'So sweet'

Good morning my lovely readers!

Summer is the time to spend time with our kids, handing out, enjoying the sunshine,

and hopefully enjoying some holidays! Our new theme at Scrapki Wyzwaniowo is 'Fruit'....

so perfect for the best season to enjoy sweet fresh treats straight from the garden,

let's scrap these memories!

'So Sweet'

The paper 'Hand Written' from the 7 Dots Studio collection 'Air Mail' was the perfect
backdrop for some photos of my guy enjoying watermelon...
I used an 'Air Mail' stencil with heavy white modeling paste in the background,
and then added some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays, some Prima wood letters and
a few 49 & Market flowers.

Here is our challenge this month:

For more info on how to enter, please go here.
You could win one of the new collections!

Here are a few close ups:

See you soon!
Lisa xo

'Wonderful....' a new layout for Art Playground!

Good morning my crafty friends!
Have you seen the wonderful new blog called Art Playground yet?
I have followed Sharon Zlv - she goes by Noomish,
for quite a while now.... her dreamy totally gorgeous
layouts are so beautiful and inspiring and I love her romantic style.
You can find her Youtube channel here.
Well, she has started her new challenge site where I have been truly blown away by
some of the art from her design team, and she asked me to Guest Design with the
July moodboard and this is what I created....

'Wonderful...'

I used some Blue Fern Studios paper from the 'Tattered Walls' collection together with an
old Blue Fern Studios title chippie and round chipboard wreath from my stash, and then added lots of watercolor splashes and 49 & Market flowers. The theme this month is 'Tell Your Story',
and the way I do that with my pages is by using old family photos....here it is my grandparents.
Using these photos mean a lot to me as I don't have that many of them, and they are a way
to connect with my family past and keep their memories alive.

Here is the July palette:

For more info on how to join in the challenge please go here.

I really enjoy looking at every post on this blog, and I hope you help me 

support Sharon on her new adventure...we all love a good challenge don't we?

I know my creative juices start flowing when I see a wonderful color combo

or thought - provoking theme.

Thank you so much Sharon for the invitation!

Here are a few close ups:

I hope I have inspired you to tell your story?...
come and play with us!

Lisa xo

'Upon a shore....'

Hello my dear readers! 

It's my turn to inspire you with the new summer moodboard at 

Mixed Media & Art! I loved the summer theme and couldn't wait to create

my project inspired by the peace and calm of the ocean.

'Upon the shore....'

I bought some seashells, dried roots and some kind of netting that looks like

a fisherman's net at Hobby Lobby where I also found a little photo frame in the shape 

of a starfish, cute right? I covered the back of a canvas with Prima white crackle paste,

then used some light watercolors and then set about gluing down my frame,

the netting and then lots of seashells and some Prima flowers and Prima art stones.

The July moodboard:

More info on how to join our challenge this month is here.

I was also totally in love with a challenge one of my favourite blogs, 

More Than Words.... which was to be inspired by the word 'beach' and to use real shells! 

This photo of my little man daydreaming was taken on one of our summer vacations.....

we are counting down the days until we go to Florida in a few weeks, I can't wait!

I always comb the beach for treasures and try to take a few home with me.

More info on this challenge here.

Here are a few close ups:

I hope everyone is having some wonderful summer adventures,

much love,

Lisa xo

'Shine' a new layout for Scrapki Wyzwaniowo

Hello friends!
I'm back to share the layout I designed with our July theme at Scrapki Wyzwaniowo, the sun!
I hope everyone is enjoying summer so far, here in the South we are in full swing,
and we're spending lots of time in the pool to cool off.

'Shine'

I was so thrlled to receive my DT package from Tusia, filled with two new 7 Dots Studio
collections, 'Air Mail' and 'Garden Party'. For this page I used the papers
from the 'Garden Party' and I ripped up a few of them and glued some strips down the
middle of my page, and then I cut out a lot of butterflies from one of the papers and
colored then with watercolors. I also used a stencil from the 'Air Mail' collection on
my background with some black gesso and also the stamps from the 'Garden Party'.
You can check out the new collections here.

