Project life spread for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a project life spread for The Rubber Buggy.
Maybe you recognise the layout from last week's post, where I showed you how I already in my planner start my process. You can read more HERE.

For my title card I have used Lawn Fawn paper and stickers from Simple stories. I print my photos to fill the pockets, but really like to add a sticker phrase. I love the phrase from Simple stories as I reflect over just how much colour has been added to my life since I became a mother.
With Lawn Fawn stamps I made my own journaling card where I'm checking of signs of spring. I also added the same stamps in order to tell a story about a doctors appointment. I love how the distress ink was a perfect match to the Lawn Fawn paper.


Products from The Rubber Buggy store:
Lawn Fawn paper Let's Bokeh in the snow
Simple stories cardstock stickers Life in color
Lawn Fawn stitched border dies
Lawn  Fawn stamp set Plan on it
Tim Holtz distress ink Mowed Lawn


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I'm afraid this will be my last post for The Rubber Buggy, as family and work leaves less time to craft. I thank you all for your great support and I will miss being a part of this talented design team.

Planning with Lawn Fawn for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I'm here for The Rubber Buggy with a little planning using Lawn Fawn stamps.

I use them in order to pimp up my planner, but also as you can see in the right corner that I used them to plan my project life spread.

The planner is from Marcy Penner's digital shop and it was a free printable. She has an updated version now. You can find her webshop HERE. The planner comes with a double spread of design A pockets, I howevery only use one side.

 I have stamped labels and colored them with copic markers. I also keep a couple of spares in case I need to add them during the week. I'm super excited about the new planner stamps Lawn Fawn just released, that way I can add the dates differently.

Stay tuned as I next week will show how the PL-spread turned out.

Products used from The Rubber Buggy store:
Lawn Fawn plan on it stamp set
Lawn Fawn ink soot
Lawn Fawn ink mermaid
Lawn Fawn ink freshly cut grass
Fawn Fawn ink sunflower
Copic markers 

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Scrapbook layout: coffee tasting

Hi everyone!

I'm here with my design team project for The Rubber Buggy.

This time I have a layout of a coffee tasting, I'm really a tea drinker.
But as I work in construktion I thought I'd better learn to drink coffee.
Don't get me wrong - I love coffee, in a large cup with double the amount of milk and hazelnut or caramell sirup. Hahaha!

Anyway, I had more fun than I anticipated and I liked it so much I surprised myself.

For this layout I imideatly thought of Lawn Fawn Love you a latte stamp set and I stamped my own background. I also mixed it up with several graphic 45 collections.

The red strip at the top and the bottom is from French country, the scripty background is from A botanical garden, the letters, coffee bean and text embellishments are from Steampunk spells.

I really think I was super creative when I scattered the little beans as sequins on the page.

Products used on from The Rubber Buggy:

Lawn Fawn Love you a latte stamp set

Lawn Fawn alpha dies Cole's ABC

Lawn Fawn ink soot

Memory box stitched circle layers

Graphic 45 French Country

Graphic 45 Botanical garden

Graphic 45 Steampunk spells 6x6 paper pad (not in stock anly longer though)

Stamping supplies (doublesided tape, acrylic block, paper trimmer, stamp storage sleeves)

I hope you liked it.

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Get well soon tags

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a couple of tags using Lawn Fawn stamps and copic markers.

These tags came together so easy and they are really fun to make when you just wants to color a little, but dont have the time to put together an entire card.

 

I messed up the eyes of the turtle, but a couple of googly eyes saved the day - LOL!

I also played around with embossing powder to make a fun background.

I hope you like it!

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Lawn Fawn stamp set On the mend
Copic markers
Neenah cardstock 8,5x11 White
Embossing powder, super fine white
Tags #5
Prima marketing Gold foil, intergalactic

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Travel album part 5: Finishing touches

Hi everyone!

So here is the last session of my mini serie, travel album.

I'm just adding the finishing touches, putting some more embellishment where there is space left.
This is my normal process. I make sure I get the photos and stories down, then I fill the pockets if there are any left and then I embellish, if I have time.

I'm sure there are many of us, who juggle both work and family, so you try to get as much done in the little time you get.
 

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Simple stories snap green 6x8 fuax leather album
Simple stories you are here snap pages
Simple stories you are here snap pack
Simple stories you are here bradz
Simple stories you are here enamel dots
Simple stories you are here expression cardstock stickers
Lawn Fawn Milo's ABC
Lawn Fawn ink Mermaid
Lawn Fawn ink Soot


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Travel album part 4: More process

Hi everyone!

