'These little moments I love...' by Amy

Hi All! 

I have here a simple page using goodies from the gorgeous Pink Fresh Studio 'Escape the Ordinary' range. 

This range is perfect to compliment my photo of young Samuel up in Victoria's High Country.

Here is a list of the items used from the store in this layout: 

My Minds Eye - On Trend 2 collection - enamel dots.

Colour Blast - Colour Spray - Roadbase.

Studio Calico - Wonderlust Embellishments - wood veneers.

Posca - Uni Marker pen

Tim Holtz - Idea-ology - 'Small Talk'

Prima Flowers - leaf

Metal butterfly

Finally, using the Pink Fresh Studio - Escape the Ordinary, I have die-cut some shapes to embellish this simple page.

Here are some close-ups!

Thank you for stopping by; and have a great weekend!

Ciao, Amy

Hi everyone, this is my first post on the blog for Scrapping Clearly and I am a little chuffed to be here  & sharing what I hope is a little fun, laughter and inspiration to get you slapping some paint and products onto a scrappy layout and create your own little masterpiece of love.

As you would have read from my bio, I love a good challenge & another thing is that I leave everything to the last minute as I like to think I create better under pressure. This months moodboard is the perfect challenge to get my mojo going and I am loving the zesty green. 

I have thrown a few awesome products into a box whilst running through the craft room on the weekend. I am going to call this my 'whats in the box ' post. It's the fly by the seat of my pants and grab what I can to create a little awesomeness... 

I bet you are wondering 'What's  in the box ', lets take a look.... 

Vicki Boutin Watermelon Burst  – it’s a lush green paint… I love its thickness & coverage 

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Endless Summer Ephemera

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Wild at Heart wood veneer words

Cocoa Vanilla – Made of Awesome Accessory stickers

Carabelle studio texture monoprinting plates Parmi lesestoiles (stars) 

Carabelle studio Art stamp – edges in my journal

Ranger Black Archival Ink

Urban market Enamel dots

woven hat mesh in a neutral shade

plus a cute pic of my son.... 

So here goes the process for my layout Wild @ Heart

Lately I have been creating my own backgrounds. This one was created using white cardstock some Vicki Boutin paint in the fabulous shade of Watermelon burst.  I have brayered on the paint and then plonked on a stencil and rubbed off paint with a damp cloth. Ooooh la la one background ready to go!

Next was to ink up the stars on the texture plate and place them on the page. I stamped them in three places in the zone of the photo. The next stamp was also added in three places and working on the outer edges of where the photo will be placed. 

Time to choose the ephemera. I had some woven mesh that I used to back the photo…I have also chosen a frame & various ephemera from the Cocoa Vanilla Endless Summer pack.  Now it is time to put it all together. 

The frame was stapled to my photo and I have glued down the photo corners. I have also added foam tape to two of the corners of my photo and double side taped to the remainder. Time for a quick fiddle around with the embellishments and title before setting everything in place with glue. I love leaving the timber embellishments natural as they tie in well with the skin tones in this photo, they were chosen from the Wild at heart wood veneer pack. A sticker quote was chosen from the Made of Awesome stickers and a few enamel dots later and the layout is all done.

 Wild @ Heart 

Don't forget we are only half way through the month so you have plenty of time to get your entry uploaded to the October Moodboard Album & I cannot wait to be inspired by your creation.

have fun creating 

Tracey

‘Shine On’

Happy Friday!

Today I have a layout using an 8 x 12 format – yes, something different today.

The photo here is of my youngest, Samuel, who is an avid swimmer – he used his pocket money and bought himself a pair of Michael Phelps – American Swimming Icon – branded goggles and a special swim cap, to wear for his races.

I wanted to keep this page simple. After I trimmed some white cardstock down, I splattered the page with Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic Paint in ‘Night’ and ‘Blushing’ – mixed with water.

Once dried, I set to work on layering my patterned papers on the page from the gorgeous Pink Fresh Studio, using the ‘Escape the Ordinary’ collection.

These papers are perfect for both this photo and my other masculine pages.

Behind the layered patterned papers, I inked a D-Lish Scraps Paper Doily with Dina Wakley – Cheddar paint and sprinkled it with ColourBlast Shimmer Spray in ‘Bling’.

