Tuesdays @ Scrap Matrix -07/04/15

Hello Everyone,

Here is the April Retro Recipe Challenge for Kraft+.

I love this challenge/moodboard. The colors are not really a combo I would usually use and the mixture of extra was also very interesting.

Here is my finished journal page:

And here is some close-ups:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Tuesdays @ Scrap Matrix -10/03/15

Hello Everyone,

Today at  Scrap Matrix I decided to complete the Jot Magazine moodboard. Here is the challenge:

Unfortunately I did not remember to upload my entry, but that's ok. Here is my completed page:

And here is a couple of close-ups:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Tuesdays @ Scrap Matrix -03/03/15

Hello Everyone,

Today at Scrap Matrix I completed two lots of pages. Unfortunately I forgot to upload them, but that's ok. I worked on the two layout at the same time, using drying time of each to work on the other.

 The first is from sketchabilities and it has quite a bit going on and i really loved the trailing leaves and the hearts, so I centered the page around that.

The second page I worked on was from a brand new challenge blog called Kraft+. This was their second challenge.

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Sorry I Have Been Absent

Hello Everyone,

December and January are holiday time here for n Australia and so I have been spending a lot of time doing things with my kids, just enjoying being with them and watching movies and the like as they are older now and they want to "do" other things less. 

I have also been doing some art and scrapbooking things, but not really recording any of it on here, I have just been enjoying the process. I have joined several art journaling projects journal Journey with Kreative Koncepts and The Documented Life with Art to the 5th, Inspiration Wednesday's with Donna Downey, and I am watching Creative JumpStart 2015. Hopefully I can get back to more normal "craft and show" next month with the kids back at school. It will also depend if I go back into the workforce, I have applied for some jobs, we will see how it goes.

Hopefully soon, I will put some pictures up of what I have been doing and we will go from there.

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Mixed Media Swing Tags

Hello Everyone,

The inspiration for these tags comes from Prima Marketing Inc's Live with Prima - called "Mixed Media Tags with Anna Dabrowska on Live with Prima". It a very long video, but I really enjoyed watching it and then creating the tags.

I have a few Tim Holtz tags, but for me the Color was not right so in the end I used a tag as a template and crated my own tags from pieces of American Crafts cardstock that I have leftover from when I create pages.

Here are some close-ups:

The Turquoise Tag:

The Pink Tag:

The Brown Tag:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Absent Me

Hello Everyone,

Sorry I have absent recently, I have been through a patch of bad health and I am finally coming out the other side.

I have had a good weekend (and Monday), I'm losing track of the days now the kids are on holidays, and I hope to put up a post tomorrow about what I have created.

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle

Texture Tuesday @ Scrap Matrix - 09/12/14

Hello Everyone,

This week we used Blue Fern Studio's December Challenge as our inspiration. Here's the sketch:

With this challenge you have to use either their paper or chipboard. So I decided to use both. Here's a picture of my starting point:

This was the DT page that inspired me:

I really love the White and the black with the touches of red.

I started off by cutting my papers down to size. I then created the background. To create the background I started by embossing with the "Tiles" stencil from Crafters Workshop, I then tried to add lined of gesso but it didn't work very well. while this dried I cut out the birds from the B-side of the papers that I had saved to use. 

I then decided that my elements were lost on the background and I needed something behind to make them stand out more. I used a Tattered Angels mask with Prima Art Basics Heavy Gesso. By this time it was time to head out to my afternoon appointments.

I was not very happy with the way it looked, but I figured I would take it home and keep working on it there.

In the end I am very happy with the page. By adding some scraps of paper from my collection I was about to create a page I really love. It took me about two days of fiddling with it to be happy.  Here it is:

Here are some close-ups, I especially love how the title ended up:

Chat to you all again soon.

Love

Michelle