I did manage to find some time to get a couple of the Hey Little Magpie challenges for the (inter)national scrapbooking weekend. And I managed to film this one!
This challenge was to use the sketch Kirei gave us …
And I used this for my page to share the pictures of my Mums birthday celebration.
Used papers that were from the pile I put aside for the #100patternedpaper challenge and also some embellishments from the stash – a mix of 49& market and some HLM bits and bobs.
Love how the page came out and good to be scrapping again at my new desk!
I love the stitching I also added in to add texture to the page.
So Kingston Crafts have brought out another set of glitter glues – some colours are the same from last time (which fortunately included the clear as that’s the one I use the most of!) – but also some new colours – a black, silver and pink- so concentrated on those colours for this fun 3d piece of artwork!
I decided to show the fab coverage that these glitter glues have by adding to the wooden stars I had in my stash. then I let them dry and created a fun textural background from lots of bits in the stash and then added a good coat of gesso over the top of the background.
Next I took the KC shimmer sprays and sprayed with both the silvery colour and the bright pink.
Again I had to set that aside to dry before glueing all the stars in place onto the front.
Then I had to decide how to finish off. I went with a heat embossed wood veneer and some black acetate stars.
I really love how this looked and just needed to then finish off with some fun offcuts of trim and ribbon to the top of the hanger.
Really is such a fun and textural project – so much dimension and most importantly shine with all that sparkly glitter!
Love how this helps to show off the new colours of this fab glitter glue! And it did get to have a brief moment on tv too – so a lovely little ‘as seen on tv’ project!
Yesterdays plan for doing loads of scrapbook challenges for (inter)national scrapbooking day didn’t exactly work as ended up at the walk-in centre with my poorly Mum. Managed to obtain the medication she needed and she had her mind put at rest on some symptoms so it was worth the change in plan, but does mean I am sharing a DT project rather than the scrapbook pages I had intended!
So I decided that I really wanted to try embossing on the card blanks and this worked so well.
I stamped the large Swallowtail using versamark onto the blue coloured patterned blank. I then embossed it with white.
This was so lovely and bright against the background. I decided that it needed a little more ink to just help to ground it so blended the Salty ocean ink on to the card around the swallowtail.
I love the shadow effect it gives it!
I kept the card simple with then a finish of some enamel dots and the sentiment.
Simple but beautiful!
Love the graphic background of the cards and how the image works on top with the embossing!
Now the plan for today is to get some errands done and then I hope for some time crafting! Maybe today I will get to those pages I wanted to make?
Today is (inter)national scrapbooking day and I am hoping to join in with a few challenges later but have some errands to run this morning so decided to make my #scrappinsaturday post one of the design team samples I already had ready to share.
I wanted to make a very different for me scrapbook page by incorporating the glitter glue – don’t know why but it isn’t something I often think to use when scrapbooking.
But I think you’ll agree it really stepped up the chipboard shapes to make them fun!
I started by inking and then coating the chipboard shapes in glitter and then left them to dry.
I decided that the photos of our Peony tree in bloom was the best subject to use the glittery flowers with so started with a base of the pink with a smaller panel of the vellum at an angle. Then I wanted some quite graphic lines in there to contrast the softer pretty elements so decided to sew some wonky boxes using my machine.
This gave a fun base to the page. I added my photos and then started assembling the flowers and leaves in their glittery goodness! I glued them in place and then left it overnight – it’s always important to remember it can take a little longer to dry on vellum.
Next morning I finished the page – adding in the title, some stickers and the journalling.
Really love how the glittery flowers and leaves give the page some real wow factor!
Keeping the rest of it quite simple allows the photos to shine with the glitter elements adding just the extra touch of sparkle.
Also love how the colours of the glitter work with the layer of colour underneath – so cool!
So a fun scrapbook page – I think quite different in style to my normal pages but I love it!
