Aussie Scrap Source

weekend inspiration: my mind’s eye

 

 

 

 

 

Louise just loved creating these 3 layouts from the new My Minds Eye Stella & Rose - Mabel Range!! What she loved most was the versatility of the 6 x 6 paper pad from the range; inbeing able to paper decorate and embellish her layouts. As you can see she has not let her scraps go to waste, especially on her last layout.

 

 

A big thank you to Natalie May for sharing this glorious double layout featuring her beautiful daughter Jessica. I love how Natalie has used the pattern from the paper to create flower clusters and to create her own hand made flowers!! Just beautiful!

weekend inspiration: tpc studio

 

 

Proving that the Grandma's Attic range by TPC Studio can be used for more than heritage photos, Nic created this warm and fun layout about her two "babies" becoming "tweens". The muted palette of the Grandma's Attic range is the perfect backdrop to showcase bright photos like these. Nic added stamped journal blocks and lots of distress ink.

 

Suz combined the Time to Travel range with the brighter Boho Blooms to create this fun layout recording her kids and their friends setting up a ‘drawing’ stall outside their house.  They had a heap of drawings for sale already, and her son was set up so that he could ‘draw to order’ if they didn’t have what their customer was after.

Suz used the patchwork squares of paper to reflect the same energy and artiness of their activities and the khaki base made the photographs jump out.

 

 

This delightful layout was created by Irene Tan from Malaysia. Here she has combined the Grandma's Attic range with embossed cardstock and added eyelets and lacing to pull the layout together. We love it, thanks Irene.

weekend inspiration: cosmo cricket

 

 

Kathie has made great use of the patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket’s Upcycle range to create a cute page about her friend’s little daughter. The background for the layout is a sheet of bright cheery dots from the range. Kathie toned it down somewhat by dry brushing it with white acrylic paint then overlayed the rest of her elements over it.

The frame for her focal photo, the flowers, the butterfly, the heart and the word panels have also been cut from the patterned papers in the range. The only other additions are a couple of strips of bright ribbon, some felt flowers and Cosmo’s letter stickers.

 

 

The subtle colours of the Social Club line from Cosmo Cricket were perfect for a softer style of layout. By cutting out the peacock feather images, Louise framed the photo and added dimension and interest all at the same time. Journalling boxes cut from the papers completed the look of this simple but effective page.

 

Deana Boston used the Social Club papers perfectly with this fun and detailed layout about a night out. By utilising the imagery of the papers and creating her own embellishment groupings, the bright paper background is not overpowering and brings the whole page together cohesively.

 

With some detail cutting and a mix of papers, Elizabeth Carney has brought the Social Club line together beautifully into a modern, sophisticated layout. The pop of red lifts the design and the clever use of the journalling blocks and stamps ground the grouping and give it real interest.

 

Lady Grace Belarmino, Philippines, has used Upcycle to create this gorgeous layout. We love the scalloped layers she’s created and the way she’s scattered butterflies over the white space on her photo.

To create her scalloped strips, she tells us that she cut several strips from her background cardstock using a favourite border punch. She then covered the little punched out areas on the strips with different patterns from a piece of patterned paper from the collection. The overall effect is a wonderful patchwork.

 

 

The handbag paper from the Upcycle line works so well for this lively page, created by Fran Tynan, from Morawa in Western Australia. Doesn’t that photo just make you smile? Fran tells us that her middle child, Claire is “such a goose” and provides her with lots of scrapping material. This photo shows Claire getting ready to go out and ride a horse - and she just had to look the part, hot pink boots and all!

We love that Fran has allowed white space around her photo which places it fair and square as the focal point on the layout. The addition of the spotted ribbon, and the journaling on the masking tape add a groovy twist.

style lounge: a readers challenge

 

 

Welcome to our new weekly reader’s challenge! 

This term we’re looking at different scrapbooking styles and attempting to identify and emulate them.  We’re proud that our design team contains artists with a vast array of representative scrapping styles, and we’ve asked them for the purposes of this challenge, to identify their favourite style and create and share some examples of that style. 

The challenge for you, our readers, is to create and send in a layout or project that reflects the style of our featured design team member.  There will be a different artist with a different style each week.  We’ll share all your projects in a post and our designer will judge a winning layout that best represents the featured style.  The winner will be sent a prize pack of goodies reflecting the featured style.   And at the end of the series if you’ve completed all the styles by the weekly deadlines we’ll send you a little prizepack for that too!

We hope this series will be fun, rewarding and give you the chance to perhaps ‘try on’ some different styles and see how they fit and feel. 

 

Janine bravely kicks off with a timeless style that needs little introduction…. the slightly vintage, slightly distressed, very flowery, and undeniably beautiful…   shabby chic.

Though the style has evolved over time, some identifying characteristics of a shabby chic style would include soft patterned papers with distressed edges, perhaps stitching, and a soft colour palette often containing the warmer tones of pinks/greens on a neutral base.  It will have a slightly vintage or well loved romantic feel, perhaps incorporating fabric, braids or lace and more than likely a flower or two. 

 

 

Janine has always had a love affair with patterned paper, so when asked to scrap to find her "happy place", Janine went straight to her patterned papers for some enjoyment!! Janine then proceeded to add some of her favourite products to the page. The products that she loves to surround herself in and colours she adores.

On her journey to her scrapping "happy place", she started by distressing and layering her papers, all edged with machine stitching, one of her most favoured techniques. She also delved into her decorative punches, another often used staple of her style. Then to finish off her design, Janine put layers and layers of embellishments and flowers to create a wonderful, feminine shabby style layout, with a hint of vintage chic.

 

 

 

Anyone who knows Janine well, knows that she has a little love affair going on with the colour yellow.  For Janine, she will always notice a LO in a gallery using yellow as she feels like it brings a ray of sunshine into the world. It goes without saying that the new "Emma's Shoppe” from Crate Paper, was a must have line for Janine to create with. Not only does it feature such a gorgeous shade of yellow but it has a vintage chic feel to the papers as well – DIVINE!!

Janine teamed these up with some gorgeous teals from Prima her all time favourite manufacturer and perfect for her shabby style. Once again she created her layout with lots of luscious layers, finished off with distressing and machine stitching.  Janine just adores adding layer upon layer of decorative edges and swirling elements and this is evident in the intricate layers of matting under her photograph. This layout is a wonderful example of Janine's ‘shabby chic happy place’ while creating.

 

 

Janine adores the femininity of Lene Bjornerud's (from Norway) pages. The photos are always so exquisite and fit perfectly with her chosen colours for the LO. She has embellished this page to perfection with a few well placed embellishments clusters that enhance the overall appeal of the LO. Janine is a huge fan of the way Lene creates multiple layers on the borders of many of her layouts, often having 3 or more layers of distressed edges and all sewn down to perfection.

 

 

Lene also has the ability to add touches of art mediums in such an effective way, from the distressed painted edges to the splashes of Glimmer Mist on this layout, it all enhances the page and offers interesting details to take in. Once again Janine adores the layers of distressed edges and her colours choices are impeccable. Thanks so much Lene for sharing these amazing projects with us all and being such an inspirational scrapper.

 

So with this beautiful inspiration, what are you waiting for?  Break out your prettiest patterned papers and your Prima flower stash and get scrapping!  Send your shabby chic projects to aussiedt@iinet.net.au by next Wednesday 4th May to be included in the post.

upcycled and altered: vintage book box

 

 

Louise has only recently discovered the joys of scouring through the preloved treasures of the local Hospice shop. In her latest trip she found a wonderful old book and a cute little barometer that she's converted into an intricate, vintage themed memorabilia box. By cutting out the centre pages and gluing with layers of mod podge, she was able to create a cavity that was then lined with some Basic Grey Curio paper.

The book itself was painted with a single coat of gesso, before another layer of gesso was applied through a stencil to create a soft, damask-like texture.  The barometer centre was removed and the detailed surround was given a coat of gesso, slightly aged with distressing inks and then hot glued into place on the front. A photo chip from Darkroom Door was attached into the centre and covered with a resin dome, adhered with dimensional magic.

Some gorgeous Prima flowers, crystals, ornate feet from Tim Holtz, miscellaneous haberdashery and a large scissor charm finish the look, along with some Prima laces attached along the edges to pretty it up. This beautiful little box could be used to hide a secret journal or hold jewellery, postcards or other little treasures.

upcycled and altered: clothing tags

 

 

 

Iris collects clothing tags... especially the ones that are made from fabric and hard kraft boards. When the design team was challenged to create a project using upcycled items, Iris found this to be the perfect opportunity for her to put her collection of tags to use. The twine seen here and the fabric peeking from the cover are from the various tags she included in this mixed media album.

Iris has accumulated a collection of art materials - some have been used, some not even opened yet. Iris wanted to be able to see how these materials will look on paper and fabric and so she created this album, from board sheets that comes from the backing of patterned paper.

