Love | Karen Moss | Handmade Embellishments

Hello, Karen here with my July page using handmade embellishments.

This month I used Bella Blvd's Cooper paper and a tool that a friend had given to me, called an i-top (not made any more) to make some coordinating brads for my page.  It comes with a paper punch to punch out the exact size needed for the brads and by centring this over the dogs heads on one of the papers and created paper covered brads.  I then punched some flowers from book pages and used the brads as flower centres.

We have lots of inspiration on our YouTube channel, Facebook and on the blog with the DT showing the lovely handmade embellishments they have added to their pages.

I have a process video for this page here.

I hope we have inspired you to try your and at making some embellishments,

The big 40 | Zoe Hailey Zola28 | More Than One Collection

Hi Everyone,

Zoe here on the blog today and sharing a layout I made with more than one collection for our February theme.

Admittedly, I don't mix collections often as my preference is to work with one collection per layout, so I took the easy route and used a cutfile! (There's no need to make this harder than it needs to be, right!?)

I absolutely adore this Paige Evans star cutfile and I found backing it quite a therapeutic process. It helped that I joined a live scrap stream and sat watching another scrapbooker whilst doing this...

I used Bella Blvd "Squeeze The Day" and Echo Park "Teen Spirit" which is apt considering this photo is of my brother, at his fancy dress Halloween themed 40th Birthday party!  I kept my colour scheme to black, white and yellow to bring the supplies together easily.

I popped the whole cut file up on foam pads to add even more dimension to my page and made some epoxy stickers for my embellishment clusters to add further dimension. To ensure some of my embellishments stood out on a very busy page, I added black outlining.

A simple layout which made mixing collections fun to do.

Be sure to share your layouts in the UKSA Facebook Group, I'd love to see what you create.

Zoe Zola28

You Set My Heart On Fire | Zoe Hailey | Masculine Layout

Welcome to our challenge theme for November; creating a masculine layout.

I'm not sure what comes to mind for you, when you think of masculine pages but for me dark colours spring to mind, particularly black.

For this layout I have worked with Bella BLVD's collection 'Squeeze The Day'. I created my background using the deco foil transfer gel through a stencil and ran it through my Minc to bond a red foil to it. I loved the stencil as it reminded me of a metal grate texture; what more could be masculine? It certainly seemed to fit with my page which is an image of my husband who got to experience being a fire fighter for the day.

I used the Becky Higgins Project Life App to write on my photo, I always love other people's layouts when I see this but never really get round to doing it myself.... so this month I have finally managed it; My Hunk, My Hero!

So despite the brief of masculinity, I have managed to include red, yellow, hearts and even sequins on my page! I did find this theme slightly challenging but mainly because I over thought it! Whatever masculinity means to you, have fun creating a layout or two this month.

Thanks for taking a look at the blog and I look forward to seeing what you create this month.

Happy Scrapping!

Zoe (find me on Instagram zola28)