Captured Moments

Hi everyone and I hope you and all your family is keep safe and well during this very stressful time for all of us.

It has been a busy time for us in the shop so I have been missing for awhile. Then I had an emergency appendectomy this week so I am now on total rest for a few weeks. So looking on the positive side I now have heaps of time to catch up on all my paperwork.

Enough of that, today I want to share my latest class that I am currently teaching at my shop in Swansea.

This is my son and granddaughter at dusk contemplating life. I changed the photo to a black and white as the colours were not great. I must say it's one of my favourite photos of them.

I used Finnabair Impasto paints to get gorgeous textures on the background with a stencil that I use more than another, bubbles by Prima. Dylusions stamp for all the little animals and then fussy cut them all out. All the chippy from 2Crafty was inked with a black ink pad. The stars from Dusty Attic were painted with Impasto Paint that I watered down slightly to give a more painty texture.

Some black stamping to finish it off and I just love this layout.

I hope you like it too and thank you for stopping by

till next time

Cheers

Carol

Love

Hello everyone and welcome back,
 I hope you and your family are all keeping safe during this very scary time for all of us all.
I created this layout for a challenge on my shops inspirational page The Confetti Box Gallery. 
 I decided that as so many crafters were isolating in their homes and starting to get a little cabin fever, I would create a gorgeous mood board for everyone to play along with and have a chance to win some prizes. Feel free to take a peek and join in.

 

In this layout I have used papers from Scrapboys and 49&Market. All the fussy cut pieces are from Scrapboys gorgeous Victorian Home range, I just love the butterflies form this range. Ive used Celebr8 wooden title and heart cluster and the clock  is from 2Crafty.

Flowers and the bubbles are form 49&Market. The little heart strips are from the strip on the bottom of the paper that has the makers bar code on it. I always check them out to see if there are any images that I may be able to use.

All the chippy and wood pieces were coloured with Finnabair's Wax in Vintage Gold.

Aprils Mood Board  - " ISO in Pink "

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by
 please stay safe
Carol xx 

I love You

Hello everyone and I do hope that this post find you all happy and well at this very scary time we are all living in.
Thinking of all the things that are precious to us all at the moment was why I wanted to share this older but one of my all time favourite layouts. This is my Mum and my Aunty many many years ago at a work function.

 For this one I have used a couple of different ranges for the papers from 49&Market and Kaisercraft.
I struggled with the flowers getting the colours just right so rather than stressing over colour, I have used Nuvo Embossing Mousse "Old Navy"and a water brush and coloured them to suit. The chipboard frame, flourishes and title from 2Crafty were coloured the same way. I just love the metallic finish to these gorgeous waxes. Some of the flowers I left in the white colour for a little contrast.
 Finishing touches are the clocks that I fussy cut out and added to the layers, string bows, filigree doilies, some die cut leaves and fussy cut flower clusters.

thanks for stopping by
till next time
stay safe
Carol x 

Today is a Magical Day

Hi everyone,
today I want to share a layout I created after a trip to the "Red Centre" of Australia with my girlfriend Michelle. For those that do not know what that is, Uluru, NT formally known as Ayers Rock.
 This is my friend and I sitting waiting for the plane to take off. For those that don't kn meow, I am not a good flyer so this was a huge leap of faith for me.

 This paper range is an older Kaisercraft one. I love using woodgrain for my backgrounds. I added some script stenciling to the background. The chipboard was all painted with white paint. 49&Market flowers were just perfect and the wire embellishments that are in the packet go just so well.
I used Kaisercraft little wooden frames and painted them with Nuvo metallic pastes and added some script wording tp match the stenciled background. Lace and gauze give a lovely softness to the background. 

thanks for taking the time
to stop by
Carol x