Good morning, Marilyn here with a new creation especially for you.  When I think of Thanksgiving, I think of turkey, pies, and home.  So, with that in mind, I created the following 4×6.

I started with a piece of mechanical board (a fave of mine) and covered it with alternating strips of Bella Blvd’s Homey and Trees (backside) paper.  I then edged the top and bottom using Bella Blvd’s designer paper tape.  It gives a nice finished edge to the piece.

Then I made a pie.  I started with a Basically Bare Stack-a-Bellies cupcake with a felt top.  I trimmed up the bottom piece just a bit on the top of the sides and colored it with Espresso acrylic paint.  Then using a Snow Cap paint dabber, I pounced the paint on the white felt top.  I wanted the slightly uneven coverage this gave.  Finally, I carefully painted on two slits.   Moving the top further down on the bottom turned the cupcake into a pie!

To make my banner, I used the some of the doors from Basically Bare’s Happy Little Houses set.  I ran a Snow Cap paint dabber across the chipboard, going for a streaked appearance to imitate a painted wood board.  I then used the “THANKS” sticker from Bella Blvd’s Thankful sticker sheet.

Hope you enjoy my project for today!  Until later………………Smiles~

It’s Natalie here with my first official Basically Bare post!

For my project today I have made Christmas ornaments with some of my favorite shapes the “Happy Little Houses” I just love these houses, the possibilities are endless with them!

I also used the Chipboard Fanciful Frames II for the base of my ornament and added a ‘gear’ snowflake for more texture and fun!

I started by adding a little glue to the front of my chipboard shape and glued it to my patterned paper.

When they were dry I trimmed each one out with my x-acto knife, and sanded and distressed the edges to give finish them off.

For my ‘gear’ snowflake, I added several layers of Stampendous “Winter Wonderland” embossing powder. I focused my heat tool on a few of the edges, got them hot and dipped them into the embossing powder several times to give some texture. I found it worked better to focus on a smaller area at a time so that it stays nice and hot for the embossing powder to stick.

 I finished off the gear with a circle of patterned paper to cover up any that I may have missed with the embossing powder. I glued the snowflake gear to one of the frames using pop dots. Then it was time for the house. I used  buttons and red flowers for a wreath, added some stamping for texture and topped it off with a layer of glitter snow.

For my second ornament, I made some little bushes on either side of the house with buttons, adding more glitter for snow.

I love how these turned out and can’t wait to make more!

Good morning, Marilyn here.  Today, I have a neat little page I created for your viewing pleasure.  This time of year reminds me of falling leaves, acorns, and cardinals.  The time when the heat of summer leaves but just before the cold of winter arrives.

First, I covered an extra chipboard page I had from a Basically Bare Tilly’s Tabs album with a piece of Bella Blvd Homey paper (the backside), then followed with a house from the Basically Bare Happy Little Houses set (which I’m already in love with!).  To get the brick effect I wanted, I ran a piece of acrylic through a TH checkerboard texture fade and then inked it up with alcohol ink in Cranberry.  Glossy Accents was the perfect clear glue since the acrylic is still fairly transparent.  I left the chipboard unpainted underneath the acrylic which adds to the brick effect.

Wanting to make a cardinal, I grabbed one of my Basically Bare chipboard Birds and gave it a good spraying with Dylusions Postbox Red mist.  I left it soaking in the excess mist until it air dried.  I’ve learned that you will sometimes have a “fade-out” of color if you try hurrying the drying along with a heat gun.

Next I glued my bird onto a wood branch, adding foam leaves and a few acorns from my backyard.  The “fall” is from the Bella Blvd Thankful sticker sheet.

Hope you enjoyed my little project.  Until later……Smiles~

It’s only 9 weeks until Christmas!  Can you believe it?  I had a moment of panic at that news!  Jen here to share a fun Christmas tag that I made with some of Basically Bare pieces.

I wanted to make a fun seasonal tag to put on a package for a special person!  I took a x-large kraft tag and started with one of the felt frames from the Fanciful Frames set.  I glued paper behind it and trimmed the paper to fit.

The star topper is from the Celestial Shapes set covered in paper.  The tree is made up of Small Pennants with the top being a chipboard shape covered in more patterned paper. The middle is a canvas pieces stamped and the bottom is a felt pennant that is stamped.

The base of the tree or trunk is from the Happy Little Houses Set.  I peeled the top layer of the cardboard window and  used it for the wooden trunk.

I love Basically Bare products because they are so versatile!  I want to thank all of you for your sweet comments.  This is my last post as a design team member!  I wish the new team good luck and have been honored to be on this team!

