Friday 29 June 2012

ScrapThat! July 2012 Reveal and Blog Hop! {Summer in My Garden}







Welcome to ScrapThat! July Kit Reveal and Blog Hop
 ScrapThat! is delighted to introduce to you our July Kit featuring
 Fabscrap's Beautiful Organic Collection!!   This month we have a 
special treat for you so mark your calendars, July 6th - July 8th
The ScrapThat! Design Team will be hosting our
 "Summer Garden Crop Party" 
Crop will include:- challenges, games, prizes, as well as live chat!!
Hope to see you'll join us for a weekend of fun!
Read all about it HERE.
  
Without further ado, we are pleased to bring you our July Kit

"Summer In My Garden"

This Kit is full of delectable goodies featuring the gorgeous 
FabScrap Organic Collection of papers, lace, pearls, chipboard, 
Ingvild Bolme Ink, an assortment of flowers and more!!


 Main Kit $39.99


1 pkg, Prima, 2 crystal palace vines
1 pkg, Petaloo, 6 wild roses
 NOTE: The Embellishment Add-On cost
 for non-members is $17.99


Flower Add-On $12.99
(only 20 of these kits are available each month 
and sold on a first come first serve basis)

1 pkg, Pinkpaislee, 2 Muslin Flowers

1 pkg, Prima. 6 Primer flowers  
1 Pkg, Prima, 2 Sun Kiss vines


Paper Add-On $9.99
 1 sheet each
Organic Herbs
Organic Herbs Two
Organic Tree
Organic Garden
Organic Kitchen
Organic Lace
Organic Strawberries
Organic Script
Bazzil Cardstock – 1 sheet each
Tan
Green
Purple
NOTE: The Paper Add-On cost for non-members is $12.99

*** Please accept my apologies for the formating below,
I have done everything I can to fix it but although it is
perfect in my drafts I can see in my preview that it is 
going askew!***






Here is what I have created with the kit, embellishment add-on
and flower add-on so far, and I still have a couple of sheets of
paper left and various bits and pieces. 

 Here is my take on the sketch!  
Using only stuff from the main kit.


I misted up my a lot of my flowers to match
& painted up my cardstock bases.


I will be showing these projects again in detail, 
with close ups and supplies lists too.


Aswell as my required 3 projects, I also made a
card and a tag as I was on a roll!


So there you have it!
 Hope you enjoyed the pictures :)









To Qualify for this month's Blog Hop prize
 you must complete the following:

1. Visit each blog listed on the hop to see what each Designer























Now hop on over to Sandi HERE then you are almost done!
Just one more stop and you will be in the ScrapThat! Forum!!

My secret word is ON.






Thursday 28 June 2012

Soiree Layout {Les Papiers de Pandore} Using the June Sketch at Scrap Africa and the ScrapFIT Polaroid Challenge





*** My 2nd post for the day - my apologies -
 month end madness!***

Hello Everyone!  Just sliding in here quickly with a layout I 
made for Les Papiers de Pandore in France, you can see it on 
their blog here - I mixed up various collections from them as I 
was almost out of my DT paper stash and their 2 new 
collections were on their way to me.  See it on their blog HERE.



I was having a "white cardstock" day.  You know when 
you just want everything looking nice and pristine?!

I'm thinking some charcoal ink splats would have been 
a good addition but I just wasn't feeling painterly at the time...


Nice, nice!  simple sketch from Scrap Africa HERE!

Today is the last day to play along!!  I am also entering
this layout at another of my fave challenge sites - ScrapFIT!
for their polaroid challenge HERE.  My eldest daughter,
pictured here, is away 85% of the time at university.
 Most of the photos I scrap of her now are not taken by me
 but rather I take them from her Facebook page! 

 The quality is usually not the best (phone quality) so making 
this into a polaroid made me feel like that would be less
 noticeable and also gave me a great opportunity to add 
my journaling into the larger white space underneath.  



