Baby Girl

Hello Everyone,
Well I have eventually scrapped a page with the new Serendipity Papers, stamps, stencil and the beautiful new Rose Gold - Metallic Tape. The papers I have used are Chevron and Spots. These papers are a must for female pages especially little girls. The stamp I have used is called Love and Hugs Un-Cut Set (3). I stamped the flowers with Distress Oxide - Vintage Photo. The Stencil I have used is the new stencil Script - Strength. Using Gesso I simply placed the stencil  over my page and using a palette knife randomly placed pieces of the text on the layout. The paper flowers are painted in Distress Oxide Faded Jeans and Dylusions Ink Spray Pomegranate Seed. If you like this page please feel free to copy it. If you require any of the products used on this page hop on over to my Online Store at www.kaszazz.com/consultant/kerry-neilly.

 I hope you enjoy my page

Until Next Time
Kerry

Scrap It With Attitude February Challenge

Goodmorning Everyone,

Well it has been six months since I have posted on my blog. I have had a hiccup with my blog which I was unable to fix up until today. Well hopefully everything will go well and I will be back in business. This is my entry into the "Scrap It With Attitude, February Challenge. My page was scrapped using Blue Fern Studio Paper - Verandah. It such lovely paper. There was a challenge picture and this is my interpretation of the Sketch.

The Sketch

My Page

Three products had to be used on your page. Feathers which I cut out with my Silhouette Cameo. They are coming out from the flowers on the top photo and flower arrangement. Brads - I used Silver Heart Brads which hand from the bottom of Twine and thirdly Twine was to be used on the layout. Then using Perfect Pearls layered dots in half circles. The flowers I have used are Prima Flowers. I have recently purchased myself a Silhouette Cameo and have found it invaluable with my scrapbooking. Thank you for looking at my page and I will be posting again soon.

Feel free to hop on over to my new blog Kerrys Kaszazz Korner and check out some of my work, using Kaszazz Products only. Hope you enjoy my pages.

Paper Roses - Monthly Kit Club

JUST TOO CUTE

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Well the weather is glorious up here in Far North Queensland, Australia, after a very long hot dry summer. We have had lovely rain to green everything up. Today I am featuring the page - Just Too Cute - I purchased from The Scrapbook Club. Sometimes it is just nice to site down with all the  papers etc., and just scrap a page without too much thought. The papers used in this Kit were from Kaisercraft collection: Collectable, Treat, Snapshot and urio. The chipboard used was from WOW and I just loved the dark blue pearls which matched the page perfectly. I used a 4"x6" photo for this layout. I am getting their kits once a month for the lazy days of scrapbooking I sometimes do. Hope you all enjoy this page and enjoy looking at my pages on the blog. Thank you.

Baby Boy

Goodmorning Everyone,

Today I am featuring three pages we are doing in my Scrapbooking Class this week, the ladies have a choice of whatever one they would like or do their own design. I am teaching different ways to use Texture Paste. We are starting off by making our own Homemade Texture Paste by Gabrielle Polacco. It is a beautiful smooth and easy to use paste, great for beginners. For this particular page I added Gold Craft Paint instead of White Craft Paint. I saw this particular design on Pinterest and decided to do a similar page to the one I was looking at. I applied the texture paste using stencils and then while still wet, sprinkled over the wet paste Gold Glitter. I added a gold flower I had in my stash and embossed the stamp "Just so you know, I think you're Perfect" with Gold Embossing Powder. It is a very simple page, but looks so pretty with the Glitter.

My second page I did, I used my Brick Wall Stencil. I added Kaisercraft Mocha Paint when making my texture paste. When dry I then roughly coloured bricks with Distress Ink - Vintage Photo. Then with my finger rubbed over each brick with Gold Perfect Pearls. I wanted to put something on the wall, then decided to use my Ivy Die and some dark green cardstock, and hang it down from the top of the wall. Being a little girl photo I added some flowers to the Ivy to brighten the page.

ONE OF A KIND

My third display page is done using the Kaisercraft Die - Butterflies. I applied the white texture paste to my white cardstock and then when dry sprayed it with Lindy's Stamp Gang Starburst -Cotton Candy Pink. The Chipboard Circle is from Blue Fern Studios. I painted the Chipboard white and then added pink glitter randomly over the chipboard. It is a simple page but effective, I have two beginners starting on Saturday and thought this page would be an easy one for them to do.

BALLET CLASS

 

I did these three backgrounds then put them under a heavy book for a couple of days and when I removed them the cardstock was nice and even again. Thank you for taking the time to look at my pages and I hope you enjoy your time on Scrappy Hollow. I have posted Gabrielle Polaccos recipe for the Homemade Texture Paste on my blog but for anyone who wants to try it out here it is again.

