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

January Creating with Lizzy.

 Happy New Year! I hope your New Year has begun well with time for doing the things that make your soul happy! and for me that means getting into my Scrap space and doing some creating!

I have a layout and a card to share with you this month.. I remembered to have my camera on my desk as I created and I have taken some photos of my layout process! This layout is full of my favorite things, a special  photo,  pretty chipboard pieces and a bit of mixed media!! I have used the papers from Kaisercraft "Flower Shoppe", These papers have a page that has lots of butterflies and I thought I would do something a bit different with a few fussy cut butterflies.. I found some Scrapmatts butterflies that were around the same size as the fussy cut butterflies and I thought I would layer them for some dimension.

I took inspiration from the colors on  the papers and used water color paint to color the chipboard butterflies. A couple of orange, and one blue.

I layered the paper butterflies on the chipboard ones and lifted up the wings for dimension.

I put them aside and I laid down some strips of paper for the foundation of my page. I did some stencilling on the back ground with the pretty Butterflies and flowers stencil. I flicked some water color paint around too.. Lace on the sides for texture.

I then placed my photo where I wanted it and embellished my layout with fussy cut flowers, die cuts and popped a title on it and then put the butterflies where I thought they looked best..

The Chipboard frame was painted with the same water color as the chipboard butterflies.

The title was painted with the two colors to make it pop!

and my layout..

and here is a list of the Scrapmatts I have used..

ST9041 Flowers Stencil 

LL013 Lace

CT028 Beautiful Girl 

CB4006 Frames 01

(the Butterflies)                  

CB4072 wildflowers 01

And while I had these papers out I thought I would make a card, it is always a good idea to have a few cards ready to send.. 

I wanted to make a feminine card so I thought I would use a Dress Form as a feature.

I traced around the body of the Dress Form to make the top and pleated some paper for the skirt.

and I used a gel pen to color the Chip board sentiment.

and my card..

and here are the Scrapmatts I have used on my card.

CB6102 Assorted Words 21

CB6037 Dress Forms 02

I hope you have found some inspiration today, make sure you pop back and see what all the other Design Team are up to, Here is the link to the online SCRAPMATTS STORE HERE!!!
Have a little visit, check out the new releases and all the fabulous stencils too!

Thanks for coming by, have a great day!

Until next time,

Happy Scrapmatting!