BEGINNINGS at More Than Words

 Happy New Year! I hope you were able to celebrate a little on New Year's Eve.

At More Than Words, we 're celebrating the new year with an appropriate new challenge. You have to be inspired by the word BEGINNINGS and use WASHI on your project.

I'm completely smitten with the new Limited Edition releases at ArtStacks so I just had to use one of those. This page was made using "The Homemaker" stack.

I was a bit concerned that I used a photo of myself when I was looking for a vintage pic but I can console myself knowing that I'm not as old as one of the papers in the stack - it's 94 years old!

I added washi around my photo using music notes to tie in with the gorgoues old background music paper. The "happy times" saying is also on a washi tape.

I used heaps of layers of papers from "The Homemaker" stack.

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

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

An ArtStacks Journey

Welcome back!

The end of 2020 has been such a busy time for us as we've just released our first New Releases at ArtStacks! And I feel so lucky to be the first one to use them. They don't come much more hot off the press than this!

So the first of the New releases is called The Homemaker, a vintage-themed stack based around the life of an early-mid 20th Century housewife. It has 8 pages of gorgeous old-world roses, vintage book papers (some nearly 100 years old), vintage sheet music, pianola roll paper and dress patterns. Many of the pages are unque - no two stacks are the same. How cool is that?

Anyway, I used the printed pianola roll as my background to make this.

Everything on this page is from The Homemaker stack, except the title which is from the Faces & Figures stack.

I adore the printed pianola roll! Here's a tip - layer it over another paper and the colour of the underneath paper will show through the punched holes. Different colours can give surprisingly different effects. I used black here but I could have used white or pink. It's such a unique way to put your own touch to a page.

My layers behind the photo are cut from the page of roses printed on canvas photo paper, plus the other sheet of pianola roll (which I sprayed with pink spray) as well as some of the old book paper. I didn't use the 1920's paper on this one - I'm saving that for a feature piece.

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Happy scrappin'!

Ho Ho Ho!

Welcome to December!

I've got my Ho Ho Ho on at More Than Words where the challenge is to be inspired by the word "Childhood" and to "Add Gold" to your project.

I made an art journal page - or is it a scrapping page? I seem to blend these two a lot. I call it Art Scrapping - or is it Scrap Journalling? Lol.

I used poppies from ArtStacks' Anemones & Friends stack and the hand is from the Faces & Figures stack. All the chippies are from the Dusty Attic. 

To create a cool border I used a mix of stamped words and words cut from ArtStacks pages.

Will you find time in this busy month to join us? There are heaps of awesome prizes to be won!

Happy scrappin'/journallin'!

Heather

Nearly Neon

It's the start of December which means the silly season is officially underway! I hope it's a fun and exciting time for you.

The challenge at Kraft + for December is 'Naturally Neon'. I have an embarrasingly large amount of stash but, much to my surprise, I only had one tube of paint that could be called neon. So I went with using really bright colours and added a splash of the neon lime green. 

Here's my 'nearly neon' page!

I used a mop-up sheet as my background and added butterflies from ArtStacks of course!

I made a ruffle from my mop-up paper and ran it along the edge of the coloured paper.

I hope you find time in this busy month to join us. You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

What If You Fly?

Oohhh, I've made my first Monday Muse post for ArtStacks! I wanted to share how easy it is to re-size our DigiStacks. On the ArtStacks blog you can find three simple steps how to do this. You can find the post HERE.

I re-sized a butterfly to create the large wings behind Courtney in this photo. It's so cool and so easy!

I used the red poppies, black and white anemones, tissue flowers and butterflies all from ArtStacks' Anemones & Friends DigiStack.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

Fall Down 7 Times

Hello!

Don't you hate it when you go to all the effort to make something then forget to post it? That's what I did this month - lol.

The new Mini Challenge at More Than Words is to use the word FALL on a mini project. I made a postcard.

All my features are from ArtStacks. I used the girl with a swagger from the Faces & Figures stack, the butterfly is from the Anemones & Friends stack and the quote is from the Inspirational Words MiniStack.

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

Happy scrappin'!

Heather

A Bug's Life

Hello and welcome back!

November is all about bugs over at Kraft +! Yep - you need to add bugs to your project made on kraft. Bugs can be anything - ants, beetles, moths or butterflies. 

My daughter and I have just launched our new business - ArtStacks - so I was so excited to be able to use the products for this project. You can check out our brand new website here. 

I made an art journal page for the challenge:

Everything on this page, except the paint and the scrap paper around the quote, is from ArtStacks. I love this figure - she's so expressive. She's from our Faces & Figures stack.

I wanted to use our beautiful butterflies from our Anemones & Friends stacks and I feel I created the impression of the figure opening her mind which worked perfectly with the quote.

The tissue paper flowers under the figure and in the corners are also from the Anemones & Friends stack and the quote is from the Inspirational Words stack.

I hope you can join us at Kraft Plus this month! You can find the challenge here.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather