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style lounge: modern vintage

 

And to our last Style Lounge post – a big congratulations to Romy Veul for her stunning layout below.  Louise writes:

It was a very difficult decision, but Romy’s stunning entry was full of the little details and techniques that Louise loves. The hand stitched border, distressed layers of paper and fussy cutting with a hint of stamping and flower clusters made this a stand out and is very reminiscent of the victorian scrapbooks of old. The addition of small butterfly details pulled from the papers ties the layout together into a beautifully cohesive piece with a distinctly modern vintage feel.

 

A huge thanks to all our other entries – we loved them all and are glad that Louise had to make the decision.  Prizepacks from this whole series of challenges will be sent out very soon. 

 

style lounge: layered detail

 

We had another round of fabulous entries for Sue Tonga’s ‘layered detail’ challenge.  The lovely Christine Middlecamp kindly agreed to judge her favourite, and she writes:

I'm really liking the first, "Yesterday, Tomorrow & Today" and here's the reason:

What can I say, I'm a huge fan of the color combo "Yellow, Grey & Pink"! Agnus has done an amazing job of setting the color palette up against her Kraft cardstock background - enough so, that I'm immediately drawn to the gorgeous photo. Overall though, the layout is stunning and who could resist all them embellishments?

So – congratulations to Agnus Kasprzak for the winning layout this week!

 

 

 

 

style lounge: modern vintage

 

 

This is the final challenge in our Style Lounge series (and we apologise for any impression that we may have shared that last week was the last week!) because our last but certainly not least style is that of Louise Williams.  We’re calling it modern vintage, because it’s a little shabby, a little vintage, often a heritage colour palette but with a definite modern, arty twist.

We would love it if you would join us in our last challenge, and emulate Louise’s stunning modern vintage style.  Please send your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 6th July for a chance to win our final prize pack!

 

Louise Williams best describes her style as "modern vintage" - lots of new goodies but with a softer, more aged finish and toned down colours. She loves to mix lots of different elements, textures and often adds some mixed media techniques for extra details.

As she's defined her scrapbooking style over the years, one of her biggest influences and favourite scrappers has been the uber-talented Ingvild Bolme. Well known internationally for her innovative techniques and unique style, Ingvild's work with Prima has always been a standout for her attention to detail and subtle mix of products.

Louise's first layout is full of the details she also loves to add to her projects - clusters of flowers, inking, distressing and a hint of mixed media for texture.

 

This second layout by Louise is very much her usual style - lots of layers, details and inking with clusters of Prima and a little bling.

 

This older layout of Ingvild's has always been a favourite of Louise's. The way the photos have been overlaid to make it look like they're walking up the road, along with the clever use of the streetlight stamps and flowers to seamlessly blend the digital with the physical adds a fairytale feel to a simply beautiful layout.

 

Another signature style of Ingvild's is the use of black and white, slightly over exposed photos with clusters of colour. The lack of colour in the photo draws your eye away from the surrounding colour to make the photo the focus. By repeating this lack of colour in the clusters of flowers, the whole page is tied together with subtle touches that are just perfect.

 

This stunning layout caught Louise's eye with the novel use of a diecut paper and the lacing - Ingvild started a trend that saw other artists lifting the idea and adapting it for their own work. The subtle use of lace, the black patterned paper and the stunning scroll overlays balance the page, added a masculine touch to what could have been an otherwise overwhelmingly pink page - just perfect for a picture of her gorgeous daughter and husband.

 

Finally from Ingvild is this vibrant, yet still slightly vintage layout. The black scrolls again balance the black and white photos but the touches of colour and small details lift the page and add interest and charm. Wings are a recurring theme in her work along with the fabulous Prima flowers. Thank you Ingvild for all your inspiration and for allowing me to share just some of your incredible work.

style lounge: detailed layers

 

 

This is the second last week of our Style Lounge challenge and this week we’re looking at the beautifully layered, detailed style of Suzanne Tonga.   Her work is elegant, classic, timeless.    We would love to see your interpretations of Sue’s exquisite style.  Please send in your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 22nd June for a chance to win a prize pack of scrappy goodies!  We’re thrilled to announce that the very lovely Christine Middlecamp will be choosing her favourite to win the prize pack!

