Karyn's Crafting Obsession

Friday, August 11, 2017

Believe In Yourself - With Imaginarium Designs!

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page made using lots of gorgeous Imaginarium Designs chipboard. The theme for the DT this month is "Me" where we have to include a selfie and journalling about ourselves!! What a great idea!! Crafters often use photos of other family members but we need to remember to scrap ourselves every now and then (although I must admit the journalling part was hard).

I created this page - inspired by techniques I learnt at an amazing class by the lovely and talented Lisa Oxley :)

I created my background using the fun Dina Wakley paints and Dylusions paints (purple). I used a pallate knife to paint the colours onto my page - I love this effect and I love that it is easy to clean (no washing paint brushes!!). When the paint was dry I added some fun stamps (Paper Artsy and Carabelle Studio) with black Archival ink.

Whenever I'm creating with paint I always have a spare sheet of cardstock that I use up any leftover paint. Then I also stamp on this and cut up to use on my project as well.

I painted most of my chipboard with black gesso (Liquitex is my favourite). But as I was putting my page together I needed some extra chipboard so I used my paint pens to colour them - this was a fabulous way to colour chipboard and there was NO MESS!! I used a black paint pen on an extra flower and then I used a white paint pen to write over a black gesso'd word - the coverage was amazing!! Now I need more colours lol!

Here are some close-ups of the finished page. I matted my photo on some book paper (actually an old dictionary!!).

I added some strips of book paper and mesh on my page as well as a fussy cut stamped image.

There are lots of fabulous words and phrases available at Imaginarium Designs Chipboard - perfect for page titles!!

I added a coloured paper doilie under my photo and more fussy cut stamped images.

I added some hand drawn lines around the outside of the page using a Fude Ball journalling pen - I love how it finishes and frames the page.

A little cluster at the bottom of the page with the "Happy" definition cut out of the old dictionary :)

Imaginarium Designs chipboard I've used includes

Believe in Yourself : code IDP0183

Edward Relief Corner: Code IDC0008

Nats Bubbles Large: Code IDD0039

Cool Super Brave : code IDW0077

Nats hearts 1 : code IDD0042

Love grow hello : code IDW0083

# words : code IDW0094

Loolabelles chevrons #2: Code IDDL0022

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx
Karyn

Wednesday, August 2, 2017

Art Journalling in my Travellers Notebook - With Scrapping Clearly!

Have you seen the fabulous Jane Davenport range in the Scrapping Clearly Store ? It is so beautiful!! I had to buy one of the travellers notebook covers and some of the face stamps.

Inside the cover is a 4 page travellers notebook with lovely thick papers perfect for mixed media. I painted a rainbow of Dina Wakley paints across my page using a palate knife. I had a sheet of spare cardstock nearby to use for any paint excess. I later stamped on this and fussy cut to use on my project too.

Here is my finished page.

I stamped a face on one of the pages. I cant draw faces so these face stamps are perfect!! Then I stamped this Carabelle Studio circle collage stamp on some spare painted paper then fussy cut and added to my page as hair!

I added some background stamps (Prima and KaiserCraft) across my page and a fussy cut Carabelle Studio etiquette anion stamped image. I also added some Tim Holtz small talk stickers (I just love these!!)

More Tim Holtz small talk stickers - have I mentioned how much I love these lol!

More fussy cut stamped images - this time Darkroom Door Arty circles stamps.

Scrapping Clearly products I've used include

Jane Davenport Butterfly effect book
Dane Davenport acrylic stamps - 4 girls
Dina Wakley paints (lime, turquoise, tangerine, magenta, lemon, sky, ruby)
Ranger Archival ink pad, black
Cardstock
Carabelle Studio stamps (circle collage, etiquette anion)
Darkroom door Arty Circles stamp
Tim Holtz Idea Ology Small Talk Sticker Book

Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Planning for July in my Happy Planner - With Scrapping Clearly!

Planners have been the in-thing in the papercrafting industry for some time - but my love affair with planners is just starting. I've always had a working diary filled with lists and my daily activities but I've never tried the full-on embellishment of them. Part of the reason is that there was never enough space on the pages, and also as it was a working diary it was never neat.

When I saw the fabulous MAMBI Happy Planner, Classic, The Best is Yet to Come in the Scrapping Clearly Store I thought I would give it a go. I had heard a lot about these planners and loved the vertical weekly layout. This planner is also an 18 month planner that started in July - perfect!! I decided to use the fun and bright Fancy Pants Designs "Joy Parade" collection and Kelly Purkey stamps to embellish the pages.

I love that many of the titles on the pages appear to be a silver colour but when viewed from different angles a rainbow of colours appears!

The first pages for each month include a section to record monthly goals, important dates, and a "currently' list - I love these prompts!!

Then there is a 2 page calendar for the month. I've decided to include a photo from each day here. I printed each photo at 3.7cm wide x 3.2cm tall.

Next is the fun planner pages!! I printed a sheet of photos to use. I organise and resize my photos in MS Word then print out on an A4 sheet of paper using an EPSON XP-600 and Ilford photo paper. Each photo used on the weekly spread is 3.7cm wide x 6cm tall.

I start my pages by writing daily activities on one of the 3 squares for the day. I then add photos, then decorative papers. I had some painty papers leftover from testing the amazing Distress Oxides, so I added some offcuts of them to the pages as well.

Next I add some patterned paper (from the Joy Parade 6x6 paper pad), Ephemera and puffy stickers. Lastly I added some stamps - these Kelly Purkey ones are so cute!!

Here is my first completed weekly spread (26 June - 2 July).

Here are some close-ups. I've tried to keep my pages as flat as possible. Puffy stickers are as bulky as I will go.

Scrapping Clearly products I've used include

MAMBI Happy Planner, Classic, The Best is Yet to Come
Fancy Pants Designs "Joy Parade" collection (12x12 papers, 6x6 paper pad, epherema, puffy stickers)
Hero Arts, Kelly Purkey wood mounted stamps - Planner Icons
Ranger Archival ink pad, black
Cardstock
Distress Oxides ink pads

Thanks so much for stopping by
Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

Friday, July 21, 2017

Our Little Girl - With Imaginarium Designs!

Today I'm sharing a scrapbook page made using lots of gorgeous Imaginarium Designs chipboard and the Paper House "Hello Baby" Girl collection. I taught this at a recent class at Seriously Scrapbooking.

The photo is of me as a baby - wasn't I cute lol :)

I started by creating a background on white cardstock using Distress Oxides. Then I layered this on some of the super cute paper from Paper House.

I painted all of the chipboard gold - using a single colour helps to unify the page.

Rectangles of different papers were used under my photo - this is a great way to use up leftover scraps of papers. Lastly I added some cute puffy sticker embellishments across the page.