Katie - Gaming Kit - Birthday Layout

Hi There! Katie back again to share my last project using the fun January Gaming Kit. For this layout I decided to play around with the die-cut "Level Up" which I decided to use for a birthday page for my son.

I did some mixed media on my background and have a few step by steps for you too so you can see how it all came together, so let's get started!

Firstly here is the kit:

Now, let us look at the start of my background:

I started with a stencil, some distress oxide ink and a stencil brush. I am loving using the stencil brushes as you get a bit more control this way. I didn't have an exact plan in mind with my page design, so I started by randomly adding some pattern in a few places.

After adding some pattern I decided to add some stamping. I am loving this set, especially for boy pages, with so many circle designs in multiple sizes! I added some different styles of circles in a couple of colours.

And hey presto a background is born. The finishing touch was some light splatters using some watered down distress oxide in black soot and a small round brush. Now to actually put the page together!

I have used some of the patterned paper from the kit to create some background layers as well as stamping some labels and cutting these out. The doily was a great addition and played on the circles already seen in the stamping. Again I used the stickers like die cuts, but otherwise this was a relatively quick and simple page!

Thanks for stopping by,

Katie x

Katie - Gaming Kit - Having Fun with the kit

Hello, can you believe we are in a new year already?! I know I say it every year, but the days, months and years just keep rolling around way to quickly for my liking, but what can you do about it? Well I say take some time for you every now and then and create!

I am here today to share a page that I created using the awesome January Gaming kit:

This kit is perfect for all those gamer's in your life! I have four actually, my husband and my three kids (this includes two teenage girls!) so I have plenty of opportunity to use this kit. I decided to scrap a funny story of how our ginger cat Eddie loves to "help" my boy while he games.

I thought I would show you some step by step photos for how I created my background first and then show you the final page.

I started with a white cardstock background and added some watered down distress oxide ink in  spiced marmalade using the "plastic bag" or "kissing" technique. If you haven't heard about this technique is is really quite simple, add some ink from the ink pad to your plastic (either a piece of acetate or similar or a piece of plastic bag, each one give different control and results), add some water and mix the ink to create a water colour kind of puddle and then smoosh or touch this to your background, you can also hold it up and let it drip onto your background. Now let this dry before moving onto to some stenciling. I used some salty ocean distress oxide ink for this one and a foam brush applicator, just adding in bits of stenciling in a few places.

Looking good isn't it! Now for some black accents, I decided to go with some stamping using some archival ink (which is a great ink for using on mixed media backgrounds).

I went with two different stamp sets, one with some stitched style circles in different sizes and one with a hand drawn style chevron, which I repeated to create more of a border/row of chevrons.

And here is the final background:

Now we are ready to add the good stuff! Here is the final page:

I layered my photos on some of the patterned paper in the kit and placed them on the background while I decided what else to use. I created some tags with some of the other patterned papers and tucked them in behind the photos at the top and the bottom.

Along with the tags I mounted some of the stickers from the sticker sheet onto some card and cut them out with a white border, now they look a bit like die cuts and they are easier to move around while I decide where to put them! Add in the epoxy's here and there and the page is coming together!

 I used some stickers that I had in my collection for a title and some other interest, these also add some more black to help contrast the bright colours.

And to finish off I created another tag that I mounted my journaling on in strips (love this way of adding journaling!) and also included another epoxy and the cute little resin controller.

And that is my page done!

I hope you have some fun playing with this kit. See you next time.

Katie

Raelene - May Fundraising Kit - Strong Man

The wood veneer Strong in the May Fundraising Kit was just the prompt I needed to pull out the photos from this wonderful night and record this story.

The paper from the kit was the perfect mat for drawing the eye to E as he was wearing a blue shirt.
I built my layers with a strip of the zebra tissue paper from the kit and this cute doodle paper from a Kaisercraft #Me 6.5 x 6.5 paper pad.  I also grabbed 2 borders from this paper pad and a die cut arrow and circle.  And for my background I used a sheet of Echo Park Soccer Words Paper.

