Final Reveal

These are my last two pages out of the five I made from the Cést Magnifique Kit, I went completely mad with the shimmerz on this one and painted the background with it its a shame you can't see how sparkly it all is.  

This is a photo of my Sister inlaw, my nephew and niece at what looks like an fun day at the park judging by the face painting also taken quite a few years ago but I thought it went perfectly with this range of  papers.

This page is definitely going to have to go into a shadow box as the flower is way to big, I have also given this a treatment of gesso and shimmerz, again  so much prettier and sparklier in real life. I have dyed the lace from the kit with the shimmerz and the banner was made from the packaging, I stamped with a banner stamp and embossed with white powder. Other flowers have been hand made using my sizzix 3D flower die.

Swirls have been cut from the paper using one of my sizzlets die and I have used gesso and shimmerz to give them some texture.

MAIN KIT

Cheep Trims: Blue/White Dot Ribbon
Cheep Trims: White Appliques
Cheep Trims: White Lace
Teresa Collins: Fabrications Canvas Flower
Shimmerz: Blueberry Cobbler
Green Tara: Blue Cherry Blossoms
Prima: Nature's Garden Chipboard Pieces
Want2Scrap Chipboard: Stylish Alphabet
Dress It Up: Flats in Tuscon and St. Croix
Papers used - Mad Tea Party, Royal Garden & Spades & Clubs.

7DOTS EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON

7 Dots Studio Stickers 12x12 Wonderland

EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON

Teresa Collins Fabrications Canvas Trinkets

For this layout we used the beautiful sketch that Nadia put together, I love that she even included the super size bird cage.

This is a picture of my mum when she was baby, again the papers worked beautifully with this older style  photo.  I have also used the packaging from the Theresa Collins trinkets I sanded off the wording before doing so.

The lace applique was spritzed with Maya Roads Cream Metallic mist to tone down the brightness of the white.  I coloured the bird cage with the shimmerz and the rolled flowers where again made with the sizzix 3D die.

MAIN KIT

Ribbon - Blue and White Dot
Cheep Trims: White Appliques
Shimmerz: Blueberry Cobbler
Prima flowers: Perle Bebe Song Bird
Prima: Nature's Garden Chipboard Pieces
Want2Scrap Chipboard: Charlie´s Birdcage

7DOTS EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON

7 Dots Studio Stickers 12x12 Wonderland
7 Dots Studio Alpha Stickers 6x12 White Rabbit Wonderland  

EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON

Teresa Collins Fabrications Canvas Trinkets
Packing from this packet

MY STASH

Gesso
Cardstock for matting
Twine
Glitter
Maya Roads Mist

I hope you've enjoyed seeing what I have created with this gorgeous kit and look forward to seeing what others come up with, don't forget to post your layouts into the forum over at Cést Magnifique.

Thank you always for your lovely comments on my work it really is appreciated.

It's Reveal Time Again

You read right, I can finally show you some of the other pages I have worked on through out the month for C'est Magnifique Kit Club.  Before I start showing you some of the gorgeous pages I just want to let you know that if you a feeling inspired after seeing mine or any other DT members pages there is four kits still available.

Leslie has been getting so many inquiry's after the release.  that she thought she would make a few extra of these May kits, if you don't want to miss out you have better get  over there and grab one these, they will not last long.  Click on the above link it will take you directly to the kit...

I couldn't resist using this one of my brother and his baby girl, taken nearly 12 years ago I just love the expression on their faces, I think we all know that look when we have been woken from a deep sleep...lol

I loved the rustic feel to this kit, and I really had fun working with it and creating a soft that could still look pretty.  Again I have used my circle die, and my bubble punch I'm thinking I need to stop using ciecles...

 Flowers have been hand made using my EK Sucess Daisy jumbo punch and the other flowers were from the sizzix 3D flower.

 MAIN KIT
Blue/White Dot Ribbon
White Appliques
Shimmerz: Blueberry Cobbler
Prima flowers: Perle Bebe Song Bird
Prima: Nature's Garden Chipboard Pieces
Dress It Up: Flats in Tuscon and St. Croix
Papers - Alice, Royal Garden, Quadrille,  
Theresa Collins - Metal Corners

7DOTS EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON
7 Dots Studio Stickers 12x12 Wonderland
7 Dots Studio Alpha Stickers 6x12 Social Games Wonderland
7 Dots Studio Alpha Stickers 6x12 White Rabbit Wonderland  

MY TOOLS 

Nestabilities Grand Circle
Martha Stewart - Bubble border punch
Sizzix - Rolled Flowers die cut

THE SPIT

This photo was taken on one of our Sunday outings down at the Gold Coast, It's nice just to take a stroll out on the jetty and watch the world go by.

