Back to School Notebooks and a giveaway !! - Ruby Rock-It

Hi everyone! Today I'm sharing my last project for Ruby Rock-It. I've decided not to re-apply for the next term even though I've absolutely loved creating for them!! Erin is the best and I'll miss her dearly! And because this is my last Ruby Rock-It project I've decided to do a little giveaway. You'll find the details at the bottom of my post. 

For today's Ruby Rock-It "Back to School" feature I decided to dress-up these fun little notebooks. I don't know about you, but my kids and I always carry around little booklets like these: my kids to school and I, well I bring them everywhere I go. 

When I bought these "bare" notebooks at a local shop they looked like this: 

And because I'm always on the look out for fun projects to alter or dress up I bought them. For today they came in very handy! I used the "Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz" which were of course perfect for these kraft booklets. 

I loved the journaling cards from the sheet "Journal It" and decided to use those for the front. The words were cut from the sheet "Kinda Krafty, Chatterbox":

For a little more contrast I used a black pen to doodle along the side of the background paper: 

The bookmark is a tag cut from one of the sheets of the "Kinda Krafty" collection ("Tag It") and adhered with two strings of twine, to which I attached a little metal heart. 

Now, as I can't wait to see what you would do with these (bare) notebooks I decided to do a little

giveaway: 

I'm giving away a set of 3 bare notebooks to dress up with some Ruby Rock-It products (which I'll also send you). All you have to do is leave me a comment (make sure you'll add your email address, so I can email you!). A winner will be announced a week later. Open to everyone! 

Last but not least the supply list: 

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz KK07 Count The Ways

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz KK52 Chatterbox

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz KK69 Quad

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz KK77 Banner It

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz KK84 Stripe

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz Tag It

Bella! Kinda Krafty Paperz Journal It

From The Twinery: Charcoal, Peapod, Lilac and Maraschino Solid twine. 

Other supplies: metal hearts, pen from K&Company and a set of Hema kraft notebooks. 

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog today and wishing you happy crafting!! 

Ruby Rock-It and The Twinery Blog Hop - Day 3

Hello and welcome to the Ruby Rock-It and The Twinery Blog Hop!!

This week, design team members from both companies are teaming up to provide several days of project inspiration!

If you arrived here from Jeanne Jachna's blog then you're in the right place, if not, you might want to start at today's beginning at: Ruby Rock-It's blog.

There are some fantastic prizes to be won! To be eligible for these prizes, simply start from the beginning and hop all the way through, leaving a comment on each designer's blog over the 3 days and then go back to the blogs of Ruby Rock-It and The Twinery to let them know you have! Comments close Monday, September 22nd at 11:59pm PST and we will announce the winner later in the week!

The prize to be won from Ruby Rock-It is the fabulous "Empire Bebe" collection:

And the prize to be won from The Twinery are 3 full spools of this awesome twine!! Winner's choice!

And now on to the project I created for the hop: this card using Ruby Rock-It's My Romance and Celebrate collections and a die-cut from a decoupage pack and some awesome pink striped twine from The Twinery:

Here are a few close-ups of how I used the twine. I cut a strip of white cardstock and punched out three hearts. Then I cut another strip of white cardstock, a bit smaller than the first one, added a bit of adhesive (with a roller) and wound the twine around it. I placed the strip with the hearts cut out on top and tada! ready!

I just love the soft pink color of the twine in combination with these papers from Ruby Rock-It/Bella!

Supplies: Ruby Rock-It: "Bella! My Romance" collection, "Bella! Celebrate" collection, "Fundamentals Decoupage Pack Birds" and The Twinery "Blossom Stripe" twine.

Now it's time to hop on to the next stop on our hop: the fabulous Denise Hahn!

