SATW July Moodboard Challenge

I'm always keen for at least one challenge each month and this month my favourite comes from Scrap Around the World. Their Design Team each month create and host a moodboard for the monthly challenge and this month Tusia Lech has put her talents together and created a beautiful board for inspiration.

Here is my take on it.

And here is the moodboard. It's such a light and bright collection Tusia has put together. I immediately thought of my sons beautiful girlfriend, Kendall. She is such a breath of fresh air. Her smile lights up a room and warms my sons heart which is all a mum can ask for her boy.

She has had some big changes career wise in the last couple of weeks and I felt that the quote Tusia chose to put on the moodboard suited perfectly. It is also a great attitude to have in life and one I think Kendall would agree on.

Recently, I've really enjoyed putting together process videos of my creations. I love the challenge of the editing (still improving with each video) and I love inspiring people.

Process Video

Some close ups and materials I've used.

The background paper is from Kaszazz's Vintage Flourish collection it's called "Jasmine Lee". I've stacked old book pages and old maps for my photo matt. I love to use old bits and pieces as much as I can. the maps have been selected carefully to represent the places Kendall has lived in her short life.

 I've added my title using 2Crafty Chipboard "Smile Loopy Font" word. I primed it in white Gesso and then coloured it using the Distress Inks.

The background is a combination of Heidi Swapp Color Sprays and stencilling with Distress Inks over the Triangle's stencil from Crafters Workshop.

Embellishments include some paper scraps, a potty girl from Calico Studio, some little Prima flowers and a Kaszazz floral embellishment.

I hope you've enjopyed my quick little run down of this page. If you want to see how it all comes together then scroll up and click on the process video. it can also be found in the tabs along the top of my blog.

You can find more of my videos HERE and you can follow me on Facebook HERE.

Thanks for popping in.

Cheers

Fiona xx

Off the Rails Scrapbooking Tutorial - Using a Colour Wheel Part 2

Using a Colour Wheel part 2 - Triadic Colour Schemes

As part of the DT over at OTR, each month I share a couple of tutorials. This time I introduce you all to "Triadic" colour combinations for you to use on any of your projects.

 Now, a Triadic colour scheme is when you split the wheel into thirds as shown below. It is always either a trio of Primary, Secondary or Tertiary combination. Never a mix of different ones. That's a completely different colour combination process all together (next time). For now we'll just focus on the Triadic combination. 

As you can see on the colour wheel below, the top triangle highlights Red Violet and the other two colours highlight Blue Green and Yellow Orange. The yellow and blue are the two other tertiary colours that then creates a Triadic combination.

You begin by choosing your base colour. The combination I worked with for this project was the Red Violet base Triadic. Red violet is a tertiary colour so the other two colours will be tertiary also. 

Now I'm not a lover of triadic combinations and you won't find many of them in my projects (just my personal preference) but they do work. I think some work better than others. I'm not a fan of the Red, Blue and Yellow (Primary) triadic but with the right photo or on the right project it does work really well. I do love the Violet, Green and Orange (secondary) triadic combination and I've used it before with great success. But this time I've tried the Red Violet, Blue Green and Yellow Orange.

My art journal page uses a combination of Red Violet (Fuchsia) Blue Green (Turquoise) and Yellow Orange (Gold) and they look awesome together.

I hope you've enjoyed my second tutorial on colour wheels. Next time I'll share with you some ideas around using Analogous colour schemes.

Cheers

Fiona xx

SIWA July challenge "Vintage"

SIWA Vintage Theme

Over at Scrap it With Attitude this month our talented DT member Wendy O'Keffe has chosen our theme for the month "Vintage". This is not a style I often dabble in so for me, what a wonderful challenge.

This is my take on it.

This is a photo of my beautiful mum on her 2nd Birthday riding her new tricycle.

We had a bit of a giggle about her qualifying as "Vintage" when I showed her the layout which then developed into a moment of story telling about what she remembered of her childhood. My mum was born during the Second World War and didn't get to meet her Father, my Grandfather until she was almost 3. She remembers the moment vividly. She recalled feeling afraid of him and getting a smack on the bottom for not wanting to give him a hug. Oh how times have changed.

The background paper is "Sun Chaser" from the Kaisercraft Paradiso collection. I gave it a coat of White Gesso and edged it with Distress Stain "Vintage Photo" and "Walnut Stain". Perfect vintage colours.

I've used the Kaisercraft "Art of Life" sticker sheet from the Photo Friendly collection to embellish the page. it's a wonderful selection of little frames, numbers, butterfly's, old film roll and much more.

