Black and White with a dash of Green layouts

Black White and Green is the flavour of the day with the DT

From the very happy Wendy LOL ...

Oh how I LOVE black & white with a touch of colour!!! So this month’s theme is SO up my alley... thank you Tracy!! So here is my first LO using some gorgeous papers and goodies from the store.

I started with Black Core-dinations cardstock, which I doodle ‘stitched’ around the edges with a white gel pen. I used several pieces of patterned paper, Collage Press Scrooge and Imaginisce To Love Cherish Katherine together with some Olive cardstock to match the green in my photo. I pieced the papers together and machine stitched around the edges.

I’ve used a Jenni Bowlin Bingo Card for the word ADORE and for the rest of the title I’ve used some Thickers Daiquiri Foam Stickers, Jenni Bowlin Tiny Circle and Carolee’s Creations Tiny Etched Alpha Stickers. I mounted my photo onto chipboard and then mounted onto 3D tape to make it really stand off the page.

Others products used are a gorgeous Buzz & Bloom Mirror Love & Kisses, a my2angels Silver-Self-Adhesive-Rhinestones-Circles and a star from the Black-Stars-and-Scroll-Felt-Ribbon (on special this month) and some Black Organza Ribbon tied through a textured black button.

And from Corrina ...

Such a Cheeky Boy..

Here is my gorgeous, loving little son poking his tongue out at his sisters while I am trying to set a decent shot at Point Heathcote. I did get some really great shots of him with the last of the sun's rays providing light and shade...but I really loved this cheeky little snap so I scrapped this one.

The T-shirt in the photo is such a vibrant green so I used Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine: Clover to follow the colour through. I cut elements out of Rusty Pickle Popstar papers (Zac, Dylan) to give the page a boyish and playful feel.

A quick word about these Rusty Pickle papers.. they can look a little overwhelming as a whole piece but the Zac paper is perfect for handcut edgings, and has some very useful words for titles on the back.

The Star element and arrow were cut out, stuck onto some thick card and cut out again to give them the extra stiffness to be stuck down with foam tape. I coloured the centre of the star with one of my children's marker pens (or you could use gel pens or proper scrapping markers), and I did the same with the circle and 2 x star element.

The title was die cut out of Popstars Dylan using Quickutz Yogurt font, BUT if you really like this font, there is a free font available for downloading called MANDINGO that you can use. Once you have downloaded that, simply use the font in Word Art (the outline one) in a Word document. Size it to whatever size you like , then click on spacing and make it very loosely spaced. Now in the arrange section there is a rotate symbol, go in there and flip horizontal and your letters will be backwards. Do a test print on plain paper to see if is the size you want etc, then you print it to the reverse side of your patterned paper (by flipping the word art, your letters will print backwards onto your paper and you can use the printed outline as a guideline to cut on) and cut it out.

Materials used:

Card and Papers: coredinations snowflake cardstock, Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine: Clover, Rusty Pickle Popstars: Dylan, Zac.

Embellishments: Metal textured stars - black.

Title: die cut title, Carolees Creations tiny stickers - tiny black, tiny worn retro

I am just loving this months theme and what the DTs are coming up with - who would have thought Rusty Pickle could look so funky or what about using that Adore Bingo Card behind the photo!

and how about this for exciting news ...

Our very own gorgeous Taryn and joined by Kim (previous Guest DT) are both now officially Scrapware Design Team members - woo hoo congrats girls

AND there's more
our talented Corrina has had a card accepted for publication

could there be more?
Sure is!
a layout from our wonderful Wendy to be seen in an upcoming magazine issue

I am doing the happy dance for you all (without doing too much damage to myself LOL)

Congratulations to you all
It's fantastic news

Baby Book with Teresa Collins

Today Taryn shares with us this gorgeous baby book she has made ...

I have finally completed Hayden's baby book. I couldn't resist when I saw the Teresa Collins Chic Bebe Boy range, and I used it to convert an old children's board book into this baby book.

This paper is so easy to work with, the mini tags and the notes papers are like ready made embellishments, all you need to do is cut them out, and stick them on.

The large crown charm looks fantastic on the front cover. I have also used black and white spotty ribbon, black rhinestuds, black flower, crystal brad, and organza ribbon on the cover page.

For page 1, I have added black star flower, black picot ribbon, black tiny alphas, white velvet ric-rac, and ruler charm.

For page 2 I have added black lace, love key charm, and scrapware brackets.
For the brackets, I have painted them black, then sprinkled them with diamond dust, and then finished off with dimensional magic.

For page 3 I have added scrapware flourishes, black thickers, with some extra black star flowers.

For page 4, I have used two of the tags from the mini tags paper, with some black picot ribbon and more flowers.

For page 5, more scrapware, with some black and white spotty ribbon, white velvet ric-rac and black rectangular ribbon slide.

And the final page, I added some rhinestone flower centres, with more scrapware flourishes.

I love the idea of using an old board book Taryn, its so beautifully recorded and I totally agree with how easy the journaling tags and notes papers are to add to your creations.

