Sparkle and shine | Elaine King | Sparkle

Good morning one and all

Today I am bringing you a layout using lots of sparkle as per our April Prompt... I hope you can join in too?  

Firstly I took a sheet of sparkly pink glitter cardstock and used it as a mat for my trimmed down white card background. Now I don't know about you but I find sticking to glitter card is impossible...so to get around that I used wet acrylic glue..Pinflair in this instance. 

Then I took my white card, purchased from Crafts4Eternity . I buy their card stock because they  stocks a 300gsm card that twists and warps far less when using wet mixed media.  I punched out three 'chomped' pieces of the border using a Martha Stewart punch. 

I then drew three concentric circles with a sparkly Kaisercraft gel pen purchased from Merly Impressions. These are my 'Go To' pens for journalling and anything sparkly. I then drew random little hearts using the same pen along the three lines of the circles and added lots of sequins. 

Finally I matted the photograph and added a piece of Unicorn paper (and one other) from the Dream Big collection from Simple Stores that I got from Hey Little Magpie using some of the ephemera from the collection too. I raised the photo up on foam pads for extra dimension. 

Hey presto, one quick and easy layout with lots of sparkle. I do hope this inspires you to give our prompt a try..have fun!

1st Christmas | Elaine King | No Cardstock

Hello everyone

Today I am bringing you a layout made using out monthly prompt of ‘No Cardstock’. At first glance this did seem as though it would be, well, challenging! Lol . However, once you set your mind to it you realise there are lots of papers out there that are ‘neutrals' within a collection so this what I chose to use for my background papers.

The main, pale grey, background piece used here is an ancient piece of paper from my stash and the green heart I used was from a kit I bought from Mind The Scrap last summer.

The rest of the papers are from of one of my favourite collections from Kaisercraft called Mint Wishes. I originally had this collection sent to me when I was on the Design Team for Merly Impressions and it soon became one of my favourite ever collections. There are still some remnants of the kit available from them and some on Charmed Cards and Crafts I believe.

To start with I drew a large freehand heart on the green paper and cut it out using good old fashioned scissors, (you don’t always need fancy tools). Then once I was happy with the positioning I started cutting lots of little banners of varying lengths to create the left hand side of the heart. I always find that using wet glue is preferable in these situations to give you a degree of move-ability when you are figuring out where to place your pieces.

Once I was happy I mounted the photo on more neutral papers from the collection and raised it on foam pads for dimension. I then fussy cut the flowers and arranged them to form clusters. I then added more embellishments and I was done. I confess this was inspired by a layout I saw on Pinterest  but I do hope this has given you more ideas to create a layout using no cardstock and how to use up those neutrals you find in most collections.








One of my friends commented that maybe the layouts may be too flimsy but that has not been my experience at all. The weight of the paper these days is generally very good and with the layering it gives it stability. Once it is in the page protector it will be fine.. trust me! 


anyway.. I do hope you have enjoyed your visit. do remember to come back too though! 

Let It Snow | Karen Moss| Take 5

Hello, hello - Karen here with my version of this months prompt which is 'Take 5'.  I have to admit I was a little confused as to exactly what was required for this one but decided to take the approach of using 5 items and a piece of white card - not sure if that constituted 6 things :0)

I used some 6 x 6 papers with coordinating washi tape, pearls and tags (all from £land) and some mini doilies from Stampin Up.

For my title I cut the title from the front of the paper pack.

You can watch my process video for this page here.

Hope you pop back here soon or check out out Facebook Page to see what the other DT members have made.

Karen xxx

Magic | ScrappyNerdUK (Claire) | 6x6 Paper Pads

Hiya Friends,

This months theme was always going to be one of my favourites. I love working with 6x6 paper pads and find them so versatile. However, I know many people really struggle with using them. I'm hoping you have found lots of inspiration so far this month to get those paper pads put to good use...The ladies on the team have created some fabulous layouts this month!!

So I started with my photo and decided on a Disney one (because I love scrapping my Disney memories!!).

I used a white cardstock background as I really wanted the 6x6 papers to pop and using white will certainly help that.

I used a piece of A4 white cardstock and traced around a plate and sectioned this circle into 8. All of the sections were then cut out and were used as templates for my patterned paper from the 6x6 pad.

I arranged these circle pieces back together on my 12x12 white background and used double sided adhesive runner to glue them down. From the off cuts of the 6x6 papers, I used each of these as layers behind my photo - what a great way to use up 4 sheets of paper with very little waste!

So next came the embellishing. I went through my Disney stash and added on a whole load of stickers into 3 sections of the circle. I used a die cut word "Magic" as my title and added in pops of gold foil in the 3 embellished areas. I used a mixture of stickers, ephemera, chipboard and even used a heart paper clip that can be seen in the photo to the right.

There is something magical and tingly about scrapping Disney memories.


And here is the finished layout. I love how this turned out. I'm sure I say that every time but I really do. I hope that this has bought you some inspiration for diving into those 6x6 paper pads. They need some love and this is a great way to get them used.

If you want to watch the process video for this then you're in luck - you'll find it over on Youtube by using the following link - https://youtu.be/LsMnhidslHc

Waste Not.... | 6x6 Paper | RamblingsofGeo

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.


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Good Times | Giselle Homer | 6 x 6 paper

Hi again everyone,

Today I'm sharing my version of a layout designed using 6" x 6" patterned paper. If you're like me, you'll have lots of these in your stash, so hopefully this month's theme will encourage you to use them!





Using Cocoa Vanilla's collection 'Boys Rule', I started by placing the 6" square in the centre of my background cardstock but it looked a bit small so I added the green border. I had this fun montage of selfies taken by my Grandson which I backed with two different papers and I added a clear sticker to it as well. I placed this over the square slightly beneath the lower edge. As the page still looked a bit empty I cut a frame measuring 0.5" wide and placed it over the background. I found some wild flower cut files in my Silhouette library, design number 79681, by Nic Squirrel - who's my favourite British cut file designer - to add to the right of the photo.





The title is from Bramble Fox who make lovely perspex word and phrases like this one.





I added more embellishments, word stickers and a flair from the 'Boys Rule' collection on either side of the photo and at the top left. A few enamel dots finished it off nicely!





I look forward to seeing your layouts on UKSA's Facebook page and hope this has inspired you to dig out all those 6" x 6" paper pads.

Till next month, happy scrapping!

Forest of Dean / Lou Thompson / 6x6 Pads

Hello everyone and welcome to a new challenge from UK Scrap Addicts. This month is all about using our 6x6 papers. 

This challenge presented a great way to use up some of my left over 6x6 pages. I pulled out what I had and noticed I had a lot of metallics and 
autumnal colours so I decided upon an autum theme. It was then that I remembered this beautiful paper I had been hoarding from Bo Bunny 
with a wonderful tree on it. I also remembered that I had a photo of my partner on a trip we made in a wax coat thats' colour suited this paper
so well.

I began my layout with some simple ink spray using the gorgeous Shimmerz spray and by stenciling some Oxide inks on top. From there it was lots of stripes, squares and punched tags from the 6x6 pads and some ephemera layered up with lots of embellisments, chipbaords and stickers.

Here are some close up  shots for you. To watch the process video visit:

https://youtu.be/NcV5oRXY4xo

Lots of old stash was used, but newer items are available from:

https://www.thompsonscraftsupplies.com/