Hey...I Can Make THAT!

January Tutorials

Welcome to "Hey...I can make THAT!"  A monthly post to help you truly counterfeit many of the components of the current month's kit.  No need to go out and purchase...just use the supplies you already have to create some of the freshest and trendiest products out there.  Here you will find links to our amazing design team members' blogs and/or links to other craft sites on the web showing how to make these amazing products.

If you haven't seen this month's inspiration kit, Hip Kit Club's December kit here  & Freckled Fawn's December 2013 OHDEERME Kit here!  So much wonderful inspiration!  But what if you feel like you are missing key components to a kit and you have no suitable subs from your stash?  No need to place a rush order to your favourite online store, just check out your Master Forgers' renditions of these scrappy items.

Leslie has these to offer:

Lesley had a go at the chipboard shapes

Julene has made her own flair buttons

Here's the link to her blog.  

Our lovely guest designer Tara has come up with a small tutorial to counterfeit the Studio Calico Print Shop scripty transparency words.

  Check her blog for more details here.

Thank you so much, ladies! These are sure to put the finishing touches on some fabulous kits. Please show us your creations over on January's Mr. Linky. We love to see where the inspiration takes YOU!

P.S. Here's a little extra tutorial that might help you with Challenge #1 from Jemma:

Tagxedo New Year

I have mixed feelings about Christmas cards.  I love to receive them, but when those first early ones arrive I'm envious of how organised some people are.  I procrastinate each year and when I finally start writing them I feel guilty at the way I'm rushing them out.  I know some people donate to charity instead of sending them, but I do love to hear friends' news in their enclosed letters and I'd be sad if we all gave them up.  Every year I cut down on the quantity we send out to save a few trees (not to mention postage) and then feel terrible when I open a card from someone I've axed from my list.

That's when New Year's cards comes in handy.  How about this one I made using Tagxedo:

You simply type your greeting into Tagxedo and let it mix things up for you.  The words are sized in order, so I actually typed in

"happy NewYear Wishing healthy a you"

Note the lack of space between "New" and "Year" - normally in Tagxedo you make a non-breaking space by typing "New~Year" but that left too much of a gap for my liking.

The other non-default settings I used were:

Respins:
Shape = Horizontal Cloud
Theme = Happy Brights
Font = Euphorogenic
Orientation = H

Word:
Remove Common Words = No
Combine Related Words = No
Combine Identical Words = No

Layout:
Normalize Frequency = Yes
Allow Replication = No

I played around with the layout until I got one I was happy with and printed it out directly onto card (after cropping the Tagxedo frame away in Picasa).

Here's another take on the phrase with a different word order:

"NewYear happy Wishing healthy a you" with Blulola theme

If you pop over to my blog today there are some ideas for more multi-lingual Tagxedo cards (and there are plenty of other Tagxedo card ideas there too)

Jemma

Thank You Cards by Jemma

Have you finished all the left-over turkey yet?  Eaten all the chocolates?  Found the cat/dog/baby beneath all the discarded wrapping paper?  After the Yuletide excesses of eating, drinking and gifting comes the task of saying “Thank you”!  I was brought up to hand-write letters to thank for my Christmas treats although my children prefer to e-mail (which can be rapidly edited to tailor it for the next recipient) or simply phone.  However, I still like to send (and receive) thank you notes.  With this in mind I wanted to add interest this year by making some super-quick cards with my scrapping supplies.

This card is really easy to do - just die-cut some card letters and add to a piece of folded card for a faux dry-embossed look.  [Inspired via Pinterest - here]

Or how about some tags from scraps with stickers or stamps to express your gratitude? [Inspired via Pinterest - here]  It’s also a great way to use up scraps of Christmassy patterned papers:

If you need to mass-produce some cards and have a colour printer there are plenty of resources available, including these lovely cheerful designs by Creativemama:

 Creative Mamma Mulit Lingual

Creative Mamma Thanks So Much 

Or create something yourself with an on-line tool like Tagxedo:

Pop over to my blog if you want to know how I produced my word-art!

Thank you for stopping by!