Scrappingclearly DT project for September moodboard!

Hi everyone, I'm up on the Scrappingclearly Blog today with my take on this fabulous moodboard!




My layout uses the Crate Paper, Open Book range, and a little touch of Shimelle, Starshine!!! But of course, there's also some Heidi Swapp on there! (Stickers and wood veneer!) There's some Studio Calico wood veneer also!

This is about my daughter's personality and how she makes the most of every moment, either being goofy, singing, dancing, making up funny poems & the list goes on! She is a teenager who challenges me every day, but I love her to bits and hope she never changes!!

I added some watercolour on the background and gave it a few flicks of Heidi Swapp Color Shine & added some subtle embellishments. (Prima flowers, Studio Calico Sequins!)

I finished off with a Gold acetate word from Heidi Swapp, love these!!!

Thanks for stopping by!!

Off the Rails Design Team, Mini album tutorial

Hi! I'm so excited to share another DT project with you! This one is my very first Tutorial for Off the Rails Scrapbooking!
I've made a cute little mini, canvas album, and I'm so happy with how it turned out!!! For a detailed description, check out the Off The Rails blog!!!!

I've used up so many bits and pieces here, no kit, just matching all my odd bits!!! It's quite satisfying!! The album was quite plain and boring before I started!!!

All it took was a bit of Colorshine, Distress Stains and Reinkers to give it some life!! I also love the lace I sewed to the bottom of each of the pages inside. I had a huge roll of this, thanks to Kaszazz!

Here's a few of the pages!!! Thanks for looking!!!
Tania 

Marquee Love Design Team fun

Good morning everyone, hope your Saturday is going to be awesome!! I was so lucky to receive a Marquee Love letter kit for one of my DT projects over at Scrappingclearly this month!!!! After the excitement settled, I then had no idea what to do with it!! Lol. So, of course, I took to Pinterest and looked for some inspiration. I didn't really find any from the actual lights themselves, but I saw another project with a wooden letter covered in wool, and somehow, this sparked an idea in my mind!!!

These lights are easy to work with, they are very light and made from card, so you can paint them, spray ink on them or just cover them in patterned paper! I went for the spray ink option and tried to match the colour's to my daughter's bedroom!

                                                                                   

As you can see, below, I used lots of Heidi Swapp goodies to compliment my letter 'B'. There's Colorshine in 3 different colours, (the yellow was Dylusions ink, as we wanted that to be bright!) There's some cute Heidi Swapp lace ribbon and I used the Marquee Love, gold tape for the edges!

The flowers are Prima sugar blooms, I popped a few on there for decoration with the lace, using an American Crafts clothespin. That way my daughter can remove them if she doesn't want the flowers on there!

I love how quickly, and simply this project came together! What great gifts these make! Hope you like it and TFL!
Tania

Jot Magazine November Mood Board Challenge

Hi there, I have just scraped in on the last day, and last few hours actually, to play along with the November Moodboard challenge over at Jot Magazine. I just couldn't go past this beautiful colour scheme, which was put together by the lovely Kim Jeffress!! It's gorgeous!! Take a look...



Here's my layout inspired by these gorgeous colours!!!

I started off with some Echo Park papers, and gave the background a generous splash of Dylusions paints. Love the Bubblegum Pink and the Lemon Zest together!!! I then stencilled on some Soft Gloss Gel, mixed with a little paint, through a The Crafter's Workshop Stencil.

I used a large doily as a mat, and layered some more EP patterned papers & sticker accents, Heidi Swapp Paper, Kaisercraft Collectables, Chickaniddy enamel shapes and assorted flowers. I re-coloured nearly all of the flowers I used with either Heidi Swapp Colorshine, or Distress Inks & water. Finished off with a Heidi Swapp acrylic title. Pretty happy with this one. Love this photo of my daughter who looks so very pretty!!!

CSI Colour, stories and inspiration!!!

