Moodboard inspired layout, by Tania

HELLO.....I'm here to share my layout, titled, 'BEAUTIFUL'! And it's my take on the moodboard this month!!! Here is the moodboard in case you haven't seen it!!!

So, here's my layout!! I'm using some Chickaniddy papers this month!!! And loads of other gorgeous delights from the Scrappingclearly store which I will link you to, as we go along!!!

I started my background by spongeing a thin layer of Gesso around the photo. I then used a Dusty Attic stencil and some gorgeous 'BLING' & 'JUST BLUE' colour paste.

Once that was dry, I did a tiny bit of stamping around the colour paste with a Kaisercraft, tiny dots stamp, & a cute little wooden Heidi Swapp heart stamp from her Memory Planner range! Then, it was all about the layers behind my photo. I've used a mixture of the Chickaniddy papers again, plus some Prima packaging, (from some flowers). There's also a few pieces of that gorgeous Maggie Holmes, gold foil vellum which I had left over from a previous project! I did add a few gold accents on this layout! At the very bottom, there's a strip of the We R' Memory Keepers, Clearly Posh acetate, and in the photo below, you can see my Gold, Heidi Swapp acetate word I used, for my title.

Below the title is a cute little, Flea Market bow...I love these, from Maggie Holmes & Crate Paper!!! You'll see I have a paper drinking straw behind my layers, some washi tape, then there's the flower cluster, which is made up of some Prima sugar blooms & other smaller flowers. I coloured some white leaves, using Distress stain.

I hope I have inspired you to play along with our moodboard this month. don't forget there's a sketch too. You can link up your challenges over on the facebook page now. See the link above!!!

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