Cyber Cropping with Scrapping Clearly

Hiya Arty peeps,

Last weekend Scrapping Clearly held a cyber crop with oodles of challenges and spot prizes. The projects are still rolling in since the due date isn't until midnight Friday, that gives you some time if you want to join us. All the details are on our FB page here. So with that in mind I thought I'd share a couple of the pages I have created from the challenges.

Challenge 1 - Colour challenge (load here)

 Use teal, silver/grey, black and white only

On marshmallow cardstock I mixed Lindy's Stamp Gang powder with some whipped spackle and put it through this stencil. I love whipped spackle because it's lighter and dries much faster than regular texture paste with a similar result. I picked a bold black & white print paper from a 6 x 6 pad to mat my photo and added some strips of Hambly to frame it. American Crafts 'Thickers' words, Dymo, some staples and old deco tape, plus some doodads and journalling to finish it off.

Challenge 2 - a recipe. (load here)

You have to use watercolour, handstitching, flowers, a favourite quote, and 2 photos.

 I used these watercolours for my background, again on marshmallow cardstock. I hand stitched some crosses across my striped paper, and cut flowers using my Silhouette. A quote using Dymo and 2 pics with some added bling and American Crafts 'Thickers' words.

I still have half a dozen or so challenges to choose from, yay!
Also there are our usual sketch and mood board challenges for September if you haven't already played with those.

Come check out our Facebook page and see what everyone is up to, there are loads of new projects to give you inspiration.

Thanks for coming by

'til next time

Top Nine with Melinda

Hello there fellow ScrappingClearly fans, Melinda here with you today sharing another page I have made using my most favourite collection of all time. EVER. The Starshine collection designed by Shimelle.

This layout started as a little idea that popped into my head one night while I was trying to sleep (does that happen to anyone else?!) and involved the stitching and a BIG title. My idea kinda evolved and changed during the making but I am super happy with how it all came together in the end!!

If you would like to watch my process you can find my process video here and read on for more details and close ups!

You can see the stitching I have done on the background (I used this paper and mounted on this paper) using a needle and thread and I have actually not stitched behind where the photo is. I used this tutorial to get my cameo to do all the hard work of making the holes for me and it made the process a) quicker and b) the holes were that tiny bit bigger and easier to sew through!

After the stitching was done I went in with some similar colours of Colour Blast sprays (bubblegum, sunset, saffron and lagoon) and did droplets all across the area where I knew I wanted most of the embellishments.

The photograph I decided to scrap was one that Instagram shared with me early this year and it is my Top 9 photos of 2015. I have included a little pull out card from this cut apart sheet behind the photo with matching number stickers from the accent and phrase stickers from the collection and a little blurb about each photo.

I have used the awesomely cool thickers in this collection for the title, I love all the different colours in it and I love that font, it's so fun!

That floral paper is one of my most fave from the collection and I HAD to fussy cut some of the flowers to use as embellishments and love how it looks!

I have secretly been hoarding those gorgeous acrylic shapes but figured it was time to get them on a page so I have used the butterfly, the word shine and both hearts.

At the very end I did a few little sprinkles using the Colour Blast Colour Spray in Roadbase (flat black colour).

If you have any questions or comments please feel free to leave a comment and I will get back to you ASAP!! Thanks again so much for taking the time to stop by and I hope you have found some inspiration to get out some product and PLAY!!

Melinda