" 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

" Simply Adorable "

Hello everyone,
 welcome to another White With1 challenge. 
I want to share with you all my design team layout for this months colour,   'Lavender '

I just love this colour, its just so pretty and so girly. Everything I just love to do. This is a photo of my Mum and my Grandaughter Emelia. My Mum lost part of her finger when I was about 6 months old opening a can of baby food. Emelia was so intrigued that 'Little Nanny" (that's what the grandkids call her ) finger that she wouldn't let go of it, that's what Mum is laughing at. 

Torn edges top and bottom and then inked. I random punched these edges. 

Lace peeking out just adds that girly feel.

I used a stencil and added some Impasto then Gelatos and water to get that soft inked look.

White ink with white embossing powder with a script stencil.

I find that the white ink from Stamping up just wont dry but if I use embossing 

powder over the top and heat set it, its brilliant.

You will see that the script writing is running down the page. This is because I was going to run the 

page the other way but I liked it more the way it is.

This is the March colour at White With 1. 

There are some great prizes up for grabs, so why not have a 

go and play with this gorgeous colour.

The ScrapFX and 2Crafty chipboard have been painted and rubbed with a white shimmer ink

from Mr Huey. I love these strings of diamante  and think they look gorgeous running down the page.

Plus the little diamond hearts just finish off the jewels.

Lots of layers as usual. I don't think I could do a 'flat ' layout. I did several 

layers of white embossing on the title till I got the look I was after. 

Not as smooth as I normally have 

but I still like it.

I have been trying to use lots of those left over pieces of chipboard that we all seem to accumulate

and in this layout I found some 2Crafty pieces that I painted white and added some

 of the lavender Gelato to the edges.

I added some Lavender splatters to the background to finish it off.

I found the bridges in my chipboard left over box. Yes I have a plastic tub/box that sits on my 

work space and I put all my left over chipboard pieces in it. When I do a layout I am trying to 

get into a habit of checking this to see if there is anything I can use.

Love these D-lish flowers and my 'little bird" peeking 

out over the top. I think he is gorgeous.

Flourish with Bling puffy flourish on the background was just the perfect colour. Some more chippy 

vines that I painted white. 

Well there are lots more to see on this layout and I do love to add lots of little 

bits and pieces of yummy goodies.

Till next time

keep on scrapping 

Hugz Carol xx

Some of the products I used:

White cardstock

Ceramcoat paint

2Crafty Chipboard

ScrapFX chipboard

D-lish 'After 5 Flowers'

Prima flowers

Petaloo flowers

Enthaily flowers

Gelatos

Mont Marte diamonds

"Favourite Memories"

Hello again,

 thanks so much for dropping by.

Today I'm sharing a very vintage layout that I completed as part of the design Team at Color, Stories and Inspiration for case file 192. I loved the darker colours in this case file and to me they just screamed vintage.

This is a photo of my Dad's mother " Ann" as a young girl.

I decided that this time I was not going to re-touch the photo at all. I thought it was just perfect the way it was..

Lots of case file elements in this one. 

The tearing of the papers, the old fashioned newspaper prints then all inked in aged mahogany distress ink looks amazing.

This is case file 192 as easy as 1 . 2. 3

1. The Scheme all 5 colours here -  Charcoal gray, Light gray, White, Flax yellow and Maroon

2. The Evidence I used the following-  newspaper, birdcage, bird, heart, leaves, flowers, vintage elements, distressing, and tearing.

3. The Testimony- I wrote the testimony on the back of the layout and I wrote a list of at least 7 things. I did it in the form of the family tree and was bale to go back 8 generations.

I found this piece of old lace in my stash and I think it just goes beautifully here.

All the chippy pieces and the wooden birdcage all were painted then I rubbed

inka gold paste and finished  them off with a few micro beads.

Lots of flowers on this layout (as usual) I rubbed a little inka gold paste 

on some of the flowers for this layout. I picked up the little yellow resin flowers in  Officeworks, gorgeous and self sticking.

Love the added Microbeads

Lots of layers of papers, wooden clock and the die cut paper clock.

I found this " Mont Marte"mannequin in one of the $2 shops in my area, little bit 

of dressing up and I think it looks very vintage.

