Heck Yeah!!! | Jackie Ashton | Moodboard

Hello, Jackie here with my post for this month, using one of this month's mood-boards.  The one I’m used as a lovely mixture of pink, green and gold.

And this is my layout

I used the lovely collection from Pink Paislee / Paige Taylor Evans - Oh My Heart.

I die cut the heart shaped background using my silhouette, and backed each space with a different patterned paper from the 6x6 pad.  Trying not to have two colours the same next to each other.

I trimmed the white cardstock down to measure approximately 11.5 inches, then I mounted the background onto a sheet of patterned paper, to give the layout a frame.

Then I added my photo, which is of  Paige and my two friends Sue and Barbara at the Birds of a Feather workshop in March.  I layered the photo onto several sheet of pattern paper, and added a few embellishments from the same collection around the photograph.

To incorporate the gold aspect from the mood board, I machine stitched across a few of the patterned papers and also added a stitched border around the whole layout.

I hope you like what I've done with this months moodpboard, and give it a try for yourself.

Happy scrapping, until next time.

Hogwarts | Michelle Mills (UglyBugPlans) | Moodboard

Moodboards that contain bright and bold colours? Yes please! This months theme is totally up me street and I had just the photo I wanted to use. The strong colours in the photo meant that I couldn't just pick one of them as a back ground colour so it was perfect for a multi coloured back ground.

I used bubble wrap and ink pads to create the back ground and chose to frame my photo in white, it then made sense for my title and embellishments to be white too. The title was actually a happy accident, I had planned to stamp the word "Hogwarts" onto the actual background in black (seeing as I have no white ink or embossing powder), before committing I decided to test stamp it on a piece of white card stock and I really liked the way it turned out!

Enamel dots gave a lovely texture and I used 3 of each colour seeing as there are 3 main objects in the photo and 3 flower embellishments, what then drove me to try to use all the colours when placing the row of enamel heart I will never know and I soon changed my mind and used just the red, green and blue to match the centre of the flowers!

You can view the whole process HERE!

Week 17 | Sarah Toward | Moodboard

Hi there

I'm here today sharing my Pocket Page layout based on a moodboard.  I find moodboards really inspiring, not just for the colours but for the different images and shapes they have too.

When I first saw the two moodboards for this months assignment I was instantly drawn to this one.  I just love the pinks and mints, and I really love typewriters and clouds and have no problem using these images in my scrapping.  Oh and that hint of navy in the circular splodges at the bottom, one of my favourite colours.  Seriously, what's not to love about this moodboard?

I went into my stash and had no problem finding pink and mint papers to use.  I also had some die-cuts left from the Dear Lizzy, Fine and Dandy collection and they worked perfectly.

I was so excited to use this typewriter paper again, the tone of pink is spot on too.  I had some navy polka dot washi-tape which I've used throughout the layout as well.

I used my Silhouette Portrait to cut some little clouds, and the stripy mint faux washi strips.

I'd been hanging onto this typewriter die-cut as I really liked it and wanted to save it for the right occasion.  I can't remember what it said underneath, but I used a Tim Holtz word phase sticker as I preferred this sentiment.

I liked all the shiny things on the moodboard (I'm a bit of a magpie), so I knew I wanted to include a shiny element to the layout.  I decided these stickers from Paperchase were just right as they were also the perfect colours too, and not my obvious go to shiny element, sequins.

One of the main reasons I enjoyed using this moodboard is that it has made me go back through my stash and use up papers and embellishments, and I've got plenty to go back and use up.  So if you are looking to use up some stash then have a look at some moodboards and get inspired.

Thanks for dropping in again today, be sure to pop back soon for more moodboard inspiration.

xoxo

Love love love | Sheena Rowlands | Moodboard

Hi there x Sheena here again x

This month here on the UK Scrap Addicts Blog we are all creating using a mood board as our inspiration. I struggled to choose a favourite as they were both inspiring but I eventually settled on this one.

Mood boards are not one of my usual sources of inspiration so I was interested to see where this took me. The colours here draw me in first, then the circles and all the sparkles. I started looking through my stash for papers in similar colours to kick start my page.

Love love love.

I added a circular die cut over my choice of background paper and hand sewed around some to add texture.

I concentrated on finding and clustering embellishments that also matched the mood board colour scheme and found a number of cute animals which just had to be used with the Snap Chat photo of my Daughter.

 To continue the circles & sparkle I added a smattering of sequins around my 3 clusters.

I'm rather pleased with the result. If like me you have not used a mood board as inspiration, give it a go & please share with us on FB your finished layouts.

Till next time x

Always make you a priority | Vicci Lou | Moodboard

Hey everyone, Vicci Lou here with my take on this months theme which is mood boards. There are two to choose from this month on the UK Scrap Addicts blog, so I'd really love to see what you parts of them inspire your layouts this month.

In general mood boards are definitely one of my favourite things to use to help me create some different pages. I've heard on my travels a lot of people wonder what they are supposed to do with mood boards so firstly before I show you my creation I'd like to try and explain how I designed my page. Basically I sit with a pen and a piece of paper and the mood boards and I jot down the things that jump out to me sometimes it's just colours but more often than not I try to pick out some design elements too. And I often draw little doodles or even a full page idea at the same time as it comes to me. Below I've included my original interpretation (please excuse the handwriting and the bad drawings, haha!) to try and show you what I mean. I've put it alongside a photo of the original sketch so hopefully you can see what I've done.

As you can see from my finished layout below, not every single idea that I originally came to me was used, but that's okay. I love my finished layout and really loved this mood board. So much so I will probably use it again.

This month over at UKSA we have been sponsored by allthingssticky.com. Laura was sent some free goodies and shared them out within the team. so that we could tell you what we thought. We all received some coloured glue dots (more on those in a moment) and i got some double sided tape, which definitely came in handy, as im the worst crafter ever and always run out of adhesive haha. In my opinion the double sided tape is fab, has held my layouts together nicely. and isn't a massive pain when you try to get the backing off which is always a bonus for me as its literally my pet peeve. If you fancy getting your hands on some all things sticky goodies then we have a discount code which will get you 30% off your first order with them just use the code ADDICT30 at the checkout.

On top of all that we have a competition based on our mod boards this month over on the ukscrapaddicts facebook page, enter to be in with a chance of wining a £50 voucher for allthingssticky.com. we hope to see you join us over there for some fun and more competitions i n the following months.

OK, so back to the fun part the layout. this is what i came up with in the end. and i have to say i love it!

Well where to start as it's certainly a busy page even for me, and I have been known to live by Shimelle's quote "more is more, right?!" quite a lot in my scrapping. So, firstly I've not stuck to the exact rainbow colours though there is a variety of colours on the page, but I did decide that a rainbow was going to be a big design element for me so I pulled out the lovely papers from my May Mind the Scrap kit and got to work. I made a basic rainbow shape though it is in no way perfect, but I'm happy with that.

 I then decided that clouds where a must so I hand cut some from pink paper, and punched out some gold glittery hearts from paper that was in my stash. hearts are on the mood board, but i thought that i would be best adding a 'neutral' for want of a better word, which is why i went with gold, well that and its sparkly haha! Once I glued that down I decided I needed to pick some photos. What can I say, the excitement of the rainbow got away with me haha!

So I chose two photos of myself, sometimes you have to scrap yourself and because it was such a girlie mood board I decided to make it all about me. I cut my photos to fit inside the frames and then added a couple more paper layers behind the frames, I decided to have the photos slightly skew-whiff because the rest of the layout was quite whimsical and I didn't want to break away from that. I should mention also that I chose black card stock for my background because I really wanted the colours popping off the page sort of look. I decided to fussy cut some flowers to put behind my photos because that seems to be my thing of the moment (we all have one, what's yours this month? Pop it in the comments on my UK Scrap Addicts Facebook post or in the comments below, if you'd like to share!) I also added a rainbow coloured branding strip at the bottom of the page because it's gorgeous and also because it matched the mood board and also it gives the page some grounding too which I thought worked well with the rainbow.

Next was time for some embellishments, for these I delved into my stash and dug out the arrow and the bird, and the hearts. I also decided to add some embellishments along the branding strip at the bottom so that it would feel a little more connected to the page, rather than it just hanging there.

