Aussie Scrap Source

introducing: webster’s pages

we’re excited to announce another new line to add to our amazing supplier list – the very popular – and beautiful – Webster’s Pages. Here is what some of our design team have started off with, using some of their new stash alongside some beautiful examples of Webster’s Pages we’ve found elsewhere.

Carole created this window Box Frame using Webster Pages "A Sweet Life" pattern papers, stickers and journaling tags. The colours and detail to these papers made a perfect project for Carole 3 dimensional style and for the garden photo she took at a very special friends place which Carole now has sitting on her side table.

Carole also used Dimensional Magic on the cut out pieces to enhance the pattern in the papers and to give an added 3 dimensional feel to the whole project.

After reading about the idea on a few blogs, Caz has started a Book Of Lists, kind of like a Book Of Me but it just contains lists of random things. This page using the gorgeous new Websters Pages Die Cut Nature Shapes and Alpha Stickers is about the little things that make her happy - reading a good book, sitting on the beach,.birds nesting in her trees.

These three beautiful layout were done by Julie Dudley, and we are so delighted to be sharing them with you. The detail and design using the Webster Pages looks stunning, with all the delicate detail, thankyou for sharing your gorgeous layouts with us Julie.

This layout has charm written all over it, the colours and detail are just perfect which all comes together so beautiful, Ruth Philips created this stunning page.

What a gorgeous layout we have from Nicole Pomeroy, with her two very cute little darlings. The vintage feel to this layout is beautiful, and very delicate, with the added embellishments, thankyou so much Nicole for sharing this very cute layout.

weekend inspiration: luxe designs

  

Carole created this layout from Luxe Designs "Ecology" pattern papers, very cute and very fresh looking papers. Carole wanted a backyard feel to the layout, so she created the fence using the reverse side of the "Earth Day" pattern paper, and placed foam tape to the back of each piece of fence before sticking down onto the layout which gave more depth. Carole cut out the birds and the branches and made the trees with different sized circles and then distressed the edges to create the trees.

Jaimie has had this beautiful photo of her daughter in a frame for quite some time but decided to scrap it with the beautiful and girly Luxe Lovey range. A clustered arrangement of embellishments are all this page needs to make the photo pop. The pinks and greens of these papers are not overpowering and suit this little girl page. Jaimie cut down a Luxe transparency and sewed it over a torn piece of Luxe Lovey paper before layering various stickers and buttons .

A Luxe Jotter is the background for her title and she has used a flower punch to create a small flower and combined it with bling, more stickers, brads and buttons to finish of her page.

 

Gaby Alcantara from the Luxe Design Team created this very vibrant and fresh layout using the Ecology Collection. Gaby really makes the most from the pattern papers with her design, thankyou so much Gaby for sharing you gorgeous this with us.

Luxe Designs DT member Staci Taylor has created this gorgeous page using the Luxe Lovey range. We especially love her cut out and layered paper which give interest and of course that extra wow factor. Such a beautiful project Staci - thankyou for letting us share your inspiration.

 

Aida Haron has created this AMAZING page on her daughters shoes! Her layering and placement of all those little things have built this page up to its eye popping completion.

Aida Haron's altered tin also project caught our eye. Her beautiful girly tin will make the perfect keepsake gift for any little girl. Jaimie in particular fell in love with the project especially Aida's use of clustered embellishments . So so beautiful. Thankyou Aida.

 

Melissa Bove created this gorgeous centrepiece using Luxe Design "Simply Luxe" pattern papers. We thought this was so charming and just so very pretty, thankyou so much Mellissa for sharing this gorgeous project.

colours and words: week 10

 

 

 

As soon as Nic saw this colour scheme she decided a nice mix of BasicGrey Wisteria and Porcelain would be perfect. Both have gorgeous green papers that would mix well with small amounts of the purple and blue to fit the colour scheme. Nic created her base with the BasicGrey papers, but decided to use a green decorative edge paper in the Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia series to embellish down the right side. A small spray of a blue Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist and the base was done.

