Where has the time gone? Christmas is almost here!

Welcome again to a new week! Hopefully you can all find some scrapping time over the holiday season.

I’m loving this Basic Grey range! This week I have just used scraps of paper and embellished areas with the element stickers and die cut shapes. It gives the page a fuller look, yet I haven’t used that much paper.

 

It’s rare to get a photo of my parents with Dad actually being serious long enough to get a good photo! I love this one of them at a recent family friend’s wedding we went to. It took 3 takes, but third time was a charm! The colours also blend well with the papers I chose for this page.

I've captured a few close ups of some of the detail for you too....

 

 

 

 

Head over to the Scraploot store to pick up the following supplies for this page and a few extras to get you through the holidays! 

Basic Grey Little Black Dress Element Stickers 

Basic Grey Little Black Dress Alphabet Sticker Sheet  

Basic Grey Little Black Dress Title Stickers  

Basic Grey Little Black Dress Die Cut Shapes

Basic Grey Little Black Dress Tissue Flowers
Basic Grey Little Black Dress Metal Flowers
Basic Grey Little Black Dress Paper Shades of Grey  
Basic Grey Little Black Dress Paper Etiquette
ASS074 White Textured Cardstock 
Green Tara Black Flowers
Green Tara Cream Flowers
Kaisercraft Paper Blooms Coconut 
Kaisercraft pearls
GT Lace White L2853W 
SI Magic Mount White
Pritt All Purpose Glue 40gm 
XP 6mm Double Sided Tape

Don’t forget to keep an eye out for Ruby & Michelle’s design work for you later in the week. Merry Christmas to you all and happy scrapping! 

xx Renae 

Bubbles!

Not of the alcoholic kind though... a few more weeks until Christmas until we crack those Bubbles out!

I captured this lovely photo of my sister at a family friend's wedding. I was doing my best for the bubbles not to land on my satin dress and she was blowing them right at me lol! I love black and white photos and they work so well with the Basic Grey Little Black Dress range!

Here are a few close ups.... I wanted to remove some of the white starkness of the lace to blend in with the colour tones of the page, so I used my dauber and rubbed a little ink over it to give it a dirtier look.

I've made a distressed circle flower in the photo above, with tags from the Canvas Die Cut Flowers and Die Cut Shapes.

 

Head over to the Scraploot online store to pick up the following supplies to recreate this layout:
- BG Little Black Dress Die Cut Shapes
- BG Little Black Dress Canvas Die Cut Flowers
- BG Little Black Dress Alphabet Sticker Sheet
- BG Little Black Dress Eclectic Embellishments
- BG Little Black Dress Element Sticker Sheet
- BG Little Black Dress Metal Flowers
- BG Little Black Dress Title Stickers
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Drama Mod
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Haute Couture
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Tuxedo
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Etiquette
- American Crafts Memory Marker - Ash
- GT Organza Rosette Ivory
- GT Lace Off White L3042OW
- SI Magic Mount White
- XP 6mm Double Sided Tape

Don't forget to keep your eyes peeled for more inspiration from the Design Team during the week. Until next time, happy scrapping!

xx Renae

Nothing Like A Little Black Dress....

Today we are going to share with you a little extra inspiration from Sue for the collection Little Black Dress by Basic Grey. As you can tell this is a fave collection over here at the moment.....

To re-create this layout, you will need the following items which can be purchased over at Scraploot online.... for quick and easy access just click on each of the items below to take you directly to the store.
ASS 034 Vanilla Cardstock
ASS 075 Black Cardstock
Basic Grey Little Black Dress Papers
- Best Dressed
- Modern Vogue
- Foxy Posh
Embellished with
Little Black Dress Die Cut Shapes
Little Black Dress Canvas Die Cut Flowers
Little Black Dress Tissue Flowers
Little Black Dress Metal Flowers
Bella Vintage Harmony Flowers
Bella Black Boutique Flowers
Kaisercraft Paper Bloom Terracotta
2Crafty Vintage Iron Fence
Ink & Tools
Bella Distresser
Archival Ink - Sepia
Ranger Inkssentials Crackle Accents

With such a gorgeous cluster of embellishments, here is a close up, to show you in detail

We are hoping that you are loving what our new design team are sharing with you, and getting some inspiration. Be sure to pop back again tomorrow, to see what Michelle has in store for us.

Welcome to a new week!

Welcome to a new week and my Monday blog post. Today I bring you a step by step layout. Before you start, you will need to head over to the Scraploot online store to get all your goodies.

