Who said Winter had to be drab!!

Hello!

I'm back with another layout to share with you all.

 I had a lot of fun with this layout, using a photo of my youngest son Sebby and I. Once again I have used the 7 dots studio - Northern Lights Paper Collection.

I started my Layout with a patterned piece of paper then added some Gesso to the background, I then mixed some of the Colour Blast - Colour Artist Ink in Berry with some gesso and painted it around the page, then I used a Kaisercraft stencil and added some stencilling over the top with my Dylusions paint in the vibrant turquoise, some of these I highlighted with my black sharpie pen just to help make them standout a bit. Next I added a whole lot of different patterned paper which I tore some of the edges and added some doodling to as well.

I added some splatters of spray with the Colour Blast - Colour Spray in Road Base and also some of the Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst spray in Tibetan Poppy Teal! This spray has the most gorgeous shine to it, it's Amazing!
I then added my pictures which I had backed with some black Kaisercraft cardstock and then added my title with some script font and some black lettering from my stash!

 Added some of the tags and stickers from the paper pack, and cut out this gorgeous Uniquely Creative Light Bulb Metal Die on the right hand side of my page with my sizzix and some sparkly turquoise paper and my layout is complete!

Have you entered our Challenge for this month yet? Jo is very generously donating a store gift voucher to the lucky winner! How good is that?!?!

Saturday we had our monthly crop day and had such a lovely day, Jo runs these crop days from her beautiful home and they are available for anyone to come and scrap for the day and have a little shop whilst they are at it!

Everything I have used on my Layout today is available to purchase from www.scrapbookitshop.com.au head on over and have a look!

Thanks for your time today, I'm up next month with another exciting challenge I have created! Can't wait to share it with you all!

Until then Happy Scrapping

Jane xxx



I LOVE TO CREATE...

I Love To CREATE...

Hello and  Welcome to our May Challenge here at www.scrapbookit.com.au

This month it was my turn to set the Challenge and I got to thinking about how often we scrap pages of our Loved ones but never of ourselves!

SO this month I have made it all about Ourselves as Scrapbookers/Memory Keepers.!

One of the criteria for this month's challenge is to scrap a photo of YOURSELF or if not of yourself to at least have yourself in the photo with a loved one. I have also provided a mood board for you all to gain some inspiration off and a list of prompts, I would like one of the prompts off the list on your layout. It does not have to be the main title. The last requirement is to add a touch of Mixed Media of any form onto the page.


This is the Mood Board and Prompts!

The other Elements are:
*A Photo that has yourself in it
*A Mixed Media Element
*Inspiration off the Mood Board
*One of the Prompts

I have had A LOT of FUN with this challenge and I really do hope you all do as well.

As usual my Layout is very Busy!! Here it is..

This month I have worked with the Amazing Photo-Play Rhapsody paper range. This paper suits me so well and I have had so much fun with it!!

I have layered a lot of the pattern papers for my background, I have then worked on my Mixed Media element, to do this I have cut a strip of plain coloured paper out, I have then used some white Gesso and I have then sprinkled some of the Lindy's Stamp Gang Magical Shaker in Bavarian Blue over the top and I then spritzed it with some water to get the effect I was after, once this was dried off I used one of the new Kaisercraft Mini Design Templates in Splatter with some Colour Blast Colour Paste in Bling, I also used this to coat over the top of the Scrap FX chipboard feather, this has given it a really nice shiny effect.

The I LOVE TO CREATE words are a Kaisercraft Die that I have used in Fabi! I don't use this machine or my dies any where near enough so I am making an effort to try and use this a bit more. I absolutely LOVE these letters... Jo has them at www.scrapbookit.com.au as well as a heap of more dies and stencils. Pop on over and have a look!

I have used over half the sticker sheet in this layout, I could not decide when to stop there was just SO many Beautiful Stickers to chose from to add to my layout.

The inspiration I have taken from the Mood Board is the Feathers, Arrows, Circles, Triangles and some of the colours.

The Prompt that I chose to use was "I Love" and I added To Create on the end.

I hope that you have enjoyed my layout and challenge for the month of May! Jo and Mel will be back soon with their takes on my challenge and I cannot wait to see what they come up with!

Not to long to go now until our Annual www.scrapbookit.com.au Retreat!! It is going to be SO much FUN, have you booked your spot yet?? It's not to late. It would be So great to see you all working on your May Challenge Layouts at the retreat. Jo will have the entire www.scrapbookit.com.au shop there, so we can all shop to our heart's content.

Happy Scrapping

Jane xxx



My Year My Story

Good morning Everyone!

Isn't January just flying? 

Being a teacher, this time of year is always an exciting time...a new class, new ideas and new challenges. This year I have added a change of school to the mix!

Won't be long and we will be back at it for yet another year!

Exciting stuff happening here at Scrapbookit too!

New paper collections, new products in store, a new retreat (with Beck Beattie tutoring), new challenges and new ideas. What is there not to love about our craft???