Basically Bare Supplies:

Small Pennants

Happy Little Houses Set

Celestial Shapes

Fanciful Frames

Other products:

Kraft Tag: Ranger

Patterned Papers and Stamps: Lawn Fawn

Faber-Castell Stamper’s Big Brush Pens in Black, Cobalt Blue, Scarlet Red, and Chrome Green

Helmar 450 Adhesive, Acid Free Glue, ZapDots

Prima e-Bling

May Arts ribbon

Jen Matott here for your blogging pleasure!  I created this little wall hanging using one of the “Oh So Mini” album chipboard pages as the base.  This time of year makes me long for home comforts and cozy evenings.   My home becomes my cocoon in the cooler nights and I love it!

I covered the chipboard page with a map from an old atlas from my regional area and a doily.  I wanted to give it a little lift or another layer so I used a mini canvas that I had from another project and covered it with an old book page.  I sprayed it with Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Crocheted Doily!

I used a canvas heart, felt wings, and cardboard house.  The heart was sprayed using a stencil and Glimmer Mist and the wings were sprayed with Tarnished Silver Glimmer Mist and coated with Glimmer Glam.  I also coated the Jailer’s key with the Glimmer Glam for a bit of sparkle.

A book page door and individual words “Bless Our House”  and some silk ribbon by May Arts to finish it off and you have a cute little wall hanging that makes me happy!

Basically Bare Supplies Used:

Oh So Mini Bracket page

Happy Little Houses

Hearts #2

Bare Basics Wings

Jailer’s Keys

Other supplies:

Map paper

Book page

Doily

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist (Crocheted Doily, Tarnished Silver, and Brick)

Tattered Angels Glimmer Glam

Silk Ribbon by May Arts

Mini Canvas

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Collection Chit Chat Word Stickers

Jen Matott here with a scrapbook layout to share. It’s that time again and I’m reminiscing about my days as a student, especially since I’m on the other end as a mom and teacher now.  I had my 20th high school reunion a few weeks ago and it was a blast!  I loved talking to my classmates about things we remember happening when we were young.  Before the reunion, we had a Facebook page set up and shared photos from high school!  I dug out my box of memories and yearbooks and scanned in a bunch of photos.  I found my senior photos and can believe how long my hair was and how young I looked!  My skin was so smooth!   So, I decided to do a page with that photo…

I used one of the canvas pages from the Oh So Mini line… It’s the stamp-edged one and I used VersaMark through a new Prima stencil and added Bubblegum pink embossing powder from WOW!  It still keeps the canvas texture but embosses beautifully! I did use the ScraPerfect pouch before so that it eliminated any static in the fabric.  Works perfectly!

Here’s a close up of the texture in the canvas and embossing powder.  I love this effect!!!   So going to do this again in the future on canvas!

I also used a chipboard frame from the new Fanciful Frames II line!  I love how sturdy and adorable these are!  It fit my photo to perfection and I prettied it up with some stamping from Suzy West’s “Call Me” stamp set and WOW copper embossing powder.

You can see how I mixed other embossing powders in to create a patina look.  You can alter these frames with just about anything!

Here I am at 17 years old and boy do I wish I had that skin and hair back!  It was so fun to reminisce and look through old photos.  If you have old back to school photos, get them out and scrap a page with your memories of a younger you!

Happy Back to School for all the students, parents, and teachers out there!!

Jen

Hi Everyone, Veronica here to share with you a cute Travel album for our Basically Bare and May Arts Swap week!

I love using ribbons so I am very excited to be part of the May Arts swap.  For this album (Rowdy Roaster) I decided to go a little more simple and fresh.  I did not use any ink!  That is not like me but I wanted a crisp look to this album.  The cover is an acrylic arrow which I thought appropriate for my “Off We Go” Adventure Travel album.

I used the embellishment pack “celestial” because I love the chipboard sun and the felt clouds.  I painted the chipboard with a base of white Kuretake FX painty and I finished coloring with yellow.

On the cover as you turn the page I “mirrored” what was on the front cover to the first page since the page is acrylic and “see through”.  I wanted the page to look clean when you turned it without seeing the backs of the embellishments on the cover.

The green ribbon with the white polka dot May Arts JD46 is one of my favorite ribbons and I use it alot!

Since the paper collection had green, blue, yellow and orange in the color palette I went with the same colors for my ribbons.

Thank you for stopping by our swap and have a Scrappy Day!

Product Used: 

May Arts Ribbon: KB27, KB46, KB28, JD46, WS01, 408-05-38, ARR28

Basically Bare:  BK005 Rowdy Roadster Album, Celestial Shapes

Kuretake:  yellow and white Painty FX

Paper Collection:  My Little Yellow Bicycle – Escape

Jen Matott here to share a fun project that I did with May Arts ribbon and Basically Bare products!

I had some of our Gears left over from a previous project and added in some of our new frames and a hat!  The dressform was so much fun to alter!!!  Here are some close ups of my Steampunk wall hanging!

