Hi Basically Bare fans, Katrina here.  I have  another layout to share today using the Celestial Set, Heart set and the Owl set.  Actually, the owl was the starting point of my entire layout.  I love to create catchy titles and this just came together really quick after I came up with it!   I love this picture of Sheldon.  It was the first one that I posted on Facebook after we picked him up from our breeder’s house.  No one knew we were getting a puppy and they were shocked!

I played with the clouds a little more than I normally do.  I inked the edges and then used some puffy paint on them to give them some texture.  I thought the sun looked neat with the pattern paper.

I love to decorate and dress up owl forms!  My favorite part is usually the wings and the chest area, because you can do so much with them.  Here I took border punched strips of paper and layered them.

I love that the larger hears can be used to put parts of your title on!

That’s all from me today!  Thanks for stopping by!

Katrina Hunt

Paper, Scissors and Glue

Paper Collection-Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker (Noah)

Katrina here with a fun little layout about sisters.  These two are so fun to be around and I had to snag this picture off one of their Facebook pages to scrap it.  (Yes, I asked if I could!)  Their boyfriends must have been busy, because they were having a date night!  Carta Bella’s True Friends collection was great for this page.

I cut one of the gears from the Gear embellishment set in half to make a fun little accent for that corner of my page.  I think covered in pattern paper, added some tied twine around it and a sticker.  Super quick, simple and fun!

Then I went to work on the heart cluster area.  I used a canvas heart and sponged some Prima Chalk ink all over it.  Then I took a stamp from Cocoa Daisy and stamped the pattern darker on the heart.  I love how it gave it a harlequin look!  I also used an arrow from the Arrow set and just trimmed it to fit my spinner wheel.

Just a glance at the title!

Thanks for stopping by today!  Take you sister out on a date, for goodness sake!!!

Katrina Hunt

Paper, Scissors and Glue

Good morning, everyone!  I hope you all had a great Valentine’s Day with your sweetie!  Today I have the door hanger I made to share a little love with folks that come to visit.

I used three chipboard Bare Basics Hearts and a whole lot of Art Anthology for this project.  It started with a wood frame painted white.  Then I added some heart-shaped paper doilies in the background.  I dabbed Art Anthology Sorbet Dimensional Gel Paint in “Splashed” around the sides of the frame for sparkle and a little dimension.

Each heart has a different design, but all of them started with a solid base of plain white acrylic paint and then were covered with a thin coat of Art Anthology Sorbet Dimensional Gel Paint in “Drab.”

The first heart has swirls stenciled on top of the “Drab” Sorbet using “Red Velvet” Sorbet.

The second heart has some random brush strokes in the base coat of “Drab” Sorbet for extra dimension, and then has a masked flourish that was painted around using Art Anthology “Wineberry” Velvet Dimensional paint.

The third heart has small white hearts made with Art Anthology Dimensional Crystal in “Blizzard.”

After all of the hearts were set into the background, I filled in the open spaces with various flowers from my stash.  Several of these flowers were white to start with, but were colored with Art Anthology Colorations Spray in “Sangria.”

That’s it for today!  Thanks so much for stopping by!

x Beth

Basically Bare  Materials:
Bare Basics Hearts

Art Anthology Materials:
Colorations Spray: Sangria
Dimensional Crystal: Blizzard
Sorbet Dimensional Gel Paint (Drab, Splashed, Red Velvet)
Velvet Dimensional Paint (Wineberry)

Hi, Veronica here to share some romantic sweetness.  Are you making plans with your Valentine?  Why not start by making a Valentine Card from the heart (and wings).  Plus a little cupcake sweetness thrown in.

I  am excited to share with you today two Valentine Cards and One Sweet Door Hanger to help you decorate for Valentine’s Day.

First I used the Basically Bare chipboard Hearts, and to the lovely heart I added some angel wings.

In the heart package you also get FELT hearts!

On my second Valentine’s Card I decided to use (one of my absolute favorites) small dress form.  In the dress form package you get different sizes and also cardboard and chipboard

To make my dress form beautiful and blingy I added Linen sorbet from Art Anthology

For my last project I made a Valentine’s Day door hanger.  It is pure sweetness.

