Flutterby Designs DT - Just Be Cool

Hi peeps!!

Today I am sharing a layout I created for Flutterby Designs featuring the awesome Xtreme Teen collection.

'Just Be Cool' Layout

I began by adding some interest to my background using the 'Dangerously Dapper' Stencil with texture paste. Once dry I added a gorgeous wash of diluted Tropicana Teal Flutter Colour paint.

I stuck to a teal, grey, black and white theme and layered some filler cards in those colours together.

I finished by adding my photos of my son clowning around for the camera as well as my title and embellishments including a scattering of wood veneer stars.

Here's what I used:

XTREME TEEN:

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Page Tabs

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Flair Button

- 'Dangerously Dapper' Stencil

- Wood Veneer Stars

- Flutter Colour Tropicana Teal

Thanks for checking out my layout today. I hope you feel inspired to play with your Flutterby Designs stash too. Make sure you share your fabulous creations in the Flutterby Inspiration HQ Facebook group.

Cheers

Belinda

The Scrapbook Store DT - Authentique Rugged 3

Hello!

Today I am sharing my third layout for the month for THE SCRAPBOOK STORE featuring the awesome Authentique Rugged collection.

This collection has a really masculine feel to it but this layout serves to show that you can still use it for girl layouts.

'Life' Layout

AUTHENTIQUE Rugged Collection

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Sequins Negative Bits

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Square Barbed Wire Frames

PRIMA Flowers 594831

BELLA BOULEVARD Puffy Heart Stickers Blueberry Mix

KAISERCRAFT Kaisermist Denim

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink Faded Jeans

Make sure you head over HERE to find all of the latest products. Lots of lovely new stuff loaded regularly.

Cheers

Belinda

Flutterby Designs DT - Stand Out + Cool Pre Teen.

Hello!!

Belinda here today to share two more layouts I have created using the completely awesome Xtreme Teen range.

For these layouts, I wanted to showcase the utterly brilliant Knucklehead Stencil. I LOVE skulls and anything spooky so I couldn't wait to play with this stencil.

'Stand Out'  Layout

I started this layout with a kraft cardsstock background. I placed the stencil on it and drew around the skulls using a waterproof fine black journalling pen. I diluted some black gesso with water to get a runny, watercolour consistency. I spritzed the background with water and then painted around the skulls with the black gesso using a soft, wet paintbrush.

Once all of the black gesso background was dry, I watered down the Arctic White Flutter Colour paint and painted the skulls.

I was inspired by the cool Converse images in the collection so decided to scrap a photo of my daughter's new Converse. AND I have had a Converse die in my stash for absolutely ages waiting for the right project. FINALLY I got to use it and the fabulous fabric look grey photo filler card was the perfect piece to use for the die cut.

I layered on some photo filler cards, my photo and a whole heap of awesome bits and bobs, wood veneer page tabs and flair button.

Here's what I used:

XTREME TEEN:

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Page Tabs

- Knucklehead Stencil

- Flair Buttons - Set 1

Flutter Colour Paint Arctic White

Small Stars Wood Veneers

Everyday Etc Photo Cards - Colour Me Krafty

Sticky Quick Quotes

'# Cool Pre Teen' Layout

So there is that cool stencil again! I told you I LOVE it! This time I have swiped some Golden Light Molding Paste over the stencil to create a more dimensional effect. I have added just two rows of Knuckleheads across the bottom of my layout by masking off areas of the stencil using scrap paper held in place with a little washi tape.

This time I spritzed the background with water and then doused it in Charcoal Kaisermist. So that it wasn't quite so dark, I blotted the excess colour away with scrunched up paper towel and flicked a bit more water at it for a waterstained effect..

I have mixed and matched the Xtreme Teen range with the Colour Me Krafty collection which worked perfectly with my kraft cardstock background. I have kept to a simple neutral colour scheme of black, white and kraft to make my photo really stand out. 

Here's what I used:

XTREME TEEN:

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Page Tabs

- Knucklehead Stencil

- Tickets

Everyday Etc Photo Cards - Colour Me Krafty

Page Tabs - Colour Me Krafty

Wood Veneer Confetti Circles

Flair Buttons No. 307

Snippet Strips - Monochrome

Well that is all from me today. Don't forget to share your own awesome creations in our Flutterby Designs Inspiration HQ Facebook Group. I would so love to see what you have made.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Belinda

The Scrapbook Store DT - Authentique Rugged 2

Hello!

