It's December

Good Morning

 and welcome to Scrapbookit for our December challenge.

Well are you getting into the Christmas spirit?? The DT girls have shared some great idea's and I'm here today to share my take on Jane's Christmas challenge. Gee when I went looking for Christmas photo's I found I didn't have to many so I am going to make sure this year I get the camera clicking because it really is a wonderful time of the year to make memories.

I found up these adorable photo's of ,My Rudolph',  this month I am using papers from the 6x6 paper pad from Couture creations 'Highland Christmas' by Sue Smyth. I have started with my white background, not that much of it is left showing. 

Using a Kaisercraft stencil I have added lots of stars and baubles with the Nuvo mousse.  My tree was a lovely gift from one of my card class ladies and I have matted my photo's with some tissue paper. Some cute stamps and Heidi Swapp letters finished off the page just right.

I also created a really grungy Christmas layout that I wanted to share.

Starting with a white background I have used my Geli plates to create my background. Its a bit hard to share the true colours and textures but there is lots of reds, golds and greens. The stars are actually navy and the baubles are silver. I have used some Nuvo Glitter paste to add the saying ' The possibility of a miracle Believe'. Some Kaisercraft wooden embellishments and 2Crafty chipboard around my patterned paper.  Again my title is from the Heidi Swapp letters. 

Here's hoping you are getting organised for the Big day and get a little time to join in our challenge, you could be in the running for a $30 voucher to top up your craft supplies.

Happy Scrapping

o.

Merry Christmas

Good Morning everybody,

 well we definitely have the silly season upon us, which is why we must make time to slow down and enjoy some peaceful scrapping time on our own! 

I have just the challenge for that, for this month.

Of course only having 24 sleeps until Xmas it was only fair that this month our challenge be all about Xmas!!! 

SO for this month the Criteria is 

*A Xmas Layout

*Use the name of a Xmas Carol somewhere on the page

*Use some fabric OR tissue paper on the page

*Use white card stock as the background

*Include a Star, Christmas tree and a Bauble on the page....

(this might sound like a lot BUT you will find that nearly every Xmas paper includes all of these things in their rang, as well as the song title a lot of the patterned papers have these as well)

Here is my Layout!! 

This photo was taken at Xmas 2017 just after finishing our beautiful Xmas lunch, it's such a great time to be able to relax and spend with family. I truly do love this time of year.

SO for my layout I have used the white cardstock as my background, I have used both tissue paper which is behind my photo's as well as some fabric which is what i made the cute little black and white check bow from, I have used the Xmas carol title Oh Christmas Tree which was just on one of the patterned sheets of paper that i cut up and I have added a Christmas tree, bauble and star.

I found that my page was quite busy with all of the different patterned paper so there was no real need for me to add any mixed media onto my page, I did finish the page with a cute little doodly border and some hand drawn stars though.

All of the stickers and embellishments that I have used on this page are all from the same collection which is called Here comes Santa by PhotoPlay. 

 I hope you have enjoyed my layout and challenge for this month, I can't wait to see what you all come up with. Enter your layout for a chance to win a voucher to www.scrapbookit.com.au 

Thanks for stopping by 

Jane xxx

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to you all!

What a beautiful day it is going to be here today! Santa has been and the kids are sooo excited. We will be spending Christmas with lots of family surrounding us.

I have a layout here today that I cannot wait to share with you all.. It's very busy and full of mixed media elements which is something that I  am really enjoying doing at the moment.

I have used the Echo Park Let's be Mermaids collection again and I have had a lot of fun with it.

I started my Layout with some Kaisercraft black cardstock and applied some strips of different coloured Dylusions Paints, I really love these paints and they can be used for so many different things and the brightness of the colours is just AMAZING!

I have then applied two different shades of the blue paint over the top of the stripes using some bubble wrap, I really like the effect that this has given to my layout.

For the rest of my layout I have added some different pattern paper from the collection as well as some of the stickers and I have also fussy cut some of the mermaids and the whale out of the paper collection as well.

