Scrapping Christmas with Non Christmas supplies - with Katie

Good Morning!

And welcome to my first post for Scrappingclearly!

I am so excited to be here and I am looking forward to

sharing my scrappy adventures with you.

So let's get started.

First I wanted to share my awesome DT package that arrived at my door.

All pretty in pink...

And inside this pretty pink box, was the Joy Parade collection by Fancy Pants. 

Isn't it just divine?! Full of lots of colour and lots of possibilities.

Now to create with this amazing collection.

Since we have just celebrated Christmas I decided to use this collection to create a Christmas themed page,

just to show how easy it can be to use papers not themed for Christmas to make a great Christmas page.

My photos are of my nephew and nieces from 2016 opening secret Santa gifts,

and I decided to use the fun papers in strips to create a tree

to bring in the Christmas theme,

and some mixed media in similar colours on the background for interest.

So here is the page:

The easiest way to get your hands on all the papers is to grab the Fancy Pants Joy Parade collection kit.

Given they are double-sided it means you have one of each pattern,

and trust me both sides are fabulous.

On the background, I first used some clear gesso to prime the cardstock base.

Then I used Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Citron, Teal, and pink, and the plastic bag technique,

to create my background (along with some splatters for good measure).

With the background done, the rest of the page came together quickly

using the Fancy Pants Joy Parade ephemera and labels and tags for embellishing and layering.

My photos were mounted on some of the patterned paper - Add a Little Sparkle and Life is a Party,

with a little black ink on the edges to make them stand out.

To make my tree look interesting, I used fringing scissors to give it some dimension

and then used lots of Fancy Pants Joy Parade Puffy Sticker dots like decorations on the tree.

I also outlined the tree using a black pen to help it stand out from the background.

The Fancy Pants Joy Parade Flair are awesome too,

this one is a great addition in the centre of my photo cluster.

Added to that are some more labels and tags, these are so great

for layering and embellishment cluster building.

Thank you for joining me on my first blog post,

and maybe this will inspire you to try a non-traditional approach

to scrapping your Christmas photos.

I look forward to seeing you soon.

Katie x

My Travellers Notebook - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I have some pages in my Websters Pages Color Crush Travellers Notebook Inserts to share with you made using lots of fun products available in the Scrapping Clearly Store.

I started by cutting out some Polaroids from the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Gather collection patterned paper and attaching Heidi Swapp ghost alphabet (acetate) alphas to form a title. These were used on the RHS with some photos from our beach holiday.

For the LHS I added some Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Gather collection paper strips and gold acetate then sprayed some of the Heidi Swapp Color Magic Paper Goods ephemera with Heidi Swapp Color Shine Patina and added to the page with a Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Gather collection deer embellishment. 

For the next layout I added some Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Gather collection paper strips to my pages. I added a Teresa Collins Something Wonderful photo overlay over the photo. I sprayed (painted actually) Heidi Swapp Color Shine - teal over the Heidi Swapp Color Magic Paper Goods ephemera. I added some splatters of the Color Shine as well. Lastly I added some journalling. 

I love these beachy colours - and those Crate Paper Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams collection puffy stickers!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Combining Paste and Sprays, and challenges

Good Morning Arty Peeps!

Hope y'all are well and happy creating.

This month creative play time has been at a premium for me, too much other stuff going on.

So I have combined the two Scrapping Clearly challenges into one layout.

From the mood board I took inspiration from the fire image at bottom right,

then designed my page based on the sketch.

I started by applying Colour Blast paste in Lipstick, Rose Petal, and Tangareen

through a Crafter's Workshop stencil, onto black cardstock.

I then sprayed it with Heidi Swapp Color Shine, Gold at the top, and Navy at the bottom, adding some splats of each colour reversed (Navy on top, Gold on the bottom).

With such impact in my background, all I needed was a title and a story, which I wrote in Dymo. 

You can see here, the fabulous effect of the sprays on the Colour Blast paste. You can also see that I used a piece of pre-misted (Dylusions) cardstock to mat my photos with a really thin border, just to make them pop a bit.

Here are the two challenges that inspired my page.

Play along and upload your projects into the Facebook folders by clicking on the link under each image. There is a $30 shop voucher for the winner of each challenge, gotta love that!

 Sketch                                      Mood board

Thanks for coming by,

'til next time,

Love at Lanach by Lauren Hender

Hi Everyone!

Welcome back to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

I hope your week has been fabulous and are ready to be inspired by some beautiful products.

In this layout I used a photo of myself and my husband on a night away from the kids. We stayed in a beautiful castle called Lanach castle just outside Dunedin, New Zealand. It was so lovely just to have some time together is a beautiful location.

 In this layout I have used the beautiful Pink Paislee Moonstruck Collection

This collection is stunning with deep pinks, navy and gold.

I began this layout by cutting down the pink base sheet and adhering it to the navy moon cardstock. I then bent up the edges of the top pink sheet and adhered some of the reverse side of the left over strips to the sides of the layout. 

I then mounted my photo and built the photo cluster you see above. I also fussy cut a couple of butterflies from the navy butterflies cardstock.

