Kraft Plus April challenge

Hi all!!! Another new month is upon us, and another great challenge from Kraft Plus this month!! Seriously, Sandra and Amanda are rocking these challenges and graphics for the modboards, I hope you can play along!!! So this month, it was your challenge to use paint chips on a layout!! I have been collectiong these babies for awhile now and have bags of them!!! Here's my layout for the Design Team sample!!





I had so many ideas in my head and I knew it would involve using my Kaszazz punches for some type of shapes. Then I came up with the idea of a banner, and incorporated my cute, banner stamps from Kaszazz.

I used some Kaisercraft papers, from the 6.5", Happy Snaps pad, some ephemera from the same range and some journal cards from the Say Cheese pack.

You can see I've punched and cut half circles for my banner and along the bottom of my photo!

The pretty enamel dots are from D-Lish Scraps !! From my remaining paint chips, I cut some little banners to help embellish!!!

Hope you've been inspired to have a go at our challenge this month!!!

October Mid-month challenge, SCRAP AROUND THE WORLD

The lovely Heather McMahon has challenged me to play along with her amazingly, gorgeous moodboard over at SCRAP AROUND THE WORLD! I was already inspired by the gorgeous colours, and couldn't go past this one! Take a look at the board:



I had a layout in mind, using a Selfie I took recently, and something that has been going on in my head for quite some time. Thinking about taking a huge Leap of Faith. this is a message to myself, and I wanted it to be a big, bright reminder every day!!! Here's my layout:

I was initially inspired by the water colour image, top left, which gave me the idea for a shaving foam and  Dylusions  background!...That was alot of fun! I then added a bit of Distress ink by wiping the ink pad directly over the coloured background. I used a Kaszazz stencil and some Dylusions paints for the gorgeous circles, which were inspired by the bottom, middle image, and tried to mimic alot of the colours from the mood board. The gorgeous flowers are from Scrap Matrix, Prima, Kaszazz and an Op shop find, I recoloured the pink ones with Dylusions sprays. There's some 7 dots papers, H. .Swapp papers, Paint chips & Kaiser papers. I love the Collected & Co. alphas! Lots of Kaszazz stamps on there and enamel dots are by Francheville. I've fussy cut some little hearts as I loved the hanging mobile in the bottom right image. So as you can see, the whole Moodboard pretty much inspired me!!! Well done Heather!

Here's a few images showing the shaving foam background up close.

A little Inspiration using Paint Chips

Hey there! Today I'm going to share a couple of simple little tips, in how you can use up all of those paint chips you've been collecting from the hardware store! (Come on, I know you have some!!! I have loads, and have been known to head to Bunnings, just in search of more paint chip colours.) At first I was disappointed when I couldn't get any more variegated ones, but have now found a few cool things you can do with the square ones!!!

My first thought was to stack a few together and use them as a reference for all of my Punches. Simply punch out a few designs on each card, and then you can keep them handy for inspiration when using your punches in your projects. they are made from sturdy card, so they should last awhile, and you can hang them near your craft desk!

So then I got to thinking, that these punched shapes looked great and I could actually use them as home made stencils for my inks, spray mists and texture mediums, just like a store bought stencil! (I am still hanging on to some cool, variegated ones!)

Cool Hey?? I've got a few more ideas and there's loads on Pinterest. I even started a Pinterest board dedicated to Paint Chip ideas...
I'll be back another day with a cool idea my Hubby and kids came up with!