I'm continuing my mini serie for The Rubber Buggy, where I'm documenting my process in putting together a travel album using Simple stories snap collection You are here.

You can find the set up plan HERE,
#1 process video HERE.
#2 process video HERE.'

This week I really feel that I have grown in my process. Usually I'm not a quick embellisher and it takes me litterly hours to make one filler card. But this time I'm super happy with what I made and it came together so easy. It must be that everything is already coordinating. This is bad new for my huge stash that will just continuing sitting there as I will start buying collections from now on - LOL!

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Simple stories snap green 6x8 fuax leather album
Simple stories you are here snap pages
Simple stories you are here snap pack
Simple stories you are here bradz
Simple stories you are here enamel dots
Simple stories you are here expression cardstock stickers
Memory box stitched circle layers


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travel album part 3: The process continues

Hi everyone!

I'm continuing with my travel album.
You can find the set up plan HERE and the first process video HERE.

This week I found I was more true to my own style.

In short, I have learned that I don't have the time to overthink or put to much effort in finding the perfect balance or even a straight line. Thus I have been forced to embrace the imperfection.
I have learned that in the end I'm glad that I have the story told, rather than focus on everything that could have been better layout-wise.

My goal is to fill the pockets and I do that by starting with the largest photos and continuing with the smaller. Then I add my jounaling, then I add my filler cards and last I embellish.

However, I do only manage to print a couple of photos at the time, otherwise I will forget how I intended to put them together. Thus, pending back and fourth between the steps I just told you about.

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Simple stories snap green 6x8 fuax leather album
Simple stories you are here snap pages
Simple stories you are here snap pack
Simple stories you are here bradz
Simple stories you are here enamel dots
Simple stories you are here expression cardstock stickers


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Travel album part 2: The documenting begins

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a process video of the first pages of my travel album.
You can find the set up plan HERE.

For the first page you'll see me quickly pimp some of the snap cards.
Then the second page is mainly photos and I change the card I put there in the set up part.
I have some trouble placing the letters "CINQUE TERRE" and that takes me forever, I almost gave up. I have printed a map to the snap page which I want to highlight, so I added a geotag where we started. I also used some die cuts from the snap pack and enamel dots.

I hope you enjoyed the process and will come back for more next week.
I'm having a bit of stage fright, when the camera is recording, so I'll  see how I proceed :)

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Simple stories snap green 6x8 fuax leather album
Simple stories you are here snap pages
Simple stories you are here snap pack
Simple stories you are here bradz
Simple stories you are here enamel dots
Simple stories you are here expression cardstock stickers


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Travel album part 1: set up

Hi everyone!

I'm starting a new process serie where you can follow me making a travel album.

This will hold my vacation to Italy in 2010, so it's been on my to do list for a while - LOL!
I have shared a couple of 12x12 layouts earlier during my time on the design team. But I have lately discovered that I enjoy pocketed scrapbooking more as I get more memories documented faster. I would never have managed to get my baby's first album done by now if I were to document everything in 12x12 layouts. I'll be sharing some of my project life too soon.

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Simple stories snap green 6x8 fuax leather album
Simple stories you are here snap pages
Simple stories you are here snap pack
Simple stories you are here bradz
Simple stories you are here enamel dots
Simple stories you are here expression cardstock stickers


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Dotted and spotted card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I'm here with something new I'm trying out.

Lawn Fawn cardstock hasn't yet arrived to Sweden, so I stamped some neenah cardstock with Lawn Fawn ink and die cut some circles. What do you think?

I also used the manufactor strip from Lawn Fawn Let's bokeh in the snow and some scrap from my Christmas album to die the word "you" from. The rest of the sentiment is stamped in Lawn Fawn ink soot. To mix even smaller dots in there I added some sequins and I thought the blue got in well with the other colors.

Products from the store:
Lawn Fawn ink mermaid
Lawn Fawn ink sunflower
Lawn Fawn ink freshly cut grass
Lawn Fawn ink soot
Lawn Fawn Let's bokeh in the snow
Memory box pinpoint circle dies
Memory box amazing you dies
Wplus9 handlettered thanks
Sequins
Stamping supplies (acrylic block, doublesided tape, neenah cardstock)


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Love you a latte card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!


