Cards From Leftovers - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies,

It's Karyn here, 

and today I have some more cards to share with you made with papers from the Bella Bllvd Illustrated Faith Bright and Brave collection and Heidi Swapp Embellishments - all available in the Scrapping Clearly Store.

I started with a sheet of white cardstock and cut 2 card bases to give a final card size of 5 1/2" x 5 1/2". Then I added a mat of Typed paper to the front of each card.

Next I used some feather dies to cut a heap of feather shapes from offcuts from various papers in the Illustrated Faith Bold and Bright collection kit. I used my Big Shot to do this but you could use a Cameo if you have one or you could cut them out by hand. I then layered these feathers over a Heidi Swapp Dreamy glitter paper frame. Lastly I created some rolled paper flowers from more paper offcuts and added these to the cards in addition to a Heidi Swapp bow embellishment.

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Here and Now Layout - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!

It's Karyn here, 

and today I have a scrapbook page to share with you made with papers from the Bella Bllvd Illustrated Faith Bright and Brave collection and Heidi Swapp Embellishments - all available in the Scrapping Clearly Store.

I started with a sheet of white cardstock and added strips of Geared up for Jesus (teal) and
Borders paper (black geometric) on to each side.

Then I used a stencil (KaiserCraft bubbly mini template) and Faber Castell glass bead glitter gel
in a few spots across my page. 

Once this had thoroughly dried I matted my photo on many layers of paper from the Illustrated Faith Bold and Bright collection kit. I then selected a heap of flower shapes and a title from the Heidi Swapp September skies color magic die cut pkt and painted them a teal colour using my watercolour pan paints. 

On the right side of the page I added more papers from the kit and fussy cut 2 of the cassette tape shapes. I then added a title and other elements from the Pink Paislee Fancy Free collection foam glitter thickers

I attached the Color Magic flowers while they were still damp - I love how they have curled as they dried and given a 3D effect. finally I added some splatters of Heidi Swapp Teal Color Shine across the page.

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Birthday Cards - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!

It's Karyn here, 

and today I have 2 cards to share made with papers from the Bella Bllvd Illustrated Faith Bright and Brave collection and Heidi Swapp Embellishments - all available in the Scrapping Clearly Store.

The card bases are 6" x 6" and made from white cardstock. I added a layer of Illustrated Faith Bible Journalling paper (text) and a layer of Illustrated Faith Count the Ways paper (coloured polka dots). Then added some Heidi Swapp glitter tags, a Heidi Swapp bow embellishment, some Heidi Swapp glitter alphas, Heidi Swapp puffy number stickers, and a handmade sequin pocket.

I made the sequin pocket by sewing 2 pieces of plastic (from pocket page protectors), leaving a small opening to insert the sequins (from the Teresa Collins Daily Stories collection) then sewing the hole closed. The heart was trickier to do - I marked the shape with a pencil first but it was very hard to see on the plastic and it was very slippery to sew - still, I like the rustic look. This is a great way to use up sequins and I love the look! 

For the next card I used a layer of Illustrated Faith Bible Journaling paper (stripes) then attached a strip of the reverse text side to the bottom half of the card. I added more Heidi Swapp glitter tags, some Heidi Swapp glitter alphas, a Heidi Swapp glitter wood veneer word, and a handmade heart sequin pocket. 

Here is a close up of the sentiment. 

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Unforgettable - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies!

It's Karyn here, 

and today I have a scrapbook page to share with you made with papers from the Bella Blvd Illustrated Faith Bright and Brave collection and Heidi Swapp Embellishments - all available in the Scrapping Clearly Store. I love how bright and vibrant these papers are and love love love the designs!

I started with a sheet of Jesus is my Jam paper (music notes) and I used a 'painting with plastic' technique to apply watercolours across the page. I chose yellow, orange and pink colours to go with the sunrise in my photo. 

Then I selected a heap of flower shapes and a title from the Heidi Swapp September skies color magic die cut pkt and painted them the same colours as my background. This is a great way to use lots of the die cuts in a pack - often I seem to try and save them lol. 

Next, I added some puffy stickers .

Finally, I added some Tim Holtz word stickers These stickers are my absolute fave!! 

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Christmas Eve Traditions and a Step by Step Tutorial by Leonie Neal-Dawson

Merry Christmas Eve to all of our Scrapping Clearly family. 

Leonie Neal-Dawson with you today. 

It's Christmas Eve 2017 and I'm sharing a scrapbook layout with my 2016 Christmas Eve photo!

For many years now I have been taking a picture of my family of six on Christmas Eve.

I try to find different ways to photograph us all but it gets harder and harder each year to think of something new and with three teenagers, and a tween, cooperation as you can imagine is quite a feat!

