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Monday, December 11, 2017

Scrapmatts DT for December - Friendship and a Christmas card

Hello and welcome back to Scrapmatts.

It's Helen with you today. How are your Christmas preparations going?
I'm still making cards and have a lever fold one to share with you.

After two years, it's time to step down from the Scrapmatts Design Team
and this is my last post. Sincere thanks to Sofie and Andrew for having me;
I will be forever grateful for the opportunity and for your generosity.

But first I'm sharing a Boy's layout. The photo was taken in an industrial area,
so that I could use the Grafitti as a background.

The Turquoise paper is from Crate Paper, Cool Kid.
The Navy polka dot, is an older scrap from October Afternoon.
and the red is also an older scrap, from Amy Tangerine.

I like the way the black chipboard ties all the different elements together.

Scrapmatts Products used:-

CB5140 string circles 04

CB 6112 Scrap Words 31

CB1232 Film strips 05

CB1072 Gears 01

Next up is a card to inspire you. I challenged myself to make a lever card and it was easier than I imaged. I'm really happy with the result.

I lined the inside with a mixture of Kaisercraft Christmas papers.

One of the folds was left blank, to write a Christmas message.

Scrapmatts products used:-

CB 144 Layered Poinsettias 01

CB6111 Assorted Words 27

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Saturday, December 9, 2017

Beautiful you layout and a couple of Christmas Cards.

Hello there!
Here we are in December! How did the year go so fast??? How are your preparations going for Christmas? I am not to stressed .... yet!!!

I would like to share a layout I created for a challenge I am on. And of course, I had to use some SCRAPMATTS products on my page..

some closer views first!!

Love the keys which I have attached with some string... and those stencilled flowers are so cute too..

I added some flowers painted with a brad in the centre in my cluster.

Love those fabulous circles too!

Beautiful You..

and here is a list of the SCRAPMATTS products I have used on my page..

ST9041 Flowers and Butterflies

CB5152 Circles02

CB1017 Keys 01

CB1026 Flowers 06

And I have a couple of Christmas Cards to share because you can never create too many cards!! They are simply designed using paper scraps and doileys and some fabulous Scrapmatts chippies..

The Scrapmatts I have used are..

CB1183 Christmas Ornaments 10

CB1184 Assorted Words 12

Well I hope you have a wonderful festive season, sharing with those you love, remembering our many blessings from this year. Have a very Merry Christmas and every good wish for a wonderful 2018.

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Believe and Family - Lauren Tomecek

Hello chipboard fans. This is a very sad post for me, as it is my last design team reveal after 5 years with Scrapmatts. I have had such a great time on the team, made fantastic friends and loved every day of working with the amazing designs.

My last two reveals are both created for CSI: Color, Stories, Inspiration. First up is the reveal for the current December challenge. I've used a 2016 Santa photo and can't believe how much older my boy looks in just one year. That wonderful title piece comes from CB6111 Assorted Words 27.

I love the range of reindeer chipboard designs available and had this lovely guy left over for a while now from CB5050 Reindeer 07. The 'falling snow' in the background uses the ST5003 stencil, first with gesso applied through it and then a bead mixture with matte medium once the gesso was dry.

I loved the CB1053 Christmas Ornaments 03 and just coated them in some silver embossing powder. My flourishes are offcuts from CB4069, inked in black for contrast.

If you want to see the CSI reveal, it is based on the below image. I used Christmas/winter elements, silver, circular elements and something fuzzy. I actually forgot all about the journaling component though. :(

Design number two was actually created for November's mid-month reveal so has already gone live on the CSI blog. My family travelled from all around the east coast of Australia to attend Harrison's 3rd birthday party and I was able to grab a photo of us all together.

I've used a couple of different chipboard pieces in this one. I like using the shaped pieces to add some extra dimension to my backgrounds. If you cut them up they will last for ages, I've actually only used half of a sheet of CB5142 Retro Squares 02 on this layout but it looks like much more. The title comes from CB6105 Assorted Words 23.

I have used CB5056 Twigs 02 along the bottom of the photo to mirror the trees in the background of my photo.

I was inspired by the repeating squares/rectangles of 'The Scene' and used that to build up my paper layers. I loved 'The Scheme' with the focus on brown/green/white. My 'Evidence' includes clips, leaves, stamp, button, tags and string. My 'Testimony' has been written on a tag.

Thank you so much for looking at my work over the past 5 years. I hope it has inspired you in some way and look forward to seeing what you can create with Scrapmatts products. If you want to keep seeing more of my work please check out my blog or Instagram.

Friday, December 1, 2017

It's Beginning To Look Alot Like Christmas.....December @ Scrapmatts.

Hello, hello dearest friends of Scrapmatts!

1st of December means the start of seriously getting Festive!

Today we put up our Christmas tree and my girls have made some

little Christmas puddings to eat, as we do so...

Kim here to share a few, festive creations I've been working on!

I have made a card, matching gift bag and two tags.

I really, really love this snowflake stencil!

With the two tags I have created, I have added a bottom section to the reverse of the tag to create a pocket to slip a gift card or voucher in. Sometimes I like to add a little coffee voucher or a special note.

Scrapmatts Products Used

Christmas Ornaments 14 (CB1228

Christmas Shapes 01 (CB5145)

Snowflakes (ST1042)

Scrapmatts has an amazing range of Christmas chipboard

& some fab new Christmas stencils.

Make sure you check them out!

Before I go I would like to wish you all a wonderful Christmas

& a safe, happy & healthy New Year.

Also make sure you pop back here every couple of days to see what the other

Scrapmatts Design Team members have been creating.

Love & Festive Hugs

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

two projects by Elena Smoktunova

Hello friends!

Today I will show you two projects, one of them is the layout for the blog CSI and a beautiful gentle card. I have made all this as a gift! I hope him it will be pleasant!

The cheerful colourful naughty page with a great number of wonderful chipboard has turned out! I didn't paint it here, but looks just fantastically! Isn't that so?