I then added some cute embellishment clusters above and below the photo, and finished this side with some splashes of gold Heidi Swapp color shine.

 I then created a moonstruck cluster on the left hand side of the page. This is kind of my featured title and I think it looks great all clustered tightly together.

Check out the cute Maggie Holmes cute gold puffy alpha stickers.

I hope my layout has inspired you to get creative with the moonstruck collection available in the Scrapping Clearly store.

Lauren xo

Perfect Day - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I have a scrapbook page to share with you made using lots of products from the  Fancy Pants Designs "Joy Parade" collection available in the  Scrapping Clearly Store.
I love the fun bright colours of this collection and teamed it with a photo of Jessica at the beach wearing her lovely bright rashie!

I started with a sheet of white cardstock that I trimmed down to 11"x11". I splattered Heidi Swapp Teal ColorShine across the page and set aside to dry.

Once dry I matted this with a 12x12 sheet of Fancy Pants Designs "Joy parade" Wrap it in color paper. I then added a strip of paper from the Joy Parade 6x6 paper pad to the top and bottom of the page.

I added more paper from the 6x6 paper pad underneath my photo, as well as elements from the Ephemera pack and lastly puffy stickers. 

Here are some close-ups of the finished page. 

 

 

Scrapping Clearly products I've used include 

Cardstock 
Fancy Pants Designs "Joy Parade" collection (12x12 papers, 6x6 paper pad, epherema, puffy stickers) 
Heidi Swapp Teal ColorShine

Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

You Go Girl - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I have a scrapbook page to share with you made using lots of Heidi Swapp products available in the  Scrapping Clearly Store.

I've started with a sheet of white cardstock and added a strip of Magnolia Jane patterned paper. I added a strip of the MJ gold washi along the edge of the patterned paper and the black and white striped washi along the edge of the white cardstock. I painted some gold Color Shine on the alphas I wanted to use for my title. And I sprayed some of the Color Magic paper goods to use as embellishments.  

I've also added some torn washi in this corner. I've kept this page black, white and gold - a simple yet classy combination!

A simple tag and cluster around my photo kept this page stylish. 

I dipped the ends of the twine from the tag into the gold color shine and left to dry. Lastly I spattered gold and black Color Shine across my page.

Scrapping Clearly products I've used include 

Cardstock 
Heidi Swapp Magnolia Jane collection (12x12 paper pad, tags, washi) 
Heidi Swapp Mixed company collection (ephemera)
Heidi Swapp Gold ColorShine
Heidi Swapp Black ColorShine
Heidi Swapp Color Magic Paper Goods   
Heidi Swapp Color Magic Resist Striped Alphas  

Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Hello from your new DT member

Hello ScrappingClearly fans,
I am very excited to announce that I am going to be joining the design team as of today! I am super keen to share my crafty projects with you and will be doing so each week through the blog and also the ScrappingClearly you tube channel
(link here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZLUHo64RfIxlAlIBA-VJXw ), if you haven't subscribed already pop on over and do so that way you wont miss out on the scrappy fun.

I am also here to share my first DT layout, which I used the June sketch to create with.

I have used the Cocoa Vanilla Studio 'You Rock' collection to create this layout First up I used the ' In Line' patterned paper as my background and used the packaging technique with the cracked pistachio distress stain to give the pattern in the background. I then used some blue acrylic paint I had in my stash to create the circular swirl patterns in the middle and the bottom and top corners. The embellishments are the You Rock die cut pack and I used the Heidi Swapp colour shine in Mint to add some splatters across the page. Finally the layout was matted to a piece of green cardstock from in my stash just to make the layout pop and give it some stability after using all the mixed media. 

Here are the links to the products I used from the ScrappingClearly shop:

Patterned paper- You Rock- In Line- SKU: 711746982740

Die cut pack- You Rock- SKU: 711746982849

Heidi Swapp colour shine- Mint- SKU: 811723017998

There is also a process video to go with this layout, so pop over to the ScrappingClearly channel to check it out.

 https://youtu.be/7bv8HmdF_tU

See you next week with some more scrappy fun!

Amy. L

Star - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I have a scrapbook page to share with you made using lots of Heidi Swapp products available in the  Scrapping Clearly Store.

I started by layering some Magnolia Jane papers down the centre of some white cardstock. Then I created a mat for my photos. I sprayed a pressed paper frame with gold ColorShine and left to dry. These frames are quite think and take a lot of spray so they take a while to dry - overnight is best. I then cut the frame in half and attached to each side of my photos. 

I added lots of elements from the ephemera pack around my photos and across the page. I used staples to attach the acetate and velum elements. 

Some paper flowers and word stickers from my stash were perfect to finish the page. Lastly I spattered some Gold ColorShine across my page. 

Scrapping Clearly products I've used include 

Cardstock 
Heidi Swapp Magnolia Jane collection (12x12 paper pad) 
Heidi Swapp Mixed company collection (ephemera)
Heidi Swapp Gold ColorShine
Pink Paislee Cedar Lane Love Arrows 
Heidi Swapp Color Magic Pressed Paper Frames  
American crafts jumbo paper clip  
Tiny Attacher  

Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn