'You & Me' - a step by step layout by Ingeborg Dijkstra

Here is a list of materials that I have used for this layout:

• Pink background paper (Green at Heart collection, Basic Grey)
• Patterned paper (Green at Heart collection, Basic Grey)
• Coloured Chipboard Stickers (Green at Heart collection, Basic Grey)
• Felt Shapes ' Woolies' (Green at Heart collection, Basic Grey)
• Die Cut shapes 'Pieces' (Green at Heart collection, Basic Grey)
• Micro Mono Alphabet Stickers (Green at Heart, Basic Grey)

Mother's Day is just around the corner and we normally do a 'Mother's Day Photo Shoot'. I encourage you to do the same! Obviously most of us take pictures regularly, but if you take pictures around the same time every year, it is fun to watch how the kids have grown (and yes, how much 'older' we mums are too) ... Anyway ... these photos were made by our son Tom (10 years old) of our daughter Emma and myself.

The new Basic Grey collection 'Green at Heart' fits perfectly if you look at the pink and green colours of the photo. I wanted to create a layout with quite a few photos, since there were so many nice pictures to choose from and I wanted to use more than one!

I started with the pink paper as my base colour. My daughter and I were both wearing pink (we both just love pink) and therefore I just had to use the gorgeous pink paper to match our clothes. I added a large strip of the patterned paper at the bottom of the page.

I added some more colour by using another sheet of patterned paper. I used a border punch to create a fun border at the bottom of this piece of paper. Click HERE to see some of the border punches that Tanyah has in her shop.

I cut my four photos to the same size, because I didn't want to make the layout too busy. I put them in a rectangle shape with a 'gap' in the middle. I already knew which of the cute embellishments I wanted to use and wanted to leave some space for those ...

Using the cute new mono stickers I stuck my title on one of the die cut shapes. I used another die cut shape for my journaling. I added some stickers, a chipboard sticker and a cute felt flower and done!

By the way .... I made this layout at night as you can see from the 'yellowy glow' at the photos above. I took a photo of my finished layout during the day and you can see quite a change in the colours. The colours are more like the colours on the picture below ...

SIA 2010= Wow what FUN I had!...

Hello everyone…

Warning.... long post ahead....lol!...

Today I am back to reality and went to enjoy my little shop and catch up on things i hadn't done for 3 days...lol Thanks so much shazz for helping and looking after my store while I was away. Your a gem and love ya dearly.

SIA was amazing and well worth going. SO many companies to check out, ones I hadn’t heard of and so much more! They all had cool stuff and I WANT IT ALL....lol!

Working for Bella was amazing and can’t thank them enough for having me there to enjoy this experience. The booth was very neat and lovely presented and their new ranges are YUMO!  We have 2 Ruby rock-it colelctions Summer house collection ( my favourite...hehe) and the Upstairs and downstairs collection. Their is  also  a sneek peek of what is coming in July for Bella.

And guess what... for those who want that scrap it DVD, You will have it very soon for purchase. Please email me if you want me to hold you one. I will have all these  up for pre-order very soon.

The make and takes went well and my class went ok too! I would like to thank my class helper Kylie Broadbent, man alive was she adorable, amazing and wonderful, with providing me coffee, a massage and so so helpful I can't thankyou enough. xoxoxoxo

Those who would like a class on how to use the score pal and are local please email me to book.

The other wholesalers were amazing... The collections Rubber Stamps booth was just opposite the bella Booth and man I adored everything in their... so may treasures and gorgeous little things I just have to have...lol!

 The Green Tara store was great to see, although i am totally addicted to this store and not very hard to love it lots....lol! Their were quite a few chipboard companies this year and they all looked amazing and their ranges were all quite different.

It was really lovely meeting Su Ping and K Ka from Kay's Company from New Zealand. Your truely wonderful people and was a pleasure to be able to meet you both. This layout was taken in the Bella Booth which is really cool!

One store that I was blown away with what they had coming soon was from 'darkroom door' by Rachel Greig... oh my... this is totally cool and yep we are getting it in for sure! no question about it...lol!

I was able to complete 2 classes myself

One was with the amazing Wendy Senger  who owns and created glimmer mist and was I wowed by all of the techniques and was cool to find out what I was doing wrong and why it wasn’t working for me. BUT I AM ADDICTED NOW!... thanks heaps Wendy for signing my book. Your class blew me away and I am sure going to get that glimmer mist in my store asap!...

If anyone wants to do a class using this amazing stuff please email me!..

The other Class was with Janine and she was amazing and I loved using the paintables and who doesn’t love using PRIMA products…lol! I loved my finished layout and had a tone of fun. You should have seen the make and takes everyone one did from PRIMA, oh my where they just divine!. mine is quite ordinary for I had to rush to get it done before i did my class for their was no way i was missing out on this make and take!...lol

Another amazing part of SIA was meeting SO many facebook friends that I have spoken to or have done Guest DT’s or have done my challenges and competitions. It truly was wonderful meeting you all, their are so so many of you and lots i didn't get a pic of and wished I had or the pic wasn't that great so I thought it best not to post up.

