Aussie Scrap Source

weekend inspiration: studio calico

 

 

The Thataway collection from Studio Calico is perfect for scrapping those outdoor, beach or holiday photos.  The colour palette is gorgeous!  Sue has scrapped photos from her recent getaway along the beautiful Northern NSW coast.  She has made use of one of the stitched pockets to house her journaling, those adorable feather die-cuts (which Sue backed with gold glitter paper from American Crafts) and the lovely little wood veneer anchors. The Buckaroo Thickers add the final touch with the title.

 

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The next two layouts were created by the very talented Studio Calico designer, Kelly Noel. Kelly has used the adorable Storytime collection to scrap photos of her beautiful baby, Sawyer.  This collection makes me want to go back and re-scrap all of my children's baby photos!

 

Talk about cuteness overload!!  The following layout was created by Nicole Samuels who is also a designer for Studio Calico.  We love the beautiful garland that Nicole has cleverly created.

weekend inspiration: jillibean soup

 

 

Jillibean soup has always been a warm favourite for Leeann and she loves this new collection, Cold Avocado Soup. The colour palette and the simple graphics in some of the pattern papers are very appealing to her. What helps brings texture to this page is the corrugated shapes. And you can’t get enough of the all ready made journal tags they certainly get the ball rolling when creating your pages!

 

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Here we have several projects by the talented Leanne Allinson who has used the latest collection cold avocado soup. You can see more of Leanne's work here.  Thanks for allowing us to share some of your creations Leanne.

weekend inspiration: hero arts

 

 

 

 

Jane has used the Hero Arts Wish You Were Here stamp set with BasicGrey Mint Julep collection of papers and stickers to create these two cards. On one card Jane stamped the chair and lamp on the pretty vintage themed papers, cut the images out and layered them on a label sticker. She gave the comfy chair some padding shape by adding shadows with a grey watercolour pencil. The other card Jane cut an oval from the white card and placed a ornate frame sticker around it then added it to the card front using foam mounting tape. The sentiments are perfect to surprise a friends day and to let them know how much you miss them!!

 

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weekend inspiration: technique tuesday

 

 

With this layout and the next Louise was very much inspired by the current chalkboard trend. With the fabulous Technique Tuesday hand writing type font words and white embossing techniques, on the black card stock, this 'look' is easily achieved.

 

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weekend inspiration: crate paper

 

 

 

 

 

Jane has used the DIY Shop collection photo overlays on hers cards as a frame over the chipboard pieces, she then secured more chipboard pieces on top for more dimension. The words were trimmed from the beautiful Remember This script paper and used as the sentiment on the card, a flower clip was cleverly added for the butterflies antennae!!

 

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weekend inspiration: bo bunny press

 

Bo Bunny's button pack from the Zip-a-Dee-Doodle range was the starting point for this layout by Danielle. The array of buttons suits the organic feel of the pleated canvas. Danielle combined papers and chipboard from both the Trail Mix and The Avenues ranges from Bo Bunny to create a relaxed, whimsical feel. Danielle particularly loved the Trail Mix patterned paper she used for the background, perfectly suited to the maritime theme of her page!

 

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Ali Parris shares with us this funky, simple yet creative layout featuring Bo Bunny's Zip A Dee Doodle range.

 

 

Kaori Fujimoto created this lovely layout for the Bo Bunny blog, using The Avenue range and including a range of circular details. Brads, pearls, chipboard and flowers all contribute to a sweet design.

weekend inspiration: basicgrey

 

It’s no secret that Sue loves Autumn.  It is her favourite time of the year and she loves to photograph her children with the gorgeous, changing leaves. Basic Grey’s Persimmon collection was just perfect to scrap these photos of her son Bailey.  One of the stand-out embellishments (in Sue’s opinion!) from the collection is the pack of printed feathers!  They are stunning, and make a great feature for the page.  And what goes hand in hand with clusters of embellishments?  Brads and flair stickers of course! 

Sue stitched down the centre of each feather, inked them and shaped them a little with her fingers.  She then tied them together with string and embellished with the flair sticker and the stitched brad.  Sue created little vellum pockets to hold her journaling and one of the lovely wood veneer cards and she completed the layout with a few enamel dots from MME and some splatters of Gold Lame colour shine.

