Good morning one and all... Welcome to my post for the UK Scrap Addicts Creative team using the prompt for March which is, as you already know, Black backgrounds! This is one of my favourite schemes so this was just perfect for me. So, without further ado.. here is my layout.
As you can see I used very little patterned paper for this challenge but I did use a hot pink sheet of card-stock too. I first gutted this so I had enough to mat my photo with some left over for another project. Both sheets of card were bought from Merly Impressions
Once I had done this I trimmed the black card down and mounted on the hot pink. To set out the brads I used a PinkFresh template. I changed it up a bit by adding the large brad in the centre to anchor my twine, instead of (as they suggested) winding the twine around lots of the outside brads.
Once I had done this I layered the photo on some scraps of pink themed patterned papers and added the title. These are Thickers that I got from a kit from Lottie Loves Paper last year.
I added the pink polka dot Rosette and some pretty embellishments from my stash.. a quick and simple layout!
Simple but quick, and, in my opinion effective... not to mention a great way to use us those brads!
Good morning everyone! I hope today is a little warmer than when this photo was taken! Brrr!
Anyway, today I am bringing you a layout created using some of my punches. It was nice to dig them out again..It is something I often overlook..how about you? To start with I chose this collection of Simple Stories, Winter Wonderland. Sticking with the UK Scrap Addicts January theme of No Cardstock.. (I know, I know, its the Feb prompt I'm supposed to be promoting..lol) I started with a piece of the wood grain paper to use as my background. I bought this collection a while back now from Pretty My Page..the shop run by our very own creative team member Lisa-Jane. Se still has a little left in stock..and they are reduced..woohoo! She is moving over to concentrate on her fantastic cut files now so there are bargains to be had! Anyway..back to the layout.. I then took some long pieces of patterned paper and punched along the edge of the longest piece. I then layered them along the left hand side adding a piece at right angles along the bottom and adding some punched tags tucked under he top at the far left.
Next I mounted the photo and used foam tape to lift it off the page for added dimension.
Once this was placed I punched little bunting flags and added it to some bakers twine along the bottom.
I then punched several snowflakes and scattered them around the edges of the photo and added several stickers from the collection too.
Quite a simple layout but I managed to use four different punches..shown here.
Why not have a go yourself and let me know you've got on?
Good morning all Didn't you just love this months prompt over on the UK Scrap Addicts Blog? I love to use small photos as it is always great way to use up several photos at once. Here is the layout I made this month using the prompt
When I am doing this I usually use a photo editing app. In this case I used Pic Collage so you can make lots of photos fit into a grid. I find that most online photo printing services will offer a 'square photo' option these days. I have discovered that the UK photo printing services of Snapfish offer a 4" square option and Free Prints offer a 5" square option. In this case I used the 5" option from Free Prints rather than print the photos out myself. To make this layout I used 4 photos that I had set into a square. In these apps you can often choose a background colour too. In this case I chose a cerise pink background which I echoed by using a cerise pink piece of cardstock as my background.
Once I had cut apart my four photos in the grid I used them with a page kit from Crafts4Eternity
I made some home made embellishments using washi tape for the central square and highlighted some of the black that features within the patterned papers.
I made a cluster in the bottom left with more punched black card and some die cut circles that served as a journaling spot.
I then punched a 2" heart for co-ordinating card and covered in sequins too. Each of the squares that were not photos were cut and layered to give each a cerise pink frame too.
To finish I added flowers from my stash and some black puffy alphabet stickers that I got from The Works.
My only dilemma is the title.. should it be Helping Hand..or Helping Hands??? You decide!!
It's nearing the end of Summer here so that means one thing - no more super bright layouts! We head into Autumn colours, photos of Hot Chocolate and crisp Autumn mornings and then onto the Big C!!!
But....For now...I bring you one last hurrah of this summer season and who can resist a rainbow layout (I know I can't!).
So this months theme was paint. I decided to use some acrylic paint markers for this layout and I have teamed this layout up with my Alpha Attack series on Youtube to demonstrate that you can use paint to change the colour of any type of Alpha or Thicker (because we usually have lots of those in our stash right!?).
So my thought was rainbow rain. I know this sounds crazy but here is how the layout came together.
I grabbed a whole load of half used Thicker packs from my stash and started sticking them randomly over the lower 2/3 of my page. (I did Gesso my page first knowing I was going to be applying white paint over the Thickers).
Once these were all stuck down, I then added a layer of Gesso (I actually added 2 layers because I wasn't sure how thick the coverage would be from the paint markers).
Once I had let the Gesso dry, and you can use a heat tool to speed the process up (I certainly did), I then applied 2 layers of white acrylic paint over the whole page.
Next came the hard decision as to where I was going to include my photo. I didn't want to cover too much of the background up so I went with a photo that I could cut down to just the subject image (my husband in this case) and I packed the photo with a small amount of 3 different patterned papers around the edges.