And just in case you get lost along the way, I've included today's (Saturday's) blog hop list:

Ruby Rock-It
The Twinery
Jenifer Cowles
Melyssa Connolly
Pattie Beltran
Katarina Damm-Blomberg
Jeanne Jachna
Monique Liedtke - YOU ARE HERE
Denise Hahn
Rebecca Greco
Andrew Roberts

Thank you so much for hopping along with us today!
Hugs,

Ruby Rock-It Easy as Pie (Chart) Tutorial

Hello friends! Today I want to share the tutorial I created for Ruby Rock-It: an "Easy As Pie (Chart)" tutorial! Here's the page I made I'll explain step-by-step how I created it:

I decided to create this page without any help of my electronic die-cut system, but instead do it the "old" way with a pencil and a pair of scissors!

1. Draw a circle on a piece of cardstock: (I used a dish which happened to be the right size)

2. Hand cut the circle:

3. Divide into 4 equal parts. I used the two diagonal lines on my cutting mat to align my ruler:

4. Draw two more lines - this time randomly so your parts will be of different sizes - thus making the total 10 parts:

5. Now hand cut these parts:

6. And place them one by one on a piece of paper and cut around it:

7. Arrange the 10 pieces of the pie chart on your (cardstock)background paper:

8. And after you've decided where they should go adhere them with only a little bit of adhesive (so they stay in place when you sew them to your background paper):

9. Next use your sewing machine to stitch the pieces in place:

10. And now you can start building your layout!

Okay, this was my tutorial. Hope you liked it! 

Last but not least my list of supplies: 

Fundamentals FV33 A5 Vellum Dots

Ruby Rock-It V147 Vintedge Collection Pack

Ruby Rock-It NA76 Nostalgia Stripe

Ruby Rock-It NA20 Nostalgia Damask Glittered

Ruby Rock-It NA48 Nostalgia Stickers

Ruby Rock-It RCQE01 Carnival Queen Pockets

Ruby Rock-It RCQE88 Carnival Queen Garlands

Ruby Rock-It Carnival Queen Dotti

Ruby Rock-It Carnival Queen Yackety Yak

Ruby Rock-It CO00 Cook Quilt

Ruby Rock-It CO63 Cook Cardstock Ledger

Ruby Rock-It CO79 Cook 6x6 Recipe Book Album

Other supplies: 

K&Company pen

Old book page

Misc. cardstock

Xenos wood veneer

Kerri Bradford cut file

Tools: 

Silhouette Cameo

Aigger sewing machine

Thank you for stopping by my blog today! Have a great day! 

It's a girl! - Ruby Rock-It

For Ruby Rock-It's "Creative Cards" feature I decided to pull out the "Baby Girl" mini collection. A relative of my husband just had a little girl and so the choice was easy! 

and a close-up: 

Isn't this a super cute collection? Just look at that giraffe! 

My RRBF supply list: 

Bella! VMP95 Baby Girl Little Feet paper

Bella! VMP88 Baby Girl Cut-Outs

Bella! VMT35 Baby Girl Die-Cut Pack

Ruby Rock-It HEE28 Florals

Other supplies: 

The Twinery Blossom Stripe Twine

The Twinery Buttercream Stripe Twine

Doodlebug: doily

Making Memories: paper clip

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog today! 

Creative Cards Feature - Ruby Rock-It

For Ruby Rock-It's "Creative Cards" feature I was asked to create some cards (obviously, lol), but I really am not much of card maker! I find making cards so much more difficult than creating layouts and it takes me at least just as long, if not longer to make them. But of course I gave it a go and I must admit that in the end I really enjoyed making them.

For the background of these cards I thought I would pull out my punches and grabbed my hexagon and triangle punches and some Fusions papers and started punching: 

I adhered the punched hexagons and triangles on a piece of vellum and layered this on sheet of white cardstock and that on piece of wedding patterned paper. This little pile I adhered on a double folded piece of white cardstock. 

Last but not least I chose some die-cut flowers, a die-cut tag and some twine to finish it off. 

All the die-cuts I used came from this fabulous decoupage pack! 

Here's the list of supplies I used: 

Bella! CL40 Wedding Celebrate Musical

Fundamentals NFD31 - 3D Decoupage Pack

Fundamentals - FV33 Vellum A5 dots

Bella! - ON27 Yellow Fusion Damask

Bella! - ON10 Yellow Fusion Flourish

Other supplies:

American Crafts: cardstock

The Twinery: twine

Tim Holtz: tiny staples

Tools: 

Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher

American Crafts Triangle Punch

Stampin' Up Hexagon Punch

I would love to learn what you think of my cardmaking attempt!

