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

Bright and colourful

Hi everyone

Lisette here on this dreary, cold, rainy day in Sydney.  

I have a couple of bright and colourful layouts today, to warm you up and hopefully make you smile.

Both layouts feature my daughter who herself is a ray of sunshine!

Last month I posted some layouts from Australia Day this year.  My first layout is Australia Day morning at the beach.

ST9096 Pattern Stencil

CB6105 Assorted Words 23

CB4072 Wildflowers 01

My next layout is another bright and colourful one.  This was a Kraft+ layout inspired by Lisa Oxley.

ST9091 Pattern Stencil

ST5068 Large Knit Pattern

CB5189 Flourishes & Leaves 01

CB1068 Hearts 01

CB6118 Boho 01

CB6113 Scrap Words 32

Hope these layouts have brightened your day and inspired you to use colour and the beautiful Scrapmatts products.

Until next month,

Happy Scrapping

Lisette 

Australia Day

 Hi everyone

Welcome to my post for May.  A day late this time! had technical difficulties last night, but made it tonight.

I have two pretty simple layouts from the Australia Day weekend this year.  My parents live on the mid north coast of NSW.  Neither my husband or I work on Friday so we thought it would be a great opportunity for a long weekend.  My daughter decided to tag along.  She still had to work on Friday so set herself up in Dad's workshop for the day.

ST9002 Hexagons

CB1263 Scrap Words 51

CB4069 Ornate Frames 26

I couldn't resist a phone of Mikala all set up in the 'bunker' for her day at work!  Here she is on a call trying to not laugh!

ST9108 Snowflakes

CB1277 Scrap Words 61 Covid

CB1068 Hearts 01

CB1236 Scrap Words 22

CB11941 Scrapwords 03

Until next month

Happy Scrapping

Lisette 

Down by the Sea

 Hello again all my lovelies. 

Anyone who know me knows that my happy place is by the ocean. I usually try to get there once a year and this year was made even more special by having two of the most beautiful women to share it with me. Kim, Rachael and I booked a cabin at Kiama and spent 4 days scrapping, walking on the beach, a bit of shopping, finding a really awesome donut shop, drinkies and much more. The view out our cabin was looking straight into the ocean and made it so fantastic.

For this page I keep the chipboard natural as it really matched in with the sand, added sequins plus bling flowing from the top left corner to the bottom right. Tearing and distressing the paper added to the effect by nearly mimicking the foam in the waves, and of course white splatters were a must.

PRODUCTS USED

CB6064 Nautical designs 01

CB4607 Marine life 02

5mm Pale blue craft gem

Next is my gorgeous little neighbour Alaina, I swear this girl is getting more and more beautiful every day. This was her, I believe, first time to the beach and I think it's fair to say that she really loved it.

Again, I used the same Marine Life 02 chipboard as above and I left the majority of the chipboard natural except for the titles which I inked in a lovely soft blue which matched her little top. More of the same bling as above with seed beads and art stones added.

For a bit of interest at the bottom of the page I used a flourish stencil with the same color ink, love how it looks like waves going across the page.

 PRODUCTS USED

CB6127 Shells 03

ST5074 Stencil flourishes

Well, that is all for me this month. I look forward to seeing some of you at Neville in 2 weeks for the May Scrapmatts Retreat, both Kim and myself will be there. 

Until next time

Hugs and love

Annette xx

Dynamic Backgrounds

With Mother's Day just around the corner, I decided to work on some pages 

using photos of my new granddaughter. I'm still in love with  

Australian themed embellishments so I made the most of them on this soft pink page...

The chipboards for the titles were pretty straightforward - the word Mother's I inked brown to make it stand out and the word Love I left as it was - as the raw look softened the whole layout. 

I used the Gum leaf stencil and two different green inks to add the leaves to the

top of the page. I decided in the end not to ink the Gum leaf chipboards at the top so 

they wouldn't be competing for attention with the leaves inked on the paper. 

but the leaves at the base of the photo got a good inking with the same two green

 inks that I used on the background stencils.

Of course, I just had to scatter a few of these wonderful journaling words around also...

For this next layout, I decided to go nice and bright and really lean into the

painterly qualities of the background on this paper.

The hero of this layout is the triangle stencil pattern in the background - created using

the A6-sized stencil, the hot pink triangles emerging from the lighter background really pop!

I rubbed the hot pink ink into the background using this cheap makeup brush

that I picked up at K-Mart on a whim, it worked brilliantly!

And for colouring the feather images I just hit them with some simple watercolour paints.

The various words on the page were gathered from the following sets and inked with brown

and then given a light run-over with Crystalian Kindy Glitz. 

I used the makeup brush again when it came to colouring these flower chipboards as well ...

Then I dropped a bit of yellow paint into the middle of each one to make a simple centre.

I also ended up adding this lace to the page just to pull a bit of the white back in below the photo,

and it's just such a beautiful lace, It really seems to add class to any page I use it on.

Finally, to lift the whole layout I also scattered clusters of these 

4,5 & 6mm Champagne Acrylic Craft Gems around the page and some random sprinkles 

of Crystalina Kindy Glitz.

And that's it for me this month, Thanks for checking out my crafty adventures.

And for all the mums out there - I hope you have a very beautiful and blessed Mother's Day this year 💕

Cheers,

Kelly-ann