Thanks so much for sharing this special book with us
and thanks to everyone for looking

Hope you all have a safe and creative weekend

From L Plates to a Wedding

First up today is from Tracey with her Black & White Layout and a splash of Kraft

Shop Products
Imaginisce To Love & Cherish Diana
Teresa Collins Mr & Mrs Ledger
Velvet Ric Rac - White
10 Large Journalling Tags
Tree Charms
Leaf Charms
Zing Opaque Embossing Powder Glitter Black
AC Foam Thickers Daiquiri - Black
Carolees Creations Tiny Black Alpha Stickers
Versa Color Cube Ink Pad - Black


Other Stuff
Tim Holtz Grungeboard
Dymo Labeller
Paper String
Page Maps Sketch


And from Keonie our Guest Designer for July (who BTW is running Scrapalatte here on the Gold Coast - see our resource then events section for more details)

This LO is of my beautiful Mum on my wedding day and was completed using the gorgeous new Imaginisce To Love and Cherish papers.


I absolutely love black and white so theme for this month of Black and White suited not only me, but also these papers perfectly.

The heart in the middle is the Scrapware filigree chipboard heart which was first painted white and then embossed with clear embossing powder.


Since completing this LO though Tracy has got in some cool new embossing supplies including the Ranger Embossing Puffs which are gorgeous and give a flocked effect. Your Scrapware heart will come in two bits – the solid bit at the back, and the matching filigree heart for the front.

I simply covered the solid heart in the polka dot Imaginisce paper, then tied the painted and embossed filigree heart over the top with black ribbon. You can bling up the heart too by adding some sparkly stickles over the top and adhere some rhinestones amongst the filigree pattern.

To carry on with the heart theme I also attached a gorgeous little silver heart locket and mini key charm to the bottom part of the ribbon. (these are the free gift with your first purchase in July)

Spritz some pink stem flowers and Canna lilies with glimmermist and arrange them around the heart adhering them with strong adhesive. To finish off the LO I then added the rhinestone title, some mini pearls, and ruled a very fine border around the outside of my photo and extended it down onto the white patterned paper. This just ties the whole LO together and frames the photo.

Another cool thing to try is grab yourself one of the Ranger Ink blending tools, and using black ink distress the edges of the white polka dot patterned paper.

There is a tutorial on ink blending tool in the Tutorial section under Resources of my2angels if you haven’t used one of these must have tools before! I did one thing a little differently on this LO too, instead of adding journaling to the main page, I chose to journal on a little tag, distress the edges with pink ink and the ink blending tool, and then attach it to the top left hand corner of the LO using a brad, organza ribbon and one of the flowers cropped from the patterned paper. Therefore the tag can be pulled to the front of the LO if you wish to read the journaling, then simply tucked back in behind the LO.

Thanks ladies for the wonderful inspiration and Tracey thanks for the idea, durrh I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner! I am always borrowing mums punch which gives the notepad ripped effect but use the Teresa Collins ledger paper like you have done, hole punch the side then rip them!!!
How easy is that!

Hope the girls gave you some new ideas
TFL

Rock Chick Layout in Black, White and Orange

The my2angels Design Team blows us away every time they send us their creations using our products and this Rock Chick layout is another exceptional layout - I just love how Corinna has used our boys ribbon on a girls layout and backed the felt butterfly from our ribbon with pattern paper is just another fab "outside the 12x12" idea - take a look for yourself ...

Rock Chick by Corrina

Meet my little rock chick Jess. She plays acoustic guitar and isn't your traditional pink and pretty girl , although she likes girly things. She is a little left of centre, a little different, very smart, and I loved these photos of her taken recently at Point Heathcote.

The title is die cut using Cuttlebug Red Tag Alphabet and Websters Life's Portrait Reflections paper.
I coated the letters with dimensional magic AFTER I adhered them to the page. (I dimensional magic-ed after as if you add dimensional magic to die cut paper letters before you stick them down, they will curl and crack and be unusable.)

The my2angels cool extreme boys ribbon in adhered on top of the edge of a piece of Sass Lass, and the main background papers are Making Memories Spellbound and Websters Life's Portrait Reflections.

The black felt butterfly was carefully cut out of the self adhesive butterflies and flowers felt ribbon, stuck it onto some of the Making Memories Brocade Orange Spellbound paper and carefully cut around it. I added the piece of felt onto the side of the photo, and placed the new and improved butterfly piece back into place (adding some 3-d foam tape to make the wing pop). I cut an orange butterfly out from a set of the ATC postcards and added some diamond dust, the black heart button is a chipboard buzz and bloom one inked and coated with dimensional magic, and the little birdie is one of my own hand-made pins.

Materials Used:

Cardstock and papers: core dinations snowflake, Making Memories Spellbound Brocade Orange (double sided), Websters Life's Portrait Reflections, Sassafras Lass Monstronsity Take Note

Ribbons: my2angels Extreme Cool Boys ribbon, Black Butterflies and Flowers Felt Ribbon.

Embellishments: ATC's Minature Postcards Butterflies, Buzz and Bloom chipboard buttons, bird pin

Title: Cuttlebug Red Tag Alphabet, Carolees Creations Tiny Black Wordplay.

