Creative Inspiration - Week 6 2015

Hello again.

So starts another month. With the start of a new month comes some new products to play with. As normal Leanne from Mad About Scrappin 

has surprised me with some amazing goodies to showcase. 

I was lucky this month to have this kit sent to me to play with...

Now for something just a little different I decided to start using this kit off with a bang. To explain a little .... recently my youngest daughter had her sixth birthday. Now as part of the party preparation I bought some paper party bags from Coles. 

As most of you know I just cant leave a party bag the way they come... I just HAD to personalise them. So I set to work collect all the bits and pieces I would need. I made little flags using some of the red and white striped paper in the kit. Then cut some tags from the kraft coloured paper. Once again I have played around with some digital stamps to create the 6 - celebrate cards. I printed these onto some graph 4x6 cards in my stash and jazzed them up with some matching washi tape. 

So here's the finished bags once I had assembled them all.

I had some old bingo cards in my stash that I decided to use as the base for all my decorations. I sanded the edges to tone them down just a little. I also finished the flags off with a gold glittered star to add that little bit of sparkle. Quite enjoyed jazzing these plain bags up and the kids just loved them.

Now.. as it was Miss Ts birthday I decided once I had finished the bags, that I would carry the theme over to her card. I cut up the base of the party bag to use as the background for this card.

To add a bit more dimension to the card I used a journal calendar spot from Mad About Scrappin. I finished off the spot using some mini alphas to add in the month and year of her 6th birthday.

Now to finish off the who card I wanted to add some sparkle. This was easily done with a bit of help from these super cute teenie sequins Leanne sent me. I just randomly applied adhesive the sprinkled the sequins and some iridescent glitter. Super easy and fun to make such a mess creating.

Had had a great time creating with this paper range. 

Cannot wait to share some other bits I have created over the next month.

Till then.... TFL, Michelle xxx

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A Time to Celebrate Cardholder

Hey all, welcome back.  Well it is Monday down here in my neck of the woods and you know what that means?  It is time to share my Mad About Scrappin project.  Last week I received my design team kit and I couldn't  wait to dive in and get creating.

So I busted open the A Time to Celebrate 8x8 pad from Graphic 45 and two of the off white cardstock.  I wanted to create a storage solution for some of my handmade cards and I thought the theme of these papers was just right for it.

I have used two pieces of off white cardstock to create the "box" shape. I have trimmed to measure 7"x12"  and 7"x 6.5".

 I have scored these at 3"; 4.5" and again at 9.5".  I trimmed off the excess.  With my second sheet of cardstock I scored it an 1.5" 

and then adhered the two pieces together 

Once this was done I began matting both sides.

 Once I had both sides covered, it was time to work on the concertina-d sides and add the dividers. I trimmed the two strips of cardstock I had leftover to 4".

 Which I then scored every at 1 inch intervals.

 adhered double sided tape to alternate sides and attached my dividers.

I then glued this to the "inside".

 Then the fun began with embellishing, fussy cutting and punching flowers.  

I have tucked the top flap in behind a button I have created using an old wooden button, some glossy accents and paper punches

 Here is my finished card holder....

Join me next week as I create some co-ordinating cards to go inside.   Thanks for stopping by and don't forget to check out all the Mad About Scrappin links below.

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Creative Inspiration - Week 5 2015

Hello again everyone.

Back this week to share with you the last framed layout I created as part of the donated scrap booking vouchers for my girls Calisthenics team. 

This would have to be my favorite of the two framed layouts I created. 

Here's the finished framed layout.

This framed layout features a lot of texture and dimension. I have used an older paper range that I had sitting in my stash.  

I have used a mix of card stock, paper doily and matching patterned paper to create the starting depths in this layout. I created the pennants using wood veneer shapes and covered them with the matching paper. I have then clustered them together using a mix of flowers from many Mad About Scrappin sales. I have been lucky enough to be able to get quite dimensional with the flowers as the frame is in a shadow box format.

You can see a bit more of the background here where I have used a stencil to mask the base card stock with a chicken wire fence look with white wash. I then hit the whole lime green card stock with some glimmer mists to match in aqua and melon. I finished off the floral clusters with some mixed pearl and clear sequins. They add a bit more of a feminine touch.

Here is a close up of the digital stamped 3x4 and 4x6 cards I created from some of the matching patterned paper. I finished the layout off with a mixed title using some acrylic alphas and some aqua glitter alphas.

I love how this turned out and am glad I have been collecting all my bits and pieces at every Mad About Scrappin online sale. It make creating easier when I have exactly what I need.

Have you played around with creating something different to what you normally create lately ?

Why not get creative this weekend.

Till next week.

TFL, Michelle x

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