Time Flies

A week ago today my daughter was 15 months. She is every bit an active toddler now and no longer has that little baby look. It feels like this past year has just vanished and she is growing too fast!

 

This time of year is just crazy for birthdays in our family. In February was mine and my niece also turned 21. Then rolls around March and one of my nephews turned 13 along with 3 other family birthdays. Busy busy busy!

 

So lots of quick cards thrown together over the past couple of weeks and Scrapmatts are just perfect for making very quick cards... as in under 10 minute style cards ;)

 

 

 

Have a great week

 

Holly x

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

Printer Tray

Where to begin, I have always wanted to create a printer tray and this was my opportunity.

Scrapmatts chip board is the perfect product to embellish with.

My project has a vintage steampunk collectibles feel to it and there are few different packets of chip board used in this project.

Here are some close ups of a few sections. I love the way scrap matts chip board has 

the fine detail that adds a professional finish to the 

embellishing of my creations.

The scrapmatts chipboard I used to embellish this projects is as follows, I 

also used the owl charm pictured above.

Nautical designs 02 CB6065

Dress Forms 01 CB6036

Gears 01 CB1072

Scrap Words 09 CB1206

Gears 05 CB1078

Signboards 01 CB1123

Filmstrip 01 CB2002

Filigree #1

Filigree Flowers #2

Assorted Charms #4

Go over and visit the scrap matts store at

http://www.papertoleaustralia.com 

happy scrapping

Andrew

Foiling Scrapmatts Chipboards

Hello Renee here :)

Today I am going to share with you a quick video tutorial on foiling Scrapmatts chippies! 

Here is a tag (CB3010 Tags 06) I created that has a foiled CB6004 Ornate Frame 07 .

Close to My Heart Tag

I have also used CB1197 Scrapwords 05,  CB1199 Scrapwords 07  and CB1146 Leaf Spray 01. The butterfly charm is: CH011 Butterflies #1

Next up I created a layout using some of my pics from Fraser Island.

Today

on this layout I have used: CH002 Filigree Flowers #1 charm, CB1198 Scrapwords 06, CB1190 Scrapwords 02 and CB1117 Floral Design 04

Dont forget to check out the Scrapmatts gallery HERE!

Thanks for looking!

luvReneexoxo

How a Layout comes into being....

Hi Everyone, Anne here with you today.  

Isn't it funny how layouts can come into being sometimes.  I had a half done layout sitting on my bench.  I didn't know what to call it but i felt the colours of the paper went with the picture, but hadn't got too much further than that.

There was the beautiful vine (Leaf Spray CB2022) sitting my my scrapbook pile, and I was looking at other pieces, and saw my icecreams (CB5094).  And so I opened up the packet and the rest just went from there.

Close up of the Chipboard, showing the butterfly (CB1010)

 Even my title came from the chipboard.

I also wanted to share with you this Card i made which features a Chipboard Frame (CB8006).  I have heat embossed it and then coated it with Speckles to give it a fabulous glittery effect.

Then here is what I created for Charms Creations.  I was inspired by her fabulous creations, but I also added some Scrapmatts.  

Here is a close up of the chipboard, I have used the Hot Air Balloon (CB5035) and some etched words(CB1189).

Well I hope you have enjoyed my creations.  

Anne

A tag, a card and two layouts

Hi there! I'd like to share a few projects I made with the gorgeous Scrapmatts new releases, love them!

In this page I used a border in the CB4060 Ornate Frames 17. I also used CB6043 Card Borders 05 as a embellishment behind the tag "live the life you imagined". I decided to use the CB1220 Ornate Frames 22 to frame my title. Finally I added the CB1198 Scrapwords 06 chippie under the bird.

For this page I decided to add a big flourish chipboard, I used CB1004 Flourishes 05, it's one of my favorites chippies! The little tag which says "Bon voyage" is from the set CB1218 Scrap Words 19. Finally, I added some gears from CB1073 Gears 02 

I chose a bird cage (CB1016 Bird Cages 01) as the focal point of this card. The word "live" is a chipboard from the set CB1134 Assorted Words 01 

I also made a coordinated tag, using that pretty frame (CB1163 Ornate Frames 14 ). The little bird comes in the set CB1203 Birdbaths 03. I added a sentiment from the assorted words chipboards (CB1198 Scrapwords 06)

Brand New Scrapmatts Releases!!

Hi everyone...Sandi here today to share my Scrapmatts creations for February.

Sometimes I Wonder

I created this layout for the 7 Dots/ScrapAfrica Challenge on altering chipboard.

 I just love the newly released frames and have been using them on all my projects!

The frame, compass and lighthouse received some textured paste, mists and embossing powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang. The grass chipboard was soaked with brown mist and I peeled apart the layers to give a more dimensional effect. The fence also received a coat of mist and I then added some gesso for a whitewashed effect. I simply inked the edges of the gorgeous butterfly as it was beautiful just as it was!

Here are a few closeups...

Scrapmatts Products Used:

CB5099 GRASS 01

CB4059 NAUTICAL DESIGNS 03

CB2024 PICKET FENCE 07

CB4009 BUTTERFLIES 02

CB6091 FRAMES 19

CH 061 FOB WATCH #5 

Next up is a layout of my boy...

Moments

 I gave all the chipboard an imperfect coat of black paint.

The brand new CB2022 Leaf Spray pictured above also got a few layers of embossing powder from Lindy's Stamp Gang Industrial Chic collection. The mists I used were also from the same collection. Love those colors as they are a perfect match for the 7 Dots 9th wave collection.Scrapmatts also has a brand new charm release ...aren't those metal flowers gorgeous!

 

Scrapmatts Products Used:

CB1189 SCRAPWORDS
CB5107 ARROWS
CB6071 ASSORTED WORDS 07
CB2022 LEAF SPRAY 12
CB5106 CHEVRONS
CB1036 DRAGONFLIES 04
CB6093 ORNATE FRAMES 21
CH005 FILIGREE FLOWERS #3

Lastly is a layout created with the Scraps of Elegance February Kit.
Sealed With A Kiss

I once again put those gorgeous frames to use!

Scrapmatts Products Used: 

CB1220 Ornate Frame 22

CB6090 Ornate Frame 18

You can check out all the new chipboard releases here and the gorgeous charms here.

Anyone can purchase directly from the site...You do not have to be a wholesaler!
How awesome is that!

Happy Scrapping everyone!!!

Sandi