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

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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

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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

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Katrina here for the Basically Bare and Art Anthology product swap this week!  I am loving the projects I have seen the design team do mixing the two companies products together.  I keep thinking, darn, I wish I would have thought of that!  I have a layout to share today with the Art Anthology mists and Sorbet paints.

Yes, that is me and I am pointing to Totty the Sonic Elf.  And I am very sad that he is not around this year!  I misted the cardstock background with the Waimea Bay blue color.  I am in love with this shade of blue.  It’s soft, but yet you can tell it’s a blue.  These are water-based, so you card stock may curl slightly, but the mist covered so well, I hardly used any!  I had the Frost and Rudy Pink colors of the Sorbet paint to work with.  These are dimensional and have a glitter sheen to them.

You can see the dimension the paint has where I used it on my Basically Bare pennant pieces.  I did do about three coats on each piece to cover it well and get that wavy texture.  I put thin coats on and just built them up.

I snuck a flair button that JC Penny’s has been handing out on the layout.  The blue matched the mist perfectly and tied everything together.

And then just sharing a close up of my title work.  If I would have thought of it, the mist would have worked perfectly where my white shadow is on my title cut.  This cut is from the Silhouette store and is actually a vinyl cut, but works just fine for a title.

Thanks for stopping by today.  Hope you enjoyed a little “elf” in your day!  And rumor has it, I just might be wearing this hat at work on Friday.  hee hee

Hugs,

Katrina Hunt

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Basically Bare Supplies:  Small Pennants

Art Anthology Supplies:  Mist-Waimea Bay   Sorbet Paint-Frost, Rudy Pink

Other Supplies:  Pattern Paper-Carta Bella (Merry and Bright); Cardstock-American Crafts; Stickers-Carta Bella (Merry and Bright); Punches-EK Success; Adhesive-Scotch ATG, Scrapbook Adhesives, EK Success Glue Pen; Doily-Wilton; Flair-JC Penny’s; Silhouette Cameo with a cutting file

Whew, really Christmas is almost here and I am totally not ready.  That’s me, Katrina for you!  The project I have for you today is quite easy, quick and would look great on the tree or a package.  It’s a two-sided ornament using the Dress Form from Basically Bare.

 Both sides are the same, except for the color of the flowers.  I didn’t have enough to go on both sides, so I just did two different sides.  Plus, I thought it might be fun to look at on the tree, in the different lights.  And the difference is so subtle, it doesn’t really bother me!  This would look WONDERFUL in white blooms for a winter theme also!

I started the dress form by painting the top and bottom parts with some Art Anthology paint in Frost (wintery feeling).  Then I went from the bottom up with the skirt.  I used leaf picks that I found in the wedding decor section and just layered them upward.  I also used some Shimmerz paint on them to give them a little snowy look after I had them layered and attached.

After the skirt, I worked on the bodice from top to bottom.  I just layered and moved the blooms around until I liked the placement.  Then I went back and adhered them to the form.  I ran some ribbon around the waist and covered where the ends met by adding the pearls on top.

I think I might go thru my stash of Basically Bare embellishments and make some different ones for packages!  Super fun and super quick to make during this busy holiday season.  And they will add a nice homemade touch to a store bought gift.

Hugs,

Katrina Hunt

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Basically Bare Embellishment:  Dress Form

Other Supplies:  Leaves (Michael’s); Flowers (Recollections); Paint (Art Anthology/Shimmerz); Ribbon (Maya Road); Pearls (Recollections); Adhesive (Fabri-Tac/Glue Dots); Twine (Stampin’ Up); Hole Punch (Fiskars)

Katrina here and I am so excited for the swap with Bella Blvd. today!  At first, I thought I would definitely do a layout with all that fun goodies that we received.  BUT, then I started going thru my Basically Bare stash and decided that I would do a December Monthly.  I know most people are talking about December Dailies, but I know there is no way that I would keep up with a daily album.  (Hey, at least I know my weakness!)  So, I decided to make a fun little mini out of the Tiny Tabs album and just insert a few pictures of things here and there.

I used the Christmas Wishes collection from Bella Blvd.  I love the color combos and knew that it would make a fun little mini album.  If you want to see the pages bigger, just click on the collage pictures!

All of these pictures are in order of the book, except for the first two which are the front and back pages.  This first collage includes an acrylic button from the Buttons set, a tree from the Happy Little Trees set, and an acrylic star with some silver alcohol ink over it from the Celestial Shapes set .

