"Your future is bright" with Photo Play Real Genius by Kerryn Fry

Good morning everyone! I'm back with my Friday feature today this time creating with Photo Play Real Genius Gorgeous rich, warm colours and perfectly suited papers for my 'return to school' photos. A new year and a new school, lots to take in for our young man, but he took it all in his stride and he was looking super handsome in his new uniform.

The featured 2 Crafty chipboard Circular Panel has been covered with Dina Wakley paint Penny, backed with patterned paper and I have then randomly added Stickles Diamond glitter glue to some of the circles

The 2017 year has been covered with the same paint.

Here are a few close-ups of the details in the layout. 

The small letters used for the subtitle are from the Real Genius Alphabet Sticker Sheet.

I have used a bronze gel pen to add faux stitching around the edge of the patterned paper

The Diamond Stickles was also used to highlight a few of the embellishments.

The embellishments were fussy cut from the 3x4 card sheet and 

I used some foam tape to add dimension to the page.

How cute is the boy!

This is an awesome collection, I loved working with the thick paper 

and there is a great mix of small and large patterns in the papers.

I can't wait to get the official school photos to create another page.

Thanks for dropping in today and I hope you have a wonderfully, creative weekend.

Products Used:

Kraft Cardstock

Photo Play-Real Genius 3x4 Cards

Photo Play-Real Genius Alphabet Stickers

Photo Play-Real Genius Locker

Photo Play-Real Genius Math

Photo Play-Real Genius Stripe

Photo Play-Real Genius Apple Banner

2 Crafty Circular Panel

2 Crafty 2017

"Think Big" by Amanda

Hello to our All About Scrapbook fans!   Welcome to a new month! This month I have a few pretty pages, which is so easy when I have 3 daughters and a new baby niece!   Here is my first page for the month, based on the American Crafts paper collection:  "Shimelle: Little by Little".  

I started with some White Cardstock and the "Think Big" paper from the paper range - it was perfect to cut out the squares, which I matched with 3 photos cropped to squares of my girls. I loved fussy cutting some of the hearts from one of the papers. I machine stitched these to the layouts.

To finish off, I added some 2 Crafty chipboard hearts - painted and dimensional magic, some word stickers & enamel dots from Cocoa Vanilla Studio, Kaisercraft Mini Paper blooms and some sequins.

I did a little splatter of pink paint (that had been leftover from painting the chipboard hearts). Add a little water to acrylic paint and it is quite easy to lightly splatter onto a background.

 All the little clusters.... Perfect cute finishes to a super cute page!

Thanks for looking today!

Amanda

Products used:

Papers:

White Cardstock

Shimelle - Little by Little Paper - Evolving Love (hand-cut hearts)

Shimelle - Little by Little Paper - Think Big (squares)

Shimelle - Little by Little Paper - Shine Bright

2Crafty Chipboard:

ATC Tiny Hearts & Stars

Embellishments

CV - Love Always Enamel Dots - Sparkles

CV - Wild At Heart Accessory Sticker Sheet

CV - Wild At Heart Enamel Dots

Kaisercraft - Mini Paper Blooms - Fairy Floss

Dimensional Magic

Happy Life with Shimelle by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
It's a brand new month and this week I am playing with the delightful Shimelle Little by Little collection. It's perfect for babies but has so many pretty papers in the collection you can use it for just about anything. 

Here's my page: Happy Life 

With so many papers in this collection, it is hard to choose so I have used quite a few and made the, them a focus of my page with lots of layers.
I've even done some fussy cutting from the patterned paper - the cute rabbit - he's not quite the White Rabbit but he seemed fitting!

I've then used the sticker sheet from the same collection for my title and embellishing. 

