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

'Whoa!'

Amy here with you today, sharing a fun boyish page, using awesome products from the store. I just had to scrap this photo, taken of my youngest, Sam.

At the time of the photo, he was tired after an eventful but stressful morning swimming competition. Our Samuel is known for getting into these crazy but quirky moods when he is super tired. We are all only human - right?!

My background paper is from the 'Boys Fort' range from a Pink Fresh Studio collection.

For the background, I roughly swiped some white gesso on to break up the grey (so much fun!). The gesso also acts as a barrier for the wet media I was to use next - from the store: Dina Wakely Media - Heavy Acrylic in Cheddar and Lemon; Colour Blast Colour Spray in Rainforest.

I have also sprayed some gauze with the luscious Rainforest spray - to add to the aquatic theme. 

Then, as pictured here, from the store, I added the following products before I mounted my photo: enamel dots from My Minds Eye; paper tissue from Dina Wakley Media, a 'date insert' from We R Memory Keepers 'Typecast'; quotes from Tim Holtz Small Talk; and wood veneer embellishment from Studio Calico Wanderlust.

 The chipboard title 'Whoa' and film strip were from my stash.

I have used a handmade heart and coloured wire overlapping it, from Charms Creations - the wire is from D-lish Scraps. 

I am pleased with how this page came together - and really enjoyed scrapping this one!

Thank you for popping by!

See you next month.

Amy

😊

Olde Worlde art journal with Em.

Hello hello! 

I hope the month of March has been awesome for you.

So who else is in awe of all the awesome Journal art Lisa, Peg, and Kylie  have been creating? 

Oh my they are such great inspiration, so much so that I had a play in my journal too. 

I have also been playing and teaching myself a little abstract acrylic art. So I tackled it again in my journal. 

With Lisa in my head and the desire to create I made this.....

I think I’ve said it before, but the freedom in art journalling is relaxing and exciting.
You never quite know how it’s going to turn out. 

Once I had layered my base paints which included Dylusions white acrylic and Art Anthology Metal Effects silver, I splashed Liquitex Carbon Black acrylic ink around and at the time thought I had ruined it a little by being to heavy handed with it. 

But this is what is so great about art journalling, you can just keep building. So I splashed Liquitex Titanium White acrylic ink as well then added some Dylusions Squeezed Orange and Ranger Distress Collage Medium into the mix, this ‘softened’ the black splashes a little. 

Next came the stencilling and stamping. 

I used an archival ink through a few different stencils and on various stamps. 

Once all my ‘messy creative’ was complete, I added to the page with a couple of We R Memory Keepers chipboard frames and, sitting in and around these, I used Tim Holtz paper dolls to add a bit of curiosity to the pages. 

I added to the page a few older stickers I’ve had for years and finished with some more stamping on the frames, and Liquitex splats around it all to pull it together. 

When I started these pages I thought I had totally wrecked it, but the end result makes my heart smile. 

If you have yet to try this form of creativity I highly recommend it. It allows the inner creative out. You might be pleasantly surprised. I know I am. 

I hope I can also inspire you a little with my process video. 

https://youtu.be/MWa7RaIyx4g

Till I see you all in April....happy scrapping. 

Em. Xx

Creative Gift by Lauren Hender

Hello everyone and welcome back to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

Do you have a friend that is ready to make to mixed media jump? Who has dabbled a bit but is still not sure? Well I do. She is an amazing scrapper but it was only recently that she made the jump and has added a touch of mixed media to her layouts. A little excited about this I want to give her a gift of a ranger art journal. As I was sitting at my desk I thought I would create her a mixed media tag that she could keep to accompany the gift and maybe inspire her to be brave and add some of the elements I use into her new art journal.

So what do you think? Would you like a scrappy gift like this?

Ok, so as you can see I have a used a few goodies featured above to make this tag but there have also been a few things you don't know I have used.

So here it is. The shopping list all linked up and ready for you to click on and go straight to the Scrapping Clearly store.

Ranger Tag

Gesso

Distress Oxide Ink

Acetate

Paper Pad

Cork

Stencils

I started by using the distress oxides and some gesso on the tag. I then applied some texture using a stencil and the whipped spackle.

I then hand cut a couple of tags and added the hole reinforcers in coordinating cardstock. I just love this punch and know it will be used many times especially in my planner.

 I found this cute acetate 'thankful' wreath and new it would be perfect to place on top of the tags.

I layered the cork behind the 'thankful' to make it pop and give it some dimension.

I hope my little gift tag has inspired you to make a creative gift for someone special.

Lauren xo

Peg's Mood Board

Hey there Arty Peeps!
Happy Star Wars day, so my nerdy friends tell me.

I'm here today to share my May mood board page with y'all. I was inspired by the colours in this one and simply had to scrap the story of my youngest boy's new bedroom colour.

Still creating lots of 12 x 12 backgrounds with my Distress Oxides, I decided to cut one up in squares and lay them like tiles on the back side of this patterned paper I had misted and inked. My page title is this adorable paper clip, currently on special in the shop.

