Caterpillar to Butterfly

What the Caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a Butterfly
- Richard Bach

Today I'm here to share with you a simple elegance feel layout that I did inspired by the May sketch challenge over at Let's Scrap Sketches.. 

I fell in love with this sketch as soon as I saw. I've had it printed out for weeks to do and finally got some time at my craft desk earlier in this week. 

In their rules you can make with double layout OR a single layout featuring either of the sides.
Although I have to be honest and admit this entire sketch caught my eye and I would have loved to do both sides, I only had the time to do the left.. 

I used some photos from my photo shoot with Wade Aunger in January. 

The papers are from the Kaiser "whisper" collection.. 

 The flower cluster in the middle is made up of beautiful Prima products, Kaiser mini flowers and more Prima Butterflies. I finished off with some twine around the smaller photo, some extra pearls and a little banner cluster below the bigger photo. The title I choose is a saying instead and it came from a fun Vellum quotes book I have.. 

I loved the gentle and natural tones that this page has once all put together and wow, doesn't it go with the photos so well! I'm actually a bit proud of myself with this one.. lol 

Well, thanks for dropping by today! I always feel very lucky to be able to share my crafting and especially even more so when it's a layout that I fall in love with!!!!!
If you've been caught by the Let's Scrap Sketches layout like me, then drop on over to their challenge blog and link up your own entry. Open until the end of the month. 

Toni.. xoxo

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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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Sorry, Not Sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0mHPrkhE_Tg




What would you do / say?
How would you act / dress? 

This months challenge over at the Scrap The Girls challenge blog is to "Dress like you're going to meet your ex-boyfriend"... This "Knock your socks off" challenge has been interrupted in many different ways by their design team and to start with I wasn't sure how to view this challenge either.. 

Until I realised that I still have a tonne of amazing photos of me quite frankly looking amazing and fierce taken just a couple of months ago. I bit of pay back to an ex-bf. 

This pose was actually MY IDEA! This is the one that I wanted done! it features my
LOOK WHAT YOU MADE ME DO 

face and fierce confidence and that I'm better off without his old sulky, entitled ass! 

Sorry, Not Sorry

This title is actually something I used to say to him quite often as a joke.
(Sorry for stealing your pillow. Sorry for hogging the blankets.
Sorry I'm always the last one to get ready. Sorry for eating most of your dessert. ) 
  Now though, no longer joking. Not sorry! I had my eyebrow raised pretty much the entire time making this layout with such self satisfaction that I haven't felt in quite a while.. lol

I have such amazing feelings about this photo and about this layout! 

The colours are soft and layering of the paper tags keeps it simple to make sure the photo gets the attention it deserves! 

As always I start out my laying out a general concept of what / how I want my layout to be.. 

Then start attacking it with sprays and layering down the paper bits.. 

Lindy's Stamp Gang Steampunk Sepia & Clam Bake Beige were used here.. 

The long pieces of chipboard were inked with Versa Color Sand Beige while the smaller pieces in each corner which I wanted the eye to catch were coloured with VC Copper. 

It was really quite relaxing when I was attaching the embellishments. I had a big sigh of relief as it all come together much better than even I had imagined. 

I had made this page a week ago, but due to the school holidays I hadn't had the chance to upload and make a post until now. So glad that I'm finally sharing this as I'm totally in love with this now! 

So what would you do?
Go on over to the Scrap The Girls challenge blog and get your own motivation and inspiration for this challenge! You have until the end of the month to get your creation linked up.. I just know you'll have fun with this one!!

Toni.. xoxo

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Humour

I was very honoured today to have been chosen as the winner of a Scrapbook Challenge for March amongst a crafting group I joined this month..  I was so beyond surprised and grateful!!

As part of winning, I got to set the new challenge for April..
I have noticed quite a few of the group members struggle with masculine themes, so I decided to really throw a challenge their way to celebrate a special male in their lives! 

Using a photo of either a grandfather / father / uncle / husband / boyfriend / cousin / son / grandson / friend and journaling about something they share with this person whether it be looks / personality / hobby / interests / attended the same school / favourite colour.. 

I also came up with my own layout design to help incase they stumble with their creativity, but this is optional and not a requirement.  I left it wide up for the crafter to put the title & journaling wherever suits them and of course they can add any extra elements or embellishments as they wish. 

For my layout I featured the wicked sense of Humour that Hunter and I share.. 

