Just Hanging About with CVS Wild at Heart by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
This week I have a layout with the very popular Cocoa Vanilla Studio's Wild at Heart collection. 
Just Hanging About

  Lots of paper layers in today's layout on this cool wooden patterned background paper. Loving the pinks, maroons and blues, they work so nice with my photo.    

 I've used lots of ephemera from the Wild at Heart Collection and grabbed some enamel dots from another CVS collection

A 2Crafty title inked in Navy the perfect way to finish off the page.

Thanks for stopping by Till next week
Fiona x Products Used: CVS Wild at Heart Paper - Artisan CVS Wild at Heart Paper - Bohemian CVS Wild at Heart Paper - Grow Wild CVS Wild at Heart Paper - Memento CVS Wild at Heart Paper - Patchwork CVS Wild at Heart Ephemera CVS Free Spirit Enamel Shapes 2Crafty Chipboard - Just Hanging About

'Hangin' with my crew' with Simple Stories Say Cheese III by Kerryn Fry

Good morning everyone! Welcome to the AAS blog on this chilly Friday morning.
The start of a new month brings some different collections for me to showcase.
My first layout features Simple Stories Say Cheese III collection and as you can see  I am back to my masculine theme, my comfort zone :) A great photo of Master 12 with one of his baseball club's american imports, a great teacher.  

Here are a few close ups of the page. 2 Crafty Chevron Bits have been painted with Black Distress Paint and elevated using foam tape. I have also used foam tape on a number of the embellishments to give the page some dimension. The Simple Stories Say Cheese III Bits & Pieces were a great source for each cluster

I have used some stars from the 2 Crafty Star Pack to coordinate with the collection, they have been painted using Distress Paint and then I have added patterned paper to the larger stars.

I have left the background quite plain on this page, but I have doodled using black gel pen 

around the edges and added some faux stitching to a few areas.

There are a few staples added in a few places.

Products Used:
Bazzill Cardtsock - Kraft Simple Stories Say Cheese III - Bits and Pieces Simple Stories Say Cheese III - 3x4 Journaling Element Cards Simple Stories Say Cheese III - Dream Big Simple Stories Say Cheese III - Happy Place Simple Stories Say Cheese III - Magical Memories Simple Stories Say Cheese III - So Much Fun Simple Stories Say Cheese III - Wish Upon a Star 2 Crafty Chevron Bits 2Crafty Stars Pack
Thought I would share a bonus page that I did during school holidays. I am still making good use of the fabulous school collection Photo Play Real Genius The photos were taken from Master 12's last day at school for 2016.
You Basically Rule

I had a ball playing with this background.

Distress Inks and Crafters Workshop Templates are so much fun!

Deliberately picked school based templates for the patterns.

I have cut the pencils out from Photo Play Real Genius 3x4 Cards and 

propped them up with foam tape. 

The 2 Crafty Stars were painted with Aged Mahogany Distress Paint and 

stamped using Gold Brilliance Ink and Kaisercraft Grid Stamp.

That's it from me today. I hope you have been inspired to hit your craft desk this weekend. Have fun and stay warm.
Products Used: Brazzill Cardstock Kraft Photo Play Real Genius - 3x4 Cards Photo Play Real Genius - Apple Banner Photo Play Real Genius - Math Photo Play Real Genius - Stripe Crafters Workshop Templates Distress Ink 2 Crafty Stars Pack

"So thankful" by Amanda H

Welcome to May, All About Scrapbooks fans!   Hope you are ready for another month of inspiration from the team. When there is a constant supply of new products and papers in store, it is pretty easy to stay inspired around here!   Here are my first pages for May. These are all about some Cocoa Vanilla Wild at Heart and 2Crafty Chipboard!  

To create this page, I started with a piece of patterned paper from the CVS Wild at Heart collection. I then glued down some 2Crafty chipboard: the largest frame from the Sabine's Frame Set, some Bubble Clumps, a few Lattice Leaves and a Leafy Twig Branch, cut in half.

Once I glued the chipboard down, I gave it all a coat of paint with white Gesso. Then I sprayed the design with some colour sprays in teals and blues. I painted some of the chipboard elements and made some splatters in blue too!

I stuck the page onto white cardstock for a strong base.

Then I was ready to embellish!

Firstly I started with diecuts from the Wild at Heart Ephemera pack, as well as stickers

 from the Wild at Heart Sticker Sheet. I layered these over the photo and chipboard.

I also added wood veneer hearts and sparkly enamel dots from the Wild at Heart collection, puffy heart stickers from Bella Blvd and paper blooms from Kaisercraft.

I also used a diecut frame from the Wild at Heart Ephemera pack as a layer behind the photo,

 which is also mounted on white cardstock.

Also to finish, I added some dimensional magic to some of the chipboard elements.

