Mid Month challenge at Scrap Our Stash

Hello, its time for the second part of my Guest Designer Spot here at Scrap Our Stash for July!

I am back with my layout for July Sketch challenge using the word ‘FIREWORKS’.

I really enjoyed creating the layout for this sketch!

Here it is.....

And here is the super sketch that inspired it!

The July Sketch is teamed up with the word ‘FIREWORKS’. The idea is to use a stash item for each letter of the word FIREWORKS. Here are my stash items I used for each of the letters: -

F: Flowers

I: Ink (paper edges)

R: Rosette

E: Embossing Powder (on title chipboard)

W: Wood

O: Outdoors (photo)

R: Rhinestones

K: Kaisercraft (papers)

S: Seed Beads

I really enjoyed doing this one, my colours were inspired from a colour combo photo I had seen, so after rummaging through my papers I came up with these Kaisercraft papers 50 Cents, these gorgeous patterns look fabulous layered up. I do love to add a little mixed media to my layouts and this one has a little! I created the background ‘circle’ from the sketch with gesso applied with a palette knife. I have a rhinestone circle on top of that. My chipboard title was altered with embossing powder. My edges have all been distressed and inked with Frayed Burlap, and in the background, I have added mists and seed beads. The layout is finished off with the flowers clusters, buttons, rosette and wood icons. The ‘outdoor’ photo is my DD riding a few years ago, we used to trundle through the lanes picking flowers as we went!

I had these sweet little wooden rocking horses in my stash from a wood icon Christmas collection but thought they worked perfectly for this LO!

The gorgeous shabby teal buttons are from my bead stash, I actually had these to make jewellery with but they just seemed to scream at me to use on here!

I have used wound up ribbons and twines in my embellishment clusters to add texture and detail with the rosette and the Petaloo flowers.

Here you can see the rhinestone circle with the grit paste stencilled dots and antique Gold mist in the background. The seed beads also add a little bit of extra colour and detail.

Applying the gesso with a palette knife like I have on the background circle on this layout gives a completely different look compared to brushing it on with a paint brush or doing something with a stencil.

I do love this Kaisercraft collection 50 Cents. I loved the colours mixed with the browns from the pony I the photo and highlighted with some extra Teal. The patterns on the papers gives a lovely country feel too! You can also see the Izink splats in this photo too.

This is the embossed title, whilst heating the black embossing powder I dropped the gold frantage into it so it melted and blended together at the same time.

My layers are popped up with cardboard which enabled me to be able to push the wood icon borders into the layers for full effect.

Products Used on this layout

Kaisercraft: 50 Cents: Guinea
Kaisercraft: 50 Cents: Sovereign
Kaisercraft: 50 Cents: Farthing
Kaisercraft: 50 Cents: Sixpence
Kaisercraft: 50 Cents: Dime
Prima Marketing: Color Bloom: Antique Gold
Prima Marketing: Color Bloom: Soft Teal
Prima Marketing: Wood Icons: Sunrise Sunset #960223
Pigment Izink: Turquoise
Personal Impressions: Embossing Powder Opaque Black
Stamendous: Frantage Embossing Enamel: Shabby Old Gold
Tim Holtz: Distress Ink: Frayed Burlap
Tim Holtz: Distress Ink: Broken China
Tim Holtz: Distress Grit Paste
Tim Holtz: Die: rossettes
Gesso
Clear Gesso
BoBunny: Double Dot Jewels: mocha
Seed Beads
Petaloo: Botanica: Vintage Velvet: Dogwood; Teal
Kars 'Make Me' Funny Fibres
Buttons
Wood Icons: Christmas

I have really enjoyed being a guest designer here at Scrap Our Stash this month and seeing what you are all creating. I hope I have inspired you with this month’s challenges!

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Thanks for visiting my blog today.


Ginny  :)

 

***Guest Designer for Scrap Our Stash***

So this is so exciting and now I can tell you all!

I am so happy to be a Guest Designer for Scrap Our Stash for the month of July!

