The Memory Nest Heart Challenge

my first layout for my new holiday album. managed to get a few photos printed before my ink ran out!!. now I've got to wait for the postman to deliver my ink and holiday snaps. I had a wonderful time down south despite the weather being completely random. my first layout is for The Memory Nest heart challenge which I'm just about in time for.

 The theme for this challenge is water, so I chose a snap I took of the tall ship Tenacious docking into Poole Quay. I used my Papermania  Ahoy There papers that I have been saving just for my holiday album. I used Tim Holtz peacock distress ink around the edges of my layers.

 The twist on this challenge was to use a interactive element so I hid my journaling in a pocket behind the page.

The Memory Nest June Challenge

 

Summer has finally arrived, but for how long i don't know. I'm playing along with the June Sketch challenge on The Memory Nest and have a few ideas for this sketch. http://thememorynest.blogspot.co.uk/p/challenges.html

 

 

 Gizmo is such a lazy cat, he will sleep all day and then wake you up at the crack of dawn for food. I've experimented with misting sprays and used Rose red and Turquoise and blended them together to get lots of other colours. make sure you dab the excess ink off or your page will bubble up.

 

i used lots of bright summer colours on this layout. the flags i cut by hand out of scraps of matching papers and the tags are from a fancy edged frame nesting die i cut in half. I took some recycled card and covered it in two coats of gesso before inking some bubble wrap with distress inks and stamping different colours on to it.

products used;

Papermania Happy days

Capsule collection card stock

Pebbles ink chipboard tag

Recycled cardboard

Tim Holtz Peacock, Rusty Hinge and Tattered rose distress inks



i will be up loading my festive edition of this sketch on Whimsical Wednesday.

The Memory Nest May Colour Challenge

The colour challenge at http://thememorynest.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/may-color-challenge.html. For this months colour challenge i have chosen a fun and very bright layout of my day trip to Great Yarmouth. I had a fun but exhausting day beside the sunny seaside which was most likely our only day of summer if i know what British weather is like.

 I've been experimenting with mixed media on my layouts which i some cases has gone horribly wrong so i decided to keep it simple and used a Bobunny distressed textures stamp and painted it with acrylic paint instead of using ink. I then sprayed misting ink into the corner of the page and let it run down it.

 I've taken a shine to chipboard flourishes latterly i like to paint them or distress them with ink and sandpaper.

 I used American Crafts Amy Tangerine papers and The paper company Secret Garden Blossoms 12X12 paper in this project which a quickly becoming my favourites.

It wouldn't be a seaside layout without a bunting which i made using a joycrafts diecutter and scraps of Pebble inc and Papermania papers.

Using misting spray to customise your scrapbook pages

i decided to remake my holiday scrapbook album and decided i couldn't wait till my next holiday to start using my new stash.

 i customised this page by recycling an  old 12x12 page by spraying with misting ink. i made my own with a empty make up spray bottle and adding Brushido powdered dye to some water. i then flicked different coloured acrylic paint over the page. be careful this can get messy.

 i cut out strips of all aboard papers and stuck a camera printout on it, you can find these printouts on uprintables.blogspot.com/au

i will post some ideas on how to use misting sprays on your layouts soon.