“Spread Your Wings” Mixed Media Album Workshop!

Posted on March 15, 2011 by Melissa Samuels · 9 Comments

As promised, here’s the new workshop for April. It’s my favorite, a mixed media mini binder book. Say that fast 10 times! LOL:) I’m totally loving the new BoBunny Gabrielle papers! You know how much I love butterflies. The book is a Maya Road chipboard binder album with tabbed chipboard AND craft pages. We’ll cover the outside in burlap, and do some serious painting. Cuteness! The kit is packed with yummy goodness, including acrylic paint, an alterable trinket (and yes, we’re going to alter that bad boy), trinket pins, flowers, ribbons, mini chipboard pieces, transparency paper, and more! Can you feel my excitement!?!

“Spread Your Wings” Mixed Media Album Workshop

–Friday, April 15th from 6-9pm, Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center (click here to reserve your seat)

–Monday, April 25th at 8pm (EST), UStream Channel (click here to order kit for UStream show)

If you’re not familiar with UStream please feel free to visit my UStream Channel to view past recordings of workshops http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-art-of-scrapbooking-by-melissa-samuels. You can purchase workshop kits in my store, watch me make the project live and chat, or view the show recording at a later date. It’s easy peasy!

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Tip of the Day: Reinking Distress Ink Pads

Posted on March 14, 2011 by Melissa Samuels · 6 Comments

Hey, Everyone!! Today I want to share a little tip with you. As you may know, distress ink is one of my all-time favorite things! I can't help but use it on most everything I make. I love the vintage, distressed look that it creates, and there are so many yummy colors to pick from. A pad of ink will last a REALLY long time, but occasionally, they do have to be reinked. Here's the proper way to reink a distress ink pad:

You'll start with a dry distress ink pad, a bottle of reinker, and a piece of rigid plastic. For the plastic you could use an old credit card, or I'm using the packing from a pack of Prima flowers.

1, and only 1, dropper full =1 distress ink pad refill. You don't need to put more than 1 dropper full on the pad. This means there are several refills in the bottle. We like that! Put your dropper of ink on your pad.

Use your piece of plastic to smooth/even out the ink. This will help get the ink down into the pad in a nice even layer.

See how easy that was?!?

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Here's a sneak peek of my next UStream and Glen Allen Cultural Arts Center workshop. And, yes, distress ink is involved:)) Be sure to come back tomorrow to see the finished project, and get info on how to purchase the Ustream kit or a in person workshop seat.

Antiquing @ Hart’s Place

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Melissa Samuels · 1 Comment

This weekend was my birthday, so Robert and I made an antiquing date. We went to several places looking for hidden treasure. This trip, I was looking for something shabby chic. I didn't find the prefect piece, but I had a lot of fun looking. One of the places we went to was called Hart's Place in Mosely, Virginia. I had no idea by passing by how much fun stuff was inside of the 3 little buildings they have. It was a great day!

I also want to thank everyone on Facebook who wished me a happy birthday! I had so many sweet little messages! It kinda made getting a year older not so bad. You all are the best!! XO

Ustream Recording-Parisian Anthology Cards

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Melissa Samuels · 4 Comments

Thanks to everyone who joined me last night on UStream! I had a lot of fun getting inky! If you missed the live show, I’m putting the recording here for you to view. You can also visit my UStream Channel to join my crowd or watch other recorded shows http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-art-of-scrapbooking-by-melissa-samuels

If you’d like to purchase a kit, the Parisian Anthology resist paper, ink, magnets, blending tool, or die that I used you can visit my store (click here). You can scroll down under the kit description for a a list of related products I used.

Happy Cardmaking!!

“Fly Away with Me” Birdcage Album ARTICLE

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Melissa Samuels · 8 Comments

I was excited to be asked to write another article for Scrapbooking.com Magazine. They chose my birdcage mini album, one of my first kits, to publish. I'm super excited to see it in the spotlight again. I get blog hits on this album daily, and I have been asked a lot about bringing it back. It's a very special album to me, because it was kind of the "sink or swim" for my business. I swam! LOL! I am working on getting the kits together, so stay tuned to the blog for more info. Feel free to email me at melissa@melissasamuels.net if you'd like to get your name on the waiting list for this kit. The kit is $45 (plus shipping). The instructions only are available now in my store.

You can view my article here http://scrapbooking.com/article/75253.

Also, if you missed yesterday's blog post be sure to check out the new folding card class I added to the calendar. It's for April at the GACAC and UStream!

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