Fancy - Emma Zappone 😊

Hi there, 

Today I'm sharing my take on this months moodboard. 

It's such a cheerful board. Lots of pretty colours and flowers. 

I chose to use 'shades' of this moodboard. 

Focus on the yellow, green & black. 

I used the Simple Stories-Carpe Diem paper range. 

I used the matching chipboard frames, which I cut up to create layers. 

I also used a little of  the MME - On Trend 2 journal cards. 

It worked perfectly with the colours. 

I used a few of the Carpe Diem chipboard stickers. 

      

How gorgeous is the gold in these papers!!

And to really bling it up I used a Heidi Swapp acetate word for my title and enamel shapes to tie it all together. 

Thanks for checking my page out.

I hope you can join in the fun here at ScrappingClearly. 

 I also made a 

process video for this layout, if you want to check it out here.....

.https://youtu.be/wqrhNEFVAM4

Hello from Leonie - New Design Team Member

Hello! 

My name is Leonie Neal-Dawson and I'm so excited to be posting today on the Scrapping Clearly blog!  Kylie Tout, owner and talented artist at Scrapping Clearly asked me if I would like to join her team of super scrappy Design Team peeps and I was and am extremely happy to say Yes, yes please!

A quick little Bio for you:

I live in Geelong, Victoria and am married with four children. A son (aged 16), Twin boys (aged 14) and a Daughter (aged 12). Our life is busy and crazy at times but it is what it is and I would not want to change a thing.  Apart from all the usual Mum-life activities I work night shift as a Nurse and in between that I squeeze in  paper crafting whenever I can.  Scrapping wise I like to turn my hand to a variety of different styles.  I live my layered, pretty patterned paper pages just as much as a brightly coloured/stencilled/textured mixed media style page.  Put them together and it's a match made in heaven. 

So here I am my first post.

Kylie sent me some gorgeous products last weeks and I got busy creating this page using the Simple Stories - Carpe Diem paper range.   

This range is so me, I love bright colours and if I can put all the colours on a page why the heck not!

Carpe Diem has combination of B&W pattens plus beautiful brights.

I chose to scrap some photos of a small Magnolia tree I have.  I wait all year for it to bloom and it only ever lasts for a few weeks but it is just stunning and is usually the first sign that winter is almost over which for me is reason enough to celebrate!

As you can see I've used white card stock as a base and layered a diagonally cut B&W script paper (its actually to B-side of the 'Make it Happen' paper) across the bottom half of my page. 

My title 'Heavenscent' uses gold foil American Crafts Thickers Shoebox.

As with most Simple Stories ranges the Carpe Diem collection has a delightful set of Chipboard Frames to coordinate with the papers.  I've used four on this page to border my photos.  I love the bright colours of the frames on the black and white paper. 

To accent my page I've used some of the Carpe Diem Chipboard stickers.  the word today and a bunch of flowers layered under my photo's and a cluster in the top left to balance out my page along with a pink bloom from my scrappy stash. 

 I have one more share today.  I wanted to do a page based on the Scrapping Clearly mood board this month and because I got carried away with all the colours on my Heavenscent page it didn't really match!  So I whipped up a quick page with my favourite background technique at the moment which is to layer a few different stencilled patterns using paints.   And my favourite paints at the moment are Dina Wakley's Heavy Body Acrylic Paint.  I just love their vibrant colour.  

I teamed it up with B&W chipboard frames and papers from the Carpe Diem collection. 

Products used:

Simple Stories Carpe Diem collection

Dina Wakley Paints and stencils 

American Crafts Thickers

In case you haven't seen the September moodboard this is what it looks like.  So lovely, right? Very Springy!  We'd love you to join in the fun. 

Thanks again to Kylie for inviting me to join the team, I'm looking forward to inspiring you with all the scrappy goodness available in the Scrapping Clearly shop. 

Happy for you to follow me on Instagram, Facebook or my Blog,

Cheers 

Leonie Neal-Dawson

 

WK8 2017 with Melinda

Hey, hey my scrappy friends!! It's Melinda here with you today and I am back again today with my latest share! 

Once again I am using the very fun and Spring-y collection "Spring Fling" by Pebbles. I love the fun colours and patterns on that neutral kraft base in this collection and found week 8 missing all the cards and journalling in our album so figured this would be a fun collection to complete this week in our album!

Here is the left hand side of the spread

I have used some of the neutral kraft papers as my base cards (Celebration, Party Time, Patchwork and Spring Fling) and also some of the adorable 3x4 cut apart cards from the Cut Out's sheet.

I don't know how well you know your PL page protectors but for the right hand side of this week I have used a panoramic protector to include a few extra photo's and stories. Here is a look at the whole opened right hand side of the week.

And this is the the front of the folding part of the protector

For embellishing I have kept it pretty simple using a few pieces from the ephemera pack, cutting up some of the pieces from the Me To You patterned paper and the gorgeous floral puffy stickers - which by the way - I have used the WHOLE sheet!! Yep, it's done! Who else gets that little kick from using the last of a sticker sheet?!

