'Beautiful In & Out' with Emma Zappone

 Hey there 🌞

Em with you today with another piece featuring One of LuckyFindings Imagery Sheets and of course RUBONS!!!!

This project is a loose play on the January Moodboard.

Gotta have a starting point hey?
I'm really loving this project on the natural 5x7 panel.

Hope this inspires a little.
I'm looking forward to next months challenges too.

Em xx

More ATCs by Tracey B

 Good morning everyone,

how did you all go with the Australia Day crop challenges?   Hope you found time to get your craft on.

I finished off a couple of ATCs for this month: Water colour and Texture

For this ATC I firstly used some water colour paper and masked off using some skinning washi tape.

I dropped on some Kuretake water colours (wet on dry), fussy cut a Lucky Findings Artist Trading Collective Harlequin image and added some tulle, ribbon and beads.   Simples.

Products I've used include

Ink and a stencil

Tissue paper

Washi Tape

I sewed on some ribbon and then covered some of it with ink mixed with 13 @rts texture powder through a stencil

Impasto through another stencil

And then added my focal point: an image from Lucky Findings Artist Trading Collective - Painty Frida with a die cut flower and some threads behind and mounted on some thick cardboard for dimension.

If you haven't already done so, check out all the new Artist Trading Collective images.   There's something for everyone and they make creating super easy.

TFL

cheers

Trace

Butterfly Metamorphosis

 

Australia Day 2025 Challenges

Hello friends!

And welcome to our Annual Scrapping Clearly Australia Day 2025 Cyber crop.

5 challenges and lots of creative energy and inspiration!

Follow all the action in our Scrapping Clearly Share and Inspire Group!

CHALLENGE 1: Wildflowers

CHALLENGE 2: Aussie Countdown

CHALLENGE 3: Australian Literature

CHALLENGE 4: Favourite Childhood Recipe

CHALLENGE 5: Aussie Sporting Moment

HERE ARE THE RULES OF THE CROP:

There are 5 challenges - to enter into a challenge load your creations into the corresponding album.

Each challenge will be judged and the winner announced on Thursday 30th January 2025.

To QUALIFY for the QUEEN OF THE CROP you will need to enter all 5 Challenges by loading entries into the corresponding challenge album, YOU MUST also load at least 3 of the challenges by 11pm Sunday 26TH January AEST to qualify!

Can’t create today - you have until 11pm AEST Monday 27th January 2025 to create and load entries.

Thanks for joining us!

Amanda

On behalf of the Scrapping Clearly team

 

'Secret To Everyday Things' with Emma Zappone

Welcome!
Em with you all today 💛

To say that I love the Lucky Findings Imagery Sheets would be an understatement. These sheets of  inspiration are just perfect for any project you wish to create. Here I used the 'Map To Beauty' images.

This canvas has been created with a variety of Rub-ons and Tim Holtz products.
The colour tones are so very me and these images just spoke to me as soon as I saw them.

I kept my usual multi dimension layering to a minimum, which was very freeing. I feel this might be my way of creating this year.

So many options to tell a story.

I hope this brings a little inspiration to your day.

Em xx

Enjoy the little things by Tracey B

 Good morning everyone

Here's a LO inspired by this month's moodboard

Love this soft palette

Products I've used included

Distress ink - Speckled egg, Lost shadow and some Pumice Stone mixed with gel medium which I scraped through a leaf stencil.

Distress Stain - Tumbled Glass

Distress Oxide - Salvaged Patina and Pumice Stone

Stamp and die cut leaves and fish from scrap paper

Fab Scraps chipboard seahorse which I coated with white gesso and then gel medium through a stencil then painted with 13 @rts Color Glow powders (Tanzanite, Blue Diamond, Emerald & Pearl)

49 & Market

Spectrum Gardina Ephemera Bits

Filmstrip Ocean

Serenity rub-ons

Eucalyptus acetate leaves

Art stones

enamel dots 

 

TFL

cheers

Trace

Luckyfindings Imagery - Nightbird created by Tracey Thorne

Hello Arty Friends

I have finally cracked my drought and had the opportunity to have a play with the new Luckyfindings Imagery. Oh my they are amazing - the images are inspiring and so easy to create with. 