NIc finished her layout by creating distressed circle flowers from the purple and blue in Wisteria, and a small flourish from Pink Paislee. The title was created with perfectly coloured Heidi Swapp cardstock stickers, (love them in the new booklet!) and a BasicGrey font sprayed with Juniper Glimmer Mist. Although this layout is predominantly green, it is the smaller touches of purple and blue that add contrast. Perfect for the colour scheme Nic was given!

 

 

Chris said she loved working with this colour scheme and thought of the SEI Bridgeport range straight away. She put the papers together with this photo of her daughter and her friends getting ready to go to school camp recently. The journalling explains that the friendships have been a bit more challenging this year, but that the group of girls always manage to work it out.

 

 

   

Jo Kinder

 

 

Tracey Henley

 

Trina McClune

 

Congratulations to Nina Granzien for winning last weeks poll with her beautiful layout.  Next week is a challenging one!  Email us at [email protected] by Tuesday 1 September to play.

introducing: twiddleybitz

 

Suz fell instantly in love with Twiddleybitz’s cherry blossom tree, and created this layout using it to its best advantage. Her whimsical daughter decided to plant some Smarties one day so that she could grow a chocolate tree (would that that were true!) and so Suz painted the blossoms in bright Smartie-like colours using the gorgeous Luminarte saturated coloured Perfect Pigments.  The tree itself received a coat of Gold from Luminarte’s Twinkling H2O range, and BasicGrey’s new Lemonade transparent elements were the perfect other embellishment.

The beautiful shapes, flowers and objects really brought home the diversity of this range to Steph. She loved all the butterflies and flourishes, so these two separate Twiddleybitz products, had to be combined on the one layout. Steph cut off the butterfly and adhered it separate to the flourishes. She used Tattered Angels Glimmermist to cover the chipboard and the result was stunning.

As you can see the flourishes make a perfect accompaniment for any floral clusters. The flower was hand made by Steph and Glimmer Misted in a shimmery lilac.

   

Having "one of those weeks" with her fighting children, Nicole decided to celebrate, or at least record, this phase in the family with a layout dedicated to sibling rivalry.  Using the winged skull by Twiddleybitz to emphasise that it's not a happy moment, Nic layered the word "STOP" over the top and used the Graffiti Alphas also by Twiddleybitz to create her title.  Glimmermist works perfectly on the Twiddleybitz chipboard pieces as Nic has demonstrated here on the skull's wings and title.  Two layers of Glimmermist created that gorgeous shimmer and the clean cut edges of the Twiddleybitz chipboard meant there was no sanding needed either.

weekend inspiration: basicgrey

This new collection, 'Indian Summer' by BasicGrey couldn't have been more perfect for this photo of Nic Howard as a youngster. Indian Summer is a bold collection, full of gorgeous oranges, reds, pinks, and purples with a splash of brown/black thrown in. Nic started with a nuetral base from the Nook and Pantry collection and built with the Indian Summer colours from there.

BasicGrey's new products take pride of place on this layout. Take a close look at the doilie, intricately cut lace paper, Nic used the coloured side, as well as flipping it over to use the white side. She also used 'Woolies', layered pre-made felt embellishments, and 'Pops', layered embellishments ready to place on your page. Nic finished the layout with her old favourite, BasicGrey micro alphas, white chocolate of course!

Nic shares another layout with us, this time from the recent Basicgrey release, Lemonade. Lemonade has such beautiful vibrant colours and the papers can be cut apart and images used as embellishments, one of Nic's favourite things to do!  We noticed that she used another one of those intricately cut doilie papers - great contrast! 

Our last one from Nic today, again using the Nook & Pantry collection!  Layers of patterned paper featuring images of the kitchen, doilies, laces, cupcakes and berries feature in this line and in Nic's layout.  Nic has again used a 'Take Note' transparency block for her journaling and some element stickers to finish it off.  Thanks for sharing, Nic!

Nic couldn't wait to play with this new collection, named 'Nook & Pantry'.  When she saw these photos by Jill Geraghty-Groves she knew they'd be perfect, and they were!  Nic creates a fabulous boy layout with the versatile Nook & Pantry.  We're especially loving the 'pops' stickers and chipboard birdie! 

