Shine Bright - Scrapbook Layout by Tania

Hi lovelies!! Today I have a layout share for you! Have you ever purchased pretty things and just couldn't bring yourself to use them??? Oh yes, you know what I mean. Well, I am definately guilty of this, many times over!! But it's time to change my ways!

I almost forgot all about these gorgeous goodies I purchased from Scrappingclearly during Kylie's last sale!!! How could I???? My gosh, I totally love Cocoa Vanilla products, but seem to always be admiring other people's work using them!!! Not anymore....

I used this month's sketch to spark my inspiration and pulled out the stash of goodies I had!

 I love how all the Cocoa Vanilla ranges coordinate with each other and for this layout, I have used 3 different collections.

Papers from: Cocoa Vanilla Wild at Heart collection

Die cuts from: Cocoa Vanilla Free Spirit collection

The flair is also from Cocoa Vanilla, from the Love Always collection!

The Watercolour print on the papers mimicked the Brushstrokes on the sketch, and for the lines, the patterned paper worked brilliantly.

Then it was just a matter of using the die cuts from the ephemera pack to fill in all the other details!! It came together so very quickly.

To make my title stand out, I drew around the edges, with an Alcohol marker. 

Hope you like my layout and I have inspire you to play along with this month's sketch! There's still time to upload your challenge to the Scrappingclearly Community Facebook page!!!

See you next time!!!

How Often Do You Go Outside Your Crafting Comfort Zone?

 Good Morning Arty peeps!

I hope your Winter is going well and you are crafting away while keeping snug and warm.

I have been playing with the July Moodboard challenge, such fun!

I would not normally use these colours together but totally love how this turned out. Challenges are so good for pushing those comfort zones, right?!

As you can see I have created my background with Tim Holtz Distress Oxides again, simply cannot get enough of these and am chomping at the bit to get my hands on the new colours. Because I get it nice and wet I use heavy weight cardstock so it doesn't warp.

I also used his hashtag stamps and  archival ink to make this little embellishment, and coloured some frames with purple Dylusions paint to go under my pic. These paints come in the most vibrant colours! My title is made up of a Cocoa Vanilla wood veneer word and Pink Paislee acrylic alpha stapled on.

I coloured the wood veneer heart and stamped embellishment card with Dylusions spray ink in Fresh Lime to match the moodboard colour palette, and added a super cute paper clip attached with wet glue.

Here's the moodboard, so many different things to inspire you. I went with the colours but you could do use the knitting, fireworks, Darwin's Beercan Regatta, maps..... so many options! Hope you have fun with it and be sure to share your projects with us to be in the running for a $30 shop voucher.

Thanks for coming by,

'til next time,

Wonderful Me- Art journal page

Hello Scrapping Clearly fans,

It is my turn on the blog today with an art journal page using some lovely goodies from the Scrapping clearly shop. 

I have done a double page spread with this, using a a stencil and dylusions paint in fuchsia for my background. I then went around the stencil outline with some blue paint just to make the purple pop more and to give that sky coloured look, as my photo is of me getting out for a nice arvo walk. 

I have fussy cut the black and white flowers from a Heidi Swapp Magnolia Jane 12x12 paper and the yellow flowers are from the Shimelle starshine Mercury patterned paper.Again I am going for that outdoors but lovely look to these pages. 

The red flower washi tape is also from Shimelle and the gold and dark flower washi's are from a Heidi Swapp pack in the Magnolia Jane collection, I wanted the washi tapes to be part of the embellishing of the page and to give a different texture and feel to the pages; the florals also match what I was trying to convey in this project. 
 I used some off cuts of some Magnolia Jane paper to make the thin strips and the quote piece is from the Shimelle Starshine cut apart paper Astro. 

Thanks for looking and don't forget to pop over to the Scrapping Clearly you tube channel to see a process video for this art journal page. 
See you soon and happy scrapping
Amy

Here are the product links for the Scrapping Clearly shop

Dylusions Paint- Fuschia: SKU: 789541050988
Dylusion Paint- Teal: SKU: 789541050957
Heidi Swapp Magnolia Jane paper pad 12x12: SKU: 718813137249
Shimelle Starshine- Mercury paper: SKU: 718813740333
Shimelle washi tape: SKU: 718813740531
Heidi Swapp- Magnolia Jane washi: SKU: 718813136600
Shimelle Starshine cut apart- Astro: SKU: 718813740210

Art Alchemy Impasto Paints Are Soooooooooooo.........

Howdy Folks ,Lisa here with a Friday Mixed Media update,

Unfortunately I was unable to get online last week due to NBN issues,Grr

but I am back this week to share  a new art journal piece I have been playing with , 

incorporating the super cool , Art Alchemy Impasto Paints from Finnabair ,

 released through Prima , and some fun collage style techniques .

So happy to have these amazingly lush rich paints into my arty stash, finally !

 I started by using the paints to fill in some vibrancy into the background. and boy,

that is exactly what these paints do, add a beautiful vitality to the overall look..

I added some layers with stencils and more paint to my Dina Wakley Media Journal

then after finding a few photo images in magazines, 

I cut them out and added them to the page with liquitex matt medium.

 A little Fude ball doodling and added details with more stencils and a some Colour Blast Bling for the central image , brings focus and attention to a focal point on the page.

