Summer Days by Lauren Hender

Hello Everyone and BIG welcome to DECEMBER! 

Oh my goodness, this time of year is so hectic but I LOVE IT! 

I love everything about Christmas. The music, the food, the family, the shopping and even a little bubbles every now and then. 

Are you are lover of Christmas or do you dread this time? 

As the months are getting warmer and warmer here in Australia I thought I would share a layout with using the beautiful Endless Summer collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studio found HERE in the Scrapping Clearly store. 

I just love this collection.. and I have to say I think it's one of my Cocoa Vanilla Studio favs. 

Which is your favourite element above? 

If you would like to see how this layout has come together I have created a process video. This shows  you the ins and outs, the ups and downs of how this layout came together. 

I promise you also.. although it appears to have lots of elements its was super quick and easy to come together. 

So lets do some shopping

Endless Summer Ephemera Pack

Patterned Paper 1 -Aloha

Patterned Paper 2 - Coastal Chill

Flair Buttons

Wood Veneers

Woodies

Here are some close up of the layout. 

I hope my layout has inspired you to get creative. 

Have a fabulous December. 

Lauren xoxox 

Art Journal Fun by Lauren Hender

Hello Everyone.

Welcome back to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

Today I am sharing with you a mixed media piece I created in my art journal.

I don't often create in my journal but when I do a just love it. To be honest I get a little nervous about making it all come together. But in the end I am always pleasantly surprised by the end result.

The journal I create in is the Dylusions Creative Journal.

These journals have high quality artist pages allowing you to add mediums and texture to you pages without transfer.

To build this layout I began by adding some tissue paper to the background and some fussy cut butterflys to add some texture. I then painted over them with white gesso, and dried it off with a heat gun.

I then had some fun spraying, spritzing and flicking Dylusions everywhere and letting it run down the page.

Then using some stamps and some black staz on ink I play around adding some stronger stamps in the centre and highlighting butterflys throughout. This is truly the fun part and my advice is not to over think it.. just stamp.

I then stamped and fussy cut some smaller butterfly's and using the new Dina Wakely scribble sticks I coloured the butterflys. I then played around with some washi tape and finished off with adding the title and splashing white ink everywhere.

Lets go shopping:

Art Journal

Scribble Sticks

Dylusions Sprays

Staz On Ink

White Ink

Have a fabulous and creative week.

Lauren xo