Hello dear friends, I know it has been quite some time since I last posted on my blog. As most of you know I've had a lot going on with my daughters wedding....but it is done now (it was a beautiful wedding) and now I have time to get back to my creative work! My first order of business was to get a new Page Kit done for The Scrapbook Diaries! It's summer and it's such a fun time to do those beach/seaside photo's. I used the gorgeous papers and embellishments from the new 49 & Market collection (designed by Janene Meyerowitz) called Sand & Sea! I am so in love with these papers and especially the layered sticker sheet that goes with it!!
These beautiful layered stickers (sea horses, shells, starfish, bubbles, coral, sea grass and jellyfish) are so pretty and add a lovely 3D effect....and best of all, no fussy cutting! In an instant you have the look of a page that took a lot of time and detailing but without all the work! Included in this kit is a full 12x12 layered translucent sticker sheet with glitter accents....I'm actually hoarding some for a canvas I want to do....but there are a LOT of embellishments to choose from in this package....and lets just say the quantity is limited on these so you may want to jump in on this one asap!
For this kit page I used a cool distress crayon by Tim Holtz along with some gorgeous Blue Patina mica powder by Ranger Perfect Pearls for my mixed media products (included in the kit of course). And to give the page some lovely texture I used a 6x6 stencil that I designed for The Crafter's Workshop called Tile Mania (TCW662).....all included in the kit.
As always the kit includes a full private video tutorial to which you will have unlimited access to with the purchase of the kit. This will show you in step by step detail how to create this page. You can imitate it exactly as is or tweak it to match your own taste. Janene also created a bonus page that can be made with this kit and let me tell you it's a stunner, it utilizes some more of my favorite papers from the gorgeous Sand & Sea collection!
I have to admit that beach/summer pages are my favorite to create and this one was seriously fun to play with, I think you will really enjoy this one. You can get your kit while quantities last at The Scrapbook DiariesHERE.
I hope you enjoyed this post today and perhaps want to give this gorgeous kit a go! I appreciate all your kind comments and feedback and read and reply to them all! Thanks so much! Have a lovely creative weekend my friends!
When Janene sent me these adorable wood chippies I knew I had to make a fun kit out of it using some of my favorite Prills embellishments for The Scrapbook Diaries. I used a cute photo of a bike for my page but the title and the pretty embellishments can work beautifully on a photo of a special person in your life as well.
Isn't that little wheel-barrow adorable! And it was so quick and easy to make! In minutes you can make your own unique embellishment with items found in this kit.
I just love the scripty title chippie that comes with this kit too....it adds a pretty touch without taking over the page. The kit also includes the 'Postcards from Paris' stamp set I recently designed for The Scrapbook Diaries. I thought the scripty writing, the postcards and Cone flowers added a pretty background design for this page, especially when used with the brown chalk ink (also included in the kit).
I have been itching to use this beautiful set of lilac/white blooms from 49 & Market and was happy to get to use them with the fun lavender chippies in this kit. I added a little double hemp bow to make the corner accent on this page.
....And this adorable lavender wreath! You're going to have so much fun making this page accent! As always, I created a full video tutorial with the kit to which you have unlimited access to, to help you create your own special keepsake. You can may your page exactly as shown or tweak the page to suite your own style.
You can order your kit today HERE at The Scrapbook Diaries! As always it includes enough product to make extra bonus pages as well. The kits are limited in number so be sure to get your's while they are still available.
I know you haven't seen a lot from me lately....but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy! I've got 8 new stencil's I've designed for The Crafter's Workshop that will be coming out in the winter shows....I'll have lots of tutorials for fun projects to make with them, so stay tuned! :)
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, I always appreciate all the lovely comments and feedback! xo
Hi my friends! I know I've been pretty quiet around here the last little while, but that doesn't mean I haven't been busy being crafty! Shhhh! but I've been designing some more stencils for TCW (The Crafters Workshop)....I think you're going to love them! But for now you have to wait while they go into production. In the meantime I have this lovely new Kit Page and Video tutorial to share with you that I designed for The Scrapbook Diaries (the video comes with the kit). We had a super busy summer and took lots of pics, so now it's time to get scrapping them (I hate for them to just sit in a computer file right?)
This kit it packed with beautiful chipboard elements....and don't get me started on the papers! They were some of my all time favorite papers to work with by Blue Fern! (I loved them so much, when I finished my page, I contacted Janene and asked if she minded if I made an extra page for this kit because I'm on a roll!)
I did a little fussy cutting on this one, but not too much for those of you who are not into that....just enough to add a nice artistic touch. I just used a little pair of nail clipper scissors to do this.
Now let's talk embellishments! So many wonderful things to embellish with in this kit! Some gorgeous Prima metal accents and beautiful blooms from 49 & Market! I also used a very cool stencil by Andy Skinner that ended up looking like mermaid scales to me!
....And the paints!! I'm soooo in love with the paints I used in this kit! Luminarte H20's in Ancient Coin and Beachouse blue. They give such a pretty aged patina to the page design. It's hard to see the shimmery effect they give on this flat page but you'll see in the video how beautifully they combine!
And of course I had to add some of my favorite new texture elements to this page....Prills! I thought the colors I picked would add a nice sandy/beachy element to this page.
As I said earlier, I loved the kit elements so much that I just wanted to keep going so I made an extra page for this kit! This one came together so quick and easy! Don't you love it when that happens?
We went camping this summer (something I haven't done for many many years) and we went to a place called The Pinery near Grand Bend Ontario. So beautiful! I enjoyed scrapping this pic of the beach, brought back so many happy memories as I was working on it! But then that's the point behind all this scrapping right?
Here's another close-up of the embellishments included in this kit....the metal accents make me so happy...
And aren't these wood chippies adorable? I thought they gave a nice 'sea grass' look to the page design (also included in kit)...the little shells, star fish and sea horses are from Dusty Attic (also included in kit).
You can see a bit of the shimmer the paints give on the corrugated cardboard area here. Here I just randomly painted on the two colors in the kit, letting them overlap here and there....I thought this gave the embellishment a nice sort of aged/rusted look.
And usually I don't overload you guys with all the bonus options of the kits here on my blog but I just had to show you the BONUS pages that Janene Meyerowitz designed to be added to the kit! I absolutely love the two bonus pages she created for this one! (above)
This is the second bonus page that Janene Meyerowitz designed for this kit! I love that she adds bonus pages that allow for more photos as well!
So there you have it! One BIG beautiful kit to scrap those summer photos (or your vacay photos) which also includes unlimited access to a private video tutorial on how to make the top page. Get yours while they are still available cuz when they run out, they are gone! You can order your's here at The Scrapbook Diaries.As always, she offers it in Basic and Complete kits so that you all have options.
I hope your summer has been as beautiful as mine has been! We went wedding dress shopping with my beautiful daughter on the weekend, I think she found the one she loves! So many exciting things happening around here :)
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, I always appreciate the kind comments and lovely feedback I get from my sweet friends here!
Hi Everyone! I'm back with another video tutorial and Kit for you all! Maja Design asked me to be their summer guest designer using this gorgeous new collection called 'Summertime'! As soon as Janene (The Scrapbook Diaries) and I saw this collection, we knew we had to make this into a Kit! So we pulled together lots of the pretty papers along with stamps, gorgeous chippies and wood embellishments and fun mixed media products and as always a video tutorial to show how it all comes together!
....Has your summer been a good one so far? Ours has been busy and lots of fun! And I have some big news to share (in case you missed it in my last post)....my oldest daughter got engaged a few weeks ago! It's still hard to absorb that my little girl is so grown up now. But we are all so happy, he's an awesome guy and they are so very happy together! Every photo I have of them, you just see they glow with joy, so I thought I would use one of these pics to scrap with this lovely summery paper!
