Visiting Oz with Michelle!

Good Monday morning everyone!

Today I thought wee could take the yellow brick road and enjoy a visit to Oz with

Michelle!

I really love the two tone treatment on the chipboard title and the of course the yellow brick road!

This layout is too fun!  Love all the metal and bits and pieces!

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Mixed Media Layout Tutorial - Enjoy The Journey, by Tanya SonataJoy

Good morning, I hope you are having a beautiful weekend!

We have a wonderful new tutorial to share.  This is Tanya's first month as an educator for us, and she's knocked it out of the park with her first one.  Here's the gorgeous layout she created with our April "Laura's Wish" kit:

Isn't it just stunning?!  And better yet, Tanya's video tutorial, showing you step by step how she created it:

We've also got some close-ups of this striking page:

Thanks so much for stopping by today, and I hope we've inspired you to create something amazing today...

~Melinda

Beauty from Karen

Good morning everyone!

It's finally the weekend!  Do you have any scrappy plans?

I am going to be working on my kit projects - this kit is amazing!

Look what Karen created with the Scraps Of Darkness

'Laura's Wish' kit.

She used a combination of the Authentique "Durable" and Kaisercraft "Antique Bazaar" paper collections from the kit. 

She then used the TW "Mini Screen" stencil from the kit to stencil here and there on the layout with some Studio 490 Embossing Paste (Metallic Gold) to accent the gold centers in the beautiful Prima Flowers

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First Design Team layouts with our April kits!

Good Wednesday!

I hope that you are all well!

Today I am excited to show you the first projects from the awesome new kits!

Lisa has created an outstanding layout using the 

Scraps Of Darkness 'Laura's Wish' kit (<--- thats me - this is the kit named after me!!!)

 

She created a very grungy mixed media page with lots of detailing. She used Lindys Mists in several colors to achieve the splashed look in the background.

Lots of layers with stamps and elements from the kit tucked in. 

She has flowers and die cuts from Kaisercraft tucked beneath the photo.

 Lots of grungy stamps and paint. She also dissected one of Renea's butterflies. 

Next up is a romantic shabby chic layout by Renea using the 

Scraps Of Elegance 'Lynne's Garden Terrace' Kit.

Renea was inspired by this month's inspiration board!

 She distressed and inked the edges on all the papers which were quite a few different layers from the kit papers.

  She did machine sewing on her photo and on the paper layer underneath. There is also 2 layers of torn and inked book pages, and some lace layered underneath as well.

The Rose Quartz Glitter Glass Butterflies were hand crafted by her, just for this kit!

She cut some pieces from the papers and added some of the sweet lace from the kit to the edging and added that on to her layout.

All the shading was done by inking the paper, and then painting over the inking with Crackle  Paint, letting that dry, then she dry brushed some of the gorgeous Lindy's Magical Powder from the main kit onto it to bring out the cracks and the multi colors from the powder looked so YUMMY!!

She ran the pearls from the kit up the side of the photo layers and around the title she created with with one of the kit pieces, a metal piece from the kit, and a flower from this month's Floral Add On.

She then added some cheese cloth, flowers and leaves from the kit and this months Floral Add On. 

  She added more cheesecloth at the top corner and layered on more Floral Add On Flowers.

She then tore out some sections of her layout to reveal that gorgeous paper underneath and heavily inked the edges.

 

Here you can see all the dimension and layering.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

Lynne and Lisa show off 'Anna's Daydream'

Good morning everyone!

The sun is shining bright here and we are enjoying the spring!

Today I wanted to share a few layouts from a couple of our really talented Scraps Of Elegance Design Team members - Lisa Griffith and Lynne Joncas

First up is Lisa with a stunning and dreamy layout which was inspired by this month's Inspiration Board Challenge that you can find on our facebook community.

 here are a few of the scrumptious details

She used the Blue Fern Studios chipboard piece called 'Kimmy's Window' that came with the kit as the perfect backdrop to the photo of a girl reading by a window, then took the gorgeous peach colored Prima flower apart and used the different pieces underneath the photo.

The 'No 3' paper from 7 Dots Studio was the perfect base for her cream colored flowers. The cotton lace that came with the kit, is one of her favorite embellishments to add to a page. She tucked in one of the metal pieces and then finished it all with a 7 Dots Studio sticker. 

Some of the best adventures ever are the ones found in books :)

This key was from a past Scraps of Elegance kit.

Now it is Lynne's turn!

This heritage page features her grandmother's cousin in 1918; She enjoyed making flowers with the paper so that they'd coordinate perfectly, and the subtle diamond pattern in the background paper just begged to be echoed throughout the design.

I love all the use of texture in this layout!

These colors lent themselves to a nature-themed photo; her daughter is crouched above the falls in the photo but can't really be seen here. She used the Blue Fern chipboard frame that was  included in the Elements add on, and the flowers are from a previous Scraps of Elegance kit.

Thanks so much for stopping by!

More than layouts.....

Good morning!

Another Monday is here.....

To make your day a little brighter I am sharing a couple of OTP projects!

Over at the Scraps Of Darkness/ Scraps Of Elegance Facebook Community, Renea hosts a bi-monthly ATC swap, and right now we are nearing the end of the March-April Swap, and in a couple of weeks she will be putting up the May-June Sign Ups, so we hope you will join us!!

She actually took 2 partners this month and first up she has an ATC that she created for her swap partner, Rhue Chantal. She created it with the Scraps Of Elegance March Kit~Anna's Day Dream.

She sewed her paper layers and little distressed heart together. Added lots of texture with inked chipboard, layers of trim, cheesecloth, feathers and seed beads.

Here you can see all the layering in that she did and inking that just add so much depth to these really small pieces. 

This next ATC was created for her Swap Partner Debbie Cook. She created it from the same kit, using some of the same type of elements and colors.

She did edge sewing, torn corner layers, a tulle dress for her Prima Resin Corset, layered in trim, feathers and seed beads for lots of texture,

 Here you can see all the textures and layers.

Next up we have a beautiful altered cell phone box from Tracey Gregory- created with our March "Michelle's Mechanical Madness" kit.

She says she always keep the boxes, not sure why, but upon cleaning out her closet found quite a few of them. Since they are so sturdy she decided to re purposed one into a fun little gift box.

She loves the metal pieces in the kit and combined some to add a quasi-steampunk flavor. The laces on the edge are positioned above and below the box seams so it can still be opened and closed.

Lots of fun tags included that she distressed and layered. The top is blank until she decides who the recipient will be. 

Thanks for stopping by!

Mixed Media with Anna & Stéphanie!

This months Scraps Of Elegance kit

is named after the uber talented Anna Rogalska

and the layouts she created are simply amazing! 

check it out

An amazing mixed media layout with layers of awesomeness!

One of my favorite aspects of mixed media is all the texture!

Here is another beautiful layout sure to inspire you from Stéphanie

 some of the beautiful details...

Thanks for stopping by!