ScrapPlezier - July Moodboard

We have a gorgeous moodboard to play with this month and I was inspired to scrap some pretty flower photos. This warms things up a bit on the cold grey wintery days we're having this week.

This is a Jowilna original inspired page... I loved trying my hand at the various techniques she used. The little squares at the top of the page are created by applying texture paste through a stencil onto white cardstock. Once dry I then dipped the paper into various pink inks. Once all together dry the big piece was cut up into little squares and then added to the layout. It makes for a very interesting feature.

Next is the stamping.... I got to play with my brand new Versafine Clair inks.... oooh these stamp sooooooo nicely. I stamped the green flower stems in lime green and then the flowers in pink and chianti. Each stamp is stamped twice...once with the full ink and then once with the leftovers, to create a lighter stamp. It gives a lovely differentiation on the colours and I feel that it lends itself to the actual flowers in my photos.

I added some Kaisercraft papers in the same pinks and greens to bring everything together. Then added lots of hand stitching in white thread. My title is from Celebr8 and this I heat embossed with lime green embossing powder.

Come play along with this lovely moodboard and see more inspiration on the blog.

Christmas in July Quilling

I've been keeping myself occupied over the last few months by doing quite a bit of quilling during the evenings in front of the tv.  I am slowly making stock of Christmas goodies so that I can hopefully have stuff to sell later in the year (but these are of course for sale at any time you want).

Angels 11

Angels 12

Baubles 01-08

Baubles 09-12

Bauble 13

Bells

Elf

Tree (2cm tall)

Trees

Wreaths 05-08

Wreaths 09-11

Remember that you can drop me a message here or on my page on facebook to place an order at any time.

ScrapPlezier - Initiation

Yes we are on school holidays, but that doesn't mean the scrapping stops and as I am still trying to scrap photos from 3 years ago, today it's the turn of a school inspired page.

This page is inspired from a Jowilna original.

I started my page with doing some stencil stamping. This is done by adding ink to the stencil, then spritzing with water and using the stencil as a stamp on the page. I used some blue and red distress inks to pick up the colours in the photos.  I then added bits and pieces of various scraps on hand to add interest to the layout. These papers and stickers are all from different collections and  not even school themed, but they all lend themselves to the layout. Finally I cut out my title on my Silhouette machine.

Check out lots more inspiration on the blog.

Just an extra note for those not sure what Initiation is or what it involves:
 Initiation is a right of passage tradition that people go through to join a school, club or group. It's not common practice (thank goodness!) and should be fun.

So to introduce the grade 8s to high school, the matrics made them dress differently each day for a week. At the end of the week they shared doughnuts together and life returned to normal. This is the only time Aaron has had to go through this and hopefully won't happen again.

I only had it happen to me when I went to college and we had to do all sorts of weird things... plus being over 18 they tried to make us drink all sorts of concoctions... I just simply refused.

Let's Scrap - 1 July reveal

Here is my reveal for this month's new sketch:

As I didn't have enough photos for the sketch, I decided just to do a single page. Also I replaced one photo with a diecut.

For more inspiration, check out the blog.

Lets Get Sketchy - July 1 Reveal

Here is my second reveal for today...

I dug around in my scrap stash for some blue/grey papers and found the SEI papers with the words on it.... remember them? I loved scrapping all their albums in a box.... not that I ever put in photos in them!

Here is the sketch we worked from:

Come play along on the blog and see what the rest of the team has done.

Stick It Down - July Double

It's a new month and the start of the new Design Term at Stick It Down. I am the featured designer this month. Here is my double layout created for this month's sketch:

I added a flap to my left side page to add in lots more photos... here is the underneath page:

This is the back of the flap:

And here is the great sketch we are playing with this month:

Come join us on the blog for loads more inspiration.

Sketch n Scrap - Summer Daze crop

It's been another month of online crop fun.

I have managed to create a few layouts again for the layout challenges as follows:

Pre-Challenge:
We were tasked to use a summer icon so I scrapped about eating ice-cream and used a strip of ice-cream cones on my page too.

Challenge 1:

The pretty pink floral was a magazine insert from a UK mag... can't remember exactly which one. Anyway it's been in my stash for a while and I decided it's time to use it. So even with the very blue slipper Day sticker, I chose rather to highlight the pink colours in the photos.

Challenge 3:

I used some of the red star paper from Lady Pattern Paper for my page and flipped the sketch to better fit my photos. Just kept it fairly simple. My journalling is on a tag which is actually at the top of the page where the little black & white strip is.

Guest Designer Challenge

I used all browns from Lady Pattern Paper with some diecut hearts and added stickers for my title.

Am very happy that I managed to squeeze these pages in this month.

Off The Rails - June Tutorial

It's time to share a little inspiration again plus a link to my tutorial.

I made this layout based on one from Michelle van Wyk from a few years back. It's been on my to-do list for ages and fit perfectly with this month's moodboard.

You can read my full tutorial over on the blog.

Stick It Down - new DT

I'm excited to let you know that I will be serving another term on the Stick It Down double layouts team. I enjoy using their sketches and some of them really stretch my creativity. Here's to another 6 months of creative fun.

You can read the full announcement on the blog and see who else is on the team.

Beautiful layouts

Two weeks ago I did a spur of the moment decision to go scrap with Jow and we created two lovely single page layouts using some new Kaisercraft papers.

This first layout is about the Cinderella ballet we went to see... and no I can't remember who the dancers were. I must still do my journalling on the page - will most probably add a tag behind the photo.

This second page I did about scrapping with Jow for my birthday two years ago.

I really like this range... such pretty colours.