cards

This week it is cards week here on the Scrapware blog. I hope we can bring you lots of fun inspiration for creating cards using some yummy chipboard pieces.
My first card I would like to share EYE HEART YOU uses an alien chipboard. I kept the chipboard raw and simply inked the edge with  a foam dauber and some brown chalk ink. I added a google eye for a bit of fun and a bit of sparkle at the top. I love how the alien is hanging off the edge of  the page, this adds to the fun feel!

My second card SO TWEET uses a large bird standing(Ch322) here again in keeping with my raw theme I simply inked the edges of the bird with brown chalk ink, added a pearl for the eye and then layered it over a doily.

I hope I have inspired you to get out your chipboard and create a card this week. I would love to see it linked up into our gallery here
Kim

kindy mothers day stall...

Mothers day is just around the corner and I am excited to be receiving my first gift bought from my son from kindy...it will be interesting to see what he buys for me from the little store at school. Each family had to send in a little gift to be placed in the store and this is what I sent in.

I bought a little organza gift bag and filled it with a facewasher, bar of soap, some chocolates and tied a sponge to the top of the bag. To decorate it I sprayed a fairy 1 flourish wings here with some black cherry glimmermist, once dry I gathered a strip of pink organza stapled it together then glued it to the fairy to form the skirt, I then tied some ribbon around to finish it off.

For my mothers day card, I have used a flower from the flower set 1 here and covered it with white embossing powder I then added a brown pearl to the centre. I added a scalloped frame and inked the edge in brown chalk ink and then attached it to my card with 3d tape for a raised look.

so if you are looking for a quick and easy mothers day stall idea I hope I have inspired you!

Kim

boyish vintage style

So many things in the scrappy world are geared towards girly vintage...having two boys I often find it hard to find scrappy goodies to suit my boyish layouts...however this is so easy to achieve with a bit of raw chipboard from Scrapware's fabulous range, including this gorgeous new doily frame 3 found here some fabbo vintage style letters (antique lowercase letters here) and my old favourite a mini crown here.

A little while ago we had a fabulous photo shoot in Toowoomba and I was lucky enough to receive this fabulous photo of my two boys in my package...perfect for this weeks vintage theme!

I have simply inked the edges of all the chipboard pieces in colorbox brown chalk ink, and then glued them to my page with silicone glue to add a bit of depth to my layout!

I hope I have inspired you to get out those boy photos and scrap them in vintage style...I would love to see them loaded up into our gallery.

Kim

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

Fun with Frames

Kim here waving hi from beautiful sunny Brisbane this week as we have fun with frames.

I would like to start off with my layout...JOURNEY featuring my youngest son Larsen. I thought the photo needed a vintage feel so I grabbed one of the new Nadine frames in medium CH380 and then randomly covered it with PVA glue and layed a vintage book page over it. When it was dry I tore off some of the paper to leave a distressed feel. I then inked the edge of the frame with brown chalk ink.

I also used one of the mini crowns found here M107 and a photo corner decorative PCo2 here, I inked them, again with brown chalk ink and snuggled them in and around the flowers.

Next up is a bright and fun page from Taryn, titled YOU MAKE ME LAUGH.

The chipboard frames, flowers, hearts and words were all painted with acrylic paint, rubons were added and then doodling with a white pen finished them off nicely. The items used were CH324 Antique mini frames CH281 Blooms small HSO5 Primitive Hearts WT09 Laugh JB02 date set

Another bright and fun layout from Gina titled SNOW CONE utilizes more Antique mini frames CH324 which were also painted in acrylic paint and a tiny standing bird CH248 which was generously sprayed with glimmer mist then perched nicely on top of the frame.

Finally for today we have Natalie's divine co-ordinating birthday items for her mum's 60th birthday. Heres how Natalie described her process...
The easel cards are so easy to make and so effective, I have used the brand new frame and embossed it with zing embossing powder. I also used AZ08 Antique lower case Alphas which I inked with chalk ink then glimmermisted. I created a book for all of mums friends to write in, this book was also designed around the new gorgeous frame, I painted on various shades of blue glimmermist then gave it a coat of crackle paint before adding an embossed sheet of acetate and adhering it to the cover! I used Martha Stewart micro beads for added impact on the numbers

Isn't it amazing how different treatments can make the same products look so DIFFERENT and so FABULOUS!!!!

Be sure to head back here on wednesday for another new technique and then I will be back Friday with some more new scrummy layouts and Scrapware products to share.

Kim