Remember.

Remember.

Hello and welcome to my second blog post for April. I have once again used the BoBunny Penelope paper range for this layout. The brown and blue colours in this paper range threw me a bit so I decided to add a little bit of purple to help tie all the colours in with my photo.
This is what I came up with.

This photo is of my husband's grandparent's at our wedding almost 15 years ago. They are both extremely special people and I loved how this photo went with this particular paper range, hence the reason why I used it.

I started with a piece of Kaisercraft cardstock, added another piece of cardstock over the top and tore the paper in a few places and added an embellishment under the tear. I then used all of the different patterned paper and tore them as well to create my background. I used my Kaisercraft die and stamp set to make some of the flower and butterfly embellishments and I then coloured these in using some Dylusions paint in the Crushed Grape which I also diluted down a bit.

I did some more fussy cutting of the blue flowers and then added some of the small Kaisercraft blooms and a purple felt flower.

I also scattered around some small wooden hearts and finished my layout with some purple splatters.

The Remember chipboard was from my stash and I painted it with the Crushed Grape paint and then added some of the Glossy Accents over the top to make it shiny, I love the effect this gives.

Do you have your entry in yet for our April challenge? You could be in the running for a gift voucher to spend at www.scrapbookitshop.com.au

We can't wait to see what you can come up with.

Thanks for stopping by Jane xxx 

Best Friends

Hello, Can you believe that it is April already? Not to long to go now until our Autumn retreat!

We have enjoyed a really great Easter, we spent some time camping on the mighty Murray river and now we are enjoying school holidays here in Vic.

The Layout I have done today is called Best Friends and is a photo of my twin sister and I and her eldest child, this photo was actually 12 years ago but it brings back a lot of good memory's so I decided to use it for my challenge page this month.

 This month I have worked with the BoBunny Penelope paper range. Wow what a challenge that was! I'm pretty happy with the end result though. I have started my layout applying a thin layer of Gesso with a palette knife, I then mixed up a little bit of the Lindy's Magical Shaker in the Lederhosen Laurel with some water on some plastic and used the packaging technique to smear this across the page, next I used my Dylusions spray in Fresh Lime and added some droplets over the top.
If you haven't guessed by now my colours that I NEVER work with are blue and green! I couldn't help myself though and HAD to add a little bit of pink!

I have done quite a lot of fussy cutting of flowers out of the paper range and I really like how they have turned out creating a bit of a frame around the photo! I have also used the Kaisercraft Flutter Dies and Stamp set. I have to say that previous to me using these I wondered what the point of having a die and stamp set together but I am totally converted!! I loved being able to cut the shape out with my Sizzix then just stamping the image onto it. I am very impressed and will be sourcing some more images like this in the future.. With some of the flowers and butterflies I have watered down some of my Dylusions paint in the Bubblegum pink and painted the stamped image, I have done the same with the Dylusions Spray in the fresh lime. I love the effect this has added to the page.

With my bigger Butterfly and big pink flower I have stamped them directly onto an old book, cut them out and then painted them once again using the Dylusions Bubblegum pink paint.

The little words down the bottom of the page I have stamped onto a circle shape then added it to the cluster down the bottom. I have added a few of the Kaisercraft Pearls to some of the middle of the flowers, my Title I have used some of the American Craft word stickers then finished my layout off with a Doodly border! I really Love how this layout ended up, at the start I thought it may have turned into a disaster but now I'm really happy with the end result!

Thanks for taking the time to look at my Layout, have you got your entry in yet? A $30 voucher to spend at the wonderful www.scrapbookitshop.com.au could be all yours!

I will be back again a little later in the month with another layout!
Thanks again Jane xxx

Georgy Girl.

Georgy Girl...

Hello, I hope you are all well and have had a fantastic Christmas and New Year. 

Mel has set us a really great challenge this month, I have had a lot of fun working on this Layout of my niece and I, which was taken on the night of her Deb Ball. 

This is my Layout!

I was lucky enough to be able to use the 7 DOTS STUDIO Northern Lights paper collection. 

I started my layout with a piece of patterned paper out of the range, I then applied some gesso over the page, I added some Dylusions Paint in bubblegum pink then added some Colour Blast Artist Ink in Berry using the packaging technique. Next I got my stencils out and added some of the Colour Blast Colour Paste through my first stencil with Royalty, I then added some Gesso mixed with some mauve paint through the Kaisercraft heart stencil. 

For Mel's 3-2-1 Challenge We had to use three different colors,, I used pink, black, mauve and many more colors as well! I had to use two embellishments which I used some little bows that I made up using some twine, some small hearts that I have punched out and lot's of different tags and word stickers from the paper pack. The last part of the challenge was to include a song title or parts of a lyric, I chose to use the song Georgy Girl which is sung by the band The Seekers. I chose this as my title because it is actually what we call my niece Georgina. 