BasicGrey has only just released four new collections, and we are very lucky to have layouts from some of them to feature here on the blog!  This layout, created by Nic Howard uses 'Eskimo Kisses', BasicGrey's new Christmas collection!  This collection is double sided and Nic tells us it is (really, truly!) her favourite Christmas collection to date.  But take a look!  Nic used it for a summer layout, it's obviously versatile!

Caz created these CD folders to hold a disk of photos and contact sheets that she is sending to the billets they had stay with them from Canberra.  She thought the funky June Bug papers, chipboard shapes and letters from BasicGrey were perfect for the project. She added the black chipboard floral swirls from Cosmo Cricket for contrast.

    

We spotted this layout while out and about blog hopping, it's by Trina McClune and is created with the beautiful colour soaked Lemonade collection, a recent release by BasicGrey.  We loved how Trina framed her photo on one of the 'Take Note' transparency embellishments, again from the Lemonade collection. 

Something to note - both Trina and Nic in her first layout, created their pages using the sketch below, two different takes with two different Basicgrey collections, perhaps you'd like to give it a go!?  This sketch was created by Trina McClune

We have Australia's very own Nicole Pomeroy to thank for the next two gorgeous layouts. In the first, "X three times" she has used just about all the elements in the Lemonade collection. Papers, Chipboard Sticker Shapes, Rub-ons and Element Stickers all tied together beautifully with stitching.

The second layout is made with the June Bug collection. We love the little collection of elements next to the photo. Chipboard, Buttons and Element Stickers are grouped together to create an eye catching feature that doesn't distract from or overwhelm the beautiful photo.

We couldn't go past this layout by Patricia from Canada when cruising the web looking for BasicGrey June Bug samples. Could it be the arresting eyes of her little man or the clean, simple, yet effective way she has used the June Bug papers and letter stickers. Thanks for letting us share, Patricia.

   

Many thanks to Leena form Singapore for sharing this fabulous layout of her little boy. The cluster of June Bug accents creates a vibrant addition to the page and how stunning does the Navy Doillies background look?

  

Finally, thanks to Ranjini for letting us show you this sweet Valentines day card. She has paired the BasicGrey Lemonade Chipboard with one of the B-sides from the BasicGrey June Bug collection. She then added a chipboard heart covered in glitter, some bling, some tiny heart shaped embellishments and bows to create a card that anyone would be thrilled to receive.

colours and words: week 9

This colour combo has SEI and Heidi Swapp written all over it, according to Donna! It just screams pink lemonade, flowers, love hearts and whimsy...so that's exactly what Donna did with this beautiful colour palette. Here she has used Heidi Swapp's Lemonade Dots patterned paper as the inspiration for the layout paying particular attention to the large circles in the design. The circle design comcept is repeated throughout the layout with Luxe circle rubons, Hambley's overlay and SEI epoxy stickers.

The meaning behind the layout - which is just as important as the design concept - talks about Donna's realisation that her baby girl is growing up. The journalling reads:  "She fills my days with fun, laughter, frustration, joy & chaos, but above all, sheer happiness! We are nearing the day she will become a school girl & I'm afraid my happiness may fade - just a little. But, I guess it's all part of the job!"

 

Another journalling-based layout, this time from Suz, tells the story of when her daughter got a folded straw (sample shown on the layout!) stuck up her nose and she had to take her to the emergency department to have it removed. 

Suz admits she got a bit carried away with the colour palette side of this challenge, and completely forgot about the 'word' part. She was so happy to get a story in an album that she really wanted to be there, and afterwards realised that technically it actually had nothing - at all - to do with happiness. She couldn't even find a way to add it in as an afterthought.  Apart from the fact that her two children are her main focus and happiness on this earth, and she's completely happy with that being the case.  She’s hoping that counts?! 

Suz has used Aussie’s new textured cardstock as the basis to this layout and added some gorgeous BasicGrey elements from the new Lemonade range.

