Water fight delight

Hi everyone

I just love it when family gets together AND all the kids are colour coordinated!   

It's as if they knew I was a scrapper.

This photo was taken years ago before we had water restrictions and perfect for this month's mood board.   It includes my brother's granddaughter, my niece and son (with a glimpse of my nephew in the background).   

I started with some white card stock and sponged some Heidi Swapp Magic Medium through Dina Wakley's Wheels stencil to act as a resist. I then sprayed on a couple of Lindy's Stamp Gang mists and wiped them over the page with a wet wipe.   When dry I added some Snow White Colour Blast paste through the Dark Room Door Polka dots stencil.  

I used a combination of Pink Paislee and WE R Memory Keepers Best Friend and Young Love patterned paper to mat my photo.

I fussy cut a Hambly Screen Print and used it as a layer under my Joy Parade Puffy Sticker title .

I then finished off with some Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss stickers, some Michelle Grant Pebble Rocks, some beads and other bits from my stash. 

Hope you get a chance to have a go at this month's mood board and have fun.

Take care

cheers

Tracey 

This is what family looks like

Hi everyone

Back with my first post for the month, inspired by this month's mood board.

I started with some old patterned paper from my stash which  I added the waste from some punched circles I had used for another LO just to add a little subtle texture.   I lightly covered the lot with gesso using an old credit card.   I then used a baby wipe to take some of the gesso off and lighten some areas.

I then used some gelatos (Cotton Candy & Orange Soda), smooshed onto my messy mat , spritzed with water and added to my background with a brush and some Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst spray.

I added some stamping using a Colour Blast stamp and the some Colour Blast paste in Deep Water using a Darkroom Door Stencil.   I coated a few Darkroom Door chipboard pieces with gesso, then Dina Wakley Acrylic paint in Turquoise and rubbed on a little Nuvo Embellishment Mousse with my finger to highlight it in places.   I used Dylusions Squeezed Orange spray to colour some gauze.

I matted my photo with some We R Memory Keepers patterned paper from the Crush collection and then assembled my layers using some plaster tape, washi tape, Hambly Screen Prints and ephemera from the Cocoa Vanilla Happiness Is collection, Nuvo Crystal drops and finishing off with my title with a sticker from the Tim Holtz Small Talk pad. 

Hope you've been inspired and give the challenge a go this month.

'til next time 

cheers

Tracey

Rainbow Love Layout by Leonie Neal-Dawson

Hello'
Leonie with you today on the Scrapping Clearly blog
sharing my take on the April combined challenge.
Have you seen it yet? 

You can add your own take on this challenge in our Facebook group.

There are so many prompts you could choose from, I see Autumn tones, camping/holiday themes,
rainbows, foliage and more.  

But it was that rainbow hot air balloon from the mood board that really drew me in.

I chose this background paper by Ella and Viv from their Graffiti collection.

It's such an awesome piece of paper that just makes me happy looking at it.  

There are others designed in a similar style in the Graffiti collection including some

really grungy ones perfect for male pages. 

I've got three photos on my page but I've followed the sketch fairly closely. 

Although this paper is all kinds of fabulous just by itself I wanted to add some of my own marks and decided to do this with a Dina Wakley Stencil and Liquitex Gesso. I thought the addition of white to the background, once repeated in my embellishments and Journalling, would help tie everything together. 

Here's what my background looked like once I'd finished making marks and altering it. 

I used Dina Wakley Blackberry paint to colour the Heidi Swapp wood veneer title.
I'm not a huge purple fan but this is sooo lush and was perfect to compliment these photos.
I added some more white marks to the title with a gel pen. 

The alphas are by Fancy Pants Designs and add some more white to my page. I figured there was quite enough colour on my page with the paper itself so, apart from the coloured sequins,
I tried to limit all other additions to my page to either white or black.

I fussy-cut several of these journal spots from a Hambly Screen Print Transparency and added some Tim Holtz Small Talk stickers to them. I really like these little stickers to add phrases and quotes to my pages. 

