I AM a cheeky devil.

Good morning 

Welcome back to Scrapbookit, hope you have time to grab a coffe and join me as I share a couple more projects I have created using the Simple Stories 'I AM' range.

Firstly is a cute page using a photo of Zahli and the wonders of Snapchat filters, don't you just love these fun photos.

For my background I have used some Colour Blast Paste ' Deep Water' through a stencil, I sprayed some muslin with some Prima Color Bloom. I have then added some stickers from the range as my cluster.

Secondly I completed a page with a Selphie photo which I don't do very often I must admit. I had just had my hair cut and coloured and wanted to take a photo of how the hairdresser had done it, ( because I can never get it to look the same).

I purchased a new die cut from Sizzix that had theses great stars and ribbons in so I wanted to use them on a page. My large stars are little shaker pockets with the off cut stars in side. I have added some stickers to my title card.

Well there you go a little bit more inspiration ideas to share, I hope you get a chance to get some scrapping done and maybe even use a selphie.

I would love to see some more entries in this months challenge, it's a beauty set by Mel. It's not hard as she has given you so many options to add to your page, go on have a go!

You have until July 30 to upload your entry either here, via email or on our facebook page.

Looking forward to a great weekend and an awesome day tomorrow at our ALL DAY CROP, hope to see you then.

Jo Hanna.

I AM!!

Good Morning everyone,

Welcome to Scrapbookit and our July challenge.

This month I am creating with a great range from 'Simple Stories' named 'I AM'.

It is just beautiful with lots of florals and a touch of rose gold throughout the papers and stickers in the range.

Here is my take on the challenge that Mel has set for July.

For my splattered back ground I have used some Prima 'Color Bloom' sprays.I have used  the subtle pink and yellow and then added some silver Distress stain spray as well. My household item used was some scrunched up cling wrap to move the sprays around on the page a little.

For my stripes behind my photos I have used all the edge strips from the patterned papers ( You know the bits you usually cut off and throw away :) ) , I just thought it was a great way of getting lots of colours and patterns onto my layout.

I have added some heart stickers, die cut hearts from some Kaisercraft Sparkle paper, some fine thread and my title is a WOW chipboard piece which I also coloured with the Distress Stain spray.

I hope you get a chance to join us this month, I know lots of our kids are on holidays so its a busy time but make sure you take some 'ME' time and get crafting. Entries don't close until the 30th July so you have lots of time to get scrapping.

Remember you can add them from your blog into our Inlinkz tab, send them to me via email joannecaird@gmail.com.au or upload them to our Facebook page anytime.


Enjoy the rest of your week,

Jo Hanna. 

Havana Nights FUN!!!

Good Morning everyone and welcome back to the fun at Scrapbookit.

March is slipping past at a fast rate so have you joined the fun of our monthly challenge??

I am back to share some more layouts I created with the Kaisercraft 'HavanaNights' range. This is certainly a diverse range of papers with floral's, mosaics,and lots of colours. 

This cheeky photo just suited the blues in the mosaic page that I used as a big frame. I used the sticker strips from the range to add a background for my photo. The words are from 'Dusty Attic' and I have just sprayed them with the Prima Colour bloom and also flicked it around to create the dots on the page.

 I loved creating the background of this page using Dylusions paints, inks and the Heidi Swapp texture paste. The stencil is from Dusty Attic and the stamp is a Kaisercraft one.

Last but not least is this funky page with all the fussy cut flowers from the page. I have added lots of dimension with the collectables in the range. 

 All of these products are available instore, so if you would like to get creating drop by the store or send a message and I will sort out all your scrapping needs.

Don't forget this Saturday the 24th is Crop Day from 10am til everyone leaves. Just $10 for the day.

Also you have until the 30th March to join in our great challenge for the chance to win a $30 voucher .

Have a great week,

Jo Hanna

Hearts xxx

Good Morning,

Welcome to Scrapbookit and the start of another week, hope you all had a wonderful weekend and had the chance to get crafty.

I am here to share my interpretation of the great challenge that Jane has set for us this month.

It's all about 'Shapes'

*Use circles, hearts, rectangles and triangles on your layout or card or journal page  * Make reference to a shape in your title ie, Circle of life, Follow your heart, You're a Star etc, etc..  AND  *Include on your Layout, card or Art Journal a Technique OR Product that you have never tried before..