This layout features my youngest son Hunter and one of our favourite speedway drivers.. He has bit of a bad boy rep and you either love him or hate him... We of courser absolutely love Kerry Madsen.. But this year the team grabbed an opporunity to capture the haters also. They made up "Kerry Madsen Sucks" t shirt.. When I told Hunter about it, he laughed so hysterically and wanted one so badly.. Unfortunately though they were limited edition prints for an event 2000km away from us.. Luckily I was able to contact Kerry and the team, so they put a special shirt away for Hunter and we picked it up the next weekend at the Aust Sprintcar Championship.. 　

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As some extra inspiration I also shared some past layouts that I've done that capture things my boys and I share; 

Lane and I share OPTIMISM. 

 Both of my boys have MY EYES.

I have passed on my passion for MOTORSPORT with both my boys.

My boys and I love being in NATURE. But not for too long.. lol

Hunter seems to have inherited my ATTITUDE. 

We all love ADVENTURE.

Most of these have been passed from me onto my children. This one though started with Lane. Enjoying a day at FOOTY. Both of my boys are outstanding players. I just help with washing jerseys and team admin.. I'm happy just to watch! hahahaha.... 

Lasting Memories - Floral Wreath

After a couple of weeks of making cards, I'm so happy to be back with a layout today.. I ordered some photos online via BigW and they finally arrived.. I have been biting to finally get started on a hanging pocket album using the photos that a speedway friend Wade Aunger took of my on Australia Day this year.. (26th January 2019 - Brisbane, Qld)

This will actually be the second page you see when flipping through the album, it will be the first 12x12 design, so it needed to be a big and bold statement piece, but staying with the soft colours that will flow through.. This challenge by the Lasting Memories challenge blog was perfect inspiration for this layout and I had an image in my mind the moment I read  the challenge.. It looks amazing in real life and is exactly the way I wanted it! So happy right now I can't even explain.. lol 

LM #439 - Florals and succulents in a wreath

First, I set out the base and sort out my design before I start.. I tend to be a quick scrapper, so I find taking a little bit of time at the start to do this helps to assist with making less mistakes.. I still wing it with small elements later on in the layout,  but like to get the big stuff organised! 

I torn up the pattern paper just below half way and again a couple inches down. I have saved the scrap piece for another page. I backed this onto the cream cardstock. 

Slotting the photo under the bottom pattern paper piece make it much easier for me to add in the flower wreath over the top. 

I used this circle template as my guide to wrap the wire into a circle for the wreath effect. 

I have  been totally addicted to Skin Wars on Netflix lately. It was fun although a little distracting at times to have a creative show on while I was crafting.. lol... 

I used the burst stencil on the bottom left and top right of my photo just to add some extra texture and layer to the flower clusters. 

And some silver and petal pink inks on the wood veneer title piece. 

This is where me winging it comes back into play. Even though I had set out the big items, the little elements like all those small flowers and leaves are slotted in wherever my eye catches. 

Thank you so much to the Lasting Memories challenge blog for giving me the first inspiration to get this album started. I'm excited by this first piece and can't wait to get onto the next piece so it all starts to come together soon hopefully! 

Drop on over to the Lasting Memories blog, check out the challenge and be inspired to link up your own piece..
Toni.. xoxo

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A Breath of Fresh Air

Lasting Memories #436 - Tropical Triangles

This month at the Lasting Memories scrapbooking challenge blog we are being challenged to create something using the above photo including any of the colours, shapes and/or elements.. 

A Breath of Fresh Air

Firstly I want to start by mentioning that due to lighting the colours aren't quite popping as much as they do in real life and the pinks on the Flamingo are much nicer too. ekk.. 

Anyway, I checked out the newest challenge released on the Lasting Memories challenge blog today. Their first challenge for the month was released and it fit perfectly with a "just add paper" pack that I got from D-Lish Scraps not long ago.. And I knew this photo would fall onto the layout perfectly too!

So I started by spraying the light teal base with some white mist and then inked in patches with a small script stamp to match in the inspiration piece.. 

Then for the triangle elements I cut up an old Amy Tangerine paper pad.. Two big triangles and 6 smaller ones layered across the middle of the page to make a feature for the base.

A fun triangle banner stencil was next with some modelling paste and micro beads.. 

Some washi tape under the photo.. Added in the tags and flair buttons..

Both of the chipboard pieces are gorgeous designs from Memory Maze. I coloured them using Faber-Castell Gelatos. The Hot Air Balloon has Metallic Melon and the title has Margarita..

I tried to add as many things as possible onto my layout as possible. I found this photo inspiration really caught my eye, so wanted to try to capture those on the page too. 

Thanks for letting me share this layout with you tonight. I hope you liked it and hope you'll be inspired to drop on over to the Lasting Memories Scrapbooking challenge blog to link up your own creation too.. 

Toni.. xoxo

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