Deer Designer - #4

Hey everyone Lydia here sharing a 12x12 layout using the beautiful new KaiserCraft Sparkle! and All That Glitter.

I used all of the new Kaiser collection except the black Thickers, enamel dots and tiny word stickers.

I really like how it come together. this collection has all of my favorite colors so that is a bonus.

These very cute butterflies are from the All That Glitter Collectables and I used magic mount foam to give them and the page a bit on dimension.

 for my layers I used a piece of paper from the All That Glitter 6x6 paper pad and I used 2 of the 6x4 cards from the Sparkle! Captured Moments Cards.

I hope you all have a great day.
Lydia xxx

Deer & Fawn Designs - March Challenge and Inpiration

Morning everyone, I am here to share my take on this months challenge for Deer & Fawn Designs. Make sure you go to the blog here to get all the details on the challenge.

Use our logo as your inspiration... Create a 12x12 layout, Mixed Media project or a Pocket Page in these colours...

I loved using the logo as my inspiration as I love the colors and floral.

I knew exactly what products I was going use when I found out the challenge and that was Maggie Holmes Open Book Collection.

I love love love how this layout turned out. I love all the gold on this layout also.

 And a quick close up.

I cant wait to see all of your entries and I hope you got a little inspiration from my layout.

Have a great day 

Lydia xxx

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