Summer Fun - Scrapbook page with DT Katie Howard

Wow, December already, can you believe it?! For us that means hot and often sticky summer heat and lots of water play. So I thought it was only fitting to make my first share for December a fun in the summer sun kind of page, and I thought that the Crate Paper Good Vibes collection was perfect to reflect the summer fun.

So let's check out the page first:

The photos that I picked were some action "jumping in the pool" shots of my nieces. Bright, summer and fun photos and perfect with the Good Vibes papers. I started with the paper Passion which is one of my favourites as it has multi-coloured free-hand style stripes, and I am a sucker for a good stripey paper!

I started with two blocks of this paper and created two areas of interest on each side of the page. I used the reverse of the Passion paper to mat the photos so they would stand out. The revers is a gorgeous shade of blue with black dots, also a sucker for a good spotty paper!

I also layered some of the neutral kraft spotty paper All Good on both blocks, and finished each block with a hand made tag using the Hashtag paper, which is a great pink grid with geometric type lines in heavier pink, so there is design but a subtlety as well.

Here you can see the tag a little closer, and also part of the title which was using the co-ordinating puffy sticker words. Can you see the subtle stencilling I added on the background as well? I decided the small shutters stencil from Dylusions would be perfect because it reminded me of the free-hand stripey paper and I used it with some Tattered Rose distress oxide ink because this was a pretty could match to the peachy pinks in the collection and it was also nice and subtle. I also added some splatters using the Picked Raspberry to match the brighter pinks in the papers.

I cut one of the pom-pom frames in half and used it like a photo corner for the top right and bottom left photos, adding some dimension and texture to the photo cluster. I also added a cactus from the ephemera pack, I decided due to the landscaping around the pool this was probably as good a time as any to add in cactus embellishments!

The right hand side focused on a card cut from the So Chill paper, which has lots of great cut-apart cards on one side and a very usable pattern on the other. Add in some chipboard from the Chipboard sticker sheet with foil accents, again more cactus, and a ticket from the ephemera and this side was a wrap. The last thing to do was add a little journaling which I did using a black paint pen, I love how black these pens are for journaling, even if it is only on plain cardstock. And there you have it, page done!

Thanks for stopping by and see you next time,

Katie x

Page in the Making - Part 2 - with DT Katie Howard

Welcome back! Glad you could make it back to see how my background turned into a page. First, let's have a little reminder of what my background looked like:

And if you wanted to check out how it came together check out the blog post here.

Given how bright and busy the background was I decided I didn't need to do much to create a page, pick out the right photos add a little paper and few embellishments and call it done! I decided to run with some patterned papers in black and white so they would stand out from the background and a splash of pink because it matched! I selected some papers from the Maggie Holmes Gather collection and the Crate Paper Good Vibes collection (some great black and white prints in these collections, not to mention pretty pinks!)

So without further ado, the finished page:

I backed the photos on some patterned papers, layering with black and white prints and some pink in between, just enough to help them stand out on the background. I added some foam mounting tape behind one of the photos, this helped with layering some of the chipboard under the photo too.

The chipboard came from Good Vibes chipboard sticker sheet and Maggie Holmes Gather Thicker accent. I just chose pieces that worked from a colour point of view and vaguely fit in with the theme, using one of the tags "#weekend vibes" as my title.

The last thing I did was add a little journaling using a white posca paint pen and there you have it a finished page!

Thanks for stopping by to see the completed page.

Until next time,

Katie x

Farewell from Lisa J

Hi Scrapping Clearly peeps,

Lisa J popping in today to say farewell. Sadly the time has come for me to step down from the Design Team so today I will be sharing some of my fave layouts.

I would like to thank Kylie and the team for having me along this year. It has been great being part of the Scrapping Clearly community.

Today

Dude

Detours

Starstruck

#Smile

I look forward to catching up with you all in the Facebook group and maybe even joining in a few challenges.

Until then Happy scrapping,

Best Day - Scrapbook Page by DT Katie Howard

Morning, morning! I hope you are all having a wonderful Sunday,  and have a crafty day planned! I am hoping to get some crafting happening today, but maybe the washing will win out!

Today I thought I would share a page that I created about a special day for me. It was the day that I got to meet some of the actors from one of my favourite TV series, Stargate and the spin-off Stargate Atlantis. It was such a thrilling experience having watched these people for so many years. I used the fabulous Crate Paper Good Vibes collection as the basis for my page to show just how versatile this collection is for all sorts of pages and themes.

I loved the blue in the Good Vibes collection and thought that worked with the blues in the photo, and then included some of the soft pink as a kind of neutral as well as kraft, creams and the odd splash of other colours like mint.

For the background I used some of these papers - Girls Night, Passion and You Rock and created a block style background. I then set about creating layers under my photo using some So Chill paper scraps as well as lots of ephemera, and the #1 fan card came from the foil accented paper. 

On thing that I love doing with scraps is creating tags, well tag tops to be more accurate. These are so great for tucking into layers and adding more interest and you don't need much paper at all! The two tag tops here were only about 3inches x 2 inches in size, cut of the sides, punch a hole and put a hole reinforcer sticker on top and you are done! I sprinkled some chipboard accent sticker stars over this section as well as half of one of the pom pom frames to finish this cluster off.

I continued the tags up the top of the page to create another area of interest, finished off with a gold foiled chipboard sticker. I also used this area to add my journaling. I love adding journaling as thin printed strips, it is a great additional feature and is perfect if you don't like writing directly on your page.

Last of all is my title using some gold glitter foam thickers. These ones are extra cool because they are on pink foam, helping them tie in even better with the whole page. 

Well, that is it for me, thanks for stopping by and see you next time!

Katie x

September Mood Board Inspiration with DT Katie

Good Morning, Good Morning, Good Morning! Happy Saturday morning and I hope that you get some scrappy time this weekend! Me, well I am working today and maybe tomorrow, if I am lucky I might get to play with  my crafty things!

Today I am hoping to give you some inspiration to try the September mood board challenge. I love, love, love this months challenge, but I think that is because I love yellow! It is such a happy and bright colour. Let's check out the mood board:

Isn't it so pretty and fun?! You can check out the challenge album on Facebook here and see what others have been creating inspired by this board. And here is what I came up with:

I started by going through my paper stash and picking out papers that had yellow, or grey/soft black. I was surprised just how many that I found and I went with some Crate Paper Good Vibes and Maggie Holmes ones. Can you tell my background even has a hint of pink?! I figured I could run with that little addition. I have used Good Vibes Life Goals and Magic to create my background, and to add some interest and tone down all the yellow just a little I added some grey washi tape from my stash and used some Tim Holtz stencils with Hickory Smoke and Fossilized Amber distress oxide inks. 

 

So, the stripes gave me a perfect place to add the stencil detail, and here is where I challenge you to look at your stencils differently. Don't look at the stencil as a whole pattern, look at it for a simpler reduced pattern and if you see lines of pattern, like I did in the stencils that I used, grab some masking tape (or washi, let's face it we all have way more washi tape than we will ever use!) and mask off just the line of pattern. Doing this with your stencils can give you so much more scope on where and how you can use them!

After I finished with my background I matted my photo on some Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams Stay True paper which provided a nice soft black background with a word pattern. This helped separate the photo from the background. Now the fun begins with creating interesting embellishment clusters! I used ephemera from Maggie Holmes Gather collection, as well as the thicker accents and a puffy sticker from the embellishment set. See the little tag sticking out, this was a scrap that I turned into a tag top and tucked into my cluster, this is such a great way to use up scraps!

Some more chipboard and ephemera in this corner along with a vintage button from Chasing Dreams and a title from Heidi Swapp's Enjoy Vintage Chic Collection chipboard stickers. It was a perfect match for this and I even used a grey chipboard heart from this set in the top cluster. 

