Good Fun by Belinda Spencer

 Hi Scrapping Clearly fans!

It's Belinda here today to share my layout inspired by the December Mood Board using lots of goodies from the Scrapping Clearly store.

For this layout, I started by mounting a cropped sheet of heavy weight Marshmallow cardstock on black cardstock. I used some Prima Vintage Gold Icing Paste with a Heidi Swapp stencil to add some dots to my background.

Once the paste was dry, I spritzed on a Lindy's Stamp Gang spray. I let the colour drip down the page and also added some splats.

Next I layered some papers together. I used all Heidi Swapp papers as well as tags and a photo frame all by Heidi.

I attached a cute gold Heidi Swapp Photo Corner to my photo and added that too.

I added a Charm's Creations arrow with a bit of gold on it.

I used some Vicki Boutin Thickers quotes, title and little embellishments.

Here's what I used:

HEIDI SWAPP:

- Storyline Chapters 12 x 12 Project Pad

- Believe 12 x 12 Paper Pad

- 6 x 6 Die Cut Papers

-Photo Frames

- Photo Corners

- Magnolia Jane Gold Leaf Tags

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VICKI BOUTIN:

- Storyteller Ephemera Cardstock Die-Cuts

- Storyteller Thickers Stickers

- Colour Study Thickers

PRIMA Icing Paste Vintage Gold

LINDY'S STAMP GANG Starburst Spray Opal Sea Oats 

Marshmallow cardstock

Black cardstock

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. I hope you can play along with the mood board this month too.

Cheers

Belinda

How To Read a Mood Board - Thanks Jo!

 Good Morning Arty Peeps!

Welcome to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

We recently had a question in our Facebook Group about how to use a mood board. One of our fans answered that question beautifully so I am going to share it with you today

Jo Lovespaper - a mood board is a collection of colours, patterns, objects, such as this month's which I've added here. The idea is to look at the board and whatever comes to mind you go with!
For example, you might see and use the colour red, or see the bike and think of tires and wheels or tire treads. Or the doll with the sparkling earring and use diamontes. Or the Poppies and relate it to ANZAC day. You can do a combination or just use one item. I hope that helps!

Thank you Jo!

This month I used the colours because they were perfect for these pics of my boy at Jindabyne with his school. Black, red, grey/silver, and white.

Black gesso on white heavyweight card, with red paint highlights. My grey/silver is the Tim Holtz hashtag stamps (oh, how I love these!!) embossed.

My title is laid over a photo of the slopes, I inked around the edges of the Bella Rouge letters to make them stand out a bit more. I really like this alpha set, it's so versatile and goes with everything. There is also a whole range of scrapbooking products that match.

Can't wait to see how you interpret the mood board this month.

Upload your project here for a chance to win a $30 shop voucher.

And before I go, I just want to say a huge thank you to the Boss Lady Kylie, and Kim, for hosting Lisa and me at Gundy Scraptacular last weekend. We had a ball.
Here we are waiting for the shop to open, we were a little early!

Til next time,

stay arty,

We Visited The Shop! And the Mini Album is Coming Along.

Good Morning Arty Peeps!

Hope you are finding some creative time in your days.

I am surprised at how much extra time I have just from not making lunches

and doing drop off and pick up, so, while the kids are on school holidays,

I have been working on my Vicki Boutin mini-album inspired by this gorgeous book of Lisa's. 

If you remember, I pre-made some pages,

and today I am sharing with you the first few I have put together.

I'm not sure yet whether I can manage to make it chronological,

or if that will even matter to me.

For now, they are not in any particular order.

 I started with this pre-made page decorated with Dylusions.

And, discovering that I would not have the space to put

all the photos I wanted to use, I added a pocket page in the middle.

I had to punch some new holes so it would fit in the album.

These pics are of my most recent retreat, to The Dandenongs.

Biggest road trip yet for scrappy purposes. So much fun!

It was one of those retreats where I met (in real life) so many

people I have known online for years. Amazing!

We even got to stop in at the Scrapping Clearly store, TWICE!

It is the best stocked scrapping/art store I have ever seen,

seriously chockas full of variety and quality goods.

And as if that weren't enough, Kylie is just so delightful,

full of country charm and hospitality.

I hand wrote some large journalling on the bottom of the pocket page

with our Scrapping Clearly pic because I realised I had to hide a couple of naughty photos

(they are inside, so as not to offend), and didn't have any more pics.

A fair bit of risque behaviour happens when you get a big room

filled with excited, and excitable, women!

Stay tuned for another update on this little album,

I'm having a great time reminiscing on all the scrappy getaways I've had

over the last ten years or so. Feeling blessed.

Til next time,

stay arty,

I'm Sharing, Are You?

 Hiya Arty Peeps.
Welcome to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

I'm here today to share some more arty play with the Distress Oxide inkpads from Tim Holtz. I know, again! But I just cannot get enough of them and I'm over-the-moon excited that there are 12 new colours coming out soon!

This time I wanted to see how they reacted on black cardstock and over

Colour Blast shimmer pastes. For this page I have used 'Bling' paste.

As you can see it leaves a lovely chalky finish which softens the sheen of the paste. The hues become very subtle, almost indistinguishable from each other on the black card. I really like the subtlety of the colours over the paste.

I layered my photo on patterned papers from this 6x6 pad (which is currently on sale in the store), and the backs of some scrunched and inked kraft tags. I typed my journalling on one of the tags with my amazing Typecast typewriter (these are sold out but you can still get more ribbons) and added a cute hashtag stamp,

love these so much!

My title is from this gorgeous sparkly Thickers pack, with dymo sub-titles mounted on the back of some

wood veneer words that I was never going to use.

And this is how it looks.

We would love to see what you are making with your Scrapping Clearly products. Come and share with us on our Facebook page. While you're there check out our monthly Sketch and Moodboard challenges and play along, you could score yourself some shop $$.
This cold weather is the perfect opportunity to get scrappy/arty/crafty.

Til next time,

Dream by Lauren Hender

Hello!

Welcome back to the Scrapping Clearly blog.

Today I have a beautiful easy to create layout to share with you using some stunning products from the.... Scrapping Clearly store.

To build this layout I have used three large pieces of patterned cardstock to build the background. This was the pink floral, the black and white crossed and the teal with pink flower.

Just placing these pieces into place I knew this layout would come together easily.

I then layered up my photo, fussy cut some frames from the cardstock and using foam adhesive layered my cluster with a doily.

The frame cardstock is just wonderful - definitely a fun feature that is a very cost effective feature on the layout.

Tip: When purchasing your patterned cardstock have a think what you may fussy cut. It may mean that you will end up purchasing the same sheet twice but it will add an extra layer or a cost effective embellishment.

Now it's the time to add all the pretties.. this is the fun part. When adding the details I was absolutely blown away with how fabulous the cork embellishments looked. I have to admit when I saw them in their packet I thought I wasn't going to be able to use them.

See! It looks great..

So let's go shopping.

Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams Collection

Teresa Collins Something Wonderful Chipboard Buttons

Pink Paislee Moonstruck Collection Cork Stickers

I hope my layout has inspired you to get creative.

Happy Scrappin

Lauren xo