I used a variety the Summertime collection papers for my layout...'Light Scarlet' as my matting paper, 'It's Always the Best' as the main background design, 'Flowers Everywhere-bs' for the heart design, 'Smell the Roses' for the matting for the heart and 'Light Scarlet-bs' for the gingham inserts. I thought I would share a video tutorial with you all on how this page was put together, so get yourself your favorite summer drink (my favorite is strawberry lemonade), take a load off, relax and enjoy!...
I hope you enjoyed my tutorial and hope this inspires you to play with this beautiful collection for your own summertime photos.(see below for a GIVEAWAY!)... Here are some close-ups and details of this page that you can enjoy at your leisure.
Since this is a love story, I thought I would use lots of heart images throughout the layout. I used the 'Circle Stitch Stamp Set' I designed for The Scrapbook Diaries, using the stitched heart stamp on a variety of the Summertime patterned papers and added Prima Mechanicals (hearts) to the centers to create fun and unique little embellishments for the page.
The flowers are also from 49 and Market, the roses are a floral stem that I cut up and used in various places on the layout, and I used canvas blooms from their Rustic collection to tuck in around the photo area. For my mixed media product I used two crayons by Faber Castell called Iced Rose and Iced Currant (see video for various ways I used this paint crayon).
The cogs chippie is from ScrapFX, and again the metal heart is by Prima. (this whole page design, including chipboard, mixed media products, stamp and papers can all be bought as a kit from The Scrapbook Diaries).
Another product I've had a lot of fun with lately is those little colorful pebbles called Prills, here I used Tutu Pink Prills to accent the wooden floral accents from Scrapeniec and to accent my heart designs.
I just love to layer all the pretty paper designs in this collection. For me, the gingham design on the backside of 'Light Scarlet' paper just speaks of summer. Here I tucked it in a tear I made in the background paper "Is Always the Best'. Tucking in a little lace and burlap, I think adds a nice rustic look.
I really enjoyed working with these lovely papers and I think you will too! You can also order the same kit in the blue papers from this collection (this gorgeous page was designed by the awesome Janene Meyerowitz using the video tutorial!) You can order your kit from The Scrapbook Diaries HERE For Pink kit!HERE For Blue Kit! Pretty much all the product you see me using is included in this fun summery kit. WOULD YOU LIKE A CHANCE TO WIN THIS BEAUTIFUL SUMMERTIME PAPER COLLECTION?? Just leave a comment below (and if you have an Instagram account come follow me, I spend a lot of time there lately! my Instagram name is Gabrielleshutterbug), I will choose a winner on August 31st, it's that easy!
Before I close for today, I have one more project to share with you! Recently my dear friend Jennifer Hedger (owner of Dusty Attic) held a retreat in Bali and asked that I create a kit for the ladies on this trip! This is the layout I designed....she was kind enough to make up a special chipboard sheet of all the chipboard I used on this kit and made it available to everyone in North America through The Scrapbook Diaries! Yep! another kit you can order through The Scrapbook Diaries! I would have posted this seperately but Janene always thinking ahead, asked that I share it at same time as my Maja Design kit so that everyone that would like both can save on shipping!
I show you how I made these layered acrylic butterflies using my stamp set (also included in this kit)
This kit is just jam packed with awesome stamps, stencils, chipboard, embellishments and premium papers! NOTE: this kit comes with a written PHOTO tutorial (as this is more conducive to live classes). If you would like to order this kit you can get itHERE.
I know! A lot to absorb today, LOL! Be sure to leave a comment for a chance to win the Gorgeous Maja Design Summertime collection! (You have until August 31st)
I just love it when my design teams line up with product that works so well together! This is what happened with the newest kit page I designed for The Scrapbook Diaries. Recently Maja Design came out with the sweetest 'Baby' collection called ....
....'Vintage Baby'....and it's exactly that, a collection of papers filled with sweet vintage images and designs that will put a nostalgic look into your baby scrapbook pages! And at the same time one of my other design teams, Dusty Attic, came out with the cutest chippies for baby layouts!
