" Scrapaholic "

Hi everyone and welcome back to my little blog.

Today I'm so happy to be sharing a layout that I did as part of the Design Team at

White With 1

This is a very pretty colour for this month's challenge.

Yes this is a rare picture of me, which was taken about 2 years ago at my very first scrapbooking retreat. 

It was at the beautiful Summerland point in the Lake Macquarie are of New South Wales.

These little resin birds are a new addition to my scrapping family from

The Resin Rainbow, do yourself a fav and have a look at 

all the wonderful designs they have on offer.

Tore the white paper in half and added a layer of the houndstooth pattern and lace.

lots and lots of layers in this one. More wildlife in the birds and the glass ladybirds

on the flowers, can you see their eyes looking at you?

Bead, or anything else you can think of into the bottle top adds a little more interest to the layers too.

All the chipboard pieces were painted white.

Love to add a quote/words to these resin frames.

Prills, prills and more prills, I just love them. I have adhered them

to the ends of the painted chipboard seed stems.

The chabachon is handmade by ME!

thanks for stopping by and here are some other products that I used
Sue Smyth dies
2crafty chipboard
ScrapFX chipboard
Prills
Petaloo flowers
Entaily flowers
The rainbow Resin resin birds
lace 
stencils
Lindy Stamp Gang spray - "Pop Rocks Purple"

till next time
Carol xx

" The Two of Us "

Hi and welcome back again to my little blog. 

This was a layout for White With 1 for the month of April.

I am a little behind in uploading some of my blog 

entries as you can see.  

I completely forgot to load this one for 

April but here it is now, I hope you like it.

This is a photo of my youngest son Wade and his girlfriend Kelsey when they were first going out.

It was such a long time ago now (approx 4 years) and they just look so young and so cute. 

This was taken at a pirate party at our home.

I used a corrugated piece of cardstock and painted it white.

I left most of the paper backing on it except one small part in one of the corners.

O then dribbled heaps of the red colour down the grooves in the corrugation, the problem was that the gorgeous Kelsey said  it looked a lot like blood so hence why it was turned on the side.

I must say I do like it like this.

White With 1 April colour " Jester Red"

I used some drinking straws painted in the colour and wrapped thin lace around them. 

Love the effect it made.     

I added some bits of  "2Crafty interlocking grid pattern " chipboards 

that I painted white and flicked some red glitter on.

I love the title in this red glitter. Just made it pop off the page.

I had fussy cut out a few red flowers of the right red but you can only

see them in the main photo.

The skeleton leaf die cut was perfect as I didn't want a solid leaf. 

I painted the wooden filigree heart white. 

Added a paper bow and glitter flowers to the cluster.

I love these tassel die cuts. I used red glitter paper to cut them out for this layout.

Bits of white string behind the photo with 

die cut string of hearts running down the side of the photo.

More of the red tassels with beautiful glitter flowers and 

a few white stars with the hearts.

More flowers, hearts and stars.

I finished the layout off with flicks of red paint.

Some of the items used:

Corrugated board

Ceramcoat -white & mixed red

glitter

Couture Creations Ultimate Crafts -" Magnolia Lane dies"

2crafty Chipboard

ScrapFX Chipboard

drinking straws

lace

string

FLOWERS;

Enthaily flowers

Petaloo

Thanks for stopping by

and please leave a little love

keep on scrapping

Carol xo

" Beautiful Daughter "

Hi and welcome back.

This is my Design Team layout for White With 1

for the month of May.

This month's colour is the gorgeous 

" Tangerine Tango "

This is my baby girl  " Kyra " during her pre-school year many years ago..

Kyra is now the mother of 2 gorgeous little girls of her own. So my baby is no longer that cute little girl she is now a beautiful young lady, Mum and wife. How quick does time fly by?

For this one I  randomly punched some of the edges and then inked all the edges.

Using a chevron punch and put two rows on the bottom and both sides. I love the way the under paper comes through the chevron arrows..

