Shaving Cream card - quick tutorial

I have been asked to share a quick tutorial on how I made this card by a swap group that I am in.. 

and of course, it's my pleasure.. 

First the shaving cream technique.. 

So I take a baking tray, line with glad bake (or whatever you have on hand - cling wrap or al foil will work too). I spray to cover the whole base with cheap shaving cream. Just the coles brand one is fine if you're only using for crafting.. 

Using whatever colours you like, drop a few drips of food colouring onto the shaving cream and mix around to make swirls and patterns.. (I used pink & blue) 

Then simply place some paper or cardstock on top of the shaving cream and press down to coat the entire surface.. Simply lift up and again place down some thing on the table to protect and catch the excess. Using a ruler just glide and scrape from one side to the other to take off all of the shaving cream.. 

If you want to make more, put back into the tray and repeat! :) 

Give your design some time to dry!

Now onto the card..

Using a blue card base 6" x 8", I scored in the middle and folded to make a card 4"x 6".

I cut the now dry and designed shaving cream paper down to about 3 3/4" x 5 3/4" and stuck to card base. 

Then I found a super cute vellum quote tag out of my old DCWV "Quote Stacks" - Nature & Inspiration book.. These are all 3"x 6" tags, but I cut this one down to fit on an off cut scrap piece of black cardstock I had in my stash.. It has then been held together by a pink large Eyelet using one of my favourite tools - the ProvoCraft "Silent Setter". Finished the tag off with two colours of twine, both are from the American Crafts 'premium ribbon' range I believe I got a whole set from Spotlight some years ago.. Attaching this with some 3D double sided tape so that is is raised from the background.

Last bit was the Butterfly diecut. I believe it's a Kaiser die, but can't be 100% certain as it is no longer in it's packet. Sorry, my bad.. lol

I used by Big Shot and more black scrap paper to cut out the butterfly die. 

I adhered that nice and strong to the tag with some glue dots.  

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So there we go,  nice and simple and pretty quick card to put together. I love to make quite a few pieces when I play with the shaving cream. So you can make these designs in advance and then the card would probably take no more that 5/6mins to put together.. 

Thank you for allowing me to share this with you and I hope it inspires you to get creative and make your own soon too!
Toni.. xoxo

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Little Moments, Big Memories

May is Mother's month at Scrap the Boys... So of course it was a must to make this last night as soon as I saw the challenge.. :) 

We are super lucky to be able to feature ourselves this month in the photo with our boys.. 

So today I am sharing one with Hunter.. 

It was taken in January at our local beautiful Lagoon when we shared lunch with some of our best mates.. Hunter is always up for a photo when I say "hey, have a selfie with me?!"  lol.. 

The papers, embellishments, tags, flowers are all from different companies and ranges.. I love how they all come together to rock this page though.. 

As always I start off by laying the materials on the layout so I have a rough idea of what I'm going to do. Of course plenty of changing and tweaking happens along the way... 

The blue tissue paper was down first. Then mesh ribbon and Stag stencil using modelling paste. 

The gesso when down next with some far too heavy handed red & yellow misting sprays, so after half of it dried, I quickly went over the top with the gesso again... So it's a bit heavier than  I had intended, but I like it.. 

Add loads of layers and different elements really make the eye catch to every part of this page with something new to look at constantly. It's quite an immersive layout that you can take quite a few minutes sussing out all the details.. 

That includes some little details like this one that you don't notice at first, but then it's absolutely gorgeous when you do notice it! 

This challenge at Scrap The Boys is running all month! You have the entire month to get some inspiration from their team and then make your own beautiful layout to link up.. 

Thank you StB for allowing us to celebrate with our this month! 

Happy Mother's Day to all that have been blessed with this special gift.. 

Toni.. xoxo

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