Some yummilicious details!  The banner comes all in one
 piece on the printed sheet from the "In the Meanwhile"
 Collection HEREwhich is actually an outdoor, 
snowy-type Winter line, but obviously very versatile!



I knew there was a reason I bought this beaded fringe
 at the local upholstery fabric store!  It was years ago 
but I knew I would need it!!  Adds to the Bohemian feel...



Lush, LUSH Christy Tomlinson mask, used texture paste
and paint for that lumpy, intentionally slightly messy effect.



ANCIENT glossy stickers from Pink Paislee {I think?!}
Just perfect for this layout thought right?!

Definition of SOIREE


Web definitions:
a party of people assembled in the evening
(usually at a private house).

wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn


And an idea that was sparked by another on the
Studio Calico blog.  You REALLY want to follow
that blog even if you are not a CAS scrapper - FULL
of ideas, a never ending stream of them...


Punching the holes into the red print then layering the
blue print behind (my own idea to add the alternate
brads into the centre of each).  Tactile & interesting...


Red print comes from "The Country House" Collection HERE.
The side flags come from another of their lines, "The Scent
of Camelias" HERE.  FOUR different Pandore lines here, I
was rather chuffed with myself for achieving that!


Supplies List for Soireee Layout.

White cardstock - American Crafts
All papers see below:-
Materials: The Scent of Camellias paper "Inventory";
 papers Meanwhile "D-Day", "The blow balls", 
"The passage of the angels"; Paper House
 "Workshop jams", "Labels".
Mask - Christy Tomlinson
Texture Paste - Reeves Modeling Paste
Paints - Making Memories - 
Red Wagon & School Bus
Serrated Circle Punch - Martha Stewart 
Butterfly & banner  - Pandore Country House
 Collection
Stickers - Pink Paislee
Brads - Bazzill Polished Pebbles
Bella! Bling
Inks - Memories Mists - Red
Yellow Citrus - Color Box
Pink - Old Rose - Prima
Grey - Old Road - Prima
Purple bling swirl - Zva Creative
Thread - stash




ScrapThat! July Sneak Peeks!! {Summer in my Garden}







It's reveal time over at ScrapThat!  coming up on Friday!  
Ooops that's actually tomorrow isn't it?!  Yikes...I forgot
to wish you all a Happy Hump Day yesterday!  Anyway...Lookee
here at these gorgeous sneaks of what we on the ScrapThat!
team will be unveiling come Friday 10am EST.  Loverley no?!


Rather yummilicious I'm sure you will agree...
I have several of my own sneaks in there - 
I did tonnes of misting and mixed media work
on all of these but working with a kit really is the
way to go - always makes it soooo much quicker!


I used some old K & Co. Lace Paper as a mask here,
along with some texture paste with paint mixed in with it.


Here I misted up the flower, which was a paler blue,
then glittered it up a bit and painted the little white flowers
with a dusty blue, then inked up that leaf for some interest.


I used liquid pearls here for that funky grafitti tag you can
see peeking out the top left there and mixed up some decor 
sand (you buy it here to pour into the bottom of hurricane
 lamps/candle holder vases - it's very gritty) with my texture
paste and paint.  It's my own version of seed bead paste! 


I used liquid pearls along the edge of my layout
{see top right hand side above} then rubbed with
my finger to create a very nice uneven effect.
I couldn't live without my inks that's FOR SURE!


Ooooh now this was fun!  I gessoed, then I glittered
(for that fine, fine grit you see above) then I misted,
then I sealed it all off with matte medium then created
the drips.  Just love the effect...


I cut up the beaded Prima Vine's into lots of small 
pieces, tucking them in here, there and everywhere,
along with small pieces of scrunched up doily.


Used my new Kaisercraft sentiment stamp here,
along with the pretty Melissa Frances Packaging.


Stitching and Pearls.


And last but not least a tag that I have photographed
a step by step for.  Easy Peasy grunge meets romantic.

See you for the full reveal tomorrow :)  Meanwhile,
stay safe & work hard getting those challenges in!