Once the photo was mounted, I put my title together. For the layers here, I have used Cocoa Vanilla Enamel dots and Studio Calico Essentials - stars and wood veneer printed corners. 

 

I have also used a strip of hessian and black thread from my stash and trimmed strips of Pink Fresh Studio papers, again, from the ‘Escape the Ordinary’ collection.

 

 These colours were perfect to match the photo of Samuel with his shiny new goggles.

Thank you for stopping by and have a great weekend!

Amy 😊

Inspiration Board - Lisa J

Hi Scrapping Clearly friends,

Welcome to another week of inspiration here on the blog. Speaking of inspiration have you given this month's inspiration board a go yet? I loved the colour palette on this board. 

I started with some gorgeous papers and embellishments from the Teresa Collins Urban Market collection. I started with a gorgeous tan stripe from the 12x12 paper collection. I knew I wanted to add more colours so I applied a layer of clear Gesso and let it dry first. I probably could have skipped this step as the Urban Market papers are a heavyweight cardstock style.

Next I started adding layers of Distress Oxide inks using a piece of plastic packaging. I used Faded Jeans and Frayed Burlap. I sprinkled some Dylusions Ink Spray in Vibrant Turquoise. In this picture you can see where I sketched out where my paper layers would go so I didn't waste all my mixed media and cover it up.

I created some paper layers around my photos and used the Chipboard Elements for embellishing.

I added some cute buttons from the Chipboard Buttons pack and some turquoise enamel dots from my stash.

Hope you find time to join in the challenge. As always there are fantastic prizes up for grabs.

Happy Scrapping

Chase the Sun - A Scrapbook layout with Lisa J

Hi everyone and welcome to another week of inspiration at Scrapping Clearly.

I am sharing a layout with the Pink Fresh Studio Escape the Ordinary collection.

I fell in love with this Explore paper and knew I wanted to feature it as a background.

I kept everything else fairly minimal to highlight the triangles, hand stitching around one to add some extra texture.

The co-ordinating chipboard added some fun colour pops and details. 

The collection also includes fabric die-cuts which are super cute and add a fun texture.

Enjoy your week and I hope you find the time to create.

Happy scrapping.

Quick Arty Gifts for Those You Love

Bonjour Bloggers, Lisa here with a Friday mixed media update.

Today I am sharing with you a couple of note books

that I have thrown together as a gift for 2 very special young ladies. 

At present we have a guest with us who we haven't seen for 20 years.

Thank goodness the internet and telephones have kept us connected.

I wanted to create something for his girls that was a little arty,

 but a physical item that could be a part of their everyday, 

and to hopefully instill a love of arty life journaling as well.

Starting, I purchased a note book from Kmart, and gave it a coat of Gesso.

Then added a few strips of gelli plate tissue paper from my random paper stash.

A little Dylusions and  DWM paint and applying stencil imaging and script stamping.

A few random dashes in black posca and then it's ready for another layer of goodness.

 I stamped a Peace sign using black Stazon ink and added the bold black paint to add drama.

 A floral paper cut out from a Heidi Swapp Die Cut paper pack,

introduced a softness and extra focal element. 

 Then it's all about this cool flower power photo of the girls.

 I used Matte Medium to adhere it to the cover,

then a little more DWM paint to tie the elements together.

A name/title in AC thickers, strips of beautiful blue flocked pattern paper, 

and some sweet flowers (a gift from our guest, he so knows me).

To finish I will coat the whole piece in Vicki Bouton gel medium

to give overall support to the piece and elements used.

I applied the same formula to this one.

But for this one,

 I cut the star out of the photo and 

placed her into the celestial universe.

 These cool Kinder Kreations chipboard stars added 

a supporting element to the cover of Juliette's journal. 

I felt like she got a little lost on the cover so I painted a gorgeous Kinder Kreations frame in 

Prima Art Alchemy crocus fields purple and stuck it to the cover with Express it glue.

I then coloured in around our focal point using a pink Posca.

Enamel dots, a charms creations felt star, and a few details finished this piece.

Now I'm off to the Australian Reptile Park to snap

 some interactive kangaroo photos with our wonderful Belgian guest.

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

Have a creative crafty weekend.

Lisa xx