The last little section of my page is my journalling with a white gel pen, I recreated the jounalling spot from the sketch using Maggie Holmes washi tape, Staples, twine, Heidi Swapp stickers and another fussy-cut flourish from the Hambly Screen Print.  

I'm really happy with how this one turned out and the April mood board and sketch  certainly helped me put it all together easily. I hope you can play along with us this month,

cheers, and happy crafting to you.

Leonie Neal-Dawson

Black & White Plus One Makes a Striking Colour Scheme

Hello Scrapping Clearly peeps, Leonie with you today.
I'm feeling my age today, as I had my eyes tested and paid for my first pair of multifocals.
Great way to spend my day off! Not sure I'll be able to get used to wearing them
and certainly not feeling like a spring chicken. How did this creep up on me?

I have a Black and White plus Yellow scrapbooking page to share with you today.

I love scrapping with black and white papers, it means you are free to add whatever colour you fancy and
it will always match. I chose Yellow mainly because I had a gorgeous Yellow Hambly Screen Print I wanted to use
but I also find it such a happy colour and it suited the tones in my photos. 

Primarily I used THIS paper from the Maggie Holmes Gather collection.
I also used these other black and white papers from Crate Paper Chasing Dreams Collection. 

In my last pack of goodies from the Scrapping Clearly shop I received THIS pack of Vicki Boutin Acrylic Paints. I was quite impressed with them, the size is good -40ml bottles- so not too large and they have a flip top lid which I like, makes it easy to use and less wastage. 

It was easy to water them down a little on my craft mat and then roughly paint
some of the flowers and foliage on the patterned paper.  

I added a border of machine stitching around the papers for texture and to add interest to my page. I tied in the cotton thread of the border with my photos by adding some messy cotton thread underneath the photos.  

The Silliness Acetate word from the Heidi Swapp line in the store captured the essence of my photos and made a great title, along with the Teresa Collins Summer Stories Border Strip. For extra interest and detail on my page I added some Tim Holtz Rub-ons around the edge of my page.

Here's a close up of that Hambly Screen Prints overlay I mentioned earlier.  I cut out one of the frames from the 12x12 sheet and attached it to my photo with some glossy accents. 

A little sprinkling of sequins completed my page.

And that's a wrap from me for this month as I await delivery of my specs!
Oh No!

Thanks so much for stopping by, Happy Crafting,

Leonie Neal-Dawson

Love Grows Here- A Simple Step by Step

Howdy bloggers, Lisa here with a quick Friday mixed media update.

This weekend I am lucky to be creating here in the Hunter Valley

with some happy, creative, like minded folk.

Today I am sharing with you a layout I threw together this evening,

 because I had a simple malfunction with my journal page, and that is another story.

I have these beautiful photos of my youngest daughter with her BF.

Which I just adore, and although I don't scrapbook much anymore, 

I really couldn't wait to put this onto a page

To paint the backgrounds I started with a green paint and a Donna Downey stencil then, using a wet wipe,

I worked the image into the paint by removing excess.

Next I reapplied the stencil off center and added 2 extra colours, using DWM acrylic paint,

 to bring out the stencil image and to add depth to the page.

 I created 2 different coloured backgrounds to have another option. I chose the green.

I added a piece of pattern paper (similar to this one) which I tore to fit across the page,

then I drew flourishes using a Fude Ball black pen. I also attached muslin using a long armed stapler.
I topped the elements with a Kinder Kreations valentines day frame and the wood veneer

LOVE GROWS HERE title

Lastly I added a strip or 2 of washi tape, a piece of Hambly transparency,
and a few flairs to support the circles within the Hambly image.

Simple journaling finishes this cute layout of my sweet girl.

Thanks so much for dropping by the blog, 

I'll be back next week with a new mixed media update.

Have a super creative weekend and a 

wonderful Valentines Day with your Loves.

Lisa xx

How are you going with our Christmas Challenge??

Good Morning Arty Peeps!

Happy Sunday!

I hope your weekend is going swimmingly.

A simple share from me today, something that's been waiting in the wings

for a particularly busy time, as it is this time of year.