 

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Kelly Noel, one of Basic Grey’s talented design team, created this amazing layout featuring her adorable son, Sawyer, using a mix of Hello, Hey You and Hey Boy collections.  Kelly says the collections co-ordinate well with each other and are very versatile. How gorgeous is Kelly’s cloud and star embellishment? 

 

 

 

Master of mixing and matching Basicgrey Papers, Kelly Goree created this stunning page using the Persimmon Collection.  We loved the striking contrast of the background and the depth it gives the rest of the layout.

weekend inspiration: ek success

 

 

 

 

 

Kim has used the Stars and Stripes punch in two ways on these two layouts.  The Stars and Stripes punch is a versatile punch as you can choose whether to punch just the border and stars, or to also incorporate the stripes.  One the first layout she has punched a border using both the stars and the stripes and then she has layered a red paper behind the stars to make them stand out.
For the second layout, she has used the stars punched from creating the first layout to create a spray of stars diagonally across the layout.

As an aside, this punch co-ordinates perfectly with the Say Cheese range from Simply Stories!

 

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weekend inspiration: sizzix

 

On this page Leeann has used the ever so popular decorative strip die to make an assortment of rosettes; they are so easy and super quick to piece together, making them the perfect embellishment for any page. You can’t miss that bright background, there’s plenty of texture happening in there to. Leeann used the honeycomb textured impressions for extra detail.

 

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The button card textural plate was the starting point to this card set, then simply  embellished with buttons, large rhinestones, brads and wee bit of cotton thread, finishing if off by using the basket weave and honeycomb impressions plate on some “here or there”  - echo parks  chalkboard pattern paper and matt. Then simply adhere to your folder cardstock. Now just sent to button lover friends!

 

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Today we have a very colourful textured layout created by Mou Saha who also happens to be a Design team member for Sizzix, you can see she has used an assortment of Sizzix dies to cut and also emboss then simply adding pops of colour through using Glimmer Mist. Thank you so Much Mou Saha for allowing us to share this very colourful and inspiring layout. You can see more of her Sizzix creations here and on her Blog here.

 

We have another talented lady who is part of the UK Sizzix team.  Janna Werner shares a few projects with us. On this first project you can see many shapes all clustered around the photo. This was achieved using the starters kit which has an assortment of shapes frames etc.

 

Theses two stunningly beautiful cards were created by Janna Werner . You can see the texture created by using the Sizzix embossing folders on the background. It totally adds that extra slice of detail. We would like to thank Janna Werner for allowing us to share more of her stunning creations. You can see more of Janna’s work on the UK Sizzix blog here and also on her Blog here. 

introducing: elizabeth crafts designs

 

This month Aussie Scrap Source received its first shipment of dies form Elizabeth Craft Designs and Leanne was excited to be one of our first design team members to get creating with them.  Leanne loves the dies as they are beautifully manufactured, pay particular attention to detail and have some very unique designs just perfect for her card making and off the page projects. They would also be perfect for scrapbook layouts and the small scale of many of the dies also make them perfect for pocket page style scrapbooking too.

This first card features one of the multi-layered small butterflies and the curvy leaves dies.  The dies are intricately designed and cut cleanly and quickly.  The inbuilt embossing sections also add to the detail on the leaves.  The sentiment on this card was created using the “Thinking of You” die – they are just the right size for personalising cards.

 

For this card Leanne created some tiny layered flowers using the Bunch of Flowers die.  The three different sizes of each flower allow you to create many different size flowers and layers.  
Leanne used the multi toned paper from the paper pad to give the flowers some variation and by using the tool kit from Sizzix she could sculpt the flower petals.  Leanne then finished off each flower with a pearl or three

 

 

This card used both the tag and gift dies.  Leanne added a frame to the tag by cutting a second tag down and layering it underneath the original tag.  The hearts that were cut out of the gift box were also perfect to re-use to add to the detail on the card.

 

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Elizabeth Craft Designs shares many of their creations and those of others who use their dies, stickers and other products on their Facebook page.  These tags feature the following dies: Triple Leaf Set, Tags, Bunch of Flowers 2 and the gorgeous Ladybug.

These two projects are just beautiful and highlight the versatility of the dies.  Thank you for sharing your creations with us! 

 

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This festive card features the Wreath Bow and the Birdie.