This is where the fun part came in. I used the acrylic paint markers to colour in each alpha using the ROYGBIV colours (apart from I had to substitute Indigo for Pink) and I worked my way across the page with each colour. Next I added some of the paint onto a non stick mat and added a little water and went splatter crazy! I tried to keep the coloured splatters within each of their own colour sections. I then went tone on tone with adding some enamel dots in hearts and star shapes.
I did back my white cardstock onto a piece of rainbow(ish) patterned paper. I had used a sheet of Bazzill Marshmallow cardstock which is primed for Mixed Media but it had buckled a little. So cutting down a 1/2 inch from each the top and bottom, I then mounted this onto the patterned paper to held smooth out the warping.
Next I free hand cut some clouds and used a black paint marker to give these a faux stitched border as these were getting lost on the background. Finally, because clearly there were not enough Alphas already on this layout!, I then added my title into the left cloud. I even popped a sun in to the top right cloud to keep with the theme.
In total I used a massive 97 Alpha Stickers!!! And now I need a lie down. Thanks for visiting our blog today. Be sure to head back for more inspiration throughout the month from the other ladies. Oh and we have a new theme on 1st October!!
If you want to watch the process for this layout then you're in luck as there is a process video right here for you. So be sure to head on over to our Youtube channel where you will find hundreds of videos to keep you inspired!
Waste Not... Something different from me this month, a pink happy 12 x 12 layout as its my Birthday today! - woooo I am very conscious of the amount of waste that we get from scrapbooking, and you will always find me grabbing things out the table bins at crops, yep, i said it, im a scrappy bin diver, and proud! One mans junk, is another mans treasure! For this layout, i used the branding strips in my 6x6 paper pads to layer up behind my photo to make a nice colourful background.
I have tried to completely finish a Pink Paislee 6x6 pad, the Fancy Free one. I have 11.5 pages left, and no unused branding strips. Wooo It feel so good to use things up!
Please also check out the process video of this layout, if you give it a go please leave a comment and share on our facebook group.
Hello everyone, Welcome to June's theme of 4x6 photos!
4x6 photo layouts, quite easy you would think... however when you document in a SmashBook it's so normal to ram loads of photos in it. Having the opportunity to only use one photo was somewhat of a challenge for me.
I picked a photo of my godchildren at a birthday party as i knew i had a couple of bits of memorabilia to bulk it out with. I used one single 4x6 photo, a leaflet of the party organisers, a cupcake topper, and lots, and LOTS of random embellishments.
Its quite a full on page full of embellishments, but i think i made it work..
If you want to have a look how i threw this together, then check out the video below!
Giselle here with my first Blogpost for UKSA, I'm really pleased to have been chosen to join the team and I'm looking forward to getting to know everyone who visits the blog!
Following this month's monochrome theme, I have used a white base and then different tones of blue for my page. I used a cut file from the Silhouette store and placed a couple of stars on the base before spraying it with Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Ocean.
I also sprayed a spare piece of card with differing strengths of blue and used it to back fill some of the stars in the cut file. The other stars were backfilled with coordinating patterned paper.
I placed a couple of tags behind the photo, plus some enamel stars and dots to highlight it. I tucked a double circle tag behind them for the date and place.
Finally I added the title using a Pinkfresh Studio puffy alphabet in navy blue.
I hope you're all enjoying the monochrome theme and hope you'll join in and share your layouts with us on our Facebook page.
Hello fellow scrappers, hope you are well. This month we are concentrating on alphabets either stickers, or thickers, so with that in mind I did this layout, with a mixture of thickers from my stash.
Over the summer I’m been to the local safari park, and took loads and loads of photographs, and wanted to make a layout that shows a few of the many animals that we encountered.
It does’t look like I’ve added 12 photographs, does it ? but I have and the layouts is a simple details with the large title of mixed thickers to the bottom of the page.
Why not get your thickers, out and have a mix up and show us what you have done, we would love to see it.
Hey there! Niki here with you today with my take on using Alphabet Stickers. I have a ton of these in my stash, mostly part-used but some not used at all. They are away in a bottom drawer, with just a select few in my tote bag and the rest have been untouched for quite some time. I mostly create using cut files and often I don't turn to alphabet stickers for a title as I have already got one sorted using my cutting machine.
But what a waste to have all those alphabet stickers away in a drawer unused! So I'm delighted this theme was set as it gave me the opportunity to use up some of those Thickers.
For this layout I chose to use the Crate Paper Oasis collection as my photo was of my family away on holiday. I built the layout mostly using ephemera as well as stickers and some papers from the same collection. I created a cluster at the bottom too and left a large space for a long title.
I chose to use some white Thickers. I don't use white Thickers that much becuase I mostly create on white backgrounds so there isn't enough contract between the white background and the white letters. I added white Thickers to my layout and then applied Glossy Accents all over the top of each letter sticker.
And then I sprinkled gold glitter all over them! This resulted in a super sparkley golden title - my favourite kind of title lol.
There is a process video available to watch for this layout which can be viewed below.
Thank you so much for joining me today and watching my video. What wil you do with all your alphabet stickers?
