How to get all the scrap supplies you want! Do the Deal!

This is a page that I had been thinking about for a long time before I completed it. As harsh as it may seem, my husband loves it. We are both happy for the fact that we can agree to disagree and negotiate a budget that makes it equal for both of us.

Of course, it only really works as a deal if you a) have the budget and b) have a smoking, drinking partner!

Nevertheless, it goes to show how much you can save/spend if you did neither smoke or drink. Thankfully my husband is trying to quit smoking and I am much more in favour of having him around longer in my life than more scrapping supplies.

I used Learning Curve font for the title. Forever Young cartridge had the cute purse and my new i-rock tool came in handy to bling it up.

Bretts page used Old Paper and Frayed Burlap Distress Inks and my page used Worn Lipstick, Dusty Concord, Faded Jeans and Mustard Seed!

boys in boxes

Hi all! Hope you enjoyed the blog hop last week!!! Congratulations to the winners... You can find them on Scrappy-Go-Lucky's new look blog.

Here is a layout that was inspired from all the cool tricks I learnt at the last scrap retreats.

I wanted something a bit grungey and using lots of Tim Holtz stuff.  I hand drew the border (After seeing Emma Dunnes awesome layout at the retreat) and also drew on title letters to match border. (Pooh Font Cartridge - shadow feature)

Inked a bit of exposed cardboard to mount the title, distressed the edges just with a scissors blade, used embossed grungeboard for the tag and coloured in plain staples with permanent pens to get brown ones. (Thanks for the tip Amie!) PLus love using colour core paper lately for ripping and inking.

I even dug deep into my stash of what I call "old technology" (rub ons, stickers, etc) for a few layouts and embellishments... I love the way the cricut can match and individualise everything, I need to remember to try and use up all the rub ons, etc that I stashed away in my pre-Cricut days.

Day Four of Scrappy-Go-Lucky Blog Hop!

Welcome to Day 4 of the Scrappy Go Lucky Blog Hop..... Which of the four new cartridges do you want to win? Have you guessed the theme yet?

Have a look at my card, and the others from the last few days and if you think you know what the theme is, head back to Scrappy-Go-Lucky's original blog, post a comment, what you think the theme is and which cartridge you would love to own for your chance to win!!!


Here's my card!

The quote comes from my heart: I’m a mum to two boys with a rare genetic condition which results in a bit of chaos in my life that I can not control. I had to
learn how to find serenity within my busy days rather than trying to escape it!

I used double sided paper from Kaiser Crafts Ebony and Ivory collection and traced a shape. Double sided is a must because you end up seeing the other side. I used a heart post-it note as my template. It was the perfect size! I then cut out the heart from the inside using a pen knife, keeping about once centimetre within the line.

I cut small one centimetre strips up to the line of the heart that I traced. I also spaced my cuts about a centimetre apart. I then used a skewer to curl up the strips to the line of the traced heart. 

Place a photo or a quote underneath and it looks like it is is breaking through the cover paper. I then stuck this whole card, with fastened photo onto a black fold out card.

I used a variety of different strips of paper, diamond plate cuttlebug folder on silver paper and ribbon to splay little pieces of out from the heart shape. This was mainly to show that there is chaos (and boys!) around my serene heart. 

I used Cri-Kits Gel Pens to write the title and added a bit of bling.

Now for the inside of the card!

I found this heart on clip art and used 'trace image' function in SureCutsaLot. You have to play around with brightness, corners and despeckle functions until you get a suitable picture that will draw well. I used a silver Cri-Kits gel pen in my Cricut for this awesome effective heart.

It looks amazing. I love watching the Cri-Kits gel pens work their magic with my beloved Cricut. There is no way I could have achieved any of this with scissors and freehand pens!

Lastly I used a cut out heart shape as a template to ink a white one with Black Soot Distressing Ink. It gives the card owner a chance to write some sentiments.

I hope you liked my card! I enjoyed making it! Make sure you hop along to all the other blogs this week and try to guess our theme!!! I'll see you at Tereesa's Up Late 2 Create Blog tomorrow! Good luck!!!

  

HI ALL!!!!!

I'm so excited to be part of a blog hop from Scrappy-go-Lucky this week!!! AND you have a chance to win one of four awesome new cartridges!!!!! : Rock Princess, Winter Frolic, Country Life and Happy Hauntings!!!!

Each day over the next week one designer will show you their creation in detail.



Monday - Mandy - Scrappy-go-Lucky Blog


Tuesday - Jane - Scossie Jane


Wednesday - Diane - Capadia Designs


Thursday - Chloe - Chloe and her Clip on Koalas


Friday - Tereesa- Up late 2 Create


Saturday - Amanda - White Ruffles


Sunday - Tracey - Trace- Elementz


Monday Lisa and Tara - back here at Scrappy-Go-Lucky as they do not have blogs....yet :


Your job is to work out the theme. Add a comment to the related post on Scrappy-Go-Lucky telling us what you think the theme is, plus what your all time favourite cartridge is and why. 4 lucky winners will be drawn on Wednesday 18th August to receive one of the 4 cartridges.