I embossed some different sized circles on plain white card stock.

Using Gelatos and an Aqua brush I slowly coloured in the circles making

sure I shaded them lighter to darker.

This month's gorgeous colour

Once I punched out the chevron shapes down the sides and I had inked the edges

I added those pretty little Prills to the edges.

 Love those little balls of yumminess.

I love this large die cut butterfly.

 I added some Gelato colour to the body and then some glitter.

You can see where I have used some texture paste on the circles on the background 

and added some smaller solid circles.   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     All the chipboard is painted with white Ceramcoat paint.

The papers behind the phto's you can see I did a little punching on those too.

Added some doilies to the layers and then I thought 

it would be really cute to add angel wings to this little angel.

Just a close up of the chevron punching with my embelly fav at the

moment which are Prills

Love this large butterfly and this was the perfect layout to use it on.

Its just a shame that you can't see the glitter on it because

it is beautiful. 

Added some random  bits of chipboard left over from other projects.

Some of the items I used..

White card stock

Tangerine Cardstock

Prills

Gelatos

White embossing powder

2Crafty chipboard

ScrapFX chipboard

Ceramcoat paint

glitter

Enthaily flowers

Lace flowers

Pearls

Stampin Up chevron punch

Thanks for taking the time to stop by

Don't forget to leave a little love

Carol xo

" Siblings"

Hi everyone and thank you so much 

for stopping by.

Today I am sharing a layout that I did for the challenge site Color,Stories and Inspiration as part of the design team.

This is a photo that was taken at my youngest son, " Wade "at his 21st birthday family dinner.

This is him on the right with his older sister and brother.

Its so hard to get these 3 together for a nice photo.

I distressed down each side of the layout and added a layer from Bo Bunny - Double Dot collection "Chiffon Vintage" . All the fussy cut flowers were inked around the edges with Distress ink.

The ScrapFX title was painted with  ceramcoat paint.

The Case File

The Scheme:  Buttery Yellow, Turquoise, orange, White and Copper Brown.

The Evidence: I used stripes, googly eyes, light bulbs, bows, labels and circles.

The Testimony: I wrote  my journalling on the back of the page. I wrote about the night which was for Wade's 21st.

Some of its personal (sorry) but some of it goes like this.. Happy 21st to my baby Wade. I begged and begged for you to have a party but no, you are not the man to be put in the spotlight. So we had a small family dinner and it turned out to be a funny night. I gave you the traditional socks and jocks, all wrapped separately. Photo time and of course in each photo except the one above, one of you three pulled a stupid face. This seems to be a tradition in our family when having photos taken. I must say on this night your "Siblings " played up more than you did.

I sat with a cuppa and fussy cut out heaps of the flowers to place around the photo. I found the little 

bird in my Kaiser cut outs and added a googly eyes as per the case file.

The background paper Kaisercraft - Paradiso Collection " Sandy Toes"  had so much on it that all I did was add some Gesso with a credit card. Popped some tags from the Kaiser cutouts stash with the date on on of them, 

I use some 2Crafty chicken wire which I inked with Distress ink 

then some random brown embossing powder.

I found these layered butterflies in my stash and they are just perfect for this page.

You can see all the layers in this side photo. I added a key to 

signify Wades 21st. I love the date stamp on the side.

CSI has a library with heaps of items you can print off and use on your layouts.

Here you can see the yellow paper in the layers, this is from the CSI library.

21 for his birthday and some fussy cut out butterflies to go with the 

other layered butterflies.

I felt that the flowers needed some depth to them so I added

some buttery yellow pearl paste to the centre of them all.

Finished the layout off with some Petaloo flowers in the Turquoise.

This is case file 196

Some of the other items I used;

Brown bassill card stock

2Crafty chicken wire chipboard

Petaloo flowers

Gesso

lightbulb

metal key

string

CSI papers from the library