Today I have my second layout to share for the month for THE SCRAPBOOK STORE featuring Authentique Rugged.

'Weirdo' Layout

I love the blue and brown colour combo in this range and the Heidi Swapp Navy Color Shine worked perfectly with it.

Loving those blueberry puffy heart stickers too.

Products used:

AUTHENTIQUE Rugged:

- Rugged One

- Rugged Four

- Rugged Eight

- Rugged Details

BELLA BOULEVARD Puffy Heart Stickers Blueberry Mix

TIM HOLTZ Idea-ology Sprocket Gears

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Square Barbed Wire Frames

DUSTY ATTIC Chipboard Word Pack # 22

HEIDI SWAPP Color Shine Navy

TIM HOLTZ Distress Ink:

- Faded Jeans

- Walnut Stain

KAISERCRAFT Kaisercard Kraft

kraft tag

jute

Thanks for stopping by. Make sure you head over HERE for lots of awesome new stock.

Cheers

Belinda

The Scrapbook Store DT - Authentique Rugged 1

Hello!

This month at The Scrapbook Store I have the pleasure of working with the awesome Authentique Rugged Collection.

Such a fabulous paper range with lots of blue and brown and vintage inspired images. Perfect for male layouts.

'Happy' Layout

I LOVED this patterned paper with the book images so decided to base my layout around this. The photo is one of my faves of my kids walking with my dog on the farm. This is where happy moments are made. 

To break up the strongly patterned background and to bring the focus to the photo, I added some gesso followed by some diluted Dusty Attic paint and Navy Heidi Swapp Color Shine.

I added some strips from the brilliant sticker sheet as well as a length of Green Tara trim. Next I layered on lots of messy embroidery thread, my photo and embellishments.

Here's what I used:

AUTHENTIQUE Rugged:

- Rugged Three

- Rugged Eight

- Rugged Details

BELLA BOULEVARD Puffy Heart Stickers Blueberry Mix

2 CRAFTY Chipboard Grass Clumps

DUSTY ATTIC Chipboard:

- Wordpl@y # 3

- Word Pack # 34

- Flies

DUSTY ATTIC Paint:

- Denim

- Faded Denim

HEIDI SWAPP Color Shine Navy

GREEN TARA 15mm Jute Trim Ivory

GREEN TARA 1.5cm Roses Brown

CARABELLE ART STUDIO Art Stamp Edge Look At My Story

PRIMA Flowers 594831

gesso

embroidery thread

Make sure you pop over to the store HERE to check out all of the fabulous new goodies in the shop.

Cheers

B

Flutterby Designs DT - Xtreme Teen 1

Hello!!

Today I have two layouts to share for FLUTTERBY DESIGNS featuring the brand new freaking awesome Xtreme Teen collection.

I love this brilliant collection so much that as soon as I had it in my inky, painty hands I whipped up 5 layouts! It's that good.

Now while I am not currently blessed with teenagers in my house, in no more than a blink of the eyes I will be. With a son that will be turning 11 this year and a daughter turning 12, the attitude levels are on the increase! LOL

'I'm Not O-fucking-kay' Layout

So I recently got one of THOSE phone calls from the school. One young son in excrutiating pain after falling off the swing at school. He had the whole banana arm thing happening so off to hospital we went in an ambulance. He was such a trooper. Not crying or making a fuss. Totally calm throughout the whole ordeal and the very long wait at the hospital. So proud of him. :-)

Here's a peek at my background before I started layering on all of the fabulous embellishments and photo cards in the range. I turned the 'On The Plus Side' Stencil on it's side to create crosses (because I wanted to put a big fat cross through the whole day!). I swiped some Golden Light Molding Paste over the stencil and allowed to dry. Then I diluted some awesome Flutter Colour Paint with water, spritzed my background liberally with water and applied the paints with a soft paintbrush. I spritzed with water a bit more to get that paint really flowing and then dried off with a heat gun. It created a really lovely watercolour effect but still maintained the big, bold, brightness of the paints.

I love how absolutely perfect the embellishments and quotes are for the not so happy experiences! 