Me and Jane Clark...

Here is the gorgeous Lisa Warren... man alive I LOVE YOUR WORK... it is amazing and your one tallented, clever lady.

Oh and this amazing girl below saved me from starving and gave me a meal ticket...lol, yep i lost mine and gave me one of hers,...isn't she adorable!...

One very special girl Linda Baldock gave me on the second day a neck lace she had created from Scrapware. Lisa is on their Design Team and wow does she do incredible work. The butterfly was decorated with embossing, pearl mediums and fantasy film and alcohol inks. Doesn’t it look fantastic and I am so blown away you wanted to give this to me Linda and will cherish this forever.

Tuesday night we did a 3 min challenge. Those who know me know that just isn’t me and the thought of me doing it you would giggle…well guess what I did and how satisfying it was to know you can achieve so much in such a sort time.

We also had a sketch to do with a kit that was given to us and that was another challenge…lol! I will add a pic of my 3 min challenge and my sketch challenge later if you like...lol!

It was also wonderful to see my besties ( sarah rickard's) layout  and my layout on the Scrapbooking Memories Magazine wall. Also to see my layout and card on the Scrapbooking Creations magazine wall as well...

Thankyou to all those who organised this advent you all did an amazing job and I had a wonderful time!
 I probably forgotten to type in so so much, please forgive me if i have but it was totaly a fun 3 days...

thanks for reading
luv tanXx

Masking techniques - Nicky Amber

Today I am running through some masking techniques you can use on your cards and layouts.  Masking is basically protecting an area from change.

Here's an easy step-by-step card using masking techniques:

Firstly, I have a placed some alphas over the top of the card.

Then I painted over the top using a stippling motion.

This is the result when you lift off the alphas.  The area under the alphas were masked off from the paint.

I then outlined a bit with a journalling pen and punched out some butterflies. I placed the butterflies on the card and painted over them also.

To add some added dimension, I laid some plasterer's tape over the butterfly masks and brushed over with a different coloured paint.

To produce this effect...

The finished card.

 Here I have used a freehand cut out circle to create a do-it-yourself journalling spot.  I just placed it on the paper.

Inked and stamped over it

Then lifted off the circle, added some lines with a journalling pen to reveal the finished journalling spot.

Tanyah showed us recently the Maya Resist.  I am loving this stuff!  The tip is quite fine so you can write with it and do some intricate drawing.  Here's some more playing...

 I drew some stars onto a piece of card.

When dried, I painted over the top and peeled off the Maya Resist.

Here I stamped an image then used the Maya Resist to mask off inside, inked over the top then peeled off.

You can use just about anything as a mask:

• punched shapes (also the negative space from punched shapes)
• cut out images from a magazine
• alphas 
• Masking fluid (eg Maya Resist)
• plasterers tape or magic mesh
• stencils / plastic templates
• lace
• and more...

Hope you have fun experimenting with masking.  Remember to share with us in the gallery.

nic...xxxooo

Using up your stash with tips & Techniques - By Alison Callcott

Today Alison Callcott has designed a beautiful layout of a forum friend and using up her stash. Alz has included some tips and techniques that she used on this layout..

Perfect Moment
*   Crate Paper Blue Hill Collection
*   Fancy Pants DTC Creative Cards Notecard Journaling Prompts
*   ScrapFX Wordlets – Moments
*   Collections Elements B&W Letter Tiles - Medium
*   Green Tara flowers
*   Prima Got Daisies flowers 
*   Prima Artful Collage flowers 
*   Prima Voila die cut art strips (white)
*   Prima Say It In Studs
*   Kaiser Pearls – Bliss and Champagne
*   Making Memories metal brads
*   FolkArt Papier Glass Finish – 1764 Antique
*   Inkssentials Glossy Accents



Tips/Techniques
*   If the colours or papers you want to work with for a particular photo don’t actually match your photo, print it in black or white or sepia.  Printing this photo in sepia enabled me to scrap it with lovely, warm, coppery tones.

*   Applying Glossy Accents (or Dimensional Magic) to raw chipboard helps to draw attention to the chipboard without it overpowering the LO.

*   Lightly sanding the edges of your patterned papers and photo can give your LO a lovely rustic look.

*   Don’t forget your bling!  The tiniest bits of bling can turn something ‘okay’ into something really special.

*   When working with Prima bling swirls (in this case the copper studs) don’t forget that you can alter the shape of the swirl by gently manipulating the swirl or by cutting it where needed.

  


Thankyou Alz for this gorgeous layout and tips and techniques.


hope your all have a wonderful day
thanks for stopping by
luv TanXx

May Digital Freebie - Doodled Flourishes

This month I have had heaps of fun doing a few doodled flourishes for you. All four are hand-drawn by me and popped into ready-to-use PNG files, all you have to do is open the file up and add some hand-drawn detail to your digital LOs!