To finish my layout I have sprinkled some Tim Holtz distress spray over the top and it has given it a really nice golden shimmer.

I would like to wish all of our Scrapbookit blog and Facebook followers a very Merry, Safe and Happy Christmas and a wonderful New Year filled with lots of special time to Scrapbook!

That's it for me for this year, I look forward to sharing with you a lot more of my creations in 2018!!!

Cheers Jane xxx 

Yay!! Its Friday.

Good Morning everyone,

Yay it's Friday and I am back to share some more projects to inspire you to have some 'Me' time and get some crafting done before the man in the big red suit arrives.

Our challenge this month is to scrap aproject with 1: A black background, 2: Photo's with NO PEOPLE, and 3: Just follow the Pagemaps sketch, to easy so why not join in to be in the running for a great prize pack full of the latest releases in store. 

This month I have been creating with the latest range from Cocoa Vanilla ' Bohemian Dreams' so here are a couple of more layouts.

 Although this page if fairly simple I just love how it turned out. With the background paper from the range it makes the photo the focus for sure. 

I have framed the photo with all the wonderful word stickers that are available and then painted my title word with ColourBlast shimmer cubes.

My second page I have kept with the challenge theme and used a black background which really makes my flowers from a Prima template with ColourBlast pastes 'Deep Water and Snow white' really pop on the page.

I have added the frame, flowers and tag from the emphera pack and also added some of the stamped images as well. The new stamp set in this range is really sweet. 

I hope you have enjoyed my shares and I look forward to seeing your entry for this month. 

Have a wonderful weekend

Jo Hanna xx

Under The Sea.

Good Afternoon, what is everybody up to this fine and sunny Sunday? Are you getting any scrapping done? Have you entered our challenge yet? We have some great prizes on offer this month, you could win yourself a little Xmas gift just for finishing a Layout!! It's that easy..

 So this month Jo has set us an Awesome Challenge, we are to follow the sketch, use a photo without people in it and have a black background! Too easy right! It's amazing how creative you can actually get when you need to scrap a page using a photo without a person in it... It really is a great challenge!

Here's what I have come up with for this month.

I have used some Black Kaisercraft cardstock and roughly applied some white gesso to the middle of the page, I have then used some of the Tim Holtz Distress Crayon's in the Seedless preserves, fossilized amber and the chipped sapphire. I wanted to create the effect of waves in my background with these crayons so I applied them in that sort of shape and then spritzed some water over the top to give me the washed look.

I think I did a pretty good job following the sketch using the Echo Park Let's be Mermaids collection! This is an absolutely gorgeous collection and I cannot wait to scrap some more pages using it.

My little tag I have made myself using some of the coloured paper and I have also used a lot of the stickers which are included in the pack to complete my layout.  

To do my title I used my Sizzix machine with a QuicKutz die out of my stash with some of the patterned paper.

I would like to take this opportunity to Thank Jo for having me as part of her design team this year, I have had an Absolute blast sharing with you all some of my creations.

If you can hop on over to Jo's online store and show her some support by purchasing some Xmas shopping for yourself!! We are extremely lucky to have such an amazing scrapbooking business so close to home that provides us with not only great products but the opportunity to spend one day every month scrapping with likeminded people on our crop days and also the retreats that Jo tirelessly runs twice a year!

Thanks for stopping by today, I wish you all a Safe and Merry Christmas and remember to make time for yourself over the silly season and get some scrapping done!!

Jane xxx 

Welcome to December

Good Morning

Welcome to December and a new challenge at Scrapbookit.

This month it is my turn to set the challenge, I hope I can inspire you to take some time to get crafting and join us to be in the running for a great prize pack. 

My details for this month are to 

1. Use Photo's with NO PEOPLE

 

2. Use a black background

 

3. Follow this sketch from pagemaps.com.

So as you all know I got married last month so I have bundles and bundles of photo's to get scrapped. Here is the start of many more to come. 