Finishing details were a couple of tiny attacher staples on the photo. Staples are a great simple but sweet addition to a page. And of course a few splatters using some more of the hickory smoke distress oxide ink. And that is where I called the page done!

I hope you get the chance to have a play this weekend, and maybe you might even have a go at the mood board challenge. You never know, you might just win a prize if you do!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Yay - Scrapbook page with DT Katie Howard

So, I am a bit late getting this up, but I have had one of those weeks and I completely forgot what day it was! But better a bit late than never I say!

I am sharing a fun page today that I created using some of the Crate Paper Good Vibes collection, which is also a very fun collection!

I always love how well co-ordinated these collections are, it means you really don't need to add anything else if you don't want to! I used some fun photos that my daughter and I took while waiting for some take away food one day, playing with the funny filters on snapchat of course! Sometimes you need to capture those crazy, random moments!

I used Flourish, Life Goals and Passion from the paper collection. I really love the pop of dark blue in this collection it provides such a wonderful contrast and makes the collection so much more versatile too. I created some texture with my paper layers by tearing one of the strips and I used the other side of the torn strip to create a small cluster detail on the other side of the page to balance out the design.

I had fun embellishing the page, using mostly chipboard from the chipboard accent sheet, don't you love the tassel banner?! I decided on a simple and small title with the word "yay" from the puffy thickers set, I love puffy stickers!

This little cluster is mainly repeating the patterned paper, a simple chipboard embellishment and to continue the tassel banner idea I used some mini tassels from the Maggie Holmes Gather collection, and the colours work perfectly! I added some splatters too, because, well, I think they are great for finishing off a page! I used some distress oxide ink in Faded Jeans as it is a pretty good match to the colours in the collection and to continue the splashes of blue.

My last little cluster used an ampersand from the chipboard sheet, a ticket from the ephemera set and a phrase sticker from one of the Idea-ology sticker sets by Tim Holtz. I love these word/phrase stickers for adding little bits of interest and sometimes they can work like journaling too.

Well that is it for me today, hope you have a creative day and see you next time!

Katie x

Stash Busting Paper Scraps with Lisa J

Good morning Scrapping Clearly friends,

It is the second week of the School Holidays and I am loving it. They go way too fast.

Today I am sharing a layout I created with a Crate Paper Good Vibes 6 x 6 paper pad and that is also perfect for paper scraps. 

I started by backing a heart cut file with all the gorgeous patterns from Crate Paper's Good Vibes collection making sure none of the patterns were next to themselves.

Next up I faintly sketched out where my heart would sit on the page and added some paint to my background using Dylusions Paint in Peony Blush and a Turquoise from Dina Wakley. I used a babywipe with a stencil to take some of the paint off (my favourite Lisa Oxley technique) and then added some text stamping with a white inkpad.

A doily, some fussy cut elements, paper layers and a super cute puffy sticker Llama complete my layout.

Would love to see what you are creating with scraps.

Happy scrapping

Lisa J

Chill Out Today with DT Katie Howard

Good Morning to you! I am popping in today to share a fun page using the gorgeous Crate Paper Good Vibes collection. Have you seen how fun this collection is, it is also really versatile, especially if you look at some of the patterns in small amounts rather than full sheets. Let me show you my page first...

I loved how one of the themes in this collection was about chilling out and also your "squad" so I started with these photos of my wonderful playgroup mum's when we were out for dinner. We have been friends for a long time given our eldest children (who brought us together) are all 19 now! Do you have friendships through your children like that too? 

I picked some papers, and there are lots with smaller patterns to make them almost as good as solids and I started layering with my photos, and given my photos were fairly neutral in colour I didn't have too much to worry about with colour clashing! The papers that I ended up using were : Flourish, Passion, All Good and Serious Fun.

For my background I used my distress oxide inks and the plastic bag smooshing technique and some splattering too. I used Worn Lipstick, Faded Jeans and Picked Raspberry as they worked well with the colours in the papers. I know I say this a lot, but these really are my favourite go to inks! 

