Cherie’s Christmas Page from New Zealand

Koa Kirihimete from Aotearoa,

Morning fellow scrappers.  I hope your Christmas planing went well and you are all ready for the big day of making merry with your whanau.  Have a wonderful day today.

The page I am sharing today is my take on this month’s mood board – the paper series is: My Minds Eye – Lost and Found Christmas. The flowers were made from another sheet in the series – but you could use a plain cardstock if you prefer.  I love Christmas and it’s a special time for my family where we try to get together for a meal and to just enjoy being together.  Of late that has been harder to achieve as we are spread far and wide around the world and New Zealand. 

I started by making the photo mat. I used a piece of box –carton which I had taken the top layer of paper off to expose the card ridging.  I used an A5 piece of paper as a measure to shape the mat. Tear across the bottom so it is shaped, I tore some of the top layer to add texture.

Next paint the cardboard mat with white gesso and let dry. Then I used a brown ink pad and sponged lightly across the top of the mat – mainly around the outside edge as the middle will be covered by the photo.  Then use the red pad to rough ink the whole outside edge.  Finally use a sponge to ink the edge – which will get into the groves.

Using the photo mat for placement place two doilies – paper or as I have used an old tablecloth cut up.  Glue them down and let dry.

Make two flowers for the bottom corner of the layout.  The extra-large punch cuts out a flower 7.5cm across and the large punch cuts out a flower 5 cm across.  I like to ink all edges before I glue and fold the flowers but that is your choice.  Pinch each petal together between your thumb and forefinger – facing up.  Glue two extra-large flowers on top of each other – as shown in the middle photo.  Then do the same again with two of the large flowers. Finally glue two large on top of the extra-large flowers and put a button in the middle.

Double mat your 5 by 7 photo as shown – I used cream and black mats.  Then assemble the page from the photo mat up.  I found a title and three pieces of holly leaf chipboard in my stash – which I inked lightly and added some rhinestones for the berries. However, you could use die-cuts or scrolls or bling – whatever pleases your eye.  Finally add some journaling if you want – I use a couple of smalls tags and a note edge for the date.

Happy scrapping fellow scrappy friends

May you and your family have a safe and joyous Christmas

Arohanui

Cherie 

Shine

Hey there Off The Rail fans!
Lisa here today to share a Christmas layout with you. I was inspired by the mood board this month.

I added some mist to the background using the packaging technique. I added a frame and a few layers of patterned paper, stickers and a few fussy cut trees by my photo:

I fussy cut the "Believe In The Magic of Christmas" and popped it up with some craft foam. I added some Divine Twine to pull the layout all together and keep your eye moving:

Another fussy cut tree, a fussy cut ornament and a sticker topped off the right side of my layout:

Hope you are inspired by my layout and join us in the mood board challenge!

December challenge reveal with the DT - Merry Christmas

Welcome to the December challenge.

We know it's a busy time of year but we so love seeing your creations.

So our challenge this month is "Anything Goes"

Luciana

To inspire you this holiday month, I made an arrangement to decorate the house or the door! I worked with two border racks and tulle bottom. I hope you are inspired by our Christmas mood!

Some details.

Louise

 Cherie Craig

Carol Theng

This month our sponsor is 

Narelle Fasulo - narelle@simplystampingwithnarelle.com

Scrapmatts will supply $40 of chipboard and stencil from their online store.

We hope you enjoy this months challenge and can't wait to see your entries.

Happy Scrapping.

Off the Rails Team

A new designer with a beautiful tutorial, welcome Lynn

I have created my first tutorial for Off The Rails Scrapbooking and it is for the layout that I did this month.  This is the layout:

I have used Kaisercraft paper from the Silver Bells collection.  

I cut up some of the other paper in this collection into strips and have glued them down using Prima Art Basics 3D Gloss gel.

I have then applied 3 Lindy Stamp Gang Sprays using a paintbrush and water.  I have not sprayed directly onto the paper.  The colours used are Delphinium Turquoise, Salt Water Taffy and Frenchys Pink Pout

Around the edges of this frame the paper pieces have created, I have stamped and embossed.  I have used Stampendous stamp - Jumbo Snow and Stampendous White Embossing powder.

This has now created the base of the layout and you can being the layers.