 

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We are excited to share some more creations featuring Elizabeth Craft Designs dies by the amazingly talented Kittie Caracciolo.  Kittie has used the Bunch of Flowers 2 and the Curvy Leaves dies to create these stunning and intricate cards.  Her attention to detail is phenomenal. You can see more of her beautiful work over on her blog.  She also has a number of tutorials featuring these dies too.  Thank you so much Kittie for sharing your beautiful work with us.

 

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weekend inspiration: me & my big ideas

 

Jane Clark said that MAMBI has certainly made cardmaking easy with these pre-scored card pads and sticker packs that have an abundance of motifs and sentiments to choose from!!! Jane has made us three cards showing us that you can add a collections of arrows for a dramatic effect, or cut out a section and insert acetate for a cool effect.

 

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How fabulous is this traditional fresh layout using Pocket Pages by MAMBI’s Guest Designer Stephanie Buice.  We love the touch of citrus and the centralised design.

 

 

Shelby Stritchard uses Poket Pages to create a stylised photo frame.  Quick, simple and just perfect!

weekend inspiration: becky higgins project life

 

Project Life is such a popular trend and we all love were its going.  Leeann loves the whole idea because it’s so quick and simple with already made up cards. She has decided to step out of the box and create a mini album for an up and coming holiday to Phuket using the 3x4 and 6x4 project life core honey cards. She added a few splats of ink, washi tape, random stamping, machine stitching and embellishments. She stitched together the 6x4 cards and created pockets so that she could add memorabilia/journaling from the trip, then using a binding machine created this mini album which is ready to fill while on holiday by the whole family.

 

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As an added extra, Leeann created this page using one of the 3x4 project life core honey cards and simply cut the quote up and used it for her title /journaling. You can see that the cards have many possibilities.

 

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The talented Leanne Allinson has kindly allowed us to share two weeks from her project life weeks 5 and weeks 33. And if you would like to see more of Leanne’s project life pages go here.

 

Another Fabulous scrapper is Kim Jeffress who is also taking on project life and she shares week 33 with us. You can see more of Kim’s project life pages too just here.

weekend inspiration: prima

 Dont forget to send us your flowers and metal projects by this Sunday night.  All the details can be found in this post.

 

Louise loves how the industrial style metal embellishments and the beautiful subtle designs of the pattern paper coordinate so perfectly. The colours are beautify coordinated and suit both male and female themed photos.

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These 2 beautiful layouts were created by the wonderful talent of Ania Dabrowska.  Ania has created two amazing product releases with Prima her latest line is featured in the projects being showcased.

 

 

This wonderful layout was created by talented Prima Design Team member Kasia Krzyminska. Kasia has created this layout to showcase the new Finnabair range of products.

 

This wonderful journal was created by another talented Prima DT member, Kelly Foster. Isn't it just fabulous?!

 

 

This fabulous cushion was created by the talented Prima DT member Delaina Burns. Delaina has showcased the versatility of Prima's new Finnabair releases with her wonderfully creative design.

weekend inspiration: glitz

 

 

 

Glitz Design's Wild & Free range is easy to adore, as Danielle found when she created this cute layout. Arrow motifs, feathers, horses and cheerful colours abound, making it easy to pull a page together. Danielle loves accenting with washi tape, and used anchor washi tape from one of Glitz's previous ranges to casually hug her photo. A second washi tape design - arrows from the Dapper Dan range - has been laid in strips on some spare card before being cut into cloud shapes to embellish Danielle's background. Cute stars and extra details come from the Wild & Free sticker sheets.

 

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Audrey Yeager, from the Glitz design team earlier this year created this fabulous card. Glitz washi tape is used to create a fun effect, and Audrey gives step by step instructions here too.

 

 

The super talented Christy Tomlinson here shares with us her gorgeous mixed media canvas, with more close ups and information on her blog -Christy has used Glitz banner details and creates flower stems from Glitz washi tape!

 

Another Glitz design team member, Mou Saha, here creates a stunning, arty and funky layout using lots of paper strips and washi tape from various Glitz ranges.

 

 

Sarah Owens, of Craft Warehouse, here shares tips and tricks for creating a fun canvas using Glitz Designs washi tape and other products.

weekend inspiration: cosmo cricket

 

Danielle enjoyed using the earthy tones of Cosmo Cricket's Smore Love range for this layout. The River Rocks paper of the background is echoed by layering over the top the same design but in a washed out version. It acts as a sort of window to the page.
Cosmo Cricket's Element deck was a great source, not only of journaling spots, but also other patterned details that could be cut up to add interest around the page. Gluber strips with some bright coloured ribbons add a dimensional touch.