 Products used in "So thankful":

Papers:

CVS - Wild At Heart Paper - Double Dot

White Cardstock

2Crafty Chipboard:

Sabine's Frame Set

Bubble Clumps

Lattice Leaves

Leafy Twig Branches

Embellishments:

CV - Wild At Heart Ephemera

CV - Wild At Heart Accessory Sticker Sheet

CV - Wild At Heart Enamel Dots

CV - Wild At Heart Wood Veneer

Bella Blvd - Puffy Hearts - Ice Mix

Kaisercraft - Mini Paper Blooms - Sage

 Dimensional Magic


As a bonus page..... I scraplifted myself! I used the same design and more  Cocoa Vanilla Wild at Heart and 2Crafty Chipboard!

To create this page, I started with a piece of patterned paper from the CVS Wild at Heart collection, then added some texture paste through a stencil and some sprays of colour.

 Also featured on this layout are the handcut butterflies - butterflies are taken from this  piece of stunning paper, from the CVS Wild at Heart collection. You have to cut these little beauties out! I glued them along their centre, so the wings could lift up a little for some dimension.

I used the 2Crafty Handdrawn heart frame, which I embossed, then I cut the photo to fit within this frame.

I used 2Crafty "forever" word for my title, which I inked and added dimensional magic to.

All this layered amongst diecuts from the CV - Wild At Heart Ephemera pack, a doily, sparkly enamel dots from the Wild at Heart collection, puffy heart stickers from Bella Blvd and stickers from CV - Wild At Heart Accessory Sticker Sheet.

I love the colours in this layout, it ended up so pretty!

 Products used in "Forever":

Papers:

CV - Wild At Heart Paper - Mariposa

CV - Wild At Heart Paper - Luscious

2Crafty Chipboard:

Frame Handdrawn Heart

Forever Loopy Font

Embellishments:

CV - Wild At Heart Ephemera

CV - Wild At Heart Accessory Sticker Sheet

CV - Wild At Heart Enamel Dots

Bella Blvd - Puffy Hearts - Ice Mix

 Dimensional Magic

Well, that's it from me today! I hope you like my pages!

Thanks for looking today! :)

Amanda

   

Love Always with Simple Stories by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
This week I have used some Simple Stories ranges to create this sweet page:
Love Always

I've used papers from the Simple Stories Faith and Domestic Bliss collections for this page. The background paper is from the Faith collection, as is one of the paper layers, the rest are from the Domestic Bliss range. They definitely go well together. Using papers from the same brand but different collections is a great way to start mixing papers. 

I've used some Simple Stories embellishments in the form of stickers and adhesive brads, and teamed it up with some Cocoa Vanilla Studio embellishments.   

Love these little hexagonal shapes - the puffy sticker from Pink Paislee and the wood veneer older Heidi Swapp co-ordinated with a mix of enamel dots.

Thanks for stopping by till next week
Fiona x Products Used: Simple Stories Faith Collection paper - Shine Simple Stories Domestic Bliss paper - Domestic Diva Simple Stories Domestic Bliss paper - Work it Girl Simple Stories  Domestic Bliss paper - Mom Rules  Simple Stories Domestic Bliss - Cardstock Stickers CVS Endless Summer Blooms CVS Colour Me Happy Wood Veneer Words Simple Stories Posh Collection Adhesive Brads Pink Paislee C'est La Vie Puffy Stickers Asst Enamel Dots  Heidi Swapp Wood Veneer Hexagons Doily Navy Cardstock

"Beautiful Smile" with Kaisercraft Wildflower by Kerryn Fry

Hello and welcome back to the AAS blog this lovely Friday morning.   I thought I would stay on my dark side of scrapbooking for another week  and have created another girly page to showcase the gorgeous  Kaisercraft collection Wildflower.   This week I went for black & white photos to allow the pretty colours in these  pattered papers to shine. The photos are of my gorgeous niece,  taken while she was here on holidays earlier in the year.

This week I did a little experimenting with the background effect on the page.

I love using Bazzill Kraft cardstock as a base, but when stenciling using Distress Inks 

the inks tend to soak into the Kraft and they loose a bit of their intensity.

So I thought I would try sponging a base layer of gesso through the stencil first, let it dry 

and then I used my chosen Distress Ink colours, Aged Mahogany, Worn Lipstick 

and Abandoned Coral to create the background.

Looks pretty cool!

I have used a few of the bits and pieces from the Kaisercraft Wildflower Collectables and 

then added a few more fussy cut flowers from the patterned paper. 

Tucked into each of the clusters are some 2 Crafty Lattice Leaves painted with Distress Paints.

The good old glitter glue made another appearance this week, using Black Diamond Stickles in the flower centers and Fruit Punch to jazz up the title piece.

2 Crafty chipboard 2017 also featured on the page covered with Aged Mahogany Distress Paint.

That's all from me today.

I hope you have been inspired to try something different with the background of your pages 

and may you all have a wonderful weekend.

