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

Hello Everyone,


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.