A Colourful 7 Dots Challenge

I fell in love with the new mood board over at 7 Dots Studio this month. It's full of pastel colours and gorgeous scenes. I was inspired by the colours of the mood board to create this layout using a photo I took last year.

I used the pinks, blues, greens and yellow-green from the moodboard, but made the colours a bit brighter to work with the bright pink flowers in my photo. I used the Verano Azul collection from 7 Dots to create this. If has such gorgeous colours.

To make the frame around the photo, I fussy cut one of the journalling cards from the collection and raised it up around the photo. I also fussy cut the title from another journaling card.

The background is a mix of sprays and paints and I've glammed up the waste from some Dusty Attic chipboard circles with paint and stamping.

I scattered mauve stars around the page which were punched from one of the Verana Azul papers. I'm not much of a mauve fan usually but I love this colour!

I took the photo of the window on the island of Cres in Croatia. We loved it there. The buildings were all painted in gorgeous pastel colours and windows with shutters like these were so beautiful!

The circles were made using the chippie waste piece as a stencil.

I hope you can join in the challenge this month. You can find the challenge here, and here's the gorgeous moodboard:

Happy scrappin'!


Heather

Follow Your Heart

Hello! Gosh it's been so hot here! I love summer but it's sure nice when we get a few cooler evenings.

I saw the colours of this month's Words and Paintery challenge recently and fell in love. The neutrals and white are such a unique combination.

Here's what I came up with:

Here's the challenge criteria......

.... and here's how I interpreted the quote:

I think it's quite a challenge to use this neutrals colour combo with no pops of colour and I really enjoyed this. I kept the background reasonable clean as I really liked the crisp feel these colours created. I used chipboard, 7 Dots papers, dictionary paper, stamping, gauze and die-cuts to create lots of depth and topped it all with a metal butterfly.

There are only a few days left to join in the challenge! You can find it HERE.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

A Moment to Shine

Hello! Well I've had a hugely busy month but somehow I've found myself at the end of it with some scrappy time to spare. I hunted around the challenge blogs and found a great challenge over at 7 Dots Studio. The theme this month is "Moments in Time". Just about anything would suit this challenge but I chose to scrap about a beautiful moment I caught between two of my nieces.

I used papers, elements and stickers from the gorgeous Verano Azul range from 7 Dots. I love the way the lighter section at the top of the page looks like clouds. It works so well with the photo.

I adore the expression of freedom that the girls show in this photo. I want them to know that they are beautiful girls and I hope that they shine all their lives like they do in this photo.

There are lots of Dusty Attic goodies on this page - the chippies and paints are all theirs. I covered the chippie heart button with 7 Dots paper so everything coordinated.

You can find the 7 Dots challenge here.

I hope you can give the challenge a go - it's fun!

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Dusty in November

Hello and welcome back! I have a new layout to share using the gorgeous November mood board from The Dusty Attic.

The shattered glass effect of the mood board inspired me to cut my photo up into strips.

I painted my Floral Corners with different coloured Dusty Attic paints. If you look closely at the picture below, you'll see some chipboard 'splashes' around the flowers. These are just the waste pieces from the Floral Corners chipboard. Always keep your eye on your waste pieces - you never know what sort of interesting shapes are there!

I used Dusty Attic's Flower Burst stencil and brown ink to create the floral shapes around the photo then used gold Tinby Designs Metallic Melts on top. My title was created with Dusty Attic paint and Metallic Melts. I love the cool effect this creates!

The Dusty Attic products I used are:

Floral Corners DA0848

Mini Captions #6 DA1385 

Flower Burst Stencil DA1323

Dusty in Colour Paints in Hot Chocolate, 

Sunburnt  Orange, Cashmere, Dusty Pink and Navajo White.

I hope you can join in the challenge this month. The winner receives a whopping $100 gift voucher! You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

A 7 Dots Challenge

Hello again. I don't know how I've done it but I somehow managed to find time to enter a challenge! I've been busting to give the 7 Dots challenge a go for ages and I've finally done it!

The challenge this month is to use the phrase 'Time Flies" as your inspiration. You can find the challenge here. Here's the Inspirational Circle:

And here's what I created:

I've gone for a funky look on this one using papers from the Destination Unknown and Thoughts Keeper ranges.  The page is about how my daughter keeps changing her hair colour. To me, it shows how fast time is flying when she seems to have a different hair colour every time I see her. The journalling reads, "....Time flies.... So many hair colour options, so little time....Time flies...."