You can pick them up from HERE.

If you do get a chance to use them, leave us a comment or head on over to the GALLERY and share your work with us! It always gives me a buzz to see how people have used my designs!

Kylie

THE THOUGHT BEHIND THE PROCESS

Hi everyone

Another year has passed and Mothers' Day is almost upon us. Its time to celebrate - to thank our mums for the wonderful work that they do to help guide us to be the best we can and to reap the rewards of being the best mothers' that we can be.

This layout i am sharing with you today is a little something that I created a while ago. My husband took the picture of my son and I ... and i love how it shows how special he is to me.... it captures the wonder of having that little one and believing in yourself that you can deliver to all their needs.

'Always count on mums love' - thats what i needed this little one to know, and i know even though he has grown to a staggering 10 years old - i know he still relies on me and my love every single day.

With this layout I stamped out a lot of hearts - i used a hero arts stamp- they were stamped in hues of brown, green and blue. I had some Wild Asparagus cardstock in those colors that i layered on the page and then I added my photo. I then layered the stamped hearts as a strip border and then stitched over the top of them. 

The title was added and a few flowers... cause i am a girl- i felt i needed those .... and that was the layout... i am sure (and hoping) that he will understand from the picture and the title what this layout was all about - that is why i did not add journalling to this page... he is a very profound little boy, whom i love with all my heart. 

As you can see i have used browns, greens and blues... i wanted to use these colors as he was a little boy but i still wanted to keep it a tad feminine by adding lots of hearts and some flowers

I hope you have a fabulous week and have a fantastic weekend of celebrations planned for your mum or yourself.........it is a gift to be alive... and an even greater gift to be loved and show love.

Our FREE Friday Night Fun... our first and many more to come!

At Scrap N Craft with T we now have FREE Friday FUN nights where you can come and crop and use our tools and enjoy good company. If you do other crafts other than scrapbooking we welcome you to come too. Its all about sharing our crafts and learning new things.

We are open every friday from 10am - 1pm ...... 1.30 - 9.30pm.... for local peoples

convenience to pop in after work, have a coffee and say hi

This friday night was SO MUCH FUN! thankyou ladies who came and shared so many things together.
This week  Nicky Amber used some maya Resist and to have a play with and she shared with us this amazing medium. It will blow you away how cool it really is and its possiblities to do lots and lots of different things.

This medium has a very small and fine nosel so your able to do acheive very fine work.

this is how it works...

1. draw an image

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2.leave to dry (drys tacky)
3. Ink over the top... we have used distressed inks here... 

4. rub the tacky glue off

5.and you have a fab result.




















Than we used alcohol inks on acetate instead of the distressed inks... WOW is this cool or what!..

Next week if you are local and want to come and share something with us, have a coffee and some fun!...We would love to meet you.
phone us on 0458217911 if you would like more info...

Thanks for looking and nic for these wonderful samples
luv tanXx

SIA (Scrapbooking Industry Australia).....What an exciting experience!....

I hear a lot of my customers asking what is SIA? ... well this is a trade only advent for Scrapbooking shops to see the latest products, be inspired and meet really amazing tallented people. It is held in Sydney  the 4th - 5th of May 2010.

How can you be so excited about something and be sooo nervious at the same time?....lol!

Well ... It will be my first time in a plane on my own .... hopefully no one will notice a country girl coming to the city...lol!... and the exciting  part is this year is an extra special year for myself for I am teaching for BELLA! at this amazing event. I am over the moon about it and very excited and hope those doing my class will love it! I will showing how to using the Score Pal in many different ways. You will be distress, embossing, iris folding, making cool pockets, Pop up page and MORE!... sounds interesting?????

I have been introduced on the SIA blog and check it out here!... SIA BLOG... what if?

It will be wonderful to meet suppliers who I have spocken to several times and now be able to put a face to the names. Also hope to meet a lot of very tallented people who I have seen in the mags and followed their blogs for a while now.

My Shop online ordering will be still avaliable for you to purchase your goodies. Orders won't be packed until Thursday 6th of May. I will have shazz working for me at the shop tuesday / wednesday if your local and want to pop in and check us out. Wednesday Nic Amber is doing a mothers day class you may not want to miss out on! it is divine!.. Class Cost is $15.

enjoy and have a wonderful weekend everyone
luv tanXx

Saturday Scrapping Stimulus...

I'm sorry to any people who have missed this post over the last few weeks. Here at Casa Yillup we have had a rather bad virus go through that has led to me being rather unwell! I'm back now though...

I haven't had much of a chnce to do a lot of scrapping, so I think I'm embracing the minimalist look even more lately! Keeping that in mind I have a lovely quote that really emphasises the importance of keeping things simple...

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"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Remember this, and maybe try creating a LO or work of art where simplicity is the key, rather than lots of "stuff"...

If you can't handle the minimalist style, feel free of course to do a bit of retail therapy in the SHOP to satisfy that excessive creative compulsion! LOLOLOL

Kylie