eBook sale at Bella Crafts

Hi everyone! I hope you are all well! I just wanted to do a quick post to tell you about the Black Friday Sale at Bella Crafts Publishing. In case, you missed one of the Eileen Hull eBooks, this is a great chance to get them. I am happy to have projects in both books.

The first book, Die Cutting Magic is full of inspiration and a great variety of different projects. 

The newest one is the Journal Treasury, which has over 75 examples of how you can use Eileen's Sizzix Journal die. 

Another lovely book for sale (this one is not an Eileen Hull book, but by Jo Pearson) is this 103 Christmas Crafts book.

The sale continues until Monday, so there is plenty of time. :)

Have a lovely weekend! I hope you will get some crafty time. I want to take Christmas photos of the boys, for my cards, but the snow disappeared. Last year, I took the photos just after a snow storm, so there was plenty of snow. I always take those photos outdoors, and I think we will take a walk around the neighborhood to try to find a Christmassy tree or something similar.

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin 

Quick and Easy Handmade Notebooks Tutorial

Hello friends! Happy Thanksgiving to everyone in the USA! I hope you are having a lovely time. It always sounded like a nice and meaningful holiday to me. I have spent some time to think about what I am grateful for today.

I have a tutorial on the Sizzix blog for two quick and easy notebooks.

Ever since I was a child, I have loved notebooks of all kinds, and homemade ones are even more special since they are unique. You can make these for yourself, or as a gift for a friend. They would also work great as teacher or hostess gifts, and as Christmas stocking fillers. I used Planner Pages and More products by Katelyn Lizardi to make these. The papers in the Plan Your Day pad are so pretty, that each and every one could have been a notebook cover of its own.

To see the steps for how I made these, and close-up photos, you'll have to head over to the Sizzix blog.

Thank you so much for stopping by today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies:

Sizzix Plan Your Day [ SZZ ] Sizzix Framelits Die Set 17PK w/Stamps - Household Planner [ SZZ ] Sizzix Framelits Die Set 9PK w/Stamps - Christmas Planner [ SZZ ] Sizzix Framelits Die Set 13PK w/Stamps - Foodie Planner [ SZZ ] Sizzix Framelits Die Set 13PK w/Stamps - Grace for Today Planner [ SZZ ] Sizzix Framelits Die Set 13PK w/Stamps - Grace for Today Planner [ SZZ ] Sizzix Little Sizzles - 6 [ SZZ ] Sizzix Big Shot Machine Only (White & Gray) [ SZZ ] Sizzix Accessory - Standard Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies [ SZZ ] Sizzix Accessory - Cutting Pads, Standard, 1 Pair (Purple w/Silver Glitter) [ SZZ ] Ranger Archival Ink Pad FRENCH ULTRAMARINE [ SSS ] Ranger Archival Ink Pad JET BLACK [ SSS ] Ranger Archival Ink Pad DEEP PURPLE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE [ SSS ] We R Memory Keepers Cropadile CORNER CHOMPER [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Tonic GUILLOTINE COMFORT PAPER TRIMMER [ SSS ] Neenah Classic Crest 80 LB SMOOTH SOLAR WHITE [ SSS ] We R Memory Keepers CROP-A-DILE Eyelet and Snap Punch [ SSS ] Hero Arts Rubber Stamp SMALL BLOCK TRIO CLEAR ACRYLIC [ SSS ]

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Snowman Tag Tutorial

Hi friends! I hope you are all well and had a good weekend. We woke up to the first snow this morning, and the kids were happy. 

This week at the Simon Says Stamp Monday Challenge Blog our theme is Tear it Up. Don't miss checking out the project of our November guest designer Suman Pandit.

Tearing paper is fun to do and can create a great look. On this snowman tag, I tore both tissue tape and paper, for different effects. The snowman from Tim Holtz's Tattered Christmas is such a fun character and was layered on both real and stamped wood splices. As you might already know, I love anything with a wood grain effect.

