Summer

Hello,
I hope everyone is enjoying their weekend.
Today I have 2 pages to share with you☺︎.

The first one is for the beach mood board challenge at Kaisercraft.

This challenge came at a perfect time for us in Western Australia as we are nearly at the end of our summer.
Here is my page using the Sandy Toes collection:

 Water paint with gesso stencil on top for my background and then layering of the different papers in this great beach collection.

I love the different banners and elements in the collection. Makes putting a page that much simpler☺︎.

I have also used some of this range for my page using the mood board for the challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbook Challenge

 I found this beautiful gloss background page and couldn't resist buying it for this challenge☺︎. The dark brown paper is from a different brand but the shell paper is from Kaisercraft. 

The shells from the collectables are great to use in clusters. I have added real shells from the beach and a flower, all placed on a strip of Muslin.

I have had a very productive scrapbooking month and look forward to seeing next month's challenges.

Lots of Hearts

I am back today with another page for you,

We went to a beautiful gift shop in the small town of Bridgetown, an hour and a half drive down the road. Gazebos, rooms and gardens full of giftware, clothing and home wares. It was just amazing. Amy loved the small veranda which was full of gifts out of hearts. It happened to be my favourite section as well☺︎.

I did my page for the challenge at Lessology which was to use tassels.

 I bought a new collection, Kaiser Craft-Kaleidoscope. I love the deep colours in this collection. I usually water paint straight onto my page but this time I used gesso first which made the watercolour stay brighter.

My home made tassels using twine and I have used a doily for my upcycled item.

I have a couple more pages I just need to add some finishing touches to, and I'll come back and share them with you☺︎.

Thanks for popping by.

Sweet girls

Hello,

Today I had a fun scrapbooking day with my friend and got lots done. I found this delightful mood board at the challenge at D-lish Scraps, and knew I had to join in.

Here is my page using a photo of my very photogenic youngest girl,

 For the background I did gesso paint with a stencil and then misted using a different stencil. After I had misted the top right side and down the bottom of my photo, I turned the stencil upside down and pressed down on the left side of the photo using the extra ink to create the reverse effect. 

 Lots of hearts made using a die cut and a gold foil alpha for my title. I couldn't resist buying the cute little love hearts made from rhinestones.

I don't often go without a cluster on my page ☺︎

Thank you D-lish for a beautiful challenge and thank you for popping past. I will be back over the next couple of days to share the rest of my pages ☺︎

It's a lovely day

Hello,

I hope February is living up to it's name of, the month of love, for you☺︎. The challenge at 123 challenge blog is certainly fitting in well this month with this challenge,

I have created a page for this challenge centring around the love of the family,

First misting, background stamping and texture paint to create my background. As soon as I saw the challenge, I thought of my chipboard love heart 'sprig' and wanted to use it for this page. I love using sprigs and things to add to clusters.

My little wooden love hearts and I even found alphas with love hearts☺︎. The diamonds are misted and I inked the chevron. I like the effect they have together.

It's been a while since I joined in with 123, but I enjoyed taking up their challenge again.

Thanks for popping by and till next time, happy scrapping

Enjoy Life

Hello,
As promised I am back with another page for this month, this one for the challenge at White with One.

The colour this month is yummy chocolate☺︎,

I have spray inked my background and added drops of ink along with it. Lots of background papers for this layout. 

A close up of my cluster with doilies, twine and flowers. I have been waiting to use the flower sprig for a long time, well actually maybe hoarding it for the perfect page☺︎.

I hope you are enjoying your February and are getting lots of time for crafting.

Take care.

Sparkle

Hello,

I'm back already with a page for Scrap the Girls, thanks to a crafting day with my niece☺︎.

I love, love the mood board provided for inspiration;

My page for this challenge is one of my eldest daughter who is growing up into a young lady,

I had just bought my background paper so it was perfect timing☺︎.  It took me a bit to get the page together as I'm not one to use a full background page often, but with some extra paper, butterflies and of course flowers, I'm happy with how it turned out. The cute little envelope, I found at our local discount store. I used a love heart die cut with gold glitter paper to place in the envelope.

I am finishing off another page of my eldest, so I will post that one shortly.

Thanks for popping by☺︎.

Sisters

February is here along with all new scrapbooking challenges.
ARTastic challenge blog has one with the criteria of using paint/painting on your page along with this inspiration piece.

 For my DT page I used watercolour (my favourite at the moment) behind my photo.

I loved all the colours swirled together in the inspiration piece and I have used this to add different colours to my page. I defined the colours behind my photos with black paint. For my title, I used gesso over the chipboard and then water painted it green.

For me, February started with the children going back to school and with a niece over to visit making for quiet but crafty days ☺︎.