Scrapbooking Global Blog Hop - Men In Our Lives

 

 

 

 

Welcome to Scrapbooking Global - Jan 18 Blog Hop - Men In Your Life
This year we are trying something completely NEW...
We asked members of our group of over 6K+ members from
Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! to become designers for the next 8 months.

We are trying to encourage EVERYONE to join in the HOP's every month.
We prefer that you do have a Blog so that you can join the hop every month.
BUT you don't have to have a blog to participate in these monthly challenges
by submitting a photo to the Album of the Month after 2pm AEDT.

You can JOIN Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! FB group here

 

So our 1st Guest Designer of the Month is Tina Parsons, 
Tina creates Beautiful scrapbooking layouts and uploads
them to our group regularly and now she is participating in our Blog Hop.
You can follow Tina here on Instagram

 Tina's Theme is Men In Your Life

 Men In Our Life is such a great theme, one that I am often creating believe it or not.
This layout is for my Son's Wedding Album.  He only got married in Oct 23.
Jeffrey is my eldest child and he is such a WONDERFUL Human being.
He has the most beautiful soul.

This layout is a bit of a mix up of a lot of products from both
the Annual Catalogue and the Jan - Apr Mini Catalogue.
I am participating in an Insta HOP tomorrow with Monochromatic Colours
and the colour is Boho Blue one of our NEW InColors and I thought I should
use that colour for this layout.  Sooo it is very Blue with a splash of Black,
the many tones of Boho Blue.

I would call this style of scrapbooking - Grungy. Layers of ink, embossing pastes
and torn or shabby edges on our papers and cardstock.

Firstly I layed down some Boho Blue Ink over the houndstooth mask (retired)
with a blending brushing making sure that I added lots of depths of ink.
Layering it thickly and thinly in different places.

Then I added some Shimmery White Embossing Paste over a circle mask (retired)
this brings the Boho Blue Ink into the paste and turns to a shade of Boho Blue Ink.

 

 

I used Notes of Nature stamp sets to create the background stamping.
Once again using the ink on the stamp to add 1st, 2nd and 3rd generation stamping.
Basically it just means by stamping more than once you get a different colour ink.




I used 2 different Designer Series Paper for my DSP elements on the layout.
Fresh As A Daisy 12" x 12" DSP - 23 - 24 Annual Catalogue
Poetic Expressions 12" x 12" DSP - Jan - Apr 2024 Mini

Also used several sets of dies to add elements to my layout.
Alphabet A La Mode Dies
Wanted To Say Dies
Radiating Stitches Dies

The other thing that I add right at the end of my creating process where
some of the cards from Sweet Thoughts Memories & More Cards.
I LOVE adding these to my scrapbooking layouts and they are really
cool to make quick and easy cards with too.
I chopped into one card and used both sides of it.
I also used one of the stickers as well.

 My layout also included some black and white ribbon that just
finished it off I believe.
 

 

Up Next is Courtney Heuston  

 Follow the rest of the participants by clicking on the list below.

Glad that you could HOP along with us today following the
Scrapbooking Global - Stampin' Up! - Jan 18th Blog Hop.

 I want to say a HUGE THANKS to you who visit my blog and comment it really means a lot to me.  I really do appreciate you leaving me some Lovin' in the form of a comment.

Cheers Shaz

 

Crafty Collaborations - Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop - Stippled Rose DSP (FREE)

 

 

 

 

Welcome to the very 1st Crafty Collaborations Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop,
Crafty Collaborations is a group of Stampin' Demonstrators from throughout
the world collaborating together and sharing their creative flair.

 

 

 

 

 

You may have joined me here from Julia's Blog - Handmade by Julia

 with a layout that I am sure is truly a piece of artwork.

 

My layout was inspired by a Page Maps Sketch from Becky Higgins
And I changed it up a bit...
Sketches are a starting point to a layout, this gives you a guide of where
to place photos and titles and embellishments.

I am using the FREE Softly Stippled 12" x 12" Designer Series Paper
from Sale-A-Bration (SAB) promotion that Stampin' Up! has every year.
For every $90 you spend you can chose an item from the SAB catalogue.
This DSP co-ordinates with the Stippled Roses on pg 64 of the Jan- Apr Mini Catalogue.
I don't own this set, so I chose to fussy cut all these roses from the paper.

My Son got married in Oct so this layout will be used for the their Wedding Album.
 (2) x 12" x 12" Pebbled Path Cardstock
(2) x A4 Gray Granite Cardstock
12" x 12" Black Cardstock

Up Next is Michele Jutrisa

 Follow the rest of the participants by clicking on the list below.

Glad that you could HOP along with us today following the
Crafty Collaborations Scrapbook Sunday Blog Hop.

 I want to say a HUGE THANKS to you who visit my blog and comment it really means a lot to me.  I really do appreciate you leaving me some Lovin' in the form of a comment.

Cheers Shaz