Happy New Year

A2Z Scraplets and all our team would like to wish everyone a safe, prosperous and happy New Year. Enjoy your celebrations and take care on the roads. 

Some oldies but goodies for your celebration pages.

Happy Scrapping 

A2Z Scraplets

New designs for December

Hello again fellow scrappers and chipboard addicts. I thought you'd like a sneak peak at what is coming next month - release date Dec 1. 

Just in time to scrap your Christmas photos over the summer are the two little beauties. 

We've also got some new stencils coming out. Love the fading brick wall and reverse stencil! 

We've added a new range of designs to our massive library - the Mimi range. These fabulous and intricate designs are just beautiful to work with and we're very proud to have them available to you direct or through one of our retail outlets. See page tabs on blog home page. 

A2Z Scraplets has always had a huge range of words and below are a couple of new ones added to the library. Our words are inspired by what I see every day people doing in their everyday lives, add to that the glimpses of adventure, tinges of love and family, seasons and special occasions. Words are about you, your memories, the scrapper, the mum, the dad, the family, fur family, the artist, the nature lover, and so the list goes on. 

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Beautiful Boy

Hi, Deb popping in again today. Just a little share of my beautiful grandson.

I have used the Beautiful Boy title and painted it with silver paint. some butterflies, a punched edge, a few watercolour pencil circles - did I say a quick share?!

A close up of the title. 

Materials used:

Cardstock

A2Z Scraplets Title

Paper butterflies

watercolour pencils

Border punch

Until Next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Everyone has their own little Bat Girl ..... don't they?

Hi Deb here with you today. 

Sometimes you just get that one person/furbaby in your family that screams out 'scrap me'. I'm lucky, I have a few!

I love the freedom of expression this child has and embrace the individuality she exudes. This photo is kinder dress up day and she chose to go as Bat Girl. 

The title for this page is cut in our new product - Ebony Card. There are a number of designs available in this from card sized words to page titles. I love it for a crisp black element on the project. I cut the word in two and simply outlined it with a gold paint pen. 

I used a piece of Birds on barb wire which I also cut apart. 

I colored a frame black and tucked it in under the corner of the photo to give it a bit of dimension. 

Material used:

A2Z Scraplets - Bat Girl, Birds on barb wire, Oval Frame 1

Gold Card

Impasto

DCWV Papers - Tattered time

TH ticket

Punch

Until Next Time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Can't beat a good holiday!

This year for our anniversary we went back to Thailand. We decided we both needed a 'put your feet up' holiday and picked a quiet little spot in Koh Samui. What a delightful place. Among putting our feet up we did take a day trip to the Ang Thong National Marine Park, a beautiful protected part of the paradise of Koh Samui. We kayaked around the bay, snorkelled and hiked up through the hill to see the stunning green lake.

Material Used

Kaisercraft paper and collectables

A2Z Scraplets title

Studio Calico Badge

Oddments of letters and embellishments

I have been trying to get these memories scrapped and keeping the pages simple in order to do so as we have hundreds of photos. 

Have you ever thought about sharing your scrapping? We are currently looking for new DT members. Send some samples and a bit about yourself to blog@a2zscraplets.com.au 

Closes Dec 15th

Until Next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

DT callout

Do you love to scrap? Have a passion for chipboard? Like getting free product to create with? Ever thought about applying for a Design Team position? Why not??? We're calling for submissions for someone to join our Design Team and would love you, yet YOU, to send some examples of your projects in. Our current team are here to help and guide anyone who may be new to public work. 

Send us 3 samples of your work - layouts, OTP, cards, etc - using chipboard. Include a bio of yourself and a description of each item suitable for blogging. That's all there is to it. The position is for 12 months with the option of staying on. 

Email your application to blog@a2zscraplets.com.au by January 31 and we'll be making a decision as quickly as possible.

Until Next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Never enough time ...........

Sometimes time is short, in fact much of the time it is short but that doesn't mean no scrapping. Lately I have had a lot of photos that I wanted to scrap while the memory was still fresh. Being busy with family, work and end of the year lead up to Christmas has meant very little scrap time. This hasn't stopped me, it's just simplified what I produced.

