Hi everyone, nice to be back for my second share this month.
My page started with water colouring a strawberry for the background and i just built up some layers.
The title was taken from 2 title pieces of chipboard Strawberry Delight and Hamilton Gardens. I just cut off the words I wanted to use and painted them in black.
I cut the Toadstool Log in half to make it stretch across my page and popped my photo on top of this so you ca’t see the gap.
I’ve added a little glossy accents to some of the chipboard pieces to give it a nice glossy shine and cut a few butterflies from the Butterfly Transparency and added them to my page. I’ve bent the wings up on these to add a little dimension.
My page has been finished off with a little stamping with the Toadstool stamp.
My next layout started with the Random Dots Stencil and some blue water colour.
I also coloured the white Paradise Frame in the same colour. I have cut this up, along with the black one and used it to form part on my photo cluster.
A couple of butterflies have been cut from the transparency and the backs of these have been painted.
I also cut some little pieces from the Travel Transparency and popped them on my page with matte medium.
Hi everyone! I cannot believe that it’s August already. Where did the time go? This year is certainly flying by.
Today I have a step by step tutorial showing you how I made my mixed media, travel scrapbook page entitled “Explore.”
Here is the photo that inspired me . . . it’s a photo of the Bermuda sunrise . . .
My husband won a trip to Bermuda through his work, and we got to spend 5 days there! It was absolutely gorgeous!
No onto how I made my page . . .
First, I decided to use the Happy Birthday frame, but since it is no one’s birthday, I cut the words “Happy Birthday” off the frame to use later.
Next I cut the phrase “Adventure is out there! from the Travel Transparency. I cut and mounted the phrase onto cardstock.
I used my VersaMark stamp pad and the cloud raindrops stencil, stamping the cloud images onto velum. I heat embossed the images with white embossing powder, then cut them out to use later.
I found patterned paper that looks just like a sunset and tore it into three pieces. I played around with the arrangement on a piece of 12 x 12 watercolor paper:
Once I had the arrangement that I liked, I sewed it all in place with my black thread and my sewing machine. I matted the photo with coordinating cardstock and sewed it onto my page.
I also placed the vellum, heat-embossed clouds on my page and sewed them with black thread right through the center of each cloud.
Here’s what it looked like at this point:
I added some stars to my page using the star confetti stencil and opaque texture paste:
I heat embossed my chipboard pieces with white embossing powder, then painted each piece – some with pink paint, some with silver and tarnished brass distressed paint.
Finally I added some stamping to the bottom of my page using the chickenwire stamp with “worn lipstick” and “tuxedo black” stamp pads.
Here are the Scrap FX products that I used . . .
Happy Birthday frame:
(I cut the words “Happy Birthday” off to use on a later date.)
I used a few of the stars from Star Outlines:
I cut the Scroll Corners into the shape that I wanted:
Jumbo Jet chipboard:
I used “Explore” from the WTP-Explore:
Star Confetti stencil:
Cloud Raindrops Stencil:
Chickenwire Stamp:
Travel Transparency:
Here is my completed page:
With some close-ups:
And a different view:
Thanks so much for stopping by the Scrap FX blog today! I hope you enjoyed seeing my creative process. Now I want to see some of YOUR creations on our Facebook page entitled Scrap FX Creative Space! And if you want to find out more about these products, check out the Scrap FX store.
I will see you again at the end of the month. In the mean time, happy creating everyone!
by Belinda Lowe | Comments Off on Bungy Jump…..By Belinda Lowe
Good Morning and a big Happy Monday to you all ( I hope you had a lovely weekend).
This month its all about travel at Scrap FX.
For my first layout I would like to share a layout of me that has a really big meaning to it (shared further down)
This layout is one that I have created using the following Scrap FX products: Bungy Jump, Crazy Circles Stamp, Stitching Stamps and Tribal Silhouette
And here are some close ups:
The meaning behind this image is not one I wanted to share on the front of the page because I didn’t want to take the fun out of it so I typed it up and put it on the back (excuse some of my choice words)
And I would also like to share with you how this layout came together
If you have any questions about any of the projects I create contact me or comment below
As always I’m excited to see what YOU create with these products – don’t forget to share your layouts/projects on Scrap FX Creative Space on Facebook
by Niamh Baly | Comments Off on Inspired to Travel – by Niamh
Hi All,
I love travelling and when I received the new releases for this month – I was thrilled to see some of my favourite places represented. I have a trip planned to the UK next year, so I thought I’d get in early and create a small travel journal, and I couldn’t help but go down memory lane and document my amazing trip to Gallipoli in 2003.
The journal (or more precisely – journal cover) started with some thick chipboard cut slightly larger than the journal I intended to use. I taped the two pieces together with some washi – leaving a large enough gap to close over the spine of the journal. I then chose 3 pieces of scrapbooking paper to cut out the pieces of the UK flag and glued them down onto my cover. I then attached the travel words, the map and the #destination coloured black to the cover. On the map, I cut a piece of black card to put behind the cut out text so it stood out more when on the coloured background. Here are some close up pictures of the finished journal, and below is a process video of how I put together the journal.
Here is the link to the process video:
My second travel themed piece is a double 12 x 12 layout scrapping my trip to ANZAC Cove and Gallipoli in 2003 for ANZAC Day, one of the most amazing experiences of my life. I came across my original photos, which had a number of panoramic photos printed out and decided that this needed to be a double page layout. I couldn’t find any suitable background paper for this piece, so I made it myself by collaging a number of vintage texts, photos and newspaper pieces onto some cardboard using gel medium. I then aged the papers using tea stain and walnut stain distress inks. I arranged my photos and then glued down the field of flower silhouettes to represent poppies. I covered my chipboard titles in a dusty green colour to represent the greens found in the hills on ANZAC cove. Finally I added copper tape to the edges of my photos as a border, the copper had slightly tarnished, so it added to the beautiful green colours. I decided in the end I needed to fill the bottom space of my layout, so I used the small chisel alphabet pieces to spell out Lest We Forget.
Here is a process video of how this layout came to be:
Here is a list of the Scrap FX products used in the projects today:
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by Ros Madley | Comments Off on Melbourne Zoo Australia, by Ros Aggett-Madley
Hi everyone and thank you for joining me at the start of a new month with lots of new goodies.
My page for this share started with some water colour paper. I have traced the Bamboo stencil onto the background and painted this with some water colours. I left a few pieces in the middle plain because it was going to be covered over anyways.
The gorillas have been painted with acrylic paint and instead of stroking the paint onto the pieces I’ve dabbed the pain on quiet heavily to give a textured look.
I cut the Savannah silhouette into a few pieces for this page and just to get it to match in with the rest, I have painted the Map of Australia with black acrylic paint.
