Hi Everyone. Lisa here. Today I have some altered tags to share. I have decorated them using the gorgeous Sweet Day collection by Echo Park. This month at Artfull Crafts the focus is favourite colors. I have so many favourite colour combinations, there is no way I can commit to one! I do love the colours in this range, they are fun & so pretty!


I have used purchased luggage tags. You can usually get these from your newsagents or stationary store.
I love to alter them, they are 'my thing' at the moment.
I have decorated 3 as a set, you can add them to a layout, a card or just give them as they are.


I have layered elements from the sticker sheet, used some punched shapes, buttons, crushed seam binding & bling.
Inked edges help give a finished look.


I have used some flowers from the sticker sheet to replicate the images on the patterned paper. I cut a sweet little envelope using a sizzix die I have. Some more inked edges, ribbon, buttons & bling.


I used the gorgeous hot air balloon from the sticker sheet layering with foam tape & a sentiment. Some ribbon, twine & bling.



Thanks for stopping by. Have a great day.

Lisa

Hi. Lindsey here with a couple of layouts in my favourite colour - "Basic Grey".

Now, the first layout is about a new gadget we bought for the kitchen - a juicer. We are very enamoured with this handsome devil - whose name is Oscar incidentally. I decided he needed to be scrapbooked when I realised that it was National Fresh Fruit and Vegetable month in June.

This coincided with a very interesting dream. My subconscious was obviously grappling with the fact that I needed to do a layout about Oscar and I dreamed that I had stuck two huge leeks on one page and two spring onions on another page (you will appreciate that it was a double layout). Isn't that a hoot?! So this is my real layout - using a very old Basic Grey paper which just happened to have what looks like radishes and peas and pears on it and the colours went nicely. What do you think? Is that weird - making a page about kitchen equipment?

The thing is, I can remember my granny telling me a little about the range that she would cook on and having to fetch water from a pump outside. I wish that I had listened more closely and I would have loved to have had photos of her working in her kitchen. Maybe in the future, one of my descendents will look at this machine and be absolutely fascinated. Who knows.
So - less weird is a simple layout of a wee girly with a cheeky grin playing with Duplo which is very colourful. It's so cheerful, you can't help but smile. It's also another old collection by Basic Grey called Lime Rickey - one of my favourites. I've got lots of this paper left but I keep returning to it.

Sandy with some cards using Teresa Collins' Everyday Moments. I love the smaller elements in the collection and decided to make my cards using mainly embellishments.


My first card uses elements from each of the colours (blue, yellow, grey) in the collection. The background is yellow, blue die-cuts form a focus cluster and silver dimensional items act as accents. Black is thrown in to give added depth overall.


On this next card grey dominates as I layer a series of large grey elements to take up most of the middle. Blue is used on the top and bottom to hold everything together while little touches of yellow are added as accents.




Finally a different colour story is achieved when I replace blue with orange and kraft elements from older Teresa Collins collections. This texture-filled card features metallic swallows, translucent acrylic flower and rustic jute threads.




Giveaway : July marks my one year anniversary designing for Artfull Crafts. To celebrate I am giving away these Teresa Collins items on my blog. Just hop over and leave a comment for a chance to win.




Teresa Collins Supplies : Everyday Moments (Collage, Ornate Flourish, Die-Cut Sheet 2, Die-Cut Sheet 3, Stamp, Trinkets, Buttons), World Traveler  (Filmstrip, Rhinestones) Travel Ledger Library Envelops, Giving Thanks Library Envelops, Docmented Life Measured
Others : Petaloo Candies Orange, Bella Blvd Mr Boy Quadrants, Webster's Pages Trendsetter Syle 105, G45 Le Cirque Bohemian Floral, Jenny Bowlin Rub-Ons, jute

Hi there Christine here.

 These are a couple of cards I made using 'leftovers' from the  Bella-Vintage Chic Kit that I made these Layouts from....

                          


                          
                          

This Saturday 14 July I am taking a Class at Artfull Crafts at 1pm.  This is in the afternoon of the Saturday Crop Day from 10am-10pm.  We will be using these papers and making these layouts and with the leftovers we can make some cards! So will you join me?  Details here.

TFL

Happy Creating!

Christine

It's THAT time of the year again! If you want to join the Artfull Crafts Design Team, then keep on reading!

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Hi Everyone

Lowri here to share a travel album using the Kaisercraft Check-In Collection and if you swing by my blog here - I am giving away the blank camera album and a bunch of Check-In goodies to!!


This album was created using the Kaisercraft Camera Album and their June Check-In Collection.



The pages of the album are blank all ready for the recipient to add some pictures and journaling notes from their trip


This collection has a lot of really cool embellishments and you can see the complete Collection on the Artfull Crafts website here.


Now onto the really cool parts of this collection - the acetate sheet and acetate shapes.


In the picture above I have layered a cut circle of acetate over the same size circle of paper for added dimension


In this picture (above) I used one of the small acetate pieces over the paper to form a frame for the stickers. They make a great, easy to use alternative to stamps too!

Hope you have enjoyed these - please leave a comment with any questions Lowri :-)

Hi - Lindsey here with a few layouts containing my favourite "colour" as per this month's theme. I thought about this for a long time. One minute I thought of one colour and then next minute another colour and later yet more colours popped into my head. I do have some colours that I prefer over others and I have to admit that I am not a huge fan of purple but, in the end, do you know what I decided?

My favourite colour for some years now has been "Basic Grey"!! Is that cheating? Probably. Regardless, I think I will share with you some Basic Grey layouts I made about a month or so ago from the "What's Up" range. Once I had the collection open on my desk, I couldn't be bothered to put it away again so made four in quick succession all from the same papers.

Hi there - Christine here with some Carta Bella-Beautiful Moments cards I have made.

Love this Beautiful Moments Collection that this new company, Carta Bella, has put out.
I have also used the new Kaisercraft -Miss Match- ingo cards and their Vintage - Cherish Stamp.
As well I have used my favourites - Bakers twine, Butterfly Punch, Brads and the TH Ticket die.

This month we are looking at favourite colours - I have 2! Red & Green. So today's cards have red on them. Love how the red is with the yellow.

 I am now back from holiday after spending 3 weeks up in the lovely Golden Bay at the top of the South Island!  Spent the time reading, walking & fishing! No crafting! So I am excited to be getting back into scrapping and card making.

TFL

Happy Creating!

Christine

Hope you're enjoying our Favourite Colours challenge this month. I am having a great time designing with this theme. Today's layout continues with the colour palette I shared in last week's Remember 4ever project. Brown, yellow and red appear again while the grey is replaced with a muted green. 


I am having a giveaway of Ruby Rock-It's brand new Decoupage products my blog. Just hop over here and leave me a comment.


Supplies : MME Indie Chic (Direction Brocade & Layered Sticker, Adventure Bouquet & Ric Rac & Brad & Label Sticker, Travel Stripes & Chipboard, Relax Title & Border Sticker), Best Creation Chipboard Alpha, Kaisercraft Resin Flower Orchid, Maya Road Organza Rose Ribbon, pearl top push pin