And now some beautiful contributions from our readers…  thanks to all of you – our regulars and some new faces - for participating!

 

 

Penny Ash

 

Janine Koscwara

 

 

 

Rachel Tucker

 

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Tracey Henley

 

 

Nina Granzien

 

A big congratulations to Janine Koscwara for winning our last weeks challenge with her stunning layout.  Email me Janine with your address so we can send out your prize!

 

This is our next weeks colour palette and word.  Please email your layouts to [email protected] by Tuesday 25 August.

introducing: twiddleybitz!

 

Carole loves creating anything with plenty of detail so she was very excited to play with this gorgeous Twiddleybitz Girly Handbag, that comes with a stand. Carole combined Basic Grey Porcelain pattern papers and stickers, which gave the feel of a very pretty keepsake with a layered finish.  We bet her gorgeous daughter was delighted with this one!

   

The Twiddleybitz borders are a lovely accent to any page as Mel has shown here in her layout. The 'flowers on vine' border has been inked and adhered directly underneath the photos, creating a beautiful, flowing embellishment. Some bling (Jenni Bowlin & Queen & Co) has been dropped inside a few of the flower petals, while the red title (Jenni Bowlin chalkboard alpha stickers) and splash of hand stitching complete the page.

Caz loved the free form Twiddleybitz birds that she was sent to have a play with. They reminded her of gulls on the beach and in particular the scavenger hunt she organised for her kids and her nieces in the last school holidays. She left the birds their natural colour to tie in with the blues and creams of the BasicGrey paper and chose to use a picture grid to get the maximum photos on her page.

weekend inspiration: stamper’s anonymous

 

 

It's not often you'll find Nic H throwing all photos aside and creating anything multi media, but this is one of those times! Nic spent time looking at Tim Holtz's blog and after she'd seen some of Tim's amazing tags, there was no stopping her.
The base of this piece was created with a canvas, old tissue, gesso and paint. Tattered Angels glimmer mist was used to add the blue colour.

Nic then worked on two pieces of white cardstock with Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz stamps to create the 2 focal pieces.

On creating a base for her focal point, Nic looked at a box she was using to spray glimmer mist into. She ripped it apart, pulled a little of the outer layer off to expose the texture, added a little paint and it worked wonderfully. Nic then added grungeboard treated with various Tattered Angels glimmermist colours to her canvas to finish off, but not before adding a few curls of paper created when she ripped that box apart.

We love the versatile images from the Tim Holtz stamps and it's obvious Nic found them inspiring also!

 

 

 

The Teresa Collins stamps included in the Stampers Anonymous range are practical, versatile and perfectly suited to a wide range of layouts.

For this page, Mel has used the Teresa Collins Notepad stamp, creating individual diecuts for her page by stamping the design onto kraft cardstock before hand cutting out and adhering. The centre stamp holds part of her page title and the other two were just right for journaling the story behind the photo.

Tip: Stamp up an entire page of designs, ready to be cut out and used as needed.

 

Using Ranger distress ink Chris has created a background pattern with the flower stamp from the Stampers Anonymous 'all about art' stamp set. She has also stamped the sentiment from the stamp set directly onto a Crate Paper die cut.

 

Chris has put together a tutorial here to show you how she created this card.  Click here to check it out.

Chris used a Hero Arts pink note card and stamped the dot background stamp from the Stampers Anonymous 'all about art' set directly onto the card using Top Boss embossing pad and then sprinkled Hero Arts white embossing powder over the dots and heat embossed. She did the same heat embossing technique with the flower from the stamp set and cut it out from the paper she stamped it onto and then adhered it to her card for this lovely effect.

 

Stamper and mixed media artist Sue McGettigan (who also happens to be an Aussie girl that now lives in California) has so kindly shared her talents with us today to explain in pictures and words some wonderful and different ways you can use Stampers Anonymous stamps.

For these two sets of monogram tags Sue has used Stampers Anonymous Tim Holtz Collection - Psychedelic and Ranger distress inks.

