My Happy Scrap Space

I love this photo I snapped a couple of years ago now. I was aiming for a nice Christmas photo but got this instead. LOL My young son did not want his sister's arm on him. Hahaha. As much as I wanted a 'nice' photo, the outtakes are the ones I love best.

I created a lovely watercolour effect background on my layout just because it is my favourite thing to do. I spritzed my background with a generous amount of water first and then applied diluted Tropicana Teal Flutter Colour Paint using a large soft paintbrush. I kind of just dump the paint on the page and watch the water bleed it out before helping it along a little with my paintbrush.

I then layered on some of the Filler Photo Cards sticking to a teal, black and neutral colour scheme.

The Page Tabs are one of my all time favourite Flutterby products and I love to layer them above my photo.

My layout wouldn't be complete without a sprinkling of sweet little wood veneer pieces and cute die cuts.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Wood Veneer Bits

- Flair Buttons Set 1

- Page Tabs

- Page Tabs Jolly Season

- Photo Cut Outs Frame 24

- Snippet Strips Cool

- Snippet Strips Monochrome

- Wood Veneer Confetti Circles

- Flutter Colour Paint Tropicana Teal

For my second layout featuring a photo of my darling daughter, I have kept to a white, pink, red and kraft colour scheme.

'Fa La La'

How cute is that santa hat and the little reindeer?? They are from the Die Cut Bits & Bobs pack that is chockers full of awesome Christmas die cuts.

I strayed from my usual watercolour background for this one and simply squeezed some Raspberry Punch Flutter Colour Paint onto my layout. I then swiped away at it with a palette knife until I was happy with the coverage. As usual I sloshed on way more paint than I needed. It's typical of me which is why I always keep an art journal handy so I can swipe the excess paint onto a page or two to use later. Tags are good for this too if you have those laying around your desk.

I love the look of pink and red together and with a little kraft added too it's a pretty cool colour scheme.

I really wanted to use the Dear santa checklist Photo Card to go with my photo of my girl but it contained sentence enhancers. Now don't get me wrong I am a huge fan of sentence enhancers and must admit to using them quite regularly in everyday life. However I couldn't bring myself to use them on a layout with a photo of my daughter so I strategically placed a 'censored' sticker and a cute wood veneer present to hide them. It's a cool and creative way of covering up the naughty words if you don't want to use them.

Here's what I used:

FAIR DINKUM CHRISSY:

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Page tabs

- Wood Veneer

- Flutter Colour Paint Raspberry Punch

Wood Veneer Confetti Circles

- Photo Cut Outs Stars

Well I hope you are feeling inspired by my layouts today and you get a chance to sneak away and play with your own stash of Fair Dinkum Chrissy goodies. I am off to spend the morning at the zoo with my family followed by a lovely casual lunch at home.

Enjoy your Christmas day lovelies!

Cheers

Belinda

Of course I had to use this super embarassing photo of me messing about with neon pink zinc cream on my lips. I think my kids may have dared me to put it on and well a dare is a dare!

I started this layout by adding a soft wash of diluted Flutter Colour paint. I mixed together some Raspberry Punch with Arctic White to co-ordinate with the soft pinks in the photo cards. Once dry, I added some texture with the Sugar Sprinkles Stencil and some Golden Light Molding Paste.

I layered on some filler photo cards and embroidery thread as well as some chopped up quotes from the photo cards.

I finished by adding some embellishments, page tabs and sticky quick quotes.

Here's what I used:

WE RUN THE WORLD:

- P!NK Patterned Paper

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Sugar Sprinkles Stencil

- Page Tabs

- Flair Button Set 2

-Page Tabs Kraft Notes 4

- Photo Cut Outs Speech Bubbles 3

- Watercolour Sticky Quick Quotes

- Flutter Colour Paint Brights

- Wood Veneer Confetti Circles

I hope I have inspired you to create something with your own stash of this awesome range. Make sure you share your project in the Facebook Inspiration Group HERE so we can leave some love.

Oh and the deadline is looming to get your applications in to be a part of the most fun and awesome design team around. You still have the weekend so get cracking!! :-)

Thanks for stopping by the blog today. Have a great weekend.

Cheers

Belinda

I have to admit that green is NOT my favourite colour to work with. I am not too fond of brown either. But combined together with a touch of blue they really seemed to work with the photo of my girl sitting on the frog at the Adelaide Zoo.

I added some flower clusters around the large chipboard piece.

I added some super cute Dusty Attic frog and dragonfly chipboard pieces.

Here's what I used:

BO BUNNY Penelope:

- Abbey

- Dots

- Laugh

- Moments

2 CRAFTY Chipboard 11"Floral Frame

DUSTY ATTIC Chipboard:

- Frogs

- Mini Dragonflies

TSS 2.5cm Mini Lily Baby Blue

TSS 3.5cm Paper Flowers White

49 & MARKET Floral Mixology Mudslide

KAISERCRAFT Kaisermist Coffee

POSCA PEN White

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Belinda

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Now for my layout.

'Today'

I just love the delicate and pretty background paper I have selected from the range for this layout featuring a super cute photo of my daughter when she was little meeting our chooks for the first time.