For my title I created a small cluster at the top of the page and used some of the Good Vibes chipboard and a Heidi Swapp wood veneer word. I mean, sometimes you have to make life easy and  try not to be too clever or unique with your titles!

I created another small cluster of embellishments near my photo and used some more chipboard pieces for this. I didn't want to go overboard as the busy background already takes a lot of attention and I didn't want to compete.

Well, that is it from me for today. I hope you get the chance to scrap and play soon and don't forget about the Cyber Crop going on in the Facebook Group right now, check it out here.

Until next time, thanks for stopping by!

Katie x

Smile Pretty - a scrapbook layout with Lisa J

Hi Scrapping Clearly friends,

Lisa here today to share a scrapbook layout using Dear Lizzy, Crate Paper and Heidi Swapp.

I started with a base of white cardstock and added some strips of paper across the top third of the page using papers from the Dear Lizzy Happy Place collection (Bananas, Be Free). I added some sprinkles of Heidi Swapp Color Shine in Coral.

I created some layers around my photo with the gorgeous Good Vibes 6x6 paper pad from Crate Paper. I fussy cut some of the elements including tags and mini houses.

 

I inked up some Heidi Swapp diecuts with Distress Oxide Ink in Mermaid Lagoon.

The final touches were some sprinkles of sequins and pink glittery buttons. 

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. Hope you have a great scrappy week. 

Lisa J

Love you to the Moon

Hi there Scrapping Clearly friends,

Lisa here today to share a scrapbook layout.

I started my layout with some Dylusions paint in Fresh Lime on a sheet of Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock. Now I have well loved this paint and what remained in the pot was nearly all dried. I decided to use it up while I could still get it out of the pot. The lovely thick texture was perfect for creating some ridges and interest in the background of my page.

I then added some extra colour with Dylusions Spray Paint in Calypso Teal. I have added some text stamping with Ranger Archival Ink in black all around the edge of the page and through the centre. I also swiped the ink across the textured paint to pick up the patterns I created earlier.

 I created layers around my photo with Heidi Swapp Frames and Tags. I also used some Crate Paper Good Vibes papers in black and white together with black machine stitching. I added some chipboard stickers and cut aparts from the Pink Fresh Escape the Ordinary Collection.

I coloured some Heidi Swapp Acrylic Stars with a black posca pen to match my page and scattered them across the layout.

I added my title with grey chipboard letters from the Pink Fresh Boys Fort range and added some dymo tape lettering to finish.

Hope you have found some time to get crafty this Queen's Birthday Long Weekend.

Happy scrapping

#Smile - a layout with Crate Paper Good Vibes

Good morning Scrapping Clearly friends,

Lisa here today to share a scrapbooking layout featuring loads of Crate Paper Good Vibes collection.

How adorable are these Embossed Puffy Stickers. They were the inspiration for this layout.

I started with a base of white cardstock and swiped on some Dylusions Paint in Rose Quartz. I got out one of my favourite Dylusions stencils and added some dots with Dylusions Paint in Peony Blush . My last step was some circles stamped with yellow paint and a lid and some extra pink with this stencil from Dusty Attic.

I cut tags and other embellishments from the Crate Paper Good Vibes 6 x 6 paper pad. I cut a Pom Pom frame in half to highlight my photo, added in some of those sweet embossed puffy stickers and a flair badge from Heidi Swapp's Hello Today Flair badges and buttons. The funky black and white stripe paper is a strip from a plaid paper from Dear Lizzy Happy Place called Top Notch (on sale at the moment - bargain). 

I also added some teeny gold glitter hearts and letter stickers from Heidi Swapp's Memory Planner line. The alphas are such a great size for project life and subtitles. A cute little Geo Tag from these stickers, a date stamp and some typed strips of journalling finished off my layout.

Thanks for stopping by today. Have you used these puffy stickers? Show me what you have made please. I am dying to use the Llama but it is just too cute ha ha.

Happy scrapping

Lisa J