Innehållsförteckning för No 23 -2 från Scrapbooking Memories

It’s important not to forget about yourself and recording the changes in your own interests. Don’t be discouraged about using photos of yourself on these layouts. Remember to create for yourself – your layout doesn’t always have to be uploaded to your blog or published in a magazine. Who even says you have to feature a photo on your layout at all? You may want to focus on a technique or embellishment as well as your journalling. There’s a variety of journalling prompts on the internet and some are even included in a few products on the market. One of my favourites includes the one I used on my layout ‘Currently’. If you’re a younger scrapper like me you’ve probably taken the occasional selfie. I often create layouts with these…

PB BY NATALIE ELPHINSTONE, VIC Materials: Paper – Kesi Art, Color Conspiracy; Cardstock – American Crafts; Embellishments – Prima Marketing Inc and Sassafras Lass stickers, Studio Calico wood veneers, EK Success Smash dividers, Flourish with a Bling flourish, Doodlebug Design Inc frills, Crate Paper brads, Heidi Swapp Color Shine, glitter. Design desirable Attach your children’s certificates of achievement straight onto your layout, and keep your photos and embellishments to the empty areas so they can still be read. What makes you different BY RIKKI GRAZIANI, WA Materials: Cardstock; Punches – Martha Stewart, EK Success; Embellishments – BasicGrey letters, The Crafter’s Workshop stencil, rhinestones, texture paste, Ranger Dylusions ink spray. HOT TIP Use rhinestones in coordinating colours to fill in gaps in your colour gradation; it helps your blend and leads…

Our little ray of sunshine BY LINDA EGGLETON, NSW Materials: Cardstock – Bazzill; Stamps – Prima Marketing Inc, BasicGrey, StazOn ink; Embellishments – Pink Paislee and D-lish Scraps washi tape, Prima Marketing Inc letters and washi tape, Kaisercraft flowers and die-cuts, BasicGrey letters, 2Crafty chipboard, Studio Calico wood veneers, Manor House Creations flowers, Hello Dreams flair, Teresa Collins Designs sequins, paperclips, Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist, Faber-Castell Gelatos. The scrapbooking world has been impacted by washi tape for a few years now and, lucky for us, the colours and designs that are now available are endless. And that goes for ideas on how to use it as well! There are no limits on how you can use this fabulous product, it just takes a bit of imagination and creativity and you…

Make the most of today BY BECK BEATTIE, VIC Materials: X-Press It Blending Journal; Punch – EK Success; Embellishments – X-Press It stencil sheets and wide glue marker, Spellbinders dies, The Crafter’s Workshop stencil, Copic markers. IDEAS: – Create a custom stencil by die-cutting a Spellbinders expandable pattern out of the X-Press It adhesive stencil sheets. These allow for better stencilling as the air pushed out by the Copic Airbrush system does not lift it from the paper. – The blending paper contained in this journal allows you to explore your Copic markers in so many ways. As markers, they glide on beautifully and for the airbrush system the paper creates a perfectly smooth surface for a faultless finish. – Hold plastic stencils down with your fingers as you go.…

Website: www.scrappychatdesigns.blogspot.com.au Email: orders.scrappychatdesigns@gmail.com Love this girl BY BECK BEATTIE, VIC Materials: Paper – October Afternoon, Jillibean Soup, Kaisercraft; Cardstock – Bazzill; Stamp – Prima Marketing Inc; Embellishments – Spellbinders dies, Scrapmatts chipboard, hessian, StazOn and VersaColor ink, Faber-Castell Whipped Spackle and Gelatos, Tinby Designs Metallic Melts, DecoArt Metallic Lustre. ALTERING CHIPBOARD WITH METALLIC MELTS 1 Apply a generous coat of VersaColor or VersaMagic ink to your chosen chipboard piece. 2 Sprinkle the Tinby Designs Metallic Melts over it in a matching colour and shake off the surplus. 3 Apply heat directly to the Metallic Melts with a heat gun until they’re melted. You can make the piece chunkier and more textured by adding more layers of Metallic Melts before the powder sets if you want to. For more information…

Good times BY LISA OXLEY, NSW Materials: Cardstock; Stamp – World; Embellishments – Kaisercraft flower, Stencil1 stencil, transparencies, washi tape, wedding dress material, muslin, flair, sticker, gesso, acrylic paint, texture paste, Uni Posca paint pen, StazOn ink, Ranger Dylusions ink spray. There are so many incredible examples of charity displayed by scrapbooking communities. Recently, one Australian Project Life community on Facebook supported a Western Australian hospital unit by gathering Project Life items for children and their families who wish to document their journey while facing their medical issues. The response was an overwhelming success and organisers were flooded with donations of a vast array of Project Life and other scrapbooking items. Generally, the scrapbooking community has also been an avid supporter of the National Breast Cancer Foundation by holding crop…

Black backgrounds can really make a page pop. Like white backgrounds, black ones provide a strong contrast for your foreground work – photos, papers and embellishments. The greater the contrast, the more eye-catching your work will be. So why do we use so many more white backgrounds than black ones? White backgrounds show up everything well – all sprays, paints, papers and embellishments contrast against them beautifully. Black, however, can be more challenging as not all products can be seen clearly against it. If you spray a dark blue spray onto a black background you won’t even see it. Therefore you have to be more selective about which products you use. Stick to lighter, stronger colours or metallics and check that each product shows clearly against the black before committing…

You don’t need a professional camera to take a photo that can be enlarged to 12in x 12in when printed. Most mobile phones have the ability to take photos that are good enough to enlarge to a full 12in x 12in page. The photo that I am using for the background was taken in 2005, with a digital camera that would probably not compare to the quality of most mobile phone cameras today. 1 In Photoshop Elements create a 12in x 12in blank document, 300dpi (resolution) and select white for the background contents. Drag the photo you would like as a background into your 12in x 12in document. 2 Select your photo and press CRT+T (this is a shortcut for resizing whatever you have selected) make sure the Constrain Proportions…

In July last year, my life rocked. I was 38-years-old, in a super happy marriage with an amazing husband, and mum to a daughter who is just gorgeous. Work was great; I was teaching 10-15 scrapbooking classes a month, plus guest teaching all over the country, I had regular magazine work, was designing chipboard for Imaginarium Designs and working in Adelaide’s best scrapbook store. I was going to the gym regularly and working with a personal trainer twice a week. I was fitter, healthier, stronger and more content than I had ever been. I was happy. Actually, I was really happy. In the blink of an eye that all changed. I noticed an unusual bleed after a period and knew immediately that something wasn’t right, so I took myself straight…

Pilot Pen Strength BY NATALIE ELPHINSTONE, VIC Materials: Pilot Pen Frixion Colors and Permaball pens, Sellotape double-sided tape, sticky tape, label tape, Sticky Dots and hooks and loops, Westcott titanium-bonded scissors, pinking scissors and utility knife; BoBunny journal; Paper – BoBunny, Pink Paislee, October Afternoon; Embellishments – Studio Calico sequins, bow and printables, October Afternoon journal cards and flags, 2Crafty chipboard, Crate Paper vellum, Cosmo Cricket stickers, Maya Road ribbon, Flourish with a Bling pearls, Jenni Bowlin Studio stencil, gesso, texture paste. IDEAS: – I practised writing my quote on scrap paper first until I was happy it would fit nicely. Then I traced it onto the cover using a black Pilot Permaball pen for the outline and coloured it with Pilot Frixion coloured markers. – I painted over my…