Cherish Forever

Hello, I am here once again to share with you a LO I have created for this months mood board challenge for Maja Design. Here where I live it is Autum and the days are starting to get colder and shorter. The beautiful mood board with all of its bright colours and flowers, lifted my spirits and had me dreaming of the day when Spring would be here again. Here is the gorgeous mood board for this month.  Head on over to Maja design blog and have a look at all the wonderful creations by their Design Team. http://majadesign.nu/blog/

For my LO I have chosen to use another photo that was taken at my eldest son's wedding. The photo is of my parents and myself. I absolutely adore this picture of us. I actually have it enlarged and framed on my lounge room wall. It certainly is one that I will cherish forever. The photo was taken on a glorious spring day, in the beautiful surrounds of nature at the river where I live. The colours my parents were wearing to me captured the mood board although the colour of my mothers top is a pretty lilac and black colour, but it doesn't seem to show up here in the pictures of my LO. Here is my take on it.

I decided to use papers from two different collections for this LO. They are Coffee in the Arbour collection papers and Enjoying Outdoors collection. Maja design papers are just so beautiful to work with. I did some stamping using a Gabrielle Pollacco stamp, added some prills in I cannot tell a lilac to my flower chipboard piece and the other chipboard pieces were coloured using inks in dusty concord and bundled sage. I also used shimmerz creameez purple rain to colour the little flowers on the chipboard. The flowers I used were from different collections that I had in my stash. I love doing these challenges as it gives me reason to raid my stash and use up stuff that I have been hoarding for years. Here are a few close ups.

Until next time, happy scrapping.

Hugs Leanne x

Just Be You

Hello, I am here with you again today to share with you my LO for the beautiful March Mood Board challenge for Maja Design. http://majadesign.nu/blog/ Take a look at this months mood board isn't it just simply divine.

For my LO I have chosen to use a photo of myself which was taken a couple of years ago at my eldest sons wedding. Boy what a huge day that was. I had, had, a huge week leading up to the special event. Picking up my other sons  best man suit, my daughters bridesmaid dress, studying for my university exams, attending my second sons football grand final, celebrating my parents 50th wedding anniversary and only just finding a dress for myself to wear two days prior. My son who had not lived with me for many years decided to stay the night before.That turned into a very late night filled with laughter and frivolity. Pay back the next morning when I woke them all very early to eat there big cooked breakfast, before I raced off to the hairdressers. On the big day I was feeling very emotional and stressed, but the weather on the special day was perfect given it was middle of spring and where I live anything is possible. I was inspired by the beautiful colours, and the words of the mood board. Hope you enjoy my take on it.

For my LO I chose to use papers from the new celebration collection. Oh my I dont know about you but I love these papers. The whole collection is just beautiful. I actually used five different papers to create this LO and two from the monochromes celebration collection to match. I did some stenciling using texturez in spun sugar, I then added some flowers by 49 and market and to finish off I added some dusty attic chippies. Here are a few close ups.

Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x

All Smiles

Hello, I am here with you today to present to you my LO for this months mood board for Dusty Attic. Oh my gosh, the colour palette for this months mood board is just divine, so very pretty. The softness of the colours and all the beautiful flowers had me thinking of my daughter a few years back dressed in her fairy dress for her 5th birthday party which was held at a fairy shop. She is now nearly 15 and not very much a pink girl at all. The softness of the different tones of pinks in her dress along with the lemon and greens, had me thinking I wanted to create a LO depicting a fairy garden. Here is the gorgeous mood board for you.

 Here is my take on this beautiful mood board.

I started my LO by choosing a beautiful paper called looking through the vines. I then chose to use the DA chippie corner flourish to decorate two corners of my paper. These were first painted with DA acrylic paint in forest. I then embossed them with a lighter green embossing powder, then randomly rubbed with the forest acrylic paint and prima wax lucky emerald. This gave the vines a textured look. The flowers on the vine were treated the same way being painted first with dusty pink, then embossed with raspberry lemonade embossing powder, then lighty rubbed with dusty pink acrylic paint. The Elegant swirls were simply dressed with liquid pearls Blush. My title "All Smiles" was gessoed then wiped over with nuvo mousse Lemon sorbet, then sprinkled with sparkling dust (my take on fairy dust). What fairy garden isnt complete without the addition of fairy dust right............

