Dare 19th February

Everyone loves a little glitz and glam, add in some flowers and you have a combination for a dare! The dare for this month is all about flowers and glitter.

There are so many ways to incorporate flowers onto your pages you can leave them as they are, layer them, fold them, cut them or apply other mediums too, such as paint or ink to change them in fun ways. The medium we want to see used this month is glitter. This can be the powdered form or glitter glue eg. Kindy Glintz.

If using powdered glitter you can easily control how much you want to add to the flower when you apply the glue. You can go for a subtle approach by placing glue at the tip of the flowers or cover it all.

Using a product such as Kindy Glintz that comes in its own squeeze bottle gives you even more control. You can "draw' the glitter on any way you like.

I chose to use powder in my example. I watered down craft glue with a damp brush and painted the ends of my flowers with it. Then I dabbed the flower into a container filled with powdered pink glitter Layered heaps of flowers together to give some dimension (I love doing this) and added a decorative brad in the centre.

So everyone now that you know the dare start glitzing LOL!

I cant wait to see all your lovely Layouts. Upload to the CISter's Dares section of the gallery by the 29th of February to be in the running for a prize.

Posted by Ally

OTP Project

Ally gave me a gorgeous Off the Page Pack to work with this month including a Kaisercraft Heart Album, MM Noteworthy and Chatterbox Alphas! I teamed these with a few things from my stash and a bunch of little techniques to put together a mini album with photos of DH and I.

You can find all the pics and instructions in the forum here. Hope you like!

Don't forget that there is 25% storewide in February so it is a great time to stock up on all these little bits and pieces!

Have a happy, scrappy week! Tatum xx

February Stylish Kit

I had fun playing with the We R Memory Keepers 'Promendade' range of papers this month. I used the 'Dedicated Scrapper Pack' and had enough product to complete four layouts and one other project.

Here are the layouts:









And I also created a little mini-album using the kit too...
Check out this thread at Crafting in Style for instructions.

Kits available here

Posted by Karen

FEBRUARY DARE

If you dare!!!
So it's the first day of the month so what does that mean? Yep that's right time for a new CISter's Dare. So here we go......

The dare for this month is to create a LO using 'texture' as the emphasis.

Without texture a scrapbook layout would be dull. You can choose from a wide variety of textures to make your scrapbook pages unique. There are two basic types of texture: tactile and visual.

Tactile textures stimulate your sense of touch and can be incorporated into a scrapbook by layering different materials, fabrics, and other elements for a three-dimensional look.

Visual texture refers to what the eye sees. Using media such as paint, ink, and fabric, you can create textures on your scrapbook pages. Use your imagination and don't be afraid to experiment.

For me, texture means having a "feel" about it. Something that makes you want to touch and see what it feels like. This doesn't have to be dimensional, it can be subtle

For my LO 'Beanie Kid' I have used tearing and inking of pp, 'coral' paper, lumpy bumpy ribbon, micro beads and felt to evoke the sense of touch





So that you all know about texture, I would love to see how you incorporate it into your work. Have a go and upload to the CISter's 'dares' section of the gallery by midnight 17th of February to be in the running for a prize


Posted by Trudi