Instructions:  Apply Distress Inks to a craft sheet, spritz with water using the Ranger mist tool, then dip the circles from Psychedelic Grunge into the ink, mist once more and stamp on tag. Spritz the ink on the craft sheet again and press the blank side of the tag into remaining ink until you're happy with the pattern and coverage. .

Stamp the stars randomly using Distress Ink. Stamp the monograms on colored cardstock and use a variety of punches to frame the monograms. Use a variety of ribbons and fibers to finish the tags

 

Sue also says "I use these tags as gift tags and birthday cards, they have a longer life than the average card because they're also bookmarks, there's plenty of room on the back to stamp a sentiment and write your messages."

 

Sue also generously shares instructions for this card:   Apply distress inks to craft sheet, spritz with water using Ranger misting tool, then dip tag into ink, repeating until you're pleased with the pattern and coverage. Using black ink stamp the journal text border and astrolabe from World Traveler, tear an additional inked tag and ink the torn edge with more distress ink DTP.

Adhere the torn tag edge, spray the tag and the flower with Tattered Angels Glimmermist, then attach the flower using a vintage brad, and the teabag tag to finish.

 

   

For this effect Sue suggests:  Place masks on pale blue cardstock. Apply Broken China Distress Ink using Tim Holtz ink blending tool, remove smaller masks and apply Frayed Burlap Distress Ink around the edges, blend a little towards the center of the card before removing the larger clock mask. Stamp birds and text with black ink.

I'm sure everyone will agree that Sue's creations and instructions are very much appreciated and inspiring! Many thanks Sue!

A big thank you to the lovely Rachel Greig for sharing this set of beautifully constructed Artist Trading Cards with us here on the blog. Rachel has used two Stamper’s Anonymous stamps on each card, both of them by Tim Holtz. The main text has been created with a 'garment district' stamp - we loved how Rachel turned the text into journaling strips, very cool !!

Thanks so much to Anna-Karin Evaldsson for sharing her beautiful 'hello' card with everyone. We were instantly drawn to Anna-Karin's transparent background and we loved how she created the background with Stazon ink and a swirl stamp.
The scalloped circles were also stamped with various background stamps and the card was finished off with a little bit of machine stitching.  Stamp Supplies: Hero Arts swirl stamp and Stampers Anonymous swirl.

 

We love the new Tim Holtz stamps by Stampers Anonymous. Tim has allowed us to share several of his own creations showing just how easily the images can be turned into something wonderful. Take a shipping tag, add distress inks and Tim's new stamps with a few extras and there you have it! Thanks for sharing the tags, Tim!

week 8: colours and words – ready?!

 

 

 

Jaimie actually had a completely different project for this theme - however when her daughter came out wearing these very funky knee-high socks for school she knew this was a LO in the making! The beauty of the colour palette theme is that there is no limit to product and the amazing thing is just how many manufacturers go together. Jaimie has used a mix of Basic Grey wisteria and Eva as well as Pink Paislee and Hero Arts stamps with a little bit of Heidi Swapp.

The end result is a very cute girly page with the focus on her daughters emerging and very individual fashion sense. The theme word "Ready" has been used in the title as a play on the 'Ready or Not' catch cry.

 

Chris found that the new Little Yellow Bicycle Zinnia range went quite well with this colour chart and she also used a bit of Crate Paper Prudence and Luxe Simply Turquoise to bring in the other colours. Chris has recently had passport applications done for both her daughters, she used the out take photos for this layout and the prompt word 'ready' for part of her title.

And here’s our readers takes on this potentially tricky colour palette – thanks to all of you for your patience with this post!

 

 

Anthea Peterson

 

Jo Kinder

 

 

Lara Moss

 

 

Penny Ash

 

 

  

Agnus Kasprzak

 

Janine Koczwara

 

A big congratulations to Jo Kinder for winning last weeks layout!  Jo – please email me with your address so we can send you out some goodies.

 

Finally, our next colour palette is bright and pretty – we’d love to see what you do with this one!  Please email us at [email protected] by Wednesday 18 August with your layout.

