Using Scrapmatts Card Elements - By Crece

 

Hello Scrapmatts friends, Crece here with you today to share a lil inspiration.

I created a card using 

CB6119 Card Elements 001 - Floral

I have used Glaze pens to colour the chipboard pieces to give it a glossy look.

The sentiment on the front of the card comes from the pack 

CB6100 Words 29 Happy Birthday

I find these really handy to have in my stash as its a quick and simple process - Ink and stick.

There are 5 Card Elements packs so far in the Scrapmatts collection, and I'm sure many more will be added in the future.

CB6119 Card Elements 001 - Floral

CB6122 Card Elements 004 - Floral

CB6128 Card Elements 005 - Shells

CB6121 Card Elements 003 - Floral

CB6120 Card Elements 002 - Floral

For more inspiration, check out what the other design team members have been creating throughout this blog

APRIL CREATING

 Well here I am again, the year is going insanely fast it's hard to keep track of where I am up to. 

I would like to share with you two layouts today.

The first is of my gorgeous great-niece Willow as the cutest little ballerina you could ever see.

For this page I used the lovely leaves stencil which I inked through with a very soft green ink, also used this ink on the leaves of the gorgeous rose wreath. I tucked in some of the beautiful little lace doilies behind the flower clusters.

PRODUCTS USED

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LEAVES STENCIL

LM009 WHITE LACE FLOWERS

CB4070 STRING CIRCLES 06 ROSES

This page was taken at Christmas time, it is a bit of a tradition that my son and his partner come over and have breakfast with me and then we do a photoshoot.

I used the star circle stencil and added texture paste to it. The swirl on the lamp posts is left over from my last page which I inked blue, I added some of the cute blue bling and scrapmatts words.

ST5052 STARS

CB5028 LAMP POSTS

CB5189 FOURISHES & LEAVES

CB1271 SCRAP WORDS

CB1191 SCRAPWORDS 03

6MM PALE BLUE CRAFT GEMS

Thanks for looking, hope that you all had an amazing Easter. I went to the South Coast for a little mini holiday so will have lots of beachy layouts to share with you next month.

Until then

Hugs and Love

Annette

XXX

Picture Perfect

It was difficult, but I finally tore my attention away from beach layouts to pull 

together some alternate designs lol 😂

This month I chose to go all in with beautiful patterned papers, making the most of stencils 

and even using the chipboards housing as a stencils!

The papers in this layout are from the 'Bohemian Bliss' collection by Bee Arty, designed by Sue Smyth. 

I had been sitting on these photos for ages as the they had some difficult colours in them to work with ... pink on a boy and a whole family with pink and blue mixed in. The whimsical papers were perfect for both and the chipboard embellishments easily worked in with the patterns...

You've gotta love it when a plan comes together!

The title for this page was coloured in with black sharpie and some white shine lines added ... 

the easiest technique to pull off and my all time fav.

For embellishments I began by adding these beautiful leaf sprays.

And with the left over chipboard housing I created a stencil so I could add more of the leaf sprays around the layout. 

To do this I just coloured in the chipbord spaces with a while gel pen. 

 

Of course ... no layout is complete without a few expressive words...

This second layout is my Easter offering ... 

and a bit more structured to reflect the formal photo I've used this time

I have sooooooooo many family photos that I find it difficult to come up with new ideas for pages so I'm always happy to reach for my chipboard stash to help me out with add ons!

This time I went for simple titles that tell the story of our relationships 💚

And this lovely title that I didn't have to do a single thing with 

- it comes in black - witch I find very helpful! lol

And just to add that touch of something special I popped on these corner flourish embellishments  - something a bit fancy for a space that needed filling! Mind you I did a bit of space filling with the stencil in the background as well - mostly because I had to pull a bit of that blue onto my base page but also because its a great trick for framing pages....

And to finish off with today I'm sharing a wedding themed step card.

The base for this one was a 'Mintay' paper sheet . 

While I inked the background circle soft blue, I actually used good old fashioned spray paint to make the title green ... just a quick burst of dark and light green was all it took! 

.... and of course the ever present white shine lines...

And to really liven the whole thing up I put a row of 5mm acrylic craft gems across the top and bottom of the card ... the bling really helps it pop - which is just what you want of a wedding card!

And thats all my projects for the month... I hope you found some inspiration in there somewhere!

Happy Easter Everyone 

xo 

Cheers from Kel

 

Girly and Retro

Hi all This month I have done 2 very different projects. The first one was a lot of fun using something a bit different for the base of my page

I used this masculine page to scrap my photo from when I met Tim Holtz in Phoenix in 2019. on the chipboard I used Lindys Magicals mixed in a bit of water then painted on like a glaze. I then added glossy accents to the light caps to give them some shine

For my 2nd project I went opposite, back to my girly, fussy cut style. The chipboard flowers were done blending different distress oxide colours to try and give them a softer more natural look.