HOMEMADE TEXTURE PASTE by Gabrielle Pollacco

1/4 cup Talcum Powder
(I used Johnson's Baby Powder to make it smell good too!!)
1 Tablespoon White All purpose School Glue
1 Tablespoon White Craft Paint
Some Water

Dream

Hi Everyone,
Well it has been a long time since I have posted on my blog. It seems like Christmas was so long ago. I was recently asked to join a Blog Hop, I have never participated in one before I wasn't sure how it worked, but decided I would do a layout and join in. The page I did was Dream. This page has been solely scrapped in Kaszazz Products. Their new range is called Sweet Pastels, and I love it for wedding photos. I have done several pages using these papers. The paper I used from the Range is Sweet Pastels - Love. I have covered the paper with a light wash of Gesso and then proceeded to work on the design.

The rolled Roses were make with the Ezy Press - Rolled Rose Maker

The Blog Hop in on another blog I have Kerrys Kaszazz Korner. If you are interested in having a look just click Here. Thank you for taking the time to look at my page.

Santa's Helper by Di Garling

Goodmorning Everyone,


Well it is heating up here in tropical North Queensland Australia. Getting close to using our airconditioners again after a beautiful mild winter. I love Di Garlings work and today I thought I would post one of her You Tube videos called Santa's Little Helper. Although we don't have snow up here I really love this page, for  the people who live in hot climates at xmas we could use maybe a star stensil instead of snow flakes.  In this video she uses glitter with texture paste to get a sparkly background. I really like this idea. I hope you take the time to watch this video and enjoy.

Thank you for visiting my blog.

Playtime Fun/Baby Boy

Hi Everyone,

Today I am featuring a double page layout I have done of my grandson. In my grand children's photo albums my main aim is the photo. When you look at the pages I want the photos to be the focal point, therefore I do fairly simple pages, that I think are pleasing to the eye, but the photos are the most important part of the page. I like to do a 5x7" photo on the first page and then fit as many corresponding photos on the second page. On each page I always journal and tell the story of those particular photos. I don't like to have my handwriting on every page as I do not like my handwriting, but in saying that I do think it is nice to have handwritten journaling in the scrapbooks for future generations of my family to see, so I do a lot of Hidden Journaling. You can use anything for journaling boxes. You can use tags and slip them under your photos. You can decorate your tags. Make small envelopes and pop your story in there.  Make small journaling boxes out of the paper you are using on your layout and then pop a tag in the box.  If you look at the second page today, you will see I have made a tag and slipped it under the first photo. I cut out two small hearts from the Ezy Press Heart Die and attached the two together, so you can pull the tag out. The ideas are limitless. I hope you enjoy my pages for my grandsons albums.

Treasured Memories

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This photo is my favourite photo of my grandmother. I just love her sitting on the horse in her pretty dress with her brother standing beside her. I had an idea that I wanted the photo to look like a picture hanging on a wall. I picked the wood panels as it matched the old wood panels on the shed behind my grandmother. It is a page which i scrapped from Kaszazz products and stamps. I love the old family heritage photos and I am lucky enough to have a good collection of heritage photos. My family was poor and came out from England, when my grandmother was a small baby, so I am thankful for them, as I should imagine it would have been hard for them to have photos taken of the family. When I first started scrapbooking 20 years ago or more the first album I did was  Creative Memories Album with my Heritage photos, telling the story of my family. One of my photos dates back more than 105 years. Today my album is in pristine condition and my children love to look through the album when they come up for a visit. Gee the style of my scrapbooking has changed. I hope you enjoy my Layout.

Best Day

Hi Everyone,


Some time ago I scrapped the page below and card for a special reason, and although it was very popular nothing happened regarding it, so today I thought I would put up a post showing you my work.

 

At the time I absolutely loved doing every piece of this LO. I think it was the bright colours of the papers that I do not usually use. I loved the Peacock Feather Stamp and loved using the White Embossing Powder to bring out the beautiful shape of the feathers. I found at the time that all the white stamping and embellishments just stood out on the page. The flowers are small white crochet flowers with a rose brad in the middle. It is funny how something I thought would be so popular, did not appeal to other people. Oh well this LO is one for the album.

Fool Proof Way to Line up Dies and Stamps by Heartfelt Creations

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Well it is warming up here in far North Queensland and summer will soon be upon us. I often have a little trouble when lining up Stamps with Dies and today I am featuring a video tutorial to help with this by Heartfelt Creations. This video demonstrates the Heartfelt Creations technique of lining up the stamps with their dies. You will learn how to create a template to line up a single stamp, how to line up and cut out 12 flowers at once and lining up the stamps with dies that have cut lines on the edges. These techniques will have you die-cutting stamped images in no time!

 

Hope you enjoy this video. 

Baby Boy

Good Afternoon Everyone and happy first day of spring to you all. Introducing to you my new Grandson. You will be seeing a lot of him in the near future. I will have to get into the groove with boy pages, as for a long time now I have only been doing mostly girly pages. The paper used in this layout is from the Kaszazz Range - Early Years this being called Prince. The Baby Boy stamps are also from Kaszazz as well as the Pearl Flourish on the top of the page. Using a Martha Stewart punch I punched out randomly two places on the paper, just to loose that square look, although I wanted straight lines on this page, and of course the bow is from my very favourite die - Kaszazz Bow Maker. I seem to get so much use from this die. Flowers are from the Prima Range, and the colour was a perfect match to the paper. On the Baby Boy words I have stamped them out with Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Weathered Wood. A little piece of muslin behind the flowers softened them somewhat. Well I hope you enjoy my page and I hope you have a great first day of Spring.

