Kraft Plus Challenge Blog

Kraft Plus (K+) is well and truly alive and kicking! If you love kraft and love amazing challenges, you have got to pop over to the brand spanking new blog to see the challenge for February and to see the amazing DT examples!

This is the first challenge for Feb, entitled 'Mango Breeze'. Bear in mind, it's not a moodboard challenge, it's a colour challenge, so you can interpret it any way you like and best of all, you can submit pretty much whatever you are inspired to create, including Digital, as long as it's based on kraft. Yippee!

 

Here is my page for Feb. I was completely inspired by the gorgeous colour combination this month and have paired the soft florals with some rough edges and messy stitching.

Lots of layering. The 'seriously' 3x4 card is from the Heidi Swapp Project Life kit.

The Maggie Holmes obsession continues, with some hand embossing using the die cuts from the Open Book floral ephemera pack. If you have the Volume 17 No 6 issue (Christmas issue) of Scrapbooking Memories Magazine, I have a tutorial on this technique on page 57.

There are heaps of awesome goodies up for grabs as prizes each month and loads of inspiration! I hope you will join us as soon as you can ;)

Thanks for stopping by!

Let your light shine - Jan moodboard Sassy Scrappers

All things 'new & shiny' were on my mind when I designed this month's moodboard for Sassy Scrappers. 

I hope you will find some inspiration from the imagery and join us for some fun!

A bit of an introspective page as I contemplate the possibilities for 2015...

It's a bit of a mix and match page. It's not often that I'm smitten with flowers... but the Maggie Holmes Open Book blooms, ephemera and chipboard frames have me seriously weak at the knees. 

I need another pack of the flowers just so I can hoard them!

 

This little blue rose and the stamp are from Heidi Swapp September Skies

On the background, I have used one my favourite rose 'Words or Whatever' 

stencils and mucked around with some ink and glitter glue.

I used a dauber to apply first a pink, then a red ink through the stencil.

On top of that, I used some silver Glitzin' Glamour in parts of the stencil. It was quite a thick application. If you are going to try it, remove the stencil very carefully so as to avoid it spreading in to other areas.

As a final flourish, I have given my page some major bling factor, by pretty much using a whole sheet of silver rhinstones. I absolutely love the effect!

Here is the moodboard. The winners of November and December will be announced on the Sassy blog tomorrow and then the linkup tool should be active.

 

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Hello, adore you - Sassy Scrappers

Happy Friday to you! This layout is on the Sassy Scrappers blog today along
with a little technique tip...

Wishing you a relaxing long weekend for all the Aussies.

Daddy Love - Sassy Scrappers

Hello again!

Another little share today on the Sassy blog using Crate's Close Knit which is in store now. Such a pretty line with so many heartfelt sentiments.

Some close ups and more info here...

Thanks for visiting and a hearty welcome to new followers :)

On your trolley - Sassy Scrappers

The amount of sleeps is finally down to 1!! Heidi Swapp tomorrow.. could it get any more amazing?!

For those of you that still have to grab a few things for your event, Sassy Scrappers has everything you need for the day and more! Also, for the Melbourne class, Olga can bring your items to the class on the day - totally fab!

I have this layout up on the Sassy blog today, featuring Crate's 'Close Knit'. Love these pics of Erin at a little friend's birthday party. No matter how much you tell this child otherwise, she just HAS to see for herself first!

Close ups and materials on the blog if you are interested!

See you soon!

Three in a tub

Hello again!

I hope you are enjoying this fine Tuesday. The weather is Brissy has been amazing! Spring will be calling soon :)

I'd love to share this layout with you today that I have popped together for 123 Challenge blog this month. The theme for August is

This is my take

After too much drama and moving over the years,  I have precious few photos of my family or my childhood. I do, however, have one photo album that holds some gorgeous photo's of my mother and her siblings. Here she is with her sister and brother in an old tub!

I've scanned the original photo and printed it off, cutting the edges by hand, to recreate the original. I've added a lot of foam tape to get it to really pop out of the frame!

** OFP**


Yes, your eye are not deceiving you.... that is a doily. One one of my layouts... lol! I've given it a light spritz of Color Shine to jazz it up. I also love these gorgeous light bulb chippies from 2Crafty. I've kept this little guy plain.

So I'll let you in on a little secret. I love woodgrain paper. But I'm too stingy to use it. I just buy it to look at! I wanted to use some woodgrain for the title, so I Googled a picture of a wooden background. I printed it off onto some card stock and cut the title with my Silhouette. Ta da! To finish it off, I covered it with some Glossy Accents.

Materials used: Paper: Crate; Heidi Swapp; Simple Stories. Embellishments: Greatest View flair; Heidi Swapp banner; 2Crafty chippy; Crate stickers & Instaframes; Jillibean Soup journalling spot; Glitz & Hambly washi tape; Doilie; Color Shine; resin flower; rhinestone; Silhouette Cameo

Hopefully you can find the time to join us this month over at 123! You have until the 31st August to link up your entries.

Thanks for stopping in today. I'll be seeing you on Friday.

Summer Fun

Hello again! Get the 'summer feeling' and head over to the Sassy Scrappers blog today to see this and some other DT goodness.  There's still time to get your entry in for our June challenge "I'm thankful" - completely open brief, so you could go wild!

 

Thanks for stopping by!

Catch you soon,

Cake and Jelly in your belly!

Hello lovelies,

It's been a tough week. There have been ups and some not so nice downs. But the weekend is just about upon us, which is reason enough to celebrate!

I'm sharing some sweet treats on the Sassy Scrappers blog today... (party inspiration by Kim Jeffress)  The Pier is just too delicious!

If you would like to see a few close ups and see how I popped these babies together, pop over to the Sassy blog...

I will be back with some exciting news a bit later :)

Till then!

Radical Fun...

... over at Sassy Scrappers for my Friday post!

I'm sharing a summer layout using Crate's The Pier... perfect for those pool, beach or lazy summer day photos you have stashed!

I spy a Greatest View flair... for close ups and details, head over to the blog :)

Materials used: Crate 'The Pier' Summertime cuts, Ephemera, Slide Frames, Mini alphas & Border labels; Basic Grey 'Hipster' wood die cuts; Dear Lizzy large tags; Glitz ampersand die cut (Silhouette store) Glitz Unchartered Waters 6x6 pad; Kaisercraft Spearmint card stock; Greatest View Flair; acetate; Versamark; twine; Stamp It stamp; clear embossing powder

See you soon!

Giving thanks!

This is the challenge at Sassy Scrappers this month...

How cool is that! It's an open brief my lovelies... go wild, show us you stuff!

I was inspired to make something for special people in my life.

To see some closeups of these babies and find out a bit more about how I made them, pop over to the blog and take a closer look...

Thanks so much for visiting!