She cut the board sheets into 6 x 3 inch tags and covered it with paper from 7 Gypsies Lille and proceeded to apply different art materials on to the tags. This now serves as a guide to her whenever picking up bottles and jars of art supplies for her projects.

upcycled and altered: file folder

 

 

 

Sue has had this cute little file folder stashed away in her cupboard for a rainy day. It was originally bought at Officeworks but was never used for its intended purpose. Sue was looking through her cupboard one day and discovered it, thinking that it would make a lovely monthly record album as a keepsake for her nephew Iziah. The bottom of the file folder is covered in a black fabric and the rest of the folder is raw chipboard. Perfect for covering and altering!

A file folder is a lovely idea as a keepsake as you can keep adding little things, photos, memories etc, into each compartment as you want to.

Sue wanted to create a little photo collage of Iziah for each month of his first year. Her sister provided the photos (most of them just taken with phones so the images were quite small) and she created a 5 inch storyboard in photoshop elements using 9 photos for each month. Sue also converted the images to black and white to create a uniform appearance. She then printed the image as a 5x7 at a store.

Sue decided on a colour palette for the project and found that the MME Stella & Rose collection was perfect for what she had in mind. Sue mixed and matched lots of papers from the collection and also added in embellishments from her stash from other collections. As the size of the file folder is only fairly small and Sue wanted it to be quite colourful, she decided to use a design made up of lots of strips of paper and transparency, some of it border punched and pulled together with lots of stitching.

The photo cards for each month use vanilla cardstock, cut to 6x8 inches as their base. Sue kept to a fairly simple, uniform design for each month, simply switching around the papers and colours. Sue has asked her sister and family to record their memories of Iziah from each month and also to write a letter to him about the way they feel about his place in the family and what they wish for his future. Sue will most likely make up little vellum envelopes to store all of those precious keepsakes.

The Technique Tuesday baby stamps, designed by Ali Edwards are simply adorable for this project. The stamps have beautiful sentiments that portray exactly what Sue wanted to say.

upcycled and altered: carry bags

 

 

Late last year Louise created this Mini Laptop bag from a Recyclable shopping bag. Originally the bag had been stained and damaged but she cut it up and kept the saved the unstained pieces for a 'Creative Rainy Day'. What was left over she used to create this funky mini laptop bag. The masked pattern on the front panel was created using the negative from a corrugated alpha sheet from Jillibean Soup. So with this in mind Louise knew exactly what she wanted to create for this brief.

 

Recently some creative friends of Louise started a new Indie Green Upcycled clothing business, and it is from their creations that she got her inspiration to make a library book bag. Once again Louise has used a recyclable hessian shopping bag, and has used various masking templates to create simple funky patterns on the front and back panels.

 

Louise decorated both panels on this bag just to give you double the inspiration. For this particular pattern Louise has used a fabulous Crafters Workshop Template, with a combination of Tattered Angels Glimmer Mists and Studio Calico Mister Huey's Mists.

For this particular panel Louise once again used the Jillibean Soup Corrugated alpha sheet negative as a mask with a red Studio Calico Mister Huey mist. She has further embellished it with super funky embellishments, also from Jillibean Soup.

This Library bag is super easy to create and would be a fabulous creative project you might consider doing with your children during the holiday break. What could be more fun and satisfying for the kids than to create their own library book bags. At the same time you could use the opportunity to teach them all about the benefits of recycling and upcycling.

upcycled and altered: vintage book

 

 

While researching a scrapbooking project recently, Kathie stumbled across the quotes of Brian Andreas. She found them so delightful and they conjured up wonderful imagery that she decided to make an illustrated book featuring them.

Kathie’s up cycled a discarded vintage book to form the base of her album. By adhering layers of pages together she formed sturdy sets of text backgrounds on which to create mixed media illustrations.

Inspired by the mixed media artistry of Christy Tomlinson, Kathie’s used paints, mists, masks, stamps, rub-ons and doodling to create fun backgrounds for her illustrations. Diluted paints and mists allow the beautiful vintage text to show through. The illustrations have been created using pieces of patterned paper from her scrapbooking stash.

upcycled and altered: cupcake tin

 

 

Upcycling for Carole was so much fun, she dug through her pot draw and pulled out an old cupcake tin and started painting. She sanded and crackled the cupcake tin with white/cream paint to give it a fresh feel, and then used Pink Paislee Sweetness Collection papers, embellishments and wood pieces, and added a photo of her children.

