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Nature’s fireworks BY SUE PLUMB, QLD Materials: Paper – Sassafras Lass; Cardstock – American Crafts; Stamp – Date; Embellishments – Green Tara and my2angels flowers, Lovelybug Bits n Bobs felt flower and button, BasicGrey letters, Kaisercraft transparency, Burdy’s Handmade lollipop, The Crafter’s Workshop stencil, mesh, tag, butterfly, twine, felt pens, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist. Narnu Farm BY ADRIANA BOLZON, SA Materials: Paper – Meg’s Garden, book; Cardstock; Punch – Leaf; Stamps – Kaisercraft, Tim Holtz Distress Paint; Embellishments – Green Tara mesh, burlap trim and leaves, Manor House Creations and Meg’s Garden flowers, Dienamics dies, studs, paint. Elegance BY MARELIZE FRISBY, WA Materials: Paper – Cardstock; Embellishments – American Crafts Thickers, Prima Marketing Inc flowers, Green Tara stem, Silhouette cut file, Scrap FX stencil, Lindy’s Stamp Gang Starburst Stain, Ranger…

1 Make your stash work for you! While it might be tempting to spend hours scouring the stores for the perfect masculine kit, sometimes you simply need to look to your current digi scrap stash and make it suit your needs. Try refining the palette of a kit – discard pinks and focus on the neutrals. Recolour flowers and such to suit, using one of two simple methods: Image>Adjustments>Hue & Saturation, or Image>Adjustments>Colour Balance. If a kit is heavy on elements that just won’t suit your layout, try making your own using papers and the shape tool in your program, or simply clip papers to existing elements. Try to see the elements for their basic shape, customising them to suit. 2 You can also try incorporating feminine aspects into your…

All about the selfie BY KARYN SCHULTZ, SA Materials: Paper – Glitz Design; Cardstock – Stampin’ Up!; Punches – Stampin’ Up!; Embellishments – Freckled Fawn and Prima Marketing Inc wood veneers, Studio Calico letters and wood veneer, Kaisercraft rhinestones and pearls, Jillibean Soup letters, Magnolia die, A Piece of Cake Designs flair, sequins, doily, paint. Love where I live BY SOPHIE KOSCHMANN, VIC Materials: Paper – October Afternoon, BasicGrey, vellum; Cardstock – American Crafts; Stamp – BasicGrey; Embellishments – October Afternoon and Jillibean Soup letters, American Crafts Dear Lizzy chipboard and stickers, doily, calico, washi tape, modelling paste, Heidi Swapp Color Shine, SEI Tumble Tie Dye. Observation BY LIZZY HILL, NSW Materials: Paper – Studio Calico, Pink Paislee, Teresa Collins; Stamp – Prima Marketing Inc, StazOn ink; Embellishments – American…

Whether you love it or loath it, most of the world now owns a smart phone with a decent camera built into it. Slow to catch on to the smart phone revolution, I now can’t seem to do without it. I carry it with me constantly, so I find it’s the most convenient way to capture bits and pieces of my everyday life. I can then share the photos I’ve taken instantaneously with my ‘followers’ on Instagram which makes me feel like I’m in touch with the outside world even when I might be at work all day! But real life isn’t always glitz and glamour, so I find myself editing at least 95 per cent of my photos before they ever make it to Instagram. Not to hide anything,…

Loveable girl BY CATHERINE KENNEDY, SA Materials: Merci Antique Trends patterned paper, glitter sheets, shimmer letters, lace and felt hearts; Cardstock – American Crafts; Other embellishments – Kaisercraft rhinestones, The Crafter’s Workshop stencil, chipboard, tags, doily, gauze, netting, twine, thread, Faber-Castell Big Brush pens and Gelatos, Prima Marketing Inc chalk ink, Sharpie pen. IDEAS: – Fussy-cut feathers and flowers out of patterned paper to layer on your page. – Trim a line from the chevron patterned paper, invert it, then layer it under the main sheet to add visual interest. – Use a strip of glitter sheet underneath your title to make it stand out. Love! BY DITA RUSSELL, NEW ZEALAND Materials: Merci Vintage Woodlands patterned paper, mini stack flip book, cardstock stickers, chipboard letters and glitter letters; Cardstock; Other…

Whether it’s a tiny piece or something larger that you want to make into a feature, chipboard is an extremely versatile embellishment. It comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes, from ready-made titles to pieces you can use as backgrounds, and everything else that is trending at the moment in the scrapbooking world – including off-the-page items. Below are a few ways that I love to alter my chipboard, but firstly, unless I am keeping it raw, I always coat my chipboard in gesso first. This seals the chipboard and makes it less porous, which enhances the colour you’re adding, whether it’s by inking, painting or using Gelatos, mists or any other medium. Adding texture – This is my favourite thing to do to chipboard. After my coat of…

Doodling and handwritten journalling adds another element of your own personality into a layout, so don’t worry about making mistakes! For added texture on your page dab small areas with PVA glue and then sprinkle with micro beads and sequins. Having the patience to distress and ink the edges of all of your elements can pay off visually. After rubbing a Faber-Castell Gelato onto your background, spray it with a little water and use a roller stamp over the top to create an interesting effect. Use gel medium as an adhesive for tricky embellishments that are difficult to stick down, it dries clear and rock solid!…