Here’s what you need:

- BG Little Black Dress Title Stickers
- BG Little Black Dress Element Sticker Sheet
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Best Dressed 
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Drama Mod
- BG Little Black Dress Paper Tuxedo
- BG Little Black Dress Tissue Flowers 
- Basic Grey Little Black Dress Eclectic Embellishments 
- GT Organza Rosette Ivory 
- 2C Corner Whispy Vines 
- Vanilla Cardstock 
- Ranger Distress Embossing Powder Black Soot 
- Kaisercraft Pearls 
- Green Tara Black Flowers 
- Maya Road Trinket Pins Vintage Pearl
- SI Magic Mount White 
- Pritt All Purpose Glue 40gm 
- XP 6mm Double Sided Tape 

And here is what I am going to show you how to create....

Here’s what you need to do:

1.  Using your vanilla cardstock, ink the edges. Using a second piece of cardstock, cut a photo mat for your photo. Mat your 6” x 4” photo onto this photo mat.

2.  From the piece of “Tuxedo” paper, cut a 3” x 12” strip. Using the grey side up, distress and ink. Place 1cm from the left hand edge of the cardstock.

3.  Cut a 12” strip of the Green Tara Organza Rosette. Place 0.5cm from the left hand edge of your grey “Tuxedo” paper.

4.  From the piece of “Drama Mod” paper, cut a 9” x 7” rectangle. Using the grey/cream flower side up, distress and ink. This piece will sit against the right hand edge of your cardstock, centred from top to bottom.

5.  From the piece of “Tuxedo” paper, cut a 4” x 1.5” strip. Using the grey side up, distress and ink. Place this just under the bottom right edge of the “Drama Mod” piece of paper.

6.  From the piece of “Drama Mod” paper, cut a 8” x 2”. Using the cream side up, distress and ink. This piece will sit against the right hand edge of your cardstock, 1 cm down from the top of the “Drama Mod” flowered piece of paper.

7.  From the piece of “Tuxedo” paper, cut a 2.5” x 3” strip. Place this over the last piece of “Drama Mod” paper you placed down. It sits 1cm from the top and 1cm from the right of the piece of paper.

8.  From the Element Sticker Sheet, take the “I hope each and every day is beautiful….” Sticker and place it above your paper that sits against the right hand edge of the cardstock.

Take the “Happiness Is….” Sticker, ink the edges and place in the top left corner of the cream “Drama Mod” piece of paper from Step 6.

Take the “The best day ever” sticker, mount with Magic Mount and place at the bottom right of your page, over the grey “Tuxedo” paper from Step 5.

9.  Take your photo and stick Magic Mount on the back of it. Place this just off centre of your page. It sits 1” from the right hand edge of your cardstock and 4” from the top.    
10. Using your piece of chipboard, emboss with embossing powder. Adhere to the left bottom corner of your photo with Pritt Glue. 
11. Using small black flowers, glue 4 randomly on your chipboard piece. Stick some Kaisercraft pearls in the middle of these small black flowers.

12. Using the Basic Grey tissue flower, stick the pin to the bottom of it. I have peeled off the top 2 layers of the tissue paper as I didn't want it to sit as high. Place a medium black flower underneath the tissue paper flower, so the black just peeks out from under the tissue paper. Stick this bundle in the bottom corner of the chipboard flourish. Finish with the silver button from the Eclectic Embellishments pack.

13. Finish with 3 tiny Kaisercraft pearls on the grey piece of “Tuxedo” paper (the one under the top right of your photo).    

For a few of the finer points, here are a few close ups for you...

 This is the corner of the flourish with the tissue paper flower. 

 Another shot of the chipboard flourish.

The sticker pack used in various locations and in different ways on the page. 

I hope you have enjoyed this step by step guide. Don't forget to keep an eye out for more work from the DT this week.

Until next time, happy scrapping! 

xx Renae

A little bit of Basic Grey to start off the week...

Welcome to a new week and to my first post here on the Scraploot blog! I hope you all enjoyed the blog hop that was held over the weekend.

In my DT kit, I was extremely fortunate to have the new Basic Grey Little Black Dress papers! They are a gorgeous range and super fun to play with.

With this page, I have used some of the lighter backs to the papers and incorporated the greys and blacks from a few of the main papers to tie it all together. I have used die cuts that match the papers in the top and bottom corners to continue the design and it's another way to not have to use all your papers and build in coordinating accessories from the range.

 I have used the journalling pen to trace around and highlight the alpha stickers.

I have clustered the flowers at the bottom corner of the photo and then added the flourishes. After inking the flourishes in black ink, I have added a thin coat of Glossy Accents.

 The top corner features layering of the die cuts.

To create this layout at home, you will need the following products from the Scraploot online store (click on the links and they will take you right to the store!)