 

Sue’s style can probably be identified as layered and detailed. She loves patterned papers and will easily use five or six different designs on her pages. Sue creates pages that when you first look at them, they can appear deceptively simple.

 

It is the delightful little details like stitching, sequins and beads, which you discover upon a closer look, that finish off her designs. Smaller, multiple photos are often featured and some pages are journaled and some aren’t. Sue enjoys the creative process of scrapbooking and is at peace with the fact that not all pages tell a story. However some pages feature hidden journaling that she is teaching her children to look for!

Sue often uses stamps and quotes to convey the feelings that her photos evoke.

 

 

There are many artists whose work Sue admires, but she has always been attracted to the beautiful, layered and detailed style of Christine Middlecamp. Christine’s work is easily identified by the clever arrangement of patterns and embellishments used to create unique pages full of eye-catching detail. Sue is often in awe of the many, many layers of prettiness that Christine achieves.  You can see just a few of her stunning pages below.

 

 

 

 

Can you give this amazing, layered look a try?  Send an image of your layout to [email protected] by next Wednesday 29th June.

style lounge: graphic colour blocked

 

 

Thanks once again to everyone who contributed to this weeks challenge.  It was no easy feat choosing a winner but we’re thrilled to send our congratulations this week to Emilia Stammler for her beautiful layout below.  Suz is a sucker for that perfect combination of olivey greens and pinks and loved the square within a square design.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: arty simple

 

 

This week we look at the simple, arty style of Louise Nelson.  Her work is characterised by white space, small (often black and white) photos, and a unique dash of mixed media eclecticism!  We would love to see your interpretations of Lou’s fabulous arty style.  Please send in your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 22nd June for a chance to win a prize pack of arty goodies!

 

 

 

Louise finds it hard to describe her style, but when she asked her creative friends they helped her out by saying that they thought it was Simple and Arty, sometimes with a touch of whimsy, and just a little bit unique with her use of eclectic elements, oh and a definite preference for using small single photos, and the 'use of white space'.

For this particular layout Louise has most definitely showcased her love of white space. She has also incorporated the use of string to create simple but effective embellishments. They add a wonderful touch of texture to what might otherwise be a simple and bland layout to look at.

 

 

For this particular layout Louise has incorporated her love arty mediums and a touch of whimsy.  The background to the photo [which was taken by talented fellow team member Danielle Quarmby, as was the photo used on the first layout] was created with the use of gesso and Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist.

Louise has added long free flowing strands of machine stitched threads to the stamped butterflies which creates wonderful visual impact [and if you are wondering, Louise painstakingly glues down these threads by using a tooth pick with tiny dobs of fast clear drying glue].  Louise tells us she is a little obsessive about some things in her scrapbooking and this is one of them!

 

 

 

 

It isn’t often that Louise will create an OTP project however she was inspired to do so for this brief. Louise is continuously inspired by her Scrapbooking/creative idol Caroline Rondel, who creates the most glorious mini albums! And it was from these that Louise took inspiration. Louise wanted to create something special for her scrappy bestie's birthday so she thought she would use this brief as a means to create a special gift for her.

Originally Louise was going to create and decorate a gift box, however she took this idea one step further and has created what she calls a 'Gift Sandwich'.  Louise has wrapped up the soft elements of her gift in decorated tissue paper and sandwiched it between 2 decorated pieces of chipboard.The idea being that her scrappy friend can then create a mini album from these 2 decorated boards.

Louise included extra elements; [vintage doilies, colour coordinated cottons, Prima butterflies and birds etc.] so that her friend could decorate the mini book pages with coordinated embellishments.

