Simple Stories - Summer Vibes Collection

Hello Sassy Scrappers,  hope all our readers are happy little crafters today.
I have a page to share with you using the Simple Stories Summer Vibes collection. I've really enjoyed scrapping with this collection.  The colours have been bright and fun and with a sticker sheet and some diecuts its easy to put together a page. 

I painted my cardstock with Gesso to begin with and used a comb to add texture while it

was still wet.  Then I added colour with Heidi Swapp mists.

With the lovely colour on the background and once I'd added my cluster of photo's I really only needed a few stickers and die cut embellishments to finish off my page.

Oh and I added a border to the top and bottom with one of the papers from the Summer Vibes range.

Thanks for stopping by the Sassy blog. Hope you have a happy crafty day.
Cheers, Leonie Neal-Dawson.

Simple Stories - Summer Vibes                    

Project Life | Week 24...

Hello Everyone! I'm so pleased to be bringing you another instalment of PL2015 this Monday! Today I get to share my spread from Week 24, using the gorgeous new October Afternoon | Summertime Collection and a little bit of Crate Paper | Wonder.  

 

This week simply involved family time, sporting adventures, crazy hair and star gazing. Just your everyday, typical stuff! *grin* And that is precisely the beauty of playing along with Project Life.  You can create pages that are very menial in their everyday agenda, but still record these memories to be treasured because they are what they are.

 

One perfect example is the top left pocket on my first page.  It is a photo of a photo. But this particular photo is my youngest son's very first school portrait!  I love his forced grin and not so tidy hair! These school photos were taken back in March but it was during this week, the school kids got to bring them home. Nothing out of the ordinary, but a "first" was documented.

 

I love also that these uplifting colours from the October Afternoon collection can be the base for simple journaling. This sticker phrase from Crate Paper Wonder, was all I need to create this filler card.

 





 

The everyday ordinary is also recorded this week with a quick iPhone snap of the weather outside my car window. And all it took for me to remember which day it was, was to look up the date it was taken. Just another dreary Monday!  Team it up with this awesome little 3x4 card from Crate Paper | Wonder and my story comes into focus even more.

 

 

This week's title pocket card was put together using the reverse side of a Coco Vanilla Studio | Made of Awesome paper (from Week 23) and a cut apart from October Afternoon | Summertime Blue Skies. October Afternoon alphas were the perfect colour choice to record the week. A little bit of stitching and strategically placed ephemera helped to complete the card.

 

 

Journaling this week was mostly jot points, but where there was a story to share, I designated a singular pocket to it. To create interest, I layered a shaped journaling card onto a 3x4 piece of cardstock and trimmed the excess.  To bring colour to the pocket, I simply flicked a few splashes of Heidi Swapp Colorshine on top of the card, and stamped a phrase using HeroArts ombre ink.

 

 

On my second page, I documented something I shared on Facebook.

 

 

This trivia was something that would clearly interest my eldest son and when looking to the skies, it actually became an obvious feature to see! Unfortunately I couldn't get a good night time shot myself, so I took a screen shot of the information and the labelled planets.

 

 

The sticker globe felt like it was the appropriate embellishment to layer in the white space of the photo. A universal icon of planet Earth aligned with the other celestial bodies!

 

 

To finish off the spread, I added a touch of colour, using the peach sticker choices to serve as a visual triangle to the simple top right filler card on page one. Linking these pockets up, really helps bounce the eye across the page!

 

  Happy Project Lifing this week! Don't forget to document the everyday ordinary as you go about your day to day routine..x   Sassy Supplies:             

Fabulous M

Hello Sassy friends!

I hope you are enjoying some wonderful downtime this weekend and get to do what we all love best - create!

I've been playing with my fabulous Minc and Fuse again and created this page featuring my beautiful Sister, on a birthday a couple of years ago. The piggy balloon proved to be a fun addition to the festivities! It's pretty difficult to capture the foil colours on camera, but I hope the close ups will give you an idea of how gorgeous and vibrant the foiled areas are in real life.

 

The large 'M' was foiled with some fun holographic foil I found at a hobby shop. I really love how smoothly the foil applies to the Heidi Swapp Minc accessories.  The striped Wanderlust paper has been run with lots of messy machine stitching and multi-coloured thread. It's a fun touch to change up the stitch on your machine, from straight to zigzag. (Just be sure to lift the needle out of the paper before changing the settings!)

The 'celebrate' wood veneer has been treated with some of my favourite hot pink Hero Arts neon mist. When it was dry, I sprayed parts with some Heidi Swapp Raspberry Color Shine and then after that was dry, I added touches of magenta embossing powder and heat set it.

The image is set on a layered cluster consisting of a sheet of the triangle cut lace paper, which has been stamped with the 'Pool' ombre Hero Arts ink. The quick shaker pocket was done with my Fuse and filled with a selection of sequins and a large blue foiled Minc flower. The Minc frame has been foiled with hot pink.

 

Thanks so much for stopping by today!

Chantalle

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