The cardboard dress form from Basically Bare was altered by ripping some of the top layer off, stamped with a VersaMark pad and embossed with WOW embossing powder in Ultra Gold first.  I then did the same with Copper Regular powders.  Finally, I stamped some text

from the Rubber Cafe’s Steampunk set and embossing it with Black Glint powder.  The skirt was made with 1/2 a doily folded around and then a ruffle of May Arts 2″ Solid Stripe ribbon with a pretty bow around her middle!

Here’s the cute little black top hat from Basically Bare’s Hats & Staches set.  I just tied a piece of May Arts Faux Linen ribbon through a metal gear and glued some feathers and a stick pin in for a fun Steampunk look.

The backing board is a piece of chipboard that I covered with tissue pattern and modeling paste through a stencil of gears (Prima).  I added some Faber Castell Design Memory Craft Gelatos in Champagne. The rest of the gears were embossed with WOW Embossing powder, stamps from Rubber Cafe (Steampunk set), and metal circles and Rubber Cafe bling.

The acrylic frame is stamped with StazOn using the same stamps.  I also stamped the wing and embossed with copper power and colored the rest with Black Licorice Gelato. I added a felt key embossed in silver and some pewter brads too! The final touch was some of the May Arts ribbon looped through a book ring for hanging and attached to the back of the piece.  The bottom piece was cut with a ribbon edge for a pretty finish!

This was so fun to make and I absolutely LOVE May Arts ribbon!  It is so lush and gorgeous!  Hope you enjoyed my Steampunk wall hanging!

Hi, Veronica again, and I am so excited to share with you today.  Whoot, Whoot I made Tags!  Tags are my second best thing to make because I can go wild with the playing around on a small surface.  I figure if my experimenting and playing around doesn’t translate from my head to the tag, then “oh well” I can start over because I didn’t invest tons of time since I was working with a 3.5 x 7 space.

I am so happy that I got to play with the new CHA Summer release “Hats & Staches” mixed media embellishments.

I used the cute “beret” and the matching mustache to make two Paris inspired tags.  Since I was experimenting and playing around I really layered it on.  I didn’t have to worry about leaving space for photos so I went crazy with the layering.  So much fun!

I also added the “Fleur Di Lis” from the Basically Bare embellishments.  This one is the corrugated cardboard fleur di lis that I embossed with ranger and WOW embossing powders.  Then I sprayed glimmer mist on everything.

There are about 7 layers on this tag!  I used some scrap prima and glitz papers, some prima flowers, IOD sticker letters, 7 gypsies metal border, prima lace, May Arts ribbon and the best part?  They were all scraps!

Here is a closer photo of the cute chipboard beret hat.  Isn’t it so cute?

This tag is featuring the mustache that goes with the cute beret from the “Hats and Staches” embellie pack.  I used lots of layers, metals, prima flowers and a mixture of paper scraps.

I used a nice Eiffel Tower stamp (Art Impressions) which I embossed with “skyline grey” WOW embossing powder to give my tag the Paris inspiration that I got from my stache.

Close up of the cute paris inspired “stache” which I embossed with a combo of ranger and WOW embossing powders.  Then I sprayed glimmer mist on top and heat set.

So my tip for the day is that if you want to try something “new” and just want to play and experiment …  get yourself a tag and some Basically Bare chipboard embellies and go to town!

Happy Scrapping

Hi again, Veronica here to share my latest album using the new summer CHA release “Oh So Mini” albums.

These new “Oh So Mini” albums are right down my alley.  I love using these little treasures.  I love the versatility of mixing and matching any of the new 6 sets and also inter-mingling the textures!

I used the Prima Marketing paper collection “Alla-Prima”, and I put alot of different techniques into the base pages.  I first decided to paint all my pages white to give the album a “flow” and continuity.  I then embossed some of the pages using the WOW embossing powers.  I also stamped and used stencils on the pages.

On these pages I added a tag that I embossed, stamped, sprayed with glimmer mist, and distressed.  On the 2nd page above I embossed with a pretty damask stamp using the WOW powders on the canvas “ticket” edge page.  I then sewed, added ribbon and tissue paper folded “ruffle” to the edge.

I don’t know if you notice but I used twill ribbon that I cut and distressed then stained with tea.  I also sewed and distressed my photo matts.  After my matts were adhered to my pages I stamped some clocks on the pages above. I then glimmer sprayed and dripped some more tea on the pages because I like the “drip” effect.

Here I used the rounded edge acrylic page which I cut in half.  I then ran the acrylic through my embossing folder.  I added staz-on ink on the surface to visually bring up the embossed pattern.  I then added some of the new “Jailer Keys” to the acrylic divider

Here is a close up of the Jailer keys which I embossed with copper and gold using the WOW powders.

I hope you enjoyed my share time with my new “Memories” album as much as I enjoyed creating it.  Be sure to get your hands on the new Oh So Mini albums and make some memories of your own.  Happy Scrapping!

Basically Bare Product Used:

Oh So Mini albums

Jailer Keys