This month’s technique was used by Geli Duncan in her inspiring layout Madison! Madison BY GELI DUNCAN, QLD Materials: Paper – Kaisercraft; Cardstock – Kaisercraft; Punches – Fiskars, Martha Stewart, miscellaneous; Embellishments – Xcut, Couture Creations, Sizzix and Lawn Fawn dies, The Crafter’s Workshop stencil, Mungyo soft pastels, Ranger Glossy Accents, Design Line 3D fabric paint, VersaMark ink, micro beads. A CHALK/PASTEL BACKGROUND – TRY ONE AT HOME TODAY! 1 STEP 1 Place a stencil with a design that is not too intricate on a piece of white cardstock and tape it down with masking or washi tape. Dab a watermark inkpad all over the stencil. If the inkpad feels dry to the touch, re-ink it first. Remove the stencil and start step two immediately before the ink dries. 2…

MESSAGE IN A BOTTLE Love vase BY BELINDA GRIFFIN, VIC Materials: Bottle; Paper – American Crafts, Kaisercraft, Echo Park Paper Co, Bella!, Project Life, Pink Paislee; Cardstock; Embellishments – Studio Calico letters and wood veneer, Kaisercraft ephemera, Prima Marketing Inc flair, fabric, doily, washi tape, buttons, twine, paint. METHOD: 1. Wrap a piece of patterned paper around the middle of an empty, clean bottle and a piece of washi tape around the neck. These will act as the bases for your embellishments. 2. Cut a circle out of fabric or patterned paper and trim with lace (if using fabric you will need to back it onto cardstock to ensure it holds its shape). In the centre of the circle place coordinating alphas to spell the word ‘love’. Underneath this place…

Eleven years ago, I compiled a list of names and dates of lighthouse keepers stationed at Norah Head from the last 100 years for the local Lighthouse Trust’s centenary celebrations. My father, grandfather, great grandfather and great uncles’ names filled a part of this list and as an homage to my family, I was passionate about presenting this list in a professional way, but had no idea where to start. I happened upon a local scrapbooking shop that had just opened and for this crafty type, it didn’t take long before the light bulbs rang in my head and I realised this was the perfect way to display my findings. That list evolved into two albums and a large off-the-page family tribute piece. My passion for scrapbooking was born, from…

Have you ever had something about a scrapbook page that just wasn’t working? As we know through the media, airbrushing can make soft corrections to achieve the look we want. In this article I’m going to talk about using airbrushing to make those little corrections when something goes wrong, needs to be added or to enhance elements to tie them in a little better. With most mixed-media scrapbooking, you can simply build layers to mask the things that go wrong, but sometimes it isn’t until everything is stuck down that you realise there’s an issue. This is what happened with my layout ‘A sunset walk’. I loved the design, but felt the background was taking too much focus away from the photo and beautiful die-cuts which were the features of…

I love to read. I read everything, from teen and adult romance, autobiographies, fantasy fiction and the recent naughty mummy books; and there are some books that just really touch your imagination! When I read I am transported to that time and place of the novel – it’s really a form of escapism. I’m not saying that I need to escape my life, but sometimes it’s just nice to be free of the worries and pressures of reality and pretend you are somewhere else for a little while. A couple of years ago I started reading The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare. I was transported back through time to Victorian London where 16-year-old Tessa Gray had travelled to find her lost brother. It is in London that she…

When: August 29-31 Where: Melbourne Showgrounds, Building 13, Langs Road, Ascot Vale Vic Tickets: Adults $12, Students and Seniors $10 Onsite parking: $10, for details visit www.melbourneshowgrounds.com Website: www.paperific.com.au Remember the good times BY BECK BEATTIE, VIC Materials: Paper – Carta Bella; Cardstock – Bazzill; Punch – EK Success; Stamp – Kaisercraft, Ranger Archival ink; Embellishments – Spellbinders dies, Maya Road twine, The Crafter’s Workshop stencil, Tim Holtz Distress Ink, Copic marker, Heidi Swapp Color Shine. CONTROLLED BACKGROUND LAYERING 1 Air-brush the Warm Grey (#W5) Copic colour marker through the star pattern of a punchinella stencil. 2 Stamp over the top of some of the stars with black Archival ink – without an acrylic block for a softer edge. 3 Add some droplets of the black Color Shine spray…

The box itself is quite simple really – its beauty is in the distressing. It makes this relatively brand new box look like a treasure chest that has washed up on shore or been dug out of a cave after hundreds of years of being lost. Here are the techniques I used to age this piece considerably. Secrets box BY KAREN SHADY, VIC Materials: Metal box; Paper – Kaisercraft; Cardstock – Bazzill; Embellishments – Tim Holtz hinges, die, stickers and Distress Ink, Dusty Attic chipboard and rusting powder, Prima Marketing Inc metal charms, padlock, key, chain, VersaColor ink, acrylic paint, spray paint, gesso. PAINT CHIP DISTRESSING TECHNIQUE Begin by sanding the box (metal or timber) lightly, then paint it with a charcoal or black acrylic paint and let it dry.…