Some of the papers I used were also Kaisercraft from the Vintage Timeless 6X6 paper pad as well as some pages from some old books. The butterfly's are also Kaisercraft from the Timeless collection sticker sheet.

Before I layered the paper and embellishments and after the Gesso was dry, I added some swirly drawing with my black fine point sharpie. The stamped butterfly's are Tim Holtz along with some of his "Film Strip" ribbon.

The black frames are a stick on velour called "Fancy Frames" from Jenny B Collection. I love how they just pop on the page. The flowers are Prima along with the little wooden clock that I've coloured red with Distress Ink "Festive Berries".

I used white drawing ink for the first time on this layout and I'm really happy with the depth of it's colour and how it dries on the page.

I hope I've helped inspire you to enter the challenge over at SIWA. It's a fb based challenge sight that anyone can enter and the prizes are always awesome.

Thanks for checking out my layout.

Cheers

Fiona xx

My First Publication for Scrapbook Creations "Divine"

I would never have Said, in a thousand years, that I would have any of my work published in a Scrapbooking magazine, but guess what?     

With much thanks to Jasmine Shea and Scrapbook Creations, a dream that I didn't even know I had, has come true!!

Issue #104

"Glamour Divine"

Thank you so much for the opportunity to showcase my work Scrapbook Creations. I think I'm addicted. I would recommend that all you keen scrappers out there, give submissions a go. You just never know!

Thank you for popping in and checking out my post :)

Cheers

Fiona xx

SATW Guest Designer for June

Hello again. Here I am as promised, with my second interpretation of Di Garling's beautiful June Mood Board over at Scrap Around the World. I was so lucky to be chosen as winner of the April challenge and super excited when they contacted me to be a Guest Designer for the month of June. I got straight to work creating this piece using Di's mood board.

Again it is a photo of my beautiful sister. This is her at work!! Yep her profession is acting. She always wanted to be a Vet or Journalist until her final year in school when her passion for acting really came to the forefront. She studied an Honors Degree in Performing Arts and has never looked back. She is a very talented and beautiful actor but I may be a little biased. The life of an actor however can be fraught with disappointment as you attend audition after audition followed by one rejection after another. So I decided to use my creative ability to show her how much I believe in what she is doing and to encourage her to NEVER give up!

I definately drew my inspiration from the LOVE in this mood board but also wanted to incorporate the grey and the stiped straws as I love the contrast they bring to the yellow.

The back ground piece is a lovely grey with white writing from the current "Cheeky Smiles" kit from over at Scrappy Chat Designs and the words on it are perfect for the inspiration I wanted to give to my sister. I added some little stars covered in silver Metallic Melts to represent her reaching for the stars.

The little Potty People represent her and I. Growing up with almost 10 years in age difference. I know she looked up to me and admired my strength and determination towards life but now the tables have turned and she has become my inspiration and keeps me reaching for the stars in my creative endeavours.

I also really enjoyed pulling out my crackle paint for this one. I haven't used it in such a long time and this project rejuvenated my love of the texture it creates.

The title "Never Give Up On Your Dream" was created by lots of different alphas and I love how it became the focus point of this layout.

Thank you so much for popping in and checking pout my creation. I hope you head on over to the  Scrap Around the World blog and look at entering the challenge.

Cheers

Fiona

SATW GDT with 2Crafty Chipoboard

Hello lovely peeps. How exciting is this? My first official 2Crafty Chipboard gig and it's as part of the Scrap Around the World June Guest Design Team. I've been lucky enough this month to be asked to do two pages for Di Garling's amazing Mood Board. This is my first one.

And this is the amazing Mood Board that Di has created. I LOVE yellow so this one was really easy to play with. Especially paired with the black.

I took my inspiration this time around from the word LOVE and the beautiful yellow flowers. This is a layout of my little Sis. The background paper I have used is a piece designed by Stephanie Wheeler for Cocoa Daisy "Stardust"

It has the best yellow lines on it that complimented the mood board perfectly.

My 2Crafty Chipboard pieces include:

Assorted Arrows, Polaroid Assortment of Frames and Chevron Bits

I've covered the Chevron bits all differently. The yellow one is covered with a lovely flower patterned paper. I've used the same paper to back my photo. \It adds an element of softness to the page without actually adding any flowers. The next two little chevron bits are simply painted with black Gesso but  the third one is also covered with Tinby Designs "Metallic Melts". these melts are an amazing thick gritty embossing powder that give real dimension to the chevron.

