Kraft+ feather+ nature Nov Inspiration.

I have been doing some 'Scramping' during my holiday, sitting out on a picnic table surrounded by gum trees, rosellas, kookaburras, and the sound of the wind gently rustling above me in the trees just to name a few things I can see while I scrap my beautiful grand-daughter's photo of her playing in a gum tree.

This is the child care cat that came on holiday with us, 'Green' is learning to scrapbook so he can share it with the children when we go back to work.

Not the best photo it was sunny on moment and shady the next so it was a little tricky to get the best photo.

Items used included:

•  Kraft paper- Kraft Boutique pack
• Gesso- Ranger from Daszass
• Deco Art cracle paint white
• Dylusions Ink- chopped pesto
• watercolours
• corrugated cardboard from an old box
• cardboard to create layers
• Butterfly stamp clear
•  Kaisercraft paper from Kaleidoscope and enchanted garden.
• Twine- different sources
• gum leaves and nuts from around the camp site
• Peacock feather from our trip to Kryal Castle
• Flower- 'Little Birdie'
• Kraft tag- Francheville
• Fran's - Cling vantage note- Stampendous.

Check out and be inspired by other amazing scrapbooking pieces of art at Kraft+.

Create Unique Art- Off The Rails Scrapbooking Inspiration

I have always loved photography and I have always dreamed of being able to take night time photos that actually work! We are lucky to have an amazing photographer in our town that takes groups for workshops, my dream workshop was advertised and I dove at the chance. Night and long exposure photography with steel wool fire shots and night sky photography as my highlights. Here is one of my favourite shots.

Items I used: 

• 12" x 12" white cardstock
• White and Black Gesso- Monte Marte
• Modeling Paste - Monte Marte
• Dylusion Ink Sprays- 'White Linen', 'Black Marble'.
• Semco Acrylic paint- 'Crimson Red'
• Tim Holtz Distress Inks - 'Black Soot', 'Iced Spruce'.
• 2Crafty Chipboard- '6" Circle Revolution'
• Black Cotton
• White Cheesecloth
• Black Cardstock
• Camera - Funky Flair
• 'Art Background' Stamp- Kaszazz
• StazOn 'Black' Ink 
• White card stock for stamping

The background was created by placing modeling paste down the centre of the page using a flexible scrapper, I placed black gesso dribbles over the top while the paste was still wet and then added more modeling paste over the top until I obtained the look I liked. I added strips of watered down black gesso in a sweeping motion and then red (watered down Crimson Red acrylic paint) in the same method to the centre and adding fine splatters of both black and red over the page.

The chip board was sealed with white gesso and when dry multiple layers of Crimson Red acrylic paint added until the depth of colour was the same as on the September mood board. 

The photo was edged with white gesso and backed with black card to give a small border. A small piece of cardboard was glued to the back of the photo to give lift to the photo and depth to the layout.

I coloured some distressed cheesecloth with 'White Linen' and 'Marble Black' Dylusion Ink Spray and then added another layer of distressed cheesecloth on top of the coloured. A long piece of Red Cotton was the next layer before adding the photo to the stack.  The chipboard was used to frame the layers and phot0 with the page being edged with 'Black Soot' and 'Iced Spruce' Distress Ink and white gesso (added with a spatula).

I stamped the 'Art Background' stamp onto white card with StazOn 'Black' and cut out the single words 'Art', 'Create' and 'unique'. I then edged them with 'Black Soot' Distress Ink and glued these onto the layout to make my quote to add the finishing touch to my layout.

Thanks for dropping by to have a look at my design team piece for Off The Rails Scrapbooking.  A big thank you to the amazing 2Crafty chipboard company for sponsoring our September Challenge.

September Tutorial - Off The Railscrapbooking Design Team

Over the last couple of years I have as you possible have or are, collecting lots of scrapbooking magazines. So instead of having boring plain magazine holders I thought why not scrap them too.
Here is Septembers Off The Rails Scrapbooking Mood Board which is sponsored by the amazing Chipboard company 2Crafty

Items I used:

• Blank white magazine holders from Ikea (pkt of 4).
• Black gesso- Monte Marte
• 12" x 12" paper of choice; mine was from my old stash (Crafty Kids now known as Kaszazz)
• 2Crafty Chipboard 'Square collage panel'
• TCW Rebekah Meir designs 6" x 6" mini Labyrinth stencil
• Semco Acrylic black and white paint.
• Monte Marte Modeling paste 
• StazOn Black Ink
• Tinby Metallic Melts 'Glistening Snow'
• 'Funky tree' and small Feather stamps; Kaszazz
• Black and red card Stock; Kaszazz
• Black and white twine
• Funky Flair 'Jar of Joy'
• Kaisercraft 'Outdoor trail' 6" x 6" paper pad; The stag and paper that the feather was stamped on.
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Black Soot'

1. Firstly  I assembled the flat pack cardboard magazine holder. 

2. Use the box as a template to transfer its shape onto the paper you wish to cover the sides and front with.








3.Using Black Gesso paint the edges and the back of the magazine holder.



4. Waiting for it to be completely dry.
 


 



5. Glue the paper onto the holder with the join in the front. (This will be covered)

6.  Blend upper and lower edges with 'Black Soot' Distress Ink, you can also at this stage paint the inside of the box black.

7. Cut a piece of black card slightly smaller than the front panel of the holder and then cut a red one smaller than the black card. Use double sided tape to join them together.




8. Mix black and white acrylic paint together to make a shade of grey darker than you need then add some modeling paste, this will lighten the colour.

 


9. Using a spatula and the stencil add the grey modeling paste to one side of the new panel piece.








10. Cut up the 2Crafty panel to achieve the shape that you want. Mixing some more grey paint, cover the pieces with paint and then sprinkle Metalic Melts over it. Use a heat gun melt the Melts, if you need to add more Melts cover the pieces with embossing distress ink first before sprinkling on more melts and using the heat gun again. This is the beauty of these embossing powders; it can be heated more than once which can lead to layering of colours if you wish.


 

11. Using StazOn to stamp a tree onto the opposite side of the panel on the lower corner. I stamped another onto some black card and cut out whilst I could still see the out line before it dried. I also printed a feather onto some paper I found that had stags and outdoor contour patterns on it. I cut out the feather and the stag to add to my panel.



12. Now play around with the placement of your photo (mine was chosen from the mood palette) and layering papers, twine, stag, feather and funky flair (which had chosen because of the jar in the mood palette) and glue then in place. 

13. I added a few words onto the background, you may chose to use a word/text background stamp.

14. Glue panel onto the magazine holder and fill with your favourite magazines. 

Below are some closeups for you to see, the flower in the photo has come out more orange than red which I'm disappointed with but you will get the idea.

Thanks to dropping by to check out my latest tutorial, hope you enjoyed it and be sure to pop back to see the other amazing pieces of art from the Off The Rails Scrapbooking Design Team and of course the fantastic entries as the month goes by.

Remember you are Amazing.

It's years since my beautiful daughter Bel graduated but I recently found this photo, I'd printed a few variations of it a while ago for a graduation page I did. My skills at scrapping has developed a lot since the first time so I thought I might do it justice more this time....so I hope you agree that I have.

I attended the Melbourne Paperific Expo a few months ago and purchased some Metallic watercolours and thought they would be give the perfect effect for my background, so I've taken this challenge head on.

Challenges I am entering this layout are: 

ARTastic

Scrap It With Attitude

Items I used included:

• 12" x 12" watercolour paper from my stash
• Tim Holtz stencil 'Bubble'
• Monte Marte Modeling Paste
• Metallic watercolours: MicaColor 'Vintage' Sparkling Mica and Pigment Watercolour paint.
• Scrap papers and phrase die cut from my stash mostly from Kaisercraft 
• Flowers from 'Little Birdie', Prima and Kaisercraft
• Brass Flower embellishments from stash and Kaszazz
• 2 Crafty Chipboard- Bubble reed panel
• Tinby Metallic Melts- Glistening snow, First line
• White Acrylic paint
• Funky Flair
• Black cotton and white cheesecloth 

I used the MicaColor with alot of water, spraying the page before adding very watery paint, I pooled the paint at the top of the stencilled background and to make it dribble down the page I sprayed more water until I achieved the look I wanted. I ensured I allowed each color application to dry before adding the next layer/colour so I didn't have them mix and end up with a muddy puddle instead of  beautiful seperate colours I achieved.

Thanks for calling by and checking out my latest challenge entries.

White with Marsala July Challenge.

Welcome to you all and thanks for coming to see my White with 1 entry for July. I have had this gorgeous photo of my grand daughter for a while, with her rosey cheeks I thought this was the perfect photo to use for this challenge. My favourite resources at the moment include Imaginarium and funky flairs, who I wish to thank for sponsoring this fantastic challenge.