A few close ups for you

 

 

 

 

 Dusty Attic products used:

DA Chippies:

Elegant Swirls #13

Corner Flourish #3

Mini Captions #9

DA Sparkling Dust

DA Acrylic Paints  

Forest

  Dusty Pink

Until next time, happy scrapping.

Hugs Leanne x

Treasure the little moments

Hello and once again welcome to my blog. I am here today to present my take on this months Dusty Attic mood board and challenge.

When I first saw this month's Mood Board, I was inspired straight away with the gorgeous colour palette. The tools, muddy boots, timber, the beautiful denim blues and the rusticness of it had me thinking of little boys wearing blue, riding their bikes and getting their trousers caught in their chains and cogs.  My son's would often raid my dad's tool shed, in search of rusty nails, screws and bits of timber to hammer their nails into and of course this would always take place in the dirt.
The photo I have used, is of my youngest son, my little buddy taken a few years back on his 4th birthday. He is now 16 years old, 6 foot 4inches tall, but still very much my little buddy.

I had so much fun creating this LO. Acrylic paints, rusting powder, rust paste, inks, waxes and embossing powder were all used on the Dusty Attic chippies to alter them and to create different textures. I fussy cut some bricks out of paper to create a brick wall behind my photo, as seen in my picture behind my son, is a brick path and wall. I used the DA filmstrip small chippie to poke out from behind my photo to hopefully give the look of a ladder, as we all know little boys love to climb. I also added a little ruler I made, using cardboard, texture paste and a stencil, to go along with the nuts, bolts and screw chippies I used. To finish off my project, I used denim acrylic paint to create some splatters.

Here are a few close ups of my LO and different textures.

Dusty Attic products used:

DA Chippies:

 Chains

Zippers 

 Cogs #1

Mini Cogs

 Jumbo Cogs

 Nuts & Bolts

  Treasure the little

 Industrial Scrolls

 Filmstrips small

DA Texture Paste

DA Rusting Powder

DA Acrylic Paints

Raisin

Denim

Gingernut

Hot chocolate

 Sunburnt orange

Until next time, happy scrapping.
Hugs Leanne x

Pretty Girl - Leanne Smith

Hello and welcome to my blog. I am very excited to present to you my very first blog post, as I decided to enter my very first scrapbooking challenge. As I am a huge fan of DA chippies and products. I decided to enter their Dusty Attic January challenge. This was a huge challenge for me, as I hardly had anything that was gold in my stash. I used the main colours of the mood board, but I was also inspired by the beautiful teal colour that was ever so subtly present.

 The picture that I have chosen, is a picture of my daughter taken a couple of years back, going to her grade six leaver's dinner. She is wearing a very pretty teal coloured dress, with the sun shining on her hair, reflecting her natural gold highlights and is holding onto a delicate white rose. I thought this was a very appropriate photo to use. I actually coloured the DA frame trying to capture the darkness and lightness of her hair.

Firstly I did some stenciling using a DA stencil Damask #2 with DA texture paste. I then randomly stamped with a 49 market stamp, using brilliance galaxy gold. The DA chippies used were, Vintage frame #4, Marrakesh trellis small and Mini tabs #3 black. These were dressed with distress ink walnut stain, metallic wax bronze age, nuvo mousse indian gold, liquid pearls gold pearl, gesso and DA dress my craft sparkling dust. Oh how I just love sparkling dust, gives such a pretty finish. The beautiful flowers used are 49 and market. A close up of the chippies used.

Below is a close up of the waxes used on the chippie frame.

 Above is a close up of the sparkling dust used on the title pretty girl. The photo does not show the prettiness and sparkle that the sparkling dust gives to the title.


  Until next time, happy scrapping.
 Hugs Leanne x