Kraft Plus - July challenge

Hooray! It is the first day of July and I get to share my FIRST page since I was lucky enough to join the team at Kraft Plus.

 It's official!

This challenge group is AH-mazing.... they have an incredible group of gals designing for them, generous sponsors which means great prizes, and best of all, unique and fun challenges each month - what else could you ask for???

Here is the July challenge...



And here is my take... sorry I ignored the skull element - I just don't do skulls.... but roses, yeah, I do roses!

A perfect NEW princess in our family. And a pretty page just for her!

 

My 3 ways of Roses include:

Rose stencil,

Wood veneer rose,

then paper and ribbon roses.

 

As I am on the team for Colour Blast and they are a sponsor this month, I have used a few Colour Blast products to complete this page.

 

The main colours I have used are: Punch (the pink) and Envy (the teal).

I used Colour Pastes through the rose stencil, and then used Colour Shimmer Cubes to colour elements like the leaves, as well as to add some splatters.

Here are some close ups so you can see all the details...

 

Thanks so much for looking today!

Amanda

 

All About Scrapbooks - Catch up

Hi all,

 

I am way BEHIND in sharing the pages I have created for All About Scrapbooks. I am so incredibly impressed with the range of  papers and embellishments  at All About Scrapbooks. And then add the 2Crafty chipboard and you are set!

 

I have lots of pages in this post, please head to the blog to see more details. I will add the link to main paper range used in each page... even though I often combine or add in other elements!

 

April pages:

 

Shimmelle Little by Little papers.

 

Pink Paislee Oh my Heart range

 

Carta Bella Rock-a-bye baby girl

 

Prima Wild and Free

May Pages:

 

Fancy Pants Family & co Collection

 

Kaisercraft Bombay Sunset

 

Simple Stories - Emoji Love

 

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Love Always

Fancy Pants - Joy Parade

 

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Wild at Heart

 

 Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Wild at Heart

June Pages:

Kaisercraft Basecoat 4 plus lots of extras!

 

 Kaisercraft Basecoat 4 plus lots of extras!

 

Kaisercraft - Daydreamer

 

Background created with Tim Holtz Distress Oxides.

 

Cocoa Vanilla Studio - You Rock

 

 

Feeling kinda pretty proud of all the different pages I have created for All About Scrapbooks in the past 3 months! I have loved playing with pretty papers again, and having the chance to work with so much chipboard.

 

It has been busy, but here is to MORE creating in the next 3 months!

 

Amanda

 

 

 

 

Scrap the Boys - June 2017

Hi all,

I am still loving the challenge of scrapbooking with Scrap the Boys... although this month I resorted to scrapping a photo of my friend Nicolee's beautiful grown-up boys!

It was for this colour challenge:


And here is my page:

 Starting with white cardstock, I then used some Colour Blast Colour Paste (Singing the Blues) through a stencil. I then painted red using the new Colour Blast Shimmer Cubes (in Fire Engine), also adding the splatters (in blue, red and black).

 

I layered behind the photo using tissue paper, black cardstock, washi tape,  punchinella, muslin, threads and fibres.

 

 

This cluster features a D-lish Scraps flair, D-lish Scraps enamel shapes, and Flutterby Designs black sticky words.

And of course, a cute and awesome Charms Creations terrific tab - white and slightly glittery, but it looks fab in this top corner!

 

 

A quick and fun page - one I was proud to pass onto my friend Nicolee when I was done!

 

Thanks for looking today,.

 

Amanda

 

Scrapbooking Top 50 - May Sketch challenge

I loved the sketch this month at SBT50.




Here is my page and some close ups.

 

This page gives one of my big hoarder secrets away.... I even keep skinny paper strips cut from the ends of patterned paper. I have a huge container of them! I used them to collage the diagonal design down the left side of the page. I sealed it with Gel Medium before adding some gesso, and paint splatters from "Punch" (pink) Colour Shimmer Cube.

 

The white side does have white texture paste through a heart stencil - a subtle touch to that side of the page.

 

 

In this cluster you can see some of my favourite things:
- Charms Creations - I used a DIY circle, which I painted pink and green again using Colour Shimmer Cubes, before adding "seeds" so it looks like a watermelon!
- D-lish Scraps Creative Cuts - the vine/leaves are also painted with Colour Shimmer Cube.
- D-lish Scraps resin and enamel dots.
- Flutterby Designs sticky quote
- Studion 1440 Flair.

 

Thanks for looking today!

 

AMANDA

Kraft Plus - May 2017

Oh KRAFT PLUS TEAM - you have done it again!

 

SO INSPIRED.....

 

And came up with this....

 

 

Confession - there is a trail of oddly shaped photos cut out on my desk. But then suddenly I had the idea when I found these two photos and triangles it was!

 

Once I cut the photos, I placed them on the Kraft cardstock and used a ruler to make the lines on the page in a random geometric design.

 

Then I painted some of the spaces! I used Colour Blast products: White heavy gesso (watered down), then Colour Shimmer Cubes (in Sienna and Leather) for the rich shiny copper and bronze colours. Plus some little splatters!

 

In this little stack... Charms Creations of course! ... A book paper banner and a white terrific tab.

 

And lots of other bits and pieces and embellishments that all seemed to fall into place!

 

Thank you Chrissy for bringing me back some of the Tim Holtz film strip from the US during her recent trip. Love this stuff and have never been able to find it. She shared me a full metre and it will be gone in no time!

 

Hello little me!

 

 

 

The title and journal make it a personal page for me, but something I am proud to share. I have made such great gains in seeing my worth and knowing that I am enough... something I could have learnt to do from a much younger age!

 

Thanks for looking!

 

Amanda

 

 

 

Show Us Your Stuff - May 2017

Another month of challenges..... This one is my DT sample for the always different and fun SHOW US YOUR STUFF --- your handmade stuff that is.....

Here is the May challenge- this mood board:



And here is my page and some close ups....

beautiful photo of my beautiful girl....

Textured paste on the background, then painted blue, yellow and pink with Colour Blast Shimmer Dusts.

The biggest challenge was finding all the letters I needed from my Alphabet sets. 2Crafty chipboard word - embossed with Colour Blast Embossing powder.

Handmade here: Charms Creations DIY heart. Rainbow Splendour Epoxy button and word cut out. Also dyed the muslin at the back here with some more Colour Blast!

Handmade here: D-lish Scraps flair, Rainbow Splendour pretty pin.

 

 

Yay - hope you join us this month.

 

Thanks for looking,

 

Amanda

 

 

Scrap the Boys - May 2017

Hi all,

 

Another BOY-based challenge for May for Scrap the Boys!... This one can have MUM's in it though.... (phew!)

 

 

And here is my page... with an old photo of husband David with his Mother....

 

I used some Colour Blast Shimmer Dust in Velvet and painted it to cardstock - that's the messy paint splodge at the back! Then added the layer of white script transparency, which I machine stitched. Then everything else layered on top!

 

I used some 2Crafty Chipboard (our sponsor this month) - I inked it purple and then used dimensional magic. While the dimensional magic was wet, I sprinkle some super fine glitter into it!

 

 

 

 

 

So purple and yellow??? Why not!

 

Thanks for looking. I hope you join us for Scrap the Boys this month!

 

Amanda