For the coloured glue dots I tried to stick one onto the background, but with it being black it didn't really show up, and. Also the top side was still sticky which i didn't really want, so i decided to emboss them with some iridescent embossing powder, i love how they turned out. i stuck them to white card stock and smothered them with the embossing powder. once heated up they are like home made enamel dots perhaps a little bigger but the same idea. i decided to use them as raindrops and stick them under my clouds.

i did also add some feathers which i decided to keep black and white, there's already so much colour going on in this page that i felt some black and white elements would complement the other embellishments nicely. I also hand drew my title which is something i never do but i actually like the way it looks, i did it in white pen which i think really made it stand out. it definitely took me a while because normally i would never be so brave, but i did it and i'm please with how it turned out!

 so that's it my finished layout. I think its one of my favourite layouts that I've ever done.

Good luck to anyone who entrees our competition over on the Facebook page, cant wait to see what you all come up with. don't forget to check back the rest of the month and see what the other girls have come up with!

love and bubbles

until next time

Vicci Lou

xxx

Mid-Week Getaway | Polly's Papercrafts | Mood Boards

Morning lovelies!

This month on UKSA we are all about mood boards (which I'm sure you've gathered if you're a frequent visitor ✿) I've got to say I do love a good mood board - they're perfect for if you've got that 'staring-at-a-blank-page-not-knowing-where-to-start' feeling...don't tell the rest of the Creative Team, but I get that feeling rather often! 

This is the mood board I'm working with this month: 

Isn't it gorgeous?

Those beautiful pastels with the confetti and the sequins and...oh the typewriter! All the heart-eyes from me! 

So I decided to take inspiration from the sequins. Now, if you've followed me before, you'll know I struggle with sequins. I can never seem to get the lovely random but perfectly placed look that I admire so much. Laura is brilliant with sequins, so if you struggle too I would recommend checking out her videos on YouTube. 

I went the easy option and created a shaker!

I used a vellum envelope that I got in the sale from Paperchase and filled that with an assortment of sequins that I had. There are some blue sequins and gold stars from Cocoa Vanilla as well as some different sizes and colours from a Project Life pack too. 

This month the Creative Team were sent some product from allthingssticky.com and included in my package were some coloured glue dots. At first, I was a tad confused on what the point of coloured glue dots were - BUT they came in incredibly helpful when adhering my vellum pocket. 

I used some of the pink, blue and yellow dots randomly on the back which meant that the glue blended in with the sequins. As you know, glue and vellum is a hard balance as it shows through but the way the dots were camouflaged in with the sequins definitely seemed a good answer! 

allthingssticky.com is actually sponsoring our Mood Board Challenges this month with a £50 prize, so if you would also like to draw inspiration from them (there are two to choose from!) you can find all the information and how to enter on our Facebook Page: UK Scrap Addicts 

The embellishments I used on this page (the flamingo, the tag and the chipboard piece for the title) are all from Crate Paper's Oasis collection. I tried to go minimal on embellishment because the sequin shaker is such a feature! 

If you fancy a gander at the process video too, then do pop over to the UKSA YouTube channel! ❤

Until next time...

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Unconventional Artist | Pol Prince | Mood boards

Hello again friends! Pol here today to share with you a layout I created based on this beautiful rainbow mood board, which is one of two for this months challenge. If you'd like to enter you could be in with a chance of winning a £50 voucher for allthingssticky.

Well, I had lots of messy fun with my Dylusions ink sprays on this one! I tried a few ideas until I settled on this one that I was the most happy with. I also created a drippy runny rainbow background but the inks mixed a little too much and started to go yucky colours. 

The best thing about this process was my 7 year old son and stepson playing out in the back garden one day, when they came running in to excitedly tell me that they had found the magic place where rainbows start from, and it was right in our garden!!! Hope they don't notice it's now washed away in the rain!

Back to my layout - the full page of pretty rainbowiness was way too full on to use on its own, so I decided I would use it as a border around a black and white paper, and this striped paper was perfect. It also put me in mind of one of those stereotypical artist pictures, where they are wearing a striped top and a beret!

I kept the photos fairly simple too - one black and white and one colour. They are photos of the most amazing eye my 14 year old daughter drew on her plate in BBQ sauce!