Here's what I used:

BO BUNNY Penelope:

- Abbey

- Journey

- Love

- Moments

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Flower Clusters

DUSTY ATTIC Chipboard Weather Vane

49 & MARKET Floral Mixology Mudslide

TSS 2.5cm Mini Lily Baby Blue

TSS 3.5cm Paper Flowers White

KAISERCRAFT Lucky Dip Jute Cord White

LINDY'S STAMP GANG Flat Fabio Danny Zuko's Denim

Thanks for stopping by my blog today.

Cheers

Belinda

This time I have created a baby boy layout by focusing on the blues and browns in the patterned papers.

Here's what I used:

BO BUNNY Penelope:

- Abbey

- Dots

- Live

- Moments

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Flower Cluster

paper doily

BAZZILL Cardstock

49 & MARKET Floral Mixology Mudslide

TSS 2.5cm Mini Lily Baby Blue

KAISERCRAFT Decorative Die Hello

Thanks for stopping by today

Cheers

Belinda

So I started this layout by mixing up some Raspberry Punch and Arctic White Flutter Colour Paints. I then swiped it across the layout with a palette knife.

I then stapled on some strips cut from Mad About You Filler Photo Cards before swiping over the edges with some of the leftover paint.

Next I layered on some messy embroidery thread as well as fussy cuts and a polaroid frame before adding my photo and all of the cute bits and pieces.

Here's what I used:

Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards: Mad About You

Page Tabs: Blank Palette

Page Tabs 2: Wood Veneer

Die Cut Bits & Bobs: Mad About You

Photo Cut Outs: Bright Tabs 1

Flair Button: Xtreme Teen

Flutter Colour Paint: Arctic White

Flutter Colour Paint: Raspberry Punch

Sticky Quick Quotes

For this layout, I was super excited to use the stunning new patterned papers. I LOVE the patterned papers so much and the titles of them are just perfect. I used the "Diana" paper for this one. I started by adding the same mix of Flutter Colour Paint to my background. I diluted the paints with water and also spritzed some water onto my layout to make sure I got the paint really flowing and moving about my page. Once it was dry I flicked some of the paint over the layout too.

Next I grabbed the super sweet Sugar Sprinkles Stencil and applied texture paste over it to create some lovely 3D sprinkles. I let that dry and then used a white Posca Pen to highlight some of the sprinkles.

Then I did my usual and added lots of layers of embroidery thread, filler photo cards and cute embellishments.

Here's what I used:

We Run The World:

- "Diana" patterned paper

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Polaroid Cut Outs

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Sugar Sprinkles Stencil

Photo Cut Out: Bright Tabs 2

Enamel Dots

Flutter Colour Paint:

- Brights Set Arctic White

- Brights Set Raspberry Punch

I hope you are feeling inspired now to go forth and play with your Flutterby supplies. I hope the postie is kind to you too and your order arrives super quick! Make sure you share all of your gorgeous creations in the Facebook Inspiration HQ group so we can leave some love!

Thanks for stopping by.

Belinda

I was really drawn to the blues in this collection. Probably because my favourite colour is blue (well aqua actually but that's a blue). So I wanted to create a fairly monochromatic layout featuring all of the soft blues. I was dying to try out my new Darkroom Door Fine Leaves Stamp Set too so I used those stamps as well as the Fine Flowers on the background. I stamped with embossing ink and heat set with a fine white detail embossing powder. I love the delicate look this gives.

I painted the 2 Crafty chipboard title with three coats of white gesso.

I added a lovely fussy cut flower cluster as well as paper flowers and a super cute Prima resin squirrel that I have had in my stash for a very long time waiting for the right project.

Here's what I used:

BO BUNNY Penelope:

- Abbey

- Live

- Love

- Moments

- Wonderful

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Once Upon A Dream

DARKROOM DOOR Rubber Stamps:

- Fine Flowers

- Fine Leaves

TIM HOLTZ Distress Embossing Ink

RANGER Embossing Powder Super Fine White

TSS 3.5cm Paper Flowers White

TSS 2.5cm Mini Lily Baby Blue

DUSTY ATTIC Mini Roses

embroidery thread

sequins

Posca Pen white

gesso

PRIMA Shabby Chic Treasures Resin

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Belinda

Here's what I used:

BO BUNNY Penelope:

-Love

- Live

- Abbey

- Moments

- Penelope

BO BUNNY Doilies Small Doilies

49 & MARKET Floral Mixology Mudslide

TSS 3.5cm Paper Flowers White

DUSTY ATTIC Chipboard:

- Bloody Farm Words

- Flies

KAISERCRAFT Lucky Dip Jute Cord White

LINDY'S STAMP GANG Flat Fabio Danny Zuko's Denim

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink Broken China

Don't forget to share your fabulous creations in the Creative Corner Facebook group HERE.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

B :-)

Kraft + something BIG on your layout.

I had fully intended to use a BIG photo on my layout for a change but I just happened to be out and about at my favourite shop ( Typo!) and came across some BIG rose gold photo corners in the bargain section. Cool!!

Here's what I created.

'Smile' Layout

In contrast to the large size of the photo corner I used a tiny photo.

I hope you get a chance to play along with the challenge this month.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

B :-)