I have used one of the owl images from the Nightbird Imagery Sheet. I found it was easy to put together and quite inspirational as a 12x12 layout. I used up some older printed paper and a lot of die-cuts I have had sitting in a drawer. 

Some beautiful blue ink was splattered on the background to compliment the image colours before adding the spotty pink paper and some coffee coloured vellum. 

I have complimented the page by using two resin pieces that have been painted using Sennelier gold ink. I have also added a little teal paint and rubbed back to leave a patina look. I have complimented the bottom resin piece with a Tim Holtz quote sticker. Another was used on the photo also. 

I hope you find my new arty creation inspirational too.

I hope you get an opportunity to create with these amazing images available instore now. The Nightbird series is available as Imagery as well as the new Artist Trading Collectives.

Until the next creation - have a fabulous week 

Tracey Thorne

“She lives the poetry she cannot write “

 

ATCs by Tracey B

 Morning everyone

Don't you just love ATCs - little mini works of art for art's sake.

Here's my take on week 1 - collage creations

And week 2 - Monochrome

All made with left over bits and pieces that sit in containers on my desk waiting for a cleanup.

Have a great week

cheers

Trace

 

 

 

ATC 2025 - List of Prompts

Hello everyone,

Last year, we did 52 non-swap ATC weekly prompts.  And for 2025, we will do it all over again!

Weekly ATC Prompts

Every Monday at 9am, we will release a unique ATC prompt. This is a NO-SWAP ATC project. This allows you to create your own mini artworks to keep as your own project. By the end of 2025, you will have your own collection of 52 ATCs that incorporated the weekly theme or technique.

Take photos of your projects and share them in our  Scrapping Clearly Share and Inspire Facebook Group. Make sure you add them the current month's Prize Draw album, and also add a caption to the photo so we know what prompt you used!

Here is a list of the current prompts. 

But please JOIN IN at anytime!

JANUARY

Week 1: Collage Creations

Week 2: Monochrome

Week 3: Watercolours

Week 4: Texture Play

Week 5: Acrylic Layers

FEBRUARY - Please load current entries to February album

Week 6: Mixed Media

Week 7: Brushstrokes

MORE TO COME SOON>>>>>>

New Product alert! 

Kylie has designed us some Lucky Findings Imagery that is simply PERFECT for our mini ATC projects.

She calls them Artist Trading Collectives and they are available NOW on the website.

Find them >>>>>> HERE.

Ideas for your storing ATC projects:

1. Add your mini-projects to a Junque Journal. 

Kylie has created some blank LuckyFindings ones here: https://scrappingclearly.com.au/product-category/luckyfindings/luckyfindings-junque-journal/

And here is how Amanda's Junque Journal turned out in 2024, with all the ATC prompts used to fill the book!

 

2.  Stitch your cards together

Inspired by the Kylie and Tracey's 2024 Junque Art Book Kits (which you can still get: https://scrappingclearly.com.au/product-category/luckyfindings/junque-art-book-kits/), Amanda was inspired to stitch an ATC card project together. Cards stuck back to back and joined to the next set with a slim panel of fabric, and machine stitched.

3. Store them in a nice box

In 2024, paper crafter Amanda Moran, shared her box of ATCs from the 2024 prompts in our Facebook group.

She used this Kmart box: https://www.kmart.com.au/product/medium-and-narrow-bamboo-drawer-tidy-42232193/

4. Add them to a journal

You can also add your ATCs to a journal or small book. Kylie has many in store to choose from: https://scrappingclearly.com.au/product-category/journals-albums/

Amanda and Rosi over in our Facebook Group shared their plans to use a journal this year!

5. Make a Tunnel book!

Please share with us how you plan to store your ATCs!

Amanda

On behalf of the Scrapping Clearly team