Romantique Reds

Happy Sunday hope you had a lovely day together with your family celebrating Mothers Day or just in general enjoying the beautiful Autmn weather we had today

today we welcome Debra back with a gorgeous layout 

 I have used 2 different papers, from the Le Jardin Romantique collection.
 2x Enchanted Florals (I fussy cut one of these, the other I used the reverse for my background)
1 x Song Blossom (I  fussy cut the floral pieces )

The biggest flowers I separated from the floral pieces, rolling the edges slightly,  adding gesso lightly to the flower edges   and microbeads and other small beads to make the flower centers. 
 These flowers sit a little higher than the pieces that surround them.

The Ornate Gate Chipboard I heat embossed using chunky gold embossing powder, to give a rustic feel.
I also fussy cut the photo, so that it would not overwhelm the rest of the layout.
I layered all my pieces so they sit at different heights.

I stenciled the background around my fussy pieces, using texture past and 2 colours of oxide ink, to add extra interest to the layout.

The Simple Life

 A little late again with this Share with all of the public holidays lately I am not sure what day it is. feeling out of Wack. 

 How ever today being Anzac day I do believe this is a great share for such a day. I just wanted to take a minute to recognize those who stayed behind at home and stepped up to support the country in multiple different ways whilst those who left for war left many a gap how hard it must have been waiting for your loved ones to return, as their lives still went on.

The Australian Land Army 

More than 3,000 women volunteered in the Australian Land Army during World War II.

Their duties include anything from dairying to driving tractors, the work required of the land girls was varied. But one thing was certain — it was quite unlike what was generally expected of women in the 1940s.

"They were some of the most extraordinary pioneers because they were doing things and transforming our understanding, particularly for women, of what women could do," they were a part of our Unsung Heroes 

unsung heroes

Another long standing tradition is the baking of Anzac biscuits both here and New Zealand. This is my simple way of remembrance and the recipe has been passed down from my mother to my daughter and it has coconut in it, something I believed to be normal.  But the first recipe for an Anzac biscuit containing the desiccated coconut is recorded to be from the city of Adelaide in 1924.^[17][18] 

So having said all of this Today we welcome back Tina  with a special layout that says more than the perfect placement and colour choices, she has made. Her Page tells a story and that too is what Scrap booking is about. 

Thanks for dropping by and seeing my latest share. 

• I started with a sheet of time warp paper from the Cogs of time collection. 
• I added some stenciling over the top.
• I then painted my chipboard black and added waxes from Finnabair. 
• I layered my photo with various papers and a piece of denim. 

•  I cut my chipboard up and layered it.  
• I added some 49 and market pieces, a title and then splatters.

 thanks for stopping by

Tina

My heart is full

 Hope this post finds you all well we have been very busy of late creating and just working it. Autumm is here and the interesting weather has arrived have had the opportunity to spend time outside in my garden, Autum planting complete already for the winter rain, knowing that come spring will be a delight.

 Today we welcome Debra to the blog for the first time with her stunning layout of herself with her daughter. Such a burst of flowers in this gorgeous project

 I used the beautiful Elegance Collection papers, which I have fussy cut, torn , inked and layered.

My photo is mounted on a fancy chipboard frame.

I embossed the leafy chipboard pieces and tucked them under the flowers I have added. 

I have added more texture to the layout using texture paste through a stencil, then added some Artstone for added detail.

The printed flowers on the paper I have glued gold microbeads for the flower centers so that the flowers pop.

Thank you Debra for sharing this special page with us

 thanks for the visit to our blog

Laugh Lots

Today we welcome Tina back to the blog with her layered layout 

Welcome to my latest share for Denise Boddey. 

I used a photo taken of my friend since kindergarten at my daughter's wedding. 

Today I have used just 2 papers from the Elegance collection, style and chic. 

 

I added stenciling and water colour to my base card stock.

I tore the middle out of chic. then lined it up on my paper, I then sewed the middle piece down to the cardstock

I fussy cut some flowers and clocks. 

I took the oval frame and covered with white gesso then used water colours and embossing powder I cut the frame to tuck into my layers. 

I love how this turned out! added texture and interest to the layers. 

I added some glossy agents to the flowers to give them some interest. 

I found a Charms heart in my stash, some gems, word strips and cotton. 

Lastly I finished with silver and white splatters.

A day with the Family

Happy Sunday and happy Fathers day and what a beautiful day here in Adelaide to celebrate the day for Fathers 

Today Tina is visiting us with her delightful page love all the little words she has used through out the page

just makes it more personal and inspiring 

Hi. Hope you weekend has been full of craft. 

For this page I started with the castle gates chipboard and altered them. I love the texture and added interest they add to the page.

I started with paper song blossom. Added layers behind my photo.

 I then added lots of fussy cut elements from various papers. 

Added some cheese cloth, a Charms Creations heart as well as white and gold splatters.  

Thank you for spending some of your crafting time with me

What would you do

Hope everyone had a lovely weekend  Tina is back again this evening sharing another fantastic Scrapbooking page which she has created for us 

Welcome back Tina

Happy Sunday Everyone. Hope this day treated you well. For my share this evening I used a range of papers from the Le Jardin Romantique range, with Enchanted Florals as my base. This was the perfect collection to document my inclusion into this awesome design team. I mean who wouldn't love to play with the awesome papers and chipboard that Denise designs?  

 I started work with my chipboard first. I used Small florals and Dream total. I covered them with glue and then added gliding flakes.  I let the glue dry and then sanded away gentle with a scrubber the excess flakes. I love how this turned out! Its really effective.

 I  then fussy cut some flowers and punched a few out. I edged them all using distress ink. I also made some hand rolled flowers. These are so much fun to make and best of all they will match your project perfectly. 

I tore a piece of natures romance for across the top and rolled it. Since I had gliding flakes every where!!! I added some into my flowers, this then brought the gliding flakes more around the page which helps make the page more cohesive.

 I then layered all my elements around. 

I add some foam tape under some elements to give extra interest and shadows. I have also bent and twisted some elements to give extra texture .  

I added some prills in the middle of some flowers and a clock fussy cut from chic paper. 

I added some splatters and word strips as well  and some cheese cloth. Lastly I layered my cut down chipboard. I am really pleased with how this turned out. 

 I hope to see some of your creations with this fabulous paper range shared in our group  Facebook  DBD share and inspire group  

Thank you for sharing your scrapping time with me.

Moment in Time by Tina

Happy Sunday everyone hope you all are well and maybe grabbing some crafting time. Today we welcome back Tina to the blog with her specially beautiful layout.

 

Welcome to my share today for Denise Boddey designs. 

I started with nature's romance paper from the le Jardine Romantique collection.  I added some gold leaves by using a stencil. 

I then grabbed the fern chip board, moment In time total and the oval  frame. I used embossing powders and Finnaber waxes to create colour. 

I then fussy cut out flowers from Nature Romance , Enchanted Florals and Glory pattern paper which is from the Elegance collections. I layered all the elements up. 

Added a Charms creation, flair cheese cloth, flowers and some gold pills. 

I hope this inspires you to grab some fabulous chipboard and papers from Densise Boddey designs and get creating!  

Thank you Tina for creating and sharing your moment in time layout