New Year's Eve Selfies! A layout by Tania Ballestrin

Hello lovely Scrapping Clearly followers! Today I have a layout for you inspired by this month's very gorgeous moodboard!!!!


This month I am playing with Maggie Holme's 'Bloom' Range from Crate Paper! How lucky am I!!! I started with a white cardstock background and was inspired to give the paint swipes a go. This is so easily achieved by using the Ranger paint dabbers. The paint dabber splatters, I made to mimmick the soft pink balloons in the image.
I wanted to make this layout a bit blingy, going by the gold inspiration in the image, so I added some Heidi Swapp Marquee Love tape in between the paint swipes.

I added more gold bling with the Gold foil thickers, (there's loads of extra dots in there too which you can embellish with!!!), and broke up my title with a few other alphas from my stash. I layered up my photomat, using the BLOOM papers: SWEET ROSE & MOMENTS and the HEIDI SWAPP papers from the HELLO GORGEOUS range. The butterfly embellishments were cut from the BLOOM, FLUTTER paper. (Love this, you will be seeing more of these little butterflies!!!)

I am also in love with the WASHI PAPER stickers from the BLOOM collection. The little black love heart was attatched to some cardstock to make a 3D embellishment, and I used a washi strip under the photo mat.
The little rubber shapes in the BLOOM collection are so cute, and quite chunky, so no need for mounting tape!

If you can read my journaling , you will note that I made a boo boo on this layout!!! I could have changed the photos or I could've changed the title, but then I would've wrecked a perfectly good layout, so I decided not to stress about it and have a bit of fun. I have written more journaling on the back which actually tells a bit more of a story! Scrapbooking is not meant to be stressful after all!!!
Hope you have found some inspiration in the Moodboard this month and find time to play along with us! Can't wait to see what you all create!
Tania

Heidi Swapp " Hello Gorgeous" papers..

Hellooo..

Bernii Miller here today for your Hump Day scrapbooking fix :) 

I was lucky enough to be sent the STUNNING  Heidi Swapp " Hello Gorgeous" 12 x 12 papers which I was totally swooning over as soon as I opened my goodies..

I created the title with the Cocoa Vanilla studio " Life is Beautiful" alphabet stickers.. They match perfectly with the Heidi Swapp papers.. 

 I found this quote scrolling through pinterest feed the other day and it is perfect for me right now in my life.. I love being able to mix my title size and the Cocoa Vanilla sticker sheet was perfect!! 

I fussy cut the black and white flowers, and used the grey triangle paper as my guide too cutting and lining up the other pieces to create the triangle background. Super easy to do and I love how it turned out. 

Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope I have inspired you a little today to create...

You can find more Heidi Swapp products HERE in the store...

Till next time much love

Bernii xx

Hello Gorgeous Cards with Cork by Tania

Hi everyone! Today I've made a cute set of cards with the Heidi Swapp HELLO GORGEOUS papers. These have been such a pleasure to work with, so versatile!!! For something a little different, I thought I would incorporate these cute Cork pieces from Teresa Collins' Life Emporium range. (There are over 20 pieces in the pack!)

I'm being very frugal with these papers and using every last morsel! The black floral strip is the cut off strip from one of the papers. I made it stretch to all 3 cards, even made a tab out of it with my tab punch.

On this card, I used a yellow Gelato crayon & a water brush to add some colour to the flowers. I've backed the cork embellishment with some of the patterned paper scraps to highlight it!

My sentiments all came from a cute Alphabet Sticker pack from Prima. The ribbon you see is cut from those lovely Kaisercraft Ribbon Roses, which I am getting very good mileage out of!!

To finish off the cards, I added a few gold sequins!!! Hope you like them and I have inspired you to make some cards today!!! Happy Crafting!!!

Tania

Brilliant Life layout with Tania!!!

Hi everyone, hope you had a relaxing Anzac Day and a spared a thought for those who served for our Country! 

Today I'm sharing a layout made with the Heidi Swapp, 'HELLO GORGEOUS' paper range. I absolutely love these 12x12" paper pads, they are so versatile.There are so many different colour options and patterns, you can create many projects to suit your style!

 I used 7 different papers, (they are double sided too!!) You can see some of the layers below in this photo. I also used the tear off piece on one of the pages to match my fussy cut flower cluster.

 Yes, I actually fussy cut this flower piece from the black and white dots piece to place it on a lighter background.

 In my cute little flower cluster, there's a gorgeous Prima flower and some leaves, which you can find here:
(Don't be afraid to alter your embellishments. The one leaf I had left in the packet was too large for my project, so I cut it in half and re-shaped it, dabbed a bit of ink on the edges and then I had 2!!!)

My title is a mix of Heidi Swapp word stickers, which I adore! So simple, they finish off the page beautifully. I loooove these gold 'Wanderlust' glitter stickers.

I want to mention the photograph, it's less than perfect I know, but it was taken with a mobile phone camera, and it is all I have of this occasion. I love the sun flare in between my Husband and I. I could've easily pushed this pic aside and scrapped another, but at the end of the day, I wanted to record this memory, and truth be known, I haven't scrapped nearly enough photos of just the two of us. Something to think about!!!

Thanks for reading along, see you next time,

Tania

My Moodboard take by Tania

Hi everyone, I'm back here again with a cute little card set I made using the very sweet Heidi Swapp Hello Gorgeous papers! I've also been playing with the amazing Colour Blast Colour Pastes which I see are a bit of a favourite at the moment!!!

So my inspiration came from the moodboard this month: It's a beauty and I hope you will play along!

I used one sheet of patterned paper and also the cut off tab from the same sheet, (which is the striped orange strip!) I am not a fan of wastage in my creating!!! I also cut some gold strips from a gorgeous piece of We R Memory Clearly Posh Acetate

I gave each piece of paper a coat of Gesso in the middle as a base for my next layer which was Dylusions spray ink in Squeezed Orange. When that was dry I dabbed some more bright orange over the top with Dylusions paint. I did a very faint layer of stamping with this Kaisercraft honeycomb stamp.

Then I had lots of fun with one of my favourite stencils, Dylusions Leaf flourish and this amazing Colour Blast colour paste.

The moodboard called for a deep blue and purple, but I only had pink and blue paste, so I mixed the two together to get a gorgeous purple colour. When the paste drys, the shimmer is awesome, I honestly love them!

In my kit this month, I also have some very pretty Prima flowers, which I used to embellish, along with these really cute little Prima alphabet stickers!

The 'happy' die cut is made using one of my favourite Heidi Swapp Wanderlust word dies! 

I hope I've inspired you to give the Moodboard a go this month, and to have a look at the beautiful papers in the Heidi Swapp Collections!! (I've also used them as my backdrop for these photos!!!) I will be back next time to showcase some more of these gorgeous papers!

Happy creating!!!

Tania :)