My Crafty Madness: December 2018

Thursday, 27 December 2018

Celebrating Layout for Tres Jolie Kits

Hi everyone,

Welcome to my last post for the month featuring the December Kit for TRES JOLIE KITS.

Today I'm sharing with you a scrapbook layout created with the gorgeous Maja Design Joyous Winterdays paper collection.

Lets show you some close ups and details of the layout....

I used lots of layers in this layout, using all the lovely patterns and designs in this paper collection.

I inked edges with vintage photo distress ink.

I used the stencil from the Mixed Media Kit, to add some holly texture paste detail to the background paper.

I also used the Art Sugar from the Mixed Media kit and dropped it into glue on top of all the flowers and leaves to add a real wintery feel to the embellishments.

The Kaiser pearls in Denim I added in swirls coming from the flower clusters and the odd single one dotted around.

I love this photo from a recent visit with my parents to celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary!

I had a piece of the Holly and Berry border left over from another layout, so I used it on this layout.

I covered it with SnowTex from my stash, to give it a snowy look about it and then again dropped some Art Sugar into it.

Products used from the Scrapbook Kit:

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Cheerful

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Glisten

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Snowball Fight

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Frost

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Blizzard

Prima Marketing - Sweet Peppermint Flowers Northpole

Prima Marketing - Paper Roses Blue

Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Holly and Berry Border

Darice - Sweetwater Roses Mint

Kaisercraft Pearls - Demin

Products used from the Mixed Media Kit:

Prima – Art sugar Antique Silver

Kaisercraft Mini Stencil - Holly

Products from my Stash:

Texture Paste white

Distress Ink Vintage Photo

Stapler & Staples

SnowTex

If you are interested in this Scrapbook Kit or the other two kits available from Tres Jolie kits then please look HERE

Tres Jolie Kits can be found in the following Social Media sites

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

TRES JOLIE WEBSITE

TRES JOLIE BLOG

Happy Scrapping!

Ginny

Thursday, 20 December 2018

Anniversary Layout for Tres Jolie

Hello all!

I'm back today with another layout to share with you all created with the December Scrapbook kit from TRES JOLIE KITS.
This time I chose to work with the brighter colours from the paper collection Joyous Winterdays from Maja Design.

Now to share some details and close ups....

I tore a large triangular piece of co-ordinating paper, Christmas Time, to go with my chosen background paper, Make Decorations. I edged it with some Distress Ink.

I used the paints from the Mixed Media Kit to paint the chipboard Holly & Berry Frame, which I cut into two pieces.

The photo was backed on the Frost paper.

The bunting pieces I created from paper Playful

I used the Kaiser Pearls to add to some chipboard from my stash to create Mistletoe.

The title chipboard I covered with Viva Inka Gold from my stash just by rubbing it over with my finger.

The vine I shaped around the photo to carry on the circular design started with the chipboard frame.

Products used from the Scrapbook Kit:

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Make Decorations

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Christmas Time

Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Frost

Maja Design Joyous Winterdays - Playful

Prima Marketing - Victorian Christmas Poinsetta Kiss

Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Holly and Berry Frame

Kaisercraft Pearls - Pearl

Mixed Media Kit:

Prima – Impasto Paint Poppy Red

Prima – Impasto Paint Bottle Green

My Stash products:

Viva Inka Gold

White Paper Roses

Love Chipboard Title

Berries Chipboard Pieces

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

If you are interested in this Card Tags and More Kit or the other two kits available from Tres Jolie kits then please look HERE

Tres Jolie Kits can be found in the following Social Media sites

Happy Scrapping!

Ginny

Wednesday, 19 December 2018

Frosty Layout for Tres Jolie

Hi all,

Welcome to another post featuring the December Scrapbook Kit from TRES JOLIE KITS.

This kit features papers from Maja Design Joyous Winterdays collection, flowers from Prima Marketing and chipboards from Creative Embellishments. What is there not to love?!

Here is my wintery themed layout with myself and my favourite girlie ! ❤ ....

The next photos show you a few close ups with details of my work.

The top background paper, Glisten, was heavily distressed round the edges and then backed onto the main background paper, Cozy Inside.

The photo is backed onto paper Frost.

I added the title strip from one of the papers as a border across the layout.

The chipboard title was covered with Nuvo Cryatsl drops.

I covered the chipboard with the silver Nuvo Crystal Drops and dropped the Antique Silver Art Sugar from the Mixed Media kit onto it whilst still wet.

I added Nuvo drops all round the layout.

I loved the cute shovel which I nestled in the flower cluster.

I added the Art Sugar to some of the flowers and silver leaves too.

I finished by adding some of the 'snow' from the mixed media kit to the shovel and the flower clusters.

Products used from the Scrapbook Kit:

* Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Glisten

* Maja Designs Joyous Winterdays - Cozy Inside

* Maja designs Joyous Winterdays - Frost

* Prima Marketing - Sweet Peppermint Flowers NorthPole

* Creative Embellishments Chipboard - Holly and Berry Border

* Darice Sweetwater Roses Mint

* Darice - Mini Shovel

Products used from the Mixed Media kit:

* Prima - Art Sugar Antique Silver

* 'Snow'

Products From my stash:

* Nuvo Crystal Drops - silver

* Dusty Attic chipboard 'selfie'

If you are interested in this Card Tags and More Kit or the other two kits available from Tres Jolie kits then please look HERE

Tres Jolie Kits can be found in the following Social Media sites

FACEBOOK

INSTAGRAM

TRES JOLIE WEBSITE

TRES JOLIE BLOG

Happy Scrapping!

Ginny

Thursday, 13 December 2018

Noel Plaque - Tres Jolie Kits

Hello all,

This week I'm sharing with you my project created with the December Mixed Media Kit from TRES JOLIE KITS

I loved this project and had so much fun creating it. I added a few different techniques to it.
I wanted to create a shabby/weathered look to the project.

Lets have a look!

Here is a quick photo guide on the process.....

I firstly gave the plaque a coat of the green paint.

I dried this with a heat tool to speed the process up.

Next I covered the plaque with a thick layer of the off white paint.

Then Dried it.

When fully dry I rubbed over places of it with some sand paper to rub back though the layers to reveal the green paint and the wood underneath.

I then used some crackle medium from my stash in three patches on the plaque. The crackle medium I used does takes a good 24/48 hours to crack and dry but the wait is worth it.

The 'believe' I painted with the red paint and then when dry covered in the crackle medium again. Thick in places to crack and not so in others - this is where it looks a bit white where there isn't the layer of medium to crack but I like the effect.

when dry and cracked I rubbed over the Opal Magic so that it filled the cracks. This really accentuated the cracks, I loved the way it turned out!

I added the Opal Magic to the crackle patches on the plaque too!

Next some fussy cutting from the papers in the main Scrapbook Kit.

This was the base to main design. I used hot glue to fix one of the floral embellishments, as this a big piece to fix firmly.

I added a lovely gold mesh bow to the back of the floral piece.

The second floral embellishment piece I cut up so I could create a smaller cluster....

…..And made this arrangement on the opposite side of the 'believe'.

I added the fake snow around the floral cluster by dropping it into wet glue and leaving it to dry and then shaking the excess off after when dry.

I finished off by rubbing some Viva Ink Gold around the edges of the 'believe' and the outside edges of the plaque and dropping some of the glitter on to the background that had fell off the floral embellishments..... I never waste anything!!!

Here are some close ups of the finished project.