Okay so I have focused on the Heart shape for my layout but have plenty of other shapes in my background using the paper range Kaisercraft 'Havana Nights'. The paper hearts are cut/punched from the range and I also used some stickers from the range.  

Yes more wedding photos, but hey you work with what you have right.  The chipboard is from the ScrapFX range which I have sprayed with Prima Color Bloom 'Sorbet' and then added some artalchemy Opal Magic wax to make it a little subtle.

Although I didn't add a new technique I did play with this new product that is available instore. It is from Heidi Swapp and its called Metallic Texture Paste 'Teal', I just loved it as it is so smooth and was really easy to spread through my stencils. My title is the stickers which both refer to my hearts.

So I hope you are going to join us this month because you could be in the running for a $30 voucher to our online store. Entries close 30th March.

Just like our winner from February, 

Congratulations Tracey B,

Please message me at joannecaird@gmail.com for details of your prize.

Have a great week everyone 

Jo. 

What a Start!

Well what a start to November for us!

Last Saturday Jo (Owner of Scrapbookit) married her partner of 21 years. Such a beautiful couple, a beautiful family and a beautiful love story!

I was so honoured and privileged to be Jo's witness. 

I truly can't describe the happiness that permeated through the ceremony ~ it was absolutely magical!

My favourite little snippet from my speech..

"What started as a position on Jo’s new design team has turned into many great times, thousands of laughs, road trips, many many retreats and the most perfect part a very very special friend who I am so blessed to call my friend and have in my life."

Congratulations to Jo and Andrew!

May your lives be filled with much love and happiness!

I couldn't help myself...I had to scrap my favourite photo from the day.

Taken prior to the ceremony when Jo and I got to spend some time... just us...calming each other as we tried to hold back tears of excitement!

Have you checked out this months challenge? Our lovely Jane has set it for us and it is a ripper! Include the quote

'Live Life in Full Bloom'

and include 3 things on your layout that start with 'S'

I have been playing with the Kaisercraft Collection 'Rose Avenue' for this month.

I used my Silhouette to cut out my title from the paper 'Rose Avenue'. Such a great quote! I lightly went around the letters to help them pop out from the background.

My three things (actually I have more) beginning with 'S' are...

*Spray - I lightly sprayed the background with 'Prima - Colour Bloom Spray Mist - Cotton Candy'

*Splatter - I splattered some of the Punch Colour Blast Shimmer Cube on the background as well as some Lindy's Stamp Gang Magicals in Ramblin' Rose Pink

*Shimmer Cube - Colour Blast - Punch

*Sari Texture - Kaisercraft DIY Cuts (diecut) - I love this die cut!!!!

I have used a heap of the Collectables from this Kaisercraft Collection - they are fantastic!

How cute is this little window??

I just love how this turned out! Have you heard that we have a new website??? It is still developing however..

Don't forget our massive giveaway running this month, all you have to do to be in the running for a super prize pack is:

1. Visit and send us a comment at the new website www.scrapbookitshop.com.au

2. Leave a comment on any of the posts here on the blog during November.

3. Bonus: If you comment and follow us on our Facebook page www.facebook.com/scrapbookitshop

Good luck and I look forward to seeing your creations shared with us for this months challenge!!!!

Melx

I Will Always Love You

Morning Everyone,

Well, I hope that the Easter Bunny found you all and you enjoyed your Easter!

I am here again to remind you about our April monthly challenge and to share with you another layout that I have created with the Kaisercraft P.S. I Love You collection.

Have you started creating your challenge entry? Entries close on the 30th of April...you still have plenty of time if you haven't.

Remember this month is all about the double layout! A great way to scrap a sequence of photos! There is a sketch from PageMaps to follow.

You also need to include texture, stamping and some flowers (in any form you wish - be creative!).

You can enter your challenge via our blog using the InLinkz linkup, via our Facebook page or you can email it to Joanne at joanne@scrapbookit.com.au

I can't wait to see what you create.

When Jo first gave me the P.S. I Love You Collection I felt very overwhelmed. If you know me, ideas for pinks and all things girly when scrapbooking don't particularly come naturally.