I fussy cut some flowers out of one the papers in the Crate Paper Oasis collection and tucked them behind my photos. I also fussy cut the birds and butterflies from the Maggie Holmes Chasing Dreams collection, and tucked strands of thread in and around them, to embellish my page. 

I made my own 'flair' to match my page, using wooden buttons and punched out circles of paper. I bought a pack of 50 varnished wooden buttons off eBay, and a small circle punch. I punched out circles of matching paper and stuck them into the centre of the buttons with a tiny bit of Glossy Accents. I then covered the centres with Glossy Accents and left them to dry. Voila - customised 'flair' buttons to match any project!

You could also use Crackle Accents or similar, and the circle punch is the perfect size for using on the barcode strips on patterned paper.

Because I'd chosen the title 'Unconventional Artist', I decided to use lots of different types of alphas for the title, to emphasise the unconventionality. I really love the look this gives to the finished layout, and it helped to use some spare alphas up!

Please do have a go at our very first monthly challenge, and post your projects on the thread on our Facebook page.

Where's James? | ScrappyNerdUK (Claire) | Mood Board

Hiya Friends,

I'm up on the UK Scrap Addicts YouTube channel today with a video for my layout based on this months theme, Moodboards.

I am going to be completely honest here. I have never attempted a layout based on a moodboard before. I'll let you know by the end of this blog post what I liked and didn't like about using a mood board.

So first I set about having the moodboard open on my iPad so I could keep referring back to it when choosing my papers and embellishments.

So I started my layout by selecting my photo. I chose a photograph of my sister and my husband as I new that the pink colours in the photo would work well on this layout. The story behind the photograph is that my sister is obsessed with my husband. My sister is disabled and although she cannot talk, walk or even communicate, she does have her own little personality. That shines when my husband comes into the room. We say to her "Where's James" and she immediately turns her head and stares at him and then smiles. It is so sweet. 

For the title, I decided to use a mixture of alphas. Firstly I used some flat stickers in pink. These are from Simple Stories and are one of my favourite go to alpha. Next I added some gold Thickers to really tie in the gold from the mood board.

Gold is definitely one of my favourite colours to work with on my layouts. I don't think I'll ever tire of using gold accents. Especially gold glitter accents!!

I kept the embellishing on this layout really simple as it was already going to be quite busy with the amount of patterned paper that I wanted to use. So I kept it to using only gold glitter hearts which I used a small heart punch and punched them from gold glitter cardstock. I also used a few tiny word stickers as I didn't put any journalling on this layout and this created a little more interest. Any finally some sequins.  I used a mixture of pink sequins and clear sequins to tie in with the mood board. Now this is where I nearly have a nervous breakdown. When trying to open the pot of sequins, I wasn't holding onto the pot tightly enough and they slipped out of my hand and flew everywhere. All over my desk, all over my layout and all over my floor.  This was even captured on film as I was filming whilst this happened. You have to watch the video and laugh along with me!

To adhere the sequins down, I decided to use some coloured sticky dots which were supplied by  allthingssticky.com. These were fab when using behind clear sequins. It changed the clear iridescent to a pink colour when using the pink sticky dots.  This lead me to thinking about other ways I could use coloured glue dots  and thought to myself, wouldn't they look fab when adhering acetate! I'm going to be trying that out!

This layout came together very quickly once I had decided what papers I was going to use, based on the mood board. I grabbed my large heart punch and started punching hearts out. I then laid them in a heart shape. I then grabbed my punched gold glitter hearts and started placing them in random spots on the bigger hearts, ensuring they were spaced out evenly. I also punches out a few pink and mint hearts and scattered these around the hearts too. I matted my photo on the same light pink paper and placed this in the best position so that you can distinguish the heart shape and it best fit in the bottom right.

And I was finished. This layout took me about 40 minutes once I got going so really quick one to come together. I then spent a further 60 minutes picking up the sequins!

Until next time.....................

Oh yeah - nearly forgot. My opinion on working with a mood board has remained undecided. I struggled with really deciding the papers, and that is probably because I've been working with collections for too long!! I think I need to get back to some good old fashioned scrapbooking and choosing my own papers to mix together. Like back before I discovered Crate Paper!!

You can watch the process video here and I don't want to spoil it but I have an epic fail in this video -  

https://youtu.be/1VMRcAviZZs

Bye for now x