Tim Holtz Kraft-Core Tutorial

HAVE YOU SEEN THE NEWS?

We are at it again. YES, we are giving away more Core’dinations Cardstock!

WE ARE GIVING AWAY 50 OF THESE! Plus three lucky winners will get a signed copy from Tim himself!

CLICK HERE to enter to win.

Curious what to do with your Kraft Core? We have tons and tons of inspiration coming for you and we are kicking it off with a great tutorial for you from Designer April Derrick. April is our in house Tim Holtz guru. She uses color washes and distress inks beautifully and  this layout is no exception. We hope you can find some cool techniques to use on your craft projects from this tutorial today.

Supply List:
- Cardstock: Core’dinations / Tim Holtz Craft Core Nostalgic Collection
- Patterned Paper: 7gypsies
- Color Wash: Ranger Adirondack in Red Pepper
- Pens: Staedtler Triplus Fineliners
- Film Strip Tape, Tissue Tape, Mini Staples: Tim Holtz
– Metal Clip: 7gypsies
- Sparkly Brad: Paper Studio
- Distress Ink: Ranger
- Other: White Office Tag, Black Sewing Thread

Step 1 – Spray 3 to 4 squirts of Color Wash on a craft mat.

Step 2 – Dip a paintbrush into water and then swirl your color wash around with your paintbrush creating a small puddle of paint.

Step 3 – Start painting your cardstock. You can paint as little or as much as you like, depending on how much of the cardstock you want to cover.

Step 4 – With every layer of color wash paint you add, the colors will get deeper and darker. If you think it’s too dark you can swipe a paper towel across it while it’s still wet. You will probably need to add more color mist and water during the painting process depending on how much paint you use.

* Note}: I always like to leave the “Logo strip” along the bottom of the cardstock on until I have finished the painting process! Then I cut it off right before I get ready to sand and set it aside to use later.

Step 5-Grab your Core’dinations Sand it Gadget and sand away! On this particular layout, I chose to sand the edges of the cardstock sheet and also various areas towards the top of the sheet where my paint was a little lighter. This resulted in a really cool texture effect!

Step 6 – Grab your color wash and spray a couple of mists onto your cardstock. (I personally like to choose 2-3 areas to mist. I don’t want it to overwhelm my page and it also helps if you have an idea of where your picture is going to be placed so you can spray the areas you know will not be covered up.)

Step 7 – Hold the cap of the color wash bottle and squeeze. Large drops will fall out of the bottom of the tube. I like to call this Cap Dropping. It’s an easy way to get big drops, if you don’t want larger drops than simply skip this step.

Now remember how I said I save my “Logo Strips” to use later? Well here’s what I did with my leftover strip!

I cut the strip in different sections and sizes. This way I ended up with some of the painted portion without words, and the others I just flipped over to use the kraft core side without writing.

Then I simply adhered the small strips of cardstock along the top portion of my layout in a collage like fashion. I even turned up a couple of the edges of the kraft strips so that a little of the red painted side would show. I completed this look by sewing over my paper strips, but you could also create a faux stitch using pens!

Here is what it looks like almost done. You just need to embellish and you are read to go!

Tim Holtz Kraft-Core

Looking for ways to use our Tim Holtz Kraft-Core collection?

Tim Holtz and Core’dinations collaborate once again and introduced this rustic blend of colors on natural kraft cardstock.

This pack is available in a 24 assorted pack  and individual 12×12 sheets.  It looks beautiful sanded, distressed or leave it as is.

Here are some designs to help inspire you.

Designer Shaunte Wadley

Designer Debbie Standard

GIVE-A-Way

Want to win some CORE?????????

BasicGrey Core Impressions that is…

Check out the BasicGrey blog today (you must comment over there for a chance to win by midnight MST)

GOOD LUCK!

See you tomorrow with some more inspiration!

Happy Tuesday!

Have you seen September’s Core Colour Challenge???

CLICK here for more details if you didn’t

Well, we have some more inspiration for you!!!

Today Design Team Member Char Dobson made this super fun and just perfect project for Back to School for us today. This is so fun and just perfect for a teacher gift.

And Char’s Tuesday tip is to not be afraid to pair those gorgeous primary colors with an accent color like purple. How awesome is this color combo???  Char used our September Colour Lover’s piece as her inspiration for this layout. You don’t have to use every color…just pick and choose the ones that work for YOU!

Core: Essentials (brights), Core tags (brights)

Other supplies: Cuttlebug Measure by Measure and Number Collage embossing folders, Scor-pal, Cricut Plantin Schoolbook (stars), unknown button brads, buttons, hemp cord, alphabet beads, pop dots, pencils, sticky notes

My Mind’s Eye

Today we have some My Mind’s Eye inspiration from Design Team Member Andrea Amu.

Check out the My Mind’s Eye Core Impression pack here. You will looooooove it!!!!

This color combo is gorgeous, don’t you think?

And some gorgeous details…..

Love the detailed sanding and Dimensional Pearls…

Colour Your World with Kim Jefress

Today’s Tutorial is from Design Team Member Kim Jefress…..

AND she used Septembers Colour Inspiration  Challenge!