 Just the right embellishment for this layout.

Some of the items I used:

Plain cardstock

Carta Bella  paper " Yesterday Ads "

Kaisercraft  paper - Art of Life collection  " " Creative"

Ceramcoat - Maroon

Jo Sonja Naples yellow

Mont Marte Mannequin

2 Crafty Cartia's swirl

Scrap FX chipboard

Green Tara flowers - Blossoms Ochre, Blossoms, Fantasy blooms

Petaloo flowers -Wild Mini blossoms

Prima Flowers - Parchment petals scrolls, Cartographer Adventurer

Officeworks-  resin flowers

Micro beads

Inka Gold paste

wooden birdcage and bird

lace

Thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" You Rock My World"

Hi everyone, thanks so much for dropping by to have a peek at this layout, which I must add, is one of my all time favs.

This one I created for CSI as part of the DT which is for the " Major" case file no 191.

I just love the colours in this case file and of course I

love all things girly so what a combination for me.

This is my eldest granddaughter " Emelia"

I started by created the base page with watercolour which is one of the case file elements.

After if was dry I added the star bursts with some Archival ink and a stencil.

Tear a Kaszazz paper and adding a plain white card stock gave me my starting point.

Love these little owls and I added the "googly eyes" which are one of the case file evidence requirements.I picked up the string in one of the cheap shops recently.

Oh and the circular diamonds are from the Reject shop here in Australia.

They are also stocking a few bits of scrapping item.

I added the bunting which I edged in gold Inka gold paste as I did the edges of the layout.

The other items that I did was to paint the chipboard pieces with the Inka Gold too.

I found some beautiful white and gold ribbon in my stash which I cut out 

some fishtail tags and I ran it through the Bigshot and made some gorgeous little bows 

which you can see on the layout.

I added a huge white polka dot bow to the cluster with all those stunning flowers. There are doilies behind the cluster. The pink and gold butterflies are from a paper in one of those 6 x6 paper packs, I love those.

I added some dots to the background with the Inka Gold paste in the pink colour.

You can see I splashed around some white too.

How beautiful is this case file, so here are the elements that I use:

The Scheme; I used all five colours.

The Evidence: I use the following, watercolour (the base page) strips, birds, stars, triangles, string, banner, hearts and googly eyes.

The Testimony is on the back of the layout, I used the inspirational words and it reads:

Emelia, it is such a treat to have you come over and visit Nanny and Poppy. We both love to hear all your stories and now that you have started school they are longer stories.

On this day we sat on the back deck, with you on the table  with your treats.

I decided to get my camera and while you were engrossed in your tales I snapped these photos. I love that you had no idea what I was doing and the look of surprise on your face when you realised that I was taking them was just so funny.

I rotated the sketch a little but kept the photos the same

Some of the products I used...

Plain  cardstock

Kazazz paper

Kaisercraft 6x6 paper pad "All the Glitters"

Flowers:

Prima - Charlotte

Enthaily

Petaloo -velvet hydrangeas

Green Tara - Fantasy Blooms rose 

Delish - after five

Delish white leaves

Delish heart doily

ScrtapFX chipboard

2crafty chipboard

doilies

watercolour paints

Archival ink

Inka Gold pastes

thanks for stopping by

tiill next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Love This "

Hi and thanks for taking the time to stop by my little blog. 

I really appreciate it.

Today I'm sharing my Design Team layout for case file 190 at 

Color,Stories and Inspiration

This is photo of my youngest son " Wade " and our fur-baby " Charli Girl"

not long after we got her. We had a pool way back then and Wade would take her for a little swim in the pool.

Today she got a little tired and went to sleep in his arms. 

Wade didn't mind as he was cool in the pool.

For this layout I tore my papers down the page. 

I added the white and the striped as it was just missing something without them.

The bottom paper had some dots added with texture paste. 

The birds were stenciled on with black Distress ink 

How cute are the little fish "swimming" across the page?: 

I just love to add lots of pretties to my pages.

