Staying Home | Zoe (zola28) | Moodboard

Personally I love a mood-board to inspire creativity and the one created by Amy this month certainly did that for me!

The colour palette in the mood-board really spoke to me as did the rainbow, pink brickwork and the kaleidoscope of butterflies, in fact it was just perfect for me.

I started with some mixed media using my new AMAZING water colours and layered some pink Heidi Swapp Textured Paste using my Tim Holtz brickwork stencil (one of my most used stencils). 

I backed my Rainbow cut file using the Pinkfresh Studios Noteworthy collection and also made myself some bows using my new die (already a firm favourite in my small collection). 

I used my Martha Stewart Butterfly punch to create my kaleidoscope coming up and through the centre of the rainbow. (I adore how this bit turned out as I had trapped space there before and was really struggling with it from a composition perspective). 

I finished by embellishing around my photo clusters and adding some perspectives from Bramble Fox. 

I enjoyed making a layout for the mood-board. Please make sure you share how this mood-board inspires you this month over on our facebook group.

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

We Sparkle - Stephanie Squires - Paige Taylor Evans cutfile - 12 x 12 Fussy Cutting Layout

Hello scrapbookers!

Steph here with my version of this months challenge!

Sooooooo this months challenge is fussy cutting...something I both love and hate equally!  I love to fussy cut sitting in front of the TV or going on a journey or doing something that doesn't eat into my scrappy time I hate to fussy cut when I only have a short time to scrap book and spend an hour of it fussy cutting lol!!

I started with a beautiful textured piece of floral paper from Carte Bella's Flower Market collection.  I gutted the paper leaving a one inch border.  I trimmed my cutfile down to an 11 inch square and backed the hearts with a blush paper from Crate Paper's La La Love collection.

Next I stuck them to the pack of the paper with magic tape which enabled me to tuck the flowers that I fussy cut inside the edge of the hearts without any problems and sewed round the "Love you" piece of the cutfile and off set it on foam risers by one of the hearts.

I added my photos to the centre of the layout on a white photo booth strip and added a black perspective negative which I had backed in gold glitter card and added some chipboard accents to the top right of the layout and near my photos.

Lastly I added the title "We Sparkle" and a few puffy stickers around the photo and that was it....layout complete.

I hope you have enjoyed this months layout and please add all layouts to our facebook page in the correct album and tag UK Scrap Addicts on your Instagram posts....

Until next month.....happy scrapping....

Steph xo

Snow Cute | Keighley Brennan | Sparkle

Hey Everyone, Keighley here today sharing my first layout as part of the UKSA Creative Team, using this months theme of sparkles.

I knew straight away I wanted to created a shaker, sequins add lots of sparkle to a layout. I created a large snowflake shaker with a mix of 3 different sequins, added glitter Thicker’s to create my title and for even more sparkle I used a very old bottle of Stickles glitter glue on some of the paper snowflakes. 

You can watch my layout process here on the UKSA YouTube Channel.

There’s also lots of sparkly inspiration on UKSA Facebook group, we love to see your creations too 

Thank You For Stopping By

Keighley