This month I am creating with the latest release from Cocoa Vanilla 'Bohemian Dream'. This range is so full of beautiful florals, with lots of embellishments, a new stamp set, chipboard words and stickers.  I have added some Dylusions paint on my background and have coloured my chipboard title with Colourblast shimmer watercolours.

I also have been busy making some cards, colouring with my copics. This range has lent itself to add some beautiful touches to my cards.

Entries for this month are due by December 30th, you can send them through to joannecaird@gmail.com, upload them from your blog via our Inlinkz tab in the side bar or you can add them to our Facebook page it's so easy. 

Looking forward to seeing some entries (as we only had 1 in November) this month.

Happy Scrapping

Jo Hanna.

December is here!!

Good Morning everyone and welcome to our last challenge for the year.

I know it's a busy time of the year but hey sometimes we just need to take some 'Me' time and spend some time creating. What better way than to join our challenge and you could be our lucky winner of a great prize pack.

This month I have set a fun challenge:

Your project must include the minimum of the following, 5 squares, 4 Buttons, 3 Flowers 2 Arrows and 1 Circle.

I have been creating with the Creative Concepts 'Wild and Free' range and I couldn't go past these photo's of my Grandaughters at their visit to the Zoo. 

To create my backgroud I have used a Kaiser stencil and mixed some Colour Crush 'Basil' with some gel medium to create my vine leaves. My title is a Heidi Swapp 'Minc' word, and my arrows are a Scrap FX chipboard pc. My buttons I made and added some twine for the jungle feel. The flowers are a mixture of Green Tara and Kaisercraft.

Here is another simpler layout I did using my Curio machine for cutting my title and a Kaisercraft Die for the vines.

I hope you come join us for this months challenge, entries can be uploaded in the side bar or yo can email me a picture joanne@scrapbookit.com.au. Entries will close on December 30th.


Happy Scrapping

Jo

Peace, Noel, Joy

Well, only 2 sleeps and Christmas will be here! I seriously can’t believe how quickly this year has gone! It only seems like yesterday that we were beginning the New Year.

For today’s post I have created some free standing ‘Christmas’ themed words. I love doing off the page projects that I can use to decorate my home or give as gifts to family and friends, especially at Christmas. 

The first of the words ‘Peace’ is a wooden word that I have had sitting in my collection for years. I finally decided it was time to pull it out of the cupboard.

As with my first project this month, I have used the Authentique ‘Joyous’ collection. This collection has the traditional Christmas colours but also has something a little different with blacks, creams, reds and greens. So I decided to go non-traditional for these words!

I have used the ‘Diverse’ page from the ‘Joyous’ collection. A circular die cut, from the same collection, with the phrase from the Kaisercraft Christmas Sentiments stamp collection, stamped on it with Staz-on ink. I have used two bells from a Lindt Chocolate gift that my friend gave me and some chipboard flowers from the ‘Joyeux Noel Layered Accents’ by Bella Ruby Rock  It.

As with all of my OTP projects I have used Mod Podge to adhere and to seal.

Here is Peace.

The next word is ‘Noel’ and it is a Kaiser Wooden Word. I have used some Kaisercard to cover the word. Then I stamped different Christmas sentiments and quotes all over it.

I have used some Kaisercraft Paper Blooms and some ordinary, everyday string. Again I have used a die cut from the collection to embellish the word as well as strip of coordinating paper through the centre of the word.

Here is Noel.

The final word is ‘Joy’, also a Kaiser Wooden Word. For this word I have used the same products as above.

            

Well, that is it for me for December…however I do have a small post to share with you later this week…keep your eyes out!

Make sure you get your December entrees in before December 31st!

Don't forget to pop over to the online store to grab some of these products...or maybe send your hubby/wife for that last minute 'gift voucher' for you!

I would like to take this opportunity to say ‘Merry Christmas’ I hope that each and every one of you can spend some quality time with those you love this Christmas.

Merry Christmas Everyone!