I was glad though to be able to use these papers to highlight some of my wedding photos and other photos of Jason and I. 

Whilst I yet again haven't followed the requirements of the April Challenge, I have loved playing around with some newer products and some colours that I don't necessarily always feel comfortable using...so definitely getting out of my comfort zone!

Here is what I have created...

We had these photos taken whilst in Disney World, Florida in September 2015.

I started this layout with a blank canvas (White Cardstock) and added some of the new Tim Holtz - Distress Oxide Inks blending both Worn Lipstick and Iced Spruce. I love these inks and love what you can do with them. It is very hard to see in any of the photos but I then used a baby wipe and my Kaiser Mini Template - Rough Grid. The baby wipe took away the ink where I rubbed it and left a paler, and in some places, a bleached image from the template.

I then used some Impasto Gel Medium through the Kaiser Mini Template - Rough Grid which gives a clear see through appearance over the paler/bleached template.

I splattered some of the Kaiser Mist - Candy and the Prima Colour Bloom - Cotton Candy around the page.

I stamped with the Kaiser Clear Stamp - Flutter using the Gray Flannel Memento Ink.

Then using Art Alchemy - Acrylic Paint - Opal Magic Aqua - Rose, the Viva Precious Metal Colour - Pink, some Acrylic Paint - Black and the edge of my palette knife I added some lines.

I have once again been a little minimalistic in my use of papers and have stuck to using mainly the P.S. I Love You Collectables.

I added the title Love using the word from the sticker sheet. I needed to ink this with the Gray Flannel Memento Ink.

Well, whilst out of my comfort zone, I love how this layout turned out and mainly loved using lots of new products and colours. All of these are available at Scrapbookit!

Have you heard about our upcoming retreat? May 19-21 in Bright!

A weekend full of fun, plenty of laughs, great company, awesome food and plenty of scrapbooking.

We would love you to come. For more details head to the Online Store.

Thanks again for popping by...would love to hear what you think of my layout!
Be sure to pop back over the next few days to see what other awesome projects Jo and Jane have been creating!

....Melx

A New Year and a New Challenge!

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!

We hope that you are blessed with a happy and healthy New Year filled with lots of love and happiness!

The most recent post that I shared we had 4 sleeps until Christmas...now here we are in the new year. Time just flies...I don't know about you but I am looking forward to a positive, fun and healthy new year! With plenty of crafting time, of course!

A new year has to start with a new challenge...I hope that you enjoy what I have come up with.

Our challenge for this month is Mood Board. You can find the mood board below. You can choose any elements and as many elements from the mood board to inspire your project.

So...make sure as the New Year begins you give yourself time to get your craft on!

I have been getting crafty with the new collection, Oh Happy Life ~ Amy Tangerine, that Jo has sent me to begin the New Year!

It has lots of lovely bright, colourful pages that work perfectly with this months challenge...it is also very easy to dull the papers down or brighten them up depending what you team them with.

I have decided to feature the bright colours, the 2017, the circles and the word 'embrace' from the mood board to create my layout.

Here it is...

I started by applying a light coat of Gesso to my background paper. I have done this so that the sprays I was using wouldn't blend into the background paper.

I have used Kaisermists - Yellow and Aqua, ColourShine - Mint Green, Dylusions - Postbox Red and Colour Bloom - Cobalt sprays to create the background on the background paper. I sprayed them from quite a distance but all of them have sprayed differently which provides some variety in how the sprays appear on the page.

I have used several of the different patterned papers in this collection and have framed them with black and white card stock.

I have used the Scrap FX Template - Circle Border with a black fine liner in two places on the layout. I have used the Colour Blast Shimmer Dust - Midnight to colour some of the smaller circles in the border.

Check out that font...it was one I had in my collection...thought it was a perfect fit for the word "Cheers"

I have used the Kaiser Alpha stickers for the rest of my title. I have also used chipboard numbers that I had in my collection for the 2017. I tried to match the colourings to that on the mood board. I have finished them off with a layer of Dimensional Magic. I have used the word 'embrace' above the 2017.

