High Tea | Inspiration

Hello and happy Friday! Michelle here sharing my final inspiration post for Evalicious. A big thank you to Eve again for allowing me to have this wonderful opportunity to be on her design team. 

The photo is from my birthday lunch with my two best friends. We went to High Tea, which was a first for all of us. It was such a lovely place, one wall was all window and the other walls were beautiful bricks. A very dainty, girly experience! When I had planned it, I didn't know that my boyfriend would come back and surprise me for my birthday, so he ended up being the only male in the restaurant.

I wanted to create a page that was very feminine and dreamy, so I used a lot of pinks and creams, and added in some navy for a bit of contrast.

I added an assortment of badges clustered to the side of the photo. All of the badges were from different lines,  but they still all worked well together since they were fairly neutral.

I layered a "love you lots" journaling card, and added my actual journaling in the top corner. To add another shape to the layers, I added the "documented circle tag" behind the photo.

In the top corner of the page, I added my favorite "documented cloud tags" and a few strips of patterned paper. I used grey ink to lightly stamp a banner next to the strips.

Evalicious products:

• love you lots v2 badges
• so daily v2 badges
• this & that v1 badges
• take note badges
• love you lots miscellany tags
• love you lots 3x4 tags
• documented circle tags
• so daily page tabs
• documented cloud tags
• documented snipsnip labels
• fill in the banner stamp set
• love this banner stamp

Thank you for stopping by and taking a look! We'd love to see your Evalicious projects in our Flickr pool!

Badge Buttons | Inspiration

Happy Wednesday, it's Vee here to share a badge inspired layout with you! I have major love for Evalicious badge buttons and wanted a layout that incorporated some of my favorite ones.

I am also a whee bit obsessed with the succulents that are in my bedroom.I used a recent printed instagram photo that didn't work for another layout.  I made the photo the center of the layout and traced a fairly large circle around it in pencil that I later erased potions of and traced the remaining image with black ink to create the image of a segmented  outer circle.  I chose different badge buttons from Eve's collections and filled in  the circle- super easy and fun!

Evalicious supplies // love you lots v2 badge buttons // so daily v1 badge buttons //  schools in v3 badge buttons // quote bubbles badge buttons // hotel signs badge buttons // my week sayings badge buttons // say cheese badge buttons // vintage labels mini flatback buttons // love you lots miscellany tags 

I love the added flair and dimension of this layout that these buttons created!  I hope you are having a great week and creating something beautiful.  Don't forget to share how you use your badge buttons at our flickr pool.

just another self portrait | tutorial

good morning! alissa here today with another monday morning tutorial/inspiration page.

today i want to talk a little bit about customizing your Evalicious stamps to suit your needs and to make a custom background.

here's my page...

i wanted to create a custom camera background and i love the camera on the smile camera stamp

but i just wanted the camera and not the "smile". so, i took my exacto knife to the stamp, with a sharp blade. after several careful passes of the blade, i now have 2 stamps. a cute camera and one that says "smile". 

then, i was able to carefully stamp each row of stamps, leaving space to add gold embossed stamps here and there. fun, right? :)

next up i used a page from my love you to pieces art journal kit (that i hadn't used) to layer in the stitched tag element. a perfect place for my journaling, too.

finally, the banner pieces at the top of the layout were all cut from one journal card in the real life snipsnip 3x4 tags. the arrow was on one side and the chevron paper from the other side.  (i just love how i can use the 3x4 cards just like i would use smaller pieces of patterned paper. they are not just for journaling or project life type projects. :)

here are a few more shots of my page...

all Evalicious products used:

real life snipsnip 3x4 tags

smile camera stamp

this & that miscellany tags

escape V2 badge buttons

real life V2 badge buttons

so daily V1 badge buttons

love you to pieces art journal kit

i hope you enjoyed my little tutorial and start looking at your Evalicious stamps a little differently to see how you could alter then just a little to expand your crafting options. :)

have an awesome day!

alissa

Finding Balance | Tutorial

Heeellllo!! It's Natalie here, back from passing exams and having celebratory holidays; excited and ready to pass on some technique tips ;-)

In the video you'll see my process of how I tackled this layout. It's the complete deal, from start to finish (well.. actually... minus the end part where the batteries ran out on my camera and so you don't get the final embellishments and journaling. Sorry!) But all the important parts are there. What you'll also notice is what an indecisive scrapper I am. I didn't really plan this layout before I turned on the camera so you see the real deal. You see me try out different embellishments in different places, then think they're not working and move them... only to move them back again!



Feel free to just sit back and watch the video and see for yourself what I've done. But I'm also going to explain some of the techniques in more detail here too.