I have been collecting bar code strips from 7 Dots papers for a while and had fun using them on this page. I cut out the colourful dots and formed a row of them which I added under a punched edge to give my page a lift. On the far left, I used a whole strip as part of my design for an interesting feature. I liked the "Destination Unknown" name on it as that describes my daughter perfectly!

The title runs from the top of the photo to the bottom.

The butterfly, the Polaroid frame, the leaves and the alphas are all from The Dusty Attic. I coated the alphas, the leaves and the butterfly in Beck BT's Tinby Designs Metallic Melts. I love that grungy, chunky look it adds to my work. I painted the Polaroid frame black and wound metallic thread around parts.

I added Magicals to the background and stamped hearts which I coloured with Silks. I also used Silks to colour the circles behind the photo and along the journalling line.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Scrapping the "Other Half"

Hi there,

I'm just dropping in to share some layouts I made for last month's Scrapbooking Memories magazine. I wrote an article about how to scrap your partner. I ummed and ahhed about what to include as 'your partner' as these days it could mean anything. In the end I went with majority and wrote about scrapping males from a female scrapper's point of view. I'd have needed half the magazine to cover every possible combination!

I hope you like the layouts.

And here are some close ups:

Once I thought of making a fox tail to create part of the title I couldn't resist it! My teenage son was horrified that I put something so risque in a magazine!

My other layout was a bit more subdued but I still really liked the colour combo in this.

And some closies:

Yep - that's how long we've been together!

I have this layout displayed on a sofa table in my loungeroom and every time I walk past it those Metallic Melts catch the light beautifully. I love them!

Thanks do much for dropping in.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

My 2014 Faves

Hi there!

I enjoy looking through people's favourite works for the year so I try to do this too. It's a great opportunity to reflect on what we do or don't like about our work and I see it as a chance to work out what's good and explore those themes. Things got a bit crazy at the end of last year so I'm doing it at a much more leisurely pace now!

Without further ado, here are my top dozen or so layouts for the year. I try to do 10 but there are always just those few more that I can't do without!

In twelfth place:

"I'm Creative" - a layout I made for Scrappy Chat Designs. I love the words on this - they're so true!

In eleventh place:

I made this for a commission for Australian Scrapbook Ideas. I love the softness of the watercolours and the photo. I didn't take this dreamy pic unfortunately - it was taken by the very talented Shannaya Photo and Video who kindly allowed me to use it.

Tenth:

This one was made for The Dusty Attic. Again a soft, dreamy page. I used heaps of Dusty Attic flowers and paints on this one.

Ninth:

Moving back to the stronger colours is this one using products from Scrap Everything. I made the layout for one of my Workshop Secrets articles I wrote for Scrapbooking Memories magazine. Gotta love brights sprays!

Eighth:

I entered this layout in a 7 Dots challenge. It's loaded with Dusty Attic chipboard and Beck BT's Tinby Designs Metallic Melts. The nuetral colours are unusual for me but I love how this came together.

In equal seventh place:

I have to put these two layouts as an equal placing cos they're the same layout! These are the options I gave people who took my class at the Brisbane Expo. I saw some of the layouts finished by others and they looked fabulous!

Sixth:

This layout was made for an Australian Scrapbook Ideas article on using Beck BT's Tinby Designs Metallic Melts. I love the combination of the ombre Metallic Melts effect with the spray and the edgy photo.

Fifth:

I entered this layout in the Once Upon A Sketch and Scrap Around The World challenges.  Lots of Dusty Attic chippies here!

Fourth:

Another layout from my Metallic Melts article in Australian Scrapbook Ideas magazine. I used the Metallic Melts on wire this time as well as on buttons, cardstock, stamped images and flowers.

Third:

This layout was published in Scrapbooking Memories magazine. The feathers were made using Gelatos through a Crafter's Workshop stencil.

A late addition to this list!

I snuck this extra one in here as it was only made in the last week of the year. I made it for the amazingly talented Jelissa Mei and the very last ever Once Upon A Sketch challenge.

Second:

I made this layout for my first ever DT work for Scrap Around The World. There was a tutorial for this one too. I love those butterflies!

And in first place:

This is one of those layouts that looks better in real life. I love the colours in the background and the depth and textures in the flowers. And the little Balinese girl is gorgeous too! I made this for Once Upon A Sketch. 

It's only now that I've put this list together that I really realise what a loss to our community the closure of Once Upon A Sketch is. These big challenge sites are LOTS of work. Fortunately, there are other good challenge blogs around but we will sorely miss OUAS.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this and that you all have a truly wonderful 2015. May it be a happy, scrappy year to you all!

Heather