Our Little Bunny!

Happy Sunday evening everyone!

I don't know about you but my list leading up to Christmas is getting longer and every time I tick off something I add another ten things to the list.

I hope that you don't have the same problem and that you have enjoyed a relaxing weekend.

I'm here tonight to share with you a cute layout of my niece using this month's kit and challenge requirements. Have you entered our challenge this month?

Here is my layout...Our Little Bunny

The photos on this layout just melt my heart. My niece is such a cutie...this was back when she was just a little poppet. She has grown into a gorgeous girl too!

For this layout I have used the Creative PL papers that our whole design team have used this month. It is so awesome to see how different our layouts all are even though we have used the same pack.

I have layered several of the papers from the collection to create the background.

I have slightly lifted the edges of these papers to create a simple distressed look.

I have backed the photos with tissue paper to soften the edges.

I used some Kaisercraft Mist ~ Aqua and some Vicki Boutin paint ~ Daiquiri Ice to splatter on the background after using some Gesso to soften the colours on the papers.

My favourite part of this layout is the writing on the photo. I was so nervous to do this, in case I ruined it but it turned out...and I love it! The little heart behind the writing is from the Amy Tangerine Sticker Book and the cute little aqua and gold heart are from the Heidi Swapp Stickers.

I have used the cute embellishments from the Creative PL - Hello Gorgeous Embellishment Stickers pack. How sweet is that little scooter?
The glitzy heart is from the Cocoa Vanilla Love Always Bits and Pieces collection and the little diamantes are as well.

I have also used some of the gorgeous Amy Tangerine Stickers under the flower embellishment...they are subtle and very nice.

I have finished with some Thickers - Rockabye for my title, a doily as well as some Heidi Swapp Stickers and a doodly border using a Staedtler Fineliner pen.

I just love how this layout has turned out...I'm really having some fun with all of the girly layouts that I have been creating of late.

I even covered off the challenge requirements...

Fun photo...well my niece was having fun with her bunny ears!

Flowers...yes I have some!

Five embellishments - flower cluster, scooter, heart, diamantes, doily or sticker elements!

I hope that you have your challenge entered...I would love a voucher at this time of year to spend at Scrapbookit...surely you would too???

Not long till entries close...so don't delay.

Hope that you have enjoyed our layouts and projects this month.

Be sure to check in on the 1st of December for our new challenge...looking forward to this one for sure!!!

Enjoy,

~Melx~

Adventure.

Hello!

I have recently enjoyed a beautiful three week holiday in sunny QLD, I took a lot of my craft supplies with me and enjoyed some quiet time working in my art journal which was SO relaxing. Do you take your craft supplies away with you? I would love to hear.

Mel has set such a great challenge this month, I had a lot of fun working on this layout.

This is my layout.

To begin my layout I applied a coat of Gesso on my page with a mesh bag that you use to store onions in, this was part of my household item to create texture I also used some bubble wrap which I lightly applied some of the Dylusions Postbox red onto the page, I then used Dylusions paint in squeezed orange through a The Dusty Attic stencil, I made some marks with the Dylusions cut grass and splattered some mustard watercolour paint over the top. To finish  my background I used some Colour Blast paste in Steel and a stencil.  

I have used the Simple Stories Travel Notes paper range to complete my layout, I cut out various strips of paper from the patterned paper and added some strips of ribbon in there as well!

I added lots of different stickers from the sticker sheet and my title was cut out from one of the patterned sheets as well.

I was lucky enough to get my hands on this Kaisercraft die which I have added to the side of the left hand side photo and also another one behind the title. I love the look of these they are awesome!

So for Mel's Grab 5 I have used:

Dylusions Paints

Colour Blast Paste

Ribbons

Mesh onion bag

Bubble wrap

Gesso

Stickers from the Sticker sheet

Stars and hearts which were also from the sticker sheet.

 It was so good to see so many entries last month in our challenge and a big congratulations to Heather for winning the challenge her layout was amazing!

All of the products I have used today are available to purchase from www.scrapbookitshop.com.au

Thank you for taking the time to read this post.

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

Luv to Create

Hi Everyone,

Hope everyone is well and you are all getting plenty of time to create.

Me on the other hand...very little time to create and feeling like I have lost my creative mojo.

Have you ever felt the same?
I'm sure I will click back into creativity mode very soon.

My post today is to share with you a journal page that I have created.
I started this page to try and revive my creativity. 

Here is what I came up with...

Whilst it may not look like it I started with a base of Colour Blast Artist Ink - Marine. I used water to move the ink around the page.

I then added some Gel Medium through the Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil - Blocks to allow the gorgeous Marine colour to come through the stencil.

I then painted straight over the whole page using the Colour Blast Artist Ink - Barley.

Once dry, I spread some Moulding Paste and Black Gesso randomly around the page.

