Coffee Love by Charmane Koch

 I don't know about you but I NEED my Coffee! 

My layout I am sharing with you today is of a couple of coffees Ash & I had at a cute Coffee Shop in the Central Market in South Australia after an overnight stay at the Hilton!

I just loved the coffee table/bench that we were sitting at - with the old newspapers! Love the quirkiness of it... but must of all LOVE the coffee! {and probably needed it after a big night too haha}

I used mostly Grateful Heart goodies mixed in with a few other Bee Arty goodies which I will list here for you!

I started off with Kraft Cardstock as the base. I did cut out a square from it so that I could matte me photo. I did this with a Black Cardstock piece as well, which I trimmed slightly to use as a matte for the Grateful Heart Paper that I used for the background of my layout - love the woodgrain paper! You can get the full Grateful Heart paper pack for only $20! It's such a timeless pack!

But why not get the Stencils, Dies & Stamps that go with the papers? I have used these all many times for different projects! The BUSY BEES are only $70!

I trimmed about 1 cm off each side of the Faith paper and distressed the edges, I stuck this to the Black Cardstock followed by the Kraft.

I tore the Hope paper to give a rough edge, distressed and curled the paper over to expose the other side slightly. I fussy cut part of the leftover paper to tuck behind the ripped cardboard & my photo matte.

I cut out from Kraft & White Cardstock a number of floral/leafy dies - Sweet Floral, Aussie Leaves & the love from the Flower Talk set - this I used for part of my title...

I then added flowers & wood veneers & bits from my stash...

Of course a Charms Creations Book Page Heart was a perfect match...

I also cut out a Butterfly from one of the Butterfly Cut Aparts -  so many to choose from!

And a Flair from the Assorted Flairs from Bee Arty.

This layout was one of my favourites at the Charms Creations At Home Retreat I organised - it was a Scraplift of a Tina Steinborner layout! It just came together so easily - don't you just love it when that happens?

Here's the Dies I used: 

Sweet Floral - CURRENTLY ONLY $10!

Aussie Leaves - a DEFINITE must have!

Flower Talk - perfect for titles! Another must have to your Die Collection!

Thanks for popping by! I hope I've inspired you with this GORGEOUS Paper Collection!

XO Charm

Such A Blast by Tracey Campbell

 Hello and welcome to the Bee Arty Blog, I am Tracey Campbell and today I get to have some fun with the Bee Arty Mini Collection Electric Dreams. This is such a bright, bold, fun collection that it wonderful to use with those photos of your kids that you haven't been able to sue. You know those photos that you have of them having an adventure in a busy colourful environment. Places such as busy play grounds, fairs, theme parks even shopping centres. Those photos that don't seem to go with any other patterned papers. 

I've used a photo of my youngest daughter Paige, we were at Luna Park and she had just gotten off the large indoor slide and followed the pathway around to the stairs. At the bottom of the stairs there was a grate and coming from the grate was the best blast of air, so hard a pressure that it actually changed the look of you face. Not heard enough to hurt, but enough to make it so much fun!!

For the base of my layout I used the the black with geometrical lines and the patterned circle papers from the Electric Dreams Mini Collection to create my background. I inked the edges with black ink and adhered 3/4s of the circle paper over the top of the geometrical lined paper. When adhering the patterned circle paper onto the black geometrical lines paper I made it slightly angled and off centre. I did this on purpose as I knew that my page was going to be a fun messy page and I didn't want to align it too much. If this is not your style then you can adhere it squared on your page.

Next I wanted to add more colour onto the background so I added splashed of colour. I did the by first adding flicks from the straw of the Road Base Colour Spray. I then added a fussy cut zig-zag strip (cut from the zig-zag Electric Dreams patterned paper) down the left hand side of the background. 

After it was dry I still wanted more colour so I mixed some Heavy White Gesso, a dash of water and Colour Shimmer Dust to create three different colours of watered down Gesso paint. The colours I used of the Colour Shimmer Dust were; Sunflower, Peacock and Candy. 

While it was drying I decided on a title and used some 220gsm Black Cardstock and the 365 Alpha Metal Dies to cut out the word "Such A Blast". The 365 Alpha Dies are such an easy way to create your own custom title and they are such a fun font that they look great with any layout.

I then adhered a landscape photo into the middle of the background, fussy cut a few elements from the cut-apart-sheet from the Electric Dreams Mini Collection and stuck them to the bottom corner of the photos. 

I added the 365 Alpha letters over the top of the photo to create the title and popped a tiny bit of journaling across the bottom of the page with a white paint pen to finish it off.

Here is the finished layout, I love the contrast of the black against the white and the bright colours in the Electric Dreams Mini Collection it makes it such fun to work with and really turns any layout into a statement piece.

Thanks for stopping in and I hope that I have inspired you to have a look at this collection and add it to you cart. Take care.

Hugs

Tracey