She has superpowers....

Good morning everyone!
Today I'm sharing a page created for All About Scrapbooks.
 

Can you believe it's already Friday?

And can you believe it's the middle of November?! Eeeek!

 

This week I've been playing with a stack of Bella Boulevard.

A bit of Addison and a bit of Illustrated Faith.

 

All the bright colours make me so happy!

I love how they co-ordinate so well.  I love mixing them up a little!!

 

 I began this page by selecting the background page.

This one jumped out at me as it's my teenage daughter's favourite colour, plus this page already had flicks of paint on it - and in my 'go-to' paint flicking colour, black - PERFECT!

 

 

I then added a couple of strips of paper and a few matts around the photo.

I selected word papers for the matts - those of you who know my work know I LOVE words, and this page involved a story about words, and how they are my daughter's superpower.  So the word paper totally goes with the theme.

 

I then added a few embellishments in co-ordinating colours,

my title and journaling and ta-da I was done!!

Didn't even finish it off with a few flicks of paint - they were already there!!

 

Guess what......I'm on the 2Crafty Design Team!!!!

Hi everyone!

Well do I have some exciting news to share......

I made the 2Crafty Design Team!! How cool is that!

I'm super excited and can't wait to begin.
I don't officially begin until January, but I've been hanging to share the news!

2Crafty has some awesome Chipboard pieces, and I can't wait to play and get creative!

The 2Crafty blog has always been one of my favourite blogs if I'm needing some creative inspiration.  Their design team is amazing, and I can't believe I will be creating alongside these talented creative souls from all around the world.

Some pretty impressive names there!!!

And look there's me!!! Lol!

Right, I'm off to have a champers.....

A trio of Superhero's

Good morning everyone!

 

Well I am officially back! Back from the most amazing adventure overseas! I will do a blog post about the amazing trip soonish...... 

 

Right now I'm feeling very grateful and super keen to scrap some of our precious memories.

 

The first one I've created for All About Scrapbooks and features a couple of photos from the Star Walk in Hollywood......

 

 

For this layout, I used the awesome Crate Paper's Cool Kid range. 

Such a great boyish range - and the sayings matched my photo's perfectly!

 

This layout was a pretty quick one.

I was very restrained, and only did a little stamping on my background before adding a few strips of paper, my photos and the embellishments.

 

 

I really love the embellishments in this range.  They are perfect for boys of any age, but particularly work well with my young teen.  The only thing I added was some 2Crafty Chipboard stars and arrows (which I painted silver, red and black), and a bit of black thread.

That's it!

 

Have a great weekend, and I'll be back real soon with some more scrappy goodness!

 

Boys will be Boys.....creating with Cool Kid

Good morning everyone!

 

It's my turn to share over at All About Scrapbooks, and this week I've used the AWESOME Cool Kid range from Crate Paper 

I adore this range!! So very cool, and just perfect for those of us with boys.

 

I began by adding some gesso and paint to white bazzill.  I didn't overthink the painting, just a few quick swipes.

 

I found some embellishments from the ephemera pack that went beautifully with my photos, and the story I wanted to tell.

 

 

I then added a strip of black and white patterned paper, and some 2Crafty Chipboard to my page.

 

 

 I then finished the page with my journaling and a few flicks of paint.

 

I can't wait to create some more with this fabulous range.

I just love how a new range can inspire me so much, and makes me crave some creativity time.

 

Scrap the Girls - November Reveal!

Hi everyone

So the first of the month brings with it NEW challenges! Always get excited jumping from site to site checking out their challenges, working out which ones I'd like to do (I don't seem to get many done anymore.....all my Design Team commitments keep me busy, busy, busy) - not complaining, I LOVE it!!

This month over at Scrap the Girls we have a sketch.

And here's my take on it....

I love how this sketch involved 4 photos.  I'm such a one photo scrapper, so it was nice to create with a series of photos

You may notice that I flipped the sketch.  I was struggling with getting it to come together the other way, I turned my page, and da da! it worked.

I added some journaling to a tag and tucked that behind the layers behind the photo.

I had a bit of fun with watercolours and using up things from my stash, most of them I got from All About Scrapbooks.

So  I hope you have a go this month, I really love seeing all your entries!
Plus we have a prize from D-Lish Scraps for the winner.

What have you got to lose?

See you again soon, happy scrapping!

I am enough.....

Happy Friday!!!!
 

This week for All About Scrapbooks I again had a play with Cocoa Vanilla's Love Always Collection.

Such a stunning range.

This is my third layout using this range.

 

The die cut ephemera pack has so many lovely flowers in it.

I especially love the silhouette style ones. 

Gorgeous!

 

 

I began by adding gesso to my cardstock, and then adding some acrylic paint.

I wanted to create an ombre effect, so I did this by just adding a bit more white to my paint, as I moved across the page.

 

 I love the greens and corals in this range, so they are the colours I focused on.

 

I added some flicks of coral paint, and then began to layer up  a few strips of patterned paper.

I added the flowers on top of these strips, using foam tape for some to create extra dimension.

 

I then simply added my title to the left hand side and my journaling to the right hand side.

 

 

I love journaling on my layouts. 

Giving a voice to your beautiful pieces of art that you spent hours on is so important.

When I journal on my layouts, I tend to just write from the heart. 

I don't do a rough draught, I just let the words flow.

For me, I think that is the key - don't overthink it, just let the words fall onto the page.

It's very therapeutic.

 

I'll be back again soon!

Hello Happy Place....

Well it's Friday already, which means it's my turn to share over at All About Scrapbooks.
 

Today I have a layout created with a bit from here and a bit from there!

I often do that......

It starts with whatever leftovers are on my desk, and pretty much builds from there.

 

 

This week I had 2 papers on my desk which I hadn't used when I had used Kaisercraft's Boho Dreams Range. 

The black and white stripe is my fave from that range, but as I had gone with a softer, muted layout, I hadn't used it.

Also I had quite a lot of the black and white feather paper left, and I was itching to cut some of those feathers out.

 

I knew with the bold blacks and whites I wanted to go bold! And I wanted to go colour!

So I gathered my Dylusions Ink Sprays - the colours are gorgeously bright!

 

I began by spritzing my page, and letting it run a little down the page. I purposely kept it to one side of my paper, knowing this was where I would add my photo.

 

 

I then cut out some feathers. 

I dug out lots of 2 Crafty Chipboard for this one - the dreamcatcher, a feather, my title and my small word.  I coated these with gesso, before painting them in Dylusions Paint, and adding Dylusions Ink Spray too!!

I wish I'd thought to take a photo of my hands!! Oh they looked awesome!

Such messy fun!

 

After this I went through all my leftover embellishments, hunting for bold and bright colours.

I found heaps!!

I added these behind my photo. 

 

I then added the chipboard and feathers, to the page.

I really wanted them to look like they were trailing down my page - kinda like a dreamcatcher.

 

 

I just LOVE THIS page!

I love the subject matter (my scrap space, complete with wine glass! LOL)

I'm so happy with how it turned out.

 

I love mixing ranges.....you never quite know what you are gonna get!