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Anna’s Craft Cupboard | Beautiful Moments | A Scrapbook Layout

Hello my lovely scrappy friends! As promised I am back with yet another share and yep, again, for Anna’s using the Midnight collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studios.

Are you sick of seeing it already? I’m not and I just wish I had a never ending supply of all the things, it is even more gorgeous in real life!

Anyways, enough gushing over the gorgeous products, here is my page for today


An older photo of my biggest little guy. We were at a photo shoot and he had enough half way through so he grabbed his bear and came and snuggled with his Mumma, awwww….

Haha! I’m a bit of soft touch, especially when it comes to my boys, if you hadn’t worked that out yet!

As usual, there is more close ups and links direct to product over on the Anna’s blog so if you’d like to see more follow the link!

I still have MORE to come so stay tuned and until next time
happy scrapping!!

Mel

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Kraft+ October 2018 | Seriously Good Times Together | A Scrapbook Layout

Hey, hey and welcome to my blog today!!

Did you already see my exciting news?

I am a big fan of K+ Challenges and have been lucky enough to be a guest DT a couple of times and was so beyond thrilled when Katie asked me if I’d like to join this incredibly talented team of creatives!

Today’s post is my first share as a part of the DT and this months challenge is all about friends!


Here is my page!!


I thought what better time to scrap a photo of friends being creative together than for a K+ challenge so knew straight away I wanted to use this photo!


Most of the goodies on this page are from my stash of Heidi Swapp goodies and I love that I have got some of them onto a page. Especially that background paper, swoon!! I just love it!!

Here are a few close ups

Make sure you head on over to the K+ Challenge blog to see all of the             A-MAZING creations by the rest of the design team and to link up your challenge for this month too!

If you’d like to see my process video just click on the link below and enjoy!


Thanks for stopping by and enjoy getting krafty 😉

Mel
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{Colour Blast} Love You To The Moon & Back ~ 6×8 Scrapbook Layout’s

Hey everyone and welcome to the blog today! I hope you are managing to stay dry and warm wherever you are! Here in WA it seems Autumn went totally MIA and we have been hit with Winter!

Anyways, onto the fun stuff, that is unless you too love jumping in all the puddles 😉

I have something a little different to share today, and LITTLE sums it up! I am working on a project for my nephew who turned one last month and my contribution (besides the supplies 😉 ) is some 6×8 pages! These are the first 2 I have made and I really love them. They are sweet and simple, yet effective!

Here is the first one! “Love You To The Moon & Back”


This photo was taken at the baby shower and I will do a full 6×8 page of journalling. Perhaps in the form of a letter to my nephew, as yet, I’m undecided!


Only a few quick, simple steps to this and the first was some of the beautiful Envy Colour Paste through a stencil on the diagonal I knew I wanted to work on. Oh, I had also drawn a light pencil line around where my photo was going!


While that was still wet I activated my Colour Shimmer Pot in Envy and using a paintbrush added some splatters on the same diagonal. Not to worry if you don’t have the Shimmer Pot, you can always use the Colour Shimmer Spray or even water down some of the Colour Paste and use that to splatter! If you do have the Shimmer Pot/s make sure you let them completely dry out before you pop the lid back on!


I set that aside to dry and got together some bits for the next page I wanted to work on! This photo was taken the day little Emmett was welcomed into the world. You may have even seen this photo before as I have scrapped it for our album! “Baby Love”


Again, a simple and effective page I started with another stencil and this time 2 Colour Pastes – Snow White and Singin’ The Blues. I smooshed the 2 colours randomly through my stencil this time covering my whole 6×8 sized page. I set that aside to dry and picked out a few other pieces for this page.

Keeping my mixed media pretty simple meant that these pages came together in not a lot of time so after they were both dry I started adhering my layers and finished off my pages.

I still need to do some journalling for both. Like I mentioned, the first one I think will have a whole 6×8 page and I’m pretty certain the second will be his full name and birth details on the yellow label on the bottom of the page. Here a few close up’s of both pages!




I just cannot resist that squishy face lol



And here is the process video if you would like to see these pages come together!


Thanks ever so much for stopping by, I hope I have inspired you to create outside of your “norm” whatever that might be because “clean” mixed media is certainly not my “norm” lol

Have a fantastic weekend and I hope you get some scrappy time!

Until next time!
Melinda


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{STB} He’s $5.00 Richer! ~ June 2018 Challenge

Hey everyone!! I can hardly believe that we are in June already!! First up, thanks for stopping by and I hope I inspire you to play along!

Second, here is this month’s Scrap The Boys challenge


Fun, yeah?!? I managed to incorporate both hand stitching and machine stitching AND a clean mixed media page!!


I managed to pull out and cut into more of my Cocoa Vanilla Studios You Rock collection and really love the end design! There is even a process video to go along with this page, just hit play below and enjoy!


Here are a few close ups


Head over here to see all of the rest of the team’s take on this fun challenge and to load up your entry! Make sure you follow STB both on FB and Instagram, so much inspiration!!

That’s it for me for today, so get stitching and I’ll actually be back again tomorrow with another new share!!

Happy June and happy creating!!

Melinda
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{Colour Blast} Boys. Sheesh ~ A Scrapbook Layout

Hey hey and welcome to the blog on this Saturday morning!! 
I hope you have some fun scrappy plans for the weekend, I’m pretty sure I do 😉

Have you seen this months challenge?! It’s all about texture! To be honest, I struggled somewhat with what textures I would use and how I would incorporate them into my project. I started digging through my photos and this one of me and my baby inspired me and then I came up with my main idea – hand stitching!! Here’s a peek at my finished stitched centre piece. 


And a refresher of the challenge


Here is my process video if you’d like to see my page come together


My first step was coming up with my title which I knew I wanted to hand stitch. When I worked out what I was hand stitching I came up with the “sheesh” in my title knowing I had these leatherette alphas in my stash. More texture!



I added some colour to my title but made my own colour to match the collection I was using better. The Indigo Colour Spray was way too purple for what I was hoping for and the Caribbean was way too bright so I sprayed some Indigo Colour Spray onto my desk and mixed in some Caribbean. The quantities were about 6 (Indigo) to 1 (Caribbean). I tested on some scrap white card stock. And also thought I’d make it sparkly by adding a quick coat of Snow White Colour Shimmer Spray, perfect way to add shimmer without changing the base colour!



I used a paint brush and just painted inside the lines of the word my cameo had sketched.



When that was dry I added splatters in the same blue I created and then also added more splatters to match the collection I was using. I’ve used Blush, Sunshine, Envy and Stormy Weather Colour Shimmer Spray’s.

After that was thoroughly dried I poked all the holes for my stitching, put on my current fave TV show and got stitching!


A few layers behind my photo including some patterned paper that had what looked like brush strokes which I fussy cut for more texture. I also added some gold star shaped punchinella as the very back layer behind my photo.


Before I stuck that down I decided I wanted some extra texture behind the photo on the white cardstock so pulled out my Black Heavy Gesso and an old store card and added in some messy lines around the 4 corners where my photo was going to tie in the black stitching.



More texture with some puffy stickers which I ended up stitching through with gold thread on my sewing machine.

I added my journalling and also a strip of paper at the top of the page and my page was done!!


Head over here to load up your take on the March Challenge in the Colour Blast Creative Corner Facebook Group and you could win a $30 voucher to spend in the Colour Blast store!!

Until next time, happy scrapping!


Melinda