October Moodboard Inspiration

Hello and welcome, Leonie here today with my take on our fresh October Moodboard.

If you'd like to join in and create something based on this moodboard you can add your entry to the appropriate album in our Facebook page and be in the running for a Scrapping Clearly shop voucher.

For this moodboard I went about collecting some green papers from the Dear Lizzy Happy Place 6x6" Paper Pad and the Heidi Swapp September Skies 6x6" Paper Pad.  I layered these under my photos 

The chipboard title is from the Bohemian Dreams Cocoa Vanilla Studio collection.

I also added some clear stickers from the Boys Rule Cocoa Vanilla Studio Collection

Making a statement with the central photo in this lot by using a 

Heidi Swapp Favorite Things - Glitter Frame.  

I've also raised the photo and frame with foam tape to further highlight it. 

Thanks for stopping by today, Happy Crafting
Leonie Neal-Dawson.

My take on the moodboard, (Part 2) - By Tania

Hi again!! Well, for my previous post here on the blog, I made some die cut embellishments, inspired by the moodboard, using the gorgeous die cut shapes from the Dear Lizzy, HAPPY PLACE collection.

This time, I'm here to share a layout I made using a few of those embellishments and coordinating papers. 

Here's a pic of the embellishments to jog your memory!

And here's the layout!!

I used some small doilies, & patterned paper to anchor my clusters on the page. (The papers are also from the HAPPY PLACE collection.) So, for the cluster at the bottom left of the layout, the only things I added, were a cut doily & patterned paper strip.

I nearly always use the rule of thirds on my layout, the visual triangle as some of you may know it. So I cut my doilies and used 3 of these pieces. The die cut cluster on the right of my page, went on top of the doily and slightly overlapped my photo and backing papers. I only added 1 patterned paper strip to the bottom of the cluster.

The small cluster on the top was made with patterned paper and some hand made embellishments. (A small pair of sunnies, (fussy cut,) and some punched paper dots with Glossy accents added on top.) The word sticker is from the Heidi Swapp, September Skies, word strips.

The title is a Heidi Swapp, watercolour word.

I have added some journaling to the back of the tag which sits behind the photo!

I hope that I've inspired you to play along with our moodboard, and helped you discover an easy way of making a layout come together quickly. All you need is some patterned paper and matching die cuts, and a few other bits and pieces you are sure to have in your crafty stash.

See you next time,

Tania

Embellishments made easy with Tania

Hi again lovely Scrappingclearly Community. I had a bit of fun with the moodboard for this post. In all honesty, this week, I have been struggling for craft time due to family visiting from down South, it's kind of hard to get the mojo flowing too when there's a house full of people.

The moodboard this month is so bright and happy and I found the perfect solution to my time poor, mojo poor problem. In my stash from Scrappingclearly, I have a few ephemera packs with bits left over from other projects. The Dear Lizzy, HAPPY PLACE, die cut pack had the perfect colours.

Here's the moodboard:

I started with some scraps from some Maggie Holmes - BLOOM papers and made a few small tags.

Then with my Dear Lizzy, Happy Place, die cut pack, I picked a few matching die cuts and layered them up on my tags! I used mounting tape to add some of the layers for extra dimension!

They were finished off with a few different colours of twine from my stash and a cute little peg from American Crafts!

So now I  have some quick and easy embellishments for my next layout, or they would even make great card toppers!! Be sure to stay tuned to the blog and see how I use these embellishments on my next project!!!
Happy crafting!
Tania

Live Colourfully with Amy Prior

Hi everyone! Amy Prior back with you all again today with a quick tutorial on how i created this fun and colourful layout titled "Live Colourfully". Ok so the word Colourfully is spelt wrong because it is an American branded product used but I bet you didn't really notice at first glance anyway so we will just run with that LOL.

Creating the background for this layout was fairly simple. All you need to do is follow these quick and easy steps...

Step 1: Spread some Dina Wakley White Gesso over the top of  The Crafter's Workshop 12x12 Sweet Posey Stencil using a palette knife or a credit card. As you can see, I have first placed the stencil on one side of my 12x12 Bazzil Cardshoppe Marshmallow heavy weight card-stock followed by the other part of the stencil for the other side. Be sure to have a much smaller side and a larger side to get this fun effect. The larger side will be the side you place your photo also so if you want to recreate this layout but in reverse, be sure to place the larger part of the stencilled image on the right side instead. Paint a couple of different sized circle chipboard frames with the Gesso also and put them aside to allow to dry.

 Step 2: Dry the Gesso completely using a heat tool if required, or simply let the Gesso dry completely overnight etc. The drying time will depend on how thick you have scraped the gesso through the stencil. When scraping anything through any stencil, be sure to scrape off any excess before removing the stencil to avoid long drying times.

Step 3: When the gesso is completely dry, spray some Colour Blast Shimmer Spray over the pattern randomly in colours Sunshine, Rose Petal and Singin' the Blues. Do not add any water and ensure you spray really close to the card-stock to avoid too much over-spray occurring. Pink, blue and yellow mixed together will create a brown colour which you will want to avoid for this layout as there is no brown in the papers etc. 