 

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Suz Doyle used the fabulous Summer Love collection for this cute page.  Grey is very in vogue right now and this colour palette pops perfectly on the neutral background.  Cosmo’s fun embellishments include die cut tags and double sided chipboard banner alphas.  Because Suz had run out of the letters she needed she was able to turn them over and adhere wooden letters to the backs to create her title.

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How adorable are these two cards, created by Julie Comstock using the Summer Love collection.  She even provides a tutorial on how she created them on the Cosmo blog here.

 

TV Dinners is a fabulous 50’s inspired range, and we loved this gift box that Donna Budzynski has created showcasing the retro star bursts.

 

Another fabulous example of the rich retro colours of the TV Dinners line by Julie Comstock.

 

 

And finally, Sandy Ang, of Singapore, shares this funky Cosmo Cricket page that she created with CitrusTwist Kits.

weekend inspiration: echo park papers

 

 

When Leeann saw the birthday wishes collection by Echo Park she knew the photos she wanted to use. Leeann loved the colours in this collection and loved the sticker elements sheet also. It all coordinates perfectly and made creating this page super easy! That yellow chevron pattern paper is something! This was the staring point in this page. Leeann creating layers under her photo using the journal accents, she also trimmed a few sentiments from them. She made tiny Polaroid frames from the pattern paper and embellished with a sticker and stitching.

 

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Leeann used the fabulous Everyday Eclectic line for this layout and the following one.  Their fun bold designs lend themselves to subtle layering effects, and we love how she has matted each layer with kraft to add give each design a neutral base.

 

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Leanne created this quick and no fuss background by using assorted 12” masks with mists, and paper-pieced patterned paper shapes  in layers over the background.  The combination of the starbust design and the chevrons can’t help but draw your idea to the focal point – the photo of her gorgeous daughter.

 

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Kim has used the Photo Freedom Volume 1 range from Echo Park.  Although the various Photo Freedom ranges are designed to work with the divided page protectors that are available as part of the range, Kim has shown how easy it is to also use these papers to create standard 12x12 pages.  Kim says that she loves using paper ranges that include "phrases" in their papers or embellishments and that is why she enjoyed working with the Photo Freedom Volume 1 range.

 

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We have some fabulous pages created by Chantelle Huizenga who has used a mixed of echo park papers and embellishments, from some of the oldest to the latest collection! Thank you so much Chantelle for allowing us to share a few of your creative pages. You can see more of Chantelle"s work here.

 

 

 

 

These next lot of layouts and card were created by Susan Springfellow who happens to be a design team member for echo park. All of her work is truly inspiring with so much detail added to each piece. Thank you so much Susan for letting us share some of your fabulous creations. You can see more of Susan’s work right HERE.

weekend inspiration: jenni bowlin studios

 

 

 

Jill has created a collage out of the Jenni Bowlin Studio papers to create a 12" x 12" canvas.  By looking closely at your papers, there are always possibilities to make something a little out of the box.

 

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There is no doubt that Jenni Bowlin brings out  such cool vintage embellishments and Leeann loved playing with all the sticker elements. layering them and turning a couple into buttons by punching holes. One of Leeann's favourite embellishments from Jenni Bowlin is the cardstock feather. So on trend and totally fun! This page was created on a piece of Core'dinations cardstock which is from a collection of embossed cardstock. Leeann used the paint daubers and swipe it around the cardstock edges and lighter all over the background. she also used the paint daubers on a mask and then stamped the design on the cardstock. 

 

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This fine lady certainly knows how to work Jenni Bowlin products! Here we have a few fabulous creations by Gina Rogers. We love use of paint and layers clusters of embellishments!  Total awesome, Thanks so much Gina for letting us share a few of your amazing pieces of work. You can see more of Gina's work here.

 

These four scrapbook pages are created by Natalie Elphinstone who is a design team member for Jenni Bowlin. We love how all of Natalie's pages just pop with  burst of colour, her design style is pretty awesome as well. Thank you so much for letting us share a few of your fabulous pages!

 

 

 

Here we have a few pages created by tina Walker, who also has a fabulous design style and knows just how to layer and pop colours using jenni bowlin products. Amazing creations Tina! Thank you so much for letting us share a few of your pages! You can see more of Tina's work here.

weekend inspiration: sizzix

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lou Nelson lends her creative mind to the Tim Holtz Tattered Flower die on the above projects.  She has cut it out of the Tim Holtz Glassine paper and used the distressed negatives to give fabulous texture and interest to her backgrounds.

