Farewell post from Amanda

Hi everyone!

Firstly, Happy New Year!

Since March 2017, I have been sharing pages for All About Scrapbooks with you every Wednesday. Today is my last Wednesday share for All About Scrapbooks.

 I have LOVED every second of designing for this incredible store. I want to thank Vanessa very much for the chance to work with her and all the amazing products she has in store.

 Working for AAS has allowed me to continue my love for patterned papers and stickers, and to design alongside Kerryn and Fiona has been inspiring and fun!

So today, as I say goodbye, I thought I could share just some of my favourite pages for my time here. Enjoy!

 

Thanks for looking, and thank you for supporting me during my time with All About Scrapbooks.

Amanda

Joy, by Amanda Hartmann

Hi everyone, Merry Christmas for 2019! What better way to celebrate in a scrappy way, than to share a Christmas page.  In fact, these photos are from this time last year - and the girls waking up to a pile of presents under the Christmas tree. For this moment, I used the Holly Jolly collection from My Minds Eye.  

I started with white cardstock on the base. I also used white cardstock to mount the photos.

Then I used panel and strips of these patterned papers from the range: Comfort & Joy, Deck the Halls, and Merry & Striped. I added these in layers, with torn bottom edges and distress edges.

I used Deck the Halls paper to extra mount 2 of the photos.

I finished the page, by layering and building the stickers from the 6x12 pack of cardstock stickers into clusters.

Check out these close ups:

There are stars, little Christmas trees, circles, banners and little tickets in the sticker packs.

 They are fun to layer up in a cluster.

I stacked a few Christmas tree stickers in this cluster! So cute!

And what a perfect word - JOY - Joy on Christmas -

 I hope that you find JOY with your friends and families this season!

Thanks for looking,

Amanda

Products Used: Holly Jolly collection from My Minds Eye. Holly Jolly collection: Comfort & Joy paper Holly Jolly collection: Deck the Halls paper Holly Jolly collection: Merry & Striped paper Holly Jolly collection: Holly Jolly: 6x12 pack of cardstock stickers

What a view, by Amanda Hartmann

Hi everyone!

I love love love the blue and natural tones of the Unchartered Waters Kaisercraft collection.

 Perfect for some beach photos, which I always have plenty of!

I started with Pelagic paper as my base. What a beautiful textured paper.

Then I layered and stacked panels of these papers: Tide Pool, Hook and Streak. The blues in spots and stripes look great with the dark wood!

I used more of the papers to mount the two photos and to create the little banner strips.

I created 3 clusters on the page, using muslin layered with die cuts from the Collectables pack.

These close ups will show the 3 clusters.

  

As you can see, I layered the muslin with shells, ship wheels, starfish, crab and quote diecuts. Such a simple yet effective way to create clusters! I popped the quote tags on foam tape for some dimension.

Have you got some beach or ocean photos you want to scrap?
The Unchartered Waters collection would be perfect!

Thanks for looking today!

Amanda

Products used:

Kaisercraft - Unchartered Waters collection

Kaisercraft - Unchartered Waters- Pelagic paper Kaisercraft - Unchartered Waters- Tide Pool paper Kaisercraft - Unchartered Waters- Hook paper  Kaisercraft - Unchartered Waters- Streak paper Kaisercraft - Unchartered Waters- Collectables pack

Unforgettable You by Amanda Hartmannusing Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Unforgettable

Hi everyone! I finally cracked open my pack of Cocoa Vanilla Studios Unforgettable Collection.  What a beautiful range!  And perfect for these photos of my oldest daughter dressed up as Sleeping Beauty! Combining papers with the ephemera and stickers in the collection, it was quick and easy to bring this page together.  

I started with the Forget Me Not paper at the base, and layered the Natural Beauty woodgrain paper next. I included the black and white leaves/floral design (from the reverse of the Natural Beauty paper), as strips at the top, bottom and through the middle of the page.

Behind the photos: I used some panels and pieces of the Pretty Bits paper, as well as die cutting a doily from the same paper. I used my Kaisercraft Decorative Die for that. I layered all  these elements behind the photos.

In the close ups, you can see how I finished the page with stickers and ephemera.

I love the butterfly die cut!

And my favourite thing is the little word stickers from the Accessory sticker sheets!

I layered some stickers and diecuts here.

I have loved working with this collection.

Thanks for looking,

Amanda

Products used:

Cocoa Vanilla Studios Unforgettable Collection

Forget Me Not paper

Natural Beauty paper

Pretty Bits paper

6x12 Accessory stickers

Die cut ephemera

Remember, by Amanda Hartmann

Hi all, Sharing a second time this week - this time using the versatile  My Minds Eye: My Heritage collection.   

I used some black cardstock for the base, but the focus of this page was really layering all the awesome prints of the patterned papers. The designs and colours of this range make it suitable for any photos. I have used travel photos, and there are a number of travel theme accents within the collection.

Here are the papers that I used: Family tree, Roots, Memories and Origin. I used the Family tree and Origin papers at the base - I used the reverse side and will need to buy more, as I want to use both sides! I created the folded paper panel on the right side of the page using 3 sides of the Roots and Memories papers. Each paper layer had the edges inked black.

In these photos I hope you can see the folded paper technique I used. The dimension of it is lovely, although hard to capture in a photograph! I folded the three different designs of paper on angles. I inked the edges and then layered them evenly to create the panel.

I finished with bits and pieces from the Mixed Ephemera bag.

In the top right corner, I layered different tags and elements from the ephemera bag. Some acetate elements are included, which I stapled to the tag with some threads. (I hate the wet glue showing on clear acetate pieces).

I included more circles and tags from the ephemera bag on the right side of the photo.

And in the bottom left of the photo, I added the word tag with thread, acetate and threads all stapled together.

That's it for this week! Next week we are into December! Final countdown for 2019.

Thanks for looking,

Amanda

Products used: My Minds Eye: My Heritage collection MME: My Heritage collcection: Family tree MME: My Heritage collcection: Roots MME: My Heritage collcection: Memories MME: My Heritage collcection: Origin  MME: My Heritage collcection: Mixed Ephemera bag