'Tis the Season for Leaves!

Hello!

Whoops - I got so sidetracked by the launch of our new business, ArtStacks, that I forgot to put up this post! It's been an incredibly busy, but rewarding, time.

The challenge this month at More Than Words is to be inspired by the word SEASON and to use LEAVES on your project. 

We were in Cres, in Croatia, when we turned a corner and saw the most amazing sunset! Cres is a beautiful old town where the buildings have shuttered windows so I went with lots of shutters from ArtStacks on my page. I painted them blue/grey to match the clouds in the photo.

The chipboard flourish is from The Dusty Attic.

I hope you can join us this month! You can find the challenge details here.

Happy creating!

Heather 

Fly Me To The Moon

 Hello there! 

There's a bit of excitement in the McMahon household tonight as our beloved football team are about to play in the preliminary finals! It'll be a tough gig - we go in as the underdogs. Go Tiges!

OK, that's enough about football! The Mini Challenge at More Than Words has just been revealed and the word to use on your card, tag, ATC or postcard is MOON. I googled some quotes and found this one. I love it!

I started my background with the deep eggplant colour as it reminded me of a night sky and layered stars on top. I found the moon in my stash - bonus!

Will you join us this month? You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Night - A Special Time

Hello again! Have you seen the new challenge at More Than Words this month? You have to be inspired by the word NIGHT and use NO FLOWERS on your project. Now that is a real challenge!

I wanted to make an art journal page so I went searching for a quote. This one is perfect for me!

The quote says, "Night is to see the dreams and day is to make them true". This is so true for me! My best ideas happen at night when there are no distractions and my mind is free to think. I sometimes find it hard to not get up out of bed and start on whatever my idea is though!

The beautiful big flourish is from The Dusty Attic. I painted it silver but that hasn't shown up too well in the pics.

This quote is so suited to me that I even added this to the page:

Yep - this is me to a 'T'!

I hope you can join us this month. You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Getting Chalky at Kraft +

Hello!

Thanks for dropping in. I'm sharing a layout I made for Kraft + this month. The challenge is 'Crazy About Chalk'. I had a small problem - I had no chalk. I rummaged through my stash though and found some chalk pastels and created this.

This project turned out nothing like I originally planned. I was going to make splashes of colour around the black and white photo but my printer is playing up and insists on printing purple where there's supposed to be solid black. I tried all sorts of things to fix it but in the end I accepted I had to use the purple photo, which changed my colour scheme. Having said that I love how it turned out!

To create the coloured squares, I first ran some gesso up and down the page to give the chalk pastels something to grip to and to make the colours pop. I made a simple template by punching squares in some paper and I used a brush to apply different colour chalks in the squares. I tool a leaf out of Amy Churchward's book ( a fellow Kraft + DT member) and spayed a light coat of hairspray over the chalk to keep it in place.

I hope you can join us this month! You don't have to use chalk on your project - you can maybe scrap about covid chalk creations or about chalk on the school blackboard. You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

More Than WORDS

Hi! The word to use on your mini project this month at More Than Words is.... Words! Hmmm, what can you create for this?

I made a tag.

I really just used up lots of scraps on this one.

Will you join us this month? You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Going Geometric!

 Hello again!

Have you seen the new challenge over at Kraft + yet? The challenge is to Go Geometric! Well that one got me thinking.  Here's what I made:

I had a clear idea of what I wanted to make and the triangles came out pretty much as planned. I happened to find the stencil though when I was looking for something to put on the background and it was so perfect for the geometric challenge that I couldn't resist it. 

I knew this design would be great for using up paper scraps so I raided my leftovers drawers. Some of the paper is really old but I jazzed the page up by adding some very recent geli prints and stitching. I had it in my head that I wanted blanket stitching on the large red triangle. I contemplated doing it by hand for about 3 seconds then I did it on the machine! As usual, I did lots of messy stitching too.

I kept the leftover paper scraps theme going by making a flower out of coordinating scraps. I love how it turned out. I almost finished off a packet of Heidi Swapp stickers on this but couldn't quite do it. I never seem to finish packs of anything!

I sure hope you can join us this month. You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Book Club

 Hello!

So many things have changed since the pandemic started. One of the small changes in my life is that our little book club has to be done by zoom. It's not the same as catching up with my friends irl but it has to do for now.

The challenge this month at More Than Words is to be inspired by the word "Books" and to use use Book Pages on your project. I went one step further and created my art journal page in a book!

I have to fess up that our 'book club' might actually be more of a get together with friends than a real book club!

Will you join us with your book inspirations this month? You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather