Cuter | Elaine King | Stamping

Good morning all

I hope you are all well and keeping warm in these increasingly cold months? Brr!

Anyway, today I am bringing you a stamped layout with a slight difference! Our prompt was to use stamps on our layouts. Now, I  really like stamping and creating a scene with them..like stamping lobsters and crabs on a seaside page, or flying birds over a countryside view but today I have decided to do something little different. 

I tried to consider the fact that some people have very limited scrapbook stash and may not, yet, have added stamps to their stash (believe me you will in the end! LOL)  So I have chosen to use the most basic of stamps for my sample..the eraser on the end of a pencil! 

To start with I cut a heart shaped piece of paper from some scrap paper and laid this on my white cardstock background. As always I buy my mixed media white card from Crafts4eternity. I then simply pushed my eraser onto a gold Ink Pad until I got a good coverage. I then stamped this little round circle multiple times around the edge of the heart, creating a stamped heart as a border. I then removed the heart paper. 

Once the ink was completely dry (you don't want smeared ink all over your page) I punched a couple of sections of the border from the white cardstock and added some matt gold scraps behind the chomped out pieces. (I love doing this technique as its a little different and it's easy to do). 

To finish I added my sepia toned photo and adhered it with gold spotty washi tape. I then added lots of small Kaisercraft baby themed wooden veneers that I got from Charmed Cards and Crafts. The hessian bows were from Poundland and I cut the title using my Silhouette Cameo electronic cutting device. 

I hope this helps you realise how simple your layouts can be and you don't need lots of expensive equipment in order to create an effective page. 

Thanks for stopping by..see you again next month!    

Great Memories | Terri Morris | Tic Tac Toe

Hey guys how are you all getting on with this summer heat? My craft room is on the top floor of our 3 storey house and is crazy hot during the day. I’ve managed to do a little scrapping in the evenings with a fan on. I love this month’s theme of using the Tic Tac Toe as inspiration for a layout.

I chose to use the middle horizontal line, so focused on using arrows, circles and washi tape. I have so much washi tape it was great to get some used!

I used gold texture paste through a Dylusions circle stencil to create the background on kraft cardstock. While also adding some circular embellishments such as stickers and a flair badge.

The three strips of pattern under and on top of the kraft cardstock are all washi tapes. Those 3 phrases under the title were also cut from a roll of travel themed washi tape.

I combined the arrow and washi tape by adding a washi with arrows on as a strip across the middle. I used a Bramble Fox arrow perspextive and some arrow stickers.

This layout came together really quickly and is one of my recent favourites. The photo is from our trip to Jordan and I love how they have road signs warning about camels! 

We would love to see your Tic Tac Toe layouts so don't forget to share them in our Facebook group and also tag us on Instagram.

Happy Scrapping!

XOXO | Kirei Baldwin | Monochrome

Hi Scrap Addicts!

It's Kirei here with my first layout for UKSA, I am really thrilled to be here and look forward to sharing my projects with you each month!

For this month's monochrome theme I decided to go for black and white with gold accents. We had the option of just using shades of the same colour OR black/white and one other so that was my option.

I dug into my Crate Paper Maggie Holmes stash and pulled out all of the black and white papers from the various ranges but ended up just using two! A spotty one as a frame for my layout and the other I fussy cut flowers from it. Without realising it I had used similar papers to Amy who shared her fab layout earlier this month!

I went for a diagonal effect, with my photo as the central point. I layered up the photo with a chipboard frame, a glittered frame and some chipboard stickers and stickers. Then I stuck down the fussy cut flowers and curled the edges to add dimension.

Next I went through all of the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes ephemera and stickers and pulled out anything that was black & white or gold and added those in amongst the flowers.

To finish off I added a simple gold sticker title, journaling and a few precious splatters of gold Heidi Swapp Color Shine.... I can't believe it has been discontinued!

Why don't you give monochrome a go and share your scrappy creations over on our UK Scrap Addicts Facebook page. Don't forget to tag us on Facebook or Instagram!

Happy scrapping!