Christmas 2022 - With Karyn Schultz!

  Hi Bee Arty Lovelies!

It's Karyn here and today I have a Christmas Album to share with you made using lots of fabulous arty products from Bee Arty.  

 This year I really wanted to create an album celebrating Christmas. I wanted to do a pocket page scrapbook album and I wanted to complete it in a timely manner. December is always so busy and I really wanted to be able to spend 30mins crafting a day. It didn't quite turn out that way, but I did finish it by 5th January (winning!). 

 

To make it achievable I chose a smaller album - this is approx 8" x10". I took 1 photo a day using my Instax camera (instant photo printing). And lastly, I limited my craft supplies!

 

I used 2 mini paper collections released by Bee Arty in 2021 Home For Christmas and Nutcracker Sweet. Each collection is 5 pages (double sided) with 2 pages used for tags/fussy cutting and the rest for the pocket pages. I used the Numbers die set from the Fireworks collection, Aussie leaves metal die set and Aussie Flowers metal die set from the Aussie Bushland collection. Also the Wildlife Stamp set. For painty colours I used Colour Shimmer Dust (Fern, Tan, Wine, Midnight and Candy) and Colour Mica Powder in Emerald. I used White, Black, Silver and Kraft Cardstock.

 

I finished my pages with gauze, hessian, tags, envelopes, black paint pens and a black archival inkpad. 

 

 Here are some pics of the pages.

 

 

Thanks so much for stopping by

Crafty Hugs xx

Karyn

First Santa Photo- Chrissi M

Hello Lovelies! 

I hope you all had a great Christmas, and Santa was good to you.

Today I wanted to do something nice and simple. I've noticed, I rarely use my mists the way they were originally intended lol. I cant even remember the last time I actually just sprayed mist through a stencil. So i wanted to show you that you can use them in a simple way, and get a fantastic background.

I'm scrapping a picture of my niece's first Santa photo. She surprised us all and absolutely loved visiting Santa. We honestly thought she would hate the experience, but she laughed the whole time. So I'm scrapping this for her album, which is an 8.5 x 11. I decided to use 3x4 photo for this layout. I love the size for the smaller layouts.

I've mentioned before, my preferred Christmas colours are red and gold, so for this layout I used the Love colour spray, and Bling Colour Shimmer Spray. Perfect for Christmas.

I used the  Large That Way stencil from the August release. I wanted a staggered sprinkling of stars across my layout, so I made sure to mask off my layout to avoid over spray. I used the Love colour spray for this.

Then for some Gold- Bling Colour Shimmer Spray splats for that perfect touch of gold. Very christmassy. I find it almost impossible to get a picture that shows you just how shimmery this looks, unless you can get some natural light to reflect on them.

And that was it for my background. Nice and simple, but a very striking look. Then it was time to add my photo, a title and some small embellishments. I stayed with the red and gold colour scheme throughout, and kept the embellishing very simple.

A close up of my layers behind my photo, and so you can see just how cute my baby niece is lol.

So I hope you liked my layout, and can see just how easy it is to use mixed media products on a layout.

 hope you had a merry Christmas, and took lots of christmassy pics to scrap. Till next time lovelies

Chrissi xxx

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"Celebration Night" by Charmane Koch

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Wishing you an AMAZING Christmas & a VERY Happy New Year!

OK, so getting into the "festive" spirit I have come up with a layout using a photo of my two girls at last years end of school "Celebration Night"

I've used Colour Artist Ink Cranberry & Mermaid on this layout. 

 I started off with a couple of drops of Colour Artist Ink Spice and a horse hair brush to spread it with.

While that has dried I have painted my Chipboard & Wood Veneer pieces using Colour Artist Mermaid & Colour Artist Shimmer Markers Gold & Silver...

I also coloured a white doily using Colour Artist Mermaid Ink.

Before I've added all of the embellishments, photo and journalling I stamped the starry background...

As you can see the use of mixing the Artist Ink & Shimmer Markers has created an amazing effect...

I love the effect of the Silver Glitter Marker as it comes out with a black & silver look to it!

Thanks for looking & hoping you are getting yourselves all organised for Christmas & that Silly Season isn't too crazy for you!

XO Charmane

How you have grown Layout- Chrissi M

Hello Lovelies! Merry Christmas!

Im a big kid at this time of year, I adore Christmas, so I just HAD to make my project