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:

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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

Scrapbook Boutique July Moodboard

Hello Scrappy Friends

I have created a layout for the July moodboard challenge at Scrapbook Boutique

Isnt it just the most divine colour?

There is still a day or 2 left to join - if you get your skates on!!

Oooops, where has the time gone?

Oh dear, I have been super busy at work so my poor blog has been neglected for the past month :(

Well, I had better make up for that!

Now...for your viewing pleasure

My Time to Craft - July 1 challenge - Christmas in July

Not a Christmas layout, but a normal layout using Christmas papers:



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Scrap Plezier - July 4 Reveal

Premiers 2011 was created using Kaisercraft Rewind papers from a couple of years ago.  Again, I have used papers from the 6.5x6.5 paper pad (I have a huge collection of these and love them).  For interest, I tore the papers using my metal ruler.  This gives a nice straight edge to the tear.  From there I did my usual layering, in no particular order, just making sure the photo remained the main focus.

 

I finished the layout off with diecuts from the Rewind Collection as well as some buttons from my stash and some splatters of Tattered Angels Glimmermist – Sapphire.  The journalling was done on a dicut journalling spot from the Rewind Collection.   The title alphas are from Jillibean Soup.

Closeups:

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Scrap Plezier - July 10 Moodboard

And a fabulous moodboard it is:

I have used some mixed manufacturers in this layout of my boys and I taken at my birthday tea in May. Bits and pieces from Simple Stories, Doodlebug Designs, American Crafts, and Pink Paislee

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My Time to Craft July 15 challenge - In the Garden

This challenge is to be my last for the time being at My Time to Craft - with work being absolutely mental, I have had to let something go, and unfortunately, it is this design team.  But...the wonderful boss lady Shell, has said I am welcome back when things settle down, she may regret that offer as I may just do that!!

Lots of Kaisercraft project life cards used as the layers on this layout.  Even dragged out an old punch to add some texture to the edge of the paper.

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Scrap Plezier - July 16 Reveal

This layout was created using a sketch from Sketches in Thyme, and the gorgeous Kaisercraft Wildflower collection, papers and diecuts.  All edges of the background cardstock, patterned papers, and diecuts have been inked with Versacolour Pinecone.  The photo was mounted on dark green cardstock and pop dotted to give some texture to the layout.  The green sparkle washi tape is also Kaisercraft, and the pale pink washi came from the TYPO store.  The word stickers in the top left corner are Tim Holtz Chit Chat stickers, the gold title alphas are Crate Paper Maggie Holmes, the small white and black letters are Kaisercraft.  The other alpha stickers used are from Simple Stories.  The splatters were created with Lindys Stamp Gang Flat Fabio in Plumeria Pink, and the turquoise colour is Dylusions Ink Spray in Vibrant Turquoise.

Some closeups:

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Scrap Plezier - July 20 Reveal

For the July 20 reveal at Scrap Plezier I went with Kaisercraft.

For this layout I wanted to use Kraft cardstock but felt the background needed a lift, so I trimmed the kraft cardstock and then layered it onto an old piece of paper from my stash.  I took a Kaisercraft Cherish clear stamp and using Hero Arts Black Dye ink, stamped along both vertical sides of my photo mats.  I then took a stamp from Creative Impressions and added that as well.  Next I took my Prima Watercolours and splattered various colours over the background.  These colours were chosen to match the papers I was going to use.  Whilst this was drying, I layered 3 pieces of patterned paper from the Wildflower Collection from Kaisercraft (6.5x6.5 paper pad), slightly crookedly, and then matted my photo twice, and placed on the paper background.  I took some Kaisercraft wood veneer and coloured it with the Prima Watercolouors – I love how both pieces turned out.  The title alphas are DIY Thickers from Studio Calico and are fabric, therefore customisable.  Again, I used the Prima Watercolours and coloured the title alphas in matching colours.  Finally I used some stickers and diecuts from the Wildflowers Collection to finish off my layout.

Closeups:

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Sketches in Thyme #286 - July 22

Sara created this awesome sketch for this week at Sketches in Thyme

I have used Crate Paper Maggie Holmes papers, washi tape, puffy stickers, chipboard stickers and diecuts.  The title alphas are Thickers from Crate Paper.

Some closeups:

And thats it for July - thank you so much for getting to the end of this marathon post.

I will be back at the end of the month with some layouts from 2 CC's I will be participating in.

Dont forget to let me know you stopped by :)

Sketches in Thyme #282

Hello Scrappy Friends

It is Sketch #282 reveal day at Sketches in Thyme

This is the amazing sketch we are using this week:

Designed by the very talented Brenshevia

And here is my example, again using Kaisercraft, this time Indigo Skies collection - papers and diecut collectibles.

Murphy was an early birthday present for me and joined our family via the RSPCA on April24.  He is the most loving cat, with not a nasty bone in his body!!  He likes nothing more than sitting with me at my scrap desk, more often than not on the laptop.  He is a pleasure to be around.

Thanks for stopping by, this is the last of my DT commitments for June, but have a couple of challenge layouts to share when I have photographed them.

Scrap Plezier Reveal

Hello Scrappy Friends

I was revealled on the Scrap Pelzier blog last Sunday with a Kaisercraft layout.

This layout was created with Kaisercraft Chasing Rainbows.  I used a Crafters Workshop Stencil – Dots and Dashes with Nuvo Embellishment Mousse in Navy to create texture on the white cardstock background.  The I went to my 6.5x6.5 paper pad and tore out some papers to layer under my photo.  I added some border diecuts from the paper pad, as well as some diecuts from the Collectibles pack.  To finish the layout I added some Kaisercraft wood veneer Stars, Doily, and Banners.  The title was created with some really, really, really old Basic Grey alphas.

 

Wanna see some closeups?

Thanks for dropping by today