Thank you so much for stopping by my blog. Have a great day! 

Care Free - Ruby Rock-It

For today's "Lovin Layouts" feature on Ruby Rock-It's blog I've created this layout. The photo is of two of my kids and one of my nephews. It's the summer holidays and we're at our favorite camping site in the south of France, a place where I've been going ever since I was a kid myself.

I started this layout with the sketched camera (used the Silhouette for this) and worked from there. I don't think you can see it, but I've colored the camera with watered down pink Gelatos, the ink blended a bit, but I still love the result!

The title and the arrow are done with the Silhouette Cameo too.

I love layering papers with different designs and patterns:

And don't you just love this colorful banner from the Carnival Queen collection? It comes "pre-stitched", how cool is that?!

Here's the list of supplies I used: 

Ruby Rock-It Bella! Fundamentals:

Bella! CL64 Wedding Celebrate Flourish

Bella! CL40 Wedding Celebrate Musical

Bella! MR38 Wedding My Romance Damask

Ruby Rock-It NA76 Nostalgia Stripe

Bella! KK52 Kinda Krafty Chatterbo

Ruby Rock-It RCQE64 Carnival Queen Party Picks

Ruby Rock-It RCQE88 Carnival Queen Garlands

Ruby Rock-It RCQE01 Carnival Queen Pockets

Ruby Rock-It RCK58 Carnival Queen Pockets

Other supplies:

American Crafts: cardstock

K&Company: pen

Prima Marketing: color bloom

Studio Calico: color mist

Doodlebug: pink doily

Faber Castell: Gelatos

misc: white doily and staples

cut files: The Cut Shoppe (arrow), Kerri Bradford (title), Silhouette store #57192 (camera)

Tools: 

Silhouette Cameo

V&D: Long reach stapler

Tim Holtz: Tiny Attacher

Okay, this was my layout for today. I hope I've been able to inspire a bit! 

Thank you so much for stopping by our blog!

Hugs,

Just us - Ruby Rock-It

Hello my friends! Yesterday it was my turn to share on Ruby Rock-It's blog "why" I scrap ... I think my layout says it all: I scrap because some photos and memories "touch" me and I want to hold on to that feeling, I scrap because I want to preserve certain memories for my kids for when they're older and last but definitely not least I scrap because I need the creative outlet, I just love to play with papers and everything that comes with it! And that's what this layout is all about: the memory, the photo that touches my heart, the creative part: 

Because I always love to combine different designs and collections I decided to do just that for this page. Therefore I needed a subdued background and chose a kraft one. For the circle background, the title and the funky circles I used my Silhouette Cameo and for the rest of the rest of the page I used many different punches.  

On the tag there's some hidden journaling with a personal message from me to my son and husband.

The words and expressions were cut from one of the sheets from the "Kinda Krafty" collection: 

Fiskars was so generous to send us, the design team, several of their punches to work with. I got a  fantastic 1/2" star punch and this awesome 2 1/2" branch out lever punch: 

This is it for today. Hope you like it! 

My supply list: 

Bella! Kinda Krafty KK52 Chatterbo

Bella! VMP17 Father Dotti

Ruby Rock-It NA 76 Nostalgia Stripe

Ruby Rock-It Cook collection

Bella! ON27 Yellow Fusion Damask

Fundamentals FV33 A5 Vellum Dots

Fundamentals FV25 A5 Vellum Circles 

Other supplies:

Cardstock: American Crafts & Bazzill Basics

tags, twine, staples and glassine bag: misc. 

Cut Files: Silhouette store & Kerri Bradford

Tools: 

Silhouette Cameo

Long Reach Stapler

Circle Punches

Fiskars 1/2" star pop-up punch

Fiskars 2 1/2" branch out lever punch (xxl)

Thank you so much for stopping by Ruby Rock-It's blog today!