Hence last year there were no faces just the six of us standing in our Santa Sacks. No need to worry about who is smiling, whose eyes are closed etc.

Do you take an annual Christmas photo? Or have any little Christmas traditions in your family?

I think they're fun and these are the types of memories that stick in my mind when I think of family events.

I've prepared a step-by-step showing the process involved in creating my background for you below.

I began by sketching some trees on Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock. I knew I was going to be adding ink and wet mediums to my page so I wanted a thick cardstock that would withstand lots of wet mediums

and not end up too buckled.

I started adding some colour with different shades of Distress Ink Stains.

Just tapping them inside the boundaries of the trees I had sketched. I used Peeled Paint, Bundled Sage, Shabby Shutters, and Cracked Pistachio. I wasn't too happy with the immediate result and knew that more layers were definitely needed so I added some gesso with a sponge and then some texture paste with a spatula.

I added some more colour on top of the gesso and Texture paste with Twisted Citron Distress Oxide Re-inker and some water to spread it over the trees. Finishing touch was with a Fude Ball pen to outline the trees.

This pen is fantastic to use over mediums like texture paste, ink and gesso.

My photo has been matted on papers from the Bella Blvd Illustrated Faith collection. 

More Distress stains were used to add some colour to the sky, and the tree trunks were coloured with a quick smudge of brown Gelatos.

My Christmas trees have been decorated with enamel dots from Cocoa Vanilla Studios, some sequins and wood veneer stars from my stash.

Well, that's last Christmas Eve's photo scrapped.

I wonder if I can come up with something different for todays' photo?

Wish me luck with getting those teens to cooperate!

Merry Christmas and a peaceful New Year from me.

Cheers,

Leonie Neal-Dawson.

Bella Blvd Illustrated Faith with Leonie

Hello to all our readers on the Scrapping Clearly blog.  Leonie with you today and being a new month we have a brand new sketch and moodboard competition for you to join. 

You can find all the details in our Facebook group. 

Click on the photos to take you to each of the Facebook challenge albums.

  

This month I'll be creating with the Bella Blvd Illustrated Faith collection.  A perfect collection for me this month as my daughter will be making her confirmation next week so I'm sure I'll have plenty of photos to scrap of that occasion. 

In the meantime though I chose to scrap some selfies of one of my sons and myself.   All the b-sides of this collection are bright fun patterns and not necessarily Christian related so suitable for any photos you like. 

I did some layered stencilling on this Black and White music note paper using Dylusions Paints. 

Thanks so much for stopping by, 

Happy scrapping!

Cheers,

Leonie Neal-Dawson.

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I was totally an 80's Baby

Yikes..!!! I'm totally still in holiday mode and almost forgot my first blog post for the year.. I'm still off on holidays for another week and all the days just seem to meld together and the jammies don't come off until at least lunch time.. 

If your like me you will be totally over Christmas ANYTHING and I had lots of fun playing with these new papers from Bella Blvd and they totally fit with this montsh mood board as well!

As soon as I opened my DT kit from Kylie and saw these papers with the cassette tape I knew an 80's layout was going to happen. I was an total 80's baby, and this red chunky tape player was my absolute pride and joy.. It took 8 AA batteries and I would flatten them at least once a week listening to story books on tape (ALF was my fav) and New Kid on the Block...

I started off with my Marshmallow Heavy Weight Cardstock and machine sewed a strip of the Bella Blvd - Bible Journaling down the middle. I scrapped some Liquitex Gesso around with an old credit card and left to dry. 

In a paint tray I made up some Colour Blast Shimmer dust in Sunflower and Colour Blast Shimmer dust in Lush and using a pipette just dumped it onto the page and blew it around with a straw. I'm really loving the crazy blow out effect with the straw at the moment. 

Next cam the layer of the cassette tapes from the Bella Blvd - Jesus is my Jam paper. Even though this range of paper is made for bible journaling, they really do rock and i love the fun and bright colours in the range. 

Thanks to the super Rad Lisa Oxley for showing us these awesome over sized foam letter stamps from Heidi Swapp!  I grabbed myself a set and they will be a well used addition to my arty stash. Here I've used the small set to stamp out my title and used a Dymo label maker to compliment it. 

Ive embossed the Heidi Swapp Wanderlust Wooden veneers with Colour Blast Embossing powder in Tangareen and Singing the blues and glues it all together using Glossy Accents

Dont forget to add your layout or arty creation into the January Mood board folder in Scrapping Clearly Facebook page. Each month their is an awesome prize up for grabs and load of DT inspiration to get you going...

Cheers and happy New Years!!

Love - Skai