Make Your Fantasy Reality

Hi Everyone! Welcome to day three of the Card swap from Scrappy Go Lucky!  You can have a chance to win a Scrapcessories Cartridge Caddy with one cartridge insert today.  Just add a comment to my post and you can be in a random draw from Scrappy-Go-Lucky to win one!

These are ideal for storing your Cricut cartridges, in particular your solutions or seasonal cartridges which do not come with their own binder. Scrappy-Go-Lucky will post your prize anywhere in Australia. International blog hoppers are welcome to enter but will need to pay postage to their respective destinations. Return to Scrappy-Go-Lucky's blog each day and go to the next creators blog. One Scrapcessories cartridge caddy winner will be drawn for each days major posting. All winners will be drawn at random on Tuesday 2nd November.

I love the concept of this card. I am a goal driven person and love making my ideas into action. I have a page of 104 life goals of my dreams, goals and fantasies. Over the last ten years I have been making them happen. Last year I flew a plane! I would never have imagined that could happen in my life. But my point is simple. What ever you can dream up, you can make happen!

My card is made of black bling bazzills, I put a piece of black card through the Cuttlebug with the Swirls folder, I then traced glossy accents over the raised parts. This always looks great on black card.

I used a little bit of Stazeon ink around the black card, then drew Tinkerbell from Disney Tinkerbell and Friends Cartridge out in the filigree function with Silver Cri-kits pens and then the shadow function to cut her out. I embossed her detailed wings with Bridal embossing powder. I used Stickles to bling up her wand.

The title frame is cut from the Cindy Loo cartridge, it is the mushroom frame and layers. I used SCAL to write the words with silver Cri-Kits pens.

I then used an embossing texta and rainbow embossing powder to draw 'magic' coming from her wand. 

You can make ANYTHING happen!

Enjoy the Card Swap Blog Hop this week! Plenty more gorgeous cards to see and be inspired.

Chloe :)

 

Beautiful and Bold

Hi Everyone! I have been part of a fun card swap with the team from Scrappy-Go-Lucky and this is one of my favourite ever cards I have made!

I was given a theme, (Can you guess?) and went looking about on the internet for different pictures on that theme for inspiration.

I found this painting below by Fine Artist Elaina Wagner.

I am a huge fan of Glossy Accents and love using it excess lately to make things look glossy, especially embossed paper. I made a plain card out of black bazzills, cut three hair pieces and put them through the Cuttlebug with the Wood Grain folder. I gently inked Stazeon over the raised pieces and used Glossy Accents to higlight strands of hair. I added a rounded face in white card and inked it with Weathered Wood Distress ink to define cheeks. I made some lips in black card, used white gel pen to higlight it and put three layers of Glossy Accents to give it a real lip gloss and puffy lip look.

I drew the eyes and nose using black watercolour pencils and used a few layers of Glossy Accents and a rhinestone in the pupil to give it a glossy eye ball appearance. I also used Silver and Gunmetal Stickles to make eyelashes.

I made the mask from white bazzills and ran it through the Cuttlebug using the Swirls folder. I embossed the whole mask with Bridal embossing powder and Tiara Stickles to border it.

I used a piece of black and white ribbon as the mask holder and layered a flower using Sure Cuts a Lot and a two different flowers I found on clip art. I split them apart in SCAL before cutting. Here are the images you can save to your computer and use the Trace Image function to transport them into SCAL if you like it.

White glossy pen and more Glossy Accents finished the flower off very nicely.

I love the boldness of her face and seeing the ten cards together on my bookshelf was an awesome sight! Make sure you check out more cards this week on Scrappy-Go-Lucky! I have received some in the mail, they are so gorgeous! You are all in for a treat!

So... Just add a comment to my post and you can be in a random draw from Scrappy-Go-Lucky to win one Scrapcessories Cartridge Caddy with one cartridge insert today. These are ideal for storing your Cricut cartridges, in particular your solutions or seasonal cartridges which do not come with their own binder. Scrappy-Go-Lucky will post your prize anywhere in Australia. International blog hoppers are welcome to enter but will need to pay postage to their respective destinations.

All you need to do to enter is add a comment to the card creator's post.


One Scrapcessories cartridge caddy winner will be drawn for each days major posting.


All winners will be drawn at random on Tuesday 2nd November.

Tomorrow head back to Scrappy-go-Lucky and find the next great creation to see and leave a comment. One chance every day this week!


GOOD LUCK!

Chloe :)

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!