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.

You Set My Heart On Fire | Zoe Hailey | Masculine Layout

Welcome to our challenge theme for November; creating a masculine layout.

I'm not sure what comes to mind for you, when you think of masculine pages but for me dark colours spring to mind, particularly black.

For this layout I have worked with Bella BLVD's collection 'Squeeze The Day'. I created my background using the deco foil transfer gel through a stencil and ran it through my Minc to bond a red foil to it. I loved the stencil as it reminded me of a metal grate texture; what more could be masculine? It certainly seemed to fit with my page which is an image of my husband who got to experience being a fire fighter for the day.

I used the Becky Higgins Project Life App to write on my photo, I always love other people's layouts when I see this but never really get round to doing it myself.... so this month I have finally managed it; My Hunk, My Hero!

So despite the brief of masculinity, I have managed to include red, yellow, hearts and even sequins on my page! I did find this theme slightly challenging but mainly because I over thought it! Whatever masculinity means to you, have fun creating a layout or two this month.

Thanks for taking a look at the blog and I look forward to seeing what you create this month.

Happy Scrapping!

Zoe (find me on Instagram zola28)

Sun Shine | Zoe Hailey| Sketch

I can't believe August is here already and we are working with a new theme, this time round we have an awesome sketch to inspire us (Thanks so much Laura Rumble). The original sketch included stars which was great for me as I love stars and think they are really versatile on layouts. I just flipped the sketch 90 degrees to get the design for my page.

To create my layout I started by attempting to make my own stencil, but unfortunately I didn't have the deeper blade for my Cricut Explore Air 2 so I had to improvise. I used the Heidi Swapp reactive paint to pull through other stencils and foiled my stars with the rainbow foil ( which I absolutely adore!)  Here is a close up of how that turned out.

I also used the Heidi Swapp pen to outline some stars and foil them and I think these add a really cute element to the page.

I titled my page "you my sun shine, my moon and all my stars" to go with the theme of the layout and because it is a photograph of my son.

I worked with Shimelle's Sparkle City Collection on this layout, which I have to admit I totally adore. I have added some photo layers behind my two images and stitched through my title and layout edges using a metallic thread.

For some finishing touches I added foam stars, sticker stars and teeny wheeny stars (these were the words of my five year old daughter when I was struggling to describe what I meant!) And lastly, proving that you can find new ways to use old stash I have added some stickles dots and ink splatters.

A simple layout but I really love it, hope you are inspired by the sketch and our take on it. Look forward to seeing what you create in our UKSA Facebook Group soon.

Zoe ( Find me on IG @Zola28)

SHINE OKAY | Zoe Hailey | Mixed Media

Hi everyone and welcome to my June blog for UKSA's mixed media theme.

Not sure about you, but I never really know what I am going to make when I sit down to produce a mixed media layout and this month I made a few because in my experience, they don't all go to plan!

At the moment I am really loving scrapping with 2x2 photos and although these are far from the best quality pictures, I love how this layout turned out.

I have worked with Amy Tangerine's Shine On collection for the very first time, it just seemed to be perfect for a layout about a walk in the woods with the children.

I created my background using two (of my very under utilised stencils), shimmery goodness and Heidi Swapp's metallic texture paste (which I love because it dries so quickly and I'm too impatient and normally end up smudging my layout!)

I have created some clusters off my page using die cuts, thickers chipboard as well as some wood veneer that I picked up recently. I have also used some of what I call liquid gold as I am getting very near to the end of Heidi Swapp gold colour shine (sob sob!)

Hope you enjoy getting messy with our mixed media theme this month and look forward to seeing what you create.

Zoe