She layered paper flowers in the corners of the cupcake tin and a border top and bottom, and added the cute embellishments to the inside of the cupcake holders.

upcycled and altered: turkish delight box

Inspired by the make it yourself readers challenge, we’re bringing you a project a day from our design team who have taken up the challenge to upcycyle household items and use their scrapbooking stash to alter them into something new, useful or just plain beautiful!

 

 

 

Janine just loved the hexagonal shape of the turkish delight box she was given. (yes it did have Turkish Delight in it at the time, but she ate all of those! :) In fact she loved the shape so much she went out and purchased another box of them (and yes she did eat them all) and stuck them one on top of the other before covering them with Prima papers, Prima flowers, Prima crystals and Prima embellishments!  We love how she has combined smaller flowers to make a stunning larger flower.

upcycled and altered: paint tin

Inspired by the make it yourself readers challenge, we’re bringing you a project a day from our design team who have taken up the challenge to upcycyle household items and use their scrapbooking stash to alter them into something new, useful or just plain beautiful!

 

 

 

Whether you clean out and recycle old paint tins that you already have, or ask down at the local paint store for some new ones, these tins make great packaging for presents. Plus they are reusable. Fill one with chocolate eggs ready for easter, make-up and hair scrunchies for a young girls birthday, or even army men for boys. The options are endless.

One sheet of patterned paper is enough to cover each tin. Simply cut it in half and then trim down to fit. It can be a little tricky getting it to fit around the handles but once you have made one every other one will be simple. Caz raided the fabric scrap box and found 5 different fabrics that matched the WeR Memory Keepers Nonsense paper range she was using. Cutting them into strips she then tied them roughly around the handle. The more frayed looking the better effect. Add any little dangly tags that you can find to once side of the handle.

If you are worried that the paper doesn't quite sit around the tin as neatly as you would like, add strips of co-ordinating patterned paper or cardstock.

weekend inspiration: jillibean soup

 

Nic Finlayson adores the Kraft papers by Jillibean Soup, this range is named Chilled Strawberry Soup. Here she added the green twine by Jillibean Soup as a kind of frame to the main elements of her layout, keeping the feeling fun by making the line wiggly. All of the letters and embellishments are by Jillibean Soup as well and Nic noted that due to the neutral colour of the kraft background, her layout came together quickly.

 

 

The bright and fun colours of the Jillibean Blossom Soup Line provided the beautiful base for this cute photo of Iris' daughter dressed as a lady bug. This line according to Iris has all the elements one can ever think of to come up with a whimsical and fun page.

 

 

Iris loved the Jillibean stickers in the Blossom Soup line. It was the perfect embellishment for this page about her two year old's first time at the See Saw. To bring out the colors of the stickers even more, Iris mounted it on brown cardstock and cut out the shapes before adhering it to her layout with foam tape

 

 

Teka Cochonneau, an illustrator and graphic artist residing in Orlando, Florida created this beautiful layout to document a fun vacation she had with her husband before she gave birth to her daughter. Most of Teka’s layouts center around her daughter and she felt this would be a fun deviation and change of pace to do a more "grown-up" layout. 

Teka is a full time wife to Eric and mom to their daughter Charlotte since she was born 6 months ago. She started scrapping when Charlotte was born thanks to her lovely and creative mother-in-law. Teka loves working with Jillibean papers and elements because of the artistic expression it allows her.

 

Cindy Liebel share with us this fun and beautiful layout – which according to her is one her favorite layouts cause it reminds her of Spring. Cindy loves yellow & how it looked with her daughters purple jacket in the photo. The background is very soft with lots of soft florals. Cindy added the scalloped border edge using pattern paper which just brought in right amount of boldness to the page.

 

This sweet card using the chilled Strawberry Soup range was created by Jillibean Soup Design Team Member Sarah Hodgkinson. Sarah has this to say about Jillibean Soup products, "I will always love Jillibean Soup products though as it is a bright and happy company with bold colours and design. The "Summer Fun" card was inspired by the delicious strawberry printed kraft paper. Jillibean Soup's printed kraft paper collections are what first inspired me to try out for their design team two years ago."

 

This gorgeous layout was created by Paula Gilarde. We love the mat she created by overlapping different patterns from the Chilled Strawberry Soup range. It created the perfect backdrop for some really sweet photos. Thanks Paula.

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

The Echo Park Little Girls is perfect for photos of little girls! Sue went back through her older photos and found these darling ones of her daughter Lily blowing bubbles at the park. One of the papers in the collection has a large scalloped circle image, which Sue cut out and used as the main design feature for her page. She layered the circle with two other patterns and added some whimsical stitching to create interest. The cute heart banner was also cut from one of the papers in the collection.