Step 4: If the chipboard circles are not yet dry, blast them with a heat tool and ensure they are dry completely. When completely dry, spray the entire surface with some Colour Blast Snow White Shimmer Spray and set aside to dry.

Step 5: Spray some white paper flowers and some Heidi Swapp - September Skies - Color Magic Die Cuts with some Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Sunshine, Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Singin' the Blues, Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Rose Petal, Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Apple of my Eye. You can then leave these to dry naturally or give them a quick zap with the heat tool. If you plan on using your heat tool, use some double sided tape to stick your die cut pieces to a craft mat before you spray them. This will ensure that they stay still when you blow the heat tool over the top. 

  Step 6: Begin layering small square and rectangle pieces of Dear Lizzy - Happy Place - Patterned Papers around the photograph and include a doily as well. If your background is completely dry, this bundle of happiness can then be adhered to the background but ensure you use some good quality adhesive as the bumpy gessoed background will not be good for standard double-sided tape. I use a hot glue gun but any good quality glue would suffice. If you are using the clip from the Heidi Swapp - September Skies - Attachment Kit to adhere the Dear Lizzy - Happy Place - Decorative Brads to the photograph, then I recommend clipping this on before you add your paper layers as I forgot and had to peel back the double sided tape a little to tuck him underneath.

Step 7: Stick down the completely dry circle chipboard frames over the top of the photograph and to the side of the layout. If the circle overlaps the edge like mine did, simply trim off any excess with some scissors. Try not to cut off the excess until your glue has dried otherwise you may move the chipboard a little. 

Step 8: The final step is to finish off embellishing the layout. Adhere some flowers on both of the circle frames and then stick the various die cut pieces that you have chosen randomly around the page wherever you fancy. I have also drawn around the edges of the die cut phrase a couple of times with a Ranger White Opaque Pen to ensure that the title stood out a little bit more on top of the layers. 

Here is a complete list of products that were used for this layout...

Dina Wakley White Gesso 

 The Crafter's Workshop 12x12 Sweet Posey Stencil 

12x12 Bazzil Cardshoppe Marshmallow heavy weight card-stock

Palette knife

Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Sunshine

Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Singin' the Blues

Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Rose Petal

Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Apple of my Eye

Colour Blast - Shimmer Spray - Snow White

Heidi Swapp - September Skies - Color Magic Die Cuts

Heidi Swapp - September Skies - Attachment Kit

Dear Lizzy - Happy Place - Patterned Papers

Dear Lizzy - Happy Place - Die-cut Phrases

Dear Lizzy - Happy Place - Decorative Brads

Ranger White Opaque Pen

Well that is it from me today, I hope I have inspired you to get creative with all these fantastic products from the Scrapping Clearly store and until next time, happy scrapping!

Amy Prior xx

You are the reason I smile...Moodboard inspired layout by Tania

Hello again Scrappingclearly members, hope you are all flying along with your entries for our sketch and moodboard this month!!! How cool is that, 2 challenges per month now. It certainly helps having a challenge or two to inspire us DT girls each month. So here's the fab mood board again, in case you haven't seen it yet....

And here's my take on the board. No guesses here for which colour jumped out at me the most. But, if you look carefully, you will see that I was inspired by many elements of the board. The gold is obvious, the woodgrain,  you can see a hint of in my embellishments:

Once again I'm using a mix of Maggie Homes, Bloom and Dear Lizzy Happy Place collections. The gorgeous gold, foil vellum is Maggie Holmes, as is the washi tape sticker love heart. (I've mounted that onto some patterned paper to lift it off the page.)

The cute little wood dots and chipboard stickers are from the Teresa Collins, Life Emporium range! (Which are on special in the shop right now...yay!)

I am a fan of the American Crafts gold, foil thickers, love them! The little glitter dots are from my own stash, a great little $2 shop find.

For my background, I had run out of white cardstock, which is just not cool!! I go through it so fast, can't keep up. Here's me sitting in my chair thinking, what can I do. Well, hello, I have more patterned paper than you can poke a stick at, so I turned to a 12x12 pad of Heidi Swapp paper, which is only one sided, and chose a pattern that I have used before, and even though I cringed a little, I had a perfectly white background on the other side to work on! I'm sure I'm not the first person to do it!!!

So, I backed this onto a perfectly coloured piece of Maggie Holmes...My dear paper.

There's a Heidi Swapp tag on there, some twine from my stash and a doily, which you can never have enough of! I really wanted to keep this layout of my beautiful boy, clean and simple, so I typed my journaling on the computer and printed on copy paper, giving the edges a swipe with Distress ink for definition.

I hope I have inspired you to give the moodboard a whirl and come up with something. Don't forget, it doesn't have to be a scrapbook layout, you can make a card, or OTP project, Art Journal page, or even a tag, good practice for our new tag swap maybe!!! Have fun and upload your entry here with the link or over on our facebook community page!

