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

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

Logica CMG | Amy Kattenbelt | Hidden Journaling

Hello UK Scrap Addicts! Amy here, sharing my layout that features hidden journaling. This month spromt finally got me started on a project I had been planning since the start of the year, but kept putting off. My plan is to create a special 12x12 album full of layouts that really tell my story. To some what step away from the arty creativeness I enjoy about scrapbooking and to really focus on writing about my life experience. I want to create an album that future generations will be able to look at and get to know the real me, full of details that at the moment I take fore granted, that may even seem unimportant, but in time they will tell my story.

I decided to start with something that was pretty straight forward for me to journal about. Because to create my album successfully I am going to need to do a lot of writing! So I chose to write about my first graduate job. I want each layout in this album to feature an envelope that contains the journaling on A4 paper. I have used this bright summery collection from Paige Evans, mainly because I wanted to use the bike die cut as that was how i often traveled to my job.

I cut an envelope shape (designed by Paige Evans) out on my silhouette cameo, and printed out my journaling. I then wanted to create the effect of all the little pieces of die cut ephemera and lots of small photos tumbling out of this envelope.

Inside the envelope you can find my hidden journaling (I have blurred it slightly in these photos for privacy). I also put a large photo in the envelope too. When writing my journaling I really kept focusing on what I would love to be able to read about my ancestors, this idea really helped me to feel at ease with writing about myself.

I plan on creating lots of layouts to go into my special album, that will contains all sorts of my memories and life experience. I would love to hear from anyone who has created this sort of album already.

I hope you might consider creating a special album like this too, the new year would be a perfect time to start! Thank you for reading, and I wish you a very Happy New Year.

Happiness Looks Good On You | Karen Moss | Selfies

Hello, hello and its time for my version of this month's challenge - scrap a selfie.  This month I decided to make a double layout.

I have a process video here that shows my method of making a double page which involves running my paper and embellishments across two pieces of card and then cutting them apart down the middle when the layout is completed!

I have added dimension to my page by layering up die cuts with lots of foam pads and finished it off with Curios (decorated resin domes) pearls and gems. 

I hope you find time to grab a cuppa and have a look at my process video.  You can also get more Selfie inspiration over on our FaceBook Page or on Instagram.

Don't forget to check back to see what the other lovely UKSA DT have made.

Karen x

Awesome Brothers | Amy Kattenbelt | Sketch

Hello Scrap Addicts. Amy here today to share my layout that I created using the fabulous sketch designed exclusively for us by the lovely Laura Rumble.

I thought this star paper from the Boys Rule collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studio would be perfect for a starting point of my layout. I cut it into a crescent moon shape that would cradle my photo and journalling. To contrast with the star paper I used a dark, wood grain, paper from the same collection as my background and added a little white paint splatter to it. I went to town distressing the edges and then stuck it to a blue patterned paper, ripping and stapling it in places for extra details. I added a chipboard title and then finished the layout with lots of matching star shaped ephemera and chipboard pieces.

Thanks for reading. I will be back next month to share another layout with you. In the mean time we would love for you to hop over to our Facebook Group UK Scrap Addicts where you can view the sketch and also share your layouts with us!

Sun Shine | Zoe Hailey| Sketch

I can't believe August is here already and we are working with a new theme, this time round we have an awesome sketch to inspire us (Thanks so much Laura Rumble). The original sketch included stars which was great for me as I love stars and think they are really versatile on layouts. I just flipped the sketch 90 degrees to get the design for my page.

To create my layout I started by attempting to make my own stencil, but unfortunately I didn't have the deeper blade for my Cricut Explore Air 2 so I had to improvise. I used the Heidi Swapp reactive paint to pull through other stencils and foiled my stars with the rainbow foil ( which I absolutely adore!)  Here is a close up of how that turned out.

I also used the Heidi Swapp pen to outline some stars and foil them and I think these add a really cute element to the page.

I titled my page "you my sun shine, my moon and all my stars" to go with the theme of the layout and because it is a photograph of my son.

I worked with Shimelle's Sparkle City Collection on this layout, which I have to admit I totally adore. I have added some photo layers behind my two images and stitched through my title and layout edges using a metallic thread.

For some finishing touches I added foam stars, sticker stars and teeny wheeny stars (these were the words of my five year old daughter when I was struggling to describe what I meant!) And lastly, proving that you can find new ways to use old stash I have added some stickles dots and ink splatters.

A simple layout but I really love it, hope you are inspired by the sketch and our take on it. Look forward to seeing what you create in our UKSA Facebook Group soon.

Zoe ( Find me on IG @Zola28)