 

 

We’re thrilled to also share some of Caroline Rondel’s work here.  As you can see like Lou’s her influence is also minimal but beautifully arty. Thanks Caroline for allowing us to show your projects.

style lounge: detailed whimsy

 

 

 

Congratulations to the winner of the Detailed Whimsy challenge.  Iris loved all the entries shown below and chose this beautiful layout by Wendy Smith as the winning entry.  Thank you to all the creative ideas sent in from everyone for this challenge – and congratulations Wendy!

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: graphic colour blocked

 

This week we look at the clean lines and colour blocked style of Suz Doyle.  She is attracted to grids and framed styles where everything has a place and will often divide her layouts into sections mentally, even when there aren’t actual lines on the page. 

This week, we would love to see your interpretations of Suz’s graphic, colour blocked style.  Please send in your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 15th June for a chance to win a prize pack of goodies!

 

 

Greens and neutrals are often her go-to colours for her bases, and from there her colour palette is generally soft, gelato tones – a little stronger than pastels but still light and airy.  She will almost always try to include more than one photo on a page and regularly produces double pages for her albums.

She will often combine slightly odd elements – Prima’s Fairy Flora range mightn’t be the first one you’d think of to partner up with Crate Paper Neighbourhood embellishments, but here she shows it can work.  She loves including bling and has only recently discovered the fabulousness of the Martha Stewart edge punches, so I suspect you’ll be seeing more of them on her future pages.

 

 

 

Though this is a slightly more random page in terms of design, there are still areas both of blocking and a strong sense of everything being in its place.  The photo and recipe blocks are matted as is the cardstock, and the whole thing is linked by a BasicGrey transparency.  Another of her big scrappy loves are transparencies, something you will find on many of her pages.  And it’s a rare page where you won’t find a story, either printed or handwritten, as recording the memory is what is at the very core of her scrapbooking passion.

 

Stephanie Dagan from France, who was a Garden Girl at TwoPeas for sometime, was a revelation to Suz a few years back.  Every one of Stephanie’s scrapbook pages to Suz seems perfection.  They both embrace many of the same principles in their pages – multiple photos, soft colours, colour blocking – and Suz loves that Stephanie also always includes the story (even though it’s in French and she can’t read it!).

 

 

Stephanie’s sense of design is impeccable – her pages are beautifully balanced and though they often include multiple patterns and colours, they all seem to serve the simple purpose of framing and enhancing her wonderful photographs.

Thanks so much Stephanie for allowing us to share your layouts and your talent in this post.

style lounge: detailed whimsy

 

 

Like many of our design team, Iris has a style that’s so unique we had trouble finding an already existing label for it.  But when you get down to it, it’s a whimsical style and she always includes lots of detail, so ‘Detailed Whimsy’ it is!

We would love to see your interpretations of Iris’ style.  Please send in your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 8th June for a chance to win a whimsical prize pack! 

 

If there is one thing you will notice about Iris' style - it is that it will always involve some fussy cutting, misting, and stamping. According to Iris, she just has to get it a little bit spritzed and smeared with colour to make it work for her. In this page, Iris made a scenic and whimsical page about her daughter's first Easter Egg Hunt.

 

 

The same detailed whimsical style can be seen here but in a more shabby vintage look...another one of Iris' favourite looks.  You can see some stamping, inking, embossing, and even an application of mediums like bead gels... 

 

 

 

 

Iris’ detailed whimsy style translated into a mini-album.  With two daughters Iris obviously gravitates towards feminine, pretty pages, soft colours and beautiful imagery.

 

 

 

Maggie Holmes has always been one of Iris' most admired artists. She is a pro-photographer and an amazing artist. Maggie Holmes designs for Creating Keepsakes Magazine, Making Memories, and Studio Calico among others. Because she takes such amazing photos, her pages need very little embellishment to make it a stand out in galleries. Maggie is a genius in combining lots of whimsical details to her stunning photos which makes her pages so beautiful and memorable. 