I stuck my photo onto some black cardstock then added several different patterned paper underneath it as well as the black tissue paper which borders the left hand side of my photo.

I used my sizzix with a Kaisercraft die to cut out my title then used some of the word stickers out of the paper pack to finish my layout! 

I added some doodling around the outside of my layout then I was finished. I hope you have gotten some inspiration out of this layout.

Do you have anyone that you think may be interested in joining our monthly challenges? We would love to see some new faces in our little scrapbookit community, every month Jo gives out THE BEST prizes, you have nothing to loose to enter and invite all of your friends we would love to see all of your work. 

Jo's up on the blog next, I look forward to seeing what she has come up with. 

Thanks for taking the time to read my blogpost, 

Happy Scrapping 

Jane xxx

Good morning Everyone!

I'm here today to share my next project using Kaisercraft's Rose Avenue.

But before I do...Have you entered our November challenge?

This is a chance for you to win a prize pack of scrapbooking goodies and all you need to do is send in a photo of your creation.

On your project, you need to use three things beginning with S 

and the quote 'Live Life in Full Bloom'

You have until the 30th of November to send your photo to us. Go on...you can do it.

For this post, I haven't followed the challenge guidelines. However, I have used the gorgeous collection by Kaisercraft 'Rose Avenue' again.

I have started with the 'Rose Window' page as my background.
Here is my layout...

 I added some Dylusions Paint - Rose Quartz. Then I used the template 'Damask Quarters' by Kaisercraft and some Colour Blast Paste - Snow White around the background.

I added some very subtle stamping using the Texture Stamp Windsor by Kaisercraft. I used Dylusions Paint - White Linen.

I used the stamp Background Script by Kaisercraft and some Desert Sand Memento Dew Drop ink randomly around the page.

I finished off with some splatters and thin lines using the Lindy Stamp Gang Magicals - Ramblin' Rose Pink.

I finished off cutting some frames and squares of the different papers and layered them behind and around the photo.
I used the Collectables in the Rose Avenue collection for my cluster of flowers.

I added a piece of paper that was die cut with the Kaisercraft Die 'Sari Texture'

The quote I used was from the sticker sheet in the Rose Avenue collection.

All of these products are available from Scrapbookit.

Have you seen our latest competition to celebrate our new store???
Head to our Facebook page to find out more.

Until next time,

Mel x

Stop and Smell the Roses!

Hello

I'm back again with another "Spring" themed layout, this photo is of my daughter quite a few years ago. Whilst I wasn't entirely sure that the red in her dress matched this paper I decided to use it anyway and I'm quite happy with the way it turned out.

I used the Ultimate Crafts 'Bohemian Bouquet' paper  range.

 I have done quite a bit of fussy cutting and also layering of the different patterned paper.
The clear sticker down the bottom of the page is a Kaisercraft clear sticker and the Script Font I have just done with a sharpie.

With my Butterflies I have used a piece of white cardstock and played with some different coloured Dylusions Inks, I have then used the Kaisercraft Butterfly Die and cut some Butterflies out of it, I really Love the effect this has given the Butterflies they are a beautiful shimmery colour and add an extra element to my page. I have stuck them don with some Ranger Glossy Accents.

 

I had a lot of fun with this page.




I'm looking forward to seeing everybody's take on my Spring challenge, I want to see a huge amount of entries this month! There are some great prizes to be won!
Have you been over to the all NEW www.scrapbookitshop.com.au website yet? It's looking Amazing and Jo is loading new product's all the time!
Thanks for stopping by
Jane xxx

Wild & Free

Good morning everyone,

It's Jo here sharing my take on this months challenge that Jane has set for us all to get inspired.

This month I am creating with a great paper pad from Prima 'Wild +Free' deisigned by Frank Garcia.

 With the contrast of light and dark colours in the kit I have created a page using several options from the Tic Tac Toe grid of the challenge.

I have used a black and white photo, two border punches from Fiskars which I backed with some Kaisecraft Gold paper, a rainbow of Colour Blast shimmer cubes watercolours, and I have embossed my chipboard from Kinder Kreations with ColourBlast 'Bling' embossing powder.

I have created my photo background using a page of journalling cards from the range. My title is using a Tim Holtz and a Kaisercraft Die from the gold paper.

Don't forget to join in our challenge to be in the running for a great prize pack, entries can be emailed to joanne@scrapbookit.com.au, linked from your blog or posted on our facebook page. The challenge closes on August 30th.

We still have some places available at our 'Spring Retreat' so if you would love a weekend away with crafty friends, contact me on 0407058604 for all the details.

Happy Scrapping,

Jo.

I want...

Good Morning,

Can you hear that? Yes the silence of no children as they are back at school and my time is mine again for a few hours a day.

This is the last post for the month and I'm sharing another page from our 'Sweet Peppermint' Prima range that the team have been creating with this month.