I'm here with a card for The Rubber Buggy.
This card was inspired by a card I saw by Julie Ebersole, paper trufflez. You can find her card HERE.
As soon as I saw her card I wondered why I hadn't thought about that before. During the trend, when everything would be aged and distressed. My main thing was to put coffee cup stains and tea stains on everything. The more worn and torn, the better. But when Lawn Fawn released their Love you a latte stamp set, did my brain connect the dots - no no no...

To make the stains look like a wet coffee cup was placed over and over again, I used distress ink and then I sprayed the stamp to make the water react with the distress ink before it even hit the paper. I then used both first and second stamping. The little coffee cups were quickly coloured with copic markers.The background paper is from Lawn Fawn too and I used the manufacture strips to the left.

Products used from the store:
Lawn Fawn Love you a latte stamp set
Lawn Fawn coordinating die set
Lawn Fawn ink pad soot
Lawn Fawn 12x12 Let's bokeh in the snow 
Tim Holtz distress ink vintage photo
Copic markers
Stamping supplies (Neenah cardstock, memento ink, doublesided tape)

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Challenges entered:
Lawnscaping challenge #126 - add something sweet

Get well card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!



I'm here with a fun and easy card for The Rubber Buggy.

I've stamped the background with embossing ink, to get a tone on tone look. A couple of scrap paper from the 6x6 paper pad let's bokeh in the snow holds the sentiment. I love Lawn Fawn ink soot. It's a really black brown or a more brown black and it goes a so perfect with the kraft paper. I colored the adorable little turtle with copics, but of course when I was about to fix his little eyes with a black gel pen I slipped. So I put some googly eyes on him and was able to save him.


Products from the store:
Lawn Fawn on the mend stamp set
Copic markers
Memory Box stitched circles
Lawn Fawn Let's bokeh in the snow paper
Lawn Fawn Scripty sayings
Lawn Fawn fundamental ink soot
Tim Holtz embossing ink
Stamping supplies (neenah solar white cardstock, neenah kraft cardstock, doublesided tape, acrylic block)






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Summer card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a fun card using my winter stamps from Lawn Fawn, Toboggan together.
Would you believe it :)

I colored my scene with distress inks. For my grassy borders I added some Lawn Fawn ink to the tips of the grass. I also used a mask for my trees behind the hill.

Product from The Rubber Buggy:
Lawn Fawn stamp set Toboggan together
Lawn Fawn coordinating die set toboggan together
Lawn Fawn stamp set on the mend
Lawn Fawn stamp set scripty sentiment
Lawn Fawn die set stitched hillside borders
Lawn Fawn die grassy border
Lawn Fawn ink freshly cut grass
Lawn Fawn stitched rectangels
Distress ink tumbled glass
Distress ink Bundled sage
Embossing powder, white superfine
Copic markers
Stamping supplies (neenah white paper, masking paper, acrylic block, scor tape, distress ink tool)

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Thank you card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I figured I give it a try to make a background using the technique where you move the color with a sheet of accete or some other plastic. This was my first attempt and I was skeptic, but I kept working with it and in the end it turned out kind of ok.

I used the lawn fawn ink at first, but I couldn't make them to merge properly. It wasn't looking terrible, but it could clearly be better. So I added some shimmer sprays in the same tone of blue, green and yellow. The card is super shimmery, sorry I couldn't catch it on photo. The orange droplets are also from a spray, but with the other end of the nozzle.

Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Wplus9 Handlettered thank you stamp set
Lawn Fawn ink mermaid
Lawn Fawn ink Freshly cut grass
Neenah paper, solar white
Sequins
Glimmer spray
Stamping supplies (watercolor paper, acrylic block, bone folder, scor tape)

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Lawn Fawn garden for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a fun project for The Rubber Buggy.

This was actually my husband's idea. He recently planted some seeds and asked me to make him some signs to keep track of what's what.

I added some color by swiping the ink pad om my craft mat and then added water with a watercolor brush. I choose watercolor paper and archival ink because of the risk of water splashes. The signs was then glued to a coffee stick that I had cut in half.

That's really it, super easy!


Products from The Rubber Buggy:
Lawn Fawn stamp set Milo's ABC
Lawn Fawn ink Sunflower
Lawn Fawn ink Mermaid
Lawn Fawn ink Freshly cut grass
Archival ink jet black
Watercolor paper

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Lawn Fawn Birthday card (The Rubber Buggy)

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a happy birthday scene created with Lawn Fawn stamps.