Well, it's been a while since I played along with CSI and their challenges. i do love them, I love their different take on a mood board with the Evidence and Testimony. So this month, I was inspired by my good friend, Vicki, who is on their DT by the way, to join in and play.
Heres case file no.173

Here are the details of the Evidence and Testimony, and the guidelines!!!

**Detailed clues, as promised... 

THE SCHEME - USE ALL 5 COLORS

• light seafoam green - 226.239.221
• dark teal green - 56.100.99
• white - 255.255.255
• carnation pink - 242.162.175
• maraschino cherry red - 166.28.28

EVIDENCE - CHOOSE AT LEAST 3 CLUES

• checks
• grid pattern
• flowers
• wet medium
• animals
• bottle/jar
• leaves
• enamel dots
• labels
• flourishes
• slant something
• pocket
• distressing

TESTIMONY - CHOOSE AT LEAST 1 CLUE

• Topic: Document something you do to relax.
• Prompt Idea:  Use Fat Mum Slim as inspiration.
• Presentation:  Hand write your journaling on leaves or another element unexpected on your page.
• Writing Format: Create a "currently" list.
• Inspiration Words: staycation, foolish, ideas -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title.

  *   *   *   *   *

And here is my layout using 7 of the Evidence clues, and 2 of the Testimony clues!

I used the cute papers from Hazel and Ruby which came FREE in the Scrapbooking Memories mag. there's some Francheville enamel dots, Heidi Swapp stencils and colour shine, kaszazz stencil and Jo Sonja's texture paste. A Kaszazz stamp for my title and I have to mention that I have used 2 elements from my very first pocket letter I received from my pocket letter pal, Evelyn. (They were, washi tape and the cute little stamped banner!) TFL

So excited!!!!

I am thrilled to be featured on The Big Picture Classes Blog, as Stacy's Pick this week. I was over the moon when Stacy emailed me to ask if she could feature my card from Carissa Wiley's Inspiration Ignited class. You may have seen the project below on my blog, but if not here it is again!!!!

A couple more projects inspired by Big Picture Classes lessons!!!

I'm really loving my membership over at Big picture Classes. I love that I have all these classes to choose from for such a small payment each month. The inspiration is amazing, so many cool teachers!!! Love all the choices of projects too. I can choose from cards, scrapbooking, art journalling and more, whatever my mood is, there's something to inspire me!!!! So here's a couple more cards I did this week!

The first card was about using build it up stamps, which I don't have an actual set of, so I just found a really large Grant Archival set in my stash and used a few of the cool little flourishy ones! I used Colorbox inks in some Spring colours.

The 2nd one was about finding inspiration in art, stationery or decor, or everyday! I found this cool tissue box while doing the shopping and had a play at circles. I used a cork and some Dylusions and Heidi Swapp Color Shine to stamp the circles and then watercolour paints in the middle. I also layered a die cut sentiment and embossed it with gold 3 times which I'm kind of in love with the results.

D-Lish Scraps December Mood Board Challenge

Wow, so Christmas has been and gone!! I survived it, only just! We had a rather different Christmas this year, our first one in our new home! We shared it with friends, Dave's Brother, our new puppy, Sammi, and another dog Willow!!! Lots of organising for the big day, I seem to be taking a few days to really get over it and just chill! Nothing a little scrapping wont fix! So I'm so happy I've made the deadline for D-Lish Scraps December mood board!! I just loved the colours and the sketch. Take a look:

And here's my take on the sketch! The image is of my daughter and one of her BFF's, Christina.Of course it's a selfie pic, as that's what they do! But it's a gorgeous one and I couldn't resist!

I used lots of Heidi Swapp goodies, as usual !! Including, papers,Color Shine, embellishments, buzz words and stamps. I also used the new HAPPY SNAPS papers by Kaisercraft! A doily, Gesso and a Kaszazz stencil. Inks by Colorbox, washi tape and other random stamps in my collection!!! TFL!