These pages include a spool from the Sew Vintage set and an arrow from the Arrows set.  I ran the first acrylic page thru my Cuttlebug to emboss it and then put a thin layer of Art Anthology paint in frost over it.   I then ran the second acrylic page thru with a different embossing folder, used some Clover alcohol ink on it and then mixed in some of the Art Anthology paint over it.

 This collage uses a felt tree top from the Happy Little Trees set for the snow that the cute little reindeer is standing on.  A chipboard bird and felt wing from the Birds set.  Santa is made from three of the Large Pennants.  I painted a rounded canvas pennant and a V-shaped canvas pennant in Chili Powder red (Ranger/Jenni Bowlin), leaving the points of the V so that I could paint them with black paint.  I then glued the round pennant on top of the V-shaped one and ran ribbon around to make a belt.  I cut the scallop Large Pennant and used small pieces to make “fur” on the boots were the red and black paint meet.  The acrylic page here I just left plain and decorated it front and back, but still leaving area to see thru.

In this last collage, I used the two buttons from the Buttons set to make ornaments to place on the page.  I did emboss this acrylic page, but just left it clear.  I liked the way it looked.  I loved the penguins in the paper collection from Bella Blvd. and knew I wanted to do something fun with them.  This one, I made a snow globe for him to fit in.  I used the “top” from the Up, Up and Away set as my globe.  I cut the rounded bottom part from a dress form in the Dress Form set to make the base of my globe.

Thanks for stopping by and be sure to check out all our designers postings this week for our swap with Bella Blvd.  And thank you to Bella Blvd. for the fun products to work with!

Hugs,

Katrina Hunt

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Basically Bare Supplies:  Album-Tiny Tabs    Embellishment Sets-Celestial Shapes, Sew Vintage, Buttons, Large Pennants, Up, Up & Away, Dress Forms, Arrows, Happy Little Trees

Bella Blvd. Collection:  Christmas Wishes, plus Washi Tape and Buttons

Other Supplies: Acrylic Paint (Ranger/DecoArt); Dimensional Paint (Art Anthology); Alcohol Inks (Ranger); Twine (May Arts/Stampin’ Up); Cuttlbug; Embossing Folders (Lifestyle Crafts/Sizzix/ProvoCraft); Ribbon (May Arts/My Mind’s Eye/Unknown); Mists (Studio Calico Mr. Huey’s); Bling (Recollections); Pen-Zig Millennium; Silhouette Cameo; Adhesives (Fabri-Tac/Scrapbook Adhesives by 3L/Scotch ATG); Doily (Wilton); Modeling Paste

Hey Katrina here again!  Do you love fall?  I am a person that cannot wait for the cooler weather and for the changing of the seasons.  And the mystery of what the colors will be around here always intrigues me.  We never know how they will be depending on what kind of weather we had in the summer.

The beginning of the leaves falling also means cleaning up said leaves.  I took the opportunity  to snap a few pics as this was happening this year, because I knew it would make a great layout.  I used my October Gossamer Blue kit, because the colors were perfect for my layout.

I started with the houses from the Happy Little Houses set.  Love that you can mix and match the doors in the set.  I started with the cardboard house and peeled off the top layer of cardboard from the main part of the house, leaving the roof alone.  I mixed some modeling paste with some Mr. Huey’s mist to color it brown and placed it over the ribs of the cardboard.  I mixed up the orange and brown colors on the roof the same way and just dabbed at them with a soft brush to give some texture.  This was my first time playing with the paste and I was a little unsure of what to do exactly.  BUT, I will be using it more!

The other house I covered with a few different pattern papers.  The door knob is actually a knotted piece of Lawn Fawn hemp twine and just glued on with some Fabri Tac, but I love the knobby look of it.

I used one of the Large Pennants in canvas to accent the top corner of my page.  I punch a couple of holes to string some twine thru.  I adhered the triangle “you are here” tag to the top of the pennant and then attached to my page as a final embellishment.

I hope I have given you the bug to get out there and scrap those fall photos.  And to incorporate some Basically Bare goodies into those layouts!  Have a wonderful day.

Hugs,

Katrina Hunt

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Basically Bare Embellishments- Happy Little Houses and Large Pennants

Other Supplies-Gossamer Blue October Main Kit, Scotch and Fabri-tac adhesives, Zig Millennium Pen, Love My Tapes Fabric Tape, October Afternoon letter stickers, American Crafts Thickers, May Arts twine, Mr. Huey’s Mists, Liquitex Modeling Paste.

