My Mind's Eye - Sleigh Bells Ring - Branches Christmas Card

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I have an obsession with owls... so as soon as I saw these Branches from My Mind's Eye - Sleigh Bells Ring paper range - I knew I needed to have an owl sitting in them!

My Mind's Eye - Sleigh Bells Ring - Reindeer - Card in a Box...

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Today I have used some gorgeous paper from My Mind's Eye - Sleigh Bell's Ring - Reindeer...
Teamed up with some fabulous chipboard from Dusty Attic - I have created a Card in a Box.

Fit For a Princess!

Hi everyone, it's Sue Plumb here with you today sharing my latest creation.

I recently found this gorgeous photo of my daughter and her best friend that was begging to be scrapped, and I knew I needed some beautiful soft, feminine papers to do the job. And who does those papers better than anyone? Prima of course! So I rifled through my stash and found some papers from the Prima Princess collection, which were perfect for creating this project...

Fancy Pants - Be Different - Door Sign

Hi all!

Sue here today sharing something a little "different" I created recently using the 'Fancy Pants - Be Different' range. This creation was inspired by the July challenge at Off the Rails Scrapbooking challenge blog. It's not often I go "off the page", but the gorgeous little monsters on the 'Be Different - Monsters' paper were just BEGGING to be fussy cut, so I decided to create a sign for my twin boys' bedroom door.

{Believe it or not, this sign was actually created from the side of an old cardboard box!}

Here's how I created the background...

My "custom mist" was created using several drops of Donna Salazar Mix'd Media Inx Refill (mine was Verdigris), combined with water in a Ranger Inkssentials Mini Mister. (I love that I can create my own mists like this!)

Once the background was dry, it was simply a case of embellishing it. The words were all cut from the 'Be Different - Oh Boy' paper, whilst the monster characters were cut from the 'Be Different - Monsters' paper. There are also a couple of pieces from the 'Be Different - Ephemera Pack'. (I loooove this pack of embellishments, there are so many cool ones!) I mounted lots of my elements using foam tape to add dimension.

To add to the sense of fun, I also created a couple of little flags from paper offcuts and toothpicks, and used Dusty Attic - Barbed Wire chipboard, which was lightly coloured with Tim Holtz Distress Ink (Festive Berries). The border around the sign was simply washi tape folded over the edges.

I hope I have shown you how fun & easy it can be to create your own decorative items and that you might now be inspired to create your own. If you do, be sure to share it with us on our Facebook page HERE

 

Til next time, happy scrapping!

 

Cheers,

Sue P

Castle Dreams

Once upon a dream....

Hello, one of my dreams has always been to take my children to Disneyland...  This year we were so excited to be able to do so!!   See, Dreams do come true!!

Alice's Wardrobe....

Hi there,

Tea Party, Rabbit Hole, Wonderland, Alice....  Visions of a White Rabbit in a hurry, Alice reading, Alice shrinking and growing, Mad Hatters having a tea party.... Yes, I am talking about that Alice - Alice in Wonderland.

Have you seen any of the gorgeous Marion Smith Designs papers?  I was inspired for this project by one of the papers in the 6x6 Mad Tea Party range.

Isn't she gorgeous?  Do you remember the dress up paper doll cut-outs from when you were a child? I do! How much fun were they??

 

My next thought was that Alice needed a wardrobe and what could be better than one of Graphic 45s ATC Book Boxes? Perfect size!  So from being inspired by paper cut-outs and a Book Box 'wardrobe' this is what I created... 

Front View.

Prima Princess & Donna Salazar Inx!

Hi everyone, Sue here today to share a layout I created using the recently released “Princess” collection from Prima Marketing. This collection is based around a beautiful soft colour palette, sweet images, and is just so deliciously gorgeous & feminine.

Here is my layout...

To create this layout I started with a sheet of Prima -Princess 'Ava' for my background. I trimmed it down to 11x11” and distressed the edges. I then swiped some gesso over the area I was planning to place my photo & embellishments and applied some texture paste using a mask. Once dry, I added colour.

To achieve this look, I started by making my own colour mist using the Donna Salazar Mix’d Media Inx - Refill – Adobe and a Ranger Inkssentials Mini Mister. I filled the mister with water, added about 8 drops of the ink and shook to combine. (I was able to use water as a base for my spray as these are pigment inks that are water soluble. How many drops you add will depend on how rich you want the colour.) I then spritzed it onto my background, along with some glimmer mist in a slightly different shade to add depth.

After the colour was dry, I mounted my background sheet on some cardstock, added extra paper layers & some gauze under my photo and then embellished my layout.

The flowers I used included Prima Princess – Fairytale Flowers and Kaisercraft Paper Blooms in Honey, Sage and Olive. (The tiny white flowers were from my own stash.)

I also used some of the Prima Mixed Media Doll Metal Embellishments and chipboard from Dusty Attic. The mini vines were painted with the Donna Salazar Inx, whilst the Love You Arrow was first primed with gesso, then sprayed using the ink spray I made earlier.

If you are a fan of gorgeous & girly then I highly recommend you check out the Prima Marketing Princess Collection, or you could try making your own colour sprays. You will find the Inkssentials Mini Misters in store HERE and a huge range of inks available HERE. (I used the Donna Salazar Mix’d MediaInx Refill, but the Ranger Distress Re-inkers would work well too.)

Until next time, happy scrapping!

Cheers,
Sue P

Dusty Attic Mini Tool Caddy

Hello

Back again with another Dusty Attic Off the Page Project to show you - this time I have made the Mini Tool Caddy....  Go and get a cuppa as I have a few photos to show you....