You Make Me Smile | Pink Paislee/Paige Evans Whimsical | Tarrah McLean

Hi Sassy Scrappers!
It's Tarrah McLean back with you and today I have a new layout to share with you using the gorgeous Whimsical collection by Paige Evans/Pink Paislee. I will be working with this collection over the next few weeks so stay tuned for some inspiration each Friday!

This week I wanted to incorporate some hand stitching on my page. I started sketching a flower shape onto white cardstock and then on the inside of the hand stitching I made a small slit in the paper to be able to tuck the die cut flowers into. I pierced holes along the design of the sketch and then stitched my heart away!

It's best to get the stitching part done first and I will admit, it did take me a while as it was a new kind of stitch that I had never tried before. Its called chain link stitch and it took me a little bit to get the hang of it. I chose the golden colour to enhance some of the gold pieces in the flowers. I used 4 strands of the embroidery thread.

 Once the stitching was all done, it was time to adhere my photo down and embellish the page. The next step was to get the flowers tucked into the slit on the left how I liked them. I used the whole packet of ephemera flowers except for the leaves. I used the whole bottom section of the packet for this one page! I bent some of them up to add dimension and also adhered some with foam tape too. 

You can see in the photo above that it created lovely shadows and dimension. I kept the right hand side fairly simple with mainly just my photo popped up on some craft foam and a few small embellishments added around the photo.  Thanks so much for stopping by today! I hope I have inspired you to purchase any 6' x 6' paper pad from the Sassy store and try out a layout like this one!
Happy creating!
Tarrah x                                

September Spring Challenge

Hello Sassy fans.  Leonie here today sharing our September Spring Challenge.  As September is the first month of Spring here in Australia our challenge this month is to include the word 'Spring' on your page somewhere and there's also a sketch to follow.

Our lovely Design Team member Anita Bownds has supplied us with this months' sketch and inspiration picture.

As a special bonus we've included a freebie cut file if you wish to use this on your project.

I used the lovely holiday/travel papers from the 'Journey' collection from Crate Paper. 

With Kraft as a base I added some of the Kraft patterned papers from the collection along with

some of the Teal papers and some gold accents.  

Here's a larger - up close version of the sketch for you all.

I've been dying to use this cute little caravan sticker on a page and this was the definitely the one as I was scrapping some pictures of our camper.  

The circles and rings were all punched out with circle punches and the drips and splats were made with Color Shine sprays.

Here's Anita's super pretty page.  It's just so lovely and she really has the spring theme going with some lovely floral papers and as you can see she's used the cut file.

I hope you're feeling inspired to take part in our sketch challenge. The linky tool will be up, as usual top right of the blog, in a few days time. Happy Crafting. Cheers, Leonie Neal-Dawson.