Melissa - CT Post #1

​Hey everyone! This is Melissa here from Melissa Marie Knits. I am excited to share with you a few layouts that I made using an old book. I found the tutorial on the new Big Picture Classes site This class is taught by Maggie Holmes.

For the front cover, I painted it gold and then on the spine of the book I used washi tape to hold it together. My book is really old, but I love old books so it works well for me. I then added various embellishments from different Studio Calico Kits. This book is going to document my last few months of highschool.

I really wanted to try to keep the book in it's original form. So I didn't add any papers to it, just kept it simple. This year I really like the quote what if I fall? Oh darling, what if you fly? It means a lot to me so I wanted to put it in here. I wrote it on the original book paper using a sharpie. 

On the next pages I used a picture of me taken on January 1^st. This spread is all about new beginnings. The left page I painted parts of the cut out pieces blue and then added the phrase don't give up.

Thank you for taking a peek. I'll be back soon to share more pictures of my book!  

For the supplies, I used Far Far Away Scrapbook kit, Firsts kit, Magic Carpet kit, Botanical Labels, Color Theory Mint paint, Piccadilly kit, Maggie Holmes Open Book Ephemera pack, Dear Lizzy Lucky Charm die-cut pack, Heidi Swapp Gold Foil kit, Teresa Collins Signature Essentials. 

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Melissa Marie

www.melissamarieknits.com

she knits & creates. 

Guest Blog Post Call - #2

Afternoon everyone. So here I am with another Guest Blog Post call. 

I am look for about 2-5 crafty people to do a guest post right here on my blog. You can be a crafter of all sorts, Project Lifer, Traditional Scrappbooker, Card Maker, pretty much any sort of a crafter.

 

This isn't a every long call so make sure you email me ASAP ( lydiagibson@y7mail.com ). 

What I want to see in the email. - 

- 3 recent projects 

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- a little bio about yourself 

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- links to all your social media (Instagram, Facebook page, Pinterest)

That's all I want. I will email and stay in contact with you if you are chosen. Your guest post will be featured here on my blog in the in mid April or early May

I hope to see many emails regarding the call. 

Lydia xxx

"Smile" - 12x12 Layout

Hey, I am back again with a 12x12 layout I did as soon as I got up this morning. I just felt a little creative.

I used all products from Amy Tangeraine except the dollie, wood veneers,paper clip, twine and the pink love heart sticker.

I am absolutely loving these super cute Chic Tags wood veneer sequins.

Lydia xxx

The Documented Life Project (DLP) - Weeks 1 - 9

Good morning everyone on this lovely Sunday morning. This morning I thought I better do a post of all my DLP pages so far this year as I haven't posted any. So here they are. 

TITLE - I used watercolours for the background and stamps and just alpha stickers from my stash.

WEEK 1 - Challenge - Book Paper

I ripped up old book paper and stuck it down and just used water colous for the background.

WEEK 2 - Challenge - Gesso

I really loved this weeks challenge as I really love gesso. I used a different medium for the background and used party streamers. I then just gessoed over the top and added a quotes and a little photo and journaling. (The bubble on the right hand side weren't meant to be there but once I did the next week and heat tooled it the bubble made a extra effect)

WEEK 3 - Challenge - A Colour Wheel

Now each week also has a journal promt as well which is where the shapes came from on the page. So the rainbow is just watercolour as I loved how the colours blended together. I didn't have any plan for how the shapes would go but that is just how they turned out.

WEEK 4 - Challenge - Writing

First of all to get the effect with the watercolours I used gesso but only did it in places quite thick than once the gesso was dry I use watercolours to do the background. I found that my colours had to be really watery as well. Now for the writing part, I just used a Postca white paint pen to write friends in the background and to add little detail. U also used a Gold Postca paint pen for the quote and just traced around it with a sharpie.

WEEK 5 - Challenge - Under Paper

I had this under paper from when I watercoloured and really loved the bright colours so I really didn't want to do much to it so I stuck the paper down and added from plain white sptexture paste and used my Postca paint pen again to add a few details.

WEEK 6 - Challenge - When Not To Stop

This week was a challenge as I didn't really know what do to so I ended up with this but I still don't think it is finished. Not sure, will come back to it later.

WEEK 7 - Challenge - Cover Up Good Stuff

I had some left over coloured doilies from my DT goodie from Deer & Fawn Designs so I decided to use them. The bottom layer is old fabric patters ripped up with just white paint over the top. Then I used a nifty idea from my follow DT buddy at Deer& Fawn Designs Connie who used lids on one of her scrapbook pages. I also used a cork from a wine bottle also to add detail and some texture paste.

WEEK 8 - Challenge - Repeating Elements.

It's pretty obvious what I repeated. Again I used a lid with Staz On ink, stamps and paint.

WEEK 9 - Challenge - Using At Least 5 Layers

Layer 1 - Tea & Coffee died book paper 

Layer 2 - Light cover of gesso

Layer 3 - washi Tape 

Layer 4 - Stamps and doodling 

Layer 5 - Qoute (alpha stickers)

So I hope you enjoyed looking at my DLP pages and I will be back soon to share more.

Have a lovely Sunday .

Lydia xxx

Project Life - Week 7

Afternoon everyone, I am here to share my week 7 layout. I did this layout while on holidays as I had Harvey Norman down the road which I don't here at home and I love their quality of photos. I love how this layout turned out as I only had a 12x12 contained filled with goodies compared to a whole desk at home.

I have been using quite a lot if the Happy cards from a giveaway I won a few weeks ago.

Left side.

Right side.

My quick and easy title card using some Amy Tangeraine Thickers. And guess whati have gone from no Thickers to 2 packet to 5 packets thanks to my awesome DT buddy Amanda after she gave me a few goodies.

I don't often do this but I loved how it turned out.

This was very creative for me as I really wanted to use the card with the car and I really wanted to use the card with the rain drops as it was raining when we left for our holiday. So I cute the rain drop card up and stuck some of the rain drops and the cloud to the card card.

Lydia xxx

Deer Designer #3

Morning everyone, I am back with a post this week as last week I was on holidays at the beautiful beach.

So this is just a very quick 6x8 layout I made last night using one of my spare photos from the week of my holiday.

I used some more wonderful goodies from the Desktop Project Life collection which you can get in the Deer & Fawn store here.

I am really loving sequins at the moment especially these Studio Calico Gold sequins.

I am also loving vellum. I just use cheap A4 vellum from my local cheapy shop. I love that the new Project Life collections are coming out with 6x6 paper pads but also chipboard stickers. I just love them and the quantity is great, I have used alot and still have so many left. You can find these stickers in the Deer & Fawn store here.

So I hope you liked my quick layout, and if you have any questions just leave them in the commets.

Have a great day.
Lydia xxx

PL Junkie Catch Up - 26-2-15

Hey hey!!

As it is our last afternoon here in Port Macquarie,NSW, Australia on our holiday, I am sitting here writing this blog post of something amazing that happened yesterday afternoon. 

So here's the story -

Yesterday afternoon I was fortunate enough to meet one of my awesome PLJunkie Design Team members Amanda Horne. We had a great afternoon catching up and talking all things Project Life and of course looking through each other's albums and bearing each other scrappy goodies. 

Amanda's albums were gorgeous. To check out more of Amanda's creations make sure to check her blog here. 

I will be back soon with 2 weeks of Project Life layouts. 

I hope you have a great weekend. 

Lydia xxx