Who loves a bit of Green?

With the coming of the rain has also come the beautiful Australian greens that I've missed so much over this last dry season. 

EVERY photo looks better now without the dry dead backgrounds we have been forced to deal with lately!

This is reflected in my layouts that have all fallen into a green/nature theme recently 💚. 

For scrapbooking and card making green is one of the best of the more neutral colours to base any design on... creating gorgeous natural pallets for pinks, blues and purples that POP! 

Mind you, green in itself almost always provides a rich and generous colour scheme!

 In the layout below I've pulled in white design elements that echo back to the raw beauty of nature - and of course this is complimented by the raw chipboard elements are perfect and natural companions...

TOGETHER - SINGLE LAYOUT

CB1268 Floral Spray 16

    

These stencils are just divine, I used the larger one for the centre of the page and the smaller one for the outside edges. Primarily I used white gesso to create the masked patterns but I also did extra details using the stencils and a white pen.

Stencil 9073 Leaves, Available in A4, A5 or A6

LET'S CLIMB - SINGLE LAYOUT

With this next layout I was going for something a bit tricky with my daughter sitting in a tree - my goal was to make it look like the branch she was on was attached to the 'tree' on the side of the layout. 

Some extra foliage stencil-work helped pull this look off in the end and is a good trick to add to any pages that need a little something extra in the back ground.

ST5004 Stencil Leaf Sprays

CB5137 Ornate Toppers 01

I'm a bit of fan of the good old metallic marker pens and used them to add colour to my chipboards in this layout. Ink soaks into chipboard to a certain extent, but the metallic and paint pens provide colour that sits on top and stays true to original tones.

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CB2023 Roses 01

              

HINT: Metallic markers wont blend per se, but a two tone effect is still possible and looks quite effective on smaller detailed spaces.

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SMILE - STEP CARD

And just to finish off with I'm sharing another little step card...

 

Template 4007 Centre Step Card   

You can't get a better buy than this template for ONLY $7.50! I LOVE these templates and own all of Scrapmatts templates for card making. 

      

Once again the good old metallic pens were the perfect choice to help these cute floral chipboards POP out from the green toned base papers 💜

                                            

                                           

                                            

Thanks heaps for stopping by for a look...
I hope you found some inspiration to compliment your own beautiful creations, All my best, Kel xo

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