On this one I have decorative machine stitched around the edges and on the mats behind the photo.  I used my nestabilities doily die and cut the doily pattern out from the patterned paper.  The border underneath was created by ripping the pattern from one of the papers, punched with the circle punch then layered back up.  Flowers were again created using my dies and I have used shimmerz from the kit to paint my letters.

MAIN KIT

Shimmerz: Blueberry Cobbler
Green Tara: Blue Cherry Blossoms
Prima flowers: Perle Bebe Song Bird
Want2Scrap Chipboard: Stylish Alphabet
Dress It Up: Flats in Tuscon and St. Croix
Papers: Quadrille, Spades Clubs and Follow the Rabbit

7DOTS EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON
7 Dots Studio Stickers 12x12 Wonderland
7 Dots Studio Alpha Stickers 6x12 White Rabbit Wonderland  

Thanks for looking and I hope you have enjoyed seeing what I have created so far.  If you have any questions please feel  free to ask.   And again thank you to those who not only take the time to read my post but also those that leave comments, as they are always appreciated.

Color Combos Galore - Palette 227

Again, couldn't resist playing along over at CCG, loved the combo that Janet put together, so soft and pretty. Although I have to admit when playing along at a colour site I think I spend more time searching for the perfectly matched colour that thankfully I make up when I do the layout. Otherwise I'd be lucky if I get a page a week completed. Which is fortunate that Janet has now changed the site giving you 2 weeks for a page and then another 2 weeks to complete a card.

The three soft colours were a bit of struggle to capture on camera, fortunately it was raining today so no direct sunlight to bounce the light of the lighter colours, there was just enough sun behind the cloud to get a half decent shot. I decided to use the "Lavender" and "Gray" as my focal colours and used them in both the light and darker shades of the colours.

The background paper is a really old design I'm talking at least 6 yrs old from the Nostalgiques "The Attic Collection" by Rebecca Sower she was so way before her time.The thing I love about this paper is that there is no mess from gesso or texture paste and yet it looks like it has all those products on it.Well I got a little mess I still stippled some of the lavender shades on the background.

I have distressed both photos and the edges of the background paper, machine and hand stitched on my page.
As for the designers challenge I have used mesh quite a few times on my pages but decided to look for a different type of element and I thought the mesh in the bassinet fitted the challenge perfectly.

I added some little punched hearts around the page, then thought wouldn't it be great to have a little heart stamp when I remembered that I have a Quickutz stamp kit. So I made my own from the punch and stamped then randomly on the page.


Products used: Kaiser "Madame Boutique" "Timeless" , Basic Grey "Whats Up", Dusty Attic Blooms & Chipboard, LYB Backyard Trim PP, Cosmo Cricket Carton Girls Chipboard Stickers, K & CO Alphas, Jo Sonja Paints, QK Circles dies, Nestabilities dies, Martha Stewart Heart Confetti punch, Superfine glitter, Buttons handmade from Ivana Camdzic, Prima flowers.

Well I hope everyone is having a great day and its not wet and miserable like it is here, if you have some time why not pop on over to CCG and check out the beautiful creations from the Design Team.

Color Combos Galore 226 & CPS Card Sketches

Thought I would create a card for Color Combos Galore with some of the scraps from the page I had made for the last challenge and for CPS - Card Sketch.

 I drew inspiration from the monogram  for this I used the Dusty Attic letters for the word YOU and my inspiration was the puffy flower in the background, this inspired me to use the die cut to mimic the the check in the print.

 
Don't forget to pop over to CCG and check and the gorgeous new colours that Janet has put together and the beautiful pages the Design Team have created. Well I am off have a bit of running around do today, the weather is beautiful and sunny perfect outdoor weather, enjoy your weekend everyone!!!

Reveal Time

The middle of the month really does start to get exciting,  for those that love kits you get to see all the wonderful goodies that Leslie has put together in the Cést Magnifique kits and for us the Design Team members we get to share what we created with all those gorgeous pieces.  

I can tell you its a little nerve racking and exciting rolled into one.  Nerve raking in the sense, what happens if you mess a bit of paper up that you don't have a replacement for {rolling eyes]  and exciting having the opportunity to create with these kits.  So I will stop chatting so you can check out one of my pages that I have created so far.

Cést Magnifique May Kit

This month we worked with 7 Dots Studio "Wonderland" paper range.  I have admired these papers for a while and was excited to finally get my hands on them.  I love the rustic vibrancy feel of these paper and thought it was perfect with this photo of my Grandma and her sister.

For the strips through the centre I used Follow The Rabbit paper, this was torn into strips, punched with Martha Stewards bubble border punch.  Royal Garden was used for the photo mat that I first ran through my Grand Calibur using my Grand Dies.  From the Queen of hearts paper i have cut out the beautiful doily patterned.  This was then all placed on the paper Alice...don't you just love these papers names...so cute.

