Product Showcase: Rub-ons and Brads

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Step-by-Step Card Tutorial

Hi Girls!!! Julia speaking! I am so happy to be responsible for May's Tutorial.  As lately I have been so into Card making, I come to share a Step-by-Step Card Tutorial with you showcasing Upsy Daisy's "Home Sweet Home" Collection.

Step 1:

Choose the paper collection you will be using to highlight your work. On this card, I chose to use the Upsy Daisy  'Home Sweet Home' Collection.

Step 2:

Choose a neutral cardstock as your base - I generally use white, black, cream or light blue, but its your choice, so feel free. Score the card and fold it in half. If you don´t have a bone scorer, or a folding plate, try using a rub-on tool.

Step 3:

Sort through your papers and coordinating embellies, besides any other materials and techniques you may ellect to work. I did a lot of cutting, before choosing the elements I would be using. And, at this time I chose to use a frame, a clear round acrylic frame, from a brazilian trend called Arte 1.

 


Step 4:

Choose a patterned paper with small patterns on it and cut it into +1cm stripes as you can see on the photo. If your frame is not an adhesive one you may, first, add double tape to the back of the frame.

Step 5:

Attach the paper stripes to the frame, as shown, as tight as possible and living no blank spaces.

Step 6:

Create your card with a special touch of yours, but using a Sketch, in case you need saving time! Then, mix your chosen stash and check if they work well together. Add, replace and remove items until you feel happy with their position, until you feel they are right where they should be! Then, just stick them down and voilá!

 



Valentine's Day at UDD!!!

xxx

LOVE IS IN THE AIR
Love is in the air
Everywhere I look around
Love is in the air
Every sight and every sound
And I don't know if I'm being foolish
Don't know if I'm being wise
But it's something that I must believe in
And it's there when I look in your eyes!

(John Paul Young)

I Love Valentine's Day and I am so happy 'cause  it's my turn right at February!!! And... Pink + White + Red!!!??? Yes, I love these colors!!! At this time I chose to create a Gift Set and as I have been so much into Cards lately I came up with a Yummy Gift Heart Card, a 6"x6" Frame and a Gift Bag to fit both gifts inside.  

Home Sweet Home #HSH015 Midland Ave; Cupcake #UDD0136 Sweet;
A Walk in The Park #WP012 Elegant; Rub-on Transfer #UDD186. 'It's A Girl Thing'.
Prima Silver Swirls; Magnolia Tilda Stamp; Martha Stewart Border Punch;
American Craft Mini Rose Ribbon; Organza Ribbons; Watercolor Pencils; 6"x6" White 3D Frame.


Thanks for Taking a Look and  Have a Great Week!!!

Kiss, Julia Sáddi

Clouds

Hi there, it's me Julia Saddi : ) and today I come to share with you girls few clouds of my very own style. Hope you all like and try them out. If you have any doubts while making clouds like the ones I am going to show you today, feel free to get in contact with me: reach_ju@hotmail.com.  And, if you have great ways of making different clouds, all by yourself, on your very own style, please share with us just leaving the exact blog post address under your comment on this post, we'd appreciate it!

Materials:
- Upsy Daisy Vogue Collection
- 2 White Cardstocks
- 1 Riptide Blue Glimmer Mist or similar
- White Fabric Puff ink
- 1 Post-it full adhesive Craft Paper size A4
- Sun: either a die-cut or an embellie made by yourself
- Whatercolour tubes
- Fine brush
- Small Yellow Alphabet
- Precision Scissors
- Blue Bottons
- Ribbons
- Color markers

1. Masks' Negative Technique:

First of all, you should either draw or find a cloud set pattern you may like to work with.  Here I used an old cloud set pattern I keep on my patterns' box.  I drew them on a Post-it full adhesive Craft Paper size A4, cut them out with a small precison scissors, then peeled the non-sticking paper on the back of them. Next, I glued the clouds on the top of a white cardstock, 'cause they should work as a mask negative on my project. First two photos:

After arranging the clouds on the white cardstock, I srayed riptide blue glimmer mist around all the area where I chose to be the sky on my Layout. You can take the excess ink, if you want, by gently  tapping a clean white napkin onto it. After the glimmer mist has dried, you can remove the clouds' masks.  The result will be like shown on the following photos: 

Bellow you can see the whole Project in which I used these Clouds' Masks Negative:

2. Glimmer Mist Sray: I copied the clouds' patterns on the top of an UDD paper that I LOVE 'Vogue Fashionista' , sprayed glimmer mist on the top of them, waited for them to dry, cut them out and used on a Card Project, like shown belllow:  

Title with Upsy Daisy alphabet rub-ons

3. White Fabric Puff Ink applied to Scrap and Card Making:  at this time I pulled out of my patterns' box a huge cloud, drew it on a cardboard, cut it out, glued UDD New Paper #AVA014 Powder onto it, then cut off all the excess paper.  To soften the blue and give a certain touch of reality into the big cloud, I painted the top of it using white watercolour tube, fine brush and white napking to suck/drie the excess water. Right after this, I circled the outer cloud with White Fabric Puff Ink and dried the puff ink with an emboss heat gun. Kept it aside. I drew a small cloud on a scrap of  Fashionista paper, did not use any watercolor, but also used puff ink - same process. Then I fixed the smaller cloud with foam tape over the bigger cloud. Glued ribbons on the button of the big cloud, glued blue doodlebug buttons and a die-cut sun. Chose a simple title for all occasions: Hi! and attached a thin waxed ribbon to it. Voilá! Last photos:

At the back of the card, I made some doodles at the border

and lines to be written on.

