Feeling A Bit Special

Hi all,
Today has been a bit exciting, being featured in 2 places today. My submission for the Helmar October challenge was featured today on the Helmar USA facebook page.

Also, my guest design submissions to Words or Whatever were featured on their blog... here.

I'm definitely on a roll with my creating this week too. Seems like the creative mojo has returned after a bit of a break due to the stress and burn out of work. So that's pretty exciting too!

Here is my favourite creation from my WOW guest design work:

The layout stand was painted in browns roughly and then using Helmar crackle medium and white paint, I created the antique look with the darker colours showing through beneath the crackles. I love the way this turned out. It will be a great way to display my favourite layouts.

 This chipboard title was also done with some paint layering and Helmar 2 step crackle medium.

Materials: Kaisercraft velvet ensemble paper, mini pad, rub on, journal tags; black & white cardstock; WOW title.

 Materials: Kaiser velvet ensemble paper; Bo bunny paper; Prima flowers and bling; kaiser flowers; WOW title.

 Materials: Coordinations cardstock; zva bling; prima flowers; WOW title.

Materials: Making memories paper; kaiser blooms & rub on, WOW title.

Thanks for taking the time to look.

Holly xo

Mr & Mrs

Hi all,
Here is a quick share inspired but the current Stuff to Scrap challenge set by the very talented Rachael Funnell.

 I kept this one nice and simple, and elegant due to the wedding theme. The extra criteria was to use butterflies, hand stitching (almost impossible to see in the photos but the chippie is held on by pink stitches) and of course chipboard. I have used WOW chipboard for my layout as I have no Stuff to scrap chippies.

 No idea why this is sideways!

 The chippie has been inked in silver and sprinkled with some silver glitter over some glue. Not very clear in the photos.

Materials: Coórdinations cardstock; prima flowers; zva bling; WOW chipboard; other: doily, butterfly.

Thanks for visiting!

Wedding Day Altered Frame

Hello everyone,
I want to share one of my latest creations, an altered frame. When the Bo Bunny timeless collection came out, I decided it would be a wonderful collection to create a wedding layout with and even better was the fact that I had a Kaisercraft 12 photo display ready to go. I am so happy with how this turned out.

Now its just a matter of finding somewhere in my house to display it :-)

Materials include: Kaisercraft 12 photo display, Vintage ensemble papers, paper blooms; Scrapmatts chipboard clocks; Bo Bunny timeless collection papers; Prima flowers; WOW chipboard viney journal tag & Our wedding day title.

Thanks for visiting.
Holly xo

Sunset

Hello lovely bloggers,
I have another layout to share. A nice summer inspired one. This one is featuring a lovely chipboard title from WOW chipboard. You can purchase it here.

To achieve this chipboard look, I inked the title with 3 different inks, starting from the lightest colour down to the brighter red ink. I did this by dabbing the chipboard with my ink pad. I then gave it a bit of a glossy shine with a coat of Mod Podge dimensional magic. I love how it turned out as it is perfect for another honeymoon layout.

This  layout features some more Seaside collection from Kaisercraft and some cute flowers from D-Lish scraps. The photos are with my new camera but bare with  me... it is so technical so will take some figuring out LOL Its fun though!

Have a great day!