Friday Focus

Today it's a scrapbook page and is for the challenge at Kraft Plus. It's a sketch plus some inspiration photos and has the title Ho Ho Ho.

Well although it says there is no need to go with a Christmas layout mine is - sort of. The photos are of my youngest grandson trying to show me, in the unique way of a one year old, what was inside the first window of his Playmobil Advent calendar. So cute!

I matched my paper choices to the colours of the photos rather than the Christmas theme and built up a grid using 2" squares. I then added some machine stitching just outside the edges.

Once the photos were stuck in position I then got creative with adding embellishments, words and stickers. And my title reads straight into the journalling. I flicked some watered down white ink top left and bottom right and used a stencil to get some watery snowflakes there too.

Supplies:
Ppaers: SC kraft card; Polkadoodles, Peeling Paint; SU, Feels Like Frost; scraps from my stash
Alphas: Pink Fresh Studio, Just a Little Lovely; Echo Park, Winter Park
Dies: Lawn Fawn, outside in hearts
Stencil: Uniko, Let It Snow
Ink: SU, whisper white
Stickers: Doodlebug Design Inc, Dragons Tails; Bella Blvd, Secrets of the Sea; Pinkfrsh Studio, Every Day Musings

Thanks so much for your time today, I'm so pleased you came to visit my blog.

And keep crafting!

Tuesday Talk

Another scrapbook page to share today. This one uses the mood board from Kraft Plus.

I chose these photos as the colours and setting seemed to echo the mood board.

I stamped and die cut the flowers onto card scraps and then stamped the trailing leaves straight onto the background papers. I used some second generation inking to get the different intensity of green.

I then matted the photos on top of the patterned paper stacks, added a title and some stickers to finish it all off.

Supplies:

Stamps: Uniko, Season of Beauty

Inks: SU, real red, tangero=ine tango, old olive; Versafine Clair, nocturne

Papers: AC, kraft caerd; scraps from my stash

Alphas: Hobbycraft, chipboard

Embellishments: MAMBI, washi, chips & pocket pages; Cosmo cricket, Tiny Text; Ali Edwards, labels


This page didn't have any journalling as I made a second page to face it in my album using a grid design and plenty of journalling.  I always love grid pages as they give an opportunity to include multiple photos and are especially useful for memory keeping days out like this one.

Thanks for looking today, it's been so much fun to have your company.

And keep crafting!

Jane

Monday Moment

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page I created using the mood board from Kraft Plus as inspiration.

Here's my page:

I chose these photos as I thought they reflected the overall theme of the inspiration photo and then picked out some of the colours for the patterned papers and embellishments.

The layered strip at the bottom of this page has been lurking in my stash for years. I made it for a project and then changed my mind about using it but couldn't bear to throw it away. Many times since I've nearly binned it as it was taking up room so I'm pleased that at last I've justified its place.

Supplies:

Papers: AC kraft card

Alphas: SC thickers, Hardcover

Stickers: Cosmo Cricket, Jillibean Soup, Tim Holtz, Small Talk

Embellishments: MME enamel dots, Mistletoe Magic

Huge thanks for dropping by today, I really appreciate you taking the time.

And keep crafting!

Monday Moment

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page I made for the challenge at Kraft Plus Challenge. This month it's all about red, black & white plus kraft.

And here's my page:

As well as the colours and patterns from the mood board I was also taken by the grid layout. This was perfect for using multiple photos. I wanted to include the circles from the mood board too as I liked the contrast of the curves with the straight grid lines, but instead of placing them at the bottom I made a triangle with them to draw the eye over the page.

I love using arrows on my pages and think they also help to guide the eye over the content in an orderly and pleasing way.

Supplies:
Ppaers: AC, kraft cardstock;scraps from my stash
Alphas: Pink Fresh studio, just A Little lovely
Dies: Xcut, spiro circles; Technique Tuesday, that arrow Card
Punch: woodware, circle
Stickers & Ephemera: Cocoa Vanilla, Boys Rule; Tim Holtz Idea-ology, Small Talk; MME enamel dots

Huge thanks for dropping by today, I'm really grateful that you took the time.

And keep crafting!

Monday Moments

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page I created using the challenge theme from Kraft Plus.

August's theme is Nursery Rhymes and I immediately thought of this photo when I saw their graphic:

Obvious to me, but probably not to the everyone else. Here's the rest of the page which explains it all:

Such an extremely cute age when absolutely nothing that goes on around him is missed and every opportunity to copy is grabbed! Turn your back for a second and he's there!

Some of the word stickers I used were on a white background which looked too stark with all the browns so I coloured over with a Copic pen to blend them in a bit more.

Supplies:
Papers: AC kraft card stock; Coredinations; Prima Marketing; simple Stories; scraps from my stash
Alphas: October Afternoon, Mini Market; AC thickers Memo & Patchwork; Simple Stories, Legacy
Stickers: Cosmo Cricket, Tiny Text; Simple Stories,Legacy
Embellishmsnts: MME, wood shapes; Echo Park Have Faith enamel dots
Pen: Copic, E51

Thanks so much for dropping by today, it's been so much fun to have yu visit my blog.

And keep crafting!

Monday Moment

It's another scrapbook page today - I really had a most productive afternoon last week. This one uses the inspiration board from Kraft + as the basis for my page.

Well my page might have absolutely nothing to do with Bollywood, but I did try to pick up on the colours and patterns. And he is wearing that teal colour!

I went through my stash of paper pieces and picked out as many as I could that reflected the Bollywood vibe and the title letters are a very shiny bronze in real life too!

I used stickers as well as papers to build up my embellishment clusters - such vibrant shades and completely not what I would usually combine!

Supplies:

Paper: AC, kraft cardstock; scraps from my stash

Alphas: Simply Creative, foil

Stickers: MAMBI, Lilybee Design, October Afternoon, Pinkfresh Studio, Basic Grey

Enamel dots: Carta bella, Summer Splash

Thanks so much for dropping by today, i hope you will come back again another day.

And keep crafting!

Thursday Thoughts

I'm still in scrapbooking mode today and have another layout to share. I used the theme from Kraft Plus - another new to me challenge brought to my notice by Lizzy Hill's blog.

As well as using kraft paper they also want you to be inspired by the PATTERNS and colours of this pic.

So off I went to my stash and pulled out some papers and got to work. Here's what I came up with:

This was a quick and simple layout and satisfies my CAS heart. A few layers of patterned paper and the addition of some stickers - what could be easier?

The smiley was actually on a sticker sheet, but I lost one of the eyes in transit - they were so tiny. So I used some black gems instead.

The puffy Heidi Swapp sticker was chosen because my daughter in law said she'd had a lovely day with her three boys, they all got on and there was no arguing. So I'll be able to show her this page when things revert to normal!

Supplies:
Papers: Scraps from my stash and a very old piece of kraft paper that was lurking - need to order some more!
Alphas: Simple Stories I AM & #Whatever
Stickers: Washi stickers from a MAMBI pad; Heidi Swapp, Puffy Chat Bubbles
Gems from my stash

Thanks so much for visiting today, it's always so much more fun when you do.

And keep crafting!