 

introducing: twiddleybitz!

 

We’ve added a heap of new brands to our supplier list over the last few months, and we’ll be introducing them in a series of Monday posts.  We’re excited to announce that we’re now the distributor for Twiddleybitz – who create a range of stunning intricately cut chipboard embellishments, mini albums and beyond the pages items.  Enjoy these fabulous projects created by our design team with their gorgeous products.

 

Nic was thrilled with the addition of Twiddleybitz to the Aussie Scrap Source line-up, she'd seen the gorgeous product online and couldn't wait to add some to her creations. Among Nic's favourites were the butterflies and the the bullrush & butterfly border. However Nic also noticed Twiddleybitz have a large range of OTP and mini-books. It was a minibook and black butterflies that Nic decided she would start with. Watch out for the bullrush and butterfly border in a project to come!

 

 

Instead of creating a mini album with the Twiddleybitz heart mini book Chris decided to lay the pages flat and glue them together to make this wall hanging for her daughter. After inking the pages of the album with Hero Arts Memories black ink Chris taped the pages together on the back and at the centre on the front. She then adhered Luxe Simply Pink paper at the backing to the wall hanging.

Chris also inked the Twiddleybitz flourish with black ink and then used dimensional magic to adhere the Pink Paislee Pixee Stix coconut glitter. Basic Grey rhinestones were used for extra bling and WRMK fabric flowers for another girly touch!

The crowns on the girls heads were cut out from the Luxe Color Me 'diva' paper.

 

     

The potential for creating a standout project is definitely there with the Twiddleybitz butterfly album. Jaimie had a ball inking and Glimmer Misting the album before adhering her chosen paper to each page. The BasicGrey Precision File Kit came in handy for all those intricate pieces making sure the album had a smooth finish.

Jaimie chose photos of her daughter from the same shoot and showcased them on each of the double pages. After adhering her background paper and photo she then added fabric, ribbon, chipboard pieces, stickers, brads, bling and stamped images to create this vintage shabby chic style project. Don't be afraid to experiment with various ranges as you may be surprised at what goes with what.

weekend inspiration: collage press

Jaimie has made no secret of her continual search for ranges that suit teen boy projects and Collage Press has outdone themselves with the Knave of Hearts range. The subdued colour palette is given pop with the strong reds and the packs have all you need to create many projects for that teen/tween in your family. Lots of patterns to cut out and layer in this range and Jaimie has created a cluster embellishment around her photo by using the diecuts that come in the range.

Layered strips from the paper pack create a border along with the circle cut out which frames her journalling. This range definitely has the thumbs up from us. A lovely strong masculine page.

The Sweet Shoppe range by Collage Press is the perfect mix of a candy-coloured palette with a Retro influence. Delicious warm brown and orange combined with candy pink and bright green and blue are fun and funky and perfect for these birthday photos of Nicole's daughter Madeleine. Nic found this one of the easiest paper ranges she has worked with for a while and used elements from the new die-cut circle sheet along with die-cut labels and flowers.

A strip of Hambly circles, a touch of pink cotton lace from Webster's Pages and a touch of handstitching finishes Nicole's layout beautifully.

Nic Howard has outdone herself yet again. Her beautiful design and layers allow the viewer to find something more with each look. Nic says that Collage Press has some of her favourite papers right now and she loves the Knave of Hearts collection. So do we! Thanks Nic

Jill Sprott from Oahu, Hawaii has kindly let us show her page using the Knave of Hearts range. Jills border from the die cuts that sits under the photo is lovely as is the 'connected' circles on either side of her title to mirror the intertwined circles that sit behind her picture. Thanks Jill for letting us show your beautiful work.

We are delighted to welcome Collage Press Design Team member Kristen Faust to our blog. Here Kristen shows a gorgeous example of the new die cut rings and accents in the Sweet Shoppe range. Delicious photos as well, thanks Kristen.

Due to technology issues, yesterday's Colours and Words post will go up next week.  That means, if you ran out of time, the deadline is extended to next Tuesday 11 August!