BG Little Black Dress Paper Tuxedo

BG Little Black Dress Paper Foxy Posh

BG Little Black Dress Paper Haute Couture

BG Little Black Dress Alpha Stickers

BG Little BlackDress Eclectic Embellishments

BG Little BlackDress Metal Flowers 

BG Little BlackDress Die Cut Shapes

BG Little BlackDress Element Sticker Sheet

BG Little BlackDress Title Stickers

2Crafty Flourish 2

Black Cardstock

KC Paper Blooms Coconut

SI Magic Mount White

May Arts Organza Box Pleat Black

American Crafts Memory Marker – Ash

Maya Road Trinket Pins Vintage Pearl

Ranger Inkssentials Glossy Accents

Black archival ink

Thanks for checking out the first post from the DT for the week. Keep an eye out during the week for the rest of the DT's exciting projects.

Until next time, happy scrapping!

xx Renae

Drum Roll……

We are excited to announce and introduce you to our new Scraploot Design Team.
To celebrate this announcement of our new Scraploot Design Team, we are celebrating with a blog hop (all details at the end of the post), so that you can pop over to each of the girls blog and check them out... So without further ado, announcing;

Renae Woods

Hi I'm Renae. I've been scrapping now for around 5 years. I live in Sydney with my gorgeous husband of almost 12 years, who features on many of my pages. I now also have a beautiful new nephew who is starting to creep into many of my pages! Fortunately family and friends know what an avid scrapper I am and how much I love my camera!

My camera is usually permanently attached to me at gatherings now so I can capture every moment!

I'm fortunate to have an amazingly creative outlet in scrapbooking and am just as fortunate to work in one of the beautiful parts of Sydney at Darling Harbour, where I am surrounded by the water and animals on a daily basis! After a crazy day at work, I love being able to retreat to my scrap area and create.

My scrapping style has changed over the years and I seem to have now settled on a blend of modern shabby chic. My work usually features plenty of distressing, inking and layering, not to mention flowers. I love my flowers!

I love scrapbooking and the wonderful friends I have met during my creative journey and I can't wait to meet plenty more!

Ruby Bisson

My name is Ruby Bisson and I am 17 years old and reside in sunny Sydney. I have been scrapbooking and lurking online chat rooms and challenge blogs since I was 13 and have been hooked on the craft ever since! I have just finished high school and am looking into becoming an English teacher in the future. I have an art studio on my driveway- a little caravan draped with material and lanterns, complete with electricity for the hot days. I have a messy, colourful style- and believe that honestly- you can never have TOO much paint or colour. ;)

Michelle Winston

I am 38 years old, married to Brett, with two gorgeous sons - Jacob 11yrs and Caden 3 yrs. We live on Sydney's beautiful Northern Beaches, and when I'm not scrapbooking, I am a primary school teacher !

I have been scrapbooking for a number of years now, and I still love it ! I think I like shopping for new goodies most of all LOL ! I have been fortunate to work for a variety of challenge blogs, websites, stores and manufacturers, and I have been lucky enough to have my work published as well. I was named a Scrapbooking Memories Master for 2010, and have really enjoyed my "masters" year, this year.

I am very happy to be on the Scraploot DT, and can't wait to share lots of scrapping, tutorials and inspiration with you !

And of course you know us:

Rachael

Sue

We would like to welcome Renae, Ruby and Michelle to the Scraploot Design Team. We are very excited to have them on board and can’t wait for these girls to start inspiring us week after week. We are sure you are going to love seeing what they come up with.
With the new Design Team, you are going to find lots of inspiration popping up on the blog each week, with regular posts from each of the girls, store updates, along with regular step by step layouts or techniques.
Behind the scenes, here at Scraploot we are planning lots of FUN things, along with some great challenges.
So enough chattering… Here is a project created by Sue, using the latest collection from Bo Bunny – Enchanted.

Materials Used

White Cardstock

Bo Bunny Enchanted Papers

-Cut Outs – Rose – Enchanted

2 Crafty Swirly Whirly Corner Chipboard

Glossy Accents

Maya Road Organza Roses Trim Black

Basic Grey Little Black Dress Tissue Flowers

 
To be a part of our blog hop and be in the running for some RAK, just drop by each of the DT blogs. When visiting each of the Design Teams blogs, look out for a letter within their post, in the colour RED. Once you have hopped by the four blogs and left some love on each, after collecting each of the RED letters, send an email to info@scraploot.com.au with the magic word, and your name, to be in the running for some goodies. All entries are to be received by Thursday, 1st December 2011 at 5pm.
Thanks for hopping by - now please hop on over to Renae’s blog, to get to know her a little better.
Just in case you get lost, here are the links in order for the Hop;
Renae
Ruby
Michelle
Rachael