You can see more of Maggie and her amazing work in photography and scrapbooking here.

style lounge: clean and simple

 

 

 

If your eye is attracted to straight lines and clean design, then this is the challenge for you.  We thank all our contributors to this post and are thrilled to announce our winner this week.  Her layout epitomises the style – simplicity, bold design, effective embellishment, great story.  Congratulations Agnus Kasprzak!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: freestyle whimsy

 

 

Here are our readers’ layouts reflecting Danielle’s wonderful ‘freestyle whimsy’ style.  Thanks to everyone who sent in their layouts – we loved the variety, colour and life in your pages. 

Danielle picked her favourite from them all  - our congratulations this week goes to Sharmaine Kruijver!

Danielle wrote of Sharmaine’s layout  “I have to choose Sharmaine, I just love how I can see the 'freestyle whimsy' inspiration as well as a clear sense of Sharmaine's own style. And the colours and design are just awesome!”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: arty grunge

We had a wonderful response to Leeann’s arty grunge style!  Thanks to everyone who sent in their cool artsy grunge interpretations.  So many of your entries were amazing we didn’t at all envy Celine’s task at having to choose her favourite.

Of the winner’s layout, Celine writes:  ‘It's beautiful! I love it! So full of details, well balanced, the colors are amazing and so are the photos! LOVE IT!’  

Congratulations Tanya Tahir!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: freestyle whimsy

 

 

We have yet another exciting addition to our design team and we’re thrilled to introduce her this week in our style lounge series.  She’s been true to her own whimsical arty style for years now ever since the days when whimsical, arty and scrapbooking didn’t always mix and we’re thrilled to have her join us.   Please welcome…. Danielle Quarmby!

Her style can be described in a variety of ways but for the purposes of the Style Lounge challenge, we're calling it Freestyle Whimsy!  Can you interpret Danielle's style as your own?  Have a look through her layouts below and see if you can take inspiration from them.  Send your layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 25 May to be in the running for 'whimsical-freestyle' prize pack!  We’re thrilled to announce that Celine Navarro will be judging her favourite as the winner!  Please try and use predominantly products from Aussie Scrap Source  in your projects.

 

 

Scrapbooking, for Danielle, is about creativity, self-expression and fun, and this is reflected in her scrapping style. Most often quite casual and freestyle, Danielle’s work can be described as arty, whimsical, fun and quirky. Often involving paint, layering, hand-cut vintage book paper and clustered details. Vintage style florals and patterned paper backgrounds are a regular ingredient in Danielle’s projects, and word choices often come from song lyrics or quotes.

Another hallmark of Danielle’s style is the apparent randomness of many elements on her layouts, which creates the freestyle feel. Colour is used to create mood and add emotion or whimsy to a project. Danielle intentionally adds a contrasting tone, quirky detail or unusual feature to each of her layouts to make it feel like ‘her’.

In the page ‘Clap Clap Yay!’ Danielle has used some of her regular techniques, including a Sassafras patterned paper background, hand-cut clouds and raindrops, stapled and scattered embellishments and a handwritten element. With a fairly harmonious colour scheme, a punch of extra warmth is added with the orange and yellow Cabachon Sculptured Flower Centres from Prima.

 

‘These are the magic years’ has a vibrant colour combination typical of Danielle’s style - Danielle often uses paint to add interest to a background, and here she has used a swipe of gesso and torn vintage sheet music to personalise the gorgeous Prima canvas paper. Chipboard elements, cardstock stickers, bloomers and alphabet stickers scatter across the layout in an outpouring of whimsy and lightheartedness. Danielle’s slightly messy, loopy handwriting is another regular feature used effectively here!

 

Celine Navarro is one of Danielle's long-time "style crushes" and has a vibrant, fun style. In her layout 'Lucky girl', you can see a smattering of colourful embellishments dancing across the page, a colourful floral patterned background and a focus on the photo. The layered patterned papers that make up the background are hand-cut, rather than perfectly straight, adding an extra sense of relaxed creativity.