As you saw in my last post, I have been using the Kaisercraft collection 'My Year My Story' this month. I was so very lucky to receive, from my gorgeous friend, a Kaisercraft Journal Planner for Christmas. I was sooooo excited! 

There is nothing more satisfying then being organised!

However, I have decided to use my Journal Planner as more of a reflection of what has been happening in my world...something else that I love to do!

So I thought I would share with you the beginning few pages of my Journal Planner...I'm loving it!

Something that I have tried to do this month is use the 'My Year My Story' papers on layouts. If you are not the Journal Planner sort of person but just LOVE the papers then you have plenty of options.

For this layout, 'So thankful for this because...',  I decided to only use the black and greys from the papers. I wanted to bring in the blue from my mother in laws shirt and obviously the other colours in the collection were not going to work.

Here is my layout...I haven't followed the sketch for this one!

I started by creating my background by spraying with the Prima Colour Bloom - Cobalt spray mist and the Kaisercraft Honeycomb 12x12 template. I then used some Gel Medium (which dries transparent) and the template to highlight some of the honeycomb pieces.

I then lightly and randomly sprayed one of the new Kaiser Mists - Aqua.

Have you seen the new Kaiser Mist colours? Oh wow! They are gorgeous. Make sure you pop in to Scrapbookit to grab some...or order them online at the Scrapbookit Online Store!

I used a Kaisercraft Clear Stamp - Honeycomb and randomly stamped with black ink.

As I previously said I used the black and grey papers from the collection. I have inked them using a Kaisercraft black ink.

The spotted paper is a bit of a different story. I wanted another piece of paper and there was nothing that was working. So I decided to alter the spotted gloss design specialty paper from the 6x8 Paper Pad.

I didn't want to spray it as I wanted a more solid effect to offset the other dark paper. So I used my black Gelato to cover the page. Once I covered it I gently wiped over it with a piece of paper towel. This not only made the spots pop but also assisted with the opaque look achieved.

The gorgeous little butterflies and chicken wire chipboard is a WOW product. It is just gorgeous!

I have cut it into two pieces placing one as a feature on the left hand side top corner.

I wanted the butterflies to not only pop but to also bring in the more cobalt outline of the butterflies on my mother in laws shirt.

So I did two things to the butterflies.

The first thing I did was to paint them using the Lindy Stamp Gang product 'Magicals'

These are non toxic dye based powered pigments. I used the gorgeous 'Bachelor Button Blue'

The second thing I did was cover the butterflies with tiny little cobalt beads.

I am very happy with the result.

Here are some close ups...

Finally I added some small flowers to the chicken wire.

I wrapped one strip of paper with black wire and added why it was that I was thankful (my journalling).

All in all I am pretty happy with the result...not to mention the fact that I have a layout of the hubby's family (very rare that there are even photos!)

So, why not gather your collection of 'My Year My Story', or if you haven't got one order it today from Scrapbookit, and scrapbook that photo, moment, time, person that you are thankful for.

You could even give our challenge a go for the chance to win a prize and be guest designer for a month!

Make sure your entry is linked or emailed to Joanne by the 30th of January to be in the running!

Can't wait to check out your creation!

Melx

Another take on the August Challenge

Hi everyone, it's Cindy here , thanks for joining me today.

I wanted to share another layout I created for the August challenge...

Here's Jo's August challenge again:

It is a game of Tic-Tac-Toe.

Here is the game board...

                              

All you need to do is choose one line combination from the board - horizontal, vertical or diagonal and use those elements on your layout.

It's that easy!

I have chosen the Flowers - Ink/Paint - Black/White line.

Here is my second take on the challenge...

 Using another of the papers from the Pebbles Birthday Wishes pad.... I added texture with the Scrap FX Moroccan Tile Stencil...

A close up of the misting of inks and my flower cluster...

 Another pic of the misted inks, and the gold stardream paper I used under the photo...

I used thickers Rainboots stickers for my title...

I hope you'll join us for the challenge and maybe win yourself a great prize pack...

till next time 

Happy Creating

xC

Do you love butterflies??

Morning everyone,


Its Jo with you today sharing my take on Liz's challenge and other news around our store.

This month I had a play with the new Kaisercraft 'Kaleidoscope' which I have totally fallen in love with because with these pages you can create the look of texture without the bulk of lots of products. If you LOVE butterflies then this range is for you!! With a whole sticker sheet of them.

 



Here is my page using just 1 sheet of the patterned paper 'Decoupage' I have used some 'Lindy Stamp Gang' Moonstruck spray mists, I stamped some small cupcake images and I have used a doily( it's sort of a serviette Right???) and some of the butterfly stickers.  I can't believe my youngest daughter is a teenager but I'm glad I have this page to remember the day.

Okay now for the drum roll!!! The winner for our march challenge (which I must say we had some awesome entries) is

Kristen O'Callaghan

Congratulations Kristen, if you could e-mail me your details I will send out your prize pack.

Well I hope all the families on school holidays enjoy their time off this week and make sure you drop on by to see what Cindy has created to share with you.


Happy Scrapping

Jo Caird