Rustic Christmas Tags

Hi everyone - Amy here today!

I'm sharing my take on this month's gorgeous Christmassy Moodboard. 

I just love the non-traditional rustic theme used in this Moodboard.

For both of these tags, I painted Dina Wakley Media Heavy Body Acrylic in 'Elephant' onto white cardstock. I used a wood paneled stamping block from my stash and stamped it with Stazon ink in 'Jet Black'. 

I hand cut the two tags and adhered them onto cardboard.

 

With this tag, I mixed some Dina Wakley modelling paste with gold acrylic paint and applied it using a star stencil. 

Once dried, I splattered the background with Colour Blast Colour Shimmer Spray in 'Bling'. I painted some scrap music paper (from the Op Shop) from my stash, with Dina Wakley Heavy Body Paint in 'Turquoise'. Next, I die-cut it, in the shape of a Christmas tree. 

For the second tag, I prepared the background similarly to the first one. However I deliberately did not use as much paint for the Christmas tree. 

 

For both of the tags, I used a variety of goodies from the store to embellish them: Cocoa Vanilla sequins, Kaisercraft paper flowers, and Fancy Pants Designs- Merry and Bright Collection - Christmas - Ephemera.

To add some more dimension and texture to the tags, I used some natural twine, medical gauze, thread and strips of cardboard from my stash. 

 

It was great fun making these tags. We here at Scrapping Clearly headquarters look forward to seeing your entries on this month's Moodboard! Remember it can be cards, tags, a journal page, or a traditional scrap page.

Here are some more close-ups. 

 

 

Thanks for popping by! Ciao, Amy

 

Summer Fun - Scrapbook page with DT Katie Howard

Wow, December already, can you believe it?! For us that means hot and often sticky summer heat and lots of water play. So I thought it was only fitting to make my first share for December a fun in the summer sun kind of page, and I thought that the Crate Paper Good Vibes collection was perfect to reflect the summer fun.

So let's check out the page first:

The photos that I picked were some action "jumping in the pool" shots of my nieces. Bright, summer and fun photos and perfect with the Good Vibes papers. I started with the paper Passion which is one of my favourites as it has multi-coloured free-hand style stripes, and I am a sucker for a good stripey paper!

I started with two blocks of this paper and created two areas of interest on each side of the page. I used the reverse of the Passion paper to mat the photos so they would stand out. The revers is a gorgeous shade of blue with black dots, also a sucker for a good spotty paper!

I also layered some of the neutral kraft spotty paper All Good on both blocks, and finished each block with a hand made tag using the Hashtag paper, which is a great pink grid with geometric type lines in heavier pink, so there is design but a subtlety as well.

Here you can see the tag a little closer, and also part of the title which was using the co-ordinating puffy sticker words. Can you see the subtle stencilling I added on the background as well? I decided the small shutters stencil from Dylusions would be perfect because it reminded me of the free-hand stripey paper and I used it with some Tattered Rose distress oxide ink because this was a pretty could match to the peachy pinks in the collection and it was also nice and subtle. I also added some splatters using the Picked Raspberry to match the brighter pinks in the papers.

I cut one of the pom-pom frames in half and used it like a photo corner for the top right and bottom left photos, adding some dimension and texture to the photo cluster. I also added a cactus from the ephemera pack, I decided due to the landscaping around the pool this was probably as good a time as any to add in cactus embellishments!

The right hand side focused on a card cut from the So Chill paper, which has lots of great cut-apart cards on one side and a very usable pattern on the other. Add in some chipboard from the Chipboard sticker sheet with foil accents, again more cactus, and a ticket from the ephemera and this side was a wrap. The last thing to do was add a little journaling which I did using a black paint pen, I love how black these pens are for journaling, even if it is only on plain cardstock. And there you have it, page done!

Thanks for stopping by and see you next time,

Katie x

This Is My Home - With Karyn Schultz!

Hi Scrapping Clearly Lovelies,

It's Karyn here,

Today I have a scrapbook page to share with you made using lots of goodies from the Fancy Pants "Golden Days" collection available in the Scrapping Clearly Store.

My background is 2 sheets of patterned paper from the Golden Days collection. I've matted my photo with more of these papers and a feature of my page is a gorgeous cutfile from Cocoa Vanilla Studio . I've then added ephemera and puffy stickers from the Golden Days collection and wooden hearts, tags and gold arrow embellishments from my stash.

Thanks so much for stopping by 

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Brothers - layout with Emma.

Hi everyone.

Emma here on the SC blog with my first creation for December.

I chose to scrap an actual photo this time....I know right...shock horror, LOL!

And I chose my boys.

I started by using the B side of a sheet from the Cocoa Vanilla Boys Rule collection.

I then started to create tags for behind my picture by using a sheet of the very cool Ella & Viv Graffiti range. I chose 'word'. I love these papers so much, but as a background paper, it can be a little busy, so to use as tags or layers, it's just perfect.

In amongst my tags I used a little bit of a sheet from Heidi Swapp's die cut pieces. These are 6x6 sheets that have a range of cuts, I picked the grid one and cut random strips for the texture to come through.

The Cocoa Vanilla Ephermera bits also got a little work out on this layout, using the stars mostly and the 'brothers' title. 

The colours on my background sheet, (before I added my layers) are a combination of Dylusions Ink Spray in Vanilla Custard and a Distress Oxide in Mustard seed.

I then also flicked a little bit of Lindy's Moon Shadow Mist around.

That's it from me for today.

I'll be back again soon to share something sparkly to go with this months moodboard, which I highly encourage you to check out and play along with.

Until we meet again, Em xx

NOVEMBER WINNER

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Remember you have until the end of December to upload your entries for December Moodboard!

DECEMBER MOODBOARD !!

WOWW Hi everyone,

It's December already - as I seem to say every year, where has this one gone?

Look at this month's Moodboard !  Lots of inspiration here!

Just look at these gorgeous natural hues with a hint of Gold sparkle and green!!  Cannot wait to see what you create!  

Don't forget to upload your entries HERE

You could win a $30 voucher to spend in our amazing shop!

Image Transfer fail and save

Hi Peeps,

I recently received some goodies from the scrapbooking clearly shop and I was dying to play with them.

I thought I would attempt another image transfer, I find these a bit hit and miss. BUT you can always salvage something from them.

So you can see I tried to draw the face back in, the eyes look cray cray. LOL. I took some Tim Holtz tissue paper and layered it around the image using gel medium

I gave up on drawing eyes and used the Dina Wakley washi tape.

I had tried to paint in hair but again not quite the thing.

I tore some pieces from gel print papers and matt gel medium them to the back ground. I took Dylusion small stencil star struck and some sky blu paint and did some random stars over the work. I drew a jaw line in with an aquarellable pencil.

I just keep layering until I was happy. Some processes get lost along the way but all the layers do count for the finished product.

Here is a list of some other goodies I used from the shop on this piece.

Dylusions stencil Garden of roses

Dylusions stencil Shutters

49 and Market stamps Vintage Artistry

I also used Yupo paper and alcohol inks and stamps for the butterflies and feathers.

Serviette for the blue flowers.

Dina Wakely acrylic paints

Sharpie white poster marker

Black archival ink

Thanks for looking.