We're on an Adventure

Welcome back to the Scrap Matrix challenge this month 
where we have a unique mood board to inspire you;
it's all about petals and metals.

I chose to scrap a photo of my Grand daughter, 

who loves the great outdoors.

First up I used clear gesso to seal the background paper.

I wanted to use this gorgeous floral stamp by Paper Artsy to frame the photo. I stamped it with Black Archival ink and fussy cut the images, before coloring them with Tim Holtz Distress Oxides. 

Don't be afraid to cut the pieces apart to suit your needs;  it makes the stamps so much more versatile.

 This stencil is wonderfully eclectic, with heaps of different patterns and shapes. Just the thing for adding texture.

It's a fave for me.

  I scraped some texture paste through one corner of it. 

Next I started auditioning various tags to form a nest for my photo.

Adding in a title and some metal flowers.

Fiddling around with placement of the flowers 
and trialling a metal heart.

Hmmm...maybe some chipboard too?  What do you think?

Eventually I'm happy with the placement and add some wax to the chipboard piece to create a metal sheen.

The process of adding bits & bobs, taking them off again, changing the position of pieces, can take ages, as I'm a slow scrapper.

The flicks of yellow Oxide inks add some contrast and 

draw the eye to the texture paste.

The rusted heart seemed the perfect embellishment for the corner.

Voila!  I think it's finished, although I have been known to take it all to pieces in the morning and start again! Luckily there is not enough time to do that for this layout.

I hope you find time to play along this month.  
We'd love to see your take on the challenge.

Just add your entry to the Scrap Matrix Shares Page and don't forget to let us know what Scrap Matrix products you used and what inspired you.  You could be in the running for a $30.00 gift voucher and perhaps a Guest Design Team spot down the track.

Scrap Matrix Products used:-

Clear Gesso TCW

7 Dots Studio - Garden Party.

7 Dots Studio - Tags, Hazy Days.

Paper Artsy stamp - EEB10.

Mambi Chips -Vacation.

Prima Art Alchemy Metallic Wax.

Tim Holtz Archival Ink - Jet Black.

Tim Holtz Distress Oxides - Wild Honey, Spiced Marmalade, 
Fossilized Amber, Fired Brick, Twisted Citron, Peeled Paint.
Blue Fern Chipboard - Button Wheelies.
Carabelle Stencil - For the Love of Layers.
TCW Texture paste. 
Finnabair Art Basics - Soft Matte Gel.

Prima Mechanicals - Tin Hearts.

Metal Flowers. 

Scrap Matrix DT September 2018 - You've been framed.

Welcome back to the Scrap Matrix challenge where this month

the theme is You've been framed.   You can use any kind of frame, or multiple frames, big, small or in between.

They can be in clusters or lined up in rows. 
Have you been framed for something you didn't do??  
We'd love to hear all about it, using frames of course!

Take a look here to see what the rest of the team 
have created to inspire you.

I've attempted a double layout, something I've not done for years!

None of this series of photos is strong enough to use on it's own, but as a group, I think they tell the story of our family's love of Summer, the Beach and Cricket quite well.

The idea for the design began with this stamp set from 

Paper Artsy SSG09

I was inspired by the frame which I planned to use for journalling and also the naive clouds, the suns and the summery, beachy words.

The left side page.

The right side page.

I chose two sheets of paper from Pink Fresh studio, 

Escape the Ordinary Collection, "Transform"

and cut out the centre to form a frame for each page.

Still on the framed theme, and using a die from my stash, 

I cut four frames for the four small photos on the left page.

Next, I hand drew some frames around the landscape shaped photos, 

I was inspired by the stamped journal frame.

The title is from Mambi Chips. The one I used is not in stock right now, but click on the link for something quite similar.

 

I stamped the little clouds onto some water colour paper and used 

blue and white water colour paints from my stash to colour them.

I coloured the little circles around the borders with 

Tim Holt Oxides distress inks, Twisted Citron and Salty Ocean.

To tie the two sides together, I added a small green stamped tag on the right of the photos using Tim Holtz Archival Ink, Jet Black.

I added stamped words directly onto the photos. 

To emphasize the stamped titles, I swished a bit of water colour paint through the words, hoping that it would't go everywhere!

The black chipboard circles are also from Mambi.

I stitched around the the frame with white thread, to add another frame and some definition to the page. 

As the pages were in the great outdoors with a natural theme, I wanted to keep them crisp, clean and simple, so I mostly avoided mixed media in the background and just added stamping.

Thanks for calling in today, I hope you find time to play along, 
just add your entry to the Scrap Matrix Shares page in the corresponding folder; don't forget to let us know what Scrap Matrix products you used and what inspired you.  You could be in the running for a $30.00 gift voucher from the generous Vicki Christensen and perhaps a Guest Design Team spot down the track.

Scrap Matix DT - "The point is" May 2018

Welcome back to the Scrap Matrix challenge where this month

the challenge is "The point is."

Use triangles, stars, arrows, chevrons, diamonds... 

maybe make it about your "point" of view...

Use your creativity and imagination, along with the moodboard to make your point! 

So let's get to the other Point.........here's the inspiration from the Design Team, and as usual they are 

ON POINT!

SCRAP MATRIX

I was inspired by the triangles and the chevrons, as well at the greys and black.

This graphic paper also lead the way to using crisp lines with lots of angles.

To emphasize the points, I trimmed a couple of big triangles from this paper 
and mounted it on black to suit the black and white photo.

This looked too stark, so I added a few smaller triangles 
and fiddled around with placement.  

I made a few pencil lines around the edges, 
as I planned to add some mixed media under the photo
and some stamping along the bottom.

The Prima Rustic washers were added to draw the eye to the photo.

The title was cut from a different paper collection.  
I love the way it combines with the image on the hoodie.

I tucked a couple of extra triangles in to balance the design.

The journalling is on the back of the page and it reads:-

At almost ten years of age, one of your favourite things to do is to draw maps, especially all the inlets along the coast lines.  You make a point of being accurate and trying to learn the capital cities of all the countries on the world map.  You like to test our knowledge  of really obscure countries and are quite chuffed if we make a mistake!  Another of your passions at the moment is jokes and riddles and we make sure to memorize a new batch before we see you.  I love that you now have a finely honed sense of humor and appreciate the subtleties of word play, often going off on a new riff of your own. 

 Such fun to play with words - love you to the moon and back big boy - 

that's the whole point of life.   Photo April 2017, Journalling May 2018.

Thanks for calling in today, I hope you find something to inspire your creativity. 
We'd love to have you play along.  You don't need a blog to join in and we'd love to see where the "points" take you.   Just pop your project in the folder named 
"The point is" on facebook.   Don't forget to let us know what Scrap Matrix products you use, and what inspired you... to be in the running for a $30 gift voucher - and maybe a Guest DT spot in a couple of months!

Here are the links to the products I used which are available at Scrap Matrix.

Pink Fresh paper - Escape the ordinary - Observe

Pink Fresh Paper - Escape the ordinary - Search

AALL & Create stencil #20

Finnabair opaque matte modeling paste

Paper Artsy Stamp EM 17

Finnabair mechanicals - rustic washers