Here is this month's theme...

I hope to see you join in, there's always great prizes of the new collections!
More info on how to enter here.

Here are a few close ups:

I also used a large ornate frame and some oversized letters from 2 Crafty Chipboard,

and painted them with black watercolor paint. 

Thanks for looking, see you soon,
Lisa xo

'A garden of one's own....' for Memuaris blog

Hello dear readers, I'm back to share a page I created inspired by the brilliance of 

Virginia Woolf.

'A garden of one's own....'

I've never been great at titles but I have found a solution in these little Prima alphabet stamps...

I never can find the right materials....alphabet stickers, chipboards, word stickers?

But as I was creating this design (which turned out so much more chaotic than unusual)
this title - a little play on Mrs. Woolf's words - popped into my head.
Yes, a woman does need a space of own's own...if only to sort out the chaos,
the wonder, and the emotions we struggle with..... just as she did.

I was invited by the lovely ladies at the blog called Memuaris to be a Guest Designer.

Here is the wonderful sketch I followed:

To find out more about this challenge, please go here.

Here are some close ups:

I used the beautiful 'Tattered Walls' paper collection by Blue Fern Studios,

I just adore the vintage patterns and colors. I used two different papers

to follow the sketch and lots of watercolors and stamping.

“When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even of a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet, of some mute and inglorious Jane Austen, some Emily Bronte who dashed her brains out on the moor or mopped and mowed about the highways crazed with the torture that her gift had put her to. Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.” 
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own

See you soon,
Lisa xo

'Bees' for Scrapki Wyzwaniowo

Hello crafty friends! I'm back with a pair of tags that I made

for Scrapki Wyzaniowo and their challenge this month...bees!

'Winged Things'

I started with some thick watercolor paper that I cut the tags from and then covered it
roughly in vintage dress pattern paper pieces, lots of white heavy gesso, and then from there
added some washi tape, stamping and some Lindy's Stamp Gang sprays in 'Tea Pot Purple'
and 'Bayou Boogie Gold'. The background paper is 'Figgy Pudding' from the 7 Dots Studio
collection, 'Yuletide'.

Here is our challenge:

We would love to see join in! There are always wonderful prizes

of 7 Dots Studio collections to be won, more info on how to enter here.

Here are a few close ups:

 

I just recently received my design team package filled with the brand new 7 Dots Studio
collections, 'Garden Party' and 'Air Mail'...I'm in love! I've never had
the entire collection before, the stamps, stencils AND stamps!
Thank you Tusia! I'm a lucky girl xoxoxo
These word stickers I used are from 'Garden Party'...
you can see the whole collections here.

I found my golden brass bees from a shop of Etsy, aren't they sweet?
I also added a bit of honeycomb chipboard from 2 Crafty.
I hope you feel a little inspired to play along!
Hugs, Lisa xox

'Rhapsody in Yellow"

Hello lovely readers, I'm back! 

I finally wrestled up some mojo to create a page inspired by the brand new 

moodboard for June at Mixed Media & Art, filled with bright sunny yellow

and a touch of cool blue.

I used the 'Captured Adventure' collection from 49 & Market and some yellow
cotton trim that I found on one of my treasure hunts.... I had no idea how I was going
to use this trim at the time...and then here comes the June moodboard and
I thought it fit the whole theme perfectly!

Here is the lovely moodboard:

For more info on how to enter please visit our blog here.
Our challenge this month is called 'Emotional Outburst' and you can use
the sketch or be inspired by the photos, the colors or the textures.


Here are a few close ups:

I also added some Prima clay molds, a piece of 2 Crafty Chipboard, and of course, my
go to for color - Lindy's Stamp Gang Sprays. I used 'Azure Sea Asters', 'California
Poppy Gold', and 'Pineapple Paradise'. I just received 10 brand new bottles of
Lindy's that I won in one of their challenges and I can't wait to play with them.

Thanks for looking, and I hope to see you join our challenge!
Have a wonderfully crafty weekend..
Lisa xo