Scrap the Girls - Janurary 2018

Good Morning! Almost the end of January, can you believe it?! Today I am sharing my take on the inspiration board, more of a colour palette over at Scrap the Girls.

And here is my take (please note that my DD1 is not impressed with me using this photo!!!):

 I have used lots of gorgeous blue tones from the Cocoa Vanilla Bohemian Dream collection, and also dies cuts and stickers. For my background I mixed some Duke shimmer dust from Colour Blast with some texture paste to create the perfect blue.

Also layered in there are some Charms Creations DIY Banners, which I cut up!!! Yes, I cut them in half and used them in two different places!

Here is the top half, just like a little tab!

And the other one, layered with other bits and pieces.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Scrap the Boys August Challenge

Back today to share my take on the Scrap the Boys August challenge to scrap your boy/man using a 5x7 or larger photo. I chose to scrap my boy, here is my page:

This photo still makes me laugh! I caught the cats trying to "help" my boy eat his breadroll, yes they wanted some of his breadroll... our cats are strange! It was a bit of a challenge to scrap a photo this big, I am so used to 4x6 or smaller! But I am happy with the end result. Lots of Aussie products on this page too! Colour Blast, Cocoa Vanilla, Charms Creations, Rainbow Splendour, Burdy's Embellies and Flutterby Designs! Phew! What a line up!

Of course I had to use a cat Charms Creations heart!! I don't think there are any of these left now, but you can still get all kinds of different hearts here.

And how cute is the cat paperclip from Burdy's Embellies?! I love the felt chevrons from Rainbow Splendour too, so easy to use.

So that is it for today, thanks for stopping by.

Katie x

Quick, get them blogged!

Getting in at the last minute to blog two challenge pages! I have Kraft+ and Show Us Your Stuff challenges for March completed and I thought I probably should blog them and submit them before it was too late!

The Kraft+ challenge was a denim revolution and many of the creative team and others were hacking into denim clothes for the challenge, me, well I decided to print myself some denim, so no clothes were harmed in the making of my page!

 

 I also have gone with the new motto of keeping my pages relatively simple, so I can actually get pages done in the small amounts of spare time that I have. So here is my denim revolution page:

So a simple page, with a printed denim pocket and some printed denim paper as a photo mat and also used to punch some butterflies from. I used some of the very pretty new Cocoa Vanilla Wild at Heart collection too, loving this one.

And how appropriate is the Charms Creations green and light denim heart for this challenge?! Loving all the light denim Charms at the moment, there is even a denim heading at the shop now to find all things denim!

So that is number one challenge, now for number two, this is Show Us Your Stuff which was a this or that kind of challenge.

I went with - Stars, sequins, washi and spots, and my handmade items came from Rainbow Splendour and Charms Creations (yes denim again!). Here is my page:

 Stars on my washi tape and with texture past on the background and one big denim star! Spots on my bow and also on the star and sequins sprinkled around. All requirements ticked off!

 Can you see the spots hiding in the denim star? It teams so well with the bow from Rainbow Splendour.

And I love these chevron circles from Rainbow Splendour, the red was a perfect add for a pop of colour on this page about Lego.

So, that is it from my quick update. Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Scrap the Boys February Challenge

Back for another February challenge share. Today I am sharing my take on the Scrap the Boys challenge, which is to scrap your boys/men and something new.

 

I decided to scrap my boy and his first day of high school - a new school and a new phase in his life too. I also decided to use my new Cocoa Vanilla Wild at Heart collection, challenging myself to use it for a boy page, and it was no trouble at all! Here is what I created:

There were lots of lovely blue tones in this paper collection and they worked perfectly with my photo and Liam's blue shirt. I love the watercolour paper, it is just divine, I am starting to think I may end up needing more of this collection!

I used some of the chipboard and phrase stickers from the collection also, teamed with some Rainbow Splendour goodies here.

And my new favourites in the Charms Creations store, light denim, in this case with blue, teamed perfectly with this page. Add in a cool arrow from Rainbow Splendour and a few other bits and we have a great embellishment cluster.

And in the spirit of trying to use up things that I have, here is an old frame from a Crate Paper collection (I think...), a great way to frame the writing on the photo.

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Kraft+ February Challenge

Half way through February already, let me just say that is crazy! Only another week and a half and I will be back hitting the books. Four more subjects then my return to Uni will be complete, well for now, who knows down the track?!

But for now, I am here to share a page that I created for the current Kraft+ challenge, which is a colour scheme and a great sketch:

 

Such a pretty colour scheme and the perfect match for some new Charms Creations light denim embellies that had just arrived in the mail. So this is my take on the sketch:

I also used the gorgeous cut files from Cocoa Vanilla, I am hoping that Zoe will make some more to go with other collections soon!

Don't you love the light denim?! You can find them in the shop here, there are other colours too, pretty pastels.

Pulled out some pretty wire that I had sitting in my drawer, trying to use up the things that I have!

Well, that is it for now, until next time...