I also have a second Blog showing pages and cards I make solely with Kaszazz Products. If you would like to have a peek hop on over to www.kerryskaszazzkorner.blogspot.com

Flip-Out Page

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I have been rather busy lately with other commitments but today I am featuring a Flip-Out Page I have done on my Dad. This page was done with papers My Minds Eye, and I am not sure the name of them but I think they may have been from a collection called "Lost and Found". I used seven pieces of the different papers in this collection along with a Brown linen cardstock.

Matching Brads and titles were used and different ribbons that matched, laces, ric-rac and rhinestones. I had bought these all together at the time. I also inked their edges of the paper with Tim Holtz, Scattered Straw Distress Ink. This page was rather difficult to do, but I am so pleased with the outcome.

Hope you enjoy this page.

Mum

Hi Everyone,

Today I have eventually got back to scrapbooking in earnest after four weeks break. My page today is based on a photo taken of my mum when she was a girl. Some of the products I have used on this page are as follows: Firstly using a Teresa Collins Damask mask and using my paste which I made from Gabrielle Pollacco's recipe,(posted on my blog some time ago), I proceeded to mask my paper. Then using a La Blanche stamp did a bit of stamping onto the white paste. I then printed off my photos and placed them on my page. Found a piece of old newspaper print paper in my stash and used that as the backing for my photos. All my Flowers are from Petaloo, wooden swirl from Kaisercraft. I found other bits and pieces in my stash like the wooden bottle, resin flowers, a Melissa Frances Chalkboard Charm and a Timeless Chipboard word I then covered with Embossing Powder.
My aim on this page was to use stamps I hadn't used for a while and try and use up bits a pieces I have left over from other pages. The paper I have used is from Blue Fern Studios Montage "Now and Then".

I hope you enjoy my page.

Embellishments

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Well it has been four weeks since I have been on my blog, due to the fact that at that time my husband had a heart attack. Thankfully all is well now, and he is due to go back to work on this coming Monday, so today I thought I would show you some lovely embellishments I found on Pinterest these would make a beautiful addition to your scrapbook pages. Hopefully next week I will be back in full force and scrapbooking. I have a new Kaszazz Blog where you can purchase through me any scrapbooking goodies you require. If you would like to have a look at the pages I have designed using Kaszazz Products hop on over to the following link: www.kerryskaszazzkorner.blogspot.com

Flower Tutorial - Water Distressing

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Making paper flowers for my pages, sometimes does my head in and very rarely turn out how I would like them. Today I am posting a great video on making a paper flower, using only a punch and some scrapbooking materials to make a beautiful flower which would be great for any scrapbook layout. I hope you enjoy watching this video.

Family

Hi Everyone,

Sometime ago I completed two Family History Albums, and one of the photos I loved the most was one of my Grandmother and her Brother. Today I am featuring a Vintage Style Layout incorporating this photo. All paper flower are handmade, using a die. I had sat there for hours one day making these flowers and left them in my scrap room to dry. Sometime in the early hours of the morning I woke up and thought I didn't cover the flowers up, oh the cats won't touch them. When I went into my room in the morning three flowers were gone, I have a sneaking suspicion who the culprit was, and I am sure she ate three flowers. This was a lesson learnt always cover my scrap table up before going to bed.

All products used in this layout are from the Kaszazz Range of Products.
I hope you enjoy looking at my page.

Mixed Media Video Tutorial - Together by Gabriele Pollacco

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Today I thought I would post a video on a scrapbooking mixed media page - Together by Gabriele Pollacco. For the adventurous ladies out there this page is lovely. Thought some of you talented ladies might like to give it a try. Also I am posting Gabriele's recipe for her homemade Texture Paste which I have made and tried and is sooo good and economical. It sets with a lovely finish. It is very good on writing stensils comes out lovely.

 HOMEMADE TEXTURE PASTE BY  GABRIELE POLLACCO

1/4 cup Talcum Powder
(Used Johnson's Baby Powder to make it smell good too)
1 tablespoon White All purpose School Glue
1 tablespoon White Craft Paint
Some Water
Instructions:  Combine talcum powder, glue, white paint with disposable chopsticks (or plastic spoon) in an airtight container, adding water to get it to the consistency you are looking for.  You want a nice thick texture much like toothpaste.  The mixture will keep perfectly for many months

Email me and let me know if anyone scraps this most beautiful page.

Scrapbooking Embellishments

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Today I was looking on Pinterest and saw some lovely scrapbooking embellishments I thought I would share with you I find that making my own embellishments for my pages, saves me money and I always think you give that little extra to your scrapbook page. If you would like to see more of these lovely embellishments hop on over to my Pinterest page and go to my board Scrapbooking - Embellishments. You will find the link on the side of my blog page. I hope you enjoy these and try some of theseon your next page.

Scrap the Girls - May Challenge

This is my interpretation of this months Scrap The Girls May Challenge. I really loved the sketch. The papers used in this layout are from Blue Fern Studios - Montage Collection.