A Warm Welcome to March......@ Scrapmatts!

Hello...Hello dear friends of Scrapmatts!

Kim, here to kick off the month of March.

Today I am sharing a card & gift tag. I wanted to create a set for the boys!!!

We often create a lot of pretties for the girls, but not so much for the males in our lives.

[For the Boys]

The Scrapmatts Men's Accessories collection makes creating masculine cards such a breeze!

You can't go wrong!

Team it with some great background paper (Prima), and a little Tiny Twine and BAM!!!!

You have a great card for that special guy in your life. 

 

 Don't forget about the versatile, Diamond Mesh....just add a little ink!

I've used Tim Holtz Distress Ink in stormy sky.

 

Scrapmatts products used;

Men's Accesories 01 (CB1201)

Scrap Words 29 (CB1243)

Diamond Mesh 03 (CB5127)

Tags 01 (CB3003)

I do hope you have enjoyed looking at my creations!

Thanks so much for stopping by....make sure you stop by in a day or two to check out some more

fabulous creations by the other talented designs here at Scrapmatts!!!

Until Next Time

Happy Creating!!!

Memories and Love Layouts by Amy

HELLO!!!

Amy Here, and its the 15th so its my turn to share.

This month I used CB6113

and CB1201

Here is my layout 'Memories'

 I have used my left overs from the Men's Accessories chipboard sayings for little embellishments in my gatherings.

 I have give a bit of Dimensional Magic for my title so that it doesn't get completely lost in the page.

This photo is of a busy, messy boy and only a busy layout was going to do it justice.

So I hope you enjoyed that layout because here is another

I thought I would throw you a girly layout. I don't get to play with girly layouts often so it is still what I consider not my comfort zone.

This layout I have used CB6105 and some Tim Holtz Pewter Spray

Here is my layout called Love,

I really loved playing with these chipboard sayings.

I had to drench it in the spray to get this pewter look. I may have even got some spray on my laptop hehe.

I have use 3d Adhesive Foam to give a bit of dimension to a mostly flat layout.

So I hope you love it

Stay Scrappy

Amy

He's All Boy by Amy

Hi There Scrapmatts Fans,

Amy with you today to share some crafty love using SCRAPMATTS designs.

For my designs today I used the CB1201 Men's Accessories Chipboard

Here is He's All Boy

 Because I just loved the colour this chipboard comes in I kept it raw in my layout.

I usually love to emboss, paint and generally alter my chipboard but this was too perfect

 I am a bit of a layer lady and usually use 3d adhesive to give a bit of dimension

This chipboard has so many pieces I just have to keep going and use up some extras.

Here is my Star Tag. I like to make little tags to store for cards and gifts

Once again I did keep these raw as I was using the same Echo Park collection.

So that's it my first blog post done and dusted. I am so glad to be able to share with you my crafty creations. Feel free to link Scrapmatts in when you create yours. We would love to see what you make

Stay Scrappy,

Amy xo

Live Life Canvas

Good Morning Everyone, Rhonda here with you today with my Scrapmatts blog post...

This month I created three totally different projects to share with you all... 

The first of my project's is a canvas "about me" and set by Sofie which was a challenge by itself and I must admit it was the hardest challenge I have faced for some time. 

For starters I didn't possess a recent photo of me, so hubby said ok lets go and take a few photo's, so that was the photo out of the way... 

The next problem I faced was having to use the photo on the canvas, no doubt a lot artists feel the same...

My canvas is titled "Live Life."

Firstly I used three different stencils for the background, I then worked out the rest of the chipboard pieces I would use and tried some stencilling on the them, it turned out quite effective... 

Next I chose what colours I was going to use, I picked a few LSG starburst spray mists. I also inked the chipboard pieces once the texture paste was dry...

I laid the chipboard pieces where I wanted them to go to make sure they would not go past the edge, and once I was happy I glued everything down and I was done...

The products I used for this project are as follows 

Scrapwords 24 - CB1238 in Burnt Cream

Lamps 11 - Lamps 11 - CB 6109 Hanging Hearts 01 - CB 5112 Flannel Flowers 01 - CB 5146 Retro Squares 02 - CB 5142 Diamond Mesh 02 - CB 5126 Heart Spray 01 - CB 1109

Stencil Stones - ST5007 

Stencil Circle Stains - ST5009 

Stencil Splatter - ST5010

LSG - Time Travel Teal

LSG - Jazzy Jivin Purple

LSG - Magnolia Magenta Gold

I also used a few things from my stash 

Prima Flowers - Butterfly - Bulbe

WOC - Sweetheart Blossoms

White Cotton Twine

Texture Paste

A stickpin I made

My second project is a quick present for my husband as it was our Wedding Anniversary on the 23rd March.

Chocolate bar slide cover is called

"Just For You" 

I made the box and I wanted to decorated it very masculine, so it was a prime opportunity to use this awesome chipboard set from my DT pack...

Once I glued everything into place I got a small piece of chain and tucked one end under the belt and joined the other end to the top of the pocket watch... 

Products used for this projects are 
Mens Accesories 01 - CB1201
Buckles & Belts 01 - CB 1231
Patterned Paper - Fab Scraps - Shabby Blues (Retired)

Cardstock - Steel Grey Foil (From My Stash) A piece of chain.

My third and final project for this month is a card titled
"Birthday Wishes"

 

For this card I started with a white card base, then started building, before I got to far I found the Dress form chipboard piece I was going to feature and placed it on a piece of white card where I wanted to start creating the background, I had a mauve spray mist  that I wanted to use and spayed over the chipboard piece using it as a stencil in a few different places, I then used my heat tool and dried the card and my dress form chipboard piece, it turned out really pretty... 

I used some gauze to sit under my Dress form with a pearl trim, a small resin crown and a crown charm, a velvet flower and some WOC flowers 

I also used Micro Chips 18 to sit under the greeting... 

Products I used for this card are

CB6036 - Dress Forms 01
MC1026 - Micro Chips 18
Cardstock - White and Teal,
White Gauze,
Pearl Trim,
Metal charm Crown,
 Resin Crown,
 Velvet Flower,
 Seed Beads in Teal and Mauve,
 Micro Beads in Silver, 
Pearls in Teal and Mauve, 
 and some Sequins.

So there you have it my three projects created...

Thanks for stopping by, make sure you come back soon to see what the rest of the New Design team have been creating.

Until next time!

Rhonda 

xxx

Cards & Tags with Scrapmatts :)

Hello there all :)

Kim here to share a few of my recent creations.

It's always nice to give a pretty homemade card or tag &

I decided to start creating a few more to have on hand.

Firstly I want to share a matching

card & tag!

Scrapmatts used;

Ornate Frames 22

Scrapwords 06

Tags 03

Tags 03 

Men's Accesories 01 

Tags 03

Scrapwords 04

Grass 01

My Exquisite Beauties

 This is a layout created using many awesome Scrapmatts products

Frames 02

this stunning frame comes with these gorgeous butterflies and in a fabulous range of 

colours & I didn't

use all the butterflies, either!

Scrapwords 05

Filigree Flower #11 

Lock #4 

Stunning Ornate frame in Sepia

 I layered a few of the butterflies...added a little coffee, I love the richness

of the colour it adds!

If you haven't checked out the charms available from 

Scrapmatts

please do as they are beautiful!!!

I do hope you have enjoyed my creations

and please be sure to check out the 

SCRAPMATTS

(ning site & visit our gallery)

you can upload your latest Scrapmatts creation!

We would love to see!

Thanks for stopping by

Kim

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