                                                                                              

Mel

December Challenge

Hi it's Cindy here with you today to share with you my take on the December Page Challenge set by our guest designer, Amanda Francis (if you want to learn more about Amanda and the December Challenge click here) 

So here is what I came up with for the Challenge

So I made plenty of use with the spray portion of the challenge, using the Dylusion sprays, in postbox red and pure sunshine, continually layering up the colours until I got the look and depth I was happy with.

I sprayed the Dylusions over my background created on Kaiser cardstock with the Scrap FX Petal Pattern Stencil  Impasto and Gesso (the paint part of the challenge)...

 I painted the Scrap FX Christmas title red and the applied Sparkle n Soft (cherry sparkle), the photo doesn't do it justice... it doesn't show the texture and hints of glitter very well... it looks fantastic in real life....

 I made use of the two red flowers that came in the Green Tara pack Jo sent me.... I carefully pulled the flowers apart so that I had six flowers from the two... I used some red Kaiser paint to touch up the glue marks on the middle of the petals... then I used the dots from the DIY thickers pack as flower centers, I covered these with the Gold Glitzin Glamour glitter glue.... I also spread a little of the Glitzin Glamour onto the Flourish with a Bling Flourish, to give it a little bit of sparkle....

Well, I hope you've enjoyed my take on the challenge, and remember you can get all the products I have used from Scrapbookit...

You have until December 30th to email Jo at  joanne@scrapbookit.com.au with your challenge entry, I look forward to seeing your take on the challenge....

till next time

Happy Creating

xC

Christmas Munchkin

Good Morning
Well it's certainly looking a lot like christmas here, I hope you are all enjoying the festive season and are playing along with our December challenge.


My layout for the challenge was created using  the new 'Fancy Pants' range Merry Little Christmas. I loved the colours in these papers with the browns, reds and teals. I have used two colours of 'Viva 3D stamp paint to create my background, I am loving the texture this paint creates. I also used some 'Heidi Swapp Colour Shine' and 'Dylusions' to spray my stars. Ive added some 'Kindy Glitz' to my thickers title to make it sparkle.

 

Here is a close up of the 'Viva 3D stamp paint' and the Colour Magic Stars,

 

Thanks for popping by and joining in with our Christmas cheer, can't wait to see what you have done with Amanda's challenge.

Happy Scrapping

Jo Caird

New Challenge/Welcome our GDT member

Good Morning and welcome to December,
Yes only 24 sleeps until the jolly man comes calling and we all get to eat more than we should and spend precious time with our families.

December is the start of the introduction of our Guest design team members and I would like to welcome from W.A.

Amanda Francis

My name is Amanda and I live in Perth, Western Australia. My first scrapbook project was my sisters 16th birthday party and 11 years later I now mostly do mini books and mixed media type projects. I love working with lots of different themes from steampunk to shabby chic vintage and I'm also a lover of bright colours. Paper hoarding seems to be my other hobby and I do love my Graphic 45 collection but I'm also a big believer in recycling and will quite happily use Anything in a project!!

I am honoured to have been chosen as Decembers guest design team member at scrapbookit.com.au I was asked to come up with a challenge for the month and after some thought I decided to combine the two things I like the most, Paint and Spray!

 

Joanne sent me some awesome paper and embellishments from Ruby Rock it Christmas collection to work with and this is what I came up with. I started with my layout, and took a piece of the craft card stock, a stencil, some paint and a baby wipe and started to smudge some paint around. Since the theme was christmas I chose red and gold sprays to add to the background then set about layering the paper.

I don’t do a lot of layouts but I really like the way this one came out. I actually did two layouts, but I like this one the best.

My second project for the team was a set of tags using some of the cut out pieces and chipboard embellishments from the paper collection. This time I used a piece of red card stock and cut it down to “tag size” before going in with the paint and sprays.

Thanks Amanda for sharing some christmas ideas, and thanks for joining in for the month of december. If you would like to see more of Amanda's work drop by her blog http://evangelinemarie.wordpress.com

Entries into the December challenge are due by December 30 please email a photo to joanne@scrapbookit.com.au so I can put them up in the gallery.

Have a scrappy day
Jo