I used some of the gorgeous Colour Blast Sprays (Colour Spray - Deep Water and Colour Shimmer Spray - Bling) to add a bit of a shimmer to the background that I had created.

I used a paint scrapper and my Dylusions Paint - Vibrant Turquoise to create some feature lines in the background.

I rubbed some Vintage Berry Gilding Wax and a zig zag template randomly around the background.

I also spread small amounts of the Ultramarine Gilding Wax randomly around the page.

I added the 7 Dots Studio Paper Collection - Paint Chip and Die Cut Elements as well as the Uniquely Creative Light Bulb Metal Die.

I finished with the 7 Dots Studio Paint Chips Word Stickers as well Doodlebug Design Inc - Loopy Lou Alpha Stickers to complete my page.

How cool is this gorgeous collection from 7 Dots Studio? It is called Paint Chips. If you are in love with it and NEED to add it to your collection...be sure to pop by to the Scrapbookit Shop online or contact Jo.

Better still, why not enter this months challenge and if you are the winning entry Jo will send you a voucher for the store and you can get your new paper collection 'Paper Chips' with that!!!

All you need to do to enter the challenge is...

Create a project with the theme 'All About Love'

You must use the following 3-2-1 recipe:

3 - Use at least 3 different colours

2 - Include embellishments

1 - Include a song title/lyrics as part of your title/journalling

There are some great entries already on our Facebook page. 

Pop in and check them out.

You have until the 28th February to get your entry in.

Looking forward to admiring your creations!
...Melx

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

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 

PEEK-A-BOO

Welcome back to www.scrapbookit.com.au!
Have I got a Layout for you! I Love this Layout so much the colours are so Vibrant and I had A LOT of fun making this page.




I have used a lot of mixed media in this Layout as well as some layering of the gorgeous Echo Park That's my boy paper range. This is such a Fun range to work with for all those boys pages that need scrapping!

To start my Layout I applied some water directly onto my white cardstock, I then applied some Dylusions Ink Spray in the colours Periwinkle Blue, Polished Jade and Calypso Teal sprayed this on to make "puddles" added a bit more water to let it run, then mopped up the excess with some paper towel. I love the effect I have gotten with these inks. The colours are just AMAZING!

When I was happy with my colours I applied some Gesso randomly with my Kaisercraft Cogs stencil, I added some stamping with some Black Stayzon ink and the Retro Kaisercraft stamp then added some doodling around the page with my Sharpie permanent pen.

I have added a few sheets of the Kaisercraft Basecoat then some of the Echo Park That's my boy paper range to give me a bit more colour to the layout.
I doodled around the edges of the paper added some stickers from the sticker sheet and added the yellow words which were from my stash.

Jo has such a large range of all different products in her shop, if you haven't had the chance to have a look lately hop online and go to www.scrapbookit.com.au to grab a bargain and replenish your scrapbooking supplies.

Jo will be up in a few more days with another awesome layout to share.
Have a look on our Scrapbookit Facebook page for the links to our blog, you can also message us with your entry if you are unsure of how to post it to our blog.


Thanks for reading Jane xxx

It's all about me!!

Hello and welcome to my first post for the month of October!
We recently had a four day retreat in Bright and we had THE BEST time.. I got a lot of layouts done and finished and played around with some new techniques and colours whilst I was at it! I will pop some of my layouts up on the Scrapbookit Facebook page, to hopefully give you some Inspiration.
Mel has given us such a great sketch to work with this month as well as a scrapping recipe for us to follow!
 We are to include these 5 things,  1. U or You, 2. Circles, 3. Spray, 4.Stencil/Template and 5. Your Favourite Product. Here is the sketch.

                                                            
I had a lot of fun with my Layout, it's a picture of my son when he was only a few month's old! He is now 6!! Time flies.. Here is my Layout.

This month I have been lucky enough to use some Adorable products from www.scrapbookit.com.au. All of these products are available for purchase at extremely reasonable prices.

Products Used:

Kaisercraft Cardstock and Basecoat

Echo Park That's my boy

Echo Park That's my boy sticker sheet

Gesso

Tim Holtz Circle stencil

Wooden Chipboard

Dylusions Spray:

Sharpie Fineliner

Twine

Ribbon

I have used the U/you in the little round sticker that says You are my No 1, I have incorporated a lot of circles on my page including the two black ones that I have drawn freehand with a sharpie, I have used three different colour Dylusions spray in the Fresh Lime, Postbox Red and Periwinkle Blue, I have used a Tim Holtz Stencil on the top right corner of my page and my Favourite product at the moment would have to be my Dylusions Spray's and Paints! The colours are SO vibrant and the different effects you can get with them all is amazing!

 I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up with for their October Challenge Layouts..

Thanks for Joining us here on the blog today, don't forget to check out our Facebook page for some inspiration throughout the month.

Happy Scrapping Jane xxx