It’s Wednesday!

Hello everyone!

This wednesday, I’ll show you that your favorite Pink Paislee products are not just made to make layouts, mini albums and cards, but that they are perfect for ANY kind of ART, esp. wall art!

Here’s a canvase I made for a clas I was teaching in Ireland last weekend and it was simply amazing to see everyone’s amazing work, every single canvase was different!

Simply apply newspaper to the background of your canvase, use your favorite acrylic paints to cover the whole background with paint, mount your favorite piece of Pink Paislee papers on cardboard, make tress and clouds and this is it! You can definitely hang your most favorite pictures on the wall now!

Sunday Stamping

Well here I am again, and I am so happy to say I just love stamping, it would have to be one of the things I have the most fun with, but I  don’t always get the time to do, and with the gorgeous Pink Paislee Stamps it made this project a pleasure to create.

The stamps I used for this project are: Fancy Frames, Vintage Moon, Spring Fling

I used the Fancy Frames to create the frame around my photos and for the borders of my plaque.  I stamped the brackets one by one into a line to create the border and then I cut around the edge, I also used the same idead for the square frame, Oh and I nearly forgot I also used the frames for the base of my Titles which I layered with foam tape.

To create the cute little layered birds I stamped onto pattern paper twice and then layered with foam tape, I did the same with the owl, but created more layers.

To create the flowers I again stamped onto pattern paper but I used two different pattern one for the flowers and layered the center of the flower with foam tape.

I used a couple of collections to create the plaque I used the “Fetching” and “Fascinating“ Collections, this shows how versatile these papers are and that they go so well together, I finished off with a little doodling and some chalking around the edges of my tree etc,.

You can see the layered effect in the above photo, and How you can make the stamped images come alive.

I just loved this when I had finished it, and it sits on my little table on a plate stand at my front door, just too cute to hide away.

Thanks so much, and happy scrapping.

Friday’s Feelings!

What kind of scrapbooker are you? Do you document events, everyday memories, or both? I’m definitely one who documents both but I love documenting everyday memories best. I think it’s because my kids are changing so fast and I know I won’t be able to remember everything about this magical time. I really try to document WHO they are in addition to what they do because that’s the kind of information I wish I had about my childhood! This recording of facts and feelings is why I always make sure that my layouts incorporate a good deal of journaling.

When creatinglayouts, I always make sure that my journaling is accounted for in the design of the page. I often use journaling as a way to fill up dead space and to balance out the overall design. This layout below is a perfect example of where I used a block of journaling to add more weight to the bottom right of the page:

This page about my boy’s quirks started with a colour scheme: I wanted to use rust, blue, and black to match my picture. I punched a few squares from the Engaging, Spirited, Tender, and Spectacular papers to frame the picture. Then I added some chipboard shapes to the left of the picture and a chipboard title above the picture before balancing the design with a block of journaling on the bottom right.

So, there you have it…a quick layout that forever documents some of my boy’s quirks. I am sure he will love reading this when he’s older If you’ve never tried using journaling as a design element, you should definitely give it a try! It’s an easy way to balance out layouts and you’ll be glad you’ve recorded some memories on paper!

Until next month

Memories From The Attic Chat Is Tonight!

Hey everyone!  Pink Paislee will be chatting tonight over at Memories From The Attic. It all starts at 8:00 p.m. CST so hop over to the store, register for the forum, and get ready to ask me all of your burning questions.  I have given them all the power in the world to hand out some giveaways during the chat too

Don’t miss it!

It’s Wednesday!

Happy Wednesday everyone!!

Well being Wednesday means it is wacky……and wacky we have, with a big paper mix up!! It was a good friend’s birthday the other day & I wanted to create something special for her in the way of a birthday pack. She is such a fun loving crazy gal so there was no question, it had to be bright & fun!

I am trying to be more ‘green’ about my scrapping these days & having a huge box of PP off cuts, I decided to use some of them up rather than just binning them. For the card, I cut myself a variety of  mini box shapes & layered them in a pile on the base card using different thicknesses of 3D puff tape. Then  tied some of them with ribbons & braid adding glitter for birthday sparkle. I suggest you use a fast drying glue like ‘mono’, sprinkle a layer of glitter lightly over the glued areas & wait for them to dry. Tap off any loose glitter….& Voila!! pretty finishes in a flash!

I left a little teeny white tag on the front of the pink parcel for me to write my buddy’s name :o)

She wanted some fancy face lotion for her present, but being a tricky shape I needed to find a suitable package design. After doing a bit of net-surfing I found a GREAT tutorial here for the perfect box. It is SUPER easy to make, even for me who tends to be ‘instruction challenged’ at the best of times :o) And it only used one piece of card stock with bits ‘n pieces for decoration.

Here is the collection of papers I used…. pleasant enchanting, enthralling fascinating, eye popping fascinating, fast track office lingo, sugar pie sweet cakes, cutie pie sweet cakes, lovey dovey sweet cakes, office lingo lunch hour, office lingo cubicle, fascinating press ons, fascinating chip die cuts , coconut pixiee stix and last but not least fascinating sticker strips.

Well you lovlies,  I sure hope these have inspired you to try some yourselves :o)

Remember to carry on uploading your gorgeous projects into the Pink gallery….I know I speak for all of us here at Pink Paislee, when I say that every day we continue to be amazed by your creativity, thank-you!

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