I embossed a plain white piece of cardstock and then cut tags from this.  The tags were edged with Tim Holtz Distress Ink- Spun Sugar

I have cut 2 die cuts - Memory Box Frostyville Wreath.  I layered them together to get a thicker fuller look.

I have used another die cut - Die-namics Mini Doily.  This I have cut in half, as you only see half the doily and it makes the die cut go further!

I have then put the layout together.  Added some words from Tim Holtz Idea-ology Chit Chat stickers which I backed with cardstock and inked around the edges.

Final touches - I have added some clear glass Micro beads with 3D Gloss gel - always like to have some bling on the layout somewhere!!!!

I hope that you have found some tip here and til next time Happy Crafting !!

 

 

 

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Lizzy's tutorial today

Hi there! 

Do you sometimes start a page and realise it is simply

NOT going to plan? That's what happened with me this month.

I had chosen to work with the colours on the December mood board:

Even though I kept adding stuff, it just didn't seem to be working for me.

The straw that broke this camel's back was when I realised the blue & yellow

coloured inks had blended into a green.

I was just totally unhappy with the whole page. It was too 'strong'

for the photo and didn't have the light, airy feel I had tried to create:

I NEVER toss my work in the bin. But this came awfully

close to it!!! HOWEVER whenever I feel like this, I reach for my

WHITE GESSO. This stuff is amazing. See?

 

 I was really pleased how my textured stars can still be seen through....

& I carefully added some yellow ink spray then THOROUGHLY dried

it before adding some blue drops & pink watered down paint.

Otherwise, I simply replaced the elements - like the washi frame.

Here's my finished page:

If you haven't got white gesso, I'd seriously recommend

you do. It gives a wonderful surface for any 'wet mediums' like the

ink sprays, to adhere to. You get REALLY interesting 'patterns' as it dries:

Hope this helps you in your scrapping!!!

Lizzy Hill ♥♥♥

SIMPLE HYBRID CHRISTMAS CARD

Hi, 

it’s Wendy here today to share with you how I made a quick, simple hybrid (combined digital and traditional) Christmas card.

I used this month’s “traditional colours” mood board as inspiration for my card.

  

First I designed the white panel on the front of the card digitally using some favourite Christmas elements. You could use any pictures on the panel, or even a written quote. I then printed out my design twice on white card stock.



I cut out the first panel and stuck it in position on my cardstock base. My base is 22cm x 15cm, scored in the centre so that the folded card measures 11cm x 15cm. You can make the card any size you want but I made mine this size because it fits in a standard size envelope easily.

The second panel print I used to make some 3D embellishments. I cut out the “HO HO HO” banner, Christmas stocking and the gnome – all very straight forward cutting. I then used foam dots to adhere these embellishments in place over the base. This is what it looks like in 3D.

As you can see, I have also added some traditional embellishments in the way of sparkly gold stars and red bling dots.

Hope I’ve given you some ideas and thanks so much for dropping by.

Cheers.

We say goodbye to Heather McMahon

Hello - it's Heather McMahon here with my last Off The Rails post. I have enjoyed my time here and I'd like to thank Amanda Sousa so much for having me in her team.
Today I want to show you how you can use up leftover sprays. Firstly, here's my layout:

This is my niece's gorgeous kitten, Billie, who has since turned into an equally gorgeous cat. Any kitten that happily spends Christmas Day wearing tinsel has to have character!


Here's how I used my leftover spray.....

Whenever you spray through a stencil, keep a sheet of white (or coordinating coloured) cardstock nearby. After spraying, flip the stencil over and stamp it onto the cardstock. I have only used one colour and stencil here but you can use multiple colours and multiple stencils on the one cardstock for easy and unique backgrounds.

Here's how I then created my layout.....
Sponge pink and blue ink through a Dusty Attic stencil.

Paint the chippie pieces.

Mount chippies, paper and photos onto the page.

Tuck some gauze behind the photo, add a tag and thread and the first part of the title.

Add a strip of paper at the top and glue a line of beads underneath. Glue scattered beads in place. Add the chippie title, a butterfly and sequins for a bit more Christmas bling. Don't forget to add your journalling!

Here are some closeups.....

Here's the stunning mood board that I used for this project. I love that it's Christmassy without using traditional Christmas colours. I hope you can join in this month!

Thank you for sharing this journey with me. Wishing you all the very best for Christmas and for a safe and happy 2016.

Happy scrappin'!

Heather McMahon