 

 

In 'Just Wanna Bee Me', Celine demonstrates some more inspiring techniques, with paper-folding, notepaper cut edges and hand-cut paper layers. Photos are placed slightly askew over one another, and colours are combined in unconventional ways to great effect. Thank you so much Celine for sharing your work with us and for agreeing to judge the challenge entries!

style lounge: playful - readers entries

 

 

We’ve had so many amazing entries for Kathie Link’s ‘Playful’ style challenge it’s taken us a while to get through them – and we  firstly must thank Kaori Watanabe so much for taking the time to judge all the layouts and pick us a winner.

Of the winner, Kaori writes “I love her design! A photograph in the top right corner in particular is very splendid! I like how she uses her colours and materials.”

And we’re thrilled to announce that that winner, with her layout ‘Brum’ is…..  Christine Rumley!

 

And congratulations and thank you to all the other entries who sent in your layouts and showcased so beautifully the playful, paper-piecing style of Kathie.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: artsy grunge

 

 

We’re a bit excited this week!

We get to announce a new addition to our design team, along with introducing her in a pretty special way, as a new challenge in our Style Lounge series.  We have loved this artists’ energy, enthusiasm and most of all, her talent!  We will be sorry to miss her amazing entries in our challenges, but happy that she has agreed to join the team.  Please join us in welcoming Leeann Pearce, and her artsy-grunge!

You might think that there’s a fine line between artsy-grunge and a hot mess , but you’d have to agree that Leeann walks it with style, and stays just this side of amazing.  It’s kind of the art of throwing both meaningful and random elements on a page and having it turn into a cohesive layout.  The ‘artsy’ comes from the layers of paints or mists that she’ll often start her pages with.

If you think you can replicate Leeann’s arty-grunge style, we’d love to see your projects.  Leeann will be judging the winner, so send them into [email protected] by next Wednesday 18 May to be in the running for an artsy-grunge prize pack.  Please try and use products from Aussie Scrap Source brands in your projects.

We leave you with some inspiration from Leeann and one of her favourite artists, Lucy Edson.

 

Leeann’s style is very artsy/grunge. But at times there certainly are elements of other style types. Textures and layers play a big part in this scrapper’s style. Leeann also loves paint and it’s nearly always a starting point to each of her pages, from there she builds her layers. And you will notice when you look closer that the tiny details are buried amongst those clusters of embellishments.

Complete randomness you might also spy on her pages. Quirky elements that mean nothing – for example the numbers have no real meaning just part of the embellishing.

This page definitely shows her artsy/grunge style – misting, machine stitch strips, paper curling and scrunching, layers of paper flowers and cotton doilies, buttons and Hambly transparency, twine and resin bird and lastly flicks of paint. 

 

 

 

This next page that Leeann created started with creating an artsy/grunge background. Leeann used a couple strips of masking tape; she painted the strips of masking tape with a contrasting colour and randomly placed them on the cardstock. She then covered the entire background with white gesso and used a foam stamp which gave a subtle pattern.

 

Lucy Edson uses lots of mixed media techniques; this is just one element that draws Leeann to her work.

On this first page Lucy actually made these tags from pattern papers and printed her photo on to the pattern paper. But first Lucy used some gesso and soften the pattern on the paper so that the picture of her daughter didn’t have marks all through her face.

She then has used an assortment of different materials and layered then on each of the tags and then finishing this page off by flicking a little bit of paint which gives it that artsy feel.

 

On this second page by Lucy you can see once again that artsy feel. Leeann loves this technique of dry brushing with paint. A little bit of misting, distressed edges and finishing it off with a much softer embellishment cluster.

Thanks so much Lucy for sharing your amazing creations with us. It’s been a real pleasure.

 

We hope these beautiful pages have inspired you to get your grunge on!  We look forward to seeing your entries – [email protected] by next Wednesday 18 May to be in the running.

style lounge: shabby chic

Thanks to everyone who entered our first Style Lounge challenge last week celebrating Janine’s shabby chic style.  We were overwhelmed by the beauty and the details in your pages – and we’re thrilled to share them here today.