Echo Park have 12x12 sticker sheets for their collections and they are fantastic for providing the embellishments for your page. A little tip for using stickers is to apply baby powder to the back of the stickers to remove their stickiness. This allows you to shape the stickers with your fingers and add mounting tape to the back of them, as Sue has done with the cute little bird stickers on her page.

What little girl page is complete without a few flowers? Sue used a few Prima flowers and Glimmer Mist to complete the look

The Echo Park Springtime Collection is just beautiful and perfect for any fun and colourful layout. Carole had the perfect photos of Sarah having fun playing in the rain. This collection​ is just so sweet, and the stickers have some gorgeous elements to complement any page. First Carole created the background with Tattered Angel Glimmer Mist then she added cut out flowers and layered them with the stickers at the bottom of the layout, and created a cute little bird house for added interest.

 

Janine Koczwara used the striking Be Mine Collection here to highlight a special photograph of her daughter and another well-known little daughter in the scrapping world!  She has combined the pinks and blacks of the colour palette with both co-ordinating and contrasting Prima flowers for a luxurious effect.

 

This beautiful page was designed by Aussie girl Lisa Webb. Lisa says she adores the Be Mine collection from Echo Park. The soft pink and grey tones were perfect for the layout Lisa designed about her daughter Danielle. Danielle recently moved quite a distance away which has been particularly hard for Lisa. Lisa made use of the beautiful sticker sheet from the collection and complimented it with gorgeous Prima flowers. Thank you Lisa for sharing your page with us.

introducing: studio calico

 

 

Suz decided to take the theme of the Studio Calico range ‘State Fair’ quite literally.  She had unscrapped photos of a visit to the Royal Melbourne Show in 2008, and had kept the family entrance ticket which she incorporated into her page, using it as a title.

Many of the State Fair patterned papers are larger bold designs, which are actually better than small patterns on a busy, photo-filled page as long as they are used in small doses, so Suz went for a colour blocked design.  She loved the ferris wheel patterned paper and incorporated a narrow strip across the top of her photos. 

 

 

 

Nic utilized the journal box print (Library) as is, by using it as a mat. Once it was down she added the "Phrases" rub ons as journal prompts. They are beautiful quality rub-ons that apply easily.

The title was made using Studio Calico Wood Veneer alphas. They can be inked, dyed, misted, painted, coloured with pencils, crayons or chalk, or even covered. They are completely versatile as even raw, they are beautiful.

 

 

This layout was again designed by Lynn Ghahary. The colours of the Countryside collection by Studio Calico are so soft and sweet and they were the perfect backdrop for these newborn photos of Lynn’s sweet niece Gia. Lynn’s favourite patterned paper from the collection is the honeycomb paper. Lyn cut a strip of this paper and used it down the centre of the page accenting some of the honeycombs with stickers popped up with dimensional adhesive.

Lynn applied the gorgeous butterfly rub-ons to vellum and added these to the wood veneer butterflies. The perfect accent for this soft and feminine layout. Thanks again Lynn for sharing your beautiful page.

 

This lovely bright page was created by Lynn Ghahary. When Lynn first saw the State Fair collection by Studio Calico, she was reminded of the boardwalk in Ocean City, New Jersey where she and her family vacation every summer. One of Lynn’s favourite things on the boardwalk is the food of course! Lynn used the gorgeous ferris wheel patterned paper as the base for her layout and built different ‘blocks’ around her photos with various other patterned papers, stickers and embellishments.

Lynn loves how the bright colours of the many food stand signs along the boardwalk are reflected in the vibrant colours of the papers. Thanks Lynn!

 

This gorgeous layout using the Elementary range comes from Diana Waite. We love how Diana has utilized several of the patterns from the Elementary range plus she mirrored the colour palette by misting some self-created star masks. She also mentioned that she has been getting her photos printed at 2" x 3" which allows her to fit more photos on a page without overwhelming the product. Thanks Diane.

 

 

This gorgeously designed layout was created by April Yap of Singapore. We love the use of varying sized photos and button accents. The result is really lovely, thanks April.

make it yourself! winners and thank-you’s

 

 

We thought perhaps it was about time we announced some winners of our Make It Yourself readers challenge series.  We really appreciate all your comments and emails about this series, and hope that you come back next ‘term’ to play again!

