WW1 July Challenge

It's the first time I've played along with the WW1 challenge blog and loved the criteria!

And the first time for a long time, I've had a minute just to 'scrap' for me.

We've been so flat out here, between moving studios and getting our house ready to sell (what a marathon that was!)  and it sold in 5 days!  Now just a little piece before the storm! (the move!)

THis is me...  along with the criteria - white, polkadots and tape

 

Anyhows... hope to be back in blogland soon, I feel like I've dropped the ball a bit

Hope you are all having a fun Sunday afternoon!

Let's Get Shabby #37

Its the most fabulous Inspiration Arty Picture to interpret...

at 'Let's Get Shabby'

You can be inspired by it in any way!

We want to see your entries uploaded in the comments section (big smile)

HERE

Here's what I created...

I was inspired by the paint brushes- the doing of art, so used a photo of the privately owned art room where I spend every Wednesday morning for the past decade or so.

It's the most inspiring place - I love just being there among the most wonderful friends.  We chatter, discuss, laugh, banter, be in awe, and have fabulous morning teas (very big smile) made by our art teacher.  Who wouldnt want to be there!!!







Authentique LO.... Love Hearts....

This is little Paige

 with her Grandma and Grandpa's little dog

If you want to know how to put this LO together including the string of little hearts...

You can find it on the SCRAP THERAPY BLOG

AND if you want to win a

$50.00 (Australian) voucher to shop at Scrap Therapy...

then create a LO with the Sketch Challenge there too!

See you over there!  (wink)

xx

Authentique Kit with Instructions.....

Scrap Therapy is now selling kits which include instructions...

This is the kit LO I created which is available HERE

The kit includes 3 sheets of Double Sided Patterned Paper and 1 12 x 6 Sticker Sheet from Authentique, 1 Sheet Cardstock, Die Cut Doilies and matching trims, together with a link to online step by step directions. Everything you need to make this layout together with leftovers

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Scrap Therapy July Room Challenge

This month's inspiration at SCRAP THERAPY for the July Room Challenge is this Master Bedroom

Your challenge is to be inspired by the inspiration picture and scrap it! You can be inspired by anything in or about the picture
Show your scrapping interpretation, creativy and relevance to the picture.
Be inspired by the colour and/or design; use specific elements or shapes if it takes your fancy, or even use it as a sketch for example!



Here's my interpretation using the gorgeous Authentique brand!

Pretty much I've kept to the colours....
I've used Authentic Foundations bi-fold paper ( grey background and the yellow torn strips under the photo)I've stamped over the torn paper with this fabulous Chicken wire stamp - Bird Brains.


I've created a 'line' of flowers to represent the flowers on the wall in the bedroom....
One of the most inexpensive what to 'do' flowers is to cut them out of pattern paper! I've used Authentic Blissful 'Happiness' Paper for this

The numbered flat paper trim down vertically on the left side of the LO is cut from 12x12 full of numbered kind of trim's such as ruler lengths you can cut off etc - you can find it here

Dont you just LOVE this little bird and branch!!! You can find the Tim Holtz die here


Fancy Pants bauble Trim - the brown has sold out... but here's the blue one (and see where I've cut off some of the balls to use as embellies - thats fun...will do more of that!!!)
Little brown letters
Journal Sticker

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AND ALSO....

There is also a wonderful SKETCH Challenge
 on  the SCRAP THERAPY blog , and the prize is big!  You can find the details HERE

I been designing the sketches for Scrap THerapy Blog Challenges

This is my interpretation of the sketch

Products used
Authentique-Delighful 'Beautiful' Paper
Authentique-Carefree Elements Alpha
Prima Millicent Vine
Prima Flutterbits
Websters Trim Life's Lullaby
Glimmermist Rum Punch (is the closest in colour to what I've used I think )

Hope to see you there!

Another Colour Blocking Idea with PanPastels

 

Here's a quick easy way to build up some layers and texture to your page

Using a large piece of light coloured scrap paper (we all have those )
swipe the pastel across (or down) the page fading it into the next depth of colour etc...

  PanPastel

 

Cut the paper into strips

 

 

Then into little square/rectangle shapes

 

THen by taking random colours, tuck around the photo. You could even line them up and place across the page for a mount for a photo too - plenty of options to experiment trying all sorts of ways to use the little pieces of paper


Products used and available at Scrap Therapy:
Grey woodgrain paper
Blue tiny chevron paper (reverse side in shop)
Thickers - Darling 'Chestnut'
Grey bauble trim
Orange Blue and Cream Trim
Circle Garland

Let's Get Shabby Challenge #36

Challenge #36

 is up...

and

IT'S OUR 3RD BIRTHDAY!!