If you like it, please leave a comment! : ) 

1 Huge Hug to each one of you, Love, Julia Sáddi

Absolutely Adorable!

With this soft look project I intended to show you my daughter sweetness. I love this schoolpicture and it surely deserved an LO with great papers and embellies.

Materials: UDD See You Later Alligator and Blossom Collections, Blossom Brads.

Techniques: Distressing , Machine-stitching, Handwritten journaling, white ink for softening

Cards!? Yes, I have been so much into Card making lately. I started and couldn't stop anymore!!!

I have been participating of Card blog challenges using UDD Vogue and Blossom collections, besides rub-on tranfers, and here I show you few of my July creations:

 

UDD#188 Unwritten rub-on transfer:

   

Blossom and a New Day paper collections

Vogue cut and UDD#082 Oodles of Doodles Alpha rub-ons transfer

 Vogue papers and cut.

Thanks for taking a look!!!

Great Day to you!!!

xox Julia Sáddi

May Challenge

Hi everybody!!! Yes... so much inspiration, but short time to scrap these days, unfortunately...

First Project done by myself, Julia Sáddi, with Kim's May Sketch. 

Supplies: Upsy Daisy Designs papers.  Details made with the "Blossom" collection, background made with the dots paper "Everglades" from the "See you later Alligator" collection - borders cut out with scallop shape and hand painted with white ink. 

Second Project done by my friend Paty Proença, another great Brazilian designer. As Paty is a mother of 2 handsome gentleman, : )  I gave her a  "See you later Alligator" kit, together with Kim's May Sketch and she came out with this astonishing layout! Wow, Paty, thank you!!! To see more of her work: http://scrapbypaty.blogspot.com/   Big Hug to you all, girls!!!

Love, Julia Sáddi

You Blossom!

Vogue ís a trés chic collection and it inspired me to create something unique. So, here I present you an alter that I myself am in love with it!!!

The Blossom Collection inspired me the most with it's colours scheme, brown and pink, and beautiful patterns that match my little Princess , so that I decided to play with a black and white picture, something I almost never do. The result? This charming French vintage look layout. The paper flower, following the March callenge, I made with my UDD paper scraps. Hope you enjoy it, just as much as I did.

This month I introduce to you a great Brazilian designer that was one of the first Brazilian scrappers to inspire me the most, since I first started scrapping, about 3 years ago. Kaká's major is Laws, but these days she lives out of scrap, yes, lucky her!  Besides being a great, great scrapper, she is a superb Photographer. Her main inspiration is her only daughter, Mariana, and she makes beautiful, delicate and very creative projects for classes, magazines, publications and events. This project, rarely exception, she made with pictures from a friend's daughter. Work done with Circle of Friends Collection. I am sure this work will inspire you girls!

To check out more infos on kaká's blog, or to give a close glance at her pieces of art:

http://www.kakamari.blogspot.com/

xox Julia Saddi

January 2010

Project with a light vintage style. I used lots of stamps, emboss, distressing, pearls and blings.

True Friends. Enchanted Collection Documenting: #ED011. Charmed, #ED012. Fantasy, #ED013. Magical, #ED014. Mystical, #ED015. Regal. Fabric Brads: #EMB006. New Day and #EMB007. Walk in the Park Fabric Brads. Clear Stamps: #UDD208. Chic Bebe and #UDD210. My Guy

As School time is almost back I decided to make a cute gift for Paula's beloved teacher: Mrs. Kathy. The frame was made with white wall moist mixture, tiny carving tool and Perfect Pearls Natural -Rangers Ink.

UDD Enchanted: #ED011. Charmed, #ED015. Regal and punches; red cardstock; felt cut and pearls by Prima Flowers.

Love the Vroom Vroom collection and these papers were the first UDD ones to arrive at the Brazilian Market. I gave more movement to it, so it would look very much alike my daughter that never stops!

Cardboard Box. Vroom Collection Documenting: #UDD0142. Transportation, #UDD0138. We are Off, #UDD194. Planes, Trains and Automobiles Rub on Transfers. Others: carboard pieces, MM cork alphabet, clear buttons, music rub-ons, dimension clear glue, raw chipboard arrows.

About sharing, this Project was made by Juliana - JuGG a Brazilian designer and personal friend with "A Walk in the Park Collection". To see more of Juliana's beautiful works and style access: http://scrapstuffed.blogspot.com

Great Week to All of You!!!

xox Julia Saddi - from Brazil