The scripty sayings clearstamps are so narrow and thin, you can easily manipulate them in any shape you'd like to - almost. A slight curve is no problem though.

The scene is made by masking it with a post-it note. I just cut a slope with my scissors, but you could use the hillside dies from Lawn Fawn as well. I only used on distress ink for the ground as well for the sky, just making it more or less intense by going over it randomly with my ink blender tool.

The trees are stamped with fisrt generetion stamping and double stamping, instead of second generation stamping as that turned out to be too light.

Products used from The Rubber Buggy store:
Lawn Fawn 12x12 Let's Polka paper
Lawn Fawn Snow day stamp set (bunnies)
Lawn Fawn Toboggan together stamp set (trees)
Distress ink Bundled sage
Distress ink Tumbled glass
Stamping supplies (acrylic block, memento tuxedo black ink, distress ink blending tool, double sided tape, neenah solar white cardstock)

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Challenges entered:

Lawnscaping challenge #124 celebration

Distressed background card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I have had a card in mind for some time now as my DT-project for The Rubber Buggy, but never gotten around to actually pull out my distress inks. I must get the new colors, I truly still am in love with them.

However, lately I have seen a few cards using the technique I had in mind and they are absolutely stunning. Mine is nowhere near as beautiful, so I'm glad I waited. Otherwise I would probably have abandon the idea.

I used two colors of distress ink. I had three in mind, but I just loved the evergreen bough and tumbled glass so well together, I just stuck with those. I aslo used watercolor cardstock, as I planned to spray the paper with shimmer mist. In the end it would probably have worked fine with regular cardstock as well, as I didn't need that much mist as I thought.

I embossed the sentiment with white superfine detail and I'm amazed with how crisp the small words came out.


Products used from The Rubber Buggy store:
Wplus9 design studio Handlettered thanks
Distress ink Evergreen bough
Distress ink Tumbled glass
Ranger embossing powder white superfine
Stitched rectangle die
Craft medley cup sequins go green
Blue Fern Studios mist winter mint
Stamping supplies (Neenah cardstock white and black, watercolor paper, acrylic block, scor tape)


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All Lawn Fawn hearts card

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a super fun card to make. I rarely use hearts in my crafting. I'm just one of those, I guess... But I have a lot of heart stamps as my collection of Lawn Fawn is growing. I just never figured out what to do with them. Also, to me they all look the same...

But I was inspired by the wonderfully talented Jennifer McGuire and I just thought - that's what I'll do! You can see the video to my epiphany HERE.

And behold, when I got all my hearts gathered together - they are NOT the same :)

Can you see this for Valentine in pink and red :D

Products used from The Rubber Buggy store:
Lawn Fawn love you alatte stamp set
Lawn Fawn Snow day stamp set
Lawn Fawn Sweet Christmas stamp set
Lawn Fawn Sending hugs stamp set
Lawn Fawn ink Freshly cut grass
Lawn Fawn ink Mermaid
Lawn Fawn ink Sunflower

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Mixing G45 collections always works

Hi everyone!

For my DT-project for The Rubber Buggy I just wanted to show you how simple it it to match different collections from Graphic 45.

There are lots of different collections in the store, as Kellie has been carring the brand for quite some time now :)

But you don't necessary need to choose your favorite COLLECTION, but rather the color palette you favor. Do you prefer the light or the dark?

Can you guess how many collections there is in my card?

Five! Can you believe it?
Place in time, baby 2 bride deluxe, little darlings, once upon a time and le romantique.
A great thing with Graphic 45 papers are that even though one side has the most gorgeous scene and you hate to cut it apart, the B-side usually is a really versitile pattern that can be used for a number of occations. You might not see it right away. I had to pick all my collections apart and arrange them by color rather then by theme and behold - a whole new world of G45 opened up!

So, I dare you...
What can you put together - LOL!

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Leafy layout

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a layout of a card that I took last fall, when the leaves were changing colors.

I had forgotten how much fun I used to have with Bo Bunny. It's been all brights and pastels lately, I sort of had forgotten my love for Bo Bunny's soft and muted color scheme.
I used a die from my stash and made a tab from G45 French country 6x6 pattern & solids. This paper pad is no longer availabel in the store, but as I've pointed out before - with G45, you just need to know what color group your're looking for. I'm sure that Good ol' sport or Home sweet home or maybe even a Christmas paper pad will work fine if you are looking for a similar color scheme. I also added a tag from Prima Seashore collection. Even the brads are from the seashore collection, who would have thought they'd go so well for a fall theme.

