Sunny Day Crafting Challenge #53 L = Love

Hello Scrappy Friends


I am once again designing for Sunny Day Crafting and will be revealing every second Wednesday for that weekly challenge

The challenge this week is L = Love

Hope you head on over to the blog and take up the challenge!

Thanks for dropping by today

Craftaholics R Us Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends,

It is reveal day at Craftaholics R Us, where I have recently joined the Design Team.  I will be revealing a layout, or project of some description, each second Wednesday.

This weeks challenge was - Pumpkin, and here is my layout

Stay tuned, down the track for a tutorial on how I completed the background :)

Looking forward to seeing what you come up with at Craftaholics R Us

Scrap Plezier Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends

It is reveal day at Scrap Plezier and I am up today!!

I love Kaisercraft, and I think that the Sage and Grace Collection is one of my all time favourites – so I chose that collection for this layout.  

Simple layers, under a couple of photos of my husband taken on our  extra long weekend trip to Sydney in May.   Add a doily, some stickers and diecuts for the Sage and Grace Collection, use a black Sharpie paint pen to out line all the layers and stickers, and there you have a simple layout that looks amazing (well, I think it does, lol).

And some closeups:

The photos do not do justice to the gorgeous colour palette of this collection.

Your thoughts??

Scrap Plezier Moodboard Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends

It is reveal day at Scrap Plezier for the fabulously yummy September moodboard:

I told you it was yummy!!

And here is my inspiration from the board:

























I went with the pinks and blues, quote, flowers and the numbers.

Some closeups:

I used a stencil and texture paste across the middle of the layout, then when that was dried, I applied Prima Metallic Accents Semi Watercolour, in pink and blue over the stencilled area.  I then stamped using black dye ink, and then splattered some of the pink and blue watercolour.  I also coloured the white Kaisercraft flowers with the same watercolours.  Using Maja Designs papers, I layered my photo, added the quote in tiny alphas, and finished with some Cocoa Vanilla Wild At Heart Sparkle Enamel Dots.

Thanks for stopping by today - I really think you should take the Scrap Plezier Moodboard challenge.

Creative Inspiration Guest DT Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends

I am the Guest Designer at Creative Inspiration for the month of September.  Why not come on over to the forum and check things out?

Today is Monday Sketch reveal day, and Bev designed the fabulous sketch we had to work with:



And my example:


Looking forward to seeing you all at Creative Inspiration to join in the daily challenges and the Mini Crop which starts on on the 15th and will be by next reveal at CI.

Drum Roll......

Design Team 2017/2018 Announcement 

Off the Rails Scrapbooking

Hi Crafters

Today I'd like to welcome some new team members and acknowledge our existing team that will continue to create with us ...

Please welcome

Lisa-Marie

Deb

Carol W

Juili

Sheetal

Cathy

Hema

Kajal

Julie

Emma

Trish

Rosemary

Thank you also to our continuing DT

Bev

Carol

Jaehee

Narelle

Brenda

Tanya

Lisa

Louise

Joan

Luciana

Candy
Tania R

Dawid

Yep, thats me - now a Designer for Off the Rails Scrapbooking.

Check out the fabulous Moodboard Challenge for September (I dont design until October)

This month we'd like you to be inspired by this moodboard.

Some of you may find this a little challenging - just remember you can be inspired in any way, shape or form by the moodboard.

Our team has done a fabulous job to inspire you ...

Candy

Tania

Louise

Julie

Emma

Kajal 

As always we are grateful to our fabulous sponsors ...

So much inspiration!
We can't wait to see your creations.

Happy scrapping!

Guest Designer for September at Creative Inspiration

Hello Scrappy Friends

I m excited to announce that I have been asked to be a Guest Designer at Creative Inspiration for the month of September.  Bev and the girls on the forum are da bomb!!

Creative Inspiration is an "old fashioned" forum where you will find inspiration in the form of daily challenges, as well as monthly mini crops.

If you are not a member, I urge you to head on over and join in the fun - you really dont know what you are missing.

My first reveal is the Monday sketch, so I will be back then to show you what I came up with.

Cheers

Sketches in Thyme #290 Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends

August 22 was my reveal day for Sketches in Thyme sketch #290 (so only a few days late sharing it here)





I used a piece of Kaisercraft Base Coat IV collection for the base and papers from Kaisercraft Daydreamer for the rest.

Thanks for stoping by today

Scrap Plezier Reveal

Hello SCrappy Friends

Wow, late again with my reveals this month.  I must slap myself and get my act into gear  - big time.

August 20 was reveal day at Scrap Plezier with a Kaisercraft layout.



Dont you just love my cute as a button Murphy?

I wanted to get away from using the normal squares, rectangles and circles, so decided to use triangles for this layout – and I love how it turned out.  Using Kaisercraft Indigo Skies, I cut 2 triangles from 2 pieces of patterned paper.  I then drew a border around the edge using my black Sharpie paint pen.  I took a piece of Kaisercraft paper from the Base Coat IV collection and using some Ranger Distress Ink and Heidi Swapp Colour Shine, I smooched and splattered the watered down media onto the background.  I did not gesso the paper prior to doing this, and fortunately it didn’t warp at all.  I distressed the edges of the background paper and both triangles using my Edge Distressing tool and then inked the distressed edges with the Distress Ink (Blueprint Sketch).  When the background was dry, I placed the triangles, and offset them to each other.  I added my photo and took some stickers and diecuts from the Indigo Skies collection to finish off the layout. 

 

The title alphas were a pack of really old Cosmo Cricket Chalkboard which I painted with the Heidi Swapp Colour Shine (Tinsel), and I love, love, love how they turned out.

 

So that is my challenge to all my scrappy friends, take some old stash and reinvigorate it to make something new!!

Some closeups:

Thanks for sto

pping by

Scrap Plezier Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends,

It was my reveal day on the Scrap Plezier blog on Sunday, but I have been sick so havent had a chance to share with you all until now :(

During a tidy up I came across this photo of my husband and eldest son.  My son was 15 weeks old in the photo, and turns 21 in October, so you can see I do not scrapbook chronologically!!  I took some Kaisercraft Mist in Olive and Lime Green and mixed some together to create a colour I liked, and was more matched to the papers, with a Kaisercraft stencil on the white cardstock background.   When dry, I splattered some of the mixture. I then took some papers from the 6.5x6.5 Bow and Arrow collection paper pad and layered over the stencilled background.  I mounted the photo onto another piece from the collection.  I finished off this rather simple layout with some wood veneer, pearls, and  diecuts all from Kaisercraft.  I drew a border around the outside edge of the cardstock to ground all the elements.

 

I hope my layout inspires you all to pull our some old photos and scrap them

Some Closeups:

So what do you think about that?

Thanks for stopping by today