 

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Leeanne Whitby has created these three beautiful cards using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die by Sizzix and the beautiful papers and element stickers from BasicGrey’s Lucille collection.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Check out the fabulously creative use of the shapes in this versatile die.  Leanne Whitby has layered them to create new flowers and even used petals in the card above to create a whole new butterfly shape.

 

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Chris Millar has made beautiful use of the Sizzix Framelits Fancy Square in these versatile cards, and shows how many new shapes you can create from one die if you just think out of the box a little.  Instant texture is created by cutting the dies on embossed Coredinations cardstock.

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weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

 

 

Jill has created a canvas using layers of the Pink Paisley Hope Chest range and gave it some texture by painting in Raw Umber using the stencil.  She has cut small interesting features out of the papers making an inspirational canvas for any wall.

 

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Cottage Farms from Pink Paislee is a beautiful collection with peach, pink  and cream tones with a pop of lime green.  Sue loves the photo frames in the collection and just had to use them on her page.  Sue has used both the 12x12 papers as well as the 6x6 pad to utilise the smaller prints. 

 

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This magical page was created by Pink Paislee DT Member Nina Osterman using the gorgeous Pink Paislee Luxe collection and watercolour accents. 

 

 

Karola Witzcak always creates beautiful pages, and this one is no exception.  She has combined the stunning Cottage Farms photo frames with HopeChest papers and a smattering of the Luxe metallics to create this gloriously detailed page full of layers and textures.

 

 

How pretty is this card, designed by Shellye McDaniel?  We love the way she has used a mixed of Cottage Farms, Luxe and Hope Chest to create her cards.  Those burlap butterflies are to die for! 

weekend inspiration: my minds eye

 

 

 

 

Iris has always been a huge fan of My Mind's Eye. The reason - beautiful patterned papers with a whole matching collection including washi tapes, chipboard shapes, dimensional stickers, buttons and brads, stamps.... they thought of everything! Here, Iris takes a little bit from several embellishment packs to create this layout. Then she added a colourful outer border to the layout using torn washi tapes.

 

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This time, Iris creates a Project Life page using the tags from the same collection.

 

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Stacey is a big fan of the My Mind's Eye ranges and here she has created a funtastic layout using the Collectable collection.  In this collection there are 4 different colour schemes and this one is called Unforgettable.  She primarily took the yellow, mustard and turquoise colours out of the collection to suit the photo of her little boy.  She really loved the hexagon paper and couldn't help but cut some of those out and layer with foam tape.  The decorative buttons where also a great addition to the layout as they come in different shapes and sizes.

 

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Thankyou to Belinda Spencer for allowing us to share her Silly Faces layout.  Here Belinda has used the Collectable Notable collection. Her picture just matches in perfectly to the colours of this collection. 

 

Felicity Wilson has kindly shared her gorgeous creation with us using a little mix of 2 Collectable collections "Notable" and "Remarkable".  We just love her fun use of circles and her bold boyish colours.

 

 

Kim Price has also given us inspiration here with the Collectable Notable collection.  Her mixed media work is just fabulous teamed with the Notable paper.  The cute button adds a little more interest to this amazing piece.  Thanks for allowing us to share your work Kim.

 

 

Tina Walker is completely obsessed with scrapbooking and mixed media and love how they both embrace all types of medium, styles, and techniques. When asked If she had to describe her 'style', she said “I'm a craft chameleon.  I move (and am comfortable) with one style to the next; clean, graphic lines, to mixed up and cluttered.”  Tina’s work can be seen in various magazines (Scrapbook Trends, Creating Keepsakes, and Somerset Memories) and she is also on the Design Team for My Mind's Eye. She shares with us today, two amazing My Mind’s Eye layouts that will make you want to create asap! And a bit about the layouts...

Her first layout “Can you see me now” makes a beautiful sample layout for the new collection, 'Find Your Wings and Fly'. It is one of her all time favorites

 

 

Tina Walker’s 2nd layout “Believe in Yourself” showcases her love for sunbursts...they are free, fresh, and fun!  Tina really wanted to make a bold statement about her son, so a sunburst was the perfect design element for him.