White with 1

Items I used include:

• White 12"x 12" card stock
• Watercolour paint mixed to make 'Marsala'
• Plastic to place watercolour onto to press onto paper.
• Water mister.
• Acrylic paint mixed to make 'Marsala'
• 6" x 6" pad Crate Paper- Random Collection 
• Postcard from Paris 11 envelope
• 'Little Birdie' flowers and Butterfly
• Kaisercraft flowers.
• Washi tape 'butterflies
• StazOn Jet black
• Indigo Blue stamps 'Limor circles'
• Imaginarium 'Tulip flourish' - cut in half
• White Mont Marte Gesso and acrylic paint to cover chipboard before adding melts.
• Tinby Metallic Melts- 'Glistening Snow' & 'Red Velvet'
• Funky Flair - Love heart
• White self adhesive Pearls.
• Cheese cloth
• White metal embellishment with Metallic Melts 'Red Velvet' added over Versa Magic Chalk 'Red Brick'

 Another favourites  of mine are: Tinby Metallic melts that you can layer and create just the right colour to give your chipboard added dimension, texture and lustre and my new 'Limor circle' stamps by Indigo Blue

 Thanks for dropping by and checking out my White with Marsala July Challenge. Feel free to come back and check out any of my other layouts past and future. Hope I have inspired you to try some new ideas and techniques.

Kraft+ July Challenge Mustard explosion

When I saw the new July Kraft + Challenge, I was unsure at first what to scrap, so I closely explored the photo to see if any one thing inspired some special moment in my or families life. Nothing sprang to mind and I was just about to give up when I noticed the tape hanging down in the right hand corner, wondering what it said I zoomed in.....'Bingo'. The words "Please cross this line" sprang open the memories of a year ago seeing my daughter standing one foot either side of the Germany and Switz borders during her amazing highland dancing experience of dancing in the Basel Tattoo in Switzerland with OzScot Australia. What amazing memories.  The border painted in yellow paint sparked an idea from which I have created my layout. The colours of my photo haven't come out as bright as the yellow border line and mustard colour of the background stamping and embossing on the actual layout but you will get the idea.

Items used:

• 12"x12" kraft paper
• Mont Marte Impasto to seal paper.
• DecoArt media crackle paint with yellow paint added. (Border line)
• DecoArt media crackle paint with black paint added. (Pavers)
• StazOn Jet Black.
• Kazsass Brick stencil (Pavers)
• Heidi Swapp Mini Stencils: Remember
• Fundermentals: camera and plane chipboard shapes
• 6 1/2" 'Now Boarding' Kaisercraft Paper Pad: Die cut.
• Kaisercraft Collectibles 'Closeup!'
• Corrigated yellow and white cardboard.
• Tinby Metallic melts 'Golden nugget' and Versa color 'Bisque'
• Date stamp and Journaling pen
• Dymo manual labeller.

 Thanks for coming over to see my latest layout, I had a lot of fun experimenting with texture and new products with this layout. Jump across to the Kraft+ challenge and see other inspirational works of art.

Off the Rails Scrapbooking July Inspiration Layout

At Off The Rails Scrapbooking we have 2 Mood Boards to chose inspiration from. In my first post for the month I created a canvas with the 1st Mood Board so this time I'm using the 2nd.
It seems a only yesterday my beautiful granddaughter was born, where has the last 4yrs gone..... I took a photo on her naming day and have always wanted to scrap it, but I hadn't got around to it. When I saw this mood board colours I thought....perfect and went searching for the photo. So I hope you love it as much as I do and it inspires you to find that photo that you love but just haven't got around to using.

July Mood Board No:2.

Thankyou to our amazing sponsor Imaginarium

 
Here is the list of what I used in my layout:

• 12"x12" LaCarte Paper 'Bubble'
• Ranger 'Multi Medium Matt' from Kaszazz- Coating the cardstock seals the surface which minimises curling and absorbancy of the layout.
• Monte Marte Gesso
• 'Pitter Patter' Girl pack from Kaisercraft- Hexagons cut out by hand from 12"x 12" paper
• Imaginarium Chipboard 'Moment In Time' and 'Deco Oval'
• Tinby Metallic Melts 'Silver' and 'Glistening Snow'
• Tim Holtz Distress Ink 'Black Soot'
• Flowers from Kaisercraft and Little Birdie
• Paper butterfly from Little Birdie
• Papers from my stash for the layered backing behind my photo.
• Kaszazz 'Antique Buttons' Brads and 'Heart' clip
• White Cotton Twine with Gold Thread
• Funky Flair 'Dragonfly'
• Brass Butterfly from my stash
• Old Lace from my Nana's tin
• Paper Doilies.

Here are some close-ups for you to check out.


 

 

 Come and join us at Off the Rails and enter this months challenge, with 2 gorgeous mood boards to inspire you it's going to be a great month.Thankyou again to our amazing sponsors 'Imaginarium' for sponsoring our July Off The Rail Scrapbooking Challenge. I love using their products and you will too if you win our challenge this month. Good luck everyone, I can't wait to see all of your  fantastic entries.