For this piece I used the Rounded Oh So Mini page, the felt medium size fanciful frame, cupcake and felt wings

I had alot of fun decorating my “cupcake” I used lots of the layers, linen sorbet and bling.

Hope you enjoyed my Valentine goodies, happy scrapping …

Veronica (kitsnbits)

Hi Everyone! Kristin here today to share the second half of my Top 10: Chicago mini book with you. Check out the first half here.

The base of this mini-book is the Tiny Tabs album; and because this book has over 20 individual pages and transparencies, I’ve broken it up into two posts to better share the special details with you.

I kept this album very simple. I just wanted a quick showcase of my top ten moments from Chicago. Quick mini-books are my favorite way to tell a story. Just a few simple steps and you have a great book to document your favorite memories.

Tips for Quick Minibooks: 

1. Grab all your photos first.
2. Put your photos in the order you want them to appear in the book.
3. Grab a few sheets of paper (6×6 paper pads are perfect for this) an alphabet set
4. Only use a few embellishments (washi, stickers, flair, etc)
5. Batch process your book — put down your papers, then your photos, then embellish and journal at the end.

This is my favorite album from Basically Bare, it is incredibly versatile and can be used for any occasion. Come over to my blog and see the brand new project I have in the works using the Tiny Tabs album!

Supplies Used:

Basically Bare Tiny Tabs Album
Studio Calico December 6×6 paper pad
Basic Grey Number Brads
Simple Stories Sn@p Alphas
Heidi Swapp White Alphas

Elle’s Studio Day by Day tags

Freckled Fawn washi tape

Becky here with you today, and we are only a few days away from Valentine’s Day so of course I’ve been making lots of love themed projects recently. And my latest project is one of my favorites … check it out!

This project, while very cute in a vintage sort of way, is really easy to make!   Let’s get started …

First, I started with two of the canvas hearts from the ‘Hearts’ Embellishment Sets.  I placed them on my ‘splat mat’ and used some of the amazing Art Anthology ‘Heart’ Colorations.  These amazing mists have some of the prettiest and most intense colors I’ve seen.  Anyway, I misted the canvas hearts heavily with the Colorations, then rubbed them around in the excess mist to soak up as much as I could.  Once I had the hearts saturated with the color, I allowed them to dry … helping them along a little bit with my heat gun.  Once they were dry, they looked like this …

Next up I started adding embellishments to one of the hearts.  I hand stitched several bits of lace and ribbon from my stash onto one heart, but if you wanted you could use your favorite adhesive.  This is a great way to use up those little bits and pieces you have hanging around!   And here is how it looked after I had the lace sewn onto the heart …

Next I sewed on several pale pink vintage glass buttons, and pinned a Tim Holtz ‘Trinket Pin’ underneath one of them.  Next I sewed some of the blue seam binding for a hanger by placing it on the back side, and sewing on a couple of very small vintage buttons, going through the buttons, canvas and ribbon, to hold it secure.

And last of all I used Beacon 3 in 1 Advanced Craft Glue to glue the second heart onto the back side of the embellished heart, with the colored side facing away from the center.  This added a little extra weight and covered where all my stitches showed on the back of the embellished heart.

I am very pleased with this sweet heart, and think I will give it to my 82 year old ‘Mama’ for Valentines Day.  She can hang it next to her favorite chair so she will see it often.  Thanks so much for visiting the Basically Bare blog today!  Come back soon, Becky

Hey, it’s me Katrina again!  Occasionally, I love to just take a drive with no intent of winding up any place in particular.  Since I live in the Midwest, this often involves driving thru farming country.  I have always loved to see barns out in the middle of nowhere.  But since I have really started taking pictures as a “hobby” (or more!), I am itching to get out and find some good barns to photograph.  The picture on this layout came from a drive up in Central Missouri.  It was a great late afternoon/evening and I have some fun pictures from it.  BUT, this barn picture is my favorite!

 For the cloud, I used a felt blossom from the Blossoms set that I had cut in half previously.  I misted with some Art Anthology mists in two different colors.  Then, I added some of the Art Anthology Sorbet paint in the Frost color to the cloud to lighten it up a little.

