I Love Shabby LO's......

Afternoon All,

This post is back to flower power Shabby style, I love this way of doing my pages.
I am using my Swirlydoo's  monthly kit club kit, the April one, which had papers from 'My Besties'.
I used two papers from the kit that have made it very easy to get the shabby romantic feel that I try to achieve with my LO's.
The first one was based on layers. I got my sewing machine out and sewed away merrily, round the edges of some  of the layers, not neatly which is the best bit about it!! I wanted to do a LO based on the pink white and browns of the kit. I think these colours are perfect together and give a very romantic pretty feel. I did a lot of distressing and added some masking with texture paste and a second layer of masking with the texture paste coloured with some pink mica powder. I layered up using the papers, lace and craft doilies and then finished of with the metal trellis, flowers (kaisercraft & Petaloo), pearls and Chippy butterflies from BoBunny.

The second paper again was distressed and layered up and had the masking with texture paste treatment. I used strips of paper behind the photo layer, Kaisercraft and Petaloo flowers, Liquid pearls for the pearl circle and Prima alpha's and Prima Doily stickers. I tried to make this look like we were sat in a fairy tale! I finished off with lots of gesso! Hope you like them!

A little bit of fun!!!

Hello all!,
I felt this photo needed something a little different to my usual flowers and shabbiness, something a little bit more FUN and using some different items on my layouts.
Stickers are not my first port of call when it comes to embellishments but I had these papers and sticker embellishments from Glitz Design, Distressed Couture collection and thought that they would work well. I really enjoyed doing something different and liked how it turned out. I also used some Prima Doily stickers, did some paper tearing and voila!

                                    And a couple of close ups of the sticker embellishments.

 

Hope you liked it! Thanks for stopping by :)

It's been a while........

Hello,

It's  been a while but here we are! Time has flown and with a move of house and job changes it's really nice to finally settle down and get back to some good old scrappy goodness!

I love being a subscriber to Swirlydoo's Monthly Scrapbook Kit Club, there's nothing more exciting then receiving those pizza shaped boxes in the post!!! http://www.swirlydoos.com/

The March kit was full of  paper's by Fabscraps 'Elegant Chic' collection and Blue Fern Studio's Love Story collection.

Here is what I did with them.

I loved the 'pink' theme to most of these papers, soft and pretty!

Hope you enjoyed looking at my creations. Please leave a comment  :)

Hi all,

Don't you just love 'Giveaways' ??!! I do !!
I am sharing today 'The Artists Trading Post' giveaway, link below.
http://artisttradingpost.blogspot.co.uk/2015/04/the-big-spring-giveaway-at-atp.html

Wouldn't it be wonderful to receive this little lot?!?! :)



Have a go yourself! Fingers crossed!!!!!

October Sketch challenge..

Hello all,                                                                                                                                       

                                                                                                

Today I'm here with my entry for the Scrap365 October sketch challenge. I haven't entered this challenge for a couple of months but this sketch really appealed to me and I actually had some free time to do it! http://scrap365.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/october-sketch-challenge.html                                                           

 

 

So here is my entry..

 

I used some of my favourite things on this layout, lace, burlap and bling!! Also Prima alpha's and Say it in Crystals crochet trim, texture paste and stencils. Doilies, cardstock and flowers from my stash. The bottle cap was from last months Swirlydoo's kit and I also used some Dusty Attic clock faces.
The background paper was BoBunny TimePiece Villa.

 

 My flowers were the wrong colour so I changed them with Prima Color Blooms Tea Stain and Antique Gold. I used Distress Ink Vintage Photo on my cardstock edges.

 

Hope you like it, thanks for stopping by  :)

Creative Blog Hop

Hi all,

Its my turn to join in with the Creative Blog Hop that's sweeping around the blogging world like a Mexican wave! I was very honoured to be nominated by  fellow Swirly Girly LaQuette Atkins from Swirlydoo's. I really love LaQuette's style, her use of punches and layers, and many of her layouts use stencils/masks with mixed media, all creating a romantic soft pretty effect. Visit her blog LaQuette Atkins . I loved this layout LaQuette made with the February kit.

