Welcome Autumn...

I love this time of the year when the weather starts to cool down (well supposedly anyway!) and the colours in nature turn to the beautiful rich and warm hues. I used these colours as my inspiration for this month's post - not that I need much pushing towards the vintage tones!
A little while ago I bought some gorgeous clipboards from Typo and at long last I had the opportunity to turn them into something pretty:

 The one of the left shows how the clipboard started before it landed on the scrap desk!

Using Scrapmatts chipboard Ornate Frames CB1220, Butterflies CB1158 and Charms Filigree Flowers #2 CH004

The clip on the board was made to look old by using a rusting powder on the metal.

Next I worked on my tags that the DT are working on for each month of 2014. Last month I created the box and January's tag, so this month I wanted to catch up and completed February's tag (about love of course!) and March's tag:

 Using Scrapmatts chipboard Tag CB3010, Ornate Frames CB6091, Cupids CB1166, Hearts CB1159, Scrapwords CB1190. Along with charms Arrow CH030 and Crown CH057. To make the word 'is' in the title, I cut up one of the 'Discover' Scrapwords.

My tag for March was one to remind me of my beautiful girls - lots of beautiful pink flowers!

Using Scrapmatts chipboard Tag CB3009, Ornate Frame CB6093 and Scrapwords CB1199

Don't forget if you are playing along with us and creating your own tags each month, we would love to see them in the Scrapmatts Gallery!
Sonia x

Can you see me smiling...

You should be able to see me smiling from where ever you are as I haven't stopped since I saw the amazing new releases from Scrapmatts this month :) Andrew and Sofie have outdone themselves particularly with the beautiful ranges of new chipboard frames and of course, the new charms (that one deserves a happy dance!!!)
Be ready for a bit of photo overload as I couldn't narrow down what I wanted to use - so I just made more stuff LOL!

Using Scrapmatts Chipboard Ornate Frames 21 CB6093, Scrapwords CB1197, Clock CB6048 and Leaves CB5086. Also using Scrapmatts Charms Filigree Flowers #7 CH014 and Clock from Assorted Charms CH031

The next card is using the new Heart Frame:

Using Scrapmatts Chipboard Heart Frame CB5113, Cupid CB1166 and Scrap Words CB1197. Scrapmatts Charms Filigree Flower #14 CH074 and Filigree Flower CH002

I love making tags and using the Scrapmatts chipboard tags mean I can put a lot more stuff on them! As they are made of chipboard it means they don't bend the way the paper shipping tags do:

Using Scrapmatts chipboard Tags CB3007, Ornate Frames CB6090 and Scrap Words CB1189 along with Fob Watch charm CH037

Angella Peardon (our DT coordinator extraordinaire) created a challenge for the DT to make a tag each month of 2014 so that we end up with a mini album made up of the tags at the end of the year. Angella's gorgeous work inspired me to create a box to hold my tags in instead of clipping the tags together:

Using Scrapmatts chipboard Screens CB4062, Scrap Words CB1197 and Alphabet Flags CB6084 along with Scrapmatts Charms Frame #5 CH081 and Arrow CH030. The Screens actually come with gorgeous feet on the bottom but I accidentally damaged mine while trying to make a previous project but I kept them as I knew I could turn them into something eventually :)

Finally! My tag for January 'Enjoy Life' The idea of my tags for the year will be to make the box my 'Happy Box' - full of positive sayings

Using Scrapmatts Tags CB3009, Scrap Words CB1208, Leaf Spray CB4063 and Butterfly CB1045 and Scrapmatts Charms Filigree Flower CH005

Enjoy the fabulous new release from Scrapmatts - I had a ball playing with them :)

Sonia x