Here is a sneak peek at mine...

Good Luck Everyone!!! Enjoy the blog hop!!

Sky Captains

I saw this font and gel pen accents in our local scrap shop and had to copy! Apparently the gel pen accents are a lesson you can learn from Creative Memories.  I'd always looked at Don Juan font but didn't like the way the lower and upper case are mixed but actually seeing it on a page I love it!!

Dean is playing Sky Captains with his best mate Mason.

Just one girly one...

Hi! I have organised my scrapping space, and even though this is a blog dedicated to boy pages, I thought I might put this one anyway to show my scrapping area.

It is only clean for about twenty minutes before the paper starts flying and little itty bits of scrap start falling everywhere so I took the opportunity to snap some shots.

I am so proud of my purchase of the cupboard from officeworks and I built the paper thing on the side myself and lifted the keyboard tray so I could slide my unfinished work on it.

The minute I saw that cupboard I know it would make an awesome scrap space.

The font for the title was Calligraphy but I turned the M backwards and squished it up a little. I used Fabulous Finds for the little heart charms... My Xyron ran out of sticker paper one day before this layout... I would have done anything to have a refill for my xyron to make all those hearts!!! It was fiddly!!! I used glossy accents instead. The stickles which link the photos to the main photo is Tiara. I absolutely love that colour!

Now two days later... I have to tidy it up again.

Little Yellow Bus

Dean just loves this bus. It has been on adventures everyday to farms, dinosaur parks, outerspace... you name it, the bus has been there.

I just had to do a page on it to remind him when he is older.

I used Colorcore paper for the blue edge and bazzills for the base. Locker Talk cartridge had the perfect bus shape in it and Everyday Paperdolls for the road. I thought I'd used weld on the Gypsy really well and it even changed colour to red to show welding but when it cut, it still cut mostly seperates. So overlapping them a little more would have been better.

Good Old Plantin Schoolbook for the flowers and the grass. That cartridge which I thought was rather boring at first look, just keeps giving more and more!

The title was cut in Cutting Up!

So cute, so effective, so cheap! Just a few bazzills, a few cuts and you're done! My kind of scrapping.

The first of many Lego Pages!

This page was such a fun page to make.  Even though the little blocks don't look like authentic lego bits, for the purpose of the page it works.  I used the Printing Blocks Cartridge for the block shapes and a single hole punch to make the little lego bumps.

I used cartoon bubbles and I always love using words that match the sounds in words they say. Dean always said 'ooo' for 'you' and couldn't get the 'r' sound very well at that stage. 

There'll be many more "rego" pages to come over the years... so at least this one gives me space to improve on! But I love it! 

Overalls!

I was so excited when I created this page in just over ten minutes. We scrap together as a group every Tuesday night and I remember putting this very simple layout together and celebrating how easy, cheap and awesome you can make a page! I just copied his shirt/overalls, added a couple of buckles and it was done.

Don't get me wrong, I also love pages that take a lot of time and effort but because my boys were never into overalls and this is about the only time Drew would wear them, it is a quick snap shot of his nickname, his clothes and his little chubby cute cheeks. And when I think about my purpose for scrapping, so that the boys and I can remember their full story... this will be just as effective way to tell it compared to perfect pages with lots of intricate detail.

Don't you just wanna squeeze those cutesy cheeks!

Gypsy Fun!!

This week I have been playing with a girlfriends Gypsy and I sorted out a little system while planning pages to maximise paper use. Especially for those pages which use similar colours. Elmo, superman and Toy playing pages always tend to have the same bright colours in the photos, so I pumped out the cutting of three layouts in the one sitting!  

When I was planning my pages, I opened up three layers for plans and then about eight layers for seperate colours. On each page, I used a boring font to label what the page was...

eg.

These were two of my plan pages.

Then as I planned an item and liked it, I would think about what colours I need them cut on and while I remembered sizing/shapes, I would duplicate that shape on the right colour layer.

eg. The above drum shape I wanted a mix of red and yellow, so I pasted them in both coloured layers...

I kept going with my planning and pasting until a lot of the 12 x 12 was used up in lots of different colours.

then when I got home I layed out three background colours, grabbed each of the colours I needed and spent only ten minutes loading and cutting! (Remember to take off the page colour label before cutting!)

Three layouts cut and done ready to be glued!  I know the gypsy page appears to look busy, but you can see everything clearly as the layer you are looking at is much bolder and it was such a time saving way of getting the job done!

My i rock page turned out a little different from the plan, but the same things needed cutting!

The bus page will be shown tomorrow... Its cricut mad!  :)