 

I became a member of Swirlydoo's Kit club Swirlydoo's Kit Club  in March 2014 where I have met so many friendly, outgoing, helpful, 'scrappy mad' ladies like myself, and have been made to feel so welcome. It is a wonderful place to be and I have learnt so much from everyone and their different styles and the tutorials and technique advice available on the forum.

 

In taking part in this blog hop, we all have to answer 4 questions, so here goes.......

 

1) What are you working on?

At the moment I have had a mad rush of inspiration using the latest kit from Swirlydoo's, Wistful Blues. It contains my favourite colours, blue with brown hints and a little pink. We had a holiday in Devon a month ago and a lot of my holiday photo's go so well with the papers in the kit, I haven't been able to keep up with the ideas! I am also working on a couple of off the page altered art projects that I have been asked to do,  a Kaisercraft drawer unit and a matching photo frame in a requested colour scheme. Its nearly finished so keep looking at my blog for a post!

 

2) How does your work differ from others of its genre?

I think there are so many styles and interpretations within the world of scrapbooking , it is truly fascinating to see the differences in peoples work. Mine, I'm not sure I am different to some but my style has definitely changed over the last year finding its place in a shabby, romantic, vintage, very much embellished category, which is why I love Swirlydoo's so much, with like minded people. My work is also developing, hopefully for the better. I am finding a love for mixed media which fits in with my 'style' very well.

 

3)Why do I create what I do?

 

Well there's a question! I have always been quite 'arty' at school but never really followed it through when leaving and getting into the working world. I went through a difficult time health wise a few years ago and it was in that time my Mum introduced me into scrapbooking. At this time I found it so relaxing and absorbing and loved my time in my little 'crafty' bubble, it really helped me. I got hooked!! I love paper.... I have loads... I love taking photo's... I love remembering all the things I've done and family moments and milestones....scrapbooking was perfect!. I love embellishments and creating something beautiful that's got meaning whether for me or other people, but most of all I love playing with all those wonderful goodies us crafty ladies can get our hands on nowadays and the friendships I have made through scrapbooking.

 

4) How does your creative process work?

That's depends really, sometimes its the kits that start me of, I see a paper I love and go from there and find a photo to fit the paper. But I can also work the other way and have the photo I want to scrap and go find the paper to work with it. Most times my layouts come from out of my head, I spend hours pinning sketches on Pinterest and then never use them!

 

The other part of this creative blog hop is to nominate more friends to join the hop and invite you to visit their blogs too. I have to say the majority of my bloggy friends are from Swirlydoo's. My friends in the UK haven't really got blogs and entered into the forum thing like I have. I have some wonderful friends that inspire me at crops and my friend Hayley who really inspired and encouraged me to explore my creativity when she had her shop Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn. There are two ladies at Swirlydoo's, whose work I strive for mine to be like, as I love what they do with their work and look at in awe, Angelica and Misha, are great inspiration to me.

I have nominated Mellisa (PaperFairytails) for the blog hop.

 

Mellisa is another fellow swirly girly at Swirlydoo's. She is another lady that I look with great interest at her work. She works so well with colour, one thing I'm not good at, whether its colour of the papers or the colour of the embellishments she uses to complement. She also uses lots of different techniques on her pages, each page has a little something different on it to the last one, I like that! And then you get her 'white' page - wow beautiful! I want to get better/ braver with colour, like this. I also like her non photo pages. I've seen a couple that she has done with just words and journaling and they are still so very effective, making me imagine pictures in my head of what she is journaling about. Very clever. I also love her mini album she has made out of the Wistful Blues kit. To see this visit her blog.  Here is the link to her blog gaslightmemories.net/mellog 

Here are a couple of my favourite layouts of hers....

 

 

And here is the 'white' page....

 

 

and colour!!!......

 

 

Thank you for stopping by my blog today and please go and visit Mellisa's blog too!

 

 

Mannequin

Hello All!

I have finally got around to finishing my mannequin, it has only taken over a year!!
I had done the main hard work and then not finished the decorating of it - the best bit!!!

 

I started with a paper Mache mannequin body form, easily available, and painted it in gesso.

I then used the Indigo Blu 'slap it on' and tissue method, using stamped images ( Indigo Blu stamps) with a pigment ink onto tissues that are then cut out and separated to one layer before being 'painted ' on with Indigo Blu Slap it On.

Once dry then decorate!!

 

Thanks for stopping by   :)