Hybrid tutorial and product review
Thursday, August 27th, 2009Hello everyone,
I’m very excited to be bringing you our very first hybrid tutorial and product review here on the ScrapMatters blog! Whoo hoo! Hybrid can be a whole new world to some scrappers, but once you realise what you can do with your digitial supplies and a few other basic tools, you’ll never know what hit you! Really, it’s not that hard to make a start into the world of hybrid and to expand your creativity at the same time, so we’re hoping our tutorials and product reviews will help you newbies along somewhat and for those already hybrid scrapping, you may just learn a tip or two! I’ll also be posting this tutorial in our Hybrid Is Hot forum if you want to come and follow the discussion.
Today I’m going to be decorating a paper gift bag for a 5 year old girl and I’ll show you how easy it is to grunge up your projects with a bit of distressing. I can’t live without my inks pads and I love to distress all of the goodies I make. And with a little paper tearing and paper curling, you can add to the worn and tattered look of your project.
The birthday girl will have her very own personalised bag that I can pop her present into. I picked up a bundle of these large bags from my local party supply store. For the digital portion of this bag, I have used Jennifer Barrette’s fab SCHOOL GIRL ROCK kit. I also found a piece of 12×12 inch scalloped Bazzill in my paper stash.
Next I created the digital portion of the kit to be adhered to the front of the bag. I wanted a layered effect, so I firstly printed off a sheet of Jen’s houndstooth paper, then my digitally created page including the personalised birthday greeting.
Next up, I got my favourite distress inks out by Tim Holtz. I have used Black Soot for this project but my favourite colours are Walnut Stain and Vintage Photo. I use these on just about all of my projects to add some depth and age where needed. Your projects will have so much more warmth and dimension to them with a little ink added around the edges. I applied my ink to this project directly with the ink pad, but you can use a soft sponge which gives you a more softer look. You can always add more then but when applying the ink directly with the ink pad, you immediately have it on thick and dark, depending on how moist your ink pad is.
I then took my houndstooth paper and started to tear it up to fit within the boundaries of my scalloped cardstock. I just love to tear my papers freehand and then you just take the edges and roll them and scrunch them up for an even more grungier look. After I finished curling the edges, I swiped some more black in around the edges.
And now that all my inking was complete, I used double-sided tape to adhere the cardstock and houndstooth paper to the bag. For the digital layout, I used 3D foam tape to give it a little lift from the rest of the bag, again adding depth and dimension.
Once I purchase the birthday gift, I’ll add it to the bag and tie it up with some matching ribbons and add a hanging card or a tag from Jen’s kit. It’s just gone midnight here and I wanted to post this before I went to bed, so once I complete the other little additions, I’ll update my post in the Hybrid Is Hot thread.
This was a very inexpensive way to jazz up your wrapping of a gift and I hope our little friend thinks it’s pretty cool too!