As you know I love entering challenges, I do this because I love sharing my work and joining in the challenges with all you other ladies. It is even more wonderful when one of your layouts ends up being featured or placed or winning, how exciting is that? I was lucky enough to be chosen as a 'Top 3' at Scrap Our Stash last month and invited to Guest Design for July, I cant wait to show you what I came up with for this months challenges.

Today it is the reveal of the Tic Tac Toe Challenge for July 1st.

Here is my layout:

This is the Tic Tac Toe board for this month.

THE CHALLENGE:

Create a layout and you must use all three items from any horizontal, vertical or diagonal row. 

This challenge is open until the 29th July 2017

I used the horizontal line  STRIPED PAPER - TAG - BANNER

Now for some  details and close ups...

I used a lovely paper collection from Carta Bella for this layout, Flora No.1.

I really liked the colours in the papers to go with my photo and the dark floral PP to bring out DD's dress. In particular I loved that striped paper which I think makes the layout 'pop' out at you!

My large layers were torn  instead of cutting, to create the distressed shabby chic feel and my smaller layers i.e. the banners were all distressed with Prima distress tool. I even distressed my photo!

The photo is matted onto back cardstock.

I loved this lace, this is just slotted under the matted photo, which is popped up with some cardboard (or foam pads), giving some texture and a softening to the edges of the photo.

My background had a little splattering of mist, I do like a little mixed media on my layouts, but this layout didn't need any much with the busy patterns of the papers. I stamped this Finnabair butterfly onto the background paper as I love the sentiment on it, for my daughter, I really wish my daughter to spread her wings and fly in life and it was appropriate with the beautiful butterfly face painting on her face! I stamped it with Distress Ink Black Soot.

Under the banners I used a paper doily die cut, it is a whole one cut in half so I could fit it both sides of the photo. I used a selection of embellishments from a Papermaze kit, these included the clear buttons, pink rose and the dinky little Prima butterflies. I tied bakers twine through the buttons and tied at the back and left the ends showing through the clear buttons.

The kraft tags were also in this kit, I cut into the 'today' one so I could slot most of it under my photo but still have the word on top.

My journaling is written on another kraft tag and slotted in the layers behind the photo, so it can be easily pulled out to be read. I also loved the clear background quote stickers added over the layout.

Products used on this layout:

Carta Bella: Flora No.1: Peony Posy: Cluster

Carta Bella: Flora No.1: Peony Posy: Journaling Cards (reverse)

Bazzill Cardstock: Black Prismatic

Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist: Crème de Rouge

Prima Marketing flowers: Wild & Free: #594701

Prima Marketing: Finnabair: Butterfly wood mounted stamp

Tim Holtz: Distress Ink: Black Soot

Papermaze Kit: buttons, pink rose, Prima Rose Quartz butterflies, Kraft tags, doily.

Thank you for stopping by my blog today, please have a look around whilst your here!

I hope I have inspired you with how I created using the Tic Tac Toe board. I look forward to seeing all your creations too!

Add your layouts to the challenge linky in the side bar on the Scrap Our Stash blog

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I will be back on the 15th with the second part to my Guest Designer slot this month.

Ginny   :)

More May challenges

Hello all!

Phew!! What a busy week its been! I haven't had time to do any scrapbooking all week! I've been so busy with work, the kids extra activities and an extra job I've been doing this week, and a tennis tournament with my daughter too, which was very successful for her!

This layout I created last weekend  and have only just got around to editing the photos of it today!

This layout was created for the following Challenges....

**Stick It Down Challenge**

with their May Single Page Sketch

**Scrap Our Stash Challenge**

with their 'Tic Tac Toe challenge'

I chose to do a mixed media layout for these challenges.

I chose the line was '3+patterned paper - Tickets - Vellum' from the  Tic Tac Toc challenge board.

In this photo you can see 3 patterned papers, the tags, the background script paper and the stripe paper.

On my background paper I started off with mists, the navy Perfect pearls mist and the beige color bloom mist. I use the netting stamp with coffee archival ink randomly over the design area. I also used a stencil with some distress grit paste (you could use texture paste instead) again randomly over the design area. The 'be happy' was covered with Picket Fence paint dabber.