From my stash, I added a couple of metal details, such as a couple of corners and a key. There are a  selection in the store, such as staples from G45 or Tim Holtz. But you could also add the same look with embossing powder.


Products used from the store:
Bo bunny paper 12x12 Trail mix, Medow
Bo bunny paper 12x12 Trail mix, Cabin fever
Grossgrain ribbon
5,5inch doily
Prima brads seashore collection
Prima tags seashore collection (not available anymore)
Prima keynotes paperclips seashore collection (not available anymore)

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Memory Box card for The Rubber Buggy

Hi everyone!

I'm here with a beautiful card, that actually came together faster then it looks.

I have to admit, I got this wonderful die a while ago. But I just kept fiddling with it. It cuts like butter and you're left with this wonderful, but oh so delicate and intricate piece. I just could not for the life of my attatch it properly and it went a bit skew on me. Which for a perfectionist (read: control freak) like me simply wouldn't do. But then I saw how you could use your dies as stamps and behold!!!

Mind you, from the beginning I thought this would a card with hours of work put in to it. First dryembossing and then heat embossing plus the actual assembling. However, I was so wrong.

For the curved edge, I used the stitched hillside borders and I cut the glitter paper at the same time so I would have the perfect matching curve of glitter paper (from my stash by AC). I then backed it with some paper from Graphic 45. All of the edges, even on the cardstock is distressed with Vintage photo.

To be honest, if we're talking about money, this is great value for your bucks.
The embossing powder is so inexpensive and my jar seems to last me forever :)
I'm only leaving at the most 1,5 inch on the side. That gives me 4 cards from a 6x6 paper. Think of how many cards you could get out of an entire paper pad.
You could also use embossing powder on the edge, not using glitter paper like I did.

More over to the variation I have on the cards. I thought the gold would really make a nice effect on a piece of scrap paper I hade from when I was testing out to make my own bokeh paper. And boy was I right - isn't it just lovely?

I quickly decided to make more and very fast on watercolor paper just dropped a little ink and made sure the entire paper was covered before I let it dry over night. The next day however, I forgot to add the bokeh circles in white pigment ink... Oh, well. It's done and it will just have to do. I hope you like them anyway.

Products from The Rubber Buggy store:
Memory box die hanging ornaments (no longer availiable, but there is a similar here)
Ranger embossing powder Tinsel gold 
Lawn Fawn Stitched hillside borders die 
Graphic 45 6x6 paper pad Twelve days of Christmas 
Tim Holtz distress ink Vintage photo
Stamping supplies (Neenah cardstock, doublesided tape, paper trimmer, ink blending tool)

Bokeh background:
Watercolor cardstock
Distress reinker peeled paint
Distress ink antique linen
Distress paint Tarnished brass
Lawn Fawn ink Yeti

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Pillow box for The Rubber Buggy

Happy new year everyone!

I'm here with the first project for The Rubber Buggy for 2016 :)

A decorated pillowbox.
This was a late Christmas gift, but I thought I'd show it to you anyway, since it came out so cute - LOL!
And since it is redish pinkish, you could make it for Valentine. Just switch the snowflakes for hearts.

There is a pillow box die from Lawn Fawn in the store and I must admit, I've been eyeing it for a while now. There was also a punch board from WRMK, if you happend to get it before they ran out.
My point is, there are a lot of choices out on the market. But if you're like me, everytime I put it in my basket I end up switching it for something else, not yet quite ready for the investment.

But this occasion seemed to scream for a pillowbox, but I was lucky to find a great tutorial on how to make one without a die or a punchboard. You can see it HERE.

However, it took a couple of tries, but I eventually got it just right.
A couple of tips on the way, when you assemble the box, the width will become more narrow due to the depth. I didn't think of that in the beginning, but maybe I'm just not the sharpest :)
Also, the radious of whatever circle shape you're using not only decides the depth of the box, but also effects the length, so don't forget to check it twice.
It would absolutely be easier to just invest in a die.


Products used from The Rubber Buggy store:
Lawn Fawn petite paper pack, let's bokeh in the snow
White lace with white satin center trim
My favorite things die-namics Let it snowflakes
Ice stickles Silver ice
Flatback chrystals
Magnolia chandelier garland red
Magnolia vintage berries chrystal
Magnolia stamps Little summer birds
Wink of stella marker clear
Copic markers

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