Even though it is Traditionally a christmas range the B sides of the papers can be used with any theme.

As you can see I got a little messy with my background on vanilla cardstock, using the artalchemy acrylic paint 'royal red' then using a kaisercraft mini stencil I layered with Colourblaste paste 'Apple of my eye'. Adding some chevrons from a 'Darkroom Door' stamp. The diecut's are from Kaisercraft and my title is from ScrapFX. The stickers are from the Prima paper pad.

So have some fun and get messy.

How are you going with this months challenge?? It's a great opportunity to get some of those christmas photo's scrapped, remember you have until the 30th to upload your entry.

Just a quick reminder that we are holding our 'Spring Retreat' from sept 29 - oct 1st 2017, so if you would love a weekend break away with like minded crafters a deposit of $75 is due now to save your seat.  All inquiries call Jo on 0407058604.

Jane is back on the 1st August with another fantastic challenge so make sure you keep visiting to join in.

Happy Scrapping,

Jo.

Merry Xmas

Merry Xmas!

Hi and welcome to my second layout for our Xmas in July month...

I have had a lot of fun with this Layout of my two boys enjoying Jobe's kindergarten Xmas breakup..
I have worked with the Prima "Sweet Peppermint' paper range.. This is such a great paper to scrap all of those Xmas photo's I'm sure we all have laying around waiting to scrap..
Jo has this paper pad available for sale www.scrapbookit.com.au, along with all of the other products that I have used on my Layout!

For my Layout I have layered some of the patterned paper and added some of the sticker sheet embellishments. My silver string balls are from Kaisercraft as well as the Beautiful Memory die-cut down the bottom of the page..

My title "We wish you a Merry Xmas" is also from the sticker sheet...

To finish off my Layout I have added some doodling around the border as well as some Xmas coloured brads and then some splatters and a few sprays of the Colour Blast colour spray in Love as well as adding some stamping with a few little Christmas stamps from my stash.

Are you interested in a weekend away scrapbooking with friends we are now taking bookings for our spring retreat, it's sure to be a great weekend! All of the details are on the blog and our Scrapbookit Facebook page or can you email jo at joanne@scrapbookit.co.au..  We often have lots of layouts from our lovely followers and the design team so if you haven't followed our Facebook page hop on over and check it out!

I hope you have enjoyed my Xmas in July Layout and I look forward to seeing what you all come up with for this month's challenge. We already have some excellent entries..
Happy Scrapping Jane xx

Little Moments Big Memories

Good Morning Everyone!

Welcome to my next instalment for this month...

Have you seen our challenge for this month? Who doesn't love a Christmas layout?
Our challenge is all about Christmas in July.

Here are the requirements:

1. Follow the gorgeous sketch by Susan Stringfellow

2. Your project must have the Christmas theme

3. You must follow the Letter Challenge component...include 3 elements in your project that start with the letter C (could be a title, colour, product, technique etc)

For my second project this month I have followed the sketch but have turned it to cater for my portrait photo and have taken out a few features. It has a Christmas theme.
I haven't really followed the letter C challenge at all...but could cover it off at a push.

I was very excited this month to have a little play with the Colour Blast Colour Spray that I got in my kit. I truly think that my whole layout is centred around this one product.

Here is the layout that I have created...

I started with the Colour Blast Colour Spray - Coffee. It leaves a gorgeous covering on the cardstock when spraying from a distance. The larger dots are where I took the lid off and splattered the liquid around. I also used the spray using the stick attached to the nozzle and spreading it along the edges.

I also enjoyed using the gorgeous 'Encore! Ultimate Metallic Gold Ink' I used this to ink the edges of the cardstock (over the Colour Spray), on the edges of the patterned papers and on my embellishments.

Here is a close up of the little cluster of embellishments that I added to my layout. Two cute little chipboard hearts, a gorgeous wire star and some cream twine. 

I have used the Kaisercraft Decorative Die words 'Little Moments' for my title. I die cut it from a piece of card and then inked the words with the Encore ink.

I have also used the Encore ink to ink the Scrap FX -String of Arrows chippie.

It has been a while since I have used brads on a project. Just love these white ones!

They just finished off this part of the project.

How gorgeous is the 'Prima - Sweet Peppermint' paper collection?

I just love the colours in the range. So easy to use.

All of these products are available at Scrapbookit - http://www.scrapbookit.com.au/ 

Don't forget that we would love to see your take on this months challenge. Be sure to post your entry on Facebook, add it to the Inlinkz link on our blog or email it to Jo at joanne@scrapbookit.com.au.

Finally, have you heard that our next retreat is coming around very very quickly???
September 29 - October 1 in Bright.
For more information make contact with Jo (joanne@scrapbookit.com.au) - you won't regret it!

Looking forward to checking out your entries to our challenge!

x Mel