Pretty in Pink 💕

Hello again crafty adventurers, 

Well the time has finally come, my fist grand baby has arrived and I'm cycling back to baby layouts! lol

Having been a scrapbooker for 25 years now I've run the whole gauntlet, starting with my own children's baby albums and seeing them through to adulthood. Now the circle is complete and I'm back to babay photos - it's nice to know I'll get to all those papers in my stash eventually! 

Nothing quite says little girl like lace so I stocked up on some beautiful Scrapmatts laces 

- white is perfect as you can colour them to suit your papers using inks, 

chalks and sprays, although I left the lace raw for this particular layout. 

Next I mixed up some light pink gesso (using white gesso and some pink acrylic paint) 

and spread it over the hearts background stencil. I just adore this look 💕

I also used the left over gesso to colour the title - but I verigated it towards the top, 

making the most of the natural white that the chipboard already has on it. 

And then I simply tied it all up with these fabulous scrapwords 

- one of which always PERFECTLY expresses the moment captured in any photo.

This next layout was one just for me - I wanted to mirror the pattern in the dress 

I was wearing so this paper was perfect. I then complimented the heavier patterns 

in the fabric with the black chipboards on the page. 

 

This is my favourite pack of chipboard words to use as titles - I come back to this set over and over. 

 

I coloured these quickly and esiliy with a black sharpie....

Occassionally if the tone of black doesnt match my picture 

I will use mat black spraypaint or a specific shade of black ink instead.

 

And of course, a layout is never finsihed for me unless I have added some emotions to it 

- and these gorgeous whimsical scrapwords are perfect for doing just that. 

And thats it from me for this month folks, it has been a priveledge to share the journey with you.

I wish you all the best with your own cerative adventures, 

regaress of what point in the journey you are up to. 

Cheers, Kel xo

Dynamic Backgrounds

With Mother's Day just around the corner, I decided to work on some pages 

using photos of my new granddaughter. I'm still in love with  

Australian themed embellishments so I made the most of them on this soft pink page...

The chipboards for the titles were pretty straightforward - the word Mother's I inked brown to make it stand out and the word Love I left as it was - as the raw look softened the whole layout. 

I used the Gum leaf stencil and two different green inks to add the leaves to the

top of the page. I decided in the end not to ink the Gum leaf chipboards at the top so 

they wouldn't be competing for attention with the leaves inked on the paper. 

but the leaves at the base of the photo got a good inking with the same two green

 inks that I used on the background stencils.

Of course, I just had to scatter a few of these wonderful journaling words around also...

For this next layout, I decided to go nice and bright and really lean into the

painterly qualities of the background on this paper.

The hero of this layout is the triangle stencil pattern in the background - created using

the A6-sized stencil, the hot pink triangles emerging from the lighter background really pop!

I rubbed the hot pink ink into the background using this cheap makeup brush

that I picked up at K-Mart on a whim, it worked brilliantly!

And for colouring the feather images I just hit them with some simple watercolour paints.

The various words on the page were gathered from the following sets and inked with brown

and then given a light run-over with Crystalian Kindy Glitz. 

I used the makeup brush again when it came to colouring these flower chipboards as well ...

Then I dropped a bit of yellow paint into the middle of each one to make a simple centre.

I also ended up adding this lace to the page just to pull a bit of the white back in below the photo,

and it's just such a beautiful lace, It really seems to add class to any page I use it on.

Finally, to lift the whole layout I also scattered clusters of these 

4,5 & 6mm Champagne Acrylic Craft Gems around the page and some random sprinkles 

of Crystalina Kindy Glitz.

And that's it for me this month, Thanks for checking out my crafty adventures.

And for all the mums out there - I hope you have a very beautiful and blessed Mother's Day this year 💕

Cheers,

Kelly-ann

 

What are you most proud of ?

At this particular time in the historical Australian landscape, with unprecedented fires and record breaking droughts I find myself feeling extremely patriotic. 

I watch the unbreakable Aussie spirit raise itself up time and time again, I see people lending each other a hand in record numbers, donations to charities sky rocketing and stories of bravery and kindness abounding.

... And I feel PROUD! 

Proud to be a part of this beautiful country, proud to be a part of this amazing community and proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with my fellow Aussies as we face these difficult times together. So when it came to making Christmas cards this year I knew I was going to go Aussie themed all the way! 

And now I find these patriotic feeling are spilling over into my scrapbooking as well lol. I have had Aussie themed chipboards in my stash for ages, and it has been a pure delight to dig them out and use them lately. 

I hope all our Aussie readers out there are feeling some of this sense pride as well... may you know you are supported, admired and backed all the way. We are so blessed to be part of this amazing country made up of some of the toughest men and women on earth! We should never forget this and always celebrate it 💚

Adventure Starts Here

Here I've used the A6 diamond template and a white gel pen to easily get so patterns into my dark background.

White ink or Gesso would work just as well.

Stencil 9070 Diamonds, Available in A4, A5 or A6

A few of these fabulous sentiment words 

go a long way! 

CB1238 Scrap Words 24

And one of the awesome title chipboards to finish it all off with...

CT046 Adventure Starts Here

 

Just a couple of Aussie Girls...

the new Australian papers from Couture are divine and I had ball teaming them up with my traditional country chipboards...

I just love these windmill and cattle chippies!

💚 

CB5182 Australia 02

Aussie Christmas Cards...

I sent these cards all over the world this year to family in both Europe and the US 💚

CB5124 Hexagon Mesh 03

I know these are a hexagon shape ( more reminiscent of honey bees) but I grew up with chicken wire that looked a whole it lot like this so they feel very Aussie back ground-ish to me! lol 😆

CB5149 Australia 01

Thanks for stopping by for a look ... please leave a comment and let me know what your favourite Aussie embellishments are 💖

Cheers from Kel