12x12 Scrapbook layout "Family" featuring paste and acrylic paints + process video

    Hi Crafters

Louise sharing a new page with you today. 

For this layout I wanted to focus on using acrylic paints.

Sea Breeze

Marine Blue

Coastal Blue

Firstly I've used paste through stencil. Once it's dried I've used the acrylic paints with water to thin them out. 

To apply, I've used a combination of packaging technique and paintbrush to move the colours.

Choosing a photo is often a tricky part of creating.

I tried a few and settled on this one.

I've used the Family title from Cocoa Vanilla Studio.

With such a pretty background, I just had to add some florals

So I've fussy cut some Uniquely Creative paper and combined it with carnations.

Finally I've finished with just a little black stamping.

Here is the process video to see how this page came together.

Thanks for visiting

Happy Scrapping

July Challenges

 

Now our competition has ended for 2021, we are back to our regular challenges, and for this month we are having fun with requirement challenges.

Our DT girls have some great challenges for you.  Our challenges are open till the end of the month, have fun! 

Challenge 1 

Hi there, Julie here with my challenge for this month.

I would like you to use 

1 die set

2 photographs 

3 patterned papers

Here is my layout

As you can see I have used 

1 Die Set (Uniquely Creative's Tags Tops & Tails)

2 Photos (3" square photos of my Grand Daughter on her school sports day)

3 Patterned papers ( Ready?...Go!, Journey I have used both sides of this paper and Authorised Personnel Only.)

All of the papers are from Uniquely Creative's - Choose Your Own Adventure paper range

All of the papers on this layout have had the edges inked using Kaisercraft's Bark ink cube

To create the background I used an assortment of star stamps, that I had in my stash, to stamp randomly with StazOn Jet Black and Versa Color Cardinal Red inks.

I cut four pieces of the patterned papers so they measured 3.24" x 4", inked the edges and attached them to the page with double sided tape

I cut two of each size of the tags in the die set from Find Your Way paper as well as four of the ring reinforces in white cardstock.

I attached the ring reinforcers to the page using Art Glitter Glue.

I matted my photos onto black cardstock so they had a 1/16" border on each side.

I then used my sewing machine to stitch around the page, the patterned papers, the tags and the photos

I attached the tags to the layout, with glue, after I had threaded white crochet cotton through the holes.

The photos were mounted onto some craft foam before being added to the page.

The title was cut using my Scan N Cut from the Find Your Way paper

I fussy cut a few embellishments from The Story - Laser Cuts paper and added them to the layout

The date the photos were taken was hand written on the label at the bottom right of the layout.

If you would like to watch this layout come together here is my video

Looking forward to seeing what you create for this challenge

Hugs

Julie

Challenge 2 

  Hi Crafters

Louise here.

Your challenge is to use 3 x patterned papers, 2 word title and 1 die cut

Seems as though Julie and I have given you very similar challenges.

Here is my inspiration:

"Book Lover"

Each month we are providing a product focus and this month it's Dies.

I've used the Uniquely Creative Barbed Wire

Don't forget that dies don't have to be used for the exact description ... I've used the barbed wire cuts as the string on my tag :) 

For the background I'm using Uniquely Creative Chevron paper and cut to 8.5 x 11.

The other patterned papers used on this layout are:

Once upon a Christmas

Ocean Breeze

I chose my photo thinking about a two word title and used black thickers

I've included a die cut tag and added lots of stars.

I've created an area for my journalling at the bottom over the mesh ribbon which provides some great texture. 

To finish I've mounted it on some black cardstock.

I look forward to seeing your challenge entries.

Happy crafting.

Challenge Rules
Please upload your entries to the album in our Private Facebook Chat Group by 11.55pm, 31st July 2021 to be eligible for the prize.

Facebook Albums - Here
Chat Page - Here

The prize is by random draw.  This month's prize is a pack of Uniquely Creative lace Doilies 

· International entries are welcome, however, due to international postage cost, the prize is a little surprise in the post.

Week 8 of Around the World in 8 Weeks

Good morning

It's the last week of the competition, Around the World in 8 Weeks 

This week we have returned home to Australia, the land of wide open spaces.

The requirement this week is to use negative space, the technique is spattering 

and the optional kit item is chipboard.

Here is my layout

I wanted to use two photos for this layout so I knew I would have to keep everything else to a minimum.

