D-lish Scraps Design Team share - Medieval Wedding

This is my second share for the month at D-lish Scraps,  following my theme of scrapping special events.
This layout is using a photo of my niece and her new husband. They were on their European honeymoon, and were given a gift by a friend, to have a traditional medieval wedding ceremony in a castle in Slovenia. They had to dress in traditional costume as well - what a lovely gift.
Underneath my photo and cluster, I have placed a paper doily, they are so versatile. In my cluster, I have used one of the Raw veneer eyelet frames, to put my journaling into. I painted the frame, to give it the gold tone. I added some Green Tara flowers around the frame, and added a resin bird.

In this cluster to to bottom of the photo, I have created a cluster using a number of different items. You can see next to the frame, I have placed a metal filigree corner, which I have tucked in under the flowers. I placed some blue paper leaves under the cluster, then layered using a pip berry stem, more Green Tara flowers, wax blossom flowers, and a magnolia. Tucked into the cluster are some resin cabachon bead clusters and a chipboard mini word.

I really tried to achieve a medieval feel to this layout, I think it worked.  

Medieval Wedding

 Happy Scrapping.

Blue Fern Studios August challenge

This is the first time I have done one of the challenges at Blue Fern Studios, but I was inspired after seeing a layout by design team member Kim Price, who I had the pleasure of meeting at a retreat earlier this year. So this is the challenge:

This sketch is so beautiful, and the inspiration from all of the design team was so amazing, how could I resist it. 

I chose a chipboard piece called Shabby Brick bits.

I used this photo of a niece's recent wedding, and kept the toning of my layout really soft and pretty. I stamped around the edge of the patterned paper with a variety of stamps, and also into the centre of the page, under the photo. I coloured the chipboard with Faber Castell texture luxe and then stamped over that. I added some mini prills around the chipboard. I die cut some patterned paper with a Couture Creations die and created a flower, to which I added some glass glitter, and then finished it all off with scattered flowers and sequins. 

I really love how this turned out. 

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

Love

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

Jot Magazine January Challenge

I decided to have a go at the Jot Magazine Blog mood board, for January. This one lent itself to a little bit of fun - lots of confetti = celebration and fun.

I have had the photos of my daughters 21st birthday haunting me for some time - haven't scrapped one of them - but this mood board changed that.
Melanie chose a Burlesque theme for her 21st party, a bit risque, with all the corsets etc, but a fun night of dress up and celebration.
Inspiration from the mood board came from the charcoal colour and the confetti - which I have replicated with the sequins on the layout.
I don't normally scrap using a dark background like this, but it worked for the layout. In fact this whole style is so completely away from how I would normally scrap. The idea of the background work came from the peacock costume worn by my niece.
The chipboard elements are from Imaginarium designs, and the lovely flowers are from Little Birdie.
I had a bit of fun adding the mini beads to the layout, a bit of perseverance getting them to stay on the page.
Thanks for looking at my layout, and any comments you may leave.

Burlesque Birthday