For my title card and a couple of sub-titles on cards I have used these leather looking alphas by WRMK.

Due to the business and high contrast of the white against the kraft I decided that using my typewriter was the best bet for my journalling so grabbed some off cuts of some vanilla coloured cardstock, typed them up my words and trimmed into journalling strips. Easy, done and I love the flow it creates from card to card and page to page!

My motto for this year's PL is very much "get it done" rather than "make it perfect" and I am really loving how some of these pages are coming together!

I have no idea what I'll be creating for my next ScrappingClearly project but until then, happy scrapping!!

Melinda

xx

Where to next? - by Chloe

Hello there scrappers!  How are you liking our fabulous September challenges?  I loved the colours of the mood board this month ...

I love pinks and yellows together - and adding green just seems perfect for Spring :)

I'm still scrapping photos from our trip to the Zoo last year! LOL 
I love this candid moment of map checking ... we had to make sure we saw everything!

I have used a mix of a couple of ranges for this page:  Pink Paislee Citrus Bliss and My Mind's Eye On Trend 2. 

The flowers from the board inspired me ... what element inspires you? Hope you can play along!

Products used:
My Mind’s Eye – On Trend 2 Collection – Journal Cards
Sequins - Studio Calico – Green
Designer Desktop Essentials Clothespins – Beautiful

It's a new month by Lauren Hender

Welcome everyone and welcome to September!

I am hoping wherever you are the sun is shining and you are having a fabulous day.

Today I thought I would share with you my September monthly out of my travellers notebook. This month is a busy one for me so I need to be super organised.

 

Monthly pages come together so easily when you have a few essential products. Those are stickers, paper or dog clips and I like to use some product to help build the page. In September I have used the beautiful Nuvo mousse in colour 'mother of pearl' and 'peony pink'. I have also added a few splashes of dylusions ink spray in 'white linen'.

              

I have also added a few little gold stars and some poka dots to make a few of the stickers just pop a bit.

I thought this looked really cute and will use it on other pages.

All the stickers I am using in my post today come from a MEGA sticker book by Me and My Big Ideas. It is called Create 365 Quotes. It is jammed pack with 427 stickers!!

For me planning has to be affordable. I don't want to use expensive products I just want to make something pretty that I get to look at everyday for a month.

So lets go shopping in the Scrapping Clearly Store..

Click on the links and it will take you to all the fabulous products I have used.

Nuvo Mousse - Pink Peony

Nuvo Mousse - Mother of Pearl

Me and My Big Ideas Create 365 Sticker Pack

Dylusions Ink Spray - White Linen

Also check out Scrapping Clearly's range of travellers notebooks!

Travellers Notebooks and Accessories

I hope you all have a fabulous month and have be inspired to create something special with your monthly calendar.

Lauren xo

Which Artist Inspires you ?

Salutations Bloggers , Lisa here with a Mixed Media update .

Today I am sharing with you the last circle journal ,I have completed in the Scrapping Clearly Circle Journal Swap. And that is the last one ,I have to complete in this swap. 

I really enjoyed the swap process and putting in some heartfelt creative goodness into the pages of each and everyone of the journals that past over my art desk .

The theme of this Journal was Inspiring Artists.

I picked the incredibly talented Australian Artist 

Del Kathryn Barton

Winner of the Archibald Prize in 2008 and 2013.

With so many wonderful layers and details to Dels' incredible work that I am just enchanted by

 the magic of each piece of her incredible work.

 I had planned to just print a few pics and talk about why her work inspires me, but the instructions in the journal asked each participant to attempt to paint in the style of the artist , 

so that is what I did, well sort of .

 I started by rubbing off some DWM paint through a stencil to add some subtle layers to the background , then roughly drew a form and using Liquitex Gesso painted that form onto the page.

Now its all about layering into the piece. More paint, pen, and pencil.

I have a new pen passion,

The Jane Davenport Inkredible Pen.. oh my lordie -insta love.

So a little more detailing with paint , my new pen , prismacolour pencils , a trusty white posca, 

that rad paint brush stamp, and some cutting of extra photos to add a little collage style Del into my own work, and I was happy with the result.

I have added the 2 artworks that inspired and where used within my Del attempt.

I just love the freedom of Collage style creative fun.

 I finished the piece with a few paper clipping from an article about Del and a

 Thickers Black font title .

I am curious what Artist/s inspires you ? 

Definitely leave a comment to share your inspiring artist/s,there are just so many to choose from.

Thanks for dropping by the SC blog , 

I will be back next week for a Friday MM update .

Lisa xx

SEPTEMBER CHALLENGES

Morning everyone - how fast is this year flying by??  September already and our amazing Challenges by the amazing DT member Peg!

First our sketch - wow love this, it prompts you to journal on your layout, something we often forget about detailing the when, where how etc!!

Now our Moodboard :

Such a pretty Moodboard  and lots of room for interpretation here!

Remember to upload your entries to our FB albums to be in the running to win a $30 voucher to spend in our amazing shop

Until next time

Happy Crafting

xxMarellexx