Mad about Scrappin's June Challenge

Hi All

Lou here to show you how easy this months Mad about Scrappin Challenge really is...

1. Use a word for happiness, well lets go to the thesaurus for this.

Happiness can be

beatitude, blessedness, bliss, cheer, cheerfulness, cheeriness, content, contentment, delectation, delight, delirium, ecstasy, elation, enchantment, enjoyment, euphoria, exhilaration, exuberance, felicity, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, good humor, good spirits, hilarity, hopefulness, joviality, joy, jubilation, laughter, lightheartedness, merriment, mirth, optimism, paradise, peace of mind, playfulness, pleasure, prosperity, rejoicing, sanctity, seventh heaven, vivacity, well-being.

I used the word delight (tick)

2. Next use an altered embellishment,

this can be as simple as changing the colour of your alphas which I did (tick)

As you can see these alphas are a green/black colour but I wanted a solid black for my title, so hey pesto I grabbed one of my black pens and went colouring.

3. Last criteria, use a frame of some sort (tick)

I used a Polaroid frame from Kaisercraft and I altered this by adding some arrow stickers to it.

I also altered the main glitter alphas in my title by adhering them to black cardstock then cutting them out before placing them on my page for further oomph

The papers I have used on this page are from Summer Stories range from Teresa Collins, lots of gold glitter which is very trendy at the moment. I purchased these from Mad about Scrappin Here.

Here is my page in full showcasing the June Facebook Challenge,

I added some epoxy stickers from Heidi Swapp, and used some embellies from Freckled Fawn.

Make sure you give this super easy challenge a go and link it to the Mad about Scrappin Facebook pageso you can be in with a chance to win this month.

x Lou

May Challenge for Mad about Scrappin

Hi all 

Here is this months Facebook Challenge for Mad about Scrappin

This month, required me to put my thinking cap on... Wings, colour and a B&W photo and use of a template or stencil.  But all of this was put at ease when I remembered that I had this lovely piece of paper from My Minds Eye, which Mad about Scrappin has available Here

I firstly created a masked circle toward the right hand side of the page with Antique Linen and Squeezed Lemonade Distress Inks, then I added further template work with the Random Hexagon 6 x 6 template from WOW with Raspberry Pie Fluid Chalk Ink from Prima, which I purchased a Flog it Friday, this matched perfectly with the paper colours. The great thing about this paper is that it features some gorgeous little bumble bees and took care of my wings element straight away.

I added some extra height by fussy cutting part of the rose from the coordinating paper  and mounting with foam tape. I then die cut some matching hexagons from the loveliness mix of papers of this range.

I have had these Alphas for such a long time and never used them, but I got them from Mad about Scrappin a couple of years ago and they were just perfect for the title 'Big Prep Girl' I still can not believe that my baby is at school.

I lastly used my B&W photo on the handcrafted tag as a design element in the far bottom right hand    corner, which drew your eye from top left to bottom right hand corner which makes the page flow.

Here is the page in its full glory :)

TFL Lou 

Echo Park 'Everyday Eclectic'

Back today with two different pages I made with the new Echo Park range 

'Everyday Eclectic', the first one is 

Daphne's New Glasses

As soon as I ripped into the packet from Mad about Scrappin, I feel in love with this patterned multi colour chevron paper and I wanted to create a fun page to show its full potential.  The first thing I did was grab my 'old' school Heidi Swapp mask and create the circle with ink, as well as using some hessian as a mask to spot highlight some texture.  

Once this was dry I used the new crackle texture stamp from Kaisercraft (again from Mad about Scrappin) for added interest around the edge of the paper. I had purchased previously from D-Lish Scraps a sweet washi with black cameras on it and this went perfectly, so I used this randomly on the edges.

I also created some paint splatters with my paint dabber with the ranger adirondack dabber in cranberry. It's such an easy technique but so effective and striking when used. Just search for paint splatter on YouTube and you should be able to find a video.

I finished the page with a numerous of the stickers from the accompanying sticker sheet.

My second page, was a quick one I started at a crop, titled 

A Wee little bit of SWEETNESS for my girls

Here is another page I have created from this yummy range from Echo Park, but this time I wanted to keep it simple and focus on the photo of my girls at Lollipopland.  A magical kingdom close to the North Pole of course ;). 

My gorgeous friend Renee Iveson leant me a cute border punch of people holding hands, perfect for this page. I punched this out and stuck it down with the patterned hexagon paper, I then added lots of elements from the sticker sheet as well as arrow chipboard mistables from Pink Paislee.... 

I also added a MDF camera from WOW, love these And the sticker stars are super cute too.

I finished off the page with highlights of colour using a mask to get the ink splatters without the risk of the splatters, just ink...Hope you have enjoyed these two pages, using the same paper but with vastly different results :)

TFL LOU