Thanks for stopping by

Till next week

Fiona

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Products used: Shimelle Little by Little paper - Foxy Shimelle Little by Little paper - Grow Happy Shimelle Little by Little paper - L'il Bit Lovely Shimelle Little by Little paper - Pint Sized Fun Shimelle Little by Little paper - Live a Little Shimelle Little by Little paper - What a Hoot Shimelle Little by Little Stickers Fancy Pants WildHeart Chipboard OA Mini Market Stickers Crate Paper Notes and Things Sticker

"Let Your Light Shine" with Jillibean Soup Hardy Hogdepodge by Kerryn Fry

Hi there AAS followers.   It's finally Friday, my favourite day of the week and it's also the last day of March already. Boy how the days are flying.   Today's project almost finishes off my collection of Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge  and I am just loving the brightness of its colours against the black cardstock. The photos are from the boy's school camp in December last year with a great bunch of kids. He misses them heaps after moving to a new school to start middle school.  

As always, 2 Crafty chipboard has enhanced my page perfectly.
The title 'Let your light shine' was ear-marked for the photos from the beginning.
The title itself inspired the way it was decorated.
The first layer was to cover with Distress Paints in Broken China and Wild Honey.
I added Diamond Stickles to the word Shine and then finished with Dimensional Magic.

Aiden's Arrows were given a similar work over with the Distress Paint and

 Dimensional Magic, plus a layer of stamping.

I kept this page clean and simple with the black cardstock doing all the work. Thanks for visiting the blog today and hop you have a crafty weekend. Products Used: Black smooth cardstock Kaisercraft Alpha stickers Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Cup of Chevron Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Pinch of Plants Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Little Bits of Letters Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Bite Size Bits Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Trace of Triangles Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Pea Pod Parts 2Crafty Let you light Shine 2Crafty Aidan's Arrows Distress Paints Dimensional Magic

"Enjoying the ride" by Amanda Hartmann

Hello to you all,   Do you ever find a paper and know you have a perfect photo for it?  I was lucky enough to visit the NASA space station in Florida a couple of years  back and I thought this was perfect with the Shimelle - Starshine Collection.   Here is my page:  

The centre piece of this page is the awesome blue piece of paper "Curiosity"- perfect colour and design for this page! I find great blue papers hard to find, so this is a cracker!

 I have layered more papers behind the photo, including some Fancy pants corrugated cardstock, black cardstock and the cute text patterned paper "Hubble", also from the Shimelle - Starshine range. I have also mounted the whole page on some white cardstock.

Also an important part of this page is the 2 Crafty Circle Dot Frame, after inking it grey,

 I embossed it using a fine silver embossing powder.

 This corner includes a tassel and tags from the Cocoa Vanilla Bits and Pieces pack.

I add some Cocoa Vanilla Enamel Dots onto some of the circles on the chipboard. You will also see some scattered around the page. Other details added to the page, some 2 Crafty gears, inked in black, and some stars, also embossed in silver.

For stickers, I added some word stickers from the Cocoa Vanilla Accessory Stickers, as well as some stickers ("lucky", "enjoying the ride", white star) from a Simple Stories range.

  Thanks for looking today!     Products used: White Cardstock Black Cardstock (Raven) AC - Shimelle - Starshine Paper - Curiosity AC - Shimelle - Starshine Paper - Hubble Fancy Pants- White Corrugated Cardstock 2Crafty Circle Dot Frame 2 Crafty Steampunk Gears Medium CV - Love Always Enamel Dots - Sparkles CV - Love Always Bits & Pieces CV - Love Always Accessory Stickers SS - I AM Photo Stickers SS - I AM Stickers 4'x6"  

   

My Super Hero by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
This week I have something a little different for me. I had these cute photos of my daughter dressed as superman. I have used my cameo to create a superman cut file onto the solar system paper from the Space Academy collection by Carta Bella.
My Super Hero

A close up of the Superman die cut:  

 I've used stickers from the Reminisce My Super Hero collection and the speech bubbles are from Bella Boulevardes Addison collection. 

I've finished off my page with some wood veneer stars and some rather old rubber embellishments from my stash - you can find similar rocket themed stickers in the Space Academy collection here. 