Janine reports that she had a hard time judging but in the end couldn’t go past “The Sweetest Thing’.  Janine writes “It is well designed and has attention to small details, like the hand stitching and distressing around the border of the decorative edge frame.  That is definitely something I would do!  The fact that there is yellow, pink and teal all on the one LO is very appealing to me also! LOL!!”

So – congratulations to Anthea Peterson for her beautiful layout.  You can look forward to a bundle of scrappy shabby chic goodness heading your way!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

style lounge: playful

 

This week we take a look at the thoroughly talented Kathie Link.  She is one of those artists whose work is difficult to pigeon-hole into a satisfactory label, in the end we settled on ‘Playful’.  Last week we saw Janine bringing ‘shabby chic’ into a new scrapbooking decade (and we’ll be sharing your entries soon!), so paper-piecing often has a tacky, dated connotation.  The paper piecing creations that Kathie produces however, are fun, imaginative and contemporary.  Her combination of pre-made and hand-cut elements creates a playful style that is truly her own.

We would love you to join in and emulate Kathie’s fabulous style – email your ‘playful’ layouts to [email protected] by next Wednesday 11th May for a chance to win a prize pack full of playful goodies!

Read on for more of an insight into her wonderful style – and take the challenge – see how ‘playful’ you can be!

 

 

Kathie’s style is probably best described as Playful. Her layouts burst with colour and fun. Often they’re whimsical. Sometimes they’re scenic. Quirky elements dance across her pages. Kathie chooses the elements on her page carefully to assist the message she seeks to convey. She frequently employs paper piecing techniques to make unique accents or scenes that relate to the story she’s telling.

In her layout “So Silly”, a rainbow of bright colours from BasicGrey’s Life of the Party range flash across the page to create an instant feeling of playfulness. (Of course, the sense of play is assisted greatly by the fact that her subject is a delightfully mischievous five year old boy wearing a Spiderman top and wearing a play doctor’s kit on his head!)

Playfulness here is achieved by allowing the embellishments to dance across and amongst Kathie’s photos. And Kathie employs a favourite trick to inject even more fun into the page – she throws in the unexpected.... such as the monsters from Sassafras’s Monstrosity line that play hide and seek around the BasicGrey elements.

 

Kathie’s next layout “Trains” is a more subdued example of playfulness. Here, she’s employed whimsical imagery to convey a sense of fun. There are many scrapbooking products these days that incorporate delightful imagery in all manner of themes. In this layout Kathie used Crate Paper’s Neighbourhood collection which contains gorgeous chipboard embellishments.

Floating clouds and pennant banners fluttering in the breeze work beautifully to create a sense of play. So do delightful little gelato coloured townhouses, trees with striped trunks, and cute picket fences. The scene that Kathie pieces together continues the cute country railway image from her focal photo off onto the page.

 

Another scrapper who excels at designing playful pages is Kaori Watanabe, from Hokkaido in Northern Japan. Kaori has a talent for designing layouts that are totally playful whilst being superbly elegant. We are so excited to have Kaori join in with us and share two of her gorgeous layouts this week.

Kaori’s layout “Your Smile” features her signature style of threading her elements across the page in a delightfully carefree manner. They seem almost unconstrained as they dance across the page. The use of a kraft background and the large stencilled numbers allow her play freely with floral elements and butterflies on this boy’s page, without it ever in danger of becoming overly feminine.

 

In her layout “Delight”, Kaori demonstrates her mastery with mists and stencils to create a colourful background for her page. Her playful style shows up in the fun smattering of petals across the page, the sewn butterfly trail, and even the way her title dances off towards the edge of the page.

The Playful scrapbooking style is fun and carefree. It can be whimsical. It can be cute. It can even be elegant, as Kaori demonstrates here. Butterflies, clouds, pennant banners, grasses and trees, houses and fences all work wonderfully on layouts with a playful style. Allow the elements to dance across the page and give a sense of movement. Create little scenes with them. Be mischievous and add a touch of the unexpected.

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 [email protected] by next Wednesday 4th May to be included in the post.