Love is in the Air | Sheena Rowlands | Monochrome

 Hi there UK Scrap Addicts!

It's Sheena here again and for our challenge for you for this month is to create a monochrome layout. I was looking forward to making this page as when I break up a collection or kit I store the left over bits and pieces by colour. So once I decided on my colour choice I just covered my desk in the packets containing that colour.

Love is in the Air.

I took this photo of my daughter & her boyfriend over the summer & had been waiting for an opportunity to scrap it.

A lot of my pink / red supplies are love themed so I started by digging out any tags to use as my base layer.  As we are allowing both black and white to be used with our colour off choice I found this old Studio Calico paper to use as my background. I added a little pink ink under and around my tags plus a few black splats too.

I dug out lots of bits and pieces that I liked and tried to add them to the tags, not all made the cut but it felt good using up odd bits.

I am pleased with how this page came out & I will certainly try this challenge again in another colour way.

Don't forget to share your challenge layouts with us over on our facebook page, or tag us on Instagram with # UKScrapAddicts if you've played along this month?

This challenge is a great way to use up those last few bits from a kit or collection.

Till next time x

Pampered Beasts | Zoe Hailey Zola 28 | Lisa Fonseca Style Page Element

 Hi Everyone

Welcome to my layout inspired by Lisa Fonseca style page element ; our September theme in UKSA. I was a little daunted by this assignment as Lisa is so amazingly talented, but I kept cute critters and hand stitching in mind when I made my page. 

I don't have the talent to hand cut all the fantastic  animals that Lisa does, so I turned to my trusty Cricut to cut a couple for me. I chose a tiger and a bear, which were perfect for this layout of my children at "Mummy's pamper salon". We had a Sunday afternoon of face masks, manicures and pedicures and each of the children's masks had cute animals printed on them. 

I hand stitched around the face of each animal in a corresponding embroidery thread, using all 6 strands of thread. I also stitched around their noses & mouth. I popped the animals up on foam and tucked my 3x4 landscape photo behind the bear. I used the clear stickers from the Cocoa Vanilla Studios Legendary collection to create a water colour affect around my photo. 

The Wild and Free title was hand cut from one of the journaling cards and I added a couple of branding strips at the bottom to ground my layout. I used some Indian ink to create black splats around my page, this helped bring in the black from the animal faces. I added a sprinkling of enamel dots around my journaling and the photograph. 

I really love the fun nature to this page and it captures perfectly the memories.  

If you take inspiration from this months  theme, please do share your layouts over on our Facebook page, or tag us on Instagram.  I'd love to see what you make! 

Happy Scrapping 

Zoe x

One Walk A Day | Amy Kattenbelt | Homemade Embellishments

Hello UK Scrap Addicts,

Amy here sharing my layout featuring a few homemade embellishments. I have to admit, I struggled with this theme. I am definitely the type of scrapbooker who will reach for the purchased ready made embellishments that coordinate with the collections. However I tried to rise to the challenge and came up with these two ideas to use on my layout.

The first, very simple, bit I think effective home made emblishment I created were the three white daisys. They were cut using dies and thick white card, and then I used a black pen to outline each petal. To the two smaller flowers I added a yellow enamel dot to its centre, and to the larger flower I added a die cut circle of yellow paper. Simple yet eye catching focal points for my layout.

The second embellishment I created was slightly more tricky, but just as eye catching and adds loads of texture and is a unique touch to my layout. I used beads to create this border of flowers and simply adhered it to my layout using gluer dots under the flowers.

To create this you will need 3 colours of seed beads, some strong beading thread and a beading needle. I will try and walk you through how I created it, but you could also Google for 'daisy chain bead technique' to get some diagrams and videos.

Tie several knots at the end of your thread. If the knot is not big enough to hold your beads securely you can tie the knot through a bead to hold everything in place.

Thread 5 of your stem colour beads onto the thread (in my case green). Then thread 4 petal colour beads (yellow) followed by a bead in your 3rd colour (blue)

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Now take your  and thread it back through the first yellow bead you put onto your thread. This will form a loop of the yellow and blue beads.

Now thread three more yellow beads, and then take the needle through the 4th yellow bead that you originally threaded.

Start over by threading another 5 green beads, then form another flower etc until the bead chain is the required length.

I hope you enjoyed taking a closer look at my layout. Be sure to pop back soon when we will be sharing our new theme for August!

Take care, and stay safe,