Who loves a bit of Green?

With the coming of the rain has also come the beautiful Australian greens that I've missed so much over this last dry season. 

EVERY photo looks better now without the dry dead backgrounds we have been forced to deal with lately!

This is reflected in my layouts that have all fallen into a green/nature theme recently 💚. 

For scrapbooking and card making green is one of the best of the more neutral colours to base any design on... creating gorgeous natural pallets for pinks, blues and purples that POP! 

Mind you, green in itself almost always provides a rich and generous colour scheme!

 In the layout below I've pulled in white design elements that echo back to the raw beauty of nature - and of course this is complimented by the raw chipboard elements are perfect and natural companions...

TOGETHER - SINGLE LAYOUT

CB1268 Floral Spray 16

    

These stencils are just divine, I used the larger one for the centre of the page and the smaller one for the outside edges. Primarily I used white gesso to create the masked patterns but I also did extra details using the stencils and a white pen.

Stencil 9073 Leaves, Available in A4, A5 or A6

LET'S CLIMB - SINGLE LAYOUT

With this next layout I was going for something a bit tricky with my daughter sitting in a tree - my goal was to make it look like the branch she was on was attached to the 'tree' on the side of the layout. 

Some extra foliage stencil-work helped pull this look off in the end and is a good trick to add to any pages that need a little something extra in the back ground.

ST5004 Stencil Leaf Sprays

CB5137 Ornate Toppers 01

I'm a bit of fan of the good old metallic marker pens and used them to add colour to my chipboards in this layout. Ink soaks into chipboard to a certain extent, but the metallic and paint pens provide colour that sits on top and stays true to original tones.

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CB2023 Roses 01

              

HINT: Metallic markers wont blend per se, but a two tone effect is still possible and looks quite effective on smaller detailed spaces.

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SMILE - STEP CARD

And just to finish off with I'm sharing another little step card...

 

Template 4007 Centre Step Card   

You can't get a better buy than this template for ONLY $7.50! I LOVE these templates and own all of Scrapmatts templates for card making. 

      

Once again the good old metallic pens were the perfect choice to help these cute floral chipboards POP out from the green toned base papers 💜

                                            

                                           

                                            

Thanks heaps for stopping by for a look...
I hope you found some inspiration to compliment your own beautiful creations, All my best, Kel xo

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Pretty in Pink ...

So recently I managed to get my hands on some DIVINE pink papers from Coco Vanilla Studio... having 4 girls in my tribe, I'm always on the look out for pretty pink papers and these were just perfect for this fun layout using circle chippies ...

I started out with a set of these gorgeous string circles ... they are cut from white chipboard to begin with which is FANTASTIC and very handy, so I didn't have to do anything beside stick them down! My favourite kind of embellishment!! lol

            

CB5139 - String Circles 03          CB6105 Assorted Words 23

I used a large circle template and some light pink Inka Gold wax to create the shimmering circles you can see on the page ( and colour the words on the arrows) and a smaller circle template and a white pen to do the background circles.

        

Stencil 9007 - Circles A4         Stencil 9071 - Circles A5

 I also used the smaller template to guide me as I added some 

black dot circles to the layout as well.

And these fabulous word expressions I simply stuck on as is - too easy! 

    

                                             CB1251 Scrap Words 34                                              

And just a quick step card to finish off todays share...

 made with the same Coco Vanilla papers as the previous layout, this very simple card used some feathers and arrow tail string circle chipboards to 

create dimension and detail.

          

CB5140 Strong Circles 04              CB1222 Feathers 02

Thanks for having a look all the way to the bottom! lol

Cheers form Kel.

Scrapbook layouts by Kelly-ann

Good Morning All...

What an absolute pleasure it is to be here on the Scrapmatts Blog today.

Now that the chaos of the silly season is behind me I've finally had the chance to sit down and create with these divinely detailed chipboards ...

Be still my beating heart ... or heart shaped template as the case may be!!

To create the embellishments on this page I have teamed up two gorgeous sets...

  

CB5178 - Wildflowers 05 and  CB6117 Assorted Words 03

As well as playing in the background with this divinely simple heart template...

   

Add some simple colours with inks...

I used a white pen and the heart template to create the background, smudging a few of the hearts as I went to give them a solid look.

Another layout done recently used the gorgeous dream catcher set...

CB5186 Dreamcatcher 01

                             

Again I used simple inks to colour the chipboard and then added just a bit of Crystalina Kind Glitz to give it a bit of sparkle :) 

                               

  

A6 Stencil - Diamonds 9070    

CB6112 Scrap Words 31

And just a bit of cotton to add some dimension and extra detail to the dream catcher...

Thanks for popping by for a look.

Cheers from Kel