"Baby Love" Scrapbook Layout by Louise

Hi Crafters

Louise with you today to share a new layout.

"Baby Love"

This is another 9x12 layout and I'm really enjoying the results of challenging my creativity.

I started with white card and prepped it with white gesso.

Then I used a stencil and texture paste before using Colour Blast shimmer dust in "Sunflower" with lots and lots of water - then set with the heat gun.

Chipboard on this page is the "Scribbly circle texture strip"
simply treated with black ink.

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Scrapping. 

Layers, Depth and Texture

Hi there!!

Teddy and Lauren with you today with a little something that might inspire you and motivate us to make some more for you!!

So we made you a card, how clever we are!!!

Oh this one is just packed full of goodies and is so pretty, in my favourite colours of natural with a background of Kaisercraft paper, the lace and ribbon, the lovely Catalina Wreath and Catalina Border from Memory Box Dies, A2Z Scraplets Chipboard Brick Background and A2Z Scraplets Dream word.  Finished with pearls (love my bling) and then Sugar Beads (mix of various seed beads and micro beads), just stunning.

Just loving the way the word turned out, coloured with Tombow Pen in Black and then coated with Glossy Accents (I love the way that stuff will keep its dimension while drying)

Loving that brickwork as a base to my die cut border, gives such a great feel of layering and texture, love to have different textures working together.

The die cuts have been done in three different colours and then slightly offset to give a great feeling of depth to them.  I like using this technique to really make the die cuts pop.

And just a tease to show the beads, just sprinkled over Glossy Accents where wanted and they look fantastic!!

Hope you like these effects as much as we do!!!

Love from Lauren and Teddy!!!! xxxx

Football chipboards

Hi Deb here again with a couple of pages I've done recently. 

The first one is of my eldest son, quite a few years ago when he played Auskick on the MCG. I used the title Aussie Rules Footy and AFL Footballers in Ruck for this page. 

I have distressed the paper, then used soft pastels which I rubbed to blend and smudge across the background. Using black gesso and a stencil, I created the texture in random spots.The chipboards were decorated individually. The footballers were lightly sprayed with a color spritz and the title colored with pens.

The next layout was also about the same event. On this page I used a Custom Cut for the title and feature on this page. This was simply inked with a chalk ink to color it.

 The Football again, is simply inked to color it.

You'll find a large range of chipboards at A2Z Scraplets

Thanks for stopping by,

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Love Always

Hello, Deb with you on the blog today. 

I've been looking back at some of my 'older' photos and reminiscing a little. The page I decided to share today is of my last child. Wow, where has that time gone? My eldest is 30 and my youngest 15, no wonder I feel like I've been a mum for a while!

I was really happy with the way this page turned out, especially the Scraplets. I played around with gesso and paint to get some subtle texture and a soft pearly pink finish.

I sponged the gesso on, let it dry then gave it a coat of light pink paint. Once that had dried I then dabbed a pearl paint over that. The finish is so soft and pretty.

I used the Love Always and Fancy Butterfly chipboards on this page. 

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Caz here with some DT Inspiration

Hi fellow Crafters

I am back today to share with you a couple of pages I have made using some lovely scraplets. The first is using the lovely title "The eyes are the windows to our soul"

 With the Love polaroid frame I just misted the outer part of the frame and added some texture paste to the hearts to give it a slight grungy look.

 Some close ups of the scraplets so you can see a bit of the detail

I used the following products:

 

Eyes are the windows to the soul

Love Polaroids

Next we have a page using the title "Always be you"

I just misted the Always be and left the You raw and doodled around it.

 

Using the following products: 

 Always be You

 

Chevron Frame

 

 

Map Pointers

 

I hope you have been inspired a little. Till next time

Happy Crafting

 

Bon Voyage! By the time you read this I hope to be relaxing with my feet up. Although I am getting in early on my travel pages for our holiday. A few years ago we decided to take the kids on a 'once in a lifetime' holiday. To date we haven't had more than a few days away at a time so plans were put into place, funds saved and the day has finally come. You can expect more pages of our experiences over the coming months but here is the first taste of what we're looking forward to - some rest :)

So for a tropical layout I've cut the first two words off the title and used a multicolored ink pad to color the Scraplet "You are a dream come true" and inked and heat embossed both this and the "Palm tree."

My next layout is of a dear friend and I one night at a Jazz concert where we met the lovely Lisa Williams who was performing. I've used a couple of the new Scraplets here - "Shabby Circles" and "Love This Life word set". Just using one of the circle pieces and the word love from the set. The Scraplets were again inked but then finished with a mist of gold shimmer Glimmermist.

My final page is of my two gorgeous grad-daughters. The photo is framed with a Scraplet frame which has been given dimension and texture with impasto. A couple of Scraplet flourishes have been finished the same way and tucked in under the flowers and bow.

The title was colored white and misted with a pearl glimmermist, leaving the heart in the centre to be colored to match the page and given a coat of sparkle dimensional magic.

A close up of the impasto finish on the frame.

Until next time, Happy Scrapping

*Deb*

Here comes trouble

Hi *Deb* here. 

There's one in every family! The title Scraplet "Here comes Trouble" is so right for this child. The chipboard has been inked and heat embossed using some rustic embossing powders.

 Some texture was added using hand stitching which I kept 'chunky' to tie in with the 'roughness' of the page style. Chicken wire die cut from metal sheeting and colored with alcohol pens added a bit more dimension.

 A bit closer look at the elements.

Until next time, happy scrapping

*Deb*