Thursday, June 7, 2012

Red Rubber Designs June Spotlight Stamp - Butterfly Scrapbook Page

It is the First Thursday of the month, so that means we have New Releases at Red Rubber Designs! June is about scrapbooking at RRD. All month, the design team will be posting scrapbook ideas like - layouts, mini albums, art journals, and embellishment ideas etc...all using the newly released June stamp sets.

We have a contest too - a Scavenger Hunt! How FUN! Each design team blog will have a different question about Red Rubber Designs and the answers can all be found in the Red Rubber Designs Store http://www.red-rubber-designs.com/

Once you find all 7 answers to the questions, email your answers to contest@RedRubberDesigns.comwith your name and email address. If you answered correctly, your name will be entered into a drawing for the June Spotlight Stamp Set - "Happily Grateful". One winner will be chosen at random. Good luck and Happy Hopping!

Contest ends Sunday, June 10th at Midnight (US-CT).

So here we go with my scrapbook layout.  For years I have proclaimed that I am NOT a scrapbooker (not that there's anything wrong with it)....it just wasn't one of my chosen crafts.  But when in Rome.....It is national scrapbook month and this week the team is all doing scrapbook layouts using the Spotlight Stamp - Happily Grateful.  

For this project I used:  Cardstock in Spring Green and Olive Green, Patterned paper from Reese Paper Stack, 2 pages and tags from the Pemberley Bay Matchbook Kit, Eyelets from the Mulberry Meadow set, Ribbon from Reece/Woodrowe & Angelee/Natalie sets, Palette Inks:  Jardin Moss, Sunflower, Beaux Arts Blue, Chartreuse, and embossing ink, Gold embossing powder and Stamps:  Happily Grateful, Background Soup and For Everything.

Of the 6 mini album kits, which one is the brightest color?

I began by creating a background on the lighter card stock - I swirled the Sunflower Ink pad to create a marbled background and then stamped the leaves from "Happily Grateful" stamp set in a random pattern of Sunflower and Chartreuse.  Then came my favorite part....adding a few butterflies and patterns from "For Everything" stamp - stamped with embossing ink, then covered in gold embossing powder and heat set.  

The flip out sections are pages from the Perberley Bay Matchbook Kit.  I hated to break up the kit, but I loved these colors and I really wanted to have pages within the page.  These are pre-scored for a fold line.  These were each attached to a piece of patterned paper with eyelets and then the ribbons were threaded thru and the section was attached to the base card stock with double face tape.



I added some tags inside the flip-out pages for titles or journaling.  To bring it all together, I stamped a few more butterflies and a few more leaves.

So there it is.....my FIRST EVER scrapbook page.

Be sure to visit the other Design Team Member's blogs to see more scrapbook layouts with this stamp set.
Red Rubber Designs  (There will be a post with contest details)
Sarah
Paula-Kay
Louise
KC (you are here)
Kate
Diana
Debra


And visit RedRubberDesigns.com to see more June release stamps - like this one:

Here I am









16 comments:

  1. Oh KC... I would never guess this was your first page! It looks like a lovely watercolor painting. And your sections that open are sooooo neat! ;D

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  2. Lovely, KC! I like how you have hidden journaling. Love this mini kit!

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  3. Wonderful layout, Kc. I like the way the photo mats open, but where are the photos? It is a lovely project.

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  4. Love the interactive page, things that open slide out etc. Wonderful combination of colors too. Hugs, Deb

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  5. Wonderful first page! I would have never guessed it was your first. You used design elements that I would have never thought of on my own.

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  6. Great job, love how you used the kit!

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  7. Congratulations on your first scrapbook page. You aced it, girl! Love those flip out pages and the colors you chose. Nice work, KC!

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  8. This gets addicting, just so you know:) I love your little flip out photo mats. Very creative!

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  9. Very pretty. I know what you mean about scrapping. I think you did fabulous!

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  10. Thanks all for your words of encouragement! I consider this a work in progress...now that I've seen all the other pages that our incredibly talented team has done I have more ideas of things to add. (yes PK, that includes pictures :)

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  11. Lately I've been using my scrap booking skills to make cards; graduation, birthday, anniversary. I'm definitely going to use your page within a page technique. Very clever!

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  12. Wow! You'd never know this is your first page - well done! I love how you used parts of the album kit to create a wonderfully interactive page! And your background is just beautiful. Love the colors - love everything about it!

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  13. Wonderfully creative! Love the color palette, and the new stamp is a great background stamp!

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  14. What a unique way of using the Matchbook kit!! Love it!

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  15. You have a natural gift for scrapbooking!

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  16. Your scrapbook page is pretty and colorful. Love it!

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