This is a page of our precious little rescue dog - Alfie ............ or Alfred in some circumstances.

Alfie came to us a very timid little boy, hesitant to be touched and held but within a couple of days he was relaxing and lapping up the attention. 

 A close up of the chipboard - simply inked using a couple of inks.

Materials used: Basic Grey paper

A2Z Scraplets

Magic Scraps Flair

K and Co Droplets

The next page is all about the title! Again, simple and tells me the story of what happened on that day, at the time.

A close up showing the crackle paint finish on the chipboard.

Materials:

Cardstock

A2Z Scraplets chipboard

Tim Holtz Crackle Paint

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb 

Keeping it simple .....

Hi, Deb on the blog today with a couple pages to share. I'm enjoying doing some super simple layouts at the moment. The lead up to Christmas gets busy but I find scrapping some pages so rewarding and relaxing at this time.

The first page I've done here is a of one of my grand-daughters. A simple pic of her sitting on the lawn one day during the school holidays. I have used the new frame 'Fancy Frame' which I cut down to fit.

 A close up of the painted frame. I have used Pearl Dabber Paint - this would be my favourite of all the dabbers about. I love it!

 Materials used:

Cardstock

A2Z Scraplets

Little Birdie Flowers and Butterflies

Kaisercraft Bling

The next page is a fun one using one of A2Z Scraplets Custom Designed Page Frames. Again I have left it unaltered and journaled around the edges.

Until Next time, 

Happy Scrapping,

Deb

 

Weird and Wonderful

Hi, Deb here with you. For this post I thought I'd share another couple of pages I did while on a break.

This first page is using the new "Weird and Wonderful" title and is perfect for this photo. I wonder if anyone else has 'one of these in their family'?

Being a girly page I decided to use a simple finish that still had a bit of pizazz and bling - simply paint and glittered dimensional paint.

Using a stencil and embossing thread I added a word that describes the subject to a T!

Materials used:

A2Z Scraplets Weird and Wonderful

Purple paint

Glittered Dimensional Magic

Stitching template

Thread

Bo Bunny Papers

The next page is one of my grandchildren making biscuits. I love the look on the youngest one's face! Again, this one was done on break with limited supplies - the challenge to make the most of what I had with me. 

Firstly I spread some gesso on the paper using a business card I had in my purse. The rest is layering and adding little elements from my embellishments stash that I had with me.

 

Naturally there is still chipboard on it. I'm finding the pack of Chevron strips very useful. I cut and inked a couple of pieces to add to the layering effects on the page.

To finish it off just a little more I think I might add the title 'masterchef' and a centre to the flower. 

Materials used:

A2Z Scraplets Chevron Borders

Flair

gesso

Ink

Papers

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb

Looking back, seeing now .....

I've been going back through photos from when my children were younger and scrapping the memories that they bring back. When they were younger we had deer at the farm and occasionally an orphan came along to be cared for. 

The Single Deer was just perfect for this photo.

 I have painted it, shading around the edges and then given it a coat of Rock Candy Crackle paint.

Life is Pretty Amazing sums up how I feel about travelling. Canoeing around the caves of Thailand on a family holiday couldn't be explained any better.

The title has been inked to give it a stipple effect with the Life word outlined with pen.

Until next time

Happy Scrapping 

Deb

Loving these Hashtag words ....

Deb here again today with a couple of pages to share.

The first one is another of my son's football days. In this one I have used the chipboards raw. The engraved frame is one from the Set of 3 PL cards and I've combined it with a small Hashtag word, Memories.

These journalling cards come as a solid piece but I have cut along the engraving line to create a frame from it.

The Hashtag memories word is part of a set of 6 words, a really handy and great set of words to use on your pages. 

 

 The next one I'd like to share with you is one of my youngest child and her ever faithful companion. Nothing will come between them and so this title was just right for the page.

  I have used the Friends Fur Ever and simply chalked it to slightly change the color from raw to a light kraft color to suit the page.

 

Until next time

Happy Scrapping

Deb