Love To Play | Kirei Baldwin | Masculine layout

Hi UK Scrap Addicts!

This month's theme was to create a 'masculine' layout which for me is not a problem as I do scrap quite a lot of boy photos! For this layout I decided to scrap two cute photos of my lovely nephews and their dad on a day out...

I dug into my stash and used these fab papers by Pretty Little Studio from their 'Let's Go' collection. The stars were fussy cut from one of the papers and I added some other cork and star stickers that I have had for a while...

I layered up the photos and added a few embellishments...

To finish off I added a long title in a variety of alphas by Thickers and PinkFresh Studio...

Don't forget to check out all of the inspiration from the rest of the Creative Team this month! We'd love to see your layouts for this months 'masculine' theme so don't forget to share them over on the UK Scrap Addicts Facebook group.... I'll see you next month with another challenge!

Happy Scrapping!

I love how your eyes sparkle | Di Willcox | Sparkle

Good morning Scrap Addicts! Di here today with my first layout as a UKSA creative team member, how exciting!!

'Sparkle' is this month's theme and as it so happens, I had the exact word in a puffy sticker set from the PinkFresh Studio 'Joyful Day' collection. Perfect!

I have lots of photos of my daughter (who's now 24) as a toddler but I struggle to scrap them as they have some distraction in the background that I'm not happy with or the colours/ patterns don't go with the modern papers. After scrolling through Pinterest for ideas I saw a few grid style layouts that use several photos cut down to the main focus point, so I chose a few of Molly, cut them down to 4 x 2 inches and arranged them on the page with papers from the a kit that featured papers from PinkFresh Studio and Pretty Little Studio. I also fussy cut some of the mandala style flowers from one paper and punched some chevrons out of another to create embellishments. 

 After I'd stuck the photos and papers down it seemed a bit flat to me so I doodled lines between to create more of a grid and then I got the 'pop' I wanted to achieve!

I added the title, embellishments and a few sequins (well it is sparkle month!) to finish the layout off.

I can't wait to see what you all come up with for 'Sparkle', I'll be looking out for lots of shiny layouts in the UK Scrap Addicts group on Facebook ;)

Di x

Happy Together / Sheena Rowlands / Paint

Hi there Scrap Addicts x Sheena here again.

This month we have been challenged to create using paint. I have water colours and some acrylic paints in my stash so I dug them out ready to start.

Happy Together.

I chose to create with the Pretty Little Studio range - Tales and Dreams,  so dug out acrylic paints that co ordinated with it. I wanted to channel my inner Wilna Furstenburg so applied paint to the background water colour paper liberally in ombre strips then added some white splats before letting it dry completely.

Once the paint had dried I decided to focus on adding my embellishments and photo down one side so lots of the paint texture remained visible. I matted my square photo on papers from this range and added 2 die cut frames over the top.

 I used die cut words from this range to also make my title. Pretty Little Studio make lots of lovely "bits" in their ranges making it easy to add layers and details. I added lots of their die cut flowers to soften the look of the page.

I finished by adding a few silhouette cut leaves in white cardstock which stood out against the paint background and a few resin hearts & bows.

Why not have a go at painting a background, its only paint and paper after all.

Till next time x

Dream | Black & White photo | Sheena Rowlands

Hi there x Sheena here again.

I was so pleased when I saw this months challenge. I really like black & white photos when scrapping as they give you lots of scope to use any colours or paper ranges you fancy rather than being guided by the photo.

Dream.

Using a black & white photo of my Daughter I decided to use a range of paper I'd not used before by Pretty Little Studio - Dream Big. I liked the pink/blue/yellow colour combo. 

This paper range doesn't have any 12x12 papers in it so using inks and the packaging technique I decorated the background white cardstock to co ordinate with the paper range. I love how it turned out but it buckled a little making it very hard to photograph!!

To allow the photo to shine I limited my embellishments to three clusters including a perspective from Bramble Fox, foam thinkers, vintage metal flowers, paper clip and epoxy stickers.

Hope you join us in this challenge.

Till next time x