Cheers, Tania

My take on Chloe's fabulous sketch... by Tania

Hi everyone, hope you are all having a lovely Saturday morning! Today I'm sharing my take on the fab sketch that our very own DT member, Chloe, created. 

I love sketches, and this one was just too cute. I have stuck to the sketch pretty much with not too many bells and whistles, just a little embellishing and voila! 

I started with a watercolour background made with Gelatos. Then cut up some of the cute Crate Paper- 'Afternoon', from the gorgeous Maggie Holmes, BLOOM collection. I love having the sketch as a guide for this paper pieced background. I gave my layout a border at top and bottom with the Dear Lizzy TUTTI FRUTTI paper. (If you wet the edge of the paper, it is alot easier to curl!) For my paper layers, I then used a mix of the Maggie Holmes BLOOM and the Dear Lizzy, HAPPY PLACE collection.  I needed a bit of something purple to match the facepaint on my daughter in the photo, so I had a watercolour paper piece in my scraps I had made with a few Dylusions spray colours. It was perfect for just a couple of pops of purple. You can see it just under my Chippy title! (Which I have had in my stash for soooo long BTW. I painted this with some Dylusions & other acrylic paints in a few different colours to get the right shade.)

To embellish my layout, I fussy cut some more of those cute butterflies from the Maggie Holmes, FLUTTER paper, and used some of the little rubber shapes. (I'm quite a fan of these!) There's a Prima word sticker on there, (these are great, as in the pack you get alpha stickers and word stickers!) Finally, I love adding enamel dots to my pages for that final pop. These were from my stash but you can find some in the Scrappingclearly shop here:

I hope you are inspired to play along with this month's sketch! As always there's a chance to win a voucher to the Scrappingclearly store!!! Happy Scrapping until next time!

Tania :)

Summer Love - by Chloe

Hi!  I'm back again to share another page using the pretty Dear Lizzy Happy Place range ...

This range is perfect for happy summer photos - and I had a stack to choose from!  On this page, I went with the pink tones with the pop of black ...

Other products from the store:
Heidi Swapp Dipped Tags Pink
Dear Lizzy – Happy Place Accent and Phrase Stickers
Dear Lizzy – Happy Place Glitter Stickers 
Prima – Royal Menagerie Collection – Flower Embellishments – Maud
Studio Calico Sequins – Black/Grey

July sketch - by Chloe

Hello everyone!  Have you got our July sketch on your TO DO list this month?  I loved designing it for you and hope you can have a go!!

I have the Dear Lizzy Happy Place range to play with this month - and here is what I created with it:

Such pretty colours!  I painted the sunbursts with Heidi Swapp Color Shine Gold Lame ... such a fun effect!

Other products:
Maggie Holmes Washi Tape Sticker Book
Heidi Swapp Dipped Tags Pink
Dear Lizzy – Happy Place Accent and Pharse Stickers
Dear Lizzy – Happy Place Glitter Stickers
Maggie Holmes Bloom Paper Flowers 16pc
Cocoa Vanilla Hello Lovely -Sequins
Dreamy Glitter Paper Frames

HAPPY PLACE card set, by Tania

Hi all you lovely, arty, crafty people!!! Today I am sharing with you a set of cards made with the beautifully, delicious papers in the Dear Lizzy, HAPPY PLACE collection!!! I really love this range, so versatile and so bright and funky...

For my first card, I just used strips of the different patterned papers, and then I had this gorgeous pineapple washi tape in my stash to compliment them! The Die Cut Phrases are from the HAPPY PLACE collection, they are cool, some of the pack are coloured and the others are left blank so you can colour them yourself! (As I did in the card below, using Distress inks and water.) The cherry embellishment was made with Archival Inks and one of the stamps in the HAPPY PLACE, matching stamp set!! (These are too cute!!!) This card was also made for a special occasion, hence the no. 18. I couldn't go wrong with the gold foil alpha thickers!!!

For my 2nd card, I've layered up a selection of the HAPPY PLACE papers, and popped some 3D foam tape on the left side to add some depth. I used my favourite stamp, the sunglasses, from the same set as above, and stamped it onto white card 3 times. I coloured the centres of each one with Distress inks and a water brush. The cute little pink sequins are from a Studio Calico pack.

For my last card, I wanted a touch of watercolour and used some gelatos and a spray of Heidi Swapp colorshine spritzed with water. I attatched some strips of patterned paper as before, making a little fringe out of one of the strips. The 'life is a party stamp' is also from the Dear Lizzy set. I mounted another little sunglasses embellishment, (told you that was my favourite stamp!), then finished with a die cut phrase and some more of the cute, pink sequins!!! I felt it need something else, so just used a pink marker to give my card a border.

I hope you like them, and I can't wait to show you my next project using these colourful and bright papers!!! If you like the products I've used, most of them can be found in the Scrappingclearly store, I have provided links for you within the post. 

Thanks for taking the time to take a look!!

Tania