LOTW - July 12

Hello everyone, Michelle here

This week I have been checking out all the amazing work in the The Scrappers Outlet gallery..

Well done to everyone they all looks so good.

BUT that made it super hard to choose a layout for this week...think I would choose them all!!!

But I can't so.. my pick for layout of the week is...

Scraphappy's - Beautiful Soul...

Love it.. really brings out what the Inspiration Challenge for this month means.

Here's what was to inspire us..
BEAUTIFUL
I am beautiful
Not only because of the curve of my hips
Or the shape of my body
Not only because of the fullness of my lips
Or the curl of my eye lashes

I am beautiful because I want to be
I am beautiful because God made me that way
I am beautiful because in my eyes
There is no one more beautiful than me

I am beautiful because I have a heart
And that is a beautiful thing
I am beautiful because I have a brain
And that is a beautiful thing
I am beautiful because I give advice
And that is a beautiful thing

I am beautiful because I want to be
I am beautiful because God made me that way
I am beautiful because in my eyes
There is no one more beautiful than me

I am beautiful because I have confidence
I am beautiful because I have determination and wit
I am beautiful because I have goals and I plan to reach them
I am beautiful because I am always there to lend a helping hand

I am beautiful because I want to be
I am beautiful because God made me that way
I am beautiful because in my eyes
There is no one more beautiful than me

BY
Candice George

WTG.. Michelle x

TSO July Kit

This month while on The Scrappers Outlet Design Team I have been busily scrapping away.

Thanks again Peta for the pack I LOVED it all and had so much fun creating. I managed to get 3 LO's created and still have plenty left over that I am hoping to play around again with this range.

I was sent this to play with -
PP = Imaginisce - Live Loud
American Craft Ribbon
7 Gypsies 3 in 1 parentheses trio stamp
MME Magnolia Serene "Letters"
MM Alpha rubons

From my own stash -
Cardstock
Floss
Large Brads
Own Alphas
Marking Tape
Bling
Digital Ticket Stubs
Helmar Liquid Scrapdots
Kindy Glitz

Here's what I created.

Layout 1 - Line 'em Up


Loved the layering on this one.. plenty of Helmar Liquid Scrapdots used for this too (almost a WHOLE tub!)

Layout 2 - Big Blue Eyes


Lots of punching and stamping on this one..plus I played around with some masking tape too.. so much fun.

Layout 3 - Zoe


This would have to be my favourite.. loving working with cardboard at the moment.. it really worked with this paper too.

Why not head over to The Scrappers Outlet to see what everyone has been busily working on for this month.

Cheers Michelle x

"Kissing" Fun at The Scrappers Outlet

hehehehehe...

Bet the title of this blog post got you wondering WHAT I have been up to...hehehehehe.

Well.. this month I got to choose the Card Artistry Challenge at The Scrappers Outlet.

I had to put my thinking cap on for this one. I wanted to do something fun so I decided to use the technique of "kissing".

The kissing technique is a great way to get more use from your stamps. There are several different ways to use this technique:

- Take a background or textured stamp and ink it with a dark color. Place it face up on your work surface. Then ink a solid stamp with a lighter color. Press the solid stamp into the background stamp so that they “kiss” each other. The background stamp leaves a pattern into the solid stamp. Then take the kissed solid stamp and stamp onto card stock.

- As a variation, ink the two stamps in coordinating colors, rather than a lighter shade of the same color, and “kiss” them together. Then press the solid stamp onto card stock.

- Ink a solid stamp and “kiss” it with an un-inked pattern stamp. This removes ink in the shape of the pattern. Stamp the kissed solid stamp onto card stock.

Here's my take on the technique..


Here's a close up of the butterfly that I made using the "kissing technique"


As you can see I used to different colours for mine. I had so much fun playing around with my Marvvy Le Plume markers and Staz on ink.

Why not give it a go.

Head over to The Scrapper Outlet gallery to see what everyone else creates using this technique.

TFL, Michelle