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Guest Designer at 1,2,3 Challenge

I am a guest designer over at the 1,2,3 Challenge blog this month! They have a great challenge if you need some inspiration to kick start your creativity. This month the prompts are:

I even managed to make a pretty pastel boy page! Here is what I created with the prompts:

I used lots of pretty Cocoa Vanilla papers and a few die cuts too. Throw in a D-lish Scraps flair and a Charms Creations pretty pastel heart and the page just about did itself! For the glitter aspect I added two versions, firstly with a little tiny heart stencil and some glitter texture paste on the background and then using silver glitter washi and hand cutting some cute little hearts.

I am loving these pretty doilies from D-lish Scraps too, they are so delicate!

A bit pf peachy pink thread helps add a bit of texture behind the cluster.

And really, the flair says it all! These photos of my boy make me laugh!

Thanks for stopping by and check out the 1,2,3 Challenge blog to see more great pages with these prompts.

Katie x

Scrapbooking Top 50 March Challenge

Last catch up for now (that I can think of!), this time it is Scrapbooking Top 50. This month we have a prompt for the challenge. You need to use the word "sweet" on your page, you can take inspiration from the pretty picture too if it helps, hmmmmm donuts!

Here is my page:

I decided to use one of Cocoa Vanilla's pretty collections, and would you believe that there just happened to be the word sweet in the die cuts?! Pretty "sweet" I say!

I repeated the triangles that were on some of the patterned paper on the background too, with texture paste coloured by Lindy's Stamp Gang magicals (very cool for colouring texture paste!), and a Amy Tan small stencil.

A little cluster with a stamped tab and some flowers cut out from some paper and a Rainbow Splendour wood veneer cross (or + depending on how you position it!).

Some more crosses and a pretty pin also from Rainbow Splendour, and of course there has to be a Charms Creations embellishment on the page! This time a pretty soft heart, the doily is also from one of the mixed packs (that I think will be available again very soon!).

This month WOW chipboard is a sponsor and I have used one of their flourishes which I covered with Colour Blast paste (not quite as easy to do as it sounds!).

So make sure you head over to the blog and check out the other samples and have a go yourself! There is still plenty of time to get an entry in!

Rainbow Splendour Page

This week is my first "official" week of sharing over on the Rainbow Splendour Facebook page. I decided to mix a bit of old and new goodies on this page and also do a bit of altering to show you how you can jazz up something older to make it like new again!

I call this my "made in Australia" page, and my reasoning behind that is the page is full of Aussie goodies. From the obvious Rainbow Splendour embellishments, to the Cocoa Vanilla paper (and some extras), Flutterby Designs stencil and Colour Blast texture paste. It goes to show we have a thriving industry here that needs supporting!

So, here is the page:

Isn't the colour on that texture paste divine?! This colour is called "just blue" and there is a gorgeous pearly glimmer too.

 

 Did you grab one of the cool little robot wood veneers in the last sale? He is so cute, I coloured his little heart in with stickles (worn lipstick if I remember the colour correctly!) I thought he was a good addition to this page with my boy when he was just a little tyke.

And check out the "older" polaroid frame. I jazzed it up by repetitive stamping using stayz-on ink. The stamping isn't perfect, but it does the job!

I will be back later in the week with another share. Thanks for stopping by.

Katie x

Scrap the Boys December

Christmas is closing in fast! Are you all ready? I am almost there, but boy the days are disappearing fast in this house, I don't think December birthday's help with this!

But here I am to share my Scrap the Boys December page, which this month is a sketch. I decided to shrink the sketch and put it in the top corner of my page, it just seemed to work better with my photo and plan!

 

And this is my page, see if you can find the sketch in there! I promise it is there! And it shows there is more than one way to approach a sketch.

I have used Made of Awesome again by Cocoa Vanilla, loving all of Zoe's great paper collections! Hmmm that reminds me I might need to go and buy myself a Christmas present....

I am loving layering with my Charms Creations right now, and it is so easy to do. On the star I have stapled a vellum star from the Made of Awesome collection and added some wood veneer on top (also from the collection).

 And here I stapled a die cut arrow on top of my Charms arrow. Still loving and using my D-lish Scraps journal its too! My pile is admittedly rather large, but they are so easy to use!

So, why don't you go and check out the rest of the teams inspiration for the sketch and then have a go yourself?!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Mid Month Reveal Scrap the Boys

Now, I know that I am a bit late with blogging my Scrap the Boys page, but in my defense I have been running around like a crazy woman finishing off Kindy photos for the year! So, today I have a bit of free time... better late than never I say!

This month is a great photo inspiration for Scrap the Boys:

 

And given how much my Liam loves his food this was an easy one! I played with some of the gorgeous Cocoa Vanilla collection that I won a little while ago and finished with this:

I love how easily this page came together with the Cocoa Vanilla "Made of Awesome" as my starting point!

Those vellum stars are too cute! And the die cuts are awesome!

I even managed to include a Charms Creations Terrific Tab. These are such versatile little embellishments, and perfect for layering with!

So there you go, now it is your turn to go and scrap your boy!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x