MY COLOUR BOOK

My two year old son is having trouble remembering his colours. I decided to make a mini album for him using some Core’dinations cardstock, embossing folders and chipboard.

1.Choose a pre made mini album, measure the size of each page and then cut your CORE cardstock in your chosen colours to size. Mark with a pencil where the holes are and using a hole punch,  punch some holes for the rings to thread through.

2. From the same sheets of coloured cardstock, cut pieces to fit into embossing folders you have, then emboss each coloured card with a different folder.

3.Using your sand it tool or sand paper, sand the embossed design on each piece of embossed cardstock.

4.Cover your album with PVA glue or craft glue and lay down your cardstock pieces from step 1. Smooth out with your fingers.

5. Now glue down your co ordinating embossed pieces the same way.

6. Choose some chipboard pieces and decorate each one to suit the colours of your pages. I have used, glimmer mist, paint, glitter and ink.

7. Using strong adhesive glue the chipboard onto each page, Type or write out a matching sentence for each colour, print trim and add to each page.

8. Use buttons and letter stickers to create your cover and then put your book together and you are done!

Here are some of the inside pages….GORGEOUS!!!!

And here are Kim’s cuties looking at this amazing book!

Paper Trunk Winner!

We had so much fun last month working with Paper Trunk.

We picked a random winner from this post……

AND it was…….

Villa Steeves says:

August 29, 2011 at 5:46 pm

Great layout! I love the flowers!

Design Team Member Brianne Nevill created this  deliciously fun layout using lots of embossing.  And how fun is that paper piecing??  AND the great thing about Tim Holtz Kraft-Core is that if you want to have a solid kraft layout base, you can just flip it over!

Again, thank you so much for coming here and commenting and checking out the

FABULOUS things our Design Team has been working hard on. We love hearing your feedback!!!!

Don’t forget about September’s Colour Challenge!!! Details here.

September’s Color Challenge

Happy Friday!

(edited with last month’s winner)

First up we want to Congratulate Courtney! She is the winner for last month’s Colour Challenge.  Email ellen.sosnoski@coredinations.com with your address information. Prizes will not go out until September 12  due to us being out of the office at an event.

Here is the cute card she made.  Love all the great Cricut work and the glossy accents. A GREAT example of how Core’dinations ColorCore Cardstock can be your go to cardstock for any project.

You can see her entry here on her blog.

Now it is time to live with September’s Colour Challenge!!!

It is all about colour for sure.

Again, our inspiration piece comes from our Pinterest Colour Lover’s Board. Every Month Design Team Member Lydia Jackson gets the incredibly difficult task of choosing one of the beautiful color schemes found in Pinterest.

This month it is all  about back to school!

What is better than rainbow crayons???

Our Core Essentials line is PERFECT for this challenge. LOADS AND LOADS of gorgeous colours…..

Design Team Member Debbie Standard Created this fun card using this colour inspiration using loads of embossing and sanding:

AND…Debbie created a layout, too.

The great thing about this inspiration piece is that you don’t have to use every single colour like Debbie did here.  She focused on the blue, red, yellow, orange and brown. Looks awesome, don’t you agree?  The Stacy Julian Line Core Impressions is great for this challenge as well. No one does Colour like Stacy!

Remember you must use Core’dinations Cardstock on your project and link back to THIS post by September 30th or link us up on our Facebook page.

Happy Wednesday!

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD Morning!

We have a project for you today featuring Paper Trunk goodies and Core’dinations Cardstock.

Make sure you head over to their blog for some more GREAT ideas and inspiration.

AND DON’T FORGET.. we are giving away some Cardstock to one lucky person. So leave a comment on any post you see with Paper Trunk (here at our blog) for a chance to win!!!  (Please note  prize will not be mailed until after the 12th of September due to us being at an event out of the country).

Today we have a very fun layout from Design Team Member Char Dobson featuring some Paper Trunk goodies and Core’dinations Chocolate Box cardstock.

How cool is that Scoring in the corners?!??!!?!?  If you want to see some more ideas on Scoring, check out our Videos here. And the touch of misting over the sanded hatching looks awesome, too.

Are you using Chocolate Box?  If so we would love to see!

Paper Trunk Tuesday

We are kicking off the last few days of August with Paper Trunk projects.

We have had so much fun working with them this month!!! Check out their blog for some more inspiration and DON’T FORGET!!!

YOU HAVE UNTIL TONIGHT FOR OUR COLOUR CHALLENGE FOR AUGUST!

Today we have a layout from  Design Team Member Lydia Jackson. Lydia shares some GREAT tips with this layout using Paper Trunk papers and some BRAND NEW Tim Holtz Kraft-Core.

With the Kraft-Core, the kraft IS the Core! It’s so cool! So, one tip that Lydia shares is that you are going to want to sand your Tim Holtz  Kraft-Core first before you print on it with your computer.  This will allow the cardstock to absorb the ink faster.

AND how fun is that sand castle out of the Tim Holtz Kraft-Core?!??!?!?!  Such a great layout. Lydia really shows off how you can use the blues and greens in this Paper Trunk line.

OH OH OH. And did you see those TAGS???  YES, we have tag! They are part of our Cardmaker Series and come with these gorgeous silver grommets.

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