be displayed at alternating heights and insert cut end into the vintage flower frog spike. Wrap the seam binding around the bottom and tie and insert cute skeleton on one side. {seriously, I just adore him!}

I also wanted to share two more vintage style items that i created with the kraft stickers. I used the same simple directions of outlining the stickers with a background of plain paper and then adding dimension with foam squares.

I love how adding that outline of plain colored paper really helps the Halloween kraft stickers stand out and it's a great way to use up your leftover scraps!

Happy October!
xo kl