Time to Say Goodbye

The time has come for me to say goodbye to the Scrapware DT. Thank you so much to Ange and the team for having me for the past 6 months. I feel terribly honoured and privileged to have been amongst such talented ladies, and to use all the gorgeous Scrapware products that Ange has to offer, and I look forward to seeing all the new creations from the new design team!

And so, I have one last layout to share before I say goodbye...

This one is of Will flying the plane he bought with his birthday money a few weeks ago. These gorgeous photos are courtesy of the lovely Miss Kim.

I love these balloons and the little boy!

And now, to share a few of my favourite projects I have created using Scrapware in the past...

The sign post is sooooooooo boy!

And I loooove these flourishes!

My favourite chandelier and fences...

And my other favourite flowers...

I had soooooo much fun with the princess castle...

And my first favourite, and first ever project as member of the Scrapware DT, this layout of my Nana featuring the gate and antique frame. Love this!

Thanks again to Ange and the rest of the DT. Wishing you all loads of fun with all the new Scrapware goodies coming soon!!!

Summer's Here

And here at scrapware we are celebrating with some summer inspiration.

First up we have this delightful number by the super gorgeous Renee.

I am just so in love with this layout, the gorgeous bright colours and the little creatures just scream summer! And what a fab idea to add some stitching detail to those leaves on the branch.

How stunning does this title look? Renee has embossed them with the cuttlebug, and then over the top with some ink.

Wowsers, these flowers blow me away. They look awesome!

Renee has used:LB27 Marilyn Blooms

LB28 Kylie Blooms
CH191 Branches Large
AZ08 Antique Lowercase Alphas

Next up, Trizzy has given this memory box some summer treatment. A stunning black frame with flourish corner trims, and correboard alphas, then decorated with some fabulous summery embellies.

Here's how Trizzy created her project:

The memory box was painted with acrylic paints, the outside heated till it bubbled and highlighted. The alphas were sprayed with memory mist and silver gilding wax was applied. I adhered some gauze and hot glued glass pebbles, shells and glass tiles to the piece.

KT44 Memory box 10 x 10

Impact lg CB craft alphas

CH404 Natalie swirls

CH329 Swallows

Ch194 mini fence

And lastly my mother-in-law gave me this sweet pic of my husband on holidays with his family some 25yrs ago. It was just screaming for some bright summery treatment.

Tee hee. Just check them out. How sweet!

Here's a close-up of the title alphas, which I sprayed with glimmermist, then applied a light layer of embossing powder.

And for the sun, clouds and bird, I used a white pen to outline the shape, then applied some ink, followed by some glimmermist.

I have used:

JB02 Date Journal Bits

AZ03 Impact Lowercase Alphas

CH329 Swallows

CH328 Sunshine and Rain

More Pink!

Hi scrapware fans! Today I want to show you a canvas I created for my friend's craft room... it's pink of course!

There's a few new things I tried with this, but basically just trying to get different effects on each of the letters to create some interest.

For the word "create" I decided to mix it up a little by cutting out the stencil for a few of the letters. It's so easy to do, and I think it really adds a bit of character. Each of the letters have been treated separately - some I covered in paper, and then sprayed with glimmermist, or inked, some have been painted, and then embossed, and then some have a stamp applied over the top again. The birds have been topped with some rock candy crackle paint. This was a really fun project, and I love how all the different techniques add texture to the canvas.

Scrapware used in this project:

CH329 Swallows
AZ07 Antique Uppercase

AZ10 Mini Antique Lowercase

Flower and Bloom Week @Scrapware!

Hi, Welcome to a Flowers and Blooms week at The Scrapware Blog.

As it's well into Spring whats better than showcasing some of the talented Scrapware Girls Layouts and projects using beautiful blooms and who doesn't love flowers.

The great thing about the chipboard Blooms is you can make them any colour to match in which your layout or project, so no more having to have a big slash of flowers, you just need to have a couple of packs of the blooms on hand.

First up we have this lovely layout by our also lovely Nat May,

Nat spayed the Blooms and Do Hicky with Glimmer Mist, then ran the bloom through the Cuttlebug Machine which embossed it, Nat inked the title used an ink pad which are a great and quick way to colour the chipboard.

Nat used:

CH338 Do Hicky 4.

FL06 Flower Set 6

Next we have this gorgeous Layout by the equally gorgeous Taryn.
For the flowers and bird, Taryn has covered them in paper, which she first scrunched, and then applied using a few coats of modge podge, and to finish she inked the edges.

Taryn also used one of my favourite things vintage glitter glass on the swirls, which she also used on the alphas with a combination of ink, just beautiful!What a cute birdy!
Beautiful shabby chic flowers,And vintage glitter glass.Taryn used:

CH233 Bird Standing Large
CH404 Natalie Swirls
LB27 Marilyn Blooms
CH281 Blooms Small
AZ10 Mini antique alpha lowercase
MI07 Mini crown

Next we have this cute layout by the also cute Bridge.

Bridge ran her flowers through the cuttlebug machine to emboss them, then gave them a coat of bright coloured paint, which she tone down the edges a little by using an umber ink pad, to finish off the flowers she curled the petals which gave them a little dimension
Bridge also changed the shape of some of the flowers by cutting the petals through the middle.


