Recycling your scraps with CathyS

We have a lovely moodboard for you this month and I got inspired by all the bright colours:

With our theme too of recycling I decided to use up some of my leftovers for my page. I pulled out all the bits that had lots of colours on them, punched squares and then cut those in half to form triangles. Next up was to arrange the triangles in a chevron pattern across the page and machine stitch them in place.

The photos were also punched into squares and then mounted into photo strips. This is all mounted onto a piece of patterned paper. Lastly I dug out some old button stickers and a few others to add to the layout.

The only "new" bit on my layout is the title which I created in Silhouette Studio and then cut out.

So how have you been inspired by our moodboard and theme this month?

Till next time, happy scrapping.

CathyS

Scrapping about a recycled theme

Hi once again... good to be back and sharing some tips with you.

My layout is inspired by our "reuse" theme from our moodboard. You might ask where I reused anything on my page... well here's the low down for you:
1. The photos are of my son's art project in which he had to make an outfit from recycle stuff.
 - We made the waistcoat from a pair of pants
 - used old buttons and linked them with paperclips
 - made a paper bowtie
 - the fobwatch was a bedside clock that didn't work which he altered
 - his hat used to be a milk box and we covered it with foam and bling
2. The chipboard elements on my layout are all from my stash...leftovers from another kit.
3. My title is made from old rub-ons that I've had for years.... I even had to use a "3" for my "e" in the word Very.
4. The two black thread pieces were originally from gift bags if I remember... anyway they were off something else and fitted perfectly with this theme of reusing stash.

So though I only have a few items that are truly "recycled" on my page, the whole layout fits with the theme. Let the moodboard inspire you in whichever direction you need to go. Remember to share your work with us on the sidebar link every month.

Till next time...

October Challenge Reveal - Recycle moodboard inspiration by the DT

Hi Off the Rails fans

This month we welcome you to our blog and encourage you to create something using the moodboard below and include a recycled item.

Luciana W

I love recycling materials in my projects. I used the bottom of a box, flowers made with coffee strainer and plant peels.

Carol

Louise

My recycled item is the "Cars" emblem - cut from the original showbag and mounted on black cardstock.

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Happy Crafting.

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Art Journal page - Step by step with Judy

Hi Everyone, I am so pleased to be able to share my first Off the Rails design team project "all about food" with you this morning. I seldom take photos of food and have just started to dabble into art journalling so I thought -why not an art journal page about food? My inspiration came from the quote "Laughter is Food for the Soul".

Here's what I did. Using some natural foodstuffs I produced dyes & paint. The hessian was dyed with beetroot and I mixed turmeric and paprika to produce dye. I have also dyed some gauze with tea and mixed coffee with texture paste.

My 'art journal' is an up cycled children's book, so I created the background first by painting the page with gesso and covering it with torn pieces of old recipe book paper. I then applied the turmeric wash while the gesso was still wet.

Then some paprika wash to cover the remainder of the background.  Unfortunately as the gesso dried the colours did fade quite a bit but the subtle yellow and orange was quite easy to work with .

When the gesso had dried I misted with a coffee mist through a stencil and added a fussy cut picture of a woman laughing over some more recipe paper and some tissue printed with kitchen dishes. 

Then some tea stained gauze, stamping and the quote. I finished off with some hessian and more stamping and a few "splotches" of coffee texture paste through a stencil.

I hope this has given you a few ideas - there's still time to join in this months challenge.

Have a happy day. Judy

September Mid Month Reveal with the DT

Hello Crafters

We'd love to see some more entries for our "Foodie" inspired September moodboard.

I think the DT's work will help you get creative.

Lisa

Lisa-Marie

CathyS

Juili

Brenda

Don't forget you can make any kind of project for our challenge.

As long as you share your inspiration with us ...

Happy Crafting.

Louise xo

"School Lunches Blah" Scrapbook layout + process video by Louise

Hi Crafters

Louise on the blog today.

Here to share my inspiration page for the September moodboard.

"School Lunches Blah"

I'm not going to lie. I found this food challenge quite difficult.

Firstly I chose my photo. While looking through my printed photos, I found this one of the first ever school lunches I made back in January.

It was kind of exciting at the time, but now I look forward to tuckshop days when I don't have to make lunches ... and I've still got to do this for twelve more years!!!!!

So I decided to make that the story of my layout.

The colour inspiration came from the little cupcake embellishment - I wouldn't normally have used it but for this page, it was perfect.

You can see and hear all about my process in this video.

Thanks for visiting.

Happy Scrapping.

Louise xo

September 1st Mood board Challenge - Designer Team Inspiration

Hi There Crafters

How excited are you for the start of spring?

We sure are, so if you've got some time to scrap we would love you to play along with our moodboard this month ...

Keep scrolling to see our fabulous DT inspiration

Deb

Carole W

Narelle

Lisa-Marie

Such a fun challenge!  I chose this photo of my daughter peeping through a window cookie that we'd just baked - it was our first attempt and it went down a treat! She was incredibly proud of all the beautiful little biscuits she helped bake!  I also added an adorable little cupcake element to bring the theme together.

Jae Hee Lee

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Happy crafting.

Louise xo

August Mid Month Reveal - Moodboard inspiration from the DT

Happy Mid Month OTR friends,

Today we have some more amazing DT reveals for our Mid Month inspo.

Lets check out the moodboard challenge first though...…

And now lets see how some of our DT have interpreted this gorgeous moodboard.

Dawid.

Trish

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August 1st Moodboard Challenge - Inspiration from the DT

Welcome to 

Off the Rails Scrapbooking

AUGUST CHALLENGE

This month is all about "Tribal"

The designers have given you some gorgeous inspiration 

Please visit their blogs if you like their work, and see what they have going on, don't forget to follow them.  

Carol

Carol created a canvas with tribal hathernware design for the background.

Louise

Louise created a water colour background on an Art Journal page and included a tribe inspired saying.

Luciana W

Luciana created a water colour background and included tribal elements in her page.

Candy

Candy created a 5x7 inch card using the colour palette of the mood board

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We look forward to seeing your creations.

Happy Crafting.

Louise xo