Off the Rails Scrapbooking September challenge

The challenge set at Off the Rails Scrapbooking for September is to use this moodboard for inspiration:

The colours in this spoke of male inspired but also winter. I didn't want to scrap winter, I'm over it, so I scrapped a male themed layout. I was inspired by the word dream and the colours.  I chose this photo of my son, from his karate black belt grading 3 years ago. I decided to go grungy with this, after all it takes a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get a black belt. 

I chose this Rusty Pickle patterned paper - yes quite old I know, (is that brand even around anymore?), but it worked, in my opinion anyway. I roughed it up, and layed it onto the basic grey patterned paper base. I added a strip of the leftover, and then a strip of Couture Creations die release paper, some washi tape, Project Life journaling cards, tissue paper. I embellished simply with Charms Creations chevron, buttons, Birdies embellies chevrons. I die cut the title out of chipboard. 

Thanks for looking at my layout and for any comments you may leave.

Dream

Off the Rails August challenge

This month at Off the Rails, the challenge is to use this board and sketch as inspiration:

I loved the sketch a lot, and the inspiration board is cute.

I had a couple of photos in mind for this challenge, and in the end, chose this one of my daughter from a photo shoot she had done. Well, I am just a little happy with my overall layout, I guess it helps to have a decent photo to work with, lol. 

I created a background with a stencil, texture paste, and then embossed it with Tim Holtz embossing powder, stamped using a Prima stamp, and added some ink splatters. I had the Scrap FX chipboard which worked well, and so did the chipboard word title. I added my embellishments, including a Charms Creations butterfly heart. I added some brads, of which I have removed the backing prongs from, and just scattered them around the page. 

I was inspired by the music sheet paper, the heart and the butterflies. 

Thanks for looking at my layout, and for any comments you may leave.

Beautiful

Off the Rails July Challenge

At Off the Rails Scrapbooking for July there are 2 moodboards to choose from. This is the one I chose:

It's very pretty and shabby chic, which I haven't done for a little while. 

I chose this photo of niece Erin and her new husband Steen, from their very recent wedding. It was a terribly cold and wet day here in Melbourne, but somehow Erin braved the cold in her pretty dress. 

From the moodboard I was inspired by the frame, the metal of the bottle carrier and the flowers. 

For my layout, I used this really old Basic Grey paper that had a sepia edge to it. I inked over this to make it more of the grey tones. I then stencilled over the background paper with texture paste, and added a bit of misting. I had this Stampin up stamp with the word happiness, which I stamped around the page. 

I die cut the silver paper with a sizzix die, sitting under the photo and matting  and then  I die cut some paper with this lovely Couture Creations die which is matting my photo. Over the photo I have added a framed transparency. I embellished using these lovely Prima flowers, a heavenly heart from Charms Creations to which I sewed on a metal charm,  added the sequins, trinket pin  and glass brads. The title is a transparency as well. 

I love the overall effect of this layout, I hope the new couple do too. 

Thanks for looking at my layout, and for any comments you may leave. 

Happiness

Off the Rails June challenge - guest designer

For the June challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking, Charms Creations design team (me included - lol)  were asked to create layouts for the June challenge, using this moodboard for inspiration:

I can honestly say I was  challenged by this moodboard, but that is what challenges are for, right?  I don't tend to do primary colors so well, and it was the colours that were my stumbling block.  But anyway, I managed to create a layout, and in the end, it worked. I was inspired by the words family and love, by the texture on the facade of the building and by the little wood veneer people. I chose this photo of my family. 

I started  with a wood grain patterned paper, which I scraped some paint over and added some script with texture paste and stencil. I stamped the word love onto the background. Behind my layout, I have used a chipboard piece that is brickwork, but I flipped it and added the cut out bits as added texture to the background. I also added some wood veneer people near my journaling and the title has the word family. I added one of Charms heavenly hearts. I am quite happy with the end result, even though it was a challenge.  

Thanks for looking and for any comments you may leave. 

Family Time

Off the Rails Scrapbooking May Challenge

This month at Off the Rails there is this mood board to be inspired by:

I loved the graphic images in this mood board, but found the red and pink colours a bit tricky to match. I still don't think I got them right. I was inspired by the butterfly and the vintage books, and also the quote, although twisted my take on this with my title - treat yourself. 

Anyway, I chose to scrap this photo of my parents from when they were visiting Melbourne at Christmas time. We had a day out in the Yarra Valley, and seriously they were like kids in a lolly shop at the chocolaterie - buying up big, and enjoying a you beaut icecream which is a specialty of the chocolaterie. 

For my layout background I used a TCW stencil and texture paste to create the butterflies, and the  peacock design, dylusions ink spray and Heidi Swapp colour sprayed over the background and texture paste. I also added a subtle amount of stamping to the background.  I used patterned paper from Crate Paper and Stampin up behind my photo. My embellishments include the vintage paper heart from Charms Creations, and a paper lollipop flower made by Chellejamo. 

Thanks for looking at my layout and for any comments you may leave. 

Treat Yourself

Off the Rails Scrapbooking April Challenge

This month at Off the Rails Scrapbooking the challenge is to be inspired by this mood board:

 

or there is this version:

I chose to use the one with the pink for my layout. I used a photo of my one of my daughters long term friends, Leah. Leah had taken this selfie, which I asked if I could scrap, she was obliging and said yes. 

I loved how the challenge colours were able to be picked up in the photo, so the 2 could work well. 

I tried a few different backgrounds, but the black cardstock worked best for this layout. I misted a little and did a bit of stencilling with texture paste and added some glitter. 

The leaves were cut with a Tim Holtz die and some glitter card and fantasy film (really old stuff from my stash). The patterned papers are also really old stuff. I thought I may as well keep going with the old, and added the sequin trim which was from a friends' mothers unwanted stash. The sequin bow from D-lish Scraps finished it all off. 

I showed the layout to Leah last night, I think she liked it, lol, 

Thanks for looking at my layout, and for any comments you may leave. 

Smile

Off The Rails March Challlenge

This is the first Off The Rails challenge that I have done, but I don't think it will be the last. The challenge was to be inspired by the following sketch and colour scheme, designed by Fiona Paltridge:

I recently went to the E2C retreat in South Australia, where I met a lot of lovely women, including Fiona, although we've been facebook friends for some time - I think I need to admit I might have been a little star struck - lol - (but it truly was an honour to meet you Fiona).
Anyway, this is one of the challenges I did at the retreat, and I loved it. The colours and the sketch worked well for one of the photos from my recent hot air balloon ride (a 50th birthday present).
I used a TCW stencil and ink to create the hexagon background, then layered a heap of patterned paper together, in a technique I learned at the retreat in a class with Kim Price, and a technique I now call "just stick it down". I have then added a few different embellishments and rubons to my page with some cotton. I think this layout took me about 2 hours to create - a far cry from my usual 7-8 hours of procrastination, lol.
Thanks for looking at my layout and any comments you may leave.

Fly, Be Free