I partially matted my ticket on a scrap of black cardstock to help it pop and give some protection to the rest of the layout if the acid and lignin in the ticket become a issue at a later date.

I adhered the sweatband he wore as part of his costume down with some Helmar's 450 Quick Dry Adhesive on the back.


I divided the Beautiful die cut from the cut apart in the May Fundraising Kit into 3 pieces and tucked it behind various layers in the layout.  It added just the right amount of blue to the right hand side of the page and some cute dimension.

The arrow from the 6x6 paper pad was a great way to ground the wood veneer from the kit, I also pointed it towards my son in the photo to draw the eye to him.

I love how this layout turned out.  The orange and blue worked really well together.

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Sarah - April STEM/STEAM Kit - Art has....

Hello crafty friends, Sarah here with a layout for you using the amazing STEAM themed April kit. This 6X8 layout will go in to my 2018 memory planner album and was perfect for this month's theme.

STEAM refers to Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathmatics - all great for my two boys who are the focus of my scrapbooking. This particular day on the school holidays though, both boys wanted to get painty and so we did! I love this photo of my youngest son - I captured his gorgeous smile quite randomly, but it worked well for this layout.

I created the background of the layout using some gelli printed pieces of deli paper I had at home adhered to the cardstock with gel medium. A perfect 'arty' look for this layout. I added some background stamping in black ink and matted the photo on the star patterned paper that came in the kit. The cut aparts were added and host the quote from Sydney Curewitz Clemens - 'Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else'.

The April embellishment kit can be purchased online here. Let's remember what's in the kit.

This Kit is so versatile for many themes - those lego building pics, playdough, construction or even a steam train themes layout. The gorgeous world fabric badge could be used for a travel theme, and how about for the moon post its and cut aparts a 'love you to the moon and back' layout? Fantastic kit to use on a multitude of layouts. Here's a close up of my favorite wooden piece from Corbett Creations.

I hope you enjoyed this layout and will hurry to pick up your April kit if you haven't done so already! Until next time....

Raelene - April STEM/STEAM Kit - Connor

Raelene here with a layout recording my memories of some of Connor's love of all things STEM/STEAM using the April STEM/STEAM Kit.

I prepared for this layout by typing up the 3 memories I wanted to record and printing them and then sorting through my photos to find pictures of him around the ages that each memory is from.







I knew I wanted to have his name at the top and I wanted to use the awesome STEAM wood veneer from Corbett Creations but I didn't have any other plans for how this layout would come together, here is the Process Video so you can see how it all came together from a messy pile on my desk to being a layout I absolutely love.

I loved what Lisa did with the wood veneer so I had to do it on this layout, unfortunately I wouldn't realised until I was taking photos of the layout that my words are upside down, oh well adds to the quirk.

I just love how this cluster came together.
How cute is that wood veneer compass?

This Robot washi was just perfect to have near 4 year old Connor, cute little cartoon robots to enhance my memory of the first  time he said he wanted to be a  Robotic Engineer when he grows up.

I have absolutely loved this kit, I have loved creating it and recording memories with it.

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Lauren ~~ Double Page Layout ~~ S.T.E.A.M.

Hey everyone and welcome.

I decided to narrow down collection of photos of my boys engaging in S.T.E.A.M. activities - so Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths. 

(it was very hard to narrow down to just two photos from each topic!)

I then used small card size paper to print via selphy the 10 photos, and tried experimenting with how to position them on the layout. I knew immediately that I would need to do a double layout due to amount of photos (even in their small size).

After a little while I had brillant idea to use black cardstock to make the photos and embellishments pop.

I kept the focus on the title and embellishment and the photos rather than many layers of papers and added embellishment clusters. 

So I backed the photo clusters with white cardstock and and found their position on the layout, leaving the bottom third of the right side layout for title and embellishment cluster. 

I commited to the photo positions and used white signo uniball pen to journal brief point about each - Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Maths in my boys life.  

It was then fun to play with the embellishment goodies in the April Scrapping Fun Kits to make a title and embellishment cluster to highlight the S.T.E.A.M. concept - which is a big part of my children's life!

