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In addition to this month’s Mixed Media Kit, I used:
Ranger Big Emboss It Clear, Krylon Workable Fixatif, cosmetic sponges, blending stubs, Q-tips®, baby oil

Tres Jolie Kit Club–Vintage Steampunk Ledger–June 2023 Scrapbooking + Cards, Tags, & More Kits

Image | June 22, 2023June 21, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! This week I have my mood board inspired project for you – a vintage-ish, steampunk-ish, envelope ledger/folio I created using the July Cards, Tags, & More Kit and Scrapbooking Kit! I hope everyone has had a chance to check out this month’s mood board challenge! And don’t forget to enter your projects for a chance at a prize from Tres Jolie!

I have an overview video for you explaining what I did to create this – I had attempted a process video, but the hours of video were really getting out of hand! Be sure to check it out – this isn’t really a complicated project to create, it was just complicated for me to figure out as I was going along!

Vintage and steampunk are my two favorite styles – so I was ecstatic about the kits and mood board this month!

Don’t forget to share your mood board project in the June 2023 folder over at the Facebook Café for a chance to win a prize!

To give my pages and pockets a metallic hue, I sat down with a variety of metallic paints and a gel plate from my stash and went to work! I gel printed on the kraft stock, the kraft card bases, and the envelopes from the Cards, Tags, & More Kit. I also gel-printed on a variety of tapes – paper tape with water-activated glue, fabric medical tape, and shipping tape – to create my “metal” steampunk-themed tapes.

I used pieces of the patterned paper from the Scrapbooking Kit throughout – some pieces as flips, some to make hidden paperclips. To add some lines on a few pages, I used a stamp I’ve had FOR-EV-ER with some StazOn Ink.

I cut one of the envelopes in half and created some smaller pocket pages – reinforcing the edges with various pieces of patterned paper, kraft stock, and tape.

For the cover – the envelope that initially led me to think about creating an envelope ledger – I covered the outside of the envelope and the flap with a piece of patterned paper split the envelope flap in half, and decorated it with the two pieces of Tres Jolie Chipboard from the Scrapbooking Kit after coating them with a variety of metallic embossing powders.

I used four Tim Holtz Hitch Fasteners from my stash to create the posts for my tie closure and added a few of the Finnabair Mechanicals (found in the Scrapbooking Kit!) for a bit of decoration and reinforcement.

For the binding, I cut two, 3/4” strips of the woodgrain kraft stock for the outer surface, but to build up my binding, I layered multiple 3/4” strips of (up-cycled) packaging. Then, for the final detailing, I grabbed some brown, red, and yellow rust-effect paste to cover the slotted head screws and spread some along the spine.

Thank you for joining me here today on the blog, I hope this project inspired you and gave you some ideas of what you can make using one or more of the kits this month and inspired you to join the mood board challenge!

Stay Crafty, Friends

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In addition to this month’s Scrapbooking Kit and Cards, Tags, & More Kit (from previous Tres Jolie Kits), I used:

My mix of embossing powders on the Tres Jolie Chipboard: 13@rts “Red Bronze” Ayeeda Paint, Gary M. Burlin Embossing Powder: Ultrafine Gold & Patina Bronzed Copper (*my Copper was mixed with Ranger Relique Glitz Copper), Lindy’s Gang “Midnight Violet” Embossing Powder, Seth Apter Baked Texture “Chunky Rust,” Ranger “Bubbly” Embossing Powder

For the gel printing and/or vintage style tape: Tim Holtz “Screwed” Stencil, Folk Art Metallic Paint: “Brushed Gold,” “Brushed Rose Gold,” “Antique Gold,” & “Brushed Bronze,” Lindy’s Gang “Beaver Tail Brown” Starburst Squirts, Tim Holtz Alcohol Ink: “Ginger,” “Gunmetal,” “Copper,” & “Gold”

Other mediums, adhesives, & tools: Distress Oxide: “Brushed Corduroy,” & “Rusty Hinge,” Finnabair 3D Matte Gel, Finnabair Clear Gesso, Tim Holtz Hitch Fasteners, StazOn “Timber Brown,” Hero Arts “Life Can Be” Mounted Stamp, We R Memory Keepers “Crop-A-Dile II,” Gel Press 8”x10” Gel Plate, Gel Press Brayer, Aleene’s Tacky Glue, water activated paper tape, double-sided tape, UHU Stic, 3M Nexcare Tape, Seloky Slotted Head Screws

Tres Jolie Kit Club–ATCs–June 2023 Cards, Tags, & More Kit

Image | June 15, 2023June 14, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! Welcome back to the blog! This week, I created a set of ATCs using a Tim Holtz stamp set, Distress Oxides, and some thread from my stash along with the June 2023 Cards, Tags, & More Kit.

I cut four 2-1/2” x 3-1/2” rectangles out of the embossed flower kraft stock, added my stamping, picked out some butterflies, dragonflies, and flowers from the pop-out kraft stock, then layered everything up! Be sure to check out my video for the process of how these came together!