They didn't photograph well, but there are 2 sign posts in the bottom

cluster with Wade and Charli Girl on them

The case file evidence called for something in wood so I found this anchor and decided to 

leave the title "a la natural "

Of course I had to have flowers on the page so I changed the colour of the 

daisies and the little Green Tara ones. I love the jute string ribbon also from Green Tara

and have just been waiting for a page to put it on. Adhered some Micro beads to it.

I have a few of these wooden thongs and how good do they look on 'a 

" beachy" page. I found the little white anchors and the ships wheel was white 

too, so I changed its colour to match the page.

Oh I just love this ScrapFX light house. This is a 2 pack and I used the smaller one.

I had it white but it was missing something so I added the stripes, LOVE IT!!

My journalling is on the tags behind the photo.

I always keep a look out for those little pretties, those gorgeous embellies when I'm

out shopping or at garage sales and on the internet. In this layout you can see heaps 

of them including the sunglasses in this photo.

Oh the last thing I did was to add some Micro beads and I think they look like 

weed under the water.

Case File 190 at CSI. If you haven't played along yet

its as easy as 1.2.3

Case file Elements

The Scheme...I have used all the 5 colours listed

The Evidence..I used the following stripes,bird,nautical elements,scallops hearts,wood, 

The Testimony... I chose to write about a special bond and it is on the scalloped tags behind the photos and it reads:

Wade and Charli Girl relaxing  in the pool we used to have. Wade came with me to get Charli Girl and since that day they have been inseparable. When she was so little he would carry her around, putting her in the pool ever so gentle just to cool her down. He would put her on the surf board and float her around the pool. He never put her in the water on her own and never left her unattended near the pool. You can see here in the photo that it all just got to much for the little Charli Girl, so when Wade stood, chatting me me she walked over, climbed into his arms and went to sleep. She knew she would be safe. Wade didn't move  for ages and when he finally did, he lifted her ever so gently and placed her in her bed to continue her sleep. She knew she was safe in his arms.

Friends forever !!

Some of the products used:

White card stock

Kaisercraft Sandy Toes collection  

" Ocean"

 "Flip Flops"

" Seashells"

Bella BLVD Color Chaos " Ice Strandz"

ScrapFX Chipboard

Prima flowers

Kaisercraft wooden anchor

Dusty Attic chipboard

Kaisercraft cutouts

Green Tara jute ribbon

Green Tara Fantasy Blooms

Petaloo Forget me nots, Botanial Collection - gray blue

2Crafty chipboard

Jo Sonja paints - Brown earth, Nimbus gray

Distress Inks , Faded jeans, black soot

gauze, Micro beads, string, wooden hearts,shells,fish and all the other embellies...

thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Those Eyes "

Hi there everyone and thanks for stopping by today.

I am sharing my Design Team work for White With 1

For this month, February they have the very interesting colour of

" Chocolate"

This gorgeous photo, which I might add is a friends daughter  is just perfect for this colour.

Using lots a ScrapFX chipboard and teaming them with 

Prima and Petaloo flowers cant beat that combo. Lots of stamping on the 

background plus some stenciling that once dry I rubbed some chocolate Gelatos and Distress ink

 over

just so that it would stand out that little more.

The Resin Rainbow generously provided some

gorgeous little resin embellies for this month.

Here's another of the resin pieces, the doily. How gorgeous is that. 

I cut it in half for this layout. I love to add lots if layers to my pages.

All the ScrapFX chipboard, painted white and then I added a 

shimmer over the top.

More resin embellishments, yummo. Bits of gauze poked in here

and there.

I left the white round the photo and added a brown matt, just 

something a little different for me. Tags and butterflies.

You can see the ripped paper best in this photo. The resin star

with splashes of white on some of the flowers.

The resin feathers, aren't they just gorgeous and so many

 layouts that you an use them on.

Love my flowers on my layouts. 

Love doing those shabby chic girly pages.

White With 1, take a look and have a go for this month. Can't wait 

to see your layout...

Some of the products I used:

Plain card stock

Graphic45 Kraft Reflections Collection -"Bed of Roses"

ScrapFX chipboard

The Resin Rainbow

Script stencil

Gelatos

Distress Ink

Jo Sonja  paint

Petaloo flowers

Prima flowers

Enthaily flowers

Kaiserraft Cutouts

Gauze

Enthaily butterflies

Lace

Thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx