" 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

Happy Birthday Dad

Hi all and I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter.

Today I have a quick share, its a birthday card I made recently for my Father-in-law. Don't often get a chance to make cards and especially masculine ones.

I die cut out all the cogs and adhered them to the front layer.

Some Gesso lightly brushed on and then I added the Inka Gold paste

in the silver, bronze and the turquoise.

Some string, some tags and stamping and all finished off

with some eyelets.

Very simple but so effective.

Thanks for stopping by 

Carol xx

" Kindy "

Happy Easter to everyone and I hope you are having a wonderful time with all your families.

 Today I want to share a layout that I have created for Color, Stories and Inspiration as part of the design team.
This one was created for case file 195.

The colours in this case file are not colours that I would usually scrap so this was a little bit out of the box for me. I must add that once I started it, I now love it and may use this colour combo again.

I am doing school albums for each of my 3 kids and this one was perfect for my youngest son " Wade " for his first year of school. This is my " baby's " first day at Blacksmiths Primary and he just looked so tiny in his school shirt and over-sized hat. He does have shorts on even though you can't see them under that shirt. The back pack that he could hardly lift but was determined to carry. All ready..nope, no shoes yet !!

Distressed the edges then random punching,inking and doodling all around the edge. The background was stenciled with black crackle paint and then while it was still wet I added some black Micro Beads. I used some green Inka Gold paste and stenciled some squares randomly

then to finish it all off I inked a stencil and used it like a stamp to get the little circles.

This is case file 195

The case file elements

The Scheme - Sage/celadon green, teal green, orangey terracotta, olive/apple green and avocado green.

The Evidence - I used the following- stripes, polaroid frames, hearts, flowers, tiny brads, string, felt, ink splats and animals.

The Testimony - I took and idea from 1000 Awesome things and wrote about Wades first day at school which is  under the title contained in a book I made from a jig saw piece.

Now for some of the closeups:

You can see al the layers in this photo. I love adding little animals on all my pages now albeit an owl, bird or lady bird or something else I can find in my stash.

So many layers of papers, jig saw pieces, punchinella, chipboard and cutouts.

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'I took some large jig saw pieces and split them and then covered the two pieces with pattern paper. I used these as my start for all my layers. I added stitching and inked the edges of them also.I love the look of the Micro Beads on the background.

I used some polaroid frames in the layers with the bottom one having the date written with my Motex writer.

Don't use brads much these days so I love it when I can add a couple to my layouts. 

Here I have a couple of black hearts each end of the banner.

I love using the cutouts to add elements to my layouts and in this one I used the 

mushrooms plus a few others. Of course flowers : ) 

I added a couple of  D-lish flairs too.

Finished the layout with the wooden dogs some black Dylusion splatters, some 

pearly dots and clear sayings stickers.

some of the products I used:

Bella BLVD paper- Color Chaos - " Guacamole Strandz "

Minds Eye Wild Asparagus " All Boy "

Plain black bazzil

Bo Bunny Rough it up stamp

Distress Ink - peeled paint and black soot

Liquid Pearl - Avocado

Dylusion - Black marble

Kaisercraft - Paper Blooms " Sea Breeze "

Prima Princess Whimsical -black

Inka paste - Green

Crackle paint Black

Black Micro Beads

Scrap FX Chipboard

D-lish Flairs

Green Tara ribbon - " hessian weave"

Motex writer

Kaisercraft cutouts

Wooden dogs and owls

Jo Sonya  paints

Bird on a wire Washi Tape

Thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx

" Perfectly Imperfect"

Hi everyone and thanks for stopping by today at my blog. I hope you like what I have created for you all to see. 

Today I would like to share with you all my latest Design Team layout over at Color, Stories and Inspiration.

This one is for case file number 193.

I couldn't find a photo to go with these colours and was going to revert to the black and white photo,

Then I remembered a recent trip to the beach with my hubby and knew some of the photos were still on the camera. Playing around with some of the settings, this one came out really blurry as you can see, but when my hubby saw the photo his comment was 

" That's the best photo of me "

So how good is the title for these photos of him??

The layout has a real rustic/beachy feel to it.

I tore some of the paper away and then distressed the edges. I added some thin strips of hessian under the edges too. The orange beading is called sand and I raided hubby's shed. It was just sitting on the shelf not being used.

I love to use plain straws, add washi tape to them and then add them to my layouts.

Case file no 193

Case file elements:

The Scheme- blue, pale celadon green, olive green, bright orange and black.

The evidence- I used the following; string, birds, frames, flowers, shells, nautical elements, labels.

The testimony- I framed my journaling and wrote from 365 Questions What relaxes you?

Relaxing at the beach. I love to fish, I love to surf, I love the sound of the waves, I love to stand and listen and think at the beach.

I used a frame to hold my journalling. 

Lots of stamping and paint splatters. I used a stencil to 

get the effect of the birds flying across the page.

Love the title for this page. Its just suits the photo and my hubby so well. 

The orange sand was a little pale so I covered it with orange silks paint.

                     A piece of chippy chains covered in Viva Ferro Special effect paints. 

I tried to add a few beachy items like the fishing net. I made this myself from string. 

A few shells from the beach and anchors, ships wheels.

 

Love the texture in the flowers for this page. 

Black polaroid frame for one of the pictures and the other frame was left overs in my chipboard box.

 Its a box that I keep near where I am working and it holds all those little leftovers pieces and the blanks.

 I love to use both the positive and the negative of the chipboard.

Corrugated board which I covered with gesso and then edged with distress ink.

The thistle chipboard I left natural but added green 

Micro beads to the ends.

The anchor was die cut out them I used the Viva Ferro paste.

Black splatters and white splatters finished off the layout.

some of the items I used;

Kaisercraft papers - Blue Bay Collection " Shimmer" 

Black bazzill

hessian

Life Documented Photo stickers

Me and my Big Ideas - Mambi stickers & Pocket [ages stickers

2Crafty Thistle shrub and chain lengths

Plaid black metallic paint

Ceramcoat; Blue Jay & white

Silks Apricot nectar

Viva Ferro Special Effects paint

Deco sand (Bunnings)

Petaloo flowers; Wild mini blooms, textured elements textured blossoms Moss green, Faux dried mini, grey/blue & purple/green, printed Darjeeling, Darjeeling Mini Mix Teastain.

Distress Ink - vintage photo & peeled paint

plasterers tape

bird stencil

shells

wooden anchor & ships wheel

straws

washi tape

string

micro beads -Green

corrugated board

thanks for stopping by

till next time

keep on scrapping

Carol xx