How Much of a Mood Board Do You Use?

Happy New Year!

May 2018 bring you lots of creative play, friendship, and happiness.

I was playing with the January mood board and trying to use up some older, unscrapped pics.

As you can see it was the green and gold that inspired this page, and

a sketch from last year.

My background was made with heavy weight card, super vibrant Dylusions sprays, gesso, and a heart stencil

that I made from another piece of cardstock. I used a Sharpie marker to outline the heart.

As always, I sanded the edges of my photos and matted them on black card.

I also used some black card for the umbrella I used to replace the original as it was too colourful.

I highlighted the folds in the umbrella with my yellow Distress Oxide inkpad as it has a nice chalky finish.

I used minimal embellishments since the background has such an impact

- a super cute arrow paperclip, a couple of chipboard banners.

A chippy arrow and wood veneer 'documented' both coloured black,

and a title using my fave alpha.

I journalled with a gel pen, and used some black paint to stamp around the edges

with heart-shaped bubble wrap, how cool is that!

Here's the mood board, take as much or as little from it as you like,

and be sure to load your creation in the FB album here.

Thanks for stopping by,

'til next time,

stay arty,

How Do You Purge and Organise your Art Supplies?

G'Day Arty Peeps!

Hope you have your holiday season under control

and are finding some time to be creative.

Things are pretty relaxed at my place so I'm hoping to find

time to purge and sort my art space, I'm gonna need a fair bit of it!

After 17 years of scrapping and heaven knows how many boxes of product,

my art room needs an intensive overhaul. Maybe I can even rope in the kids to help!

If you have some brilliant organising tips I'd love to hear them!

So, that said, here's my share for today.

Every November a music festival is held behind our Art Gallery,

this year they had a dedicated youth stage. So my boy got his mates together

and they played a half hour gig to a large, and very appreciative, audience.

Here's the story

I'm still using up the last of my 'Something Wonderful' stash.

This range has made so many pages of such varying style and theme, so versatile!

I used a card from the gourgeous 'Bella Rouge' range (another one of my faves), for my title.

To add a bit of colour to the background I picked up the teal and red from the patterned papers

using Distress Oxide inks and a splatter brush. The brushes are currently out of stock but

if you msg Kylie through FB (in business hours) she can let you know if they are still available.

Definitely worth having!

To keep the page quick and easy (it took me less than 30 mins)

I used Dymo for the pertinent information, and PaperMate correction tape (Wideline) for the story.

I'm all about the quick bursts of creativity when there is so much else I should be doing.

I think it's important to maintain the practice of being creative even if it seems impossible at times,

half an hour is always doable. It keeps me connected, and sane!

So, now back to the purge and sort!

Hope you have a wonderful Festive Season.

However you celebrate, may it be filled with good company and tasty food.

Until next year,

stay arty,

How To Read a Mood Board - Thanks Jo!

 Good Morning Arty Peeps!

Welcome to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

We recently had a question in our Facebook Group about how to use a mood board. One of our fans answered that question beautifully so I am going to share it with you today

Jo Lovespaper - a mood board is a collection of colours, patterns, objects, such as this month's which I've added here. The idea is to look at the board and whatever comes to mind you go with!
For example, you might see and use the colour red, or see the bike and think of tires and wheels or tire treads. Or the doll with the sparkling earring and use diamontes. Or the Poppies and relate it to ANZAC day. You can do a combination or just use one item. I hope that helps!

Thank you Jo!

This month I used the colours because they were perfect for these pics of my boy at Jindabyne with his school. Black, red, grey/silver, and white.

Black gesso on white heavyweight card, with red paint highlights. My grey/silver is the Tim Holtz hashtag stamps (oh, how I love these!!) embossed.

My title is laid over a photo of the slopes, I inked around the edges of the Bella Rouge letters to make them stand out a bit more. I really like this alpha set, it's so versatile and goes with everything. There is also a whole range of scrapbooking products that match.

Can't wait to see how you interpret the mood board this month.

Upload your project here for a chance to win a $30 shop voucher.

And before I go, I just want to say a huge thank you to the Boss Lady Kylie, and Kim, for hosting Lisa and me at Gundy Scraptacular last weekend. We had a ball.
Here we are waiting for the shop to open, we were a little early!

Til next time,

stay arty,

Baby It's Cold Outside

 Good morning scrappy/arty peeps, hope this day finds you well and happy.

The weather here in Armidale has been dreary, cold, and wet (my fave) so very conducive to getting messy indoors by the fire.

I've been playing with the divinely colourful Ranger Dylusions paints. I used an old loyalty card to scrape paint across some Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock, it's heavy weight and specially made for mixed media, awesome! Then, because I wanted the colours to pop more, I cut out my background and mounted it on black card. I borrowed a Prima texture brush (these are so fab) to swipe a little white paint over the colours to tone it down a tad and add some depth.

To create a diagonal visual line across my page I sponged black ink through a star stencil then added my pic and journalling on top. My 'love' subtitle was gold foil and didn't match so I coloured it using a Copic marker.

Washi tapes were used to create a sense of movement and for my big title I inked Pink Paislee Bella Rouge transparent letters (have I said how much I'm loving these? The pack just seems to go on forever!). I attached them using some really old tiny screw brads from my stash, Tim Holtz, I think.

The longest part of this creation was the drying time for the paint, the rest was super quick and easy.

Hope you're finding some creative time with this cold snap, if not then shopping for luscious supplies is a nice alternative. I spied some gorgeous new Dusty Attic chipboard today in the shop.

Til next time

Quick Page

Howdy Scrappers

Peg here today to share a simple page done almost completely with

white cardstock, one piece of patterned paper and a

pack of ephemera. Plus the obligatory spray inks.

 I started by cutting out and inking the edges of all my elements

from the Cocoa Vanilla 'Made of Awesome' Mixed Up paper

and Ephemera pack. I layered them under and over my photos.

The @ is a punch I have, the title is from a Pink Paislee

Bella Rouge transparent alpha, must say I am getting lots of mileage

out of this pack, and loving it! The flair is again from the

Cocoa Vanilla 'Made of Awesome' range, there are 6 in the pack.

And I finished it off with some splatters of Heidi Swapp

Colorshine in Navy and Dylusions ink spray in Squeezed Orange.

Thanks for coming by, see you next time

Celebrating National Scrapbooking Day, Clearly

 Hello Scrappy Peeps, Peg here.

As you might know, last weekend was (Inter-)National Scrapbooking day and Scrapping Clearly FB hosted a mini cyber crop with six fabulous challenges and a Heidi Swapp 12" Minc as a prize!

You can check out all the amazing entries here on Facebook.

I had hoped to get most of the challenges done over the weekend but, alas, all I managed was one. Challenge 4, use stencils, here it is.....

First this stencil with Colour Blast paste Dusty Charcoal,

then this stencil with Dylusions spray Bubblegum Pink.

I matted my photo, with some black card and pretty paper,

on top of a Heidi Swapp ghost frame.

Then I cut a strip of Hambly graph transparency and

slid it under the bottom edge of the frame using some

washi tape to hold it in place.

I love how the transparent layers work together.

For my title I inked up some Pink Paislee Bella Rouge

transparent letters and added Dymo journalling strips. 

Finished, it looks like this

The acrylic flowers were made years ago by Queen & Co, and I found the acetate butterflies online here.

It was fun to play with everyone last weekend, very social and lots of inspiration from other scrappers. Must do it again!

Thanks for coming by, 'til next time

Scrapping Loss

Hi Scrapping Clearly friends and fans, hope all's well with you today.

I'm here today to share two projects I did using the Simple Stories 'Heart' Simple Set. This range had me digging out old photos that hadn't been scrapped due to emotional feelings of loss. Absolutely great for that push to get some really important memory pages done.

My first was a pocket page. I had so many photos and didn't really want to leave any out, since they are all slightly different and Gran is no longer with us. This format is perfect to fit in heaps without making the page look overwhelming.

I used a BellaRouge transparent alpha for my title, everything else came out of the Simple Stories kit.

My next project was a standard 12 x 12 layout. 

I did a mixed media background using Colour Blast 'Bling' paste through The Crafters Workshop mini Art Is stencil, then misted Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Navy lightly over the middle. Not fussed with this look, I took a wet wipe and spread out the Color Shine which softened it considerably and also created a nice white outline around my script paste. I then added some splats with the colour shine, this stuff has divine shimmer! So does the Colour Blast paste!

I coloured up some muslin with Tattered Angels 'Walnut Gold' Glimmer Mist and used it as a mat for my photo. I used a small Heidi Swapp Ghost frame to highlight a smaller picture, I love these because they are quite subtle due to their transparency. 

I cut the glittery ends off Heidi Swapp Decorative Glitter Tags and tucked them under each side of my pic and used a patterned paper off cut from Simple Stories pack at the bottom. PaperMate correction tape (WideLine) gave me journalling lines which I outlined to make stand out better.

I am so glad I had this Simple Stories pack to work with. I never would have chosen it myself but it gave me the opportunity to scrap some really important pages for my album. You know, I never even knew anyone had a range like this!

Thanks Kylie xx

Shine bright

Hi Michelle here for the awesome June moodboard sketch for Scrapping Clearly. Let me tell you I loved this moodboard and couldn't wait to create using this as my inspiration. The only thing is with these beautiful colours and design my mind goes all over the place thinking of all the ideas I could do. 

I had to tell myself to focus and go with my first idea which was using white embossing powder with my older favourite doily stamps from My Mind's Eye. When I added the Dylusions inks from Ranger. I was really happy with the results with the resist.

This paper range from Pink Paislee was perfect for this month's challenge. I love these cards and are also would be great for Project Life. 

         BellaRouge – Cards

BellaRouge – Chipboard Stickers

Dylusions Spray Bubble Gum Pink

Don't forget to check out the MOOD BOARD, and  Sketch , and our Competition great prizes up for grabs, just follow the links, got to be in it to win it!! 

Can't wait to see what you create with the awesome sketch and moodboard this month and there are some great prizes to win. Have a great day. xxx

Bella Happiness

Hi everyone Rikki here with my first post for a new month, today I am sharing with you my take on this months sketch challenge. 

Its using the stunning range by Pink Paislee - Bella Rouge, and I am madly, truly, deeply in love with this range, which is in store now!!! I think this wont last long either so why dont you grab some today.

 I love the floral print in this range, and what better way to show case it than doing a little bit of fussy cutting, dont forget to grab some foam mount to help add some height to your layers.

 The perfect embellishment is the Pink Paislee Bella Rouge Chipboard Embellishments it is loaded with a lot of finishing pieces.

                            Bella Rouge – Ephemera

Bella Rouge – Charms

                    Bella Rouge – Chipboard Stickers

So why dont you enter into this month's sketch there are great prizes to be won if you want to see them check it out here.

Till next time, have a creative day.

Rikki

xxxxxx