Katrina here again and I actually DO have a Halloween themed post!  I LOVE Halloween, but for some reason I don’t craft for it a lot.  My roomie took these pictures of me with the dogs last year.  I had actually forgotten about them, but when I started going thru my files found them and decided to scrap them.  No, we didn’t take the dogs around the block or anything like that!  But, it’s fun to dress them up and since a couple of them are pet therapy dogs, costumes can come in handy sometimes.  I used the new Pebbles Halloween collection, Tricks and Treats.

I knew the Celestial set had some perfect pieces for this, so I dug out a few stars and a moon.  I had thought about the clouds, but since I was planning on using some glitter, decided against them!  The moon was painted with some gold metallic paint and then I sprinkled glitter on it while the paint was wet.  The star started out with some Martha Stewart glitter paint, but I didn’t really like the sheer color, so I used a rust colored glitter over the glitter paint.  I added some faux stitching to the “costume ideas” tag with my Zig Millennium pen.

I then started on the other three star.  The acrylic one I smeared with some Rock Candy Distress Stickles, just for the sparkle.  The other two I did the same as the moon, except one of the stars I gave a white paint base too.  I love the fact that the glitter doesn’t seem to be getting all over everything, since I applied it while the paint was still wet.

I was trying to come up with a title and when I placed my Small Pennant pieces below my picture it finally hit me!  I just covered the pennants with pattern paper from the collection, trimmed, and sanded.  And those holes I punched with just a regular hole punch.  I then pulled out my Twinery twine in Lilac and made some bows.  I did glue my pennant pieces down, so they aren’t just hanging loose.  Pennants are a perfect place to place your title, or part of a title, to make it stand out.

Thanks for stopping by today!!  BOO to you!

Katrina

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Basically Bare Embellishments- Celestial set and Small Pennants

Other Supplies-Pebbles Tricks and Treats collection, Twinery Twine, Zig Millennium Pen, Acrylic Paint, Martha Stewart Glitter, Distress Stickles, American Crafts Thickers, Fabri Tac, 3L Scrapbook, and Scotch adhesives

Hey everyone!  Katrina here again with a layout this time.  Have you ever left your camera unattended with teenagers around?  Well, I bet you can guess that I have by my layout today.  We were at the bowling alley and I had no idea these pictures were on my memory card till I started going thru them.  BTW, this can happen with ANY camera that is laying around…iPad, phone, you name it!

I was inspired to scrap these from a layout that I have seen, but I cannot remember where.  (trust me it is bugging me!)  The designer had done a layout with random pictures that she had found on her camera that were taken by some “rogue” picture takers!  And my Basically Bare inspiration was one of my favorite sets, the Paparazzi set!  This layout is a little out of my usual style, but I loved the way it turned out.  I used one of my kit club kits (Cocoa Daisy) and then just added my Basically Bare pieces in with it.  I also faux stitched with my Zig Millennium pen around the entire layout.

I used the black chipboard pieces, because I really liked the bare look of it with everything else going on in my layout.  I tucked that film strip in underneath and angled it slightly.

That scallop border punch is one of my favorites, but it needed a little kick to it.  I just added some of the scallop banner pennants that were the perfect size to fit in the scallops with a little area left around them.  I just used some Fabri Tac adhesive to adhere my pattern paper to them, cut around the shape and then sanded the edges.  And if you are wondering, I usually use Fabri Tac on all my chipboard and canvas work here.  It does great with the Basically Bare chipboard and canvas.

And then there is that camera!  I just covered it with a strip of pattern paper and then cut out the lens center with an Xacto knife.  I backed that with a circle piece of canvas that I cut out of a canvas heart from Basically Bare.  I made a small tag on another smaller piece of canvas by stamping the “snapshot” and then just trimming around it.  I placed the tag in the center of the lens and called it done!

So get out your kits that you have sitting around and add some Basically Bare goodies to them to use them up!  Adding little bits and pieces from Basically Bare is a great way to make your kits go further!

Hugs, Katrina

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Basically Bare Embellishments- Paparazzi  Set and Canvas Hearts

Other Supplies-Cocoa Daisy Kit (Sept 12), Amy Tangerine Today Roller Stamp, Tim Holtz Stapler

It’s Katrina here again!  Some of my favorite things to make are banners.  Sometime I take a brand new mini album and make one.  Or other times, I take left over pieces from minis that I have made and piece them together into a banner of their own.  Just because you have a “mini album” doesn’t mean you have to use it that way.  Change it up and make it your own.