I have used Colour Blast - Bee Arty - Find Paradise and Basic Grey - Serenade patterned papers on this layout.

All of the papers have been inked with a Bark Kaisercraft ink cube. 

The frame around the layout is a 12" x 12" sheet of Bee Arty - Find Paradise - Light Forest

I used white cardstock for my background, trimmed to 11.5" x 11.5.

 I have applied Modelling Paste through TCW's Tile Texture stencil to add some interest.

I have trimmed my photos to 4.5" x 4" and 5.5" x 4" and matted them on black cardstock.

The patterned paper behind my photos is a 6.25" x 8.5" piece of Bee Arty - Find Paradise - Light Forest

This paper is attached to my layout at the top, bottom and left hand edge, 

creating a pocket to house a tag for my journalling.

The tag is a piece of Bee Arty - Find Paradise - Light Forest that I have cut to 6.75" x 4.75". 

I have added and eyelet and several strands of black crochet cotton through the eyelet.

The strips of patterned paper that run down the left side of the photos are a 0.75 x 10.5" 

piece of Basic Grey - Serenade - Parlor and the other paper is a 0.5" x 11.25" piece of 

Basic Grey - Serenade - Dowager.

The Basic Grey - Serenade - Parlor patterned paper has also been used as the background for my title.

 The title was created using sticker from Gold Label.

The required spatters were created using Glimmermist's Black Magic and Artiste Spritzing Ink in Gold.

The chipboard piece I chose from the optional kit is the set of suitcases. 

I have coloured them with Terra Cotta acrylic paint and then heat embossed them with clear embossing powder.

The reason I chose the suitcases is because the gift my daughter gave me was a night in one of the inner city hotels here in Adelaide and I did pack a case to do that. My husband and I spent the night at the Adelaide Fringe and then went back to our lovely hotel. It was very pleasant.

These are the details I will add to the journalling tag.

Here is my process video if you would like to watch this page come together

I hope you have enjoyed the 8 week competition and if you have managed to create a 

layout for each of the weeks you are to be congratulated. 

You will be in the running for one of the three great prizes up for grabs.

Good luck.

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

June Cybercrop Challenge reveal

 

June Cybercrop

Hi Crafters

Louise sharing for the June Cybercrop.

Your challenge is to use multiple triangles (more than one, but as many as you like).  

I've used Cocoa Vanilla Studio "Sunkissed" papers and foam title.

I started the layout as a 9x12 but added that to some black cardstock.

The washi tape was from my stash ... featuring triangles of course!

Finally I've added some triangle enamel dots.

I can't wait to see your triangle inspiration.

Happy Scrapping.

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Good morning Julie here with my challenge to you for the June Cyber Crop.

 I would like you to create a layout inspired by this sketch.

Here is my layout

I have used Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream paper range for this layout. 

The background is White Cardstock

All of the papers have had the edges inked using a Kaisercraft ink cube, colour Bark.

I started by giving my Dusty Attic - Start Banner chipboard a coat of acrylic paint. The colour is Goldenrod which is a mustardy yellow. When the paint was dry I added a coat of the Gold glimmer pen from Uniquely Creative.

My 8" x 6" photo was matted on a piece of 8.25" x 6.25" coordinating cardstock

I cut Cocoa Vanilla - Daydream - Stepping stones to 10.5" x 6.5"

and Cocoa Vanilla - Daydream - Garden Variety to 5.5" x 10.75". I cut a fishtail into one of the narrower ends of the Garden Variety paper.

I tore two thin strips of the Stepping Stones paper

I have attached the papers using double sided tape and the chipboard using glue.

To embellish the layout I have fussy cut three flower clusters from the Garden Variety paper and items from the Cocoa Vanilla Daydream sticker sheet.

I used a bread & butter plate from my dinner set to draw the faux stitched partial circles above and below the patterned papers.

I also added faux stitching to all of the patterned papers, chipboard and sticker embellishments

The title was cut from the same cardstock I used to mat my photo using my Scan N Cut. I inked the edges, attached it to the bottom section of the layout and added faux stitching.

I have adjusted the sketch to accommodate my larger photo, I have added the torn paper at the top and bottom of the layout and I have also added the chipboard banner to the top of the layout. I moved the title to the bottom of the layout because it would look too cramped at the top with all of the other things I have added there. I also deleted the doily for the same reason.

Here is my process video if you would like to watch it.

Thank you for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

My take on week 7 of the Around The World in 8 Weeks competition

 Good morning.

Today I am sharing with you the layout I have created for week 7 of the Around the World in 8 Weeks Competition at Mystical Scrapbooks. 

This week we are in China and the inspiration for the week is food, the technique is embossing and the optional kit item is bling.

My layout uses a photo taken at a family picnic at the beach many years ago, in fact it was January 1961.

I am in the photo (extreme left) and I would have just turned 8.

I have used a sandy coloured cardstock frame for the base of the layout and a piece of 11.5" x 11.5" white cardstock as the background

I have used the half flower from Dylusion's Sunshine Girl stamp set and stamped with Gold pigment ink three time on the right hand side of the white cardstock. 

This was then heat embossed using Clear Embossing Powder.

I tore, Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream Stepping Stones paper, to about 5.5" - 6" wide and trimmed it to 11.5" long. Once I had inked the edges with my Versa Color Black ink cube I attached it to the left hand edge of the white cardstock background.

I matted the photo with a 1/8" black matt and then a 1/4" matt of glitter cardstock from Doodlebug. 

The photo was then mounted on some chipboard scraps and attached to the page.

I fussy cut some of the flowers from Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream Garden Variety paper and inked the edges.

There was a piece of chipboard in the optional kit that was in the shape of railway tracks. I cut these up so they were various shapes and attached them around the edge of the photo. The flowers were then added around the photo. A gemstone, from the optional kit, was added to the centre of each of the flowers.

I also added an assortment of stickers from the Cocoa Vanilla Daydream Sticker sheet.

I cut the title on my Scan N Cut from the cardstock I cut from the centre of the base frame. 

The font is Hobo Std.

The title was attached at the top of the layout and given a coat of glimmer using Uniquely Creative's Glimmer pen.

Here is the process video

Until next time

Hugs

Julie
 

  Good morning

Week 5 of the competition is all about Russia.

The challenge is to use a curve

The technique is distressing

The optional kit item is a flair

An entry for the competition can be a scrapbooking layout or a set of three cards. I have decided to do a set of cards for this week

The edges of all of the patterned papers on these cards have been inked to give that distressed look.

Let's start with

 Card No. 1

I used my Scan N Cut to cut the card base with the curved front and the patterned paper mat for it. 

The card is 5" square 

The base is cut from white cardstock and the patterned paper is from Bee Arty's Find Paradise range - Recharge

I have added some cheesecloth/gauze to the front panel and some turquoise spotted ribbon on top of that.

I cut a 1.5" x 5" piece of white cardstock and attached a 1.25" x 5" piece of the same patterned paper on top of it. I added some chipboard scraps to the back of this panel before adding it on top of the ribbon so it was slightly off set.

A few flowers and leaves from my stash were added using my hot glue gun so I could be sure they would stay in place. I have added some clear gems to the flower centres for that lovely sparkle

I also added one of the flairs from the optional kit amongst the flowers.

I painted my chipboard sentiment from Memory Maze's Card Sentiment 2 chipboard set, with acrylic paint before attaching it to the card front. I also used the same paint to add some splatters to the card.

Card No. 2

I saw this design used as a pocket in a journal and thought it could be used for a card.

Once again I used my Scan N Cut to cut 4 x 5" circle from Cocoa Vanilla's Daydream Sweet Serenity patterned paper.

These were then folded in half and attached to each other to create a square shape. To do this you attach half of each circle to the circle next to it making sure to keep your edges square with each other and straight. (You can see how this is done in the video. It is a bit hard to explain the process)

I attached some 5/8" satin ribbon to the back of the card making it long enough to come around to the front of the card and tie a nice bow.

To decorate the front of the card I used a couple of elements from Uniquely Creatives Gums & Roses Creative Cuts and a chipboard greeting from the same Memory Maze chipboard set I used on the first card. I heat embossed the chipboard with gold embossing powder.

I added a 5" square piece of Bee Arty Find Paradise Recharge paper to the inside of the card to write a personal greeting.

And now to the last card for this set

Card No. 3

This was a very simple card to create but quite effective I think. It certainly gives that curved effect.

I cut a piece of A4 cardstock in halves longways to give me a card base that is 5 7/8" x 4 1/4"

I also cut a white cardstock panel that is 5 5/8" x 4" from the same cardstock.

I ran the panel through my Big Shot with Ultimate Crafts Shooting Raindrops embossing folder to give it some texture.

I used my Spellbinders Standard Circles Small dies to cut a 3", 2.5" and 2" circle from three different sections of the Bee Arty Find Paradise - Recharge paper.

I cut these circles in half.

I cut a piece of the pink section from the Bee Arty Find Paradise Recharge paper to 7/8" x 5" then matted that onto a piece of white cardstock so there is about a 1/16" white border all around the pink. I added some chipboard scraps to the back of this panel.

I then added my circle halves to the front of the card starting with the largest circle and working my way down to the smaller aligning the top circles to the right and the borrow circles to the left. There is about a 1/2" gap between the top and bottom circles.

The pink panel was attached then so it covered that 1/2" gap between the circles.

I die cut the word Celebrate from the darker patterned paper and attached it to the pink panel along with a pink paper flower and a pink flair from the optional kit

This is the video that shows how these cards came together.

Can't wait to see what you create for this weeks challenge

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

May Cyber Crop

 

Welcome to our May CC

3 challenges and over a week to complete them, so I hope you can join in! 

We have a bingo game played on our chat page on Saturday.

We chat here - Facebook Chat page

And up load our page here - Facebook Gallery Albums

Challenge 1

I have a sketch challenge for you.  Due to work commitments and not enough hours in the day I've picked a PageMaps one this month.

And here's my take.

Hope you have fun with this sketch.

Donna

Challenge 2

My challenge for you this month is to create a holiday/travel layout.

I know travel has been a bit restricted lately but you could use photos from travels before we heard about Covid or you might have been on a nice little weekend away that it is time to scrap

I have used Basic Grey's Serenade paper range on this layout

I have inked the edges of all of the papers with a VersaColour black ink cube

I have used Teal Cardstock for the background, I cut the centre from this cardstock leaving a 1" frame.

On top of that frame I places an 11.5" x 11.5" piece of the Dowager paper.

I added some splatters to this paper with Glimmer Mist's Black Magic

I cut a piece of the Shilling paper that was 5" wide x 12" following the zig zag pattern on both 12" edges.

I traced the zig zag edge onto a 7" piece of Parlor and cut this out.

The Shilling paper was attached on top of the Parlor paper.

This was then attached to the layout base with a piece of craft foam between them

I filed the edge of the photos with an emery board, inked them with the black ink and matted them onto some of the cardstock I removed from the middle of my background frame.

I added craft foam to the back of the photos before attaching them to my layout

I painted 3 pennants and one speech bubble from Memory Maze Follow Your Dreams chipboard set with Terra Cotta acrylic paint.

To embellish the pennants a little I punched some tiny hearts from the teal cardstock and attached them.

The pennants were attached to the layout in the top left hand area and the speech bubble was attached to the top right hand area of the right hand photo.

The title was die cut from the teal cardstock using Kaisercraft's DD735 Uppercase Alpha dies.

The final touch was to give the tiny hearts and the title a good coat of Glossy Accents 

You might like to watch my process video

Thanks for spending part of your day here with me today

Till next time

Stay safe

Hugs

Julie

Challenge 3

Our final challenge is a 3-2-1 ... Your free to create anything you wish, but you need to have,,,

3 Pattern Papers

2 Die cuts

1 Bling

Here is Louise inspiration for this challenge:

This is a 9x12 layout. 

If you've never created 9x12 have a go at it ... it really challenges the creativity.

I've used the Uniquely Creative "Ocean Breeze" collection

I've used Water colour to layer the background and then added some bling

This was great fun, can't wait to see your challenge entries.

Happy Scrapping

Due date Sunday, 23th April- Midnight. 

Upload your challenge entry to the albums on our Mystical Scrapbooks Facebook Chat Page.

Our chat is private, and we love to have new crafty friends join us.

We will be giving away 1 gift voucher valued at $20.00 and each entry receives 1 ticket into the draw.....So the more challenges you do the more chance you have to win!

We will also have a surprise prize!! Our DT members will choose their favourite layout and I will send that lucky person a surprise in the mail.

Happy Scrapping
Mystical DT team