Monday, 26 March 2018

Washi Tape Scrapbook Layout

Who loves their Washi Tape stash? Is your stash huge and just curious do you know what the core of the tape looks like when you have used up a whole roll? I don't!

 
That's how I store my Washi Tape - on shower curtain rings in the group they came with - once they retire they are added to a plastic stash box.
 
Recently away scrapping with my friends we were all doing school pages and my friend Kim had seen a page similar to this one so we all scraplifted it in our own style - One inspiration layout turned into 10 different ones around the room.


13 years for 3 kids is a heap of yellow and green scrapbook pages to match that oh so lovely uniform colour choice.
I have pulled some of my current Stampin' Up! Washi Tape from my stash for this page in particular the Black and white Pick A Pattern set plus the Basics pack 2 that's shades of green and one yellow beauty - oh and the silver star Washi shines in the Myths & Magic Washi tape set.
To keep with the colour theme the LISAROW PS is white embossed black card that's then cut using the large letters framelits.

I pulled one of the Crushed Curry pieces from the 12x12 Regals pack and trimmed my Whisper White piece down by 1cm all round (well actually 2 cm off 2 sides and then center your white piece).
A tip for sewing - don't put adhesive where your want to actually stitch - it gums up the needle and it breaks the cotton or at worse the needle.

The yellow bus is Miss M's contribution even though school busses in Australia are not yellow!

 Add a sewing machine with black cotton threaded and these goodies to recreate this page for your shining start.

Courtenay
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Saturday, 24 March 2018

Hello Friend Stampin' Up! - Monochrome Inksomniacs Blog Hop.


Mono - one
Chrome - Colour

Todays' Inksomniacs team Blog Hop is all about one colour - any colour you like in fact. We are hopping together as a team to share some inspiration for a Monochrome hop. With the end of Sale A Bration nearing it is important to mention you need to be quick to get a hold of your favourite FREE items before they are gone for good. I will admit to stashing more than a little of the beautiful free shimmer ribbon.


Whoops off track - for this hop I have pulled out Hello Friend from the Annual Catalogue and using the colours featured in there I picked my ONE. Calypso Coral is my Monochrome colour of choice but I believe this would look great in any colour.

    
I have added some texture to my card which the lighting for the photo didn't show well - however here is a little tip - don't hoard embossing powder it mmm changes colour as it ages. Both of these samples the embossing powder is white - one is the new tub and the old well lets say the little I have left might need to go as its more vanilla in colour now.
 
 

A special card needs a special envelope so both the front and back have been stamped today. I then followed through onto the inside - note the lovely Calypso Coral card strip feature - yep it hides a smudge lol. Can you see the shiny text - I do love embossing and this stamp looks perfect embossed - ink your stamp with Versamark then Calypso Coral, stamp it then sprinkle with clear Emboss powder, heat and voila shiny embossed coloured text!



Thank you for popping past please check out the other members of this hop and see what they have to share - Next up is Linda Dalke


Hop Participants
Courtenay Heuston You are HERE
Linda Dalke
Kate Webb
Maria Kandylas
Jo Hooper
Melinda Whittington
Nerida Carter
Tanya Kane



 The goodie list including the Free Shimmer Ribbon
Courtenay
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Saturday, 17 March 2018

Stampin' Up! Background Technique - SBTD March Blog Hop

 
Welcome to the March Stampers By the Dozen Blog Hop. This month we are looking at background techniques. so you will see this common theme as you follow the hop through the links below. I recently went away scrapping and had a ball with my friends. We go away yearly at least and this is the time I get most of my 12x12 scrap pages done.
 

A little background on this scrap page - my daughter has been doing drama classes for the last 5 years at The Mad Cow Theatre Company. This year she had a main role in a piece called 'The Watch'. The photo was taken by the event photographer from side stage.

So how does this fit into our theme - I used coloured embossing paste as my background on the page. I also added some sewing - it looks a bit like a frame if you ask me and I will admit most pages this getaway had sewing on them!

      
The embossing paste was coloured on my Teflon mat - nothing sticks to this baby including dried embossing paste -  using our Brushos. Wow they blended nicely into the paste but initially I started smearing it over my stencil before it was completely blended for a bit of variety.
 

 
I overestimated my 'need' when I took the paste from the jar as it goes a long way so had a fair wack of left over. I used all my stencils in the pack to make some card fronts with the excess. Because I had already mixed the paste with the powder and it was all one consistent colour I got my finger tapping and sprinkled more Brusho on my project. I pushed it about a bit and love how my bricks now have dark lines on them for a little more colour variation.
 



Thank you for popping past please hop on over to see what Tashana has to share with us by clicking on the 'next' button below.

 
Courtenay Heuston  You are HERE
Carly Middleton                 
 
 For the Scrap Page I used these pieces plus some goodies from my stash and bits I made on my laser cutting machine.

 Goodies for the card. 

Courtenay
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