I knew the wood veneer word was perfect title and starting point for the title and embellishment cluster.

I then layered the atom cutfile, robot charm, wood veneer science lab coat and homemade computer chip flair and the label ......and wella perfect embellishment and title cluster for this double page layout.

White doodley border FTW and we are done.

Simple but super Effective!!!!!!!!

thanking you, Lauren.

Lauren ~~ Galaxy Background ~ April Kit

Hey guys this was a super fun experimental layout.

I dragged out distress oxide inks to play and hope that it would look like a galaxy as a base to use April kit.

I smooshed purple, blue and grey oxide ink over the page, I then covered it with black to made the colour shine through and made it look like the colour has great depth (like a galaxy).

It was then fun to put white and black ink splatters around to look like stars and planets floating in space.

I border my photo of my boys with the star black and white paper, having it attached to the layout so that it looked like it was floating off the side of the page.

I then added the world motif and the moon, so looked like distance between them both. A rocket was a fun addition to make it look like it was travelling from the world to the moon.

A white signo pen was the perfect journaling pen.

You can check out process video to watch how I made the background and layout...

Thanks for checking out my layout.

Tracey- love you- May kit

Hey scrappers! I'm back today with another layout from the May kit, once again, a fairly simple layout.

I started off with black cardstock from Kaisercraft, I chose to mount my photo on a piece of the papers that we all received in our kits, for more interest, I layered two other pieces of kit paper under the photo.

My bottom cluster is my absolute favourite part of this layout because of its masculine flower that was hand made by the wonderful Raelene. I think she's done a wonderful job and making something so feminine appear to be so grungy and 'boyish'.  I used that as my centre piece in this cluster, I tucked one of the kits epoxy flairs under the flower to help make it look less lonely. I then used some of the wooden stars and sequins that were also a part of the kit to help fill in the cluster.  I felt as if I needed a base for my cluster seeing as it was quite large and it was on a dark background so I cut a part of the straw that we all received and glued it under everything.

I then proceeded to add another cluster in the top left hand corner of the page. I used the left over piece of straw to help tie everything in and I then added some of the sample washi tape which I also loved from the kit.  The washi acts like a grounding place for the 'sweet heart' sticker that I used as well as the other tiny word stickers in that corner. To finish off that cluster I added some of the sequins that I had used at the bottom.








At this stage, I was thinking that my bottom cluster was looking a little plain so I just added some more tiny word stickers and then added my title, 'love you'.

I hope that you enjoyed today's post and I hope that your loving your May kits!

Tracey- May Kit - Beautiful Boy

Hey everybody! Tracey here again with another May kit layout.  I forgot to take prrogress photos for this one so I apologise in advance.

I started my layout off with the Sea Breeze (I think) cardstock from Kaisercraft.  I knew that I wanted this layout to be quite simple so that the contrast of the background and the patterned paper would be a main feature of the layout. I then cut my photo down and stuck it down to the ack and white cross paper that was included in the kit. I kept this mat quite large because I felt as if it were small, the layout would look to bare.

I then used a blue die cut doily from my stash as a mount for the metal flower. For the flowers centre, I threaded through some of the blue and white bakers twine and tied it in a not to close it. I glued that down to the die cut and then stuck that down with doubled sided tape.



I decided to go for a horizontal line of focus, I trimmed a piece off the black and white spot paper from the kit and made that the mount for my cluster, I also used a piece of washi tape from the kit as a mount for my journaling card.  This months kit included a great swirl paper clip and some black metal roses which I adhered to the journaling card.



I then chose my title, Beautiful Boy. I used the 'beautiful' die cut from Kaisercraft and black letter stickers from my stash and added some gold splatters, wooden stars and a black metal flower.



I hope that you are all enjoying your May kits! Do't forget to share your work with us on the Scrapping Fun Inspiration Group on Facebook.

Raelene - May Kit - Ouch

Hi Scrapping Fun Fans.
Raelene with you today sharing my layout OUCH using the May Kit.

