Off The Rails Scrapbooking January 2015 Inspiration

A new year and the Off The Rails Scrapbooking January Mood Board was an amazing way to start my scrapbooking year and a big thankyou 2Crafty Chipboard for being our sponsors for this challenge.

My favourite place to be in summer is down the beach, especially on those hot days where you can spend the whole day swimming, kayaking, reading and walking ;exploring the amazing eco-environments including rock pools and sand dunes finishing the day watching the sun set.

Firstly I sprayed Tim Holz distress Inks spray 'Lemon Zest' heavily in several places at the top of my page, letting it dripple down the page and then sprayed 'White Linen' over the top so that it followed the yellow ink giving it a softer look. Using an old stencil I obtained from a local hardware store when I was painting my daughters in a sea theme about 15yrs, I added modelling paste shells over the dried paint. 

I looked through my scrap paper and found a selection of yellow card and paper and some chevron black and white to layer behind my beach sunset photo. Before gluing the layers down I used one of my Kaszazz 'Season' stamps with StazOn black Ink, and placed down some black cotton. 
Other elements I used to finish off my layout included yellow and white cotton twine and more black cotton around the photo, rubbed on some Rub Ons from 2 different Kaisercraft sets that I brought years ago and splattered Tim Holtz Ink sprays 'White Linen', 'Black Marble' and 'Lemon Zest' over the page. 

Hope Off The Rails Scrapbooking and  I have inspired you to take on the challenge of exploring different colour combinations and take inspiration from mine and others from our amazing mood boards each month. And another big thankyou to 2Crafty Chipboard for sponsoring this challenge.

Xmas Bags- Off the Rails Scrapbooking tutorial

In South Australia we are encouraged to take our own shopping bags when grocery shopping , but I forget mine more often than I should so I'm charged for one if I need it . At one of my supermarket they use paper bags instead of plastic, so as I seem to have accumulated quite a few over the year so I thought I'd re-use and recycle them to put my Christmas presents in.

 

Some of the items that I planned to use:

Paper bag

Assorted Washi Tape

Gesso

Modelling paste

Water colours and water filled paint brush

Rub Ons- Kaisercraft

Dylusions Ink Sprays; White Linen, Postbox Red, Chopped Pesto

Honey comb stencil- Kaszazz

Kaisercraft collection- Yuletide, St Nicholas

Assorted stamps from Kaszazz and Stamp It Up

Bling.

I started with laying the stencil down on the bag and spraying 'Postbox Red' Dylusions spray and dried it with a heat gun before adding two sections of modelling paste over the stencil which I'd set slightly off from the previous application. 

I then stacked/layered several torn pieces of Kaisercraft papers on top of each other and then added one of the pre-cut dies from the back of the pack (using magic mount tape to give it height). 

After gluing it onto the bag I used water colours around the edges of the papers to soften and blend it with the background more.

I used a range of stamps and rub ons and added some bling and red/green cotton twine with black sewing cotton behind the die cut. To finish off I added splatters of the 3 coloured inks over the bag.

  I was so pleased with how it turned out I experimented with the same resources in similar and different ways.







 Hope I have inspired you to have a try at re-using and recycling this Christmas season. Merry Christmas and hope you all have a great time with family and friends this Christmas. Thanks for joining me and Off the Rail Scrapbooking.

Card for a new mum or a mums birthday

A friend of mine has just had a wonderful addition to their family so I thought I'd make her a very special card.

 

 My card stock was from Kaszazz and edged with Tim Holtz Distress Inks (Antique Linen, Stormy Sky, Iced spruce). The paper was from Kaisercraft 6x6 paper pad 'Kaleidoscope'  with its edges distressed and torn. I used Dylusions Ink spray (Bubblegum Pink, Vibrant Turquoise, White Linen) and Distress Ink stain (Spiced Marmalade) using painting, splattering and rubbing. In the top corner I placed a beautiful rubon quote from Kaisercraft (English Rose). The flowers I added were from Prima, Kaisercraft and Tappy Toppers with the butterflies brought from our local coastal shop in Beachport -Coastal Treasures.

Thanks for coming and seeing my latest card and hope you have enjoyed visiting Off The Rails Scrapbooking and if you haven't visited us there yet pop over and see the amazing artists and their work.

Off The Rails Scrapbooking November Mood Palette Inspiration.

The Mood Palette for November is bright and vibrant and was alot of fun to do although I'm not used to using such vibrant colours. This is what I created, hope you like it as much as I do.
This layout is dedicated to my amazing friend who lost her battle with cancer this year, like this mood board she loved bright colours and had a vibrant personality and outlook to life.

 Background:  Dylusion Inks spray and splatters: Green Lime, Lemon Zest, Crushed Grapes, White Linen.

Tim Holtz Distress Stain: Spiced Marmalade.

Stamping: Kaszazz 'Texture Block' and a Prima Finnabair clear stamp

Mont Marte Modelling paste mixed with Spiced Marmalade stain using a Finnabair Prima stencil.

Washi Tape with colour added Crushed Grape and Spiced Marmalade ink and stain.

Photo backing paper: Kaisercraft 6"x6" paper pad 'Kaleidoscope'

Tags and messages: Kaisercraft collections 'Curiousity', 'Collectables' and 'Kaleidoscope'.

Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Squeezed Lemonade'

Embellishments and Flowers: 

Flowers: Prima, Kaisercraft (white- coloured with distress ink and stain)

Cotton Crocheted Doilies: Kaisercraft

 Embellishments: enamel braz from my stash

Alphabet letters; covered with gesso then 'Crushed Grape' Dylusion ink

Dymo mini labeller.`

Bright yellow Chiffon material

 Thanks for dropping by and hope you have popped over to Off the Rails Scrapbooking and checked all the other fantastic layouts. Look forward to seeing your creations in our challenges, current and future.

Scrap It With Attitude Nov Red and Green

 I was lucky to become a Nanny to my second grandchild just before last christmas and this coming year will be amazing with them staying over Christmas Eve to share the magic of christmas morning. 

 Items used on this layout include:

Dylusions Ink Spray: Postbox Red, Cut Grass

Distress Ink Tim Holtz: Barn door, Evergreen bough

Stencil: Finnabair Prima

Monte Marte Modelling paste

Kaiser craft 12"x12" (scraps), 6"x6" Card pad - paper and tags

Bauble stamp & December Stamp from Kaszazz

StazOn black ink pad

Washi Tape- assorted

Chevron arrows from Studio Calico

Thanks for dropping by to have a look at my latest layout for SCRAP IT WITH ATTITUDE.

Handmade flower October tutorial for Off The Rails Scrapbooking.

In the past I have made some homemade flowers, a friend of mine asked if I could do a tutorial on how I made my bead decorated flower I had used on one my layouts she had seen. This is a similar flower I have just made using these materials: Chiffon material strips 7cm x30cm, cotton thread, fine embroidery needle, beads, brads for centre decoration.

Fold the strip of material and pin to make a strip 3.5 x 30cm. I threaded a long thin embroidery needle (a beading needle will do the job) with matching cotton thread, knotted one end and sewed approx 1/3 from the raw edges using a running thread .

By pulling the thread up tight, gathers the strip into a circle, ensure the raw edges are tucked through to the back to form a neatly gathered centre to the flower. Sew a few stitches to join the edges together to ensure the flower stays tightly gathered.

 

















I like to use small stitches to close the edges together to finish the circle neatly.

I selected an 'Antique Button- Brad' from Kaszazz and placed it in the centre spreading the bars out at the back of the flower to secure it in place.

I chose Beadz 1.8mm 'Black seed- rainbow' and using the Button Brad as a guide for my circle, pushed the needle from the back of the flower to the front, then individually threaded each bead onto a beading needle after placing the needle through to make a small stitch as shown in the picture below.

To ensure the beads sit evenly, I every so often thread my needle back through groups of bead again, a few at a time,  and again on completion of the circle before I push the needle through to the back to tighten the beads. I finish of by sewing a few stitches to secure the thread.

You could leave the flower as it is, or cut the folded edge by putting the scissors into the fold and cut the fold to seperate the flower into 2 layers then fray the edges to soften.

Thanks for joining us at Off the Rails Scrapbooking and my blog.

All about the timing: Scrap It With Attitude DT Inspiration

Octobers Theme over at Scrap It With Attitude is 'More than three photos'. My trip to Switzerland was the perfect photo shoot for this theme as it seemed to take more than one push of the button and many photos to get that 'Perfect Snapshot' on a moving Bus/Train. I suppose you can say that "It's All About The Timing" as anything from people, trees, tunnels (oh my gosh the Swiss are great at making tunnels, they have had a lot of practise there seems to be one around each bend lol), posts even other buses, boats and trains seem to get in the way of a fantastic photo opportunity.

I prepared my piece of travel paper from Kaisercraft with white gesso before using my Tim Holtz 'Doily' stencil and moulding paste. When it was dry I used my water colour paint and added a range of different shades of green and brown to represent the natural elements that sometimes got in the way. I then sprayed Dylusions Ink Chopped pesto over my new stencil 'elongated hexagons' from Studio Calico and splattered some of the Pesto, White linen and London Blue Dylusions Ink over the page.

I found my camera stamps and used the words Click and Capture to stamp around the page and my date stamp to remind me when I was in this wonderful country.  I have a piece of cardboard from a box I tore up that makes fantastic lines like little tracks when you ink the edge with StazOn ink and use it as a stamp.
The small photos were placed behind a 'LA DE DAH' photo booth frame to show some of the great 'not' perfect shots taken in my attempt to get the perfect picture postcard photo. I inked the frame with 'black soot' distress ink from Tim Holtz and stamped a world stamp from Kaisercraft 'now boarding' with StazOn on the bottom of the frame.

The papers and paper elements I used to back and layer behind my main photo was from a selection from The Kaisercraft's 'Mister fox' collection, Secret Bird Society Collection 'Mystery' and 61/2 paper pad 'Now Boarding'. On the Snap-Shot tag I wrote some of the things that I'm sure purposefully (lol) jumped into my photo shots.

Other elements added were the wood veneer camera from Studio Calico (Inked with Tim Holtz Distriss Ink Spiced marmalade', my wording was done with an old fashion mini label maker and to finish off I used 'stormy sky' distress ink from Tim Holtz to soften and blend the edges of the page.

Hope you enjoyed my take on 'More than 3 photos' theme at Scrap It With Attitude, and hope you will join us in the challenge. I look forward in seeing your amazing take on the theme.