The assorted arrows are all treated with a different medium. Some are painted with black Gesso, others are painted with white. the white ones are also stamped on using my graph stamp and Black Memento ink. The Yellow arrow is covered in modelling paste to give it a rough look and then coloured with water paint.

I loved adding these polaroid frames from 2Crafty Chipboard. they look awesome! Again I've treated one with black Gesso similar to the arrows then added Metallic Melts while the white one has a light coating of modelling paste and then stamped over while still slightly wet with my graph stamp and black ink.

The Chevrons help to draw the eye around and down the page. Here I've made them stand out with standard black Gesso but covered the last one with the flowered yellow paper, tying the whole page in  together.

I really enjoyed putting this page together. It's the first time I've had a chance to play with the 2Crafty Chipboard and I think I'm addicted!!

I hope you join in with the challenge over at Scrap Around the World and I hope you've enjoyed seeing how I've used the  2Crafty Chipboard. 

Thanks for popping by.

Cheers

Fiona

OUAS and 13@rts June Challenges

Well what a jam packed, scrapping, long weekend I've had! I think I broke my record. I completed 7 layouts and a card! None of which I can reveal just yet except for this one.

Once Upon a Sketch is an awesome challenge that I try to enter at least every second month. I'm not the best at following sketches or at adding journalling to my work so this challenge is really good in stretching my skills! Nadia always creates a fabulous sketch for us to follow and a beautiful theme that really gets the mind thinking. This month it is "The best things in life are often not things". So true.

And I've never entered a 13@rts challenge before but this one sounded like it was right up my alley!

I decided that because it was such a beautiful sunny winters day that I would video the process for this one. The sun comes in my studio window and lights up my table perfectly. I've added it below or you can view it via my You Tube page which you can access easily by clicking the tab at the top of my blog that says "My Tutorials".

Here are some close ups.

 My journalling says "The best things in life are not things, we have things but ...... it's who we share these things with that really matters". We all have things. We live in a society where things are readily available to most of us so the things lose their meaning. But then there are the things that enable us to share precious time together with the ones we love.

I've used some 2Craftry Chipboard, water colour paints, Kaiser Craft tiny dot stamp and some papers from Cocoa and Daisy on this layout.

I really love the way it turned out. It's not like most of my layouts. The colours are a bit bolder than I would normally use but they complimented the photo perfectly.

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Thank you for popping in.

Cheers

Fiona xx

SIWA Monthly Challenge - Your Favourite Quote

Hi. Sharing with you another of my DT pieces. This time it's for the FaceBook based challenge group Scrap It With Attitude. The theme this month is "Scrap your favourite quote". This was hard because I have many so I decided to scrap the one I felt was inspiring me the most at the moment.

This is what I created.

I've used some of the papers and embellishments from the Cheeky Smiles Kit from Scrappy Chat Designs.

The chipboard letters I covered with white Gesso and then painted with the colour spray from the kit. A beautiful Jade colour that matched the background paper from the kit perfectly.

The paper frames I fussy cut out of one of the 12x12 papers in the kit. It was a little time consuming but worth it. For more inspiration on using the kit, head on over to the Scrappy Chat Designs Blog.

I backed my photo with a "pull off" tab made from some of the kit papers. You know, like the ones you see on message boards in Supermarkets. I tore one of the "chance" words off to represent that I was taking a chance. 

The word today is also fussy cut from the kit papers. I felt it just finished off the layout perfectly.

I am taking chances a lot now days. I suppose I always have been a bit of a chance taker but usually only within my comfort zone. Since blogging my scrapping, I've been very much out of that zone and so taking chances in my scrapbooking life has been a little daunting, but ........ So far ......... I'm loving the chances I've taken!!

I hope I can inspire you to take some too.

Don't forget you can follow all my chances! (LOL) on face book HERE

Cheers

Fiona xx

Off the Rails Scrapbooking June challenge "Use Material"

Hello all. Just popping in quickly to share with you the new challenge over at Off the Rails. This month it's "Use Material" in any way you like on your project.

I chose to do a layout and I created my background by adhering Tulle to my paper with PVA glue and white Gesso. Once it had dried, I added some watercolour and my embellishments. The colours in this layout are a lot richer than I'm used to using but the photo dictated the colour scheme and it all came together not too badly.

I added some black highlights including a piece of 2Crafty Chipboard painted black. It's one of their whispy flowers. I love how delicate these are.

I've also used some of my currently favourite Kaiser Craft collection "Kaleidoscope". The bright Red colours from these papers suited the layout perfectly.

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Cheers

Fiona xx