 Other than the Prima flowers from the kit I used my sizzix rolled flower die using the off cuts to make all the other flowers.  The swirl is cut from paper as well, I gave it a couple of coats of textured paste finishing of with the shimmerz from the kit giving it some dimension, I also coloured the chipboard alphas with the shimmerz.  I had never used shimmerz before and I am loving it, this colour was perfect with the papers.

The little white leaves you see poking out are from the applique that was also included in the kit.  And I dyed the white lace with the shimmerz.

Products Used:

MAIN KIT
Cheep Trims: White Appliques
Cheep Trims: White Lace
Shimmerz: Blueberry Cobbler
Prima flowers: Perle Bebe Song Bird
Prima: Nature's Garden Chipboard Pieces
Want2Scrap Chipboard: Stylish Alphabet
Dress It Up: Flats in Tuscon and St. Croix
 
7DOTS EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON
7 Dots Studio Stickers 12x12 Wonderland
7 Dots Studio Alpha Stickers 6x12 White Rabbit Wonderland  

EMBELLISHMENT ADD-ON
Teresa Collins Fabrications Canvas Trinkets

My Stash

 Martha Steward Border Punch - Bubbles

Grand Nestabilities - Labels

Sizzix - Flowers 3-D

Texture Paste

Gesso

Glitter

Thanks for looking and don't forget to pop on over to the forum and check out the other Design Team members pages.

The Challenge + One

Well I have finally finished my White + One layout for over at Colorful Creations, I have been working on it since the challenge was first posted but have had to put it on the back burner a couple of times to finish of other projects.  Which is the great thing over at CC, you have a month to get it done so it allows you time to participate if you have other more pressing deadlines.  So here was this months requirements. 

Create a layout using the following criteria (white plus kraft paper).  What this means is you are to create a layout using only TWO colors and one of those colors MUST be WHITE the other color is KRAFT paper.

I really love these sorts of  challenges, it gets you delving through your stash, and its amazing the little pieces of this and that you find.  I generally put it all aside so that is close at hand when I start creating.

I started with  my base Kraft sheet and randomly stamped with white stazon then embossed.  Glue down some doily and then added some stitching.  Oh and some paint splattering!!!

Unfortunately you cannot see the detail on the little mask, which I just had to add to my page as a bit of a fun piece.  I used a prima mask with textured paste to give it some detail, once that dried I spritzed with Maya silver mist and added kindy glitz, so much better to see this in real life.

Other Products used: Prima flowers, Dusty Attic Mask, Stickers are Basic Grey and Fancy Pants, Melissa Francis Resin charms, Sassafras Papers, Prima Build a Stamp, MM Patterned Paper, Hambly Transparencies, Twine, Word Stamps.  And if you have a fabric stash of bridal lace check that out for pieces you can cut off, I have a huge stash of fabric and it was only recently brought to my attention some of the details lace work that can be cut up and utilised on your layouts.

Well thanks for looking and why not pop on over to Colorful Creations and grow with us.  

Again thank you to those who have stopped by and left your lovely comments they really are appreciated.


Have a great week!!!
Fi

Create A Tag - Challenge

Well we are half way through the month and this is my second challenge over at Colorful Creations, we post on the 1st and 15th of every month.  However next month we are running the Sketch-A-Thon for our Birthday and then we will be changing the way the Events {Challenges} run in June.  We will be posting on the 1st and giving you a whole month to get them completed...YAY... more time to get pages done without feeling rushed.  Each of the DT members have picked something they love when it comes to scrapbooking and will post their challenges.  I have decided to do a monthly colour challenge, if you don't have time to do the Sketch-A-Thon, then don't forget to keep an eye out for my colour challenge.

So back to my Challenge for this month

Create a tag, with the following requirements:

1  Use a Die Shape for the actual Tag

2  Include the words "You & Me"

3  Include a button

 Extra Challenge - once you have completed your tag and uploaded it, try and then use it on a page. {I will add my page later need to photograph}

Again I would like to thank those who have stopped in over the weekend and left your lovely comments, its always nice to read that others appreciate your work, so a big thank you as I really appreciate the time it takes to do this. If you have some time please come along to Colorful Creations, and help us grow. This is a site that caters to all levels and styles and the Design Team is made up of a group of uniquely versatile scrappers including not only scrapbooking we have digital, cards and we even have a guy on our Team. If you haven't been over there come and check it out, don't be shy everyone is friendly and very welcoming.

Well enjoy what ever time you have left of your weekend, they always seem to end quicker than what they arrive.

 Bye for now Fi