I used these gorgeous stamps with Archival ink to make the hashtag banners, and  made it look like I attached them using my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. I finished off my Cocoa Vanilla flairs and vellum stars to embellish. I love finishing packs of things! That foil card under my banners I cut in half and used it under my embellishments at the bottom right as well.

Here's my finished page. here you can also see the ghost frame I cut in two and matted my pics on, another pack of something finished, yay!

And, since I had more pics I wanted to use I made a 6 x 8 pocket page insert, this is the front and back. It will go next to the big page in my regular 12 x 12 album.

Here is the mood board.

Have fun with it!

Thanks for coming by,

til next time, stay scrappy,

More Something Wonderful!

Hello Arty Peeps!

Hope y'all are well and happy, maybe making plans for St Paddy's Day next week?

Peg here to share another page using the Teresa Collins 'Something Wonderful' range. This one is just slapped together quickly using bits of prettiness torn from the 6 x 6 paper pad. I stuck my photo down (and framed it) with washi tape, reinforcing it all with a couple of staples on the corners.

I added some Heidi Shine black and teal splats to the background, layered up my mini pic on tags (oodles in this pack!), and typed my journalling with a teal ribbon, cool!!

So with just a few stickers, a chippie, and a bit of transparency ('Story Time'), my page was done. Too easy! 

Gotta love quick pages, right?!

So happy crafting and see you next time.

Thanks for coming by,

Moodboard inspired layout, by Tania

HELLO.....I'm here to share my layout, titled, 'BEAUTIFUL'! And it's my take on the moodboard this month!!! Here is the moodboard in case you haven't seen it!!!

So, here's my layout!! I'm using some Chickaniddy papers this month!!! And loads of other gorgeous delights from the Scrappingclearly store which I will link you to, as we go along!!!

I started my background by spongeing a thin layer of Gesso around the photo. I then used a Dusty Attic stencil and some gorgeous 'BLING' & 'JUST BLUE' colour paste.

Once that was dry, I did a tiny bit of stamping around the colour paste with a Kaisercraft, tiny dots stamp, & a cute little wooden Heidi Swapp heart stamp from her Memory Planner range! Then, it was all about the layers behind my photo. I've used a mixture of the Chickaniddy papers again, plus some Prima packaging, (from some flowers). There's also a few pieces of that gorgeous Maggie Holmes, gold foil vellum which I had left over from a previous project! I did add a few gold accents on this layout! At the very bottom, there's a strip of the We R' Memory Keepers, Clearly Posh acetate, and in the photo below, you can see my Gold, Heidi Swapp acetate word I used, for my title.

Below the title is a cute little, Flea Market bow...I love these, from Maggie Holmes & Crate Paper!!! You'll see I have a paper drinking straw behind my layers, some washi tape, then there's the flower cluster, which is made up of some Prima sugar blooms & other smaller flowers. I coloured some white leaves, using Distress stain.

I hope I have inspired you to play along with our moodboard this month. don't forget there's a sketch too. You can link up your challenges over on the facebook page now. See the link above!!!

"This Special Moment" by Melinda

Hi! It's my turn to share with you what I came up with using the April moodboard. And just as a refresher, here it is again :)

I have to be honest here and say that I did struggle a little with the board as it is so purple heavy and if you know me, you know I am not a purple fan! However, once I got over my initial trepidation and all that purple I took a closer look and saw that gorgeous gold, the blues and aquas and funnily enough the "tea" in the tea cup reminded me of a sunset. I have a stack of photographs from our wedding (April 2008) which include sunset photos on the beach. I pulled out my photos and narrowed my selection down to 2 of my very faves as they worked best with the collection I had on hand to work with which is the Time Machine by Kaisercraft.

Here is my completed page and after much umming and ahhing and "I'm not really sure-ing", as this is not a collection I would grab for myself, I am really, really pleased with how this page turned out! I enjoyed the challenge of working with something outside of my norm with both the collection and the moodboard.

The photo's were looking a bit flat on the page without the mixed media so taking inspiration again from the moodboard and the photos I pulled out my navy colour shine after I applied a very light coat of gesso in the background and using the handy packaging technique I applied some colour to my background behind all the papers and acetate layers (I just love that pop of gold on the acetate in the background!). I then used the awesome stamp set from the same collection to add a little bit of interest using the Heidi Swapp navy stamp pad. Just as a side note, I noticed that the paper didn't stand up too well to the wet mediums so I did have to mount this completed page on another 12x12 paper.

Once my big layers were down and the photos on top I started embellishing. I used the Time Machine collectables pack and a border sticker from the 12x12 sticker sheet in the collection pack.

To finish the page off and bring it all together I grabbed my hot pink colour shine to make some sprinkles in the embellishment clusters.

Like I said earlier, this is totally different for me but I am so pleased with how it turned out so if you are thinking "Ah, I really dont like purple" take another look at that mood board and see what else you can see, you may find yourself with an awesome $20 gift certificate to the store for your efforts!

Thats it for me for today, happy scrapping and I'll be back shortly with another project using this range!

Melinda