Janene, at The Scrapbook Diaries, worked her magic pulling together lots of beautiful accents, blooms, paints that helped in creating the sweet lil girl page I created above.
I mean, how cute is that Dusty Attic Baby Banner chippie?? I just love the fine detailing Jennifer Hedger gets into her chipboard designs, right down to the little bows! And the new baby title chippies....adorable!
Now here's the cool thing, .....this kit can be ordered as a Baby Girl kit OR a Baby Boy kit! See how there are papers in the Maja Vintage Baby collection that are in pinks and in blues? Well, I chose 5 of the patterned papers in shades of pinks for the Baby Girl page I made .....and Janene has been super busy creating a kit (and coordinating layout) with a selection of papers in the blues for a Baby Boy kit! As always I made a step by step video tutorial to go with the kit, to which you'll have unlimited access to with the purchase of the kit.....and the video tutorial will work equally as well for both kits. And of course there will also be enough product in the kit to create a bonus page for both the Girl and the Boy kit. (You should see the gorgeous sample pages Janene made up to go with each of the kits!)
I've been seeing a lot of new additions to so many of your families on Face Book, so here is your chance to make a beautiful memory page, or a special gift that is suitable for framing! I was so happy to scrap this photo of my little great-niece Kiera, one of my favorites of the professional shots my nephew (and his wife) had made of their youngest daughter. If you would like to try this kit out, just hop on over to The Scrapbook Diaries and pick up your choice of either the Girl or Boy kit!....or both if you are fortunate enough to have both boys and girls to scrap! As always, this is while quantities last :) You can pick up your Girl kit HERE and the Boy Kit HERE.
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, and thanking all you sweet friends that take the time to leave your kind and supportive feedback, it means a lot to me! xo
So excited to share with you my latest kit page I designed for The Scrapbook Diaries!! Lately I find myself intrigued by watercolor designs. When I saw these beautiful Prima flowers that seem to have a pretty watercolor wash to them, I was inspired to create a page using a variety of color washes. I chose some Shimmerz Paints watercolor paints ('Power to the Purple' and 'Ride the Tide' Creameez)....these are activated by adding water and allowing them to sit (stirring often). Here I used them with lots of water to get a nice wash to my background design.
The awesome part is that you can make this very same page with all the products I used, including the paints, chipboard, papers flowers....everything! all in a one stop shopping trip to The Scrapbook Diaries! This kit includes all the products I used to make this page PLUS unlimited access to a full step by step video tutorial created by me :) Here are a few close-ups of the page....
How cute is that delicate little trellis.....Janene (owner of The Scrapbook Diaries) is always finding these unique and hard to find products to add to the kits, she always surprises me with her newest finds!
And how cute are those watercolor blossoms, right? I'm often asked what inspires my designs....sometimes it's a photo but in this case my whole thought process was developed around these lovely blooms :)
I did a little easy fussy cutting for this one....just some blooms and butterflies, but I find it's little things like this that can add a lot of impact to a page design. (and YES! the clocks are included in the kit as well!)
Here is a close-up of the intricate little scrolls I used on this page as well....another fun little find by Janene! I know, I sometimes use a lot of chipboard on my pages, the cool thing is that you can get all these accents for your page as well in this one fun filled kit!
I know there are a lot of you out there that just love adding butterflies to their projects as much as I do, so I had to be sure to add just a couple to this page as well!
As always Janene also created a gorgeous bonus page to the kit, so your product will take you a long way. I did use one of my stamp sets on this page that Janene is selling a la carte as this one was already used in a previous kit (this way you are not getting product you may have already purchased...but for those of you that did not get that previous kit, the option is there :)
Seen enough? Want to give this kit a try for yourself? Then hop on over to The Scrapbook Diaries to get yours, they do go fast! I had so much fun creating this page and I think you will enjoy this one too....just the colors make me happy! :)
Thanks so much for stopping by my blog today, your lovely comments and feedback always make my day! :)