A background made with heavy weight cardstock and yellow Dylusions ink spray. Patterned papers, stickers, and chippy alpha and Viewmaster sticker from the sweet Teresa Collins 'Something Wonderful' range. The flourish is an old foam stamp I have, used with the green paint from this pack.
There is also a piece of Hambly transparency behind the main photo.

I journalled with a black pen and added the date with a stamp

and some black ink.

Hope you are getting some creative time at this often frantic time of year.

Playing along for the chance to win a new WeRMK sewing machine, and be featured on our blog.

You have one week left!

Upload your projects here.

I am so excited about this competition!!

'Til next time,

stay arty,

Beautiful Bella Blvd - Bright and Brave collection

Hello Scrapping Clearly readers.
Leonie Neal-Dawson dropping by today to share 

a page using the Bright and Brave Bella Blvd collection kit from the Illustrated Faith line. 

This range is on special in the Scrapping Clearly shop so if lovely bright colours appeal to you head over to the shop for a bargain. 

Last weekend my youngest had her Confirmation day so this collection has been perfect for me to scrap this religious occasion.

Naturally I took loads of Photos and my daughter was so excited 

to be celebrating this special event she happily complied.

The photo I scrapped today is perhaps my favourite from the whole day.  

It's just her to a T, she has an endearing quality of always managing to close her eyes when I take pictures and combined with her sweet smile it's just adorable (but I'm her mum and am of course completely biased).

(apologies for the reflections those transparencies are extremely hard to photograph) 

I've used a Hambly screen print with a yellow design overlaid on a turquoise patterned paper from the Collection kit.  I thought about cutting the screen print up and using the individual frames  but I just loved the yellow and Teal combo and couldn't get past it's simplistic loveliness. 

I cut the typewriter elements from another of the patterned papers and placed them under the screen print and then my photo, patterned paper matting and embellishments were adhered over the top of the screen print. 

Bella Blvd Bright and Brave Collection Kit

Bright and Brave Tabbies

Humbly Screen Print

Thanks for stopping by today happy crafting to you. 

Leonie Neal-Dawson

Going Green

 Good Morning Arty Peeps!
Hope this morning finds you well and happy, and ready to rock another week.

I'm going bright and green today in celebration of my Hippy child.

 We had a trip out to Gostwyck Chapel for some Mother's Day photos, it's such a pretty place in Autumn!

For the background I used a piece of 'resist' paper, similar to these ones (but much older!) and coloured it up with Dylusions spray inks. I added some stencilling with Stazon inkpads and a foam applicator.

Under the photo, I used a piece of Hambly transparency with an inked edge, and my title is cut from a transparency overlay and the word outlined with a Slick Writer. I stapled both the transparencies to my page.

I coloured these stickers black for my sub-title, added some Dymo and journalled on strips of correction tape outlined with black.

With all the pattern details in the background my page needed no further embellishing, pretty quick.

Hope you have a creative week. There are still a couple of days to play with our mood board and sketch challenges, entries close at the end of the month. Upload to our Facebook albums (click on the links).

Thanks for coming by,

'til next time,

Oxide Love!

 Hi there Arty Peeps!
Hope your Easter break was great!

I'm here today to share my slightly rearranged take on the April sketch challenge. It's a fun one, you can play along here, or check it out at the bottom of this post.

I have been having such a brilliant time with my new Tim Holtz Distress oxides, I simply cannot leave them alone! I have used them to create all of my page backgrounds lately. So, so pretty!

I typed my journalling on vellum (so as not to completely cover the background) and coloured some chippy arrows black to guide your eye around the page. I added some strips of Hambly for pops of lime, and circles in paper and brads, for embellishments. These brads have a sticky back so no need to poke holes, cool!

For my title I coloured the wood veneer '2017' and '&' as well as the foil Thickers 'friends' with an alcohol marker. I made up 'Ruby' from leftover words in this pack of foam Thickers. A Prima flower, some leaves, and a cute sticky brad make up my little embellishment cluster.

So here is the finished page.

Kinda like the sketch.

Hope you are playing along with us this month. If a mood board is more your thing we have one of those here.

Til next time,

stay scrappy.