Thrifty Thursday: making your own flowers!

Welcome to Thrifty Thursday!

On an attempt to save money, pay off debt and be content with what I have, the thrifty scrapper blog was born. Every Thursday I will share a simple technique, mostly using things we already have at home but that can bring your scrapbooking or card making to a new level! :) This is thrifty Thursday, so be sure to follow my blog and make use of this free information. Who knows you might be debt free in a couple of years?

so this week I want to share with you how you can make your own flowers with what you got at home. I know you love Prima flowers! So do I! But I just can't afford every flower I fall in love with! Ha LOL

So take a look at the video below and see some of the flowers I created from funky to chic ones! Enjoy and if you have questions please send me an email at info@mytreasuredcreations.com



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I hope you are enjoying these new videos. I have many more to share and as I go I am learning how to make them better. :) Comments, advice on video making or critics are welcome!

Be blessed,
Tereza

I got an account on YouTube!

so I couldn't resist and have joined the YouTube team. You can now find my videos on youtube. Here is the link.

This weekend I am making cards for Operation Write Home and decided to share a quick tutorial on how to make a cute trim. Watch it below.




I will share more cards and other tutorials when I finish the cards.

I hope you are enjoying the weekend. Leave me a comment so I know you stopped by. :)

Tereza

Thrifty Thursday: upgrade your buttons!

On an attempt to save money, pay off debt and be content with what I have, the thrifty scrapper blog was born. Every Thursday I will share a simple technique, mostly using things we already have at home but that can bring your scrapbooking or card making to a new level! :) This is thrifty Thursday, so be sure to follow my blog and make use of this free information. Who knows you might be debt free in a couple of years?

So recently I was working on 2 custom albums for 2 little precious boys! Here's Camden's album and here is Carson's Album. As you know buttons are one of the main embellishments used on boys albums or pages. I really wanted to make these buttons pop though. I had seen ribbons go through buttons, rub ons, or paint but never seen stamps.

So I tried stamping on them. All I used was Staz On black ink and a Martha Stewart stamps I had previously bought but never used. Here are some of the results..





I used some snowflakes stamps on some buttons too. They turned out so cute. I will be using them on some cards in the future. Be aware that you need to use stamps small enough so that you can see the image on the buttons.

Try and see what you come up with. The only rule is to NOT buy anything new, use what you already have at home. tip: look for the flat surface of the button, of course! :)

Have fun!

Tereza

Thrifty Thursday: using acrylic paint!

This is our first Thrifty Thursday. The idea is to share with you a technique that does NOT require new scrapbook supplies or tools, but can be done using what most of us already have at home.

Today I want to share with you how to make something look old, vintage, shabby or distressed looking. I am finishing a custom order for 2 vintage scrapbook albums for 2 brothers. Here is a sneak peak of the first album. I wanted to achieve a fun, distressed, old look without making the albums feminine at all. So I decided to use paint. White acrylic paint. I found it is the best way to make something look shabby.

Now you don't need any special tools to apply your paint. Any acrylic paint will do. Because acrylic paint is rather thick it can be very tricky to use it on rubber or acrylic stamps. They tend to get all sticky and you can't see much of the detail of the stamps, unless it is a big one or a foam stamp. That's another post.

I used two simple tools for my technique. I used water bottle caps and medicine measuring cups to make the white circles on my latest album. I also used my finger to dab the white paint around the edges of my album. I tried using a make up sponge but I liked the result of using my fingers better. I was going for a not so uniform look, more messy.



First squeeze some paint on a paper plate and spread it flat like you would icing on a cake, then use the cap and cup to start stamping. Don't worry about perfect prints, you are going for shabby, not perfect prints. You will have some circles thicker, with missing pieces to the circle, others lighter. the paint dries really quickly too.



The first photo on this post is an example of the result of this technique. The complete photos of this album and more will be on my other blog this weekend.

You can use other tools with this same technique. Try using bubble wraps, the end of pencils, a sponge, a paper crinkled into a ball or anything else you can think of and already have at home.

On the card below I smeared the edges with white paint.



Here is an example using green paint and bubble wrap.



Would love to hear about your results and your discoveries with white acrylic paint. Until next Thursday, stay thrifty and crafty. :)

Be blessed,

Tereza

Thrifty Thursday!

If you are a follower of this blog you are probably frustrated because I haven't posted in a while. Well, lots of things have happened: I had another baby, a got a few custom orders backed up and I homeschool my children. So, there! as you can see I have my hands full!

But I decided that I can take a few minutes and commit to post at least one post a week where I can share some of my crafty thriftiness. Ha! so this is where Thrifty Thursday comes in.

Every Thursday I will share a simple technique, mostly using things we already have at home but that can bring your scrapbooking or card making to a new level! :)

Make sure you follow this blog and my other BLOG to see finished treasured creations. :) So, tomorrow I will post our first Thrifty Thursday post!

thanks for your patience. :)

Be blessed today,
Tereza