Stamps Ahead

Melissa from Unmistakable Creations Group on Facebook  set an interesting challenge (more later) here is my layout  Melissa has recently seen a number of layouts using embossing folders as backgrounds.  Her challenge was to use our embossing folders with white cardstock and create your background and then create a layout using one of the Unmistakeable Creations collections.  I used the Water's Edge collection. Thank you for looking and why not visit Unmistakeable Creations and check out the ranges.  Margaret.

This weekend I have been watching and creating with talented artists, from around the world, in Free Taster Sessions.  Here are the results of two classes I completed. From a class with Meaghan Early - Fabric Found Word Clusters.  My words were found in an old poetry book and I found myself reciting the poems as I searched for just the right word. This was a class with Lisa Goddard - Affirmation boxes in fabric and paper. This is the front the matchbox (available, if you live in Australia at Spotlight in a pack of 6) - all sides were decorated. I have also used gesso, paint and charms.  Slide the drawer up and here is the middle. Also shown is the back of the box. I have created this box for a friend who is celebrating a milestone birthday and tomorrow we are meeting for lunch - this will be her birthday 'card'.  Rather, than create a specific birthday theme I decided to go with a box that could be opened any day of the year.  I will be making more of these - as...

Have you heard of the 7 Coloured Earth in Mauritius?  Here is my art journal page inspired by this area It so happens that the owner of Hillbilly Shenanigans and her friend are on a world cruise that called into Mauritius recently.  They took photos of their visit to the location.  They are documenting their travels and setting small challenges along the way.  This challenge was to be inspired by one of their photos of this truly amazing area in Mauritius. The earth is mainly different types of red, gold, browns and purples. For my art journal page, I first took a sheet of heavy white card stock and applied several Paper Artsy Paints with a spatula.  I allowed this to dry and then using a now discontinued Kaszazz stamp with black archival ink randomly.  I DID NOT LIKE IT!!! The inner critic was saying throw it away and start again!  Well, I nearly did and then I realised I still had punches on my desk from some recent creating and decided to punch squa...

A selection of cards I made using left over pieces from making my art journals this week.  A couple have a simple greeting, and all others left blank suitable for many occasions. Thank you for looking, Margaret  

 This is a small 2" x 3" (5.3cm x 7.8cm approx.) journal I have made this past week: Inside and back pages, using stamps, doodling, acrylic paint pens, punched circles, fussy cut images. They are a work in progress that I can come back to at any time and play more. Why so tiny? Sometimes when creating opportunities arise and you change course. I started with a 12" (30cm) of 350gsm white cardstock (CS) and an A4 sheet of white CS - that I sprayed with 4 spray inks in my stash. Allow to dry completely - I left overnight to dry.  Then in the morning I cut, the larger sheet into 6" x 4" pieces. These were than to be folded in half.  All good so far, for the first 6 pages and then for some reason I cut the remaining 6 pieces in half ending up with 12 pages that are sized 2" x 3" - no worries I love mini journals. A couple of photos Spray inks on the A4 sheet - of course, by this time the green spray decided to run out!  The other 2 journals I created - now...

Sharing two layouts I have done recently.  Autumn layout for a new, to me, challenge group on Facebook  The Hut Creative  (Autumn layout) and the other another layout from the recent Scrapbook Fantasies Virtual Retreat.  For this layout, I created leaves using several types of paper and then die cut them using Sizzix die Leaf Fragments, and arranged them around my photo taken in Taralga, NSW during Autumn this year.  The background cardstock is from 3Quarter Designs Mocha Fix Collection. For colouring the leaves I used watercolour powders from Lucys and Colour Crush.  With the leaves I did not use I created tags and clusters to use on later projects. This layout was designed by mother and daughter - Alicia and Naomi-Jon Renshaw - of Scrapbook Fantasies.  I have used more of the beautiful papers in their Very Vintage Range.       Thank you for looking, Margaret