Scrappy Strip goes mosaic

I saw recently that the Bertucci's had a new version of their scrappy strip technique I thought it might be fun to have a go using the colours I could see in the new colour board at AAA Colourful.

How to get started; in a nutshell you create a "scrappy strip panel". As the strips have to be uneven in width you actually create the strips by cutting.

I also need to say that I will never do this technique again it's so messy, you have to glue down the first strips really well as every bit has to be adhered for when you cut the second strip. EDITED 4/4/24: One of my crafty friends Sarah had a brilliant suggestion to use adhesive sheets on the card stock before making scrappy strips so then no glue needed.

You then attach them to a panel of black, leaving small gaps between, leave over night to dry and cut off the ends with your trimmer/guillotine/sharp scissors. Then using a trimmer or guillotine,  I used the latter, create a pile of 1/4" strips.

When attaching the 1/4" strips you still leave a wee gap but the gluing is much easier as you can glue straight down the middle and not edge to edge.

I've just used a sentiment  from Hero Art's Encouragement Sentiment Strips to finish off as I had a pile in my stash already white heat embossed.

This is the colour board at AAA Colourful that inspired my colour choices which were: Sweet Pea (C9), Fig (C9), Grape Soda (C9), Very Vanilla (SU!), Lemon Lolly (SU!), Orchid Oasis (SU!)

As always I'm pleased to have tried something new and if I had an Zig Glue stick of old I think I would have liked adding the glue to the back better but you definitely have to have the first strips adhered fully to make this work. Thanks for popping in.

✿Karen✿

Scrappy strippy time

It's been a while since I had a go at the scrappy strip technique which I have to say when you're doing it looks a "hot mess" but when you cut down to a card stock mat it looks fab. I was inspired by this fab graphic at The Color Throwdown to have a go at this weeks challenge.

The colours for this week are mint green, strawberry, light yellow and navy. Just generic colors (so any brand/type/whatever you have will work) and you can always feel free to add in neutrals (white / black etc) to make your creation pop!

I love that dress, this is a dress that young me would have worn!

Because of the pattern on the dress it reminded me of scrappy strip cards but they're just badly cut strips of card stock attached to a neutral colour. I used strips of Mint Macaroon, Strawberry Slush (now retired), So Saffron, Night of Navy from SU! I wanted to do Kraft as my neutral but I had to search through a lot of old Simon Says Stamp kits to find a piece of Desert Sand. My partner Pete will be happy "he won" as I used to love Kraft but he used to say OMG you don't go buy cardboard cards when you go to a stationary shop. Thinking about I decided he was right so obviously never bought anymore when I ran out.

Then with a guillotine you make a mat.

Place the mat on your card and embellish, the cards are often just embellished with a saying as the pattern is so striking but I found this really cool wee stamp set called Fun in the Sun (My Favorite Things) and I thought ohh I'll colour the beach towel in to match the strips.

I did no-line colouring with my Copics but that might not have been such a good idea as I lost her pigtails so had to also use a Burnt Sierra polychromo pencil to add some definition. Now I'm not sure if it is my colouring but this wee girl is the spitting image of my granddaughter Indianna (see below).

Recipe:
Stamps: Fun in the Sun (and matching die) - My Favorite Things
Ink: Night of Navy, Desert Sand (Memento) 
Paper: So Saffron, Night of Navy, Mint Macaroon, Strawberry Slush, Desert Storm, X-press It 

Other: Dimensionals, various Copic markers, white gel pen

Copic Markers (I follow Kim Singdahlsen's suggestions for Copic colour match up to SU! colours)

Beach Towel: Y21, G12, B99, E43
Hair: Y21, YR23, YR24 and Burnt Sienna Polychromo pencil
Skin: E00, E93, V12, R30
Togs: RV11, RV13, RV14

Hairclip: RV13, RV14

I have to say I'm really loving these challenges I'm making cards I never would have thought of, they certainly are making me think outside the square.

And here's the cutest granddaughter  in the world says one very biased nanny but there is a big resemblance between her and the stamped image.

Indianna aka Indie 2022

✿ Karen ✿

Scrappy Strip Technique

My Stampin' Up! team (the Star Stampers) are going to do a different technique every week whilst we're all in lockdown. The first challenge was to try Bruno Bertucci's scrappy strip technique, it really requires very little apart from lots of badly cut strips of card stock. You can check out the video here (the technique starts at 20 mins approximately).

This is what it looks like when adhering to the card mat (LHS is all trimmed, RHS all attached & waiting to chop down to a mat).

I'm really liking the Silicon Craft mat it's perfect to stop the glue getting all over your work surface.

Looking at Bruno's card he used much thinner strips than I did, the colours I used were Cherry Cobbler, Petal Pink, Pool Party, Sahara Sand, Very Vanilla and Basic Black.

 My team have all jazzed their cards up with embellishments so I used the lovely cherry blossom stamp from Forever Blossoms (#151457) &diecut it out with the matching die-set (Cherry Blossoms #151456) & I've colored up with my Copics (R11, E95, G20, YG11, Y35 and W1). A few Champagne Rhinestones for a bit of bling. I have stamped the image with Memento Desert Sand ink for a more no-line colouring look. The sentiment is from the Beautiful You stamp set (#143637) and everything is popped up with some dimensionals.

This was such a fun & easy technique so I challenge you all to have a go too, it certainly brightened up my day. Thanks Bruno for the great technique & Bev Pountney for challenging us all.

✿ Karen ✿