Using the patterned paper scraps I have created some little... what I am going to call, Fireworks! Finally I used the Scrap FX - Circle Border and Colour Blast Colour Paste - Snow White to create a border on the right of the photo and in the top left hand corner.

Well I hope that this has delivered some inspiration for this New Year Day.

Be sure to get your entry into Jo (via email) or by linking it to the right column of this blog using the InLinkz link by the 30th January 2017.

Can't wait to see your creations.

I will be back later this month to share some more projects using this collection of papers.

Until then,

Enjoy!

Mel

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

You Make Me Smile

Good morning everyone!

I'm back today to share with you another layout I have created using the Echo Park 'Pirate's Life' collection. 

My layout has nothing to do with pirates! I wanted to create something that still used the gorgeous bright papers but not necessarily related to the pirate theme!

Here is what I came up with...

I still used the sketch for this months challenge, I did some stamping and I used a song title!

I spent a little bit of time creating my background. I started by covering my Cardstock in transparent gesso. I sprayed and sprayed again. Added Moulding paste, Dylusions paint and stamped. Then in some parts sprayed again until I came up with what I liked...it took a little bit but I'm pretty happy with the end result.

On my tag I have used the chorus of the song Smile by Uncle Kracker and made a feature of the last line of the chorus by adding it to my layout. 

I have used again the Harlequin Clumps on my layout (such awesome value when you can get so many projects from one pack). This time I have left them with a matt effect by inking them with Versamark Ink and not embossed them. 

Materials Used:

Kaisercraft Cardstock - White and Licorice, Kaiser Mists - Red, Yellow and Denim, Prima Colour Bloom - Cobalt, Transparent Gesso, Moulding Paste, Dylusions Paint - Lemon Zest and London Blue, Kaisercraft Clear Stamps - Crackle, tag, bakers twine - assorted colours, black ribbon, Echo Park - Pirate's Life collection - papers, paper pad, element stickers and alpha stickers, 2Crafty Harlequin clumps and Versamark Ink - Cardinal. 

I hope that this has inspired you to get crafting today!

You only have a few days to get your entry for this month in. Make sure you do...nothing quite like winning a prize for doing something you love!

Happy Scrapping!
Melx

Have you checked out Back to Basics?

Hi Everyone,

I'm here to share my final post with you using the Kaisercraft range 'Back to Basics'

As I think I have said before this range is an awesome range...talk about versatility, easy to use, works with anything and can be as plain or as detailed as you like.

I have truly LOVED working with this range this month.

I seriously am sooo lucky to work alongside Jo at Scrapbookit and have the opportunity to play with these amazing products. Thanks Jo!

As I said in one of my posts I was going to attempt to show you this month how you can use this range and achieve different colour collections and results.

The layout I have created this time around is again a little different to what you have seen so far this month. It features the black papers of the Back to Basics collection.

I have used Kaiser Mists, Prima Colour Bloom Spray and Heidi Swapp's Colour Shine to create my background.

I have also used stamps, embossing powder, gel medium and inks.

I just love this photo of my boy. It was the day of his confirmation...he definitely is the master of face pulling!

This photo shows the gorgeous Heidi Swapp word sticker 'All time favourite'.  I have outlined it with a black pen to make it pop from the page. 

Another close up of some of the background features.

I used a tag in my layout to hide (to some extent) my journalling.

Materials:

Cardstock: Kaisercraft - White; Paper: Kaisercraft - Back to Basics; Sprays: Kaiser Mists - Denim, Prima Colour Bloom - Vintage Coal and Cobalt; Heidi Swapp Colour Shine - Navy; Impasto Gel Medium; Embossing Powder: Metallic Melts - Silver; Template: Kaisercraft - Quarters; Heidi Swapp Sticker Word; Stamps: Kaisercraft - Sketchy and Script; Ink: Versamark Watermark Stamp and Archival Ink - Black

So, have you got your entry in for this months challenge???

Remember it is as easy as...T T T

Tags (as many as you like)

Today (as your title)

Texture

You have until May 30 to get your entry in.

Look forward to seeing your creations...make sure you check out the entries that are already in on the right hand side of this blog. Such great work from the ladies involved!

We will be back on Monday to announce the new challenge for June....OMG where is this year going????

Until then,

Melx