I wanted to create a beachy effect with my mixed media. I first started with the 3d balls for a pebble look. These were adhered with some gel medium. The Flower Soft Ultra Fine Sand is absolutely perfect for beach themes! I looks just like sand. Use a glue/gel medium on your layout and then sprinkle over the top and shake the excess off (like you would with glitter). The frantage fragments added to the pebbly look.

I used the tickets that are part of the Pion Seashore collection and inked the edges with the Farmers Jeans ink pad. I used real shells on the layout we collected from the beach.

The little pegs I liked as an extra little feature. The arrows I simply 'painted' with the Navy perfect Pearls mist. You can also see that I used some jute weave tucked under the photo mount and layers and worked the mixed media in top.

The vellum was incorporated into the layout with these rosettes made with a Tim Holtz die. this vellum had a black pattern on it which matched the string on the tags.

All my paper layers were inked with the Farmers Jeans ink pad. The photo and the photo mount I cut using some x-cut nesting dies. I liked the effect of cutting the photo out with the die as well, although a little worrying putting your photo through the die cutter!

So the gorgeous young man in the photo (forgive me for being very biased!) is my DS and one of our fabulous days at the beach with Granny and Grandad in Pembrokeshire. It wasn't till after I had took the photos for the blog that I realised I hadn't put my journaling on it, Rest assured I have now done that! This is at Sandy Haven where we can also watch the Irish ferry come and go in and out of Port from Ireland to Pembroke Dock.

Products used on this layout

Pion Papers: Seashore: Sailing

                                                     : Tags ( both sides)

                                       : Seashells

Prima: Chalk Ink Pad: Farmer Jeans

Patterned Vellum

Tim Holtz Die: Rosettes

Pentart: 3d balls

Gel Medium

Mini Pegs

Flower Soft: Ultra Fine: Sand

Stampendous: Frantage: Fragments: Shabby Beige & Blue

Tim Holtz: Distress Paint Dabber: Picket Fence

Tim Holtz: Distress Grit Paste

Prima Marketing: Color bloom: Tea Stain

Ranger: Perfect Pearls Mist: Blue Smoke

Ranger: Archival Ink: Coffee

Woodware: Clear Magic Single Stamps: Netting Background

Studio Calico: wood Veneer #331051 Arrows

Jute weave ribbon

X-Cut large Nesting dies: Rectangle Parenthesis

Memory Box: Stencil: Rings and Puddles

Shells

Wycinanka: Laser cut: Be Happy

I hope you liked this one!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek!

Ginny  :)

An Easter Layout!

Hello all!

Today I am sharing an Easter layout with a photo of me and the kids doing a 'selfie' over the Easter

holidays.

Here are some close ups and details.

This bunny and egg die from Joanna Sheen was perfect for my Easter layout and made a fun element for it!

I used up some scraps of pretty patterned papers, rounded the edges with a corner punch and distressed the edges. I used a Martha Stewart order punch on two sides of the background paper.

In this photo you can see the punched border, chevron paper and the bunnies for one of the challenges below.

I love these straws I have used here. I cut each straw into two and added to either side of the layout to balance it. The glitter alphas from Dovecraft were perfect for the title.

I used some mist splats in the background with some BoBunny crystals.

Products Used on this layout:

Daisy D's: Chloe Marie: Venetian Blue

Heidi Swapp: Sugar Chic: Remember

My Minds Eye: The Sweetest Thing: Honey 'one of a kind' Notable

My Minds Eye: Collectable

Tattered Angels: Glimmer Mist: Crème de Rouge

Dovecraft: Glitter Alphabet: Dusky Blue

Live & Love Crafts: Straws & Lace

BoBunny: Double Dot Jewels: pink

Prima Marketing: Say it In Crystals: Adhesive Pearls #570255

Joanna Sheen Die: Bunnies and Egg

This layout has been entered into the following challenges.

Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge

I followed  the subject lead from the April - Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge

Create on the subject of Easter or another Spring celebration!!

Scrap Our Stash

I used the line

Border Punch / Bunnies / Chevron paper

Stick it Down

I followed this sketch from the Stick It  Down April Single page challenge.

Thank you for stopping by today and I hope you come back again soon!

Ginny  :)  💕