Scrapbooking month 5 - Craftability

I put together a layout for todays class... Wasnt sure how to take the reactions, but when I showed a few people an idea of what we were doing, they didn't seem overly impressed, however, when they saw the layout in person, one said, ...' that picture didn't it justice!' - well why not just tell me straight out you didn't think much of it in the first place!  Pah!  Some people..
Well, I liked what I did to begin with.  Once in the class I added embellishments so that everyone could use the same items... So we covered heat embossing, a lovely effect which matched up with the gold stripe in the patterned paper.  Using torn papers, layered up and then finally spritzing, which once again not to everyone's tastes, but most did attempt.
The end result a monochrome gold layered page.  I took inspiration from a journal page I saw on the paperartsy blog this week, I loved the direction and build up of the papers, textures & stamping on the layout. 
It is really nice to take inspiration and throw my own twist onto it!  That's what being inspired is all about after all, not copying exactly!? Am I wrong?
More pages tomorrow if the other layouts I completed today at the crop at Craftability.

JOFY scrapbooking!

There are not many times that I would solely use stamps on a layout for scrapbooking.  But my friend Karen showed me an example on the Paperartsy blog using JOFY stamps, but also laying it out in a project life styley!

So at our crop we go to, we set ourselves a mission to finish a layout!

It was great fun getting messy and laying out each rectangle to make a larger picture.

I finished off by stamping the title and the journaling too.

Looking forward to our next challenge Karen!

Chalk Artiste - scrapbooking

Another session at Craftability in Ipswich.  I used one sheet of patterned cardstock along with 3 coloured bazill c/s. 
Trying to emulate the popular project life trend that is going on atm, I decided to trim 3 blocks of colour to mount on top of the cinder background.  The blocks are 10x15cm.  With photos mated on top of these, I took the flowers from the patterned paper and messy cut them, inked the edges and arranged them in a central cluster to join the three blocks together. 
I experimented this month with making my own version of enamel dots, I did this using pearl paint, after several attempts I found out that using simple plastic packaging (this time from my die packages) worked a treat!  We just popped these off when needed and then were glued into place with a tiny dot of cosmic shimmer dries clear glue.
The banners and words were cut from the reverse of the page.
The bottom right hand journaling box was stamped repeatedly with a flower stamp and then added with white strips of journaling. 
We also experimented making our own backgrounds that I will show in the week!