The main technique focus on this layout is the background colouring. Here's how I did it.....
First I swiped some gesso onto my background paper with an old credit card. The credit card trick means it goes on quite thin which will allow it to dry almost instantly and creates a waterproof layer for the next step. Then I spray some water lightly over the gesso, flick on some mist, then spray more water onto it to move the colour around. It will pool in certain areas and create a lovely water-colour effect that's so popular currently.

To create more depth in my background I used Distress Ink that's a slightly darker colour than my water-colour and sponged it on through a stencil in random areas. It just gives it slightly more interest I think. But the real star of the show is of course the fabulous Evalicious Real Life Page Tabs that are scattered across the page. I tried to challenge myself to use a whole packet on one layout and I didn't even come close! There's just too many in a packet if you cut them all up like I did. Plus I was only really choosing the ones that matched the colours on my page ;-)

Because this page is quite flat I felt I needed to add some extra texture to it (that's how my brain works anyway!) So I included some twine stapled to the background layers and finished it off with messy stitching on my machine. My journaling came last and I added it to the top and the bottom for balance. Sorry.... pun intended!

Evalicious Supplies:
Love You Lots 3x4 Tags
Real Life Page Tabs
So Daily V1 Badge Buttons

Feeling inspired to dive into some great Evalicious products?  Don't forget to post your work in our Evalicious Flickr pool here. We will be selecting a project that catches our eyes every few weeks and award the artist with a gift card code to spend in the shop.... and you know all the new goodies are in stock so what are you waiting for!

Happy Scrapping
Natalie

Project Life | Inspiration

Hi Everyone!  Christine here to show you a few of my current Project Life pages featuring wonderful Evalicious products!  I’ve been having so much fun using Evalicious tags, stamps, labels, tabs, die cuts, and badge buttons in my Project Life album! 

I created my title pocket using a circle die cut from Real Life Miscellany Tags. 

On the left journal card, I used some washi tape and another tag from Real Life Miscellany Tags.  I put a blue enamel dot in the middle of the camera graphic to give the journal card a little dimension.  On the right journal card, I stamped the typewriter stamp onto white cardstock and  cut it out.  I stamped the “hello” in yellow.  Then I adhered it to my cardstock with a piece of yellow washi tape behind it to make it stand out.  Evalicious stamps make great DIY filler cards!

I wrote my journaling on a Real Life Snipsnip 3x4 Tag, then I stamped the date on the bottom.

For this week, I used Photoshop to hand-write some journaling onto my photos before printing them out.  I combined the handwriting with some typed journaling, because I really like the combination of both!

The “I Eat” stamp makes me happy.  I get a lot of use out of that one, ha ha!

On the left I journaled on a This & That 3x4 Tag.  I love how easy it is to just write on these and slip them into the pockets.

The next two photos, I adhered some Documented Circle Tags right onto my photo for some easy embellishment of my photos.

Lots of Evalicious tabs, tags, badge buttons, and stamps this week.

I folded a So Daily Page Tab and adhered it onto my photo.  Since this is a top pocket in my protector, I just let the tab stick out.

I stamped The Everyday banner stamp onto white cardstock and cut it out. Then I stapled it right onto my photo.  On the right I journaled on a This & That 3x4 Tag and colored in parts of the polaroid graphic. 

Stamped the date on a tab from Documented Circle Tags and stapled it onto my patterned paper base.  Then I used a This & That 3x4 Tag as a base for my Instagram self-portrait, and stamped the date on the “label” part of the tag.  I love how the stapled tab on the left and the 3x4 tag on the right both have gray woodgrain on them.

The orange badge button from So Daily V1 Badge Buttons was the perfect accent for my photo collage of lunch with friends.  I adhered it to the outside of the pocket so that my pocket doesn’t get warped.

 

I love using my Evalicious goodies for Project Life.  They make my pages come together very quickly!  I hope you enjoyed a look at my Project Life pages and are inspired to do some of your own!

Evalicious Products Used:

• Real Life Miscellany Tags
• Typewriter Love Stamp Set
• Real Life Snipsnip 3x4 Tag
• I Eat stamp
• This & That 3x4 Tag
• Documented Circle Tags
• So Daily Page Tab
• The Everyday banner stamp
• So Daily V1 Badge Buttons

 

Christine

Start to Finish | Tutorial

I don't know about you but sometimes, I need a little help to get my pages started.  That extra help sometimes is another scrapbook page.  Sometimes it is a product or a color scheme.  Sometimes it is a picture from a magazine.  Today though, I am taking a little extra help to get started with a sketch that I roughly drew myself.  But it takes me all the way through and kept me focused on getting the page I wanted and love.

