Art Journal Swap....

For a little while I have been dabbling in art journalling, I don't share on here because it is a pretty personal journey for me in my little book.
I have however joined a swap on Creative Dreams facebook page with other like minded ladies :)  I am pretty excited about it.
Here is the first page in my Journal which has been sent to Mosgiel to start it's 12 month journey....

I love getting inky and messy, unfortunately the pages behind suffer but I guess that is the price we pay ;)

Thanks loads for looking

Quick and Easy Blast Off! Cards for Scottie Crafts.

I have a post today about how to whip up 2 cards in a hurry, very handy when you actually only need one card and you can put one aside for next time you have a card emergency.

I started with a sheet of 12x12 Coredinations Cardstock in Valentine and 2 peices of Pattered paper from the Kaisercraft Blast Off! Collection Milky Way & Gravity. 

I cut 2 panels from the milky way paper measuring 9.5cm x 14.5cm.....

I cut my 12x12 cardstock into 2 A5 peices and kept my offcuts aside

I folded my A5 pieces in half to make 2 standard sized cardbases....

I then adhered my Milky Way panels to the front of the card bases.....

next I cut 2 of the 3x4 panels from the gravity paper.....

 I matted them with the offcuts from my 12x12 cardstock that I put aside earlier and punched a border on the large side with a border punch and cut the panels to size....

 I then adhered the border to the fold side of the card.....

 I then embellished the borders on each card using gems, twine, buttons and washitape

I then stuck my panels down to front of the cards..... 

I added a diecut from the Blast Off!  Collectables pack to one of the cards and they are all finished.....

Thanks so much for popping by the blog today and I hope I inspired you to make some quick cards of your own.

Holiday Time at The Paper Shelter

This week at the paper Shelter we want to see cards with a holiday theme.  Here is my DT card sample....

The image is A Rereshing Drink coloured with prismapencils on watercolour paper.  I used my most favourite papers to date The sweetest thing, tangerine by My Minds Eye.  I clustered a collection of flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts in the corner and tied a bow with some raffia I was sent by Mani :)  It matches the papers perfectly.

Thanks so much fro dropping by and I hope you will join in the challenge and be in to win a voucher from the Paper Shelter.

Zonked Layout For Scottie's Crafts

Hi I'm here with you today with another layout from the Kaisercraft Blast Off! collection, for scottie's craft. I am really enjoying designing with this collection with it's bright colours and cute elements.

I have used orbit   as my background paper on this layout, with the theme of my photo the stars on the navy are a perfect match.  I added lots of paint splodges and flicks using distress paint in picket fence....

I then cut my strips of paper from planet and galaxy and affixed them to my photo and my large mat which was cut from Launch paper.  I cut strips for may layers as it saves paper and they are also easier to remove and restick if you get the placement wrong which I frequently do....

I then stuck my layers down to my background and added my title and some blast off! collectables  around the photo.  I also used a part of a strip of a sticker border off the blast off! sticker sheet.  I went around the layers and some of the collectables with stickles glitter glue in stardust.....

And the finished product.........

Thanks loads for looking :)

Blast off Card for Scotties Crafts

My oldest son turns 8 next month and thought the Blast Off collection was perfect to make him a card for his birthday.

I started by cutting my Blast Off! Outer Space panel to size and then cut down a piece of coredinations  cardstock for the base.  Next I chose which images I wanted to use out of the Blast Off! Collectables pack.   I raised the Martian with some pop dots to make him stand out from the base a bit....

Next I cut some Spellbinders Shape Gold Sentiments for the "Happy Birthday"  from the coredinations cardstock by running it through my cuttlebug. I sanded the raised parts to make the words standout.....

I cut an 8 out on my Cricut using Opposites Attract cartridge. You can see a piece of washi on one of the layers as my mat is becoming a bit worse for wear so I use tape to keep the cardstock on the mat when the machine is cutting....

I added a button and Bakers Twine to finish the card and it turned out not too bad for a quick and easy card :)

Thanks loads for looking :)

No Not the F Word, The Letter F!

This week at Southern Girls it's all about things beginning with F, like flowers, fairies, flipflops, fantasy, fun, friends and fathers for example.  I used flowers as these photos on my layout are of my big school boys on Daffodil day last year.  The school has a mufti day to raise money for the caner foundation and facepainting was about as far as we got with the theme of Yellow and Green.  I will try to be better organised this year.

I used my Noel Mignon "Here Come's Summer" kit for this layout and it came together really quickly....

I love how well the photos and the kit go together for this :)

Hope you will come and join us for our F challenge

Lou

My Littlest Monster for Scottie Crafts

Exciting day for me today :)  My first post for Scottie Crafts as a DT member.....

I am so behind with my scrapbooking about my youngest son so I was excited to use these Blast Off!collection papers and collectables by KaiserCraft.  The colours are perfect for an active little boy.

I decided to make a grungy background and the photos are less than perfect and I wanted the page to be cohesive. 

I made my background using Checker Plate stamp also by KaiserCraft.  I sprayed the stamp with 2colourmists and stamped straight onto my layout.....

I also spackled the layout with a darker mist to add a bit of interest and a link between the blocks of colour.

I used three papers from the collection, Launch, Planet and Galaxy  and clustered the collectables.

Thanks loads for looking :)

Lou

Buttons & Bows at Creative Craft Cottage

This month our theme at Creative Craft Cottage is Buttons and Bows.  I found this cute stamp in my stash and decided I would do a CAS card for the challenge.  Here is my card.....

We would love you to come and play along with us.

Who Are You Person from China that Visits My Blog 30 Times A Day?????

I have been getting visits on my blog from someone in Beijing has been hitting my blog all the time and I am getting driven nuts!  Am I getting hacked or spammed or something?  Why does this person need to come to my blog so often,  I am seriously not that exciting!