  I am absolutely loving this style of entertaining art journaling atm and 

I really do intend to spend more time creating fun pieces using this cool collage style .

You should definitely try it out .

Thanks for dropping by, I'll be back next week with a mixed media blog update .

Lisa xx

July Mood Board - by Chloe

Hello SC fans!  Have you tried our challenges this month?

I'm sharing my sample page for the July Mood Board today :)

I was totally drawn to the firework pattern in the top left corner - I knew I had the perfect stencil to create some fireworks on a background!

Then, basing my page loosely on the colours in the mood board, I created a Christmas page (I LOVE using non-traditional Christmas colours!) ... I wasn't intending to do Christmas - but this was the photo that was waiting to be scrapped and it matched perfectly!

 

 

I have used bits and pieces from my Scrapping Clearly stash:

Simple Stories Carpe Diem – Collection Kit 12×12

Simple Stories Carpe Diem – Fundamental Cardstock Stickers

 

Planning In My Happy Planner - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!!! 

It's Karyn here and today I want to share my new MAMBI Happy Planner with you! 

Planners have been the in-thing in the papercrafting industry for some time - but my love affair with planners is just starting. I've always had a working diary filled with lists and my daily activities but I've never tried the full-on embellishment of them. Part of the reason is that there was never enough space on the pages, and also as it was a working diary it was never neat. 

When I saw the fabulous MAMBI Happy Planner, Classic, The Best is Yet to Come in the  Scrapping Clearly Store I thought I would give it a go. I had heard a lot about these planners and loved the vertical weekly layout. This planner is also an 18 month planner that started in July - perfect!! I decided to use the fun and bright Fancy Pants Designs "Joy Parade" collection and Kelly Purkey stamps to embellish the pages.

I love that many of the titles on the pages appear to be a silver colour but when viewed from different angles a rainbow of colours appears!  

The first pages for each month include a section to record monthly goals, important dates, and a "currently' list - I love these prompts!!

Then there is a 2 page calendar for the month. I've decided to include a photo from each day here. I printed each photo at 3.7cm wide x 3.2cm tall.  

Next is the fun planner pages!! I printed a sheet of photos to use. I organise and resize my photos in MS Word then print out on an A4 sheet of paper using an EPSON XP-600 and Ilford photo paper. Each photo used on the weekly spread is 3.7cm wide x 6cm tall. 

I start my pages by writing daily activities on one of the 3 squares for the day. I then add photos, then decorative papers. I had some painty papers leftover from testing the amazing Distress Oxides, so I added some offcuts of them to the pages as well.

Next I add some patterned paper (from the Joy Parade 6x6 paper pad), Ephemera and puffy stickers. Lastly I added some stamps - these Kelly Purkey ones are so cute!! 

Here is my first completed weekly spread (26 June - 2 July).  

Here are some close-ups. I've tried to keep my pages as flat as possible. Puffy stickers are as bulky as I will go.  

 

Scrapping Clearly products I've used include 

MAMBI Happy Planner, Classic, The Best is Yet to Come  
Fancy Pants Designs "Joy Parade" collection (12x12 papers, 6x6 paper pad, epherema, puffy stickers) 
Hero Arts, Kelly Purkey wood mounted stamps - Planner Icons 
Ranger Archival ink pad, black
Cardstock  
Distress Oxides ink pads 

Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Art Journalling - Lots of Yummy Mixed Media Products from Scrapping Clearly

Hi Everyone

My turn up on the Blog today and I have been playing with some amazing goodies from our SHOP!

I tore strips of washi tape and taped them to the double page of my art journal, then I used this fab Dina Wakley gesso over the top of the tape.  I allowed this to dry then I went about using some Ranger Distress Paints - Faded Jeans randomly over the top of the washi tape.

Next I used some Nuvo Embellishment Mousse in Aquamarine - if you haven't tried this amazing medium - do yourself a favour - it has an amazing sheen and is a dream to use!!  I randomly placed it across the pages using an old credit card.  I also used some Nuvo Embellishment Mousse in Cornflower Blue - again swiping randomly using an old credit card.  When this was dry,  I randomly stamped these amazing 49 and Market Texture Stamps using black Ink  over the pages.

Next I stamped the "SHE" using the amazing Heidi Swapp Foam Alphabet Stamps - I used to own these a long time ago  and I am so pleased Heidi has has re-released these stamps.  They are so versatile and easy to use.

I outlined the "SHE" using Jane Davenport  MM Paint Over Pens, and used this gorgeous lady from Jane Davenport's Rubons Neutral collection.

For my journalling I used this fab fountain pen, again from Jane Davenport.

Next I used this gorgeous stencil from the amazing Lisa Oxley - I have had it in my stash for a while and it is my "go to" and fave at the moment.  I used the Nuvo Embellishment Mousse in Lilac - Lavender through this stencil and love the effect!  I outlined the raised Nuvo mousse with a Black Pilot Permaball Pen to give some extra depth.

I used the amazing Jane Davenport Mermaid Markers to add some more depth of colour to the blue around the edges of the pages.  These markers are just gorgeous and beautiful to work with.

I love that Scrapping Clearly has such an amazing variety of Mixed Media products - so go and check them out..

Until next time,
Happy Crafting!

Marellexx