Bridge used:
CH281 Blooms Small
MI12 Mini Stars
BD05 Border - Scallop, (used in reverse of the scallop for the top corner).

Next we have a beautiful show of Blooms by the creative Natalie Wolf.

Natalie created these beautiful bloom for the Scrapware Blog using different versions of the Marilyn and Kylie blooms, she sprayed them with Smooch Inks to add colour and Microbeads for the beautiful centres.



The blooms can be used as awesome embellishments on a scrapbook layout or card.

Here is a card Natalie has created using one of the beautiful finished blooms.

Natalie used:

LB28 Kylie Blooms,

LB27 Marilyn Blooms.

And last of all me and as I love doing Off The Page Projects, I thought I would make a open book, I haven't made one for awhile, but when I saw the new MME papers I couldn't help myself.
I inked the Do Hickey dark brown, and covered it in Dimensional Magic then coated it with vintage glitter glass.
The birdcage I inked in dark brown then covered it with 2 coats of brown glitter glue.
The bloom I sprayed with dark orange Glimmer Mist, then ran it through the Cuttlebug machine to emboss, then I inked over the embossing, bend the bloom into shape, to finish the bloom of I gave it a coat metallic paint and added a pearl brad.I used: LB28 Kylie Bloom,
CH337 Do Hickey 3,
CH344 Petite Flourish Birdcage,
I added the pearls to match in with my photo.What a great start to the week and Hetty will be back on Wednesday with her wonderful technique can't wait to see that.

Thanks Gilly ox

For the Boys..

Hi, its Gina here to start off a new week with some fabulous inspiration from the Scrapware DT!

I'll kick off with this piece I created, which could be framed or made into a wall hanging for a little boys room. With two daughters, I don't often get a chance to do any scrapping with a male theme, so this was a nice change...

I've used a WT09Live/Laugh/Love piece for the title and a few cute MI12Mini Stars. These have all been inked in blue or green and slightly aged by touching up the edges with Versacolor Pinecone ink. I've also stuck some little gold findings onto the stars to make them more of a feature

Next up is this very sweet layout from Renee!

Renee has used: CH303 Funky Robots Large, JB33 Kapow Journal Bits and CH 263 Think Pink Sheet

Renee says "for the robots I have mainly inked them with a few different shades and used a brown American Crafts slick writer, I also have added some vintage glitter glassing, cuttlebugging and some small watch parts to make them a tad bit vintagy!"

The Think from the think pink sheet (not boyish I know!) is coloured in with American crafts slick writer too. I glimmer misted the corrugated letters and also used your masking technique with them too!

The cog window has been painted with Tim Holtz crackle paint and then inked over with stazon and vintage glitterised

Continuing on with the robot theme, Georgia has this fabulous birthday card to share..

Georgia has used funky robots small ch304 and postage frames ch327. She has coloured the robot black using a marker, embossed the star and hands / feet with red embossing powder (using a versa mark pen) and then embossed the whole thing with clear embossing powder. The frame is embossed with the red embossing powder

..and Kim has this very cool layout to share!

Kim says "Addison my three year old is so into TOY STORY at the moment and loves to zoom around with his imaginary wings. I thought the little space shapes from the CH20 Space set was prefect to use to tell the story. I wanted to make the rocket the star so I first inked it fairly heavily around the edge in black ink then randomly embossed it with red embossing powder. I added star dust stickles around the edge to really make it pop. I also added a bling flourish to represent the fire coming out of the engine. For the other two pieces I again heavily inked the edges in black ink then added the star dust stickles around the edge."

..and last but not least, here's Taryn's bright and fun layout!

Taryn has used: AZ03 Impact Lowercase alphas, CH318 Retro Frames Small, CH01 Scalloped Plaques and
MI07 Mini Crowns

WOW!..thanks so much ladies for making my first blog post for Scrapware so much fun to do..and I hope you're all feeling inspired to scrap the boy in your life too! Don't forget to share your creations in the Scrapware Gallery..we can't wait to see them :)

Gina xox

More beautiful Scrapware to share.

I have had so much fun playing with my Scrapware over the past few months, and am really loving sharing my creations. Today I want to share "Happy Coconuts", a layout of my boys and their cousins playing with the coconuts on Fraser Island.

Fraser Island is such a beautiful, natural wonderland, so I wanted to create a natural feel for this layout. I have used distress stickles over the leaves and flourish to add some texture.

Scrapware used in this layout is CH131 Shelley Flourish, and CH301 Skeleton Leaves. I LOVE how the leaves stand out against the background.

I also have a mini-canvas to share. A little while ago, my sister-in-law gave me a rare photo of her grandmother (turns out there are not many photos of her, such a shame, as she was truly adored by her grandchildren), and asked me to do something with it. I thought that a mini-canvas would be something that she could have on display, rather than a layout tucked away in an album.

This frame is so beautiful for a vintage photo, as are the flourishes. I have used a combination of ink, embossing powder and vintage glass for the chipboard elements.

For this piece, I have used CH387 Olivia Frame small, CH310 Flourish Kim small, CH207 Baroque Trim Mini, and AZ10 Mini Antique Alphas.