August DT Inspiration- Off the Rails Scrapbooking.

My August Inspiration Card for Off the Rails Scrapbooking

My family and friends wait to see what wonderful new ideas and techniques I have been experimenting with.  

For all those people who love to get or give a special card from the heart, here is a little inspiration for you.

T

 The background of this card was created using spraying Dylusion Ink Sprays 'Cherry Pie', 'London Blue' and ' Dirty Martini'. Using my new Tim Holtz collection Doily stencil and modeling past I added texture to one corner and then added another layer with my new Kaisercraft Alphabet clear stamp with Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Dusty Concord'.

My new layer was created by stamping my favorite script stamp onto a page from an old book, spraying it with 'London Blue' and tearing it to give depth and texture, before adding flora washi tape that I purchased in a little craft shop in Basel, Switzerland.

 I added circles of lemon and white striped cotton from my collection and green 'Depot. Band' twine which I also brought in Basel. I sprayed flowers and butterflies which I had utilised from a Molossi chipboard scroll I had in a fabulous pack I won. Using Prima flowers I arranged different flowers with the chipboard flowers, pearl brad, white cotton and a bird and quote from Kaisercraft  'curiosity' collection to finish my card. 

Hope you found some new ideas or techniques to experiment with and find the time to have fun experimenting next time you make a card. Thanks for joining us on Off the Rails Scrapbooking.

Meet Kelly From Lawn Fawn.

Meet Kelly from Lawn Fawn

Come and Join us on the Off The Rails Scrapbooking Facebook group where Kelly Marie Alvarez owner of LAWN FAWN is coming to visit us and have a live chat, you can ask her all about the company, what they have coming soon and any questions you might have about their products anything you. It's going to be fantastic.

July Mood Board- Off the Rails Scrapbooking Inspiration Layout

The day comes too soon when your baby it seems has grown up overnight. 13yrs of schooling goes so fast and before you know it your little girl is graduating from High School and is now stepping into the world of adulthood as a beautiful young women.  

Bec told me she wanted to stand out at her graduation and was determined to find just the right dress and it had to be 'red'. We found the dress but I wasn't convinced when she told me that over the phone she had colored her hair red to match, but wow she looked gorgeous on the day. 

This page was inspired by the 

July Off the Rails Scrapbooking Challenge Mood board.

 The background was made using modelling paste over a triangle stencil then I sprayed the page with water, adding watercolour paint in small sections gradually to build up the effect until I was happy, and then splattered some of the green watered down paint and some 'Cherry red' Dylusions ink over the page. Using StazOn black ink I stamped my favourite stamp 'Live, Laugh, Love' from Kaszazz onto the page with the next elements to be added being the green spotted and film strip washi tape, a chicken wire chipboard die cut, patterned paper and a piece of white cheese cloth behind the photo. 

The journaling at the bottom right hand corner, I made using my Dyno Labelmaker, sticking the clear tape onto white cardstock strips I'd made using Tim Holtz distress ink 'evergreen bough' and 'sooty black' and a stamp from my new stamp collection 'Creativ border icons'. The flowers and embellishments I used were a collection from Kaisercraft, flowers from my stash as well as handmade and painted flowers I've made from Tim Holtz die cut 'tattered pinecone '. 

Thanks for coming to checkout my latest inspiration page for Off the Rails Scrapbooking, hope you check out the other design team pages as well and that we have been able to inspire you to take on some new challenges yourself. 

July 8th- Quick Birthday card

I was on a tight time schedule an had to make a card fast, with my craft room at the ready I spread out my stash of inks, sprays, paints, gesso, modeling paste and card stock. And with the help of a few Kaisercraft flowers and the pieces from their Curiosity Collection , a handmade flower and a few embellishments and cotton I made this card.

Using a Kaszazz stencil I added modeling paste then sprayed Dylusions inks Vibrant Turquiose and Cherry Pie mixed with White Linen to spray the card drying each layer with a heat gun. I sprayed Lemon  Zest onto my Crafters Workship stencils before edging it with Tim Holtz Vintage Photo distress ink.   Next I added 2 patterned washi tapes  and splats of black watercolor paint.
 I painted a kraft frame with gesso, stamped it with Worn Lipstick distress ink and then stamped it with a script stamp from Kasazz with StazOn ink edging it with Vintage Photo distress ink and black waterpaint.
All that was left to do was add my tag, arrange my flowers, embellishments and cotton before finishing it off with shimmer spray and pearls. I added the number 21 (sprayed chipboard numbers with Vibrant Turquiose and shimmer ink) to demonstrate that you can use the frame to highlight the birthday being celebrated.

 Hope you enjoyed seeing my card that I put together in approx 15mins, it's amazing what you can do when you need to. Thanks for joining me and Off the rails Scrapbooking, jump over the our blog and see the other wonderful inspirational work we have made to show you.

Paper Secrets June challenge: DANCE

There is one thing in the world that makes your heart dance, and anyone who has grandchildren will know its the LOVE that grows from the day they arrive. 

Over at Paper Secrets there is a great sketch that you also need to incorporate items, colors, brands etc  that begin with the letters of the word DANCE.