Here's what I used:

XTREME TEEN:

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Page Tabs

- Wood Veneer

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Die Cut Bits & Bobs

- Flair Buttons

- 'On The Plus Side' Stencil

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Bright Tabs 2 Photo Cut Outs

FLUTTER COLOUR:

- Green Limousine

- Orange Goldfish

- Tropicana Teal

Next up is a layout featuring my daughter clowning around for a photo and giving me some teenage swagger!

'Epic Swagger' Layout

I started this layout by swiping some Flutter Colour Paint in Tropicana Teal over my background white cardstock. I also added some drippy Arctic White paint. Once dry, I stencilled on some stars using the Stargazed Mini Stencil and some Golden Light Molding Paste.

I have added a little stamping and then layered on co-ordinating filler photo cards, my photo and embellishments.

Here's what I used:

XTREME TEEN:

- Everyday Etc Photo Cards

- Everyday Etc Filler Photo Cards

- Page Tabs

- Wood Veneer

- Sticky Quick Quotes

- Flair Button

- Wood Veneer Page tab

- Stargazed Mini Stencil

FLUTTER COLOUR Arctic White

I hope you like my projects today and you are feeling inspired to get creative with your Flutterby stash too. You can find all the product I have used over HERE on the website.

Thanks for stopping by.

Cheers

Belinda

Darkroom Door DT - Seven Days Eclectic Stamp

Hello!!

Today I am sharing some projects I created for DARKROOM DOOR featuring the fabulous NEW Seven Days Eclectic Stamp. 

I have created three very different projects to show you the many uses of this one brilliant stamp.

'Seven Days' Planner Spread

Here I have stamped the Seven Days onto white cardstock using Jet Black Archival Ink and then cut each day out individually. Then I adhered them to my planner pages.

I coloured my planner pages using the brand new Dyan Wakley Media Scribble Sticks.

I stamped some background stamps onto white cardstock using the same black ink and coloured them with the Scribble Sticks too.

Supplies  used:
Darkroom Door Seven Days Eclectic Stamp
Darkroom Door Paint Tubes Eclectic Stamp
Darkroom Door Pen Nibs Eclectic Stamp
Darkroom Door Coffee Stain Eclectic Stamp
Darkroom Door Tribal Background Stamp
Darkroom Door Abstract Triangles Background Stamp
Darkroom Door Mail Art Rubber Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Australian Animals Vol. 1
Darkroom Door Everyday Life Rubber Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Carved Houses Rubber Stamp Set
Archival Ink: Jet Black
Distress Ink: Peacock Feathers, Picked Raspberry, Squeezed Lemonade
Dina Wakley Scribble Sticks: Lemon, Magenta, Turquoise

'Normal Person' Art Journal Spread

Here I have used the Seven Days Eclectic Stamp as a border on my art journal page. I simply stamped it repeatedly down the left hand side using Jet Black Archival Ink after I had altered my page with many layers of paint and stamping.

I had so much fun painting the Crafty Lady Line Art Stamp!

Supplies used:
Darkroom Door Seven Days Eclectic Stamp
Darkroom Door Masquerade Quote Stamp
Darkroom Door Crafty Lady Line Art Stamp
Darkroom Door Harlequin Background Stamp
Darkroom Door Stars Rubber Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Grunge Marks Rubber Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Dots Texture Stamp
Archival Ink: Aquamarine, Jet Black, Paradise Teal
Acrylic Paint

'Birthday' Card

Finally, here is a card I made to show that the stamp works equally as well on a card! I have also had a bit of a play with the new Tim Holtz Distress Oxides on this card and the verdict is: I love them!!

Supplies used:
Darkroom Door Seven Days Eclectic Stamp
Darkroom Door Abstract Triangles Background Stamp
Darkroom Door Happy Birthday Rubber Stamp Set
Darkroom Door Stars Rubber Stamp Set
Archival Ink: Jet Black
Distress Oxide Ink: Broken China, Spiced Marmalade, Wilted Violet, Worn Lipstick

Want to find out how I created these projects?? Head over to the Darkroom Door blog HERE to check out my step by step instructions.

Did you know that you can order direct from the Darkroom Door website?? How easy is that to add some of the must have new stamps to your collection?

Cheers

Belinda