CSI colour challenge Charms Creations guest DT share

This month, Charms Creations is sponsoring challenges at CSI colour challenges. I love these challenges and how you are given so many options to use on your layouts. The challenge I have a guest DT share for is case file 226:

So for this challenge, I went a bit girly, scrapping a photo of one of my oldest friends and myself. I used the Teresa Collins Wonderful collection in this layout, it's a great range. So from the evidence, I used polka dots, banner, heart, enamel dots, leaves (plants). The testimony is about when we get together and the happy times they are - we don't get to see each other often, living in different states. I loved the colours in this scheme - very soft.
I added a Charms Creations Heavenly heart and terrific tab.

Happy Times

D-lish Scraps share 3 - Smile

Hi back again, with the last of my May shares. This is another one from the April cybercrop, this one was designed by Mandy Melville, and this is the challenge:

I am sure we all have a friend who has been there forever. This layout is about one of my friends, who I have been friends with for 25 years. I loved that the quote in this challenge allowed me to scrap about my friend. 

My cluster here includes Dusty Attic chipboard banner, pastel petal, and starflower.

The second cluster has my title, which is a Corbett Creations wood veneer word, a Green Tara azalea, starflower, enamel dot and flair button.

Lastly, I have finished off with a pastel petal, forget me not, and a Corbett Creations bow. 

Smile

Tea and Scones - D-lish Scraps Design Team share #1

Hi everyone. 

 I am very excited to be part of the D-lish Scraps design team, and am looking forward to the next 6 months of sharing with you. 

I have decided to start my shares, by setting a theme  - to use texture on your projects. You don't have to be restricted to just using paper, there are many products on the market, and also found in your home, that can add texture to your layout.  

I would like to start with my layout that I did using this months Inspiration board, which is a beauty. 

Straight away when you look at the board, you can see texture in it - crochet birds, pinwheels, wood fence, fabric banners, frames, buttons, flowers, gobstoppers, etc. So many textural elements that are inspiring. 

I took inspiration from the banner, the flowers, the crochet birds, the wooden fence, and the buttons, as well as the primary colours. 

I kind of used the sketch, with this patterned paper, which I felt went with the elements I was using, and the photo. The patterned paper on it's own is very flat though, so it needed the textural elements to lift it. I added one of the wood veneer postage stamp frames behind my photo. Ordinarily I have struggled to use these frames, but mounting the photo onto it worked well. I also coloured the frame, to give it the wood grain look from the inspiration board. I also added a little wooden birdhouse buttons  in a cluster to the side of the wood veneer frame.

For more texture I cut in half a yellow crochet doily, and tucked it into my cluster. I then added  plastic buttons, starflowers, resin flowers, and spiral stamens to my cluster for a variety of textural elements. 

I also added a few of these items to other areas of my layout.

I also added a few of these items to other areas of my layout.

Tea and Scones

Scrap The Girls October challenge - Awesome Day

This month at Scrap the Girls, the challenge is to be inspired by this moodboard:

I love the colours in this moodboard. I was inspired by that and also the texture in the wall - I used wood panelling. I also loved the feathers and the butterflies, and chose words out of the quote. 

I used this photo of myself, my daughter and my friend Vicki, when she was visiting in March this year, photo taken at a quirky scone cafe in Melbourne, called Jam and Cream - best scones ever. They have out the back of the cafe a vintage caravan, painted pink, as well as cute plants and chooks. So retro. 

I tried to create a bit of a retro feel to my layout. I kept the layout fairly clean - unusual for me, but my mojo was missing, so mixed media was not something I could use in the frame of mind I had at the time. 

I made a cluster using a variety of flowers, resin butterfly and flower, and a vintage Charms Creations lollipop. I also added die cut feathers to the cluster. 

I also added some seam binding that has been dyed with Prima colour bloom spray.

I added a small terrific tab from Charms Creations above the photo, and made another cluster to the top of the page, with some more small die cut feathers. 

I finished off with some splatters of white paint.

Despite the simplicity of the layout, I am happy with it's overall result.

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

Awesome Day

Scrapping Outback May challenge

For the May challenge at Scrapping Outback, the white with a twist challenge, with inclusion of chipboard, is to be inspired by this image:

I love this colour combo, it is so fresh, and I have used it before in my scrapping. 

I chose this photo of myself and my friend Vicki, who came to Melbourne for a visit. We visited this quirky and quaint cafe for morning tea, for their specialty - scones - each scone is different, and has a name, such as Mabel, Mary, Hazel - very cute. The cafe is decorated with quaint retro decorations, so out of the 50's. So we had our scones and tea/coffee, and then wondered around the cafe, which had a pink caravan out the back, where one could partake of scones, chooks and an old outhouse - useable. Out the front was a bike, and a photo booth - so PHOTO OPPORTUNITY, lol. It was an enjoyable day. 

Anyway, I digress. for my layout, I stencilled with a TCW stencil and texture paste, then spread the aqua colour using Radiant Rain dauber, added a few flicks of red dylusions and green glimmer mist. A touch of stamping with Stampin up doily stamps, some cotton thread, and my decorations. The chipboard pieces are RW laser cuts, they've been in my stash for a while, but I really think they were meant for this layout, lol. I coloured them with wink of Stella. The papers and die cuts are Crate paper. I added a few small beads around as well. 

I love the quirkiness to this layout, as much as I loved the quirky cafe. Will be taking more visitors there for some scones and tea.

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

Scones and Tea @ Jam and Cream