Happiness & Cocktails | Sue Plumb

Hi everyone!

It's Sue Plumb back again today to share my latest guest designer project with you.

For today's post I wanted to go "back to basics" and create a fun 12x12" scrapbook layout that was focused on paper. (My love of paper is, after all, what first led me down the rabbit hole of scrapbooking.) I chose to document some fun photos that were taken almost a year ago at my retreat on the Sunshine Coast.

The collection I chose to pair with my photos was the 'Good Vibes' collection from Crate Paper. This collection is full of bold, playful patterns - perfect for pairing with my retreat photos!

I began with a sheet of the Girls Night paper as my layout base, which I topped with a sheet of white cardstock, that I trimmed down to measure 11x11". This left me a nice, even 1/2" patterned paper border all the way around the edges.

I then turned to my other papers and was immediately drawn to the gorgeous All Good paper, with its rich colours, florals and sweet bird motifs. I cut a large rectangular piece which I placed vertically on the left side of my page. I then cut a smaller piece of the Hashtag paper and layered it horizontally over the top.

Next, I cut one of the stripey pattern strips from the Passion paper, which I added on top to provide a strong, horizontal line on which to place my photos. 

I still wanted more layers behind my photos though, so I cut two tags from So Chill cut apart paper; punching a hole in each and then tying them with twine. These were then tucked in underneath where my photos were going to go. I also tucked a small white doily into my layers before sticking my photos down.

For my page title, I cut the large "happiness" piece from the Big Heart foil accent specialty paper and placed it below my photos. I then used some blue Pinkfresh Studio 'Boys Fort' Mini Alpha Stickers to complete my title. (These are such a cute size, and there is also a sheet of both tan and green alphas included in the pack.)

With so many busy patterns at play, my layout required very few embellishments (as the papers had already done most of the hard work for me). I reached for the remaining piece of the All Good paper I had used earlier and fussy cut one of the little birds from it. I the added it to my page using foam tape to give it some dimension.

Above my photos I added a gorgeous 3D butterfly embellishment from the One Canoe Two Globe Gallery range.

To finish off, I added a scattering of blue sequins from the Teresa Collins Urban Market Sequins pack. (These were the perfect match for the blue of our cocktails!)

That's all from me today, I hope I have inspired you to get back to basics too and create something featuring lots of pretty papers too. 

Until next time, happy scrapping!

Birthday Cards - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies,

It's Karyn here,

Today I have some birthday cards to share with you made using the Teresa Collins Urban Market collection and Heidi Swapp Minc'd papers and embellishments from the Scrapping Clearly Store.

For the first 2 cards I've made card bases using white cardstock.

For the first card I've used my mini Minc to add silver foil to a sheet of dotty paper from the Heidi Swapp Minc 6x6 5th Avenue paper pack. I've also decorated the word "happy" from a Minc ephemera pack with my mini Minc and silver foil. I've matted the dotty silver paper on Teresa Collins Urban Market paper from the 6x6 paper pad. Then I've added some alpha and label stickers, chipboard elements, and sequins.

For the next card I used plain  white cardstock matted on paper from the 6x6 paper pad then I added a tag, some alpha stickers, chipboard elements, a silver foil minc'd bunting ephemera and sequins.

The next 2 cards use bases made from kraft cardstock. 

I've used a selection of papers from the 6x6 paper pad, tags, decorative stickers, and chipboard elements, all from the Teresa Collins Urban Market collection.

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn