Scrappit Pack - September

September's Scrappit Pack had some really bright and summery papers from the Sweet Summertime range from Crystal Wilkerson. I really loved the idea of fussy cutting the clouds from the reverse and adding these flat and raised for some dimension to the layout. I'm really into doodling on my pages too and surrounded all the edges with a bit of a squiggle.

100 Creativity Starters

I know, don't fall over but I've actually done two weeks in a row now with this challenge. This week we had to choose one colour and create a layout where every element is in that colour family.

I had this fabulous photo from the sixties when we arrived in Australia and headed to our first beach - Margate just out of Brisbane. Well, these days you wouldn't call it a beach as such but we thought it was great.

We couldn't work out where all the people were though until it came to us that it was August and Queenslander's call this beautiful weather winter and too cold to swim. Not for someone who just came from cold climated England, get a load of those lily white bodies. Oh, and if you look really carefully you can see my Dad wearing socks and sandals, his favourite.

ps. that's me on my Dad's lap too.

100 Creativity Starters

This weeks challenge was to journal about an available theme. Well, I know you're all going to say, well she got herself into this then she has to scrapbook the vast array of photos from our recent holidays.

We've taken something like nine vacations over the last 18mths and the photos are really starting to stack up - so you see it was a no brainer as to what I had to scrap. That, and the fact my DD has totally shut down any prospects of any more photo sessions with her in them.

Anyway, on to the photos. I didn't do a lot of journaling, in fact none at all. The photos really do say it all from the crazy looking moss covered concrete head to the gnarly looking roots and the handwriting all over the tree trunk.

This is one of the most spectacular gardens we have ever visited and loved every minute including the persistent light rain that fell.

Scrapapple August Project

Now this August pack from Scrapapple was a doosy. With two new ranges from Kaisercraft + rubons + clear stamps, I certainly had a huge range to choose from.

This layout would have to be one of my all time favourites and I just love the idea of using repeated photos in a small size on a layout. The papers from the Hippy Girl Collection were so much fun to use and the ideas were just popping from my head.

From the images below you can see I fussy cut quite a few flowers from the specialty paper and used these to pop from the page with layering of chipboard behind them. I really do prefer this to pop dots as it helps to keep the item from squashing when you put the layout in your album.

With so many left overs I created a couple of simple cards. On the first card I used the last of the fussy cut flowers and layered these on the bottom of my card. To add a little extra I did a couple rows of simple stitching and finished off with a rub on and a die cut butterfly.

The second collection was the Secret Bird Society paper range. Again I like to start by layering my papers but to add to the vintage feel I distressed the papers edges and machine stitched them to my layout. A paper doily was used in the background and with some journaling on tags and a few rubons, my layout was complete.

To complete my pack I created a couple of cards. One for my husband for fathers day and the other for a simple message to a good friend. You have to remember that simple cards can be just as effective as a more intricate design.

Scrapapple July Project

I know I'm a bit late with my July project from Scrapapple, but hey these things happen. The ladies sent me these really lovely papers from Teresa Collins Chic Bebe Boy range and they were so clean and crisp to use.

Well my two little boys are now 22 & 24 (not so little anymore) so I had to go back a few years to find some age appropriate photos. Here my little fellow ranges from 6-8 and by changing the photos to b&w made it much easier to combine the papers.

You may not be able to see too clearly but there are stitches about 2" long running around the outer edge of the page. I also wrote a bit of journaling and attached this to a tag that can be removed. (it's the one with the clock face & pearl attached).

I'm using up some scraps these days and making cards with the left overs. I was pretty happy to use up a die cut label I had for some time. I bought a couple of flower punches just the other day and loved the idea of curling the petals and layering them on top of each other. So easy to finish this off with a button centre.

Scrappit Pack - August

This colourful pack was from Basic Grey's new Olivia range and the patterns were just gorgeous, as usual.

I decided to use the green cardstock as my backing piece and everything just flowed from there including this picture I had taken of this little fellow who we saw attached to a shop window whilst we were strolling through Cairns last year.

He really was the tiniest little tree frog I had seen.

100 Creativity Starters

This layout comes from a few years back when we took a ferry ride up and down the Brisbane River.

I took some silly photos of my DD sitting on the backseat of the ferry and enjoying the sunshine and ride.

Our challenge this week was to round one or more corners of a photo for a softer look. The strip of photos on the top row have had two of their corners rounded and grouped in twos.

Scrapware Chipboard Frames

The lovely ladies from Scrapapple sent these gorgeous little frames from Scrapware for the DT to play with.

The frames come three designs per pack and contain a solid backing piece, outer frame and centre piece.

With this design I inked the backing piece with white ink and embossed. The outer frame and centre piece I chose to keep as one and inked in black and embossed. There were then layered together before adding to my card front.

On this card I chose to ink each piece in a different coloured ink and embossed. The three colours really compliment this card I made for a member of my family.