To start my ATC decoration process, I cut out a few pieces from the Dress My Craft “Transfer Me” sheet and added them to the center of the bases. After the transfers were in place and I made sure the kraft base was dry, I cut a 1” wide strip of Post-It® paper to lay across the base before adding the “Bold Botanical” stamps with black pigment ink.

To add a little protection to the kraft base, and to give a little tooth (Tooth is what allows paint, pastel, or whatever to bind to the surface) to the transfers, I sprayed my ATCs with some Workable Fixatif. You could easily use clear gesso instead, I just used the Fixatif because it goes on and dries faster!

After the Fixatif was dry, I eyeball-realigned the stamps on the ATCs and then stamped on the Oxides. It didn’t matter if the Oxide stamping was perfectly aligned with the black pigment ink stamping, because I was just going to spritz the ATCs with water to activate the Oxides. After I had the Oxide stamping finished, I spritzed the cards with some water, then, after the water was dry, I added another layer of Fixatif.

After the Fixatif had dried, I used blending brushes to ink the edges of the ATCs and a bit of the petal with the Oxides, spritzed everything again, then, using my heat gun on low heat, I partly dried the Oxides before letting the ATCs finish air drying.

For a layer of protection on the Oxides, I rubbed on some MicroGlaze, then used a paper towel to ensure it was rubbed in well and remove any excess.

Finally, with the bases complete, it was time to put all the elements together! I used the handle of a paintbrush to help give a little shape to the wings of the dragonflies and butterflies, as well as to the edges of the flower petals after separating the petals partway so they would curl up easier. Then, I just layered everything up in this order:

ATC base
dragonfly or butterfly
“mess” of thread
flower

And that was all there was to it! The stamping took the longest, and even that wasn’t too long once I had decided which Oxides I wanted to use on each ATC!

Thank you for joining me here today on the blog! I hope you enjoyed these ATCs and they gave you an idea of what you can make using this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit!

Stay Crafty, Friends

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In addition to this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit, I used:
Distress Oxide: Prize Ribbon, Kitsch Flamingo, Wilted Violet, Fossilized Amber, Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, Tim Holtz “Bold Botanicals” Stamp Set, ColorBox Black Pigment Brush Pad, We R Memory Keepers 3-Way Corner Punch, Krylon Workable Fixatif, Coats & Clark Pastel Variegated Thread, Gorilla Hot Glue Gun & Glue Sticks, blending brushes

Tres Jolie Kit Club–Father’s Day Card–June 2023 Cards, Tags, & More Kit

Image | June 8, 2023June 8, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! I hope your June has started out great! Schools have been – or are about to be – released for summer vacation, and Father’s Day is just 10 days away. This week, in honor of Father’s Day, I have a rather quick and easy card for you using the Hunkydory kraft stock found in this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit.

I used a stamp set and inks from my stash, but all of the “parts” for the card came from the kit! I was feeling rather “traditional” when starting this project, and I didn’t want to create a card that was overly complicated or ornate – but I didn’t have much more direction for myself, so I grabbed up the pieces from the kit I thought would work best for how I was feeling, and started playing around.

Be sure to check out my video to see how it came together and watch my confusion!

The first thing I did to create this card is…

…stare at everything and try to get my thoughts together! Which was the hardest part of the project – getting my thoughts in order!

I knew I wanted to use the woodgrain kraft stock, but I wasn’t entirely certain what I actually wanted to do with it or how I wanted to decorate the card front. I also knew I preferred the star print bow for my “traditionally masculine” card, so I popped out the pieces I would need to create the bow, as well as the star print strip, the alpha I needed to spell “Dad” and the medallions to go with everything else “just in case”! I don’t know if I would have used any medallions at all if I hadn’t already inked them by the time I (finally) figured out what I was doing!

I don’t have measurements for you, because I just eyeballed the size I thought looked good for the woodgrain kraft stock. However, I can tell you now after the fact, that the wood grain kraft stock is about 1/4” smaller (length and width), leaving approximately 1/8” of the card base as a border all the way around. I also eyeballed where I wanted the strip of the star print kraft stock, but because I used my cutting mat to keep it straight, I know the bottom edge is 1-1/4” up from the bottom edge of the woodgrain kraft. After I glued the strip into place, I tucked the ends under – cutting a little of the extra length off one end just because (although it worked out in my favor!) then used some “Gathered Twigs” Distress Ink around the perimeter – as well as on the alpha, bow, and medallions.

I used the excess star print strip I had cut off before tucking the ends under to connect my alpha – partly to keep them together because I kept losing one letter or another, and partly just to go with the overall design, since I hadn’t decided where “Dad” would be going yet!

I tried playing around with the alpha, bow, and medallions on the card front, but I just couldn’t get the bow to look right all by itself – and I really wanted to use the bow! In the end, I realized the card front was exactly what I wanted with just the inking, the strip of star print kraft, and the simplicity of “Dad,” so that’s how I left it before moving on to the envelope.