 

The elements that I used were:

D- Distress Inks. A- Arrows. N- Numbers & a Nanny (Of course).

C- Cotton. E- Embossing.

I explored my stash of papers and chose a pattern piece for my background and some scraps that I could tear into long strips. After glueing the strips on I covered the whole page with white gesso; wiping off some in a few areas to show some of the now antiqued background and then splattered white gesso over the page.

I spraying water and used my blue and red watercolors to layer color onto different areas until I had produced the effect I happy with. The next layer to be added was a variety of washi tapes, stamping with StazOn black ink with my Kaszazz Script stamp 'season lifetime', and with watered down black gesso and a range of different size circles such as cotton reels, paper towel roll and a camerbert cheese box, I placed stamped circles around the page.

I backed my main photo with card that I'd water colored and stamped to match the background and used Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Iced spruce','Smokey blue' and 'Barn Door' to edge the backing and photos. I placed black Cotton and black and white Cotton twine down, and splattered watered down black gesso onto the page before adding my photos and a handmade heart that I inked red with Kaszazz pigment ink and Embossed with iridescent embossing powder. 

To finish the page off I stamped the date of when the photos were taken (Numbers), added the chipboard word 'Love' from Kaszazz after I'd inked it the same as the love heart and added some cork Arrows from Studio Calico.

Thanks for checking out my newest challenge layout for Paper Secrets and hope you'll drop by again to check out more of my work.

 

Off the Rails Scrapbooking Use Fabric Design Team Inspiration Layout

Hi thanks for dropping by to check out my DT inspiration layout, just recently my beautiful god daughter had a daughter of her own and I couldn't resist doing a layout to celebrate her birth.

To begin with I placed a layer of gesso with my fingers over dragonfly paper and when dry used a burlap stencil to add the pale pink pattern over the gesso. Using StazOn I stamped script over the top in several places and then attached some cheesecloth which I had sprayed with "Cherry Pie" and " White Linen" dylusions ink to produce a varied soft pink effect. To finish the background I sprayed the paper with "White Linen" dylusions ink and then using watercolour crayons I splattered it with water down yellow, pink and black.

Fabric elements I added after completing the background were flowers that I had made at one of my camping trips, pink chiffon material under the butterfly strip and a butterfly that was printed on some fabric that I had brought from Spotlight last weekend with this layout in mind. I used a mix of white and crimson watercolour to change the small white flowers to pink.






I use Kaisercraft  Collections 'Telegraph Road' and flowers, Reminisce cardstock stickers butterflies and strips, to layer with my variety of paper scraps. Finishing off the layout with pink striped cotton twine, pink embroidery cotton and a silver butterfly on the details of her birth.

Of course my cat Sebastian has to make his normal appearance, critique and pose for a photo.

Thanks for visiting and checking out my and Off the Rails Scrapbooking blogs and hope you will join us with our challenges and have as much fun as I do, creating my inspirational layouts.

Simple things in life~ Scrap Our Stash May Challenge.

 Recently my daughter took my grand children down to the Valley Lakes to feed the ducks. I loved the photos that were sent to me, Imi was mesmerised by the wonder of the ducks, and had a great time offering and then throwing them some bread. It really is the simple things in life that give you the best memories in life.

Scrap Our Stash May Challenge

I discovered this wonderful challenge site and thought I'd take on the sketch challenge of 3 photos as I have only been concentrating on single photos on my layouts. This is my take on Scrap Our Stash May Challenge.

My background was on 12"x12" white bazzille cardstock and using my 'Lyra aquacolour' crayons and water in a spray bottle all which I purchased from 'Kaszazz' added sections of green and blue. As I couldn't find a straw and I wanted to make my blue spray outwards, I had to experiment with blowing it myself, and I must say that was an interesting technique to try. I then painted the edges of a range of circular resources on the table such as cups and lids from ink/water spraying bottles and printed circles of different sizes on the background spraying water on over each to soften the edges. The next layer was using my new honeycomb stencil (Crafter Workshop) with Tim Holtz 'Weather Wood' distress ink and then added splatters of green and blue over the page. 

I backed the photos with some green patterned paper from my stash which I'd cut to size, distressed the edges and edged with Tim Holtz ' Smoky Sky' and black gesso, and then layered some elements from one of my favourite 'Kaisercraft' Collection Packs 'Curiousity' edged with 'Weather wood'.including the 'simple things' saying   Imi loves butterflies so instead of using a chevron pattern I used butterflies flying in a line finishing off with a little girl and creating a little fairy.

 Using black gesso I painted my title 'Remember THIS Moment' (Kaisercraft wooden flourish) and while I waited for it to dry I painted the little camera from 'Studio Calico' orange with my crayons and decided that what my layout was missing was stamping so I made a cover for my photos and stamped around my layout with a newsprint stamp from a friends amazing stamp collection. I used white cotton I'd inked with 'Weathered Wood' distress ink in and around the photos and Black cotton to make circles. To finish off my page I used watered down black gesso; edged the photo frames and splattered it around to tie the title and layout together. 


Thanks for checking out my latest layout, I had fun creating it. Drop over to Scrap Our Stash Challenge to see some of the other inspiration, and maybe you'll get hooked and join in with the scrapbooking bug.