I took one of the Oh So Mini Mix and Match albums and just used the same shape for all my panels.  For this banner, I wanted my pictures to be the main focus of my project and I felt that different shapes would distract from that.  I love that you can mix or match these to suit whatever project you are doing!

Using a ton of Basically Bare goodies and the Echo Park Everday Eclectic collection, this banner came together quickly.  I love using collection kits for projects like this, because everything already matches and you can get busy working.  I did add a few things like a tag, ribbon, inks, and flair buttons that weren’t in the kit.  Let’s take a look at the individual pieces.

The inspiration for Sheldon’s piece came from that cloud background that I covered the chipboard album piece with.  I started by inking the clouds from the Celestial set with pink and blue Prima chalk ink on the felt clouds.  The blue cloud is actually the top to a cupcake from the Cupcakes set, but I thought it would double just fine as a cloud.  I added some faux stitching with my Zig Millennium pen around one of the white clouds.  I decided I wanted to add a little more, so I took my Zig Painty FX Marker in white and filled the clouds in .  I tucked a sun flair button behind one of the clouds.

Jetson’s panel is the canvas one and I knew I wanted to use my Studio Calico hexagon misting mask to create a pattern on my canvas.  I alternately misted blue and pink and moved the mask, lining it up with the row before.  I misted about three times total.  One of the frames from the Summer CHA release of Fanciful Frames II fit my picture just about perfectly.  I covered the chipboard with a hexagon pattern shaped paper, sanded and then inked my edges.  I covered a chipboard blossom from the Blossom and Leaves set with some camera pattern paper.  I took one of the canvas leaves and misted with Mr. Huey’s in a green color.  I loved the way it curled and intentionally left it that way.  I then popped my flair button right on top of it and adhered the cluster to the corner of my frame.  I added jute twine and some wording and called this one done.

The next piece was Higgins’ and I decided to use the acrylic page for him.  I embossed the page in my Cuttlebug by running it thru a couple of times.  I didn’t worry about the top strip where the ribbon is, I just wanted the bulk of the page to be embossed.  I thought the large gear from the Gears #1 set would look fun with the embossed background that I had chosen.  I made a template from cardstock of the gear and then divided it into sections.  I cut each section and then traced them onto pattern paper.  I trimmed them out and then glued them down with some matte medium gel.  I did sand the edges, but didn’t not ink these.  I covered a manila tag with some pattern paper added some twine, added a flair button and sticker to the photo and Higgins’ page was done.

Ella was the last page and I wanted her’s to have a girly feel to it.  I covered the cardboard piece of the album with the doily pattern paper.  I cut a border sticker and added it to the edge of the piece to add a little color.  Then I misted two doilies with orange and pink Mr. Huey’s mists.  The orange was a little strong, so I misted over it with the Calico Cream color to tone it down some.  That lower right hand corner needed another doily, so I just used a doily sticker and popped it up with some dimensional adhesive.  It still needed a little pop, so a small bare chipboard button from the Buttons set, a flair button and a camera sticker completed the corner.  I love the look of the bare chipboard with this particular pattern paper in the collection kit.

So, my tips for creating a banner:  Get some great Basically Bare goodies as your base and to embellish with. Get a great collection kit (and if they have a 6 x 6 mini pad grab it also).  Decide on your theme or non-theme and if you want pictures or maybe just make a word with a letter on each banner piece.  I gave my banner a flow with the use of the jute twine and flair buttons on each panel, so decide what you want your trick for each piece to be.  Start creating!

Thanks for coming by today!

Katrina Hunt

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Supplies:

Basically Bare:  Oh So Mini Mix and Match Album; Buttons; Gears #1; Blossoms and Leaves; Fanciful Frames II; Celestial Set; Cupcake

Paper/Stickers-Echo Park (Everday Eclectic); Album Pieces/Clouds/

Twine and Ribbon-May Arts; Brown Buttons-Nikki Sivils, Scrapbooker; Tag-Staples; 

Inks,Paint and Mists-Mister Huey’s; Zig Painty Effects Paint Marker; Zig Millenium pen; Prima Chalk inks

Punch-Fiskars; Flair- {a flair for buttons} Etsy shop; Doily-Wilton;

Misting Mask-Studio Calico Embossing-Cuttlebug and embossing folder from Provocraft 

Adhesives-Scotch ATG, Fabri Tac, Claudine Helmuth Matte Medium, and Scrapbook Adhesives