'Talk Nerdy To Me' for Colour Blast

Hi there CB lovers!!

I'm back on the Colour Blast blog & I wanted to share with you that Colour Blast

isn't JUST for scrapbooking/mixed media!!! You can also use it for your

pocket page scrapbooking :)

'Talk Nerdy To Me'

For this I have used the NEW Everyday Etc Cards 'Drama Queen' & other

embellishments from Flutterby Designs.

I've also used Colour Blast - Colour Paste 'Royalty' over the corner

of a 6x4 photo. The only thing I would say is, if you're impatient (like me LOL)

& hate waiting for stuff to dry... Just heat carefully with heatgun.

Lots of movement - don't heat one spot for too long ;)

I then flicked a bit of runny gesso over the top.

 

I love using Posca Paint Pens for all my journaling & doodling on my cards/photos

I grabbed my palette knife & used the Colour Blast - Colour Paste 'Lipstick'

over this offcut of white cardstock, to use as a photo mat over the Everday Etc card.

I've finished it off with a wood veneer '#happy', Page Tab Cut-out No.145,

& there's something else on there that's coming soon ;)

For a bit more embellishing to a card, I've added a Flutterby

'flair button' (from set No.376)  with some black thread underneath

& a few Enamel dots to finish.

I've used Colour Blast - Colour Paste 'Royalty' again through

the Flutterby 'Words Of Wisdom' stencil. I like to give it a quick dry ASAP,

so that the medium tightens up for a crisp image & doesn't sort of relax

(hope that makes sense)

I also used Colour Blast - Colour Shimmer Spray 'Royalty',

to flick bits onto the 6x4 card.

Behind the photos I have used an off cut of an Everday Etc Card &

a Page Tab Cut-out No.145

You can find all the Colour Blast products

HERE

A Whole LOT of Creativeness!!!

Hi bloggers!!!

I'm trying to get back to blogging on here a little more regularly & not leaving it neglected for so long. So as a bit of a a catch up - here is a whole lot of creativeness to overload your mojo ;)

 

Guest Designer at Life Zesters

This month I'm guest DT over at Life Zesters Challenge blog!!!

This month's challenge is a mood board

Here is my take on the mood board!!

This was a 12x12 piece of cardstock, which I painted, inked, stamped

etc to create an awesome messy background, before cutting it up

to suit my pocket page.

I LOOOOOOVE how it turned out!!!

 

These pics are from a fantastic retreat run by SFS on the Central Coast.

Retreats are fantastic - if you've never been to one, I suggest you

do. You'll be hooked after that LOL ;)

I've used some Flutterby Designs goodies to embellish.

Wood veneers, Flair buttons & Page Tab cut-outs.

I have also used some washi tape, thread, thickers, hole reinforcer stickers,

enamel dots & overlay words... 

Don't forget you have until the end of the month to enter in this month's

challenge over at Life Zesters.

 

Life Zesters - January Challenge

 A new challenge blog has just started up & it's called

'Life Zesters'.

It's purely a Project Life challenge blog & has great prizes every month.

This month's challenge is:

'Showing your style'

Here is a double page spread that represents my style.

I do my Project Life monthly, rather than weekly.

There's no way I could keep up weekly LOL .

This is my September double layout...

I like to mix cards & love bright colours. I have used a mix of

Project Life, Sn@p & Flutterby Designs cards.

Other things I have used to embellish are:

Flutterby Designs - 6x4 Fussy Cut

Flutterby Designs - Mini Card Fussy Cut

Flutterby Designs - Wood veneers

Flutterby Designs - Photo Cut outs

Posca Paint pens

Sn@p - mini alphas

Amy Tangerine - Thickers

Basic Grey - Mini alphas

Dymo labeller

Tim Holtz - Tiny Attacher

Shipping tags

Hole reinforcer stickers

If you're a Project Lifer - check out this blog & why not enter!?

http://lifeszesters.blogspot.com.au/

How I stay up to date with my monthly Project Life

WARNING: Long Post LOL!!!

 Ok so I've wanted to do this blog post for a while now & thought it best to do

it now, as a lot of us are starting our 2015 Project Life albums.

This is my first year of doing PL. When the PL hype it our shores,

I was completely drawn into the frenzy & brought it all LOL. It then sat on my shelves

for months!! It was really really daunting & I had no idea where to even start!?

 I had made a few mini albums of my son's baby pics, but the bulk of his photos

where just chucked into those boring 6x4 photo albums

(pretty sad effort for a scrapbooker I thought).