I used the So Daily line of tags, journaling cards and badges to create this page about my soccer star.

Here is the video...  I hope you enjoy!

~ Corrie

Mixed-media background | Tutorial

It's monday today which means it's tutorial day! 

And today, I (Emmanuelle) decided to show you step by step how I create a layout with a mixed-media background .

So first of all I always collect all the supplies I will need. 

I chose the pictures, the Evalicious supplies I am planing to use, and shipping tag, doily, white thread, silkpaper and emboidrery ribbon (as you see, no real scrapbooking supplies except the Evalicious ones). For this kind of layout I use watercolor paper, really thick (300gr/m²)or you can use normal cardstock but you need to glu a piece of cardboard underneath to avoid the cardstock to crinckle.

You will need also a stencil, gesso, molding paste, and a heatgun (if you are as impatient as me)

The first step is to apply a thin layer of gesso all over the area you want to play with. I use a knife but you can use an old credit card.

Once the gesso is completly dry (this is really important!), spread water on the area you want to color using a brush. And then to apply the watercolor on the paper, just charge your brush with water color (or some spray ink diluted with water) and just touch the wet area with your brush, or let some drops of watercolor fall on your paper. The color will spread into the water to create a really cool effect.

If you want to use several colors and if you don't want them to mix together too much, you have to wait until the first one is completly dry to use the second.

For this layout I chose to not wait so that my yellow and beige will mix together. Always remember to think about how the mix of your colors will look like (some colors are very nice but won't work if you mix them like green and red)

As I am not patient enough, I didn't wait long enough to play with my watercolor. The gesso wasn't completly dry and you can see on the left bottom corner that it makes some small bubbles.



Again, wait until it's dry to place your stencil (this whole tutorial is about waiting, haha). I use washi tape to keep it in place. And then spread some molding paste all over the stencil (be careful not to spread outside of it). The paste will fill all the little holes to create a very nice volume effect.

 And this is how it looks like after you remove the stencil.

You can stop the process here and use the background without adding anything else, or you can add more colors once the molding paste layer is dry. 

I chose to let some tiny drops of brown ink fall on the paper, to spray once with yellow mist and to immediatly hold my page vertically to let the ink flow down. I also spray once with the beige mist and as it was too visible around the stencil area I washed the color away using some water and  wiping it.

Then you can work on your picture and arrange all the elements together.

Finally it's time to glu this montage on your background, to add your title and journaling and your layout is ready!

Evalicious supplies:
so daily V3 badge buttons
so daily snipsnip labels
so daily large tags
dennison label snipsnip tags

It was a very long step to step tutorial but I hope you enjoyed it and that you will give mixed-media background a try. And don't forget to share your evalicious projects with us in our flickr gallery.

-Emmanuelle-

Perfect Autumn Moment | Inspiration

Hello! It's Natalie with you today. 
I know all you lucky Nothern-Hemispherians are beginning to feel the warmth of spring, but here in Australia we're going full steam ahead into Autumn. Personally I much prefer the sunshine, but you have to admit that nothing compares to the vibrance and beauty of the natural colours of what many of you call 'Fall'. It was that classic colour scheme I had in mind when I sat down to create my Inspiration Layout.

After pulling out the papers I was going to work with I began to hunt through my Evalicious stash to figure out what I would use. What tags and badges were going to match the colour scheme best I thought?

Once I discovered the So Daily Snipsnip tags had all the right colours in them I figured I would get out the whole collection from So Daily because obviously they would all match!! Too Easy! Now I've got the basis for my layout sorted. (ahhemmm.... yes I took the photo of my stash after I made my layout which is why all the bits I used are now missing!)

It didn't take much work from there to simply layer up paint and paper and plenty of tags! I like my layouts to be quite textural but not too 'fat' so the badge buttons are the perfect embellishment for me. Clustering two of them together like this just makes them stand out even more I think.

Have you ever been so inspired by one of our Evalicious collections that you just had to have it all? And then used the variety of the products all on one page like I have? If so, we would love to see it posted in our Flikr gallery! Every so often we chose a project that's caught our eye to feature here on the blog and to win a prize. Here's what I used on my page:

So Daily Large Tags
So Daily Snipsnip Labels
So Daily Page Tabs
So Daily Badge Buttons V1
Stamps: Look Here
Stamps: Label It Set

There's only one more day left for the Evalicious challenge! Post your tutorial-inspired Evalicious creations in our shopEvalicious.com Flickr pool and link them up in the comments here for a chance to win some Evalicious product! The deadline is Saturday, March 30th at midnight. The winner will be announced on March 31st.

xxx

Natalie