Our thanks and congratulations go to:

Week 2 – Patterned Papers – Leeann Pearce

Week 3 – Rubons/Transfers - Debbie Smith

Week 4 – Embellishments – Anthea Peterson

Week 5 – Stamps – Livia Andrade

Week 6 – Flowers - Chantelle Huizenga

Week 7 – Transparencies – Sharmaine Kruijver

 

We also promised that a gift would be sent to anyone who completed all seven weeks of the challenge, so congratulations to:

Anthea Peterson

Leeann Pearce

Sharmaine Kruijver

Heidi Barclay

You, along with others who have done so many of the challenges, have been the backbone of this series, and we thank you.  Please everyone here email us with your addresses and we’ll get some scrappin’ stash sent your way!

readers challenge: make it yourself! handmade transparencies

 

 

Now here’s an image guaranteed to make you clucky!  Anthea Peterson writes:  I have made a frame around my photos by stamping a Prima Journaling stamp using some black Stazon onto some clear transparency, I then cut my photos out and placed them in the centre of the stamped image to cover up the stamped lines.

I also stamped out a Damask image using some brown Stazon ink onto another piece of clear transparency.

 

 

We love this bright lively layout from Chantelle Huizenga.  She writes: I’ve used rubber alphabet stamps and paint for my transparencies – I’ve assembled various alphabets on an acrylic block, using a paint brush, I’ve applied the paint to the stamp and then pressed down onto the transparency – I repeated this process for the whole strip. Then I’ve added it to my LO, using it as an overlay for part of my photo!

I’ve also made a small tag, using Stazon and White ink, I’ve stamped a leaf image and a word.

 

 

 

 

 

Heidi Barclay created two fab layouts for this week. 

She writes:  On the Waterslide one, I have printed out a Pink image onto the transparency and then also stamped an image using my new Pink Paislee Soiree stamps.

On the Good Friends make you laugh layout, I have stamped directly onto transparency using the Soiree stamps.

 

 

And we loved the creative flow in Sharmaine Kruijver’s layout this week.  She writes:  To make my transparency I used a grid stamp and a clear plastic bag. I simply stamped the grid, several times, onto the plastic bag. I then cut out the image and adhered it to my layout. The bag was the softer plastic so it floats on the page rather than sitting on it. Thank you for all these wonderful challenges. The thing I have loved the most is that I can just use things that are sitting on my scrap table or things that might normally have been thrown out. All this meant that the creative process was more enjoyable.

 

   

So much happening in this wonderful summery layout from Leeann Pearce.  She writes:  The first thing that came to my mind was Hambly – they are the bomb when it comes to transparencies. I totally dig screen printing. So I knew exactly what type of transparency I wanted to create. Decorative frames. Here’s how I went about it. I gather together some journaling spot stamps from hero arts and pink paislee, plus I also used a pudding bowl. I looked thru my stamp stash for some scroll type stamps. I used stazon ink and stamp straight onto the clear transparency film a few times. I then used a scrap piece of paper and placed that inside the circle or stamped square - so that I was just giving the stamp shape a decorative edge. Allow the ink to dry, then cut it out and scrap away. The end result is totally awesome and one I will be doing again and again!!

 

 

 

Thanks to everyone who has participated in this series of Make It Yourself.  We hope that we have encouraged and inspired you to think outside the box a little more with your scrapbooking (and other!) supplies – and we’ve loved receiving so many innovative ideas back.  Without you participating each week a reader’s challenge would be pointless – so thank you.

comparisons: progressive photos

 

 

It was fascinating to Suz to watch her daughter grow over the glow of candles on her birthday cake each year.  Though she’s unable to find one of Phoebe’s very first birthday, every birthday since has been recorded thanks to the advent of digital photography.  It was a wonderful trip down memory lane to see the toddler grow into a beautiful girl, to watch the number of candles grow each year and to remember the dramas of each of the birthday cakes.  This is such a worthwhile exercise, and how cool in another eight years when she can turn this into a double layout chronicling her sweet 16th.

Suz has used Prima’s Fairy Flora collection, sparingly, on this layout as she wanted the whimsy of the designs, but more importantly she wanted the photos to shine.  She included one of their handy notelets to add the title.

 

 

 

Its always lovely to look at your childrens photos and see over the years how they have grown and how they have changed.  Ca​role created this progressiv​e layout starting with her little boy Chaise at 1 week through to Now. Carole used Cosmo Cricket Joy Ride for a fun and bright look to her layout with a freestyle feel.