A prompt in a magazine last year had me fill a word doc with a few stories, this story was one of them, the journaling and photo have been on my desk for some time just waiting for the right layout.

I used the same light grey cardstock for my background as I did with my layout Brothers.
Adding layers with some of the papers from the kit and the washi.
I mounted my photo and journaling on black cardstock so it would pop.

The washi in the kit was great for adding some more layers to the layout.

I added some of the washi to the top right corner to help balance things out and ground the gears.

Cogs and Gears are one of my favourite embellishments.






It is important to scrap the memories we otherwise would avoid in our albums as they aren't happy.

Why don't you sit down and type up a few stories you haven't told in your albums and maybe scrap some of them.

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Morgyn - May Kit - I need a title??

Hi everyone Morgyn here with a 12x12 layout using the fabulous May kit.

As soon as I got this kit I knew exactly which photos I wanted to use with it.  I have had these photos sitting in my pile waiting to be scrapped for a while and the colours work perfectly with the May kit. 

Sam grabbed my phone one day (during afternoon tea - hence the carrot in his mouth hehe), he started snapping a bunch of selfies of all his crazy faces - these were the top 6 from about 30.

When creating this layout I started by mounting the photo strips (I created these with the PicFrame app for Iphone) on to black cardstock and trimming around the edge to match the photos. Then I layered the patterned paper from the kit behind the photo.

Next I started on my embellishment clusters - this one is to the left of the photo strips and uses lots of fun elements from the kit. Wooden stars, sequins and the super cute metal flower (I love these).  I also added a small strip of black/white stripe washi tape for a bit of contrast.

I then added a piece of the straw to the middle of the photos (I cut it in half length ways so it wasn't too bulky). For my second embellishment cluster I used the beautiful metal flower and added a flair to the middle of it, plus a couple of little sequins to bring the blue/green colour across the layout.

To finish off the page I added a small cluster of washi tape and a metal gear to the top left of the page, then added some paint splatters and sequins over the page.

Now when I was editing my process video (you can view it here) for this layout I realised I had never added a title, so my question to you all is - what title should I give this layout?? Leave your comments below.

Happy Scrapping

Morgyn xx

Lisa - May Kit - Boy to Man

Hello everyone and welcome to my first project using the Scrapping Fun May embellishment kit.

This kit is great for those male layouts and today I have decided to do a layout of my Son when he was a teenager.

Boy 2 Man is the title I chose for he was 17 years old and moving into manhood 😁






I started this layout with some Gesso on the embossed Bazzill cardstock as an undercoat for hessian from my stash to go on top of. Then a little more Gesso on top just to bring it through the hessian

I then used the gorgeous cardstock from the kit as well as some embossed cardstock from my stash to mat the photo on and add a layered affect.



I used the 2 filigree flowers as a base for the handmade flower. As I needed 2 handmade flowers, I split it in half and created 2 with a matching brad & button I had in my stash.


I placed one in the top left corner of the photo and the other to the bottom right of the photo, balancing yet creating an extension.




Embellishing the right side of the photo with the Kit Bakers Twine and extending around the flower with the Kit Wood Veneer stars. I used half the Kit Straw on the top of the photo

The kit sequins, beads and stars were a great addition and I used these to give a bit of shine to the hessian above and below the photo. Then to top it all off a little flag under the photo for journalling/info and some washi across the bottom.

I hope you enjoy the completed layout and I look forward to bringing you another, using the Scrapping Fun May Kit soon.

Raelene - May Kit - Brothers

Hello Scrapping Fun Fans.
Raelene with your Today, sharing my first layout using the May Kit.

Apologies that this post is late, I decided last night to add more to my finished layout and so this morning I had to take a new photo of the layout and do a new voice over on my Video.

I love these embellisments.  The filigree flower is just gorgeous and the wood veneer stars are so cute.














I added a cute photo of the boys from 7 years ago hugging on Mr C's first day of school to the top right corner last night as I felt the page needed more.
I used a scrap of the star paper and scraps from the papers used on my other layout to add the photo in the right corner.
I also added 2 extra wood veneer stars from my stash.

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