Products Used: Bazzill Kraft Cardstock Kaisercraft Wildflower Collectables Kaisercraft Wildflower - Gathered Kaisercraft Wildflower - In Bloom Kaisercraft Wildflower - Vines Kaisercraft Wildflower - Wings 2 Crafty Lattice Leaves 2 Crafty 2017 Distress Inks Distress Paints Tombow Mono Aqua Liquid Glue

"Dream girl" by Amanda

Hello again,   And welcome to my last share for April - wow, where did that month go?   As soon as I saw the Carta Bella 'Rock-a-bye baby' collections, I knew I had to get the girl range so I could use to scrap photos of my new baby niece. Something so sweet about a new baby, so many little moments to treasure and scrap.   Here is my page....  

You can see I used lots of different papers, front and backs to layer up behind my photo, there was just too many lovely papers in the range.

Then I finished with some of the Chipboard pieces in the range and some 2Crafty Chipboard.

 

Don't you love the Rocking Horse? Layered with some chipboard banners from the collection, it looks fab! I also inked (using Prima ink) and dimensional magic'd some 2 Crafty Chipboard lattice leaves and arrow word to add in there. Kaisercraft mini bloom and some sequins finish it off!

Another sweet little cluster here...

Love this range for those sweet baby photos! ;)

So thankful you stopped by today!

Amanda

Products used:   Papers: Carta Bella - Rock-A-Bye Baby Girl Paper - Mother Goose and Bows Carta Bella - Rock-A-Bye Baby Girl Paper - Everything Nice Carta Bella - Rock-A-Bye Baby Girl Paper - Precious Bundle   2 Crafty Chipboard:  Arrow Word Set 1 Lattice Leaves   Embellishments: Prima - Fluid Chalk Ink Edgers - Pastel Green Dimensional Magic  Carta Bella- Rock-A-Bye Baby Girl Chipboard Accents  Kaisercraft - Mini Paper Blooms - Fairy Floss    

To Read Pile with Pink Paislee Oh my Heart Paige Evans by Fiona Johnstone

Hello everyone
Continuing to share some pages with the stunning Pink Paislee Oh My Heart by Paige Evans collection today for my page;
To Read Pile

Loved the book paper in this collection which was the basis for my design today. I've layered up a few of the papers to give this page lots of colour against the white background. 
Once again I have gone to the ephemera pack to embellish - love the books and more books subtitle. I've added a paper border around it so it stood out a bit more against the white. 

Some flowers from the ephemera pack and I've fussy cut one of the books from the paper to use as an embellishment. A flair button and some very old stickers to add my title.   

Loving all the colours in this collection!

Thanks for stopping by Till next week
Fiona x   Products Used:   Pink Paislee Oh My Heart paper -  02 Pink Paislee Oh My Heart paper -  05 Pink Paislee Oh My Heart paper -   03 Pink Paislee Oh My Heart paper -  15 Pink Paislee Oh My Heart paper -   09 Pink Paislee Oh My Heart Ephemera  Pink Paislee Oh My Heart Puffy Stickers CVS Make a Wish Bits & Pieces CVS Flair Button Doily Misc Bow OA Cardstock Alpha Stickers White Cardstock

"Those Eyes that smile" with Kaisercraft WildFlower by Kerryn Fry

Good morning to everyone. Kerryn here on this wonderful Friday morning to share with you my next project. Today I have stepped out of my comfort zone and gone a little girly. I fell in love with the Kaisercraft collection Wildflower  and I knew straight away that I had a bunch of photos I could use for it. For this page, I have settled on a photo of my gorgeous great-niece taken on New Years Eve 2015 when us oldies where looking after the girls while the parents went partying, times have really changed.

 The 2 Crafty chipboard title Those Eyes That Smile was the perfect match for this photo. 

I have given all of the chipboard a base coat of gesso before adding a few shades of 

Lindys Stamp Gang Sprays with a paint brush and lots of layering.

I love the finished mottled effect which was similar to the base paper.

I have also used 2 Crafty Angie's Vine and a small heart from the 

2 Crafty Arrowed Heart Set amongst the cluster using the same technique.

The chipboard has been finished with Dimensional Magic 

to seal the colours and pattern on the chipboard.

My scissors are never far from a good patterned paper, 

so I have fussy cut a few butterflies to add to my page and have added a little sparkle 

across the page with Diamond Stickles, my all time favourite.

  Thank you for visiting the blog today, have a lovely weekend and  we hope to see you back here on Monday with another fabulous page from Fiona.   Products Used: Kaisercraft Wildflower Fluer Kaisercraft Wildflower Gathered  Kaisercraft Wildflower In Bloom Kaisercraft Wildflower Vines Kaisercraft Wildflower Wings

Kaisercraft Wildflower Collectables

Bazzil Cardstock - Raven 2 Crafty Those Eyes That Smile 2 Crafty Angie's Vine 2 Crafty Arrowed heart Lindys Stamp Gang Dimesional Magic Ranger Stickles