I inked up the envelope with more “Gathered Twigs,” to coordinate with the vintage and “rustic” feel of the woodgrain kraft stock on the card front.

Originally I had adhered the bow and medallions on in a loose cluster formation, but I was still very unhappy with how everything was coming together and I thought maybe adding “Happy Father’s Day” to the envelope would tie everything together better – which is how I came to the decision to use my Tim Holtz “The Inspector” stamp set! I was originally just looking for alpha stamps to use – then I saw the man and the alpha just staring at me!

I used some “Timber Brown” StazOn for my first stamping of “The Inspector,” then added a couple of layers of “Gathered Twigs” Distress Ink on top before moving over to start the process of spelling out “Happy Father’s Day” with the alpha stamp block that also doesn’t have all 26 letters of the alphabet!

I started with the “H” in “Happy,” using my StazOn, but before repositioning the alpha block for the “A,” I used my “Gathered Twigs” to create a lighter background text block – then I continued stamping the rest of the phrase. For the two “P’s,” I used the “R’s” just making sure to keep the extra leg ink-free, and for the “Y’s,” I used upside-down “A’s” and the “I” to create the leg.

I traced over all of the letters in the phrase with my “Vintage Photo” Distress Marker, then I grabbed up a water bottle and sprayed everything down. The StazOn stayed put, and all the Distress Inks activated! After drying the envelope, I attached the bow tie and placed the medallions.

Thank you for joining me here today! I hope you enjoyed this Father’s Day card and it gave you some ideas of what you can create using this month’s kit!

Stay Crafty, Friends

Did you get a kit? Share what you made in our Facebook Group!

Thank you for joining us here at Tres Jolie Kits!

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In addition to this month’s Cards, Tags, & More Kit, I used:
“Gathered Twigs” Distress Ink, StazOn “Timber Brown,” Tim Holtz “The Inspector” Stamp Set, Tim Holtz Stamp Platform, “Vintage Photo” Distress Marker, blending brush, Art Glitter Glue, double-sided adhesive foam, glue dots

Reveal Day! – Tres Jolie Kit Club June 2023 Kits

Image | June 1, 2023May 31, 2023 | Corner Scraps

Hey, y’all! It’s June 1st, and that means it’s time for the Tres Jolie Kit Club June Kits to be revealed! YAY! I always love this day!

June is also Tres Jolie’s anniversary month! We are 5 years strong thanks to our customers! Join us all month long for sales, weekly challenges, new chipboard items, more limited edition kits, a special summer banner kit, and a free gift with purchase. We have added new members to the design team and the website has a new look!

Make sure you have your Tres Jolie Kit Club kits so you can create your summer memory crafts and preserve your summer memories! Be sure to get your kits before they’re gone! Or, better yet, subscribe to Tres Jolie Kit Club so you will never miss a kit! Be sure you follow us on all social media platforms (Tres Jolie Kit Club links at the end of the post; Corner Scraps links to the right) and have joined the Tres Jolie Kit Club Facebook Café so you won’t miss a single announcement or project created with these kits.

Now for the June 2023 Kits!

The June 2023 Scrapbooking Kit is filled with the Vintage Man Collection from 3 Quarter Designs. This collection offers you a fabulous variety of designs for vintage and steampunk-themed projects. You will also find fabulous Finnabair Mechanicals and coordinating Tres Jolie Chipboard – a lovely assortment of patterned papers and perfectly coordinated embellishments!

This month’s Mixed Media Kit offers you a chance to play with oil pastels! And to go with them, there is a canvas panel, a stencil, and some Lindy’s Magical powder!

Our card kit is filled with A4 embossed papers and gold foiled kraft card embellishments from Hunkydory. As well as A4 kraft card blanks, white envelopes, and a gold Transfer Me sheet from Dress My Craft. There is enough for you to create some fantastic cards, tags, and ATCs – a wide variety of “mini” projects! Who doesn’t like creating a variety of projects from one kit?

These kits are for the beginner to the advanced, clean, and simple to mixed media maven. No matter your style, there is something for everyone. We know you are going to love it!

Now (drumroll please!), presenting the June 2023 Tres Jolie Kits:

*Scrapbook Kit*

*Mixed Media Kit*

*Cards, Tags, and More kit*

Don’t forget to stop by the Tres Jolie YouTube channel and see our video reveal of all our kits.

Love them, right?!?! You can still get one of your own (some kits are in very limited quantities). Become a subscriber and you will never miss out on our gorgeous, coordinated kits. Just visit Tres Jolie subscribe.

The designers at Tres Jolie have created some amazing layouts/projects with this kit.

Here is a little tease from me:

Please stop by the other designer’s blogs and check out their sneak peeks. They are listed below:

We have a new mood board challenge for the month. Here are the rules:

Place your entries in the June 2023 challenge folder on Tres Jolie Kit Club Café Facebook page. This challenge ends on June 30th, 2023 at 11:59 pm CST. All entries must be in this folder to be eligible for the prize (to have everyone eligible to win, we are limiting the same winner to once every 3 months).

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