Inspired by Off the Rails

Off the Rails had a blog hop over the previous two weekends. The inspiration board was pretty awesome so I had a play!





And this is my page:

I was totally inspired by the bright colours and used them in a water colour effect to create my background, along with a great music stamp, because the page is about music after all.

And what was more perfect to go with a music theme than the music paper embellishments from Charms Creations?! I swiped these through the colours too so they matched the background.

I used some masking fluid to write my title and then coloured around it, but when I put glossy accents over the top it bled a bit with the background colour and blended in, so I did what any respecting scrapbooker would do, I made it work! I outlined the words in black pen once the glossy accents was dry and I think it does the job!

Did you notice that this triangle was actually part of an arrow that I cut up. The other part is tucked in on the other side looking a bit like a tab.

So much fun to make a bright and happy page!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Off the Rails June Guest Designers

Not only have Charms Creations been guest designers for Kraft+ this month we are also guests over at Off the Rails Scrapbooking! This month their challenge is quite a challenging inspiration board, and to be honest it threw me a little. I think the colours were not quite my thing, but there is nothing like a good challenge to get you going!

And this is what I finished with:

So where did I start with this one, well, the colours (more or less!) and the family theme.

I coloured a DIY Charms Creations with distress ink to have it match as best I could and it turned out beautifully. To do this I swiped the ink pad on my craft mat a couple of times and spritzed with water, then I dragged the heart through to cover. After I did this I used the ink pad directly on the edges to deepen some of the colour.

I decided to add some wood veneer people, which was inspired by the paper cut out people on the board.

And lastly I also decided to make my own hand drawn heart using the end of the sprayer in my mist bottle to draw with. This kind of looks like the chalk drawn hearts on the board too.

So, there you have it, my take on this rather challenging inspiration board!

Make sure you go over and look at the other designers inspiration and maybe challenge yourself to have a go too!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Off the Rails - May

Well, I managed to get another challenge in before the month finished! So, I decided to go with the Off the Rails inspiration board which is:

An interesting board and I wasn't completely sure which way to go at first. But I found some older photos of my kids in amongst trees and then thought it would go perfectly with some wood grain paper and the wood grain on the board. Use the colour scheme, add some butterflies and doilies (for the lace on the books) and not to forget a few flowers and I was done! So here is what I finished with:

So, I found the perfect Charms Creations heavenly heart to match this board, and it is one of the newer ones with a matching butterfly too! And I was so impressed that some of my newer goodies from D-lish Scraps included some wooden dyed butterfly buttons and there happened to be two red ones that matched!

A close up of the heart, great match isn't it?! I just love using the journal spots from D-lish Scraps, it makes it so easy to add my journalling and I just have to layer it into my page.

Love using my doilies (also from D-lish) and I thought this wood veneer tag from Pink Fresh Studio was a great title.

More bits and bobs from D-lish in this little cluster.


So, there you have it, my page using the Off the Rails inspiration board for May.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Off the Rails - April

Have you seen the two different (but similar!) mood boards up at Off the Rails Scrapbooking for this months challenge? They are both fabulous!

Aren't they great?! That green is gorgeous, a favourite now that I have seen Wicked! Anyway, I decided to go with the bottom colour palatte, and I created this page:

Don't you just love how well my Charms Creations heart matched the palatte?! I think I can just about always find a Charms Creation to match my pages these days, but that could also be a reflection on the size of my stash!

 
And as usual there are some pretties from D-lish Scraps. The sequin bows are one of my favourites to use and there is always some great flair to find too.

The Journal It's are also from D-lish Scraps and are so versatile, I must admit to having a good stash of these too! And the enamel dots are from D-lish too.

It is really hard to see, but this new texture paste has a pearl finish and it looks fabulous! It is from Faber Castell and is from their Texture Luxe pastes. I have some gold paste too that I have to play with too! Can't wait to try it out.


Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Off the Rails Scrapbooking March Challenge

Back again! I have decided to have a go at the Off the Rails Scrapbooking challenge, which was using a mood board and sketch. So here it is:



Now first I have to say, the colour palette is so not me! I am so not a browns kind of girl. Also I realise that my colours are probably a tad warmer than compared to the originals. So keeping this in mind, I got my Tim Holtz head on and started!

All in all, I am fairly happy with the result. I used lots of stamping and inking and water colour crayons to create and colour the background. But I have to say I am in love with the metallic Distress Stains! I used the antiqued bronze one to colour my doily and it looks like it has been leafed in copper!

Of course I had to add a Charms Creations piece, and what better than a chevron with book paper, it perfectly suited the tones and colours in the page.

Love this cut file from Wilna Wurstenberg. It was in a set hashtags-1 I think. I cut it out of water colour paper and then used my water colour crayons to colour and blend.

How cute are these little hessian butterflies?! They came from D-lish Scraps, from the Little Birdie range. The little bits tucked under the photo were Tim Holtz stamps , and the torn washi strips came from some old Prima collection (I think!).

So, there you have it, a very "not me" page!

Thanks for stopping by.

Katie x