 

 

Louise just loved creating this layout, focusing on progressive photo's of herself. Louise doesn’t have a lot of photos of her early life, however with the few that she does have she loves to re scrap over and over, challenging herself to come up with new ways to create with them, so people don’t tire of seeing the same photos over and over LOL :).

weekend inspiration (and a new guest design spot!): webster’s pages

We’re thrilled to announce that the Guest Design Team opportunities aren’t over yet!   How would you like to be on the gorgeous Webster’s Pages blog as one of their guest dt this year?

Create a layout or project using Webster’s Pages product, email it to us by Wednesday 4th May and you could be the running to win this coveted position.

Check out the fine print for details below and, if you need Webster’s product for this challenge, check out your local scrapbooking store.  They will have received news about this promotion in our latest newsletter and will be stocking up on the beautiful new products (the new lines from CHA have just arrived in the warehouse!) for you to use in your projects.  What a great excuse to go shopping!!

The fine print:

1. You will need to include the following items from any of the Webster’s ranges:
   • at least two patterned papers
   • alphabet stickers
   • at least one Websters embellishment or trim
2. 100% of products in your project must be brands that Aussie Scrap Source represent.  See here for a list of all of our suppliers.
3. Projects must be emailed to aussiedt@iinet.net.au by Wednesday 4th May. Images need to be clear, bright and resized for the web (around 600-800 pix at 72 dpi).  Feel free to include close ups of any details you wish to highlight.
4. You are welcome to submit more than one project if you wish.
5. Projects can be layouts, cards or altered items.
6. The winner will be judged by the team at Webster’s Pages,  the prize pack and appearance date on the Webster’s blog will be at their discretion.

 

Good luck!

 

 

 

Suz used the softness of the Hollywood Vogue colour palette to showcase the drama of this photo of her daughter, who routinely likes to dress and apply make up for no other reason than for her mother to take photos… this was the evil fairy look.

As her expression so perfectly suited that of the gargoyle, Suz cut out some of the design of the patterned paper, inked and adhered it with foam tape to stand out a little from the page.  She has made use of the beautiful co-ordinating Fabric Ribbon and trims, and created her own flower from them as well as adding a few Prima ones.

 

 

Kathie has used Webster’s Pages’ Lullaby Lane collection to create a set of beautiful vintage styled nursery cards. The images on the Lullaby Lane patterned papers lend themselves beautifully to cards. With a bit of fussy cutting and some distress inking to enhance the vintage feel, Kathie’s fashioned together a delicate baby card, a magical birthday card for a little princess, and a fun boy’s first birthday card.

Secretly, Kathie’s quite glad that most of her friends have finished having babies and most of the kids are heading off to school, as she’s not sure that she could bear to be parted with these cards now that she’s finished them. They might just sit on display at her house for a while.

 

 

Jeni O’Connor is an Australian living in Canada at the moment. We fell in love with the work she’s been doing with Webster’s Pages Spring Market Collection. Today we feature two of her layouts. In her layout, “Spring Dance”, Jeni has made great use of the vellum sheet that forms part of the Spring Market range. She’s cut the sheet in two and re-assembled it to better suit her layout design but you wouldn’t know because it’s been done so skilfully.

 

 

Jeni’s “This is the Life” layout is vibrant and eclectic with its fussy cut accents and carefree splatter painting on the background. You might notice that the photo on this layout has a particularly arty feel to it. Jeni tells us that she applied beeswax to it, to give it texture. She’s making a video about the technique, which is due to appear on the My Creative Scrapbook website if you are interested in trying it.

 

Nadia Cannizzo, in Sydney has created this next layout using the Sweet Season collection. The photo treatment in Nadia’s page caught our eye – those colourful lollipops really do stand out against the high key black and white photos. Nadia’s clustered stickers from the image sticker sheet with tulle, lace and flowers. She even topped one of the stickers with white beads - they look good enough to eat.

 

 

 

And now we thank all of the Webster’s design team who allowed us to share some of their own fantastic layouts to further inspire you.

 

From Anabelle O’Malley:  This layout is about my sweet friend and her husband on their wedding day. I used the new Ladies and Gents line on it. The papers are perfect for handcutting elements and I love the beautiful colors. I used one of the new Fabric Tickets along with some of the new fabric Threads and a Pinwheel flower.

 

Angella Peardon:  Using Country Estate, base card was crackled then decorated.... I wanted to create a whimsical easter card for giving.

 

Emeline Seet:   On this layout, I used left over Webster's Pages pattern papers from cut outs, punch out negatives. The papers are double sided and so well coordinated; piecing them together is a breeze!

 

 

 

Emma Trout:  This layout uses the new Webster's Pages Yacht Club line (and a little Ladies & Gents). I mixed traditional patterned papers with Webster's digital images printed onto white cardstock. I guess I am dabbling in the world of hybrid scrapping too! I love how soft this line can be when mixed with a white cardstock background. As always, the designs of this range are simply beautiful.

 

Gabrielle Pollacco:  I just love the Webster's Pages Ladies & Gents collection, it's got all the elements that we've come to love from Webster's pages, beautiful botanicals, bold designs and I just love the embellishments that are offered to coordinate, ...lovely cameo's (Whimsies), pretty trims and the new Princess Petals, love them!  For this layout of my youngest daughter I wanted to emphasize the out doors so I added loads of paper butterflies to embellish the page.

 

My name is Gerry van Gent ( http://gerryscrafts.blogspot.com )  and I attached my layout "Follow Me". For this layout I used two of the new WP collections "Ladies & Gents"  and "Country Estate". My layout was based on a canvas sheet layered with Gesso and Glimmer Mist. I did lots of fussy cutting and hand-stitching.

 

 

Ivana Camdzic:  I created this layout using the beautiful NEW Spring Market and Yacht Club collections from Webster's Pages. I thought that the yellow and green hues perfectly complemented the lush nature of the Tuscan landscape. I loved how easy it was to mix and match papers from different collections to create a layout that is unique and fitting to my photo. I also love how the stunning papers lend themselves to so many possibilities, and on this layout, I used different cutting methods (stenciling and fussy cutting) to layer all the beautiful colors and shapes in a framed fashion around the photo. To finish off the layout, I added in a couple of sparklers and whimsies, as well as my fave cardstock alphas - Webster's Pages Storytellers! Hope this inspires you to get creative today!

 

 

Jaz Lee Soo Hui  This is a layout of me and two of my kids {although I have 3 kiddos hehe}. Featuring Webster's Pages Spring Market collection. Did lots of cutouts from the beautiful papers and layerings ;)

 

 

I am Julie Walton and I am on the digital team for Websters Pages.  I am sharing a layout with you that is 100% digital using the new collection, Spring Market.  When I create pages digitally I like to make them look as if they are paper layouts, so I will do alot of shadowing, layering and cutting, just as you would do with a paper layout.  I am a lover of the backsides of papers, and with this layout I did exactly that, used the backside.  Since it was busy I put down some paint first and then my design, the paint really helps the design pop and not get lost in the pattern.  These are my two sweet grandkids, Jenna and Trevor with Sadie, our newest yard friend...they love her!  I love having the flexibility of having the Webster's Pages papers in digital format because I can use them over and over and never run out!!  Be sure to check out the InspireMe site for monthly digital challenges!!!

 

 

Larissa Albernaz:  Here’s  my layout "Life´s Portrait" - a Webster´s Pages hybrid layout using the new digi Country Estate collection, Spring Market botanical cards and Life´s Portrait in which I portrayed myself and told about the way I felt at that moment of my life - a sad moment. I added some paint splatters, cut outs and a lot of layers to create this page.

 

 

My name is Laura McCollough and I'm on the Webster's Pages Design Team.  Here is a layout I made about my dream to have a home on Lake Como in Italy!!  We have stayed in Bellagio, Italy the last two summers and have fallen in love with Lake Como.  We plan to go back this summer as well and always have fun looking at homes on the lake and dreaming...

 

My name is Mitsue Iwata, one of the DT member for Webster's Pages.  This layout is created using the the latest digital collection, Ladies' & Gents Line with the super newest digital tag "Love" as the title.  This digital tag will be released on April 1st, 2011.  I think this collection represents the image of Webster's Pages and love the vintage touch to the design.

 

 

Stacy Michaud:  I used the bright and very fun Trendsetter collection on this layout!  Icreated a banner using the fabric tags and stickers.  I’m always so inspired by all the little elements that Webster's has to offer!

 

 

From Steph Devlin.  She used the Trendsetter Line above and Country Estate Line & Embellishments in “Pure Love”

sassafras guest design team – winner announcement!

This is what you’ve been waiting for – results just in from Sassafras on the winner for the Guest Design Team spot.  Clearly to choose a winner from so many talented artists, their job wasn’t an easy one.

 

To begin with Sassafras chose FIVE runners up!  In no particular order, congratulations to the following runners-up:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And biggest congratulations to KATHLEEN GLOSSOP for this stunning winning entry!  It’s a fabulous layout Kathleen – well done.  Your box of Sassafras goodies will be winging its way to you very soon!