Start by covering an entire background with torn pieces of tissue or washi tape. You can overlap them too, for a different effect, but I didn't overlap them much. Instead, I left some space in between the strips.

Color with Distress Crayons and smooth out the color with your finger.

Mist with water and dab with a paper towel. The color will be darker in the areas between the tissue paper.

Mist with Pearl Mica Spray, for shine, and ink the edges with Black Soot.

I decided that I wanted more of a snowy look and white embossed the Flurry stamp on the top two-thirds of the background. Go around the edges with the Ranger Emboss-It Dabber and white emboss them too.

Stamp a wood slice on mixed media paper and ink it. I also inked the real wood slices around the edges.

The embossed edges and dots add a snowy feeling to the tag.

For my sentiment, I die cut a ticket shaped tag with Tim's new Sizzix Gift Tags set and stamped one of the sentiments from Tattered Christmas on it. It was embellished with a small piece of torn silver Deco Tape, and two bells.

Layer the stamped wood slice on cheese cloth, add some twine, and place the real wood slices on top. Stamp the snowman on watercolor paper with Archival Ink. Watercolor the snowman with Distress Inks and tear the bottom, for a snowy look.

Here's a closer look of the circles of twine added around the wood slice. Glue here and there with matte medium.

I also tore small circles of watercolor paper to build a snowball lantern.

The tag was finished with more Deco and Design tapes, as well as a rub-on and Christmas Clippings sentiment.

You can see the shine from the mica spray here.

I hope you will join us this week in our Tear it Up challenge. As always, you have a chance to win a $50 gift voucher to do some fun shopping at Simon Says Stamp. You have until Monday 8am Ohio time. 1pm UK time, 2 pm CET to join in.

Don't forget to follow Simon Says Stamp on Instagram, they post great stuff daily. 

Do you use Instagram? If so please add #sssmchallenge so we can see your entries there too.

Thank you for taking the time to stop by my blog today!

Happy crafting!

Anna-Karin

Supplies: 

Tim Holtz TATTERED CHRISTMAS [ SSS ] Tim Holtz FLURRY AND PINE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz GREAT OUTDOORS [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Sizzix GIFT TAGS [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology WOOD SLICES [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Sizzix Die TAG & BOOKPLATES [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHRISTMAS... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology CHRISTMAS... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology DECO TAPE [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology TISSUE TAPE... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology LINEN RIBBON [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY BELLS [ SSS ] Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon... [ SSS ] Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon... [ SSS ] Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon... [ SSS ] Ranger Tim Holtz Distress Crayon... [ SSS ] Ranger WENDY VECCHI Designer Mica... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad BLACK SOOT [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad GROUND... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad HICKORY... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad MERMAID... [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad TUMBLED GLASS [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pad SPICED... [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials 8.5 X 11 MANILA... [ SSS ] Ranger WATERCOLOR PAPER [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Distress Collage Medium MATTE [ SSS ] Ranger TIM HOLTZ DISTRESS Archival... [ SSS ] Simon Says Stamp EMBOSSING POWDER WHITE [ SSS ] Tsukineko Versamark EMBOSS INK PAD [ SSS ] Sizzix BIG SHOT MACHINE [ SSS ] Sizzix MULTIPURPOSE PLATFORM STANDARD... [ SSS ] Sizzix PURPLE WITH SILVER GLITTER [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Tonic Craft MINI SNIPS [ SSS ] Tim Holtz Idea-ology TINY ATTACHER [ SSS ] Tim Holtz DISTRESS SPRAYER [ SSS ] Ranger US HEAT IT CRAFT TOOL United... [ SSS ] Ranger EUROPEAN VOLTAGE HEAT IT CRAFT... [ SSS ] Hero Arts Rubber Stamp CLEAR ACRYLIC... [ SSS ] Hero Arts Rubber Stamp CLEAR ACRYLIC... [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials Non Stick CRAFT... [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING TOOL [ SSS ] Ranger Inkssentials INK BLENDING FOAM [ SSS ] Ranger CLEAR EMBOSS IT DABBER [ SSS ]

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