Hello Crafters and  welcome to my crafty blog.

My post today is my DT project for the 'On the Beach' challenge  which started on the 19th July over at the Stamping with the Dragon  challenge blog.
 
For this DT card I am using on of the digital stamps from Stamping Dragon Designs - Beach Scene.

 Wish You Were Here

I printed the digital stamp onto good quality paper as I wanted to use my Copics to do some of the colouring and some papers are just not up to it.  I then used my Reeves soft pastels to add the sky and the sand  and blended colours to create a soft almost faded look. I then mounted the image onto a  pale blue polka dot backing paper and then onto a light brown piece of card. I looped a piece of orange RickRack ribbon along the bottom and added a luggage tag and a ticket element with the sentiment 'Wish you Were Here'. The ticket and luggage tag com from a 6x6 paper pack from Papermania 'All Aboard'.

Stamping with the Dragon are also our sponsors and the winner chosen from the entries that comply with the challenge will receive a voucher to spend here

 Stamping Dragon Store

 

 

 

Now its your turn. Time to get crafting, and once your projects are ready, dont forget to come back and link up to our challenge.

 

Thank you again for stopping by to read and comment. I appreciate your time and your comments.

 

Angela x

Steam Punk Heart - Stampin' with the Dragon Journalling Pages

Hello and welcome to my crafty blog.

My post today is a quick one. My Mum  is visiting and we are spending a lot of time shopping and chatting and hanging out. Great fun :-)

In keeping with the current challenge running over at the Stampin' with the Dragon challenge blog, my project today is a digitally created card-topper in the Steam Punk Style. I have chosen not to do a scrap page, instead I like to demonstrate that digital kits are fab for making digitally created cards.

 I am calling this card-topper ' Steam Punk Heart' and was inspired by some images I discovered on Pinterest and fit very nicely with the Journalling papers from Stamping Dragon Designs.

Steam Punk heart

I used two of the papers to create a dark distressed background with a lighter coloured frame. I used my Photoshop to create the cookie-cut heart and distorted the shape and matched the colour with the background. Using the standard shapes in the Photoshop Cookie Cutter tool, I manipulated the various flower, circles and cog-like shapes to make digital industrial shapes and matched the colours to the papers.  The clock is a scan from a magazine , cut to size and digitally distressed..

Although I can't wait to get my traditional scrapbooking kits around me, I am more than happy to use digital until that day arrives.

Thank you for stopping by to read my blog. Your time and comments are appreciated.

Angela x

CG SCrapbook Challenge - Autumn

Hello and welcome to my crafty blog.

First, apologies to my teamies at CG Scrapbook Challenge Blog for not getting my post up in time for the beginning of the new challenge. The new challenge started on the 15th October and the theme is 'Autumn'.

We were very fortunate to have some lucious digital kits from Stamping Dragon to help create our pages, either as digital layouts or in a printed format and scrapped in the traditional way.

And here is my page and it's your truly :)).

I am always finding scrapbooking 'victims' amongst my family and I thought it was about time I put my self in the frame so to speak.

This month prize is very kindly sponsered by

 

Stamping with the Dragon

Thank you very much.

Paper as well as digi scrap goes, any kind of scrap goes, as long as your LO has a photograph on it and follow the theme.

The challenge is open worldwide and will run till the 13th of november.

And here is what the Design team has created for this month inspiration:

We have all used digi kits from our sponser Stamping with the Dragon.

you can find the kits here & here. 

I went for the 'Less is More' style and the papers and elements in the Stamping Dragon digital kit  were ideal for using with this old photo. The muted colours and and vintage embellishments really suited the 'feel' of the subject and popped the photo out from the background. After all I wanted to be sure 'I' was the centre of the attention.

I think I've caught the bug for digital scrapbooking. I like the way you can manipulate the papers and move, resize and rotate the elements to suit the layout.


Please take time to visit the CG Scrapbook Challenge Blog  and check out the DT's layouts for inspiration and join in with us in this Autumn challenge. Anything goes but  your layout must contain at least one photo. Looking forward to seeing your entries.


Thanks for taking time to visit and comment.  Your time and comments are greatly appreciated.


Angela x