I am trying to incorporate more journaling into my layouts.  So, I popped some journaling on a label and added it at the bottom of my layout.  It’s just something I don’t usually do, but am trying to do more!

And then the tree from the Happy Little Trees set!  I used a stencil from Crafter’s Workshop and just misted with a couple of colors from Art Anthology.  For the trunk of the tree, I did a gesso base coat.  Then, I used some Art Anthology Sorbet paint in a brown color.  I wanted to tone down the sparkle, so after the trunk dried I inked the edges with some distress ink for shadowing.  I also used a bare chipboard star from the Celestial set to anchor part of my title.  I loved the bare look to it!

Thanks for stopping by today!  And make sure to take that camera on those impromptu road trips!  You might just love the pictures you end up with from it.

Katrina Hunt

Paper, Scissors and Glue

Hello everyone! It’s Emily here with another little mini album to share! Since it’s the “Season of Love” I thought I would share a mini album that I made with Authentique’s “Lovely” collection.  I used a basically Bare tiny tabs mini album, which is one of my faves. They are so tiny and cute and the acrylic tab pages are awesome!

On the cover I also used some bare embellies, the jailer keys and a little canvas heart.

Here’s a peek at the inside…

I just love how this album turned out! I usually don’t do well with pinks & reds, but I cannot wait to add some photos to this one!

Thanks for stopping by today!

Hi, guys!  I’ve got a layout to share today that combines some of my favorite Basically Bare embellies – the Paparazzi chipboard shapes – with my new favorite mediums, Art Anthology Sorbets.

I absolutely love the texture and shimmer the Sorbet dimensional gel paints added to the super cute camera and film strip shapes from the Paparazzi set.  I jazzed them up with some baker’s twine, and a glassy effect for the camera.

To add the glass effect to the lens and viewfinder of the camera, I placed the chipboard directly on a non-stick craft mat and smoothed a bit of glass beads gel in the openings. I left it to dry overnight to be sure it was completely dry, then I popped it right off the mat.

The beads adhere to the edges of the chipboard but come cleanly off of the nonstick mat to give a transparent finish.  I am absolutely going to do this again, but this time, I plan on trying it with Art Anthology’s new Dimensional Crystals that y’all are going to LOVE.  They’re dimensional, shiny, and sparkly – how could you not love them?

Ok, back to the project at hand (I’m so easily distracted!).  I made the flag by tying three bamboo pieces together with baker’s twine.  The shape was cut using my Silhouette Cameo and a shape file from their online store.

The little Polaroid picture-looking bits were cut from American Crafts paper, as were the “twenty” and “12″ bits.

Then a little journaling with a Zig pen directly on the background paper, which is also from American Crafts.

That’s all for me today.  I hope you all have a great weekend!

‘Til next time,

- x Beth

Materials

Basically Bare:
Paparazzi set

Art Anthology:
Sorbet Dimensional Gel Paint (Drab, Frost, Tiger’s Eye, Trolley Grey)

Paper:
American Crafts (Neapolitan), Fancy Pants Designs (Spring Fever Script), Pink Paislee (House of Three – Daily Junque)

Hi, Veronica here to share with you a lovely little album by Basically Bare Krafty Keepsakes  that I call ADORE.  Who says that Valentine’s Day or a Romantic Keepsake album has to be Red and Pink?

I just love the envelope pockets in this album!  I decorated the envelope pages with the Basically Bare Hearts so that I can easily pull out the tags.  There is room on the tags for lots of journaling or you can store extra photos inside the pockets!

Notice the wings that I added to the hearts.  Nothing says “LOVE” more than hearts and wings.  Is this c-u-t-e or what?

There are so many ways and techniques you can use to embellish the Basically Bare chipboard pieces.  On this dress form I decided to wrap it in ribbon.

Thank you for stopping by Basically Bare

veronica (kitsnbitscraps)

Supplies Used:

Basically Bare Album: Plain Jane “Krafty Keepsake”

Basically Bare Embellishments:  Chipboard Hearts, Chipboard Wings, Dress Me Up – Dress Form

Other Supplies:  My Mind’s Eye Lost and Found “Sunshine” collection, May Arts, Mark Richards,  Prima Flowers, Ranger “stickles”, Xyron