So I decided to undertake over-hauling that & rather than re-printing photos,

I chopped & cropped & used as many as I could. Some I did have to reprint, but

I managed to repurpose most of them.

I had brought myself a core kit, big variety box of sleeves & an album (or 3).

I began putting all my photos into the sleeves in order & left gaps for cards.

That was a LONG process, but it meant I got all my photos in the right spots.

Then came the embellishing part - I really struggled with this!!

It took a while to find MY STYLE. We all have our own style & take on craft/art,

it's what's so special & makes us different. Once I found 'my happy place' with embellishing,

it all started to work together & come naturally.

Click here to see Part 1 of Riley's Baby PL Album

Ok so I told you - LONG POST ha ha.

As a busy full-time working mum who also runs her own business from home,

I was always daunted by the task of doing Project Life weekly. There is just NO

physical way I could committ to that sort of undertaking. It wouldn't get done.

So I decided to do to it MONTHLY.

This I could committ to! I'm not a traditional Project Lifer - I like it different, busy & bulky!

I started off by getting a 12 x12 'work in progess' album from the lovely

Peta at Scrapbooking From Scratch

 This made carrying my unfinished projects to crops & such MUCH easier!

(& I didn't damage my proper album, by lugging it around everywhere)

I then chucked in a mixed variety of sleeves:

- Becky Higgins Project Life

- Ones fron Harvey Norman

- WRMK

 - & some 12 x 12 sleeves.

I didn't like the quality of the American Crafts or Kaisercraft sleeves - but that's

just my personal preference.

I then grabbed some note paper & labeled each page with a month

& drew a rough sketch of the page protector (front & back).

This made it really easy to make notes & plan what photos I wanted to put in

there, without printing 100's of photos! I could also jot down on this if I knew

I wasn't going to get a chance to tackle a spread for this month.

Like below:

 Then as I do - I start with the photos in first. I then fill in the blanks with

LOTS of different card designs.

Some of my favourite cards to use are:

- Flutterby Designs 'Everyday Etc' cards (I am a bit bias LOL)

- Sn@p cards

- Project Life cards

- Handmade ones

 Then comes the decorating!!! Sometimes this may not happen

straight away - the spread may just sit with pics/cards & little bits of paper

with notes until I get a chance to get creative.

These are what I generally ALWAYS go for when embellishing my pages:

 WOOD VENEERS

 - Flutterby Designs

- Studio Calico

- or even 2Crafty Chipboard

 FLAIR BUTTONS 

 As the owner/designer of Flutterby Designs - I always have a

gazillion flair buttons on hand to use :)

BLACK COTTON 

I love to put a messy nest of this under my flair buttons for more texture.

 

POSCA PAINT PENS 

These little babies write on just about EVERYTHING!!!

Great for doodling/journalling on photos.

PAGE TABS

 

 These are from Flutterby Designs, & they are an inexpensive embellishment that

adds detail - without the bulk. Fussy cutting relaxes me, so I will often sitting in front of

the TV with a pair of scissors & cut a heap of these out to use down the track.

 LIQUID PAPER TAPE

 

 I 'borrowed' this idea from my good friend Lauren ;)

Just put down a few stips & journal away - easy peasy!!

HOLE REINFORCERS

These little babies are cheap as chips! You can find them in the cheap

shops & they make for super quick detail with a little bit of doodling around them.

As too are shipping tags great for adding layers without the bulk.

SMALL ALPHABET STICKERS

 I definately have a 'thing' for these little babies!!!

I have an abundance of them - in every shape, font & colour LOL

Brands I love to use are:

- Simple Stories 'Sn@p'

- Jellibean Soup

- Kasiercraft

- Tim Holtz

- even ones you find at cheap shops!

THICKERS

 I love thickers just about as much as the small alpha stickers...

Great for titles!

 ENAMEL DOTS

 I LOVE LOVE LOVE these little babies!!!

I put them on EVERYTHING ha ha.

 This is what's on my desk at the moment. Trying to get the last couple of months

finished in this years PL album. I'm on the home stretch WOO HOO!!!

Here are a few completed pages from earlier this year :)

 Yes as a traditional 12 x12 scrapper I put in a few layouts throughout

my album to find my 'happy place' & balance with doing this style of scrapbooking.

I hope I have helped anyone out there struggling with finding their 'mojo'

with Project Life. Thanks for taking the time to read my long-ass post - 

hope you enjoyed some of my tips & tricks.