Monochromatic Scrapbook Page - Stampin' Up! Scrapbooking Global July Blog Hop.

Hi and welcome to the Scrapbooking Global monthly blog hop for July. The theme this month is Monochromatic Scrapbook pages and I will admit I have never done one before. If you have joined me from Maï's page or you are starting here please hop through and see what the participants have to share - there is some amazing inspiration among our hoppers.

So searching through my photos I picked one of my girls dance photos as it's been a while since I have done a dance page.

I was looking at the photos and went with the grey from the school shorts in these pictures so that’s my 'colour'. I picked Basic Grey 12 x 12 as my initial colour, added some white with our embossing paste and chalk marker. The black is from a combination of Memento and a sharpie because I didn't like how our black marker showed up on the dried embossing paste.

     

Not sure if it easy to see but before the Embossing paste dried I pulled out our Brick embossing folder and I pressed it into the wet embossing paste just making the impression of the bricks - it looks a bit like the back of a schoolyard wall. The dance is called Naughty School Girls. After I had done the embossing paste I wanted to try and make it more school Yardie - if that is even a word! So I was planning some graffiti on the brick wall but am I’m not very good at graffiti and didn't want to add another colour - man read would have looked smick!

I have added the stamp sets to the bottom of the resource list essentially because you can grunge up your background with whatever you have that works. The oil smudge from Garage Gears comes out here frequently for that!

Thanks for visiting please leave a comment below as i love to see what you think. Next in the hop is Sherry all the way over in Canada - only way we can visit is virtual at the moment, I am looking forward to what she has to share.

Hoppers list! 

Until next time - remember you can get your paper craft supplies in Australia without even leaving home through my Stampin' Up! Store front by clicking on the picture below. 

Earn from July 1 – August 3 earn a $9 AUD Stampin’ Up! Coupon for every $90 AUD in product that you purchase in my store. Click the picture above to see more details and read the fine print.

Courtenay 

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Hawaiian Hibiscus Scrap Page

Last month I shared a scrap page for a blog hop using new goodies that I loved so I decide to recreate it using a different DSP pack and came up with this Hawaiian Hibiscus Scrap Page. 

So why the Hawaiian Hibiscus style - well get a look at those fun gag glasses she has on they just lent themselves to this page. We have an app on our phones that lets us play with colour  on photos - we can remove it all and add it back as we wish which is what I did here. Flamingos and pink are really not my style so I went with the set Timeless Tropical as my key stamp set teamed up with the coordinating In the Tropics Dies for my embellishments. Each of the Hibiscus and Frangipani flowers are stamped, then coloured with Stampin' Blends then re-stamped with Versamark and clear embossed. I could never have done this accurately without the Stamparatus  though.

     

I have also used stamps from the sets Painted Poppies, Pattern Play and Ridiculously Awesome the same as I did on my Sunflower Page HERE. The DSP featured on this page is from the super fun bright Artistry Blooms DSP

Earn from July 1 – August 3 earn a $9 AUD Stampin’ Up! Coupon for every $90 AUD in product that you purchase in my store. Click the picture above to see more details and read the fine print.

Courtenay 

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Australian Wattle Tribute using the Stampin' Up! Forever Fern Bundle

I am loving the Forever Fern Bundle and what people around the world are doing with it so I decided I would do a tribute to our Australian Wattle. So this is my Australian Wattle Tribute card made using 2 of the leaf stamps from the Forever Fern Stamp set and the Greenery Embossing folders that are also part of the Suite. 

The card is Whisper White and Early Espresso with the 'Wattle' being stamped in the new Bumblebee, the leaves are inked in Old Olive then sponged using a dauber with a hint of Cinnamon Cider onto vellum. The sentiment is from Meant to Be.

The inspiration from this card comes from page 130 of our annual catalogue. I pulled the sketch from one of the cards on that page then went from there.

This is the sketch I came up with for this card and this is what I worked from - all inspired by the catalogue. Click either photo below to get the list of supplies to make this card or one similar.

     

Earn from July 1 – August 3 earn a $9 AUD Stampin’ Up! Coupon for every $90 AUD in product that you purchase in my store. Click the picture above to see more details and read the fine print.

Courtenay 

Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, save yourself at least 20% every time you shop, get great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If you answered YES to any of those questions click here to join my team - for more information. 

  

Birthday Card with Blue Car from Garage Gears

Today I thought I would share this quick easy Birthday Card with a blue car made using the Garage Gears Stamp set from Stampin' Up! It is a set I love and I haven't used it anywhere near as much as I should have.

I needed a quick and easy card and I knew the recipient loves cars - I really wanted to do it red but as much as I tried I didn't love it as much as I do this blue one. I used our Night on Navy Stampin' Blends - predominantly the light one for the car. The background cars are stamped directly onto the cardstock but the Blue Car is mounted with dimensionals to give the card a little lift.

So where did the Happy Birthday come from I hear you ask? The new stamp set Happiest Of Birthdays teamed up with the Stamparatus and boom you have the option to remove a word or 2. I coloured Happy, stamped it  then moved the cardstock down to colour and stamp Birthday with my Stampin' Markers. You will even see this example in the catalogue using 3 colours. If you use different colours tart with your palest colour then colour each word saving the darkest til last. Huff on it then stamp - your breath re-wets the ink.

This set is also great for scrapbookers - check this page HERE out that I did for blog hop last year. Until next time - remember you can get your paper craft supplies in Australia without even leaving home through my Stampin' Up! Store front by clicking on the picture below. 

Earn from July 1 – August 3 earn a $9 AUD Stampin’ Up! Coupon for every $90 AUD in product that you purchase in my store. Click the picture above to see more details and read the fine print.

Courtenay 

Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, save yourself at least 20% every time you shop, get great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If you answered YES to any of those questions click here to join my team - for more information. 

  

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Earn from July 1 – August 3 earn a $9 AUD Stampin’ Up! Coupon for every $90 AUD in product that you purchase in my store.

Redeem the coupon(s) August 4 – August 31.

Which is perfect timing as you can shop the August – December Mini Catalogue with all of the wonderful Christmas oh and Halloween and Autumn (it's from the US) products!!

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Until next time - remember you can get your paper craft supplies in Australia without even leaving home through my Stampin' Up! Store front by clicking on the picture below. 

Courtenay 

Do you live in Australia and would you like to become a Demonstrator, save yourself at least 20% every time you shop, get great rewards and get to craft with Stampin' Up! products before their release? If you answered YES to any of those questions click here to join my team - for more information.