Thanks for stopping by

Till next week

Fiona

x

Products Used Cardstock Reminisce My Superhero Kit Carta Bella Space Academy Paper - Racing Rockets Bella Blvd Addison Collection Paper Pieces Cardstock Wood Veneer Stars Rubber Charms - OA

Happiness Found with Echo Park Paper Co by Kerryn Fry

Welcome to the blog today on this fabulous Friday. It's my turn to share my project and this week I am still creating with the  Echo Park Paper Co collection Jungle Safari. Our trip to the Zoo photos from January continue to play a roll in my pages,  it was a fabulous day with the boy, my sister and my nieces.  We were trying unsuccessfully to find the pandas, but they were too busy eating in their enclosures.  We settled for the next best thing, a statue and some bamboo.

I had fun layering Crafter's Workshop templates, Memory Box Stencil and Distress Inks in the background.

I added faux stitch doodling using a black pen around the leaf stencil.

The 2 Crafty Bamboo Stems were painted with different shades of green Distress Paints 

and became the support for the cluster at the base of the page.

I love cutting out photos too

Lots of fussy cutting from the papers in the collection, the cheapest form of embellishments 

and usually the simplest.

Plenty of dimension created with foam tape and layering.

You will also spot a few random pieces from the Jillibean Soup Hardy Hodgepodge Pea Pod Parts

Thanks for visiting the blog today. Hopefully you have been inspired to sit and create Have a fabulously crafty weekend!

"Captured" by Amanda

  Hello again, and welcome to another wonderful Wednesday to inspire!    Do you ever get your hands on a beautiful piece of paper, and the only possible thing to do is to fussy cut it? That's how I started out with this page, when I found one of the amazing floral papers from the  Pink Paislee Take Me Away collection.    

I used the combination of 5 different pieces of paper from the range (listed below) and used them in the layers behind the photo, in the strips and the background and of course for the fussy cutting. The whole page is also mounted on a white cardstock base, my favourite thing to do.

Once I had the papers sorted, I looked for some bits and pieces to add the clusters to finish the page. You can see some of these details in close ups.

Firstly I inked some 2Crafty Butterflies using Prima Chalk Ink, once nestled in the flower I added a coat of Dimensional Magic. 

Under the layers of the fussy cut flower, I tucked some white hearts and vines from the awesome Thickers pack that come in the Take Me Away range.

Some of the grey colour tones in the diecuts from the Cocoa Vanilla Studio Love Always collection matched the colour tones of this page, so I had these into the clusters also. I also sprinkled some crystals from the Bits and pieces pack and also some sparkly enamel dots.

  Thanks for looking today. A pretty page, totally made by the amazing papers from Take Me Away.     Products used: PP - Take Me Away Paper - 02 PP - Take Me Away Paper - 10 (this had the florals that I fussy cut) PP - Take Me Away Paper - 17 PP - Take Me Away Paper - 18  PP - Take Me Away Thickers - Dream Foam White Cardstock 2 Crafty Addy's Butterflies Prima - Fluid Chalk Ink Edgers - Pastel Green Dimensional Magic CV - Love Always Ephemera Die Cuts CV - Love Always Bits & Pieces CV - Love Always Enamel Dots - Sparkles  

   

This is Me with Echo Park Just be You by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
Back this week with a selfie layout, featuring Echo Parks Just be You collection. Love the colours in this collection, so pretyy! This is Me

  I've created a watercolour background for this layout with some paints and water,  using the good old plastic technique, then added some splatters with a paintbrush. 

Next some paper layering with some added layers of paper and chipboard doilies. The chippy doilies have been inked in green to match the paper. Following this I've added some layers with the sticker sheet - around my photo and a cluster to the bottom.

Close-up of layered stickers:

My 2Crafty title is inked in navy, one of the lesser used colours in the paper  that makes the title stand out. 
Till next week Fiona x

Products Used: Echo Park Just Be You paper -  Be Bold Echo Park Just Be You paper - 4x6 Journaling Cards (reverse) Echo Park Just Be You paper - You Can Do It Echo Park Just Be You paper - Girl Boss Echo Park Just Be You Element Sticker Sheet Doily 2Crafty Chipboard This is Me title 2Crafty Chipboard Flower Doilies Simple Stories Posh Self Adhesive Brads Cocoa Vanilla Studio Love Always Bits & Pieces