The Beauty of Nature

I love working with embellishments based on nature - all the beautiful flowers, leaves and flourishes that tie in so well with photos taken in natural settings - and you can bet I work hard to make sure 

the majority of our photos are taken with lovely green backgrounds! lol 

At home I hustle everyone out to the back balcony for photos and make sure they have lush leafy backgrounds ... even at the beach I'm careful to make sure not every picture has the rolling 

waves in them - I love scrapping those photos of course, but it can become an issue when every second layout in your album is nautical themed 😂

To compensate I make sure I always grab a few photos like the one below - still containing that beautiful beachy windswept, sunsoaked look, but with green backgrounds I can compliment with 

lovely nature themed embellishments ...

The base of this layout relatively plain so I added to it by using this beautiful stencil ... all it took was an inking sponge and some blue ink.

 

I added the stencil pattern to the background paper, 

but then I also added it over my matt to tie all the layers together.

Next I turned my attention to embellishing - these gum leaves chipboard sets that scrapmatts create are just divine. The just the right sized leaves and gum nuts for adding to pages and I think I would stick on everything if I thought I would get away with it!💚

I used simple metallic pens to colour these chipboards as the ink goes on so rich and thick 

and leaves a bit of shimmer on the final product.

The gum nuts tucked nicely in with the paper embellishments on this layout.

And of course - one always needs a title ...

This fun and funky title was perfect as it was - finished with white mist - I simply 

placed this straight on the page once I finished embellishing.

And of course I finished the whole page off by scattering a generous amount of these 

gorgeous acrylic gems around the layout

 

This next layout has much the same feel, but this time I used a stencil to bring in most of the 

leafy natural atmosphere.

 

Using muted metallic pens to colour my chipboards is defiantly a favourite technique of mine and here it is again ... subtly adding colour to these reedy embellishments that suit my 'by the lake' photos so perfectly.

For the leafy stencil I made sure to use a couple of shades of green so that they would have a somewhat 2D look to them rather than just a flat single colour stencil effect.

And for the titles I simply coloured them with the metallic pens as well.

And thats it from me this month, 

Thanks heaps for popping by to take look. 

If you have any suggestions for techniques you would like to see more of, 

please just drop me a note in the comments section below.

Cheers.

 

Family Memories

Good morning This month I have surprised myself, and probably all of my scrappy friends and have done a double layout for you. I have had these gorgous papers for a little while and have been slowly scrapping a friend's daughter's wedding photos.

Once I figured out where all my fussy cutting and photos were going I then added some stencilling using ST5035 Hearts stencil and some Prima Opal Magic Acrylic Paint.

I had in my Scrapmatts stash an older chipboard pack, CB5078 3D Ornaments 04 which I keep forgetting to do each Christmas. So have used one part of it cut in half on an end of each photo. It is simply painted with the Prima paint to tie in with the stencilling.

For the titles, I have used a couple of the words from CB6131 Assorted Words 32, and have used a purple chalk marker to colour them before attaching to each page with clear drying glue.

Thank you for spending time with me again, and I hope you have a fun scrappy weekend. Heather

March Scrapping

 Hi everyone

Lisette here with a couple of layouts for March.  I was lucky enough to attend a Scrapbooking weekend last weekend with some fabulous girls.  Everyone, myself included, was just grateful to be away with wonderful women.  Some were super creative and some just fluffed around and didn't do much.  It didn't matter!

Here are a couple of layouts I created over the weekend.

The first one is for the Kraft+ challenge.  This one is to use frames. I love this photo.  Our cat walked straight up to me as I was taking some photos of him in the garden.

ST5004 Leaf Spray

CB4069 Ornate Frames 26

CB5100 Grass 02

CB6105 Assorted Words 23

CB1158 Butterflies 20

      

The next layout is one of my daughter in 2016.  After a hard year away she was saying good bye to Hobart.  She has grown into a strong young women.

ST9050 Hearts

CB4069 Ornate Frames 26

CB1159 Hearts 05

CB6112 Scrap Words 31

Once again, thank you for having a look at my layouts. I hope they have inspired you.

Until next time,

Happy Scrapping

Lisette xo

March Creations by Kim

 

Hello...hello!!!

Kim here with you today to share a couple of projects with you, all.

With all the chaos in the world at the moment I hope you are finding a little crafting time to unwind?

Today I wish to share with you a layout and also a card I started creating while at retreat in Neville.

First the layout...

[Always Beautiful]

Scrapmatts Products Used

The card I started way back in November, has changed quite a bit.

I decided to give it a vintage feel. 

I shared with the girls (and Andrew...lol) how to create a different effect with the chipboard, by wetting the chipboard and releasing the layers. Once dry I then added wax. This gives the chipboard a grungy feel. 

Here is the finished card

I do hope you have enjoyed looking over my March finished creations?

Be sure to stop by the 

Scrapmatts blog in a day or two to see more creations from the team.

Until Next Time

Happy Crafting 

&

Please keep safe!!!