So to celebrate we have decided that you can choose ANY previous 

'Let's Get Shabby' Challenge!

So, I've chosen one of my favourites:

Challenge 17 

  Sewing Box Challenge (Oct 10)

Using items from your sewing box

Must see at least 3 sewing box treasures in your creation and one of them must be pins

I've used (a piece from an old antique worn out handmade quilt, buttons, cotton thread, lace (to edge the quilt) and pins

Our sponsor is the fabulous

Purple Onion

And I LOVE my Purple Onion stamps and have quite a collection.

The alpha used in my project can be found HERE

(its actually the smaller of the two sizes -but I have the bigger size too!)

Hope to see you at 'Let's Get Shabby's'

Challenge #36

xx

Masking with PanPastel

 

Masking is easy - just got to get a little creative and find something flat to place on your page to rub over with PanPastels!

Here I've used little flat butterflies.... you might have some diecuts butterflies, or punch some out, or check out some of the fabulous butterfly paper in the shop to cut out - I dont have THIS one but it's going to be on my list! (If you pop in the word 'butterfly' in the search box at Scrap Therapy, all sorts of papers/embellies/stamps come up) oh yes... and you could stamp a butterfly and cut it out too!
PanPastel works fabulously on Kraft paper (You can buy Kraft in a pack too - I do!)


First place your butterflies on your page....I did put a tiny little bit of adhesive underneath to hold them in place. Osmer is my fave to use


Then rub the PanPastel colour over the top. I've used 'Permanent Green' (640.5)


Take off the butterflies and you can see the masking images....


Here's the LO put together now by adding the photo and some WRMK's Good Day Sunshine Margaret paper as a mount to the photo. Outline the masked butterflies with a marker, and you can use your craftknife to lift up some edges of the wings to place just a little way over the edges of the photo in places. Replace the original butterflies back onto the page and arrange them around their masked counterparts... Add some Thickers-Delight Watermelon

PanPastel at Scrap THerapy

Here's another LO with the use of PanPastel

( Paige in a mid-air turn)

Use a sponge to lay a large amount of colour on a page which can be helpful to either diffuse the pattern or to highlight colour of the background paper. Here I've used Raw Umber (780.5)
Hint - if you arent into paint or mists...
PanPastel is handy to use for blocking colour as there is no drying time and it can be controlled where its applied.

After colour-blocking with the brown, swipe a strip of Chrom. Oxide Green (660.5) vertically downwards to create a shadow for the photo

And you know how much I love this little Prima Brick Stamp, so keeping the plastic on the back of it and press it into Phthalo Blue (560.5) pan and stamp on the page.....

One of the things I love to do is create a little more depth - so with the bricks, using a white pen, scribble little rectangles inside each brick

With the very background paper- blue...(WRMKs Anthologie Medley) is used as a frame for the yellow music page on top (WRMKs Anthologie Defined)... I usually cut out the middle as its not seen and it does take some weight out of the LO. With the middle, it often become useful - and on the reverse side are little leaves that are cut out and put to the Prima Flowers to give an nice finish. (ooh and distress the papers too with Tim Holtz Distresser)

Also used are:
Yellow Trim
Terracotta coloured Trim
Red Alpha
Flowers are Prima 'Camille' but the colour is sold out at Scrap Therapy
here are other 'Camille Flowers' that are similar En Francais, Sun Kiss

Hope to see you over at SCRAP THERAPY

xx

Skissedilla #166

Skissedilla's Sketch caught my eye tonight enough to actually set about creating with it.

I truly didnt think I'd be doing any scrapping other then committments with being so busy, but this called for 'time-out'. 

Its the first time I've played along, and because Lou is the guest designer - even more appropriate!

Here's the sketch

Reading the rules, we can use the sketch quite freely...

Isnt it gorgeous!

(Here's the replacement photo/s from the one I had taken after midnight last night though I'll leave in (below) the other pic just in case it mucks up Mr Linky??)

I loved the grunge and the circles in the sketch.. even the horse figure is circular to me and it looked like it was emerging from the grunge.

There's heaps of layers.... a diecut 12x12 which was cricut cut, as with the white lacey diecut glued on top.... texture paste, fibre, loads of paint for colour, and Hannah emerging from a tunnel-like shape.

Finished with a feminine bow. This was fun (big smile)

(before deadline photo- what a difference daylight makes!)

Please excuse the terrible photo, but with it being after midnight here with only a couple of hours to the deadline, I think I'll replace the photo tomorrow morning once in daylight!

xx