Product used: Twinklets diamond dust, dimensional magic and black ink

All felt ribbons (excluding the black scroll) is 40% off all month at my2angels
This means you won't be paying more than $2.10 per yard
Check out the full range here

And I apologise in advance for the pun, but does this layout rock or what? LOL

More new arrivals in store and layouts using them!

New arrivals in store ...

Black Cherry Glimmer Mist



Dazzling Diamonds Glimmer Mist

Rose Tea Glimmer Mist (personally I would describe it as a light brown/pink and in the light the darker spots are a gorgeous fushia)



and a Restock of Heidi Swapp Black Magic Glimmer Mist

Restock on some Prima chipboard stickers, cardstock stickers and 2 of the Water Colour range pattern papers

Jenni Bowlin Banner Stickers and Butterfly Stickers
examples ...




and a new Teresa Collins paper range to add to my ever increasing list of favourites, the ...

Welcome Home Collection

I love that this collection is mainly black and white - because I can change it to any colour by simply adding inks, embossing and/or glimmer mist it of course!

Plus I love the graphic prints, such as the frames, doors, chairs and chandeliers!!

There are also cut-out elements, frames, quotes and patterns that match our fleur de lis charms and crowns.

Here are my 2 favourites that I can't wait to get started on ...





Well actually I have started with these two, using similar embellishments on both layouts ... sorry about the quality of the photos bit of an odd day for photography and black and white layouts are so hard to photograph

For this layout I used a Pizza box as my base and covered with Rock Candy Picket Fence
Cut the door from the TC Door pp



Ice block sticks covered in Rock Candy Picket Fence, black lace, pink flowers and pieces of our silver rhinestone flourish and black flower chain



Our love engraved felt hearts with black lace and another piece of our black flower chain



Scrapware Chipboard Key covered in Rock Candy Picket Fence , gardenia sprayed with Black Cherry Glimmer Mist, silver twist chain, love key charm and a key cut from the TC Door pp



and my second layout starting off with Nightfall core dinations cardstock and spraying with Marshmallow Glimmer Mist (which you won't see too well in the photos but it gives it a white glitter sheen - there is a better photo on the website under the marshmallow product page)



I cut a frame from the Home Sweet Home Pattern Paper and applied Dimensional Magic in the middle - once dry I just bent the frame to give the crack effect

The gardenia has been sprayed with Black Cherry Glimmer Mist and tucked in underneath is one of our love engraved felt hearts, daisy charm and white organza ribbon


In this cluster is our silver rhinestone flourish, large black gardenia sprinkled with Diamond Dust, frame cut from the Home Sweet Home PP again, roses / flowers cut from the Our Home PP and pink & black stemmed flowers
Letters inside the frame are Carolees Creations Tiny Flirtacious Alpha Stickers

Different angle of cluster to show you the clock cut out from the TC Notes paper which has been sprayed with Black Cherry Glimmer Mist


That's all for me

Hope you all are having a wonderful creative weekend

FREE gift and layouts to share

I was suppose to post this last month for our frame theme, but you know time just goes way too quick!

Its a layout using the black felt scroll frames - again of my brothers wedding and it won't be the last you will see of his wedding, so many more photos to get into an album.

It is a simple layout, as I didn't want to take away focus off the main feature of the layout - the photo

I am so loving the Teresa Collins Mr & Mrs Range at the moment!

The base paper is Mr & Mrs Ledger and I cut one of the labels from her Mr & Mrs Labels added foam tape for dimension, ripped a piece out of the ledger, inked and . The spotted paper behind is the back side of the labels paper.

I did the same for this piece, ripping and inking it and using the backside of the labels. Added some mini black gardenias, red stemmed flowers, organza white flower with wire, white with black spots flower and hanging from our red organza ribbon is our love key charm

Don't be discouraged by the name of this paper range, they don't have to be used for weddings - the black and white makes them neutral to suit many themes.

Its the same for the Bebe Chic Boy and Girls Range - I made a clipboard using the Girl Papers (some of you may have seen it at the Brisbane Show)

The base again was using Ledger paper

Cutting a few of the tags from the mini tags paper and using one of our round rhinestone slides tied with 2cm white organza ribbon

Black glitter heat embossed Scrapware Fancy Bracket with 3 clear black rhinestones
Black stemmed flowers, black organza ribbon and our Fleur de Lis charm

Mini black gardenias and individual pieces of our white felt scroll ribbon

You know the little strip we trim off at the bottom of pp with the name of paper etc well on these 3 new ranges it has a decorative stripe and that is what I used under my Newsletter title (which by the way is the Rusty Pickle Alphabet Stickers Chocolate Kisses). That's our black rhinestone chain and black velvet ric rac underneath the strip

New month
New free gift at my2angels
so for those you don't get our newsletter here are the details

With your first purchase of the month you will receive a packet of 5 heart locket charms and 5 small silver key charms



AND

if you spend over $40 (not including postage) you will receive a packet of our black and white gardenias, spend another $40 and receive another package and so on ....


Phew ... think that's enough for today
Have a great Thursday
TFL