International Scrapbooking Day

It's an overcast dreary day here - drizzling with rain. Which suits me quite fine on this International Scrapbooking Day. Good weather for staying inside and creating :-)

I've been working on a few ideas lately for cutting out a large shape (in this case a monogram) and filling the negative with different embellishments.

For this card I rolled some different coloured pieces from My Mind's Eye Alphabet Soup collection and glued them behind my giant letter 'G'. It's kinda fun I think?

To celebrate Scrapbooking Day gorgeous Angela at Scrap Friends is offering 25% off the entire stock. But it's for today only, so you really need to rush over there now!!

Guess what else I've been doing today? Something which excites me enormously but scares me senseless at the same time.... I've been making my very first scrappy video!! Eeeeekkkk!!

Epic fail, or mediocre success remains to be seen. Stay tuned for that :-)

Card Supplies:

My MInds Eye Alphabet Soup Collection Pack

Mister Hueys Plumb Thumb

Studio Calico Mister Huey Cameo

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Love You Deerly...

My next project up for Baby Month at Scrapz.biz was this sweet and colourful canvas that would be perfect to hang in your baby's nursery.

I started off with an 8x10" canvas which I covered in this plain notebook type paper from Lily Bee. Then I misted it with my bright rainbow of colours. I was asked a few questions over on the forum about how I managed to make my misting look so uniform and blended, and whilst I don't consider myself an expert by any means, I can share my simple tricks with you....

I think the first thing to learn is to do it lighter and from a greater distance than you imagine you need to. You can always go back and do more once it's dried and you can see what it looks like.

The other trick I've got is to use a couple of what I call 'mixer colours'.
I use a really light green, yellow and pink in between my main colours. You can't really see them as individual colours in the final product but they help blend together the bolder colorus.

Now as far as the deers are concerned - that was simply my Silhouette in action! Surely there's nothing cuter than woodland animals, and deers just have to be my favourite.You could just as easily trace around any of the templates that are freely available on the web and cut your own though.

I filled the background with a bunch of pucnhed and hand-cut hearts from the MME Alphabet Soup collection. I took my inspiration for this from a piece in the 7 Gypsies Flikr pool, found via Pinterest. Add in a few more embellishments and details and you're done! I'm so ready to hang this in my girl's room now..... except that it hasn't yet made it past my dining area (much like these Valentine's roses which are now dried to a crisp!)

Supplies:

My MInds Eye Alphabet Soup Collection Pack	Lily Bee Memorandum Cubicle	Lily Bee Memorandum ABC stickers	Cosmo Cricket Tiny Type Stickers
Studio Calico Mister Huey Cameo	Mister Hueys Heirloom Blue	Mister Hueys Plumb Thumb	Studio Calico MIster Huey Lunch Tray
Studio Calico Mister Huey Calico White

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All Smiles

I've still got quite a few Jenni Bowlin projects to share with you from my stint as a Guest DT there this month. What I loved most of all about the main Papercrafting kit is it's versatility to make either girl or boy layouts. So I put that theory to the test by scrapping this photo of my smiley nephew.

'Cos I'm naturally inclined to make sweety girly layouts about my gorgeous girls all the time. And there's plenty of the new Magpie papers that are perfectly suited to do that - just like the first page I made which I shared here.

But the bold graphic designs of some of these others were just made for more masculine pages. It was such a refreshing change for me to match grey with blue and red and kraft. The graph paper I used in the background then inspired me to make my own pie-chart. Mainly because I've been looking for an excuse to do just that :-)

And I like how it turned out. It doesn't have much relevance to the page I'll admit 'cos I didn't really label any of the pieces or explain what it represents. In fact, I was thinking of it more like a sun, that's why I went and misted in some 'sunrays'. And I had to laugh when The Man looked at the finished page and remarked that it looked more like a Powerpoint Presentation than a layout!!

But I'll still count it as a success. Here's to doing many more boy layouts in the future!

Supplies:

JBS Mini-Album Kit March 2012

JBS Papercrafting Kit March 2012

JBS Artisan Add-On March 2012

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I'm Feeling Krafty!

Wooooo hooooo for being on holidays!!
I managed to make it into my scrap room for long enough yesterday to whip up a page for the current challenge at Kraft it Up.

I haven't done so much Christmas scrapping in ages. In fact, I guess it's been about a year...... hmmm..... alright so I didn't think that through very well *LOL*

As per the challenge guidelines this page is about one of my favourite Christmas traditions, and that's the big Christmas lunch we have at our in-laws. Turkey, ham, cold chicken and plenty of roast vegetables, plus pavalova, cheesecake and Christmas pudding of course. All washed down with a few bubbles!

 

I took this photo at last year's Christmas lunch. It's Munchy with her great-grandparents. I just know this is going to be a treasured photo in years to come so I thought it vitally important to get it scrapped, along with the memories of the moment.

I'm just loving the non-traditional colours for my Christmas pages this year. I wanted to make this one very white and kraft because I'm really digging that combo lately, but I couldn't help but throw some pink into the mix as well. And I already had these accordian flowers sitting around from when I swiped them at my cousin's wedding last weekend. It sure made my page faster!!

Resigning my Screenwriting Position

There is a season for everything, and everything has it's season. So this layout marks the end of my season of designing for "From Screen 2 Scrap" - my very last DT submission. I've been designing for Shazza for almost 2 years now, and whilst I've loved every minute of it I just thought it was time to step aside and let some fresh faces shine.

And I just loved this months challenge - a perfect way to finish my term. The movie poster for your inspiration for December is "White Christmas"

and the extra criteria is to include white cardstock, a two-coloured title, and Christmas hats. Pretty easy criteria to meet, and we all love to scrap Christmas photos I'm sure!

Now as much as I love traditional Christmas colours on a layout, I also love to mix it up a bit and went for more of a pink and green and kraft combination here along with my white cardstock (and I couldn't help but add a silver sparkle to my diecut overlay!)

I've used a lot of My Mind's Eye Lost and Found II Blush collection which I was lucky enough to receive from them when I won their sketch competition a little while ago. And I really wanted my title to be big and bold like the poster so I opted for this stamped and handcut title combination. I'm really happy with how this turned out. Prepare to see more of this!

So if you want to join with me in my very last "From Screen 2 Scrap" challenge then head over to the blog here and check out all the details. I'll be back with more Christmas scrapping soon!

Reducing my Footprint

Last week's weekly theme at Scrapz.biz was "Footprints" and I hosted the Noteworthy challenge which is about making cards.

The first thing that challenged me was trying to figure out how to incorporate the "Footprints" theme into a card. As you can see, my first idea was to actually include some footprints, but I thought that might be a bit hard :-)

But you know what it reminded me of? All this talk these days about reducing our 'carbon footprint' to lessen our impact on the environment. So the challenge I'm setting is for you to "Reduce, Reuse or Recycle" something on your card!! You can interpret that any way you like!

I chose the "Reduce" option which meant I tried to limit the amount of supplies I used on these cards. Can you believe I only used one piece of patterned paper to make both these cards? And all I added was some scraps of twine, some left-over pieces from my Thickers and a splash of mist :-)

Other ways you might like to interpret the challenge would be to 'Reuse' something that was intended for a different purpose such as clothing tags, kitchen supplies etc. Or try your hand at the 'Recycled' option and include materials that might otherwise end up in the bin such as junk-mail or packaging.


Supplies:

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Or if you're looking for more challenges.......here's a sneak of my new Scrap it Blind challenge that's just gone up today....

Happy scrapping!