Show us what you can do with this sketch! Post your finished project (layout, card, wall hanging, etc.) on the Becky Fleck Sketch Challenge #161 Project Gallery. One random winner will be awarded 1000 Cherry Points! All other participants will receive 100 Cherry Points. You have until midnight (11:59 pm EST) Wednesday, March 4, 2020 to post your project. See Terms & Conditions.

 

Don't forget to visit our Contests & Challenges forum on our Message Board for even more inspiration!

 

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Last Week's Challenge #160 Winner of 1000 Cherry Points!

   

Congrats to Cherished!

 

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Becky Fleck, founder of PageMaps.com, created a free resource eight years ago, providing distinct, original sketches that help papercrafters spend less time planning their pages and cards and more time scrapping them. Becky is the editor of Scrapbook & Cards Today, one of Canada's favorite craft magazines. She also designs for a number of your favorite paper crafting brands. You can find many more of her sketches by visiting PageMaps.

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Here we will give you some tips and tricks about how to make a blog post for ACOT's Cherry Blog. If you are chosen to be one of our monthy Guest Designers at ACOT, follow these steps to make your post. You do not have to make a video for your blog post. If you want to see what being a guest designer means check out our Guest Designer Call.

 

Some things that you can make a post about:

1. Your inspirations

2. A step by step of your process

3. How you use your favorite product or tool (or a new one you've never tried!)

4. A closer look into what you created

 

Steps to take:

1. Plan the project that you want to make a post about using ACOT products.

2. Take photos of the steps you take.

3. Take note of the ACOT products you use.

4. Write about your process and how you feel your project went. Include anything you learned from your project or any tips you may have.

5. Upload your photos to our project gallery.

6. Email the photos, list of products used, and what you wrote to jessica@acherryontop.com

 

Tips for taking good photos:

1. Take your photos in a well-lit area. Natural (outdoor) light usually looks the best, so go by a window for photos.

2. If there isn't any good natural light, bring some lamps over to your work area.

3. It is always better to have more photos than not enough, so take some extras.

4. It usually looks best if you are working on a white or light-colored background that is not distracting. You can lay out a large piece of paper to take photos on top of.

5. Edit the photos on your phone, make them a bit brighter. Don't use filters, just a simple clean edit if you can.

 

Here are some links to examples of blog posts:

Don't Waste your Paint Pour Drips!, You Make My Heart Smile, DIY Shadow Print Tote

 

We hope this helps and if you have any questions or concerns you can email me, Jessica, at jessica@acherryontop.com

 

 

Posted by Jessica.

Mixed Media Scrapbook Layout

Rachel and I had a scrapbooking session where we wanted to scrap our Creativation trip. I thought these pictures were so fun and kind of goofy so I just had to scrap them. I took inspiration from the Creativation logo where it was mostly black but had the work “CREATIVATION” in rainbow. Most of my layout is black and white with the “paintbrush strokes” in rainbow. I also used the Becky Fleck #159 Challenge as layout inspiration.

 

List of mixed media materials I used:

Texture Paste, Alcohol Ink, Distress Oxide Ink Pad, Distress Oxide Reinkers, Distress Crayons, Distress Markers, Glossy Accents

Other tools:

WRMK Tear Guides, Palette Paper, Tim Holtz Travel Glass Media Mat, Scrapbook Adhesive, Cardstock, Paintbrush, Pattele Knife

 

Here is the video of the process of designing and putting this layout together.

 

Making the rainbow brushstroke:

First I applied the texture paste on my page using a pallete knife, then I went over it with a paintbrush to get the texture the way I wanted it.

Next I did some testing to see what would work on top of the texture past. I used Alcohol Ink, Distress Oxide Ink Pad, Distress Oxide Reinkers, Distress Crayons, and Distress Markers. Everythink I tried did stay on and worked just how I planned it to.

Most of the materials I blended with water and a paintbrush.

 

 

 

This layout was a lot of fun to make and I really liked using the texture paste. It is an easy way to add demention to your page. I also wanted to show that there really isn't a wrong way to play with mixed media. Just try it out and see what happens!

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