Talk and share: April 2017

I have been lucky enough to join the team at All About Scrapbooks.... so many amazing papers and products to work with.
Here are my pages shared during March.

"Captured" Do you ever get your hands on a beautiful piece of paper, and the only possible thing to do is to fussy cut it? That's how I started out with this page, when I found one of the amazing floral papers from the Pink Paislee Take Me Away collection.

I used the combination of 5 different pieces of paper from the range (listed below) and used them in the layers behind the photo, in the strips and the background and of course for the fussy cutting. The whole page is also mounted on a white cardstock base, my favourite thing to do.

Once I had the papers sorted, I looked for some bits and pieces to add the clusters to finish the page. You can see some of these details in close ups.

Firstly I inked some 2Crafty Butterflies using Prima Chalk Ink, once nestled in the flower I added a coat of Dimensional Magic.

Under the layers of the fussy cut flower, I tucked some white hearts and vines from the awesome Thickers pack that come in the Take Me Away range.

Some of the grey colour tones in the diecuts from the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Love Always collection matched the colour tones of this page, so I had these into the clusters also. I also sprinkled some crystals from the Bits and pieces pack and also some sparkly enamel dots.

Products used: PP - Take Me Away Paper - 02 PP - Take Me Away Paper - 10 (this had the florals that I fussy cut) PP - Take Me Away Paper - 17 PP - Take Me Away Paper - 18 PP - Take Me Away Thickers - Dream Foam White Cardstock 2 Crafty Addy's Butterflies Prima - Fluid Chalk Ink Edgers - Pastel Green Dimensional Magic CV - Love Always Ephemera Die Cut CV - Love Always Bits & Pieces CV - Love Always Enamel Dots - Sp arkles
"Enjoy"
Here us with a bright page using some Fancy Pants paper, from the Joy Parade collection.

With these bright and fun papers, I did bring in some white cardstock, for the background and to mount around the photo and papers. I used the different patterns and colours of the Joy Parade papers, in strips and blocks, to build up layers behind the photo. Another focal point of the page is the awesome 2Crafty Handdrawn Heart, used to frame the photo, which I have inked black and added a coat of Dimensional Magic to. Here in the close ups, you will see some of the cute little finishes I added to complete the page.

Firstly I used the Design Puffy Stickers, also from the Fancy Pants Joy Parade collection - this includes the "ENJOY" title, some of the hearts and triangles. I also added some Simple Stories stickers and a flower from a Cocoa Vanilla Studio pack.

I hope you "enjoyed" this page!!!!

Products used:

White Cardstock

2Crafty: Frame Handdrawn Heart

Dimensional Magic

Fancy Pants- Joy Parade Paper - Add a Little Sparkle

Fancy Pants - Joy Parade Paper - Life is a Party

Fancy Pants - Joy Parade Paper - Wrap it in Color

Fancy Pants - Joy Parade Design Puffy Stickers

Simple Stories SS - Carpe Diem Fundamentals Cardstock Stickers

Cocoa Vanilla - Hello Sunshine Blooms

"A Moment Captured"

My inspiration for this page started with the beautiful 2 Crafty Frame Doilies. After I inked them, I cut some patterned papers to fit within the frames. I chose the subtle greys, teals and browns from some Pink Paislee and Crate Paper patterned papers. I repeated the circle and scalloped circles by punching a few shapes with my good old shape punches.

I wanted to keep the background to these papers and frames simple, so I went with a Kraft Cardstock background, perfect for vintage layouts and old black and white photos. I did some stamping with a Kaisercraft texture stamp, the subtle grid patterned added just a little interest to the Kraft background.

A few strips of paper along the bottom and I am ready to embellish! I did ink the edges of all my papers and I love the way this simple technique adds definition to the paper on the page.

If there is one thing you will get to know about me, it is that my favourite part of any page is in the little details I put into finishing. I love finishing, I love embellishing, I love diving into my stash to find the perfect little item to finish a page.

You will see some of these in these close ups:

I embossed a 2Crafty Elegant Flourish and used this as a focal point of the page.
I clustered sequins from my stash and Cocoa Vanilla Studio resin from the
Love Always Bits and Pieces bag, along the flourish.

I also embossed this perfect 2Crafty chipboard word as my title.

I also embossed some old charms from my stash to include in these little clusters.

I do love these little sticker words from the Cocoa Vanilla Sticker sheet, and you will
see them scattered on this page - they are great little finishers! And always add
Cocoa Vanilla enamel dots to clusters too!

Products used:

Kraft Cardstock

2 Crafty Frame Doilies

Pink Paislee - Take Me Away Paper - 03

Pink Paislee - Take Me Away Paper - 18

Crate Paper - Shine Paper - Dreamy

Kaisercraft - Texture Stamp - Grid

2Crafty Elegant Flourishes

Cocoa Vanilla - Love Always Bits & Pieces

2 Crafty: a moment captured

Cocoa Vanilla - Love Always Accessory Stickers

Cocoa Vanilla - Hello Lovely Enamel Dots

"Hooray"

Got a party to scrapbook?

Then you are in the right place!

Party Layout coming right at ya!

I used the Kaisercraft Party Time collection to create this page.

As well as some of the awesome papers in the range, I also used both the diecuts and

stickers from this collection to add detail to this page.

Check out these close ups to see other things used to finish the page:

The fun and funky puffy stickers from the Fancy Pants Joy Parade collection were
fabulous for this page.

Added to that are some sequins from my stash, and flowers and enamel shapes from
Cocoa Vanilla - perfect finishing touches.

Don't forget to use foam tape on die cuts to make them pop off your page.

Diecut words can be enhanced as your titles, when you carefully add Dimensional Magic
to them once they are stuck down. Anything to add dimensional and shine to a page!

Products used:

Kaisercraft - Party Time Collectables

Kaisercraft - Party Time Sticker Sheet Kaisercraft - Party Time Paper - 100's & 1,000's Kaisercraft - Party Time Paper - Double Scoop Fancy Pants - Joy Parade Design Puffy Stickers Cocoa Vanilla - Free Spirit Enamel Shapes Cocoa Vanilla - Life is Beautiful Blossoms Cocoa Vanilla - Life is Beautiful Little Pretties Cocoa Vanilla - Hello Sunshine Enamel Shapes Dimensional Magic Foam Tape Thanks for looking! Amanda

Another month for a challenge at Scrap the Boys!

This is all about helping out...

And the one boy in our house, is a fabulous helper! Here is my page and some close ups.

Yup.... Dave doing the ironing, bless him!

I created some interest to the background, by adding Heavy White Gesso through a triangle stencil with a sponge, then a layer of Colour Paste (Deep Water) through the spotty stencil, then finally a splattering and smooshing some Heavy Black Gesso. Colour Blast has so many products to use for your backgrounds! Layers of paper and some machine stitching too!