Through the Keyhole, Who Lives in a House Like This?

Today sees a new challenge over at That's Crafty

Here are a few teasers of my project, a full step by step can be found HERE

I hope these teasers have inspired you check out the full tutorial.

Diario di Viaggio

It is my turn on the That's Crafty! blog today and I have a sneaky peek of something I have made for my friend Rachel. The details and a tutorial are HERE. If you have seen the Ciao Bella rice papers but are not sure how to use them I show you what I did with mine.

I have a lovely weekend ahead with no commitments so will be having a play with some of Melina's new stamps, the full range are HERE 

Whatever you are doing today I hope you have a good one.

Scrap Thursday Part 27

I hope to bring you inspiration, new ideas and techniques and revisit old favourites too.

This layout was made for a challenge on a virtual crop. It was the first time I had taken part in one and I found it lots of fun and at times challenging. There were 10 scrap challenges over 2 days as well as photograph games and crafty bingo!

The pale blue background was stencilled with Dreamweaver pearlescent embossing paste. One dry I cut the middle of the card stock out and added a line of glitter glue around the edge. I added the dark blue background underneath, spaces for photographs and various snowflakes in an assortment of styles, colours and sizes.

I stamped a snow globe image, used acetate with a falling snow design on it and added it to the corner of the layout. I die cut a row of white houses and added Cosmic Shimmer 'Cosmic Twinkles' glitter glue to the roof tops. I just hope I have photographs in the future with a snow theme!

Scrap Thursday Part 25

I hope to bring you inspiration, new ideas and techniques and revisit old favourites too.

Oh I do like to be beside the seaside! Especially with an ice cream like Jack! I wanted to make this layout fun, create a scene.

The background is a printed paper and I have added white die cut fences to help create the scene. The sea gulls are a stamp by Stampotique coloured in with Copics and the banner, bunting, postcard and frame the top photograph are in all come from Graphic 45.

1st October Scrap Thursday Part 18

This is the eighteenth scrapbook page for my new weekly post Scrap Thursday. I will try and bring new ideas and techniques and revisit old favourites too. If you have any suggestions or requests just let me know and I will do my best to accommodate these.  

I usually work in a 12" x 12" format as this allows me more space to experiment and get arty!

This week I have been playing with my Gelatos again. The layout above shows my son in the cockpit of an Airbus A321, his first job as a Commercial Airline Pilot (Very Proud Mummy badge being worn here!)

To start with I covered a 12 x 12 piece of smooth white Bazzill with Gesso.

Then I randomly added stripes of Gelatos, I am using three contrasting colours plus white for this layout.

Using a baby wipe, gently smooth over each line of colour.

I always do my vertical lines first and then my horizontal.

I have found that I use a lot of white so have bought the Double Scoop size Gelato, its well worth the investment.

The white softens and slightly mutes the strong colours.

I added texture with Grunge Paste from PaperArtsy.

I used a Dylusion mask.

To make my own border I used a Fude Ball pen and a Big Brush pen.

I used my border with Washi Tape and a die cut.

I found this fabulous 'Pilot' die cut at Stamparama and couldn't resist it!

My title hides a journal flap so that I can add more personal details without everyone seeing.

As well as the Destiny Idea-ology tag being appropriate to the layout it also helped weigh down the flap. The tag was rubbed over with Treasure Gold.

Tim Holtz has got some great rub ons which I have added randomly to odd spaces.

For privacy I have covered my sons face, this is something I do with children and anyone else who might not want their face featured on the internet, Sadly some unauthorised people will 'lift' images and use as their own, so to try and protect mine this is what I tend to do.
Hope you like the finished result.

Happy Birthday!

At the beginning of September the lovely Pip and Christina at Glazed Creations celebrated 2 years of trading. 

Below is a card I made for them using 7 Dots Studio card, an Idea-ology tag, lace and digi images I purchased from 

www.byJLeeloo.etsy.com.

They loved it!

23rd July Scrap Thursday Part 9

This is the ninth scrapbook page for my new weekly post Scrap Thursday. I will try and bring new ideas and techniques and revisit old favourites too. If you have any suggestions or requests just let me know and I will do my best to accommodate these.  

I usually work in a 12" x 12" format as this allows me more space to experiment and get arty!

I have been asked to show layouts using more than one photograph so I thought our photographs of The Sydney Harbour Bridge would be perfect.

My husband has a 'thing' for bridges and his aim is to get at least one bridge walk into every holiday we take!

I started by stamping on smooth white card a design (this stamp is from The Artistic Stamper) that fit with the photographs. I used the new Distress Ink Hickory Smoke (its a fab colour)

Although we don't strictly have a Bucket List I did think these journal cards from 7 Gypsies were the perfect addition to the layout.

I mounted each photograph and the journal card onto black and positioned them onto the stamped card.

I used Washi Tape to add some detail.

 Then I added some word tickets.

I used some eyelets as they reminded me of the rivets and bolts on the bridge. 

I added a metal embellishment, painted it silver and added a touch of blue.

When assembled all the little details pulled the layout together. It is harder to add lots of embellishments and add ons when several photographs are used simply because there isn't the space so its important to choose carefully what you are going to add.