Thursday 27 August 2015

Something a bit feminine

Continuing with the card creation for my friend. 


I used Marion Smith's Garment District for this one.  

Monday 24 August 2015

The Birthday card Trifecta!

Hey there scrappers

How is everyone today? 

I got a card to show you.

Each year a friend on Perth asks me to make a few birthday cards for him for August. he has three birthday one after the other over three days with his very own being RIGHT in the the middle of his partners and sisters. CRAZY.

This was I made this year for his partner. 



Love making easel cards still. 

Head back later in the week to see the other cards I made.


Saturday 22 August 2015

My New Blues

Hi there scrappers

Got a personal layout for you this time, I don't usually do layouts of myself. This was something to commemorate though, so I snapped a selfie and did a 12x12 layout.

Few years back I was diagnosed with Meares-Irlen Syndrome and have been wearing coloured glasses ever since. For the first 12 months I was going with the Irlen Spectral filters which while costly were doing the trick of helping me with my dyslexia, visual processing and reading, along with general anxiety due to photosensitivity. After a bit of research I changed to a much more cost effective alternative done through a local optometrist, Cerium Colorimitory. And wow did I get a much better result although a few months back I noticed some old symptoms crop up. I went and had my color retested and collected my new filters a week later. They were awesome!

I did the layout to remind myself how beneficial these filters are.



The background is a basic weave Kaisercraft cardstock that I used a Prima stencil and some "tinsel" Colour Shine from Heidi Swapp. I added a bit of stamping over the top of that in a few places with some kaisercraft texture stamps. 

The papers for the photo stack are some scraps from my Cafe au Lait collection available on my webstore


The cogs were cut out with my Silhouette Cameo and then stacked and glued to make them a bit more dimensional. They were then painted and stained and covered in Tim Holtz's rock candy crackle medium, which is so awesome. 



I then added vintage photo stain over the top to give that rusted aged look. 


To title the pages I pulled out some kaisercraft letters and embossing powders. 


I hope you like this layout, and thank you for reading.