Creating your own pattern paper..........

Hi everyone!!

What a beautiful time of year this is....I love spring & all it brings!!

so......I thought I would go with the whole spring theme and show you how I like to create my own pattern paper!!

Materials:

Versamark ink pad

Clear stamps (Kaiser) are the ones I used

Light coloured card stock found here

Stamp sets are the best to use such as the Kaiser brand type I used as they are all coordinating.

This is really easy, quick & looks fantastic as the versamark leaves a watermark type effect on your card.

Choose the design you wish to achieve...load your stamps with versamark ......and stamp away ....its that easy........

Don't be too worried if you make a mistake because you can always stamp on a separate piece of card cut around the stamped image and paste it for a 3d layered effect!!...this can also be done in different coloured inks for a layered effect!!

Here is my sample

Once you have achieved the desired effect you just design your lo and here is my finished sample

There are no hard or fast rules with this technique you create your paper as you wish as much or as little as you like!!...hope some of you may wish to create your own pattern paper & I cant wait to see your own pp layouts in the gallery!!

Have fun & happy scrapping

Kylie x

Old Book Pages

Hi again, Anthea here.

This week I wanted to let you in on a great cheap item to add to your scrapbooking stashes! Old Book Pages.

I have seen the pages popping up in some girls works around the traps, and thought I would give it a try myself. I was walking past a second hand shop and spied some old books for 20c each! bargain, I hunted through for a book that was aged really well so I didn't have to work too had on distressing.

And then all you need to is treat it like patterned paper, here are a couple of examples of what I have completed

this layout here I used the papers in 2 places, first I distressed the edges a little more by tearing them, folding them and swiping them with Pine Cone ink, then attached them like I would with patterned paper behind my photos.

Then I used my Circle Punches and punched out some of the paper, stapled them together and started 'fringing' the circles, once fringed I scrunched them so it looked like a flower, swiped more pine cone ink on the edges and then attached them to my layout with a button in the center

On this layout here I again used the book page behind the photo and stapled a corner down
and using my punches again I punched out some more circles and attached them to the layout as an embellishment with some Kaiser Pearls (how good are they!!!)
And on this last layout I wanted to keep it simple so I cut out a thinner strip of the book paper (about an inch wide) inked the edges again using pine cone and tore a little of one side of the strip, then gathered it along one side of the strip and attached it together using a staple, this turned it into a flower, I know, flowers on a boys page, but truly it can work! especially in this instance as it isn't a uniformed flower shape.

So there you go, a very inexpensive way to add some interest to your layouts, the possibilities are endless!

Happy Creating!!!
Anthea

September Competition

Dont forget our next competition has already started, and as you can probably guess, its themed on Fathers Day.
Our DT have created some fantastic inspiration to help you with this competition...there are some conditions. The layout must have at least 75% of product from the Fancy Pants Papa or About A Boy ranges which is available in our shop, or it must be fully, that is 100% in only Blue and Brown combinations, using product of your choice. Our DT Samples can be found in the Gallery. To see Fancy Pants samples click here and to see samples using Blues and Browns click here.
Only one entry per person, and entries must be uploaded to the Gallery by 5pm on the 30th of September 2008. The Gallery will be opened for uploading on Friday 12th September 2008.
Good Luck! The winner will receive a $25 Scraploot Voucher. The winner will be selected by ..... no, not from our DT or by Sue and Craig, but it will be someones Father.

So girls, get scrapping and load them layouts up into the Gallery!!

Anthea

Using enlarged photos step by step

Hi everyone, One of my favourite techniques is to use an 8 by 12 photo on a layout which really emphasises the photo on the page. I was planning to use a different photo on a completely different theme for this step by step, but on a trip to the park today my son Addison learned to climb the ladder up the slippery dip for the very first time and I wanted to get this memory down asap and what better way to save this memory than with an enlarged photo.

1 Gather your 8 by 12 photo and papers. I have used creative imaginations animal paper monkin around here, and bazzil cardstock.

2 Trim your photo and papers to suit the layout, I often trim the photo width to emphasis the length.

3 Ink your paper and cardstock, this helps to blend the papers and cardstock and gives a great feel to the finished layout

4 Sand the edges of your photo if appropriate. I use a nail shaper available at chemists or cosmetic outlets.

5 Write your journaling, I have used a jenni-bowlin-journalling-card ( I have a small notebook that I write down little anecdotes, milestones or special moments that I also date so I don’t forget them).

6 Add your heading. I have chosen to use a combination heading of three different types of AC thickers poolside-cricket , roller-rink-white and rootbeer-float-brown.

7 Apply rub ons to your photo and paper, I have used scenic route playtime rub ons here. Note how I have applied three sets of the rubons in a triangle, this is known as a visual triangle which helps to lead the eye around the page.

My finished layout using the above techniques is shown below, I hope you find these tips and hints useful and I hope to see your layouts with 8 by 12 photos in the gallery soon.

Kim

Fathers Day Competition

Our next competition starts this Sunday, Father's Day, and as you can probably guess, its themed on Fathers Day.
Our DT have created some fantastic inspiration to help you with this competition...there are some conditions. The layout must have at least 75% of product from the Fancy Pants Papa or About A Boy ranges which is available in our shop, or it must be fully, that is 100% in only Blue and Brown combinations, using product of your choice. Our DT Samples can be found in the Gallery. To see Fancy Pants samples click here and to see samples using Blues and Browns click here.
Only one entry per person, and entries must be uploaded to the Gallery by 5pm on the 30th of September 2008. The Gallery will be opened for uploading on Friday 12th September 2008.
Good Luck! The winner will receive a $25 Scraploot Voucher. The winner will be selected by ..... no, not from our DT or by Sue and Craig, but it will be someones Father.

September Design Team Inspiration

This month the Design Team took inspiration from Fathers Day, we set 2 tasks, Fancy Pants boy ranges; About a Boy and Fancy Pants Papa, we also set the task of a classic colour combo, Blue and Brown, the girls were sent out papers from Kaiser and K and Co. I think that the Design Team did a wonderful job!

Anthea

Julie

Kim

Kylie

Sheree

Now keep on checking back, cause VERY soon we are going to announce our September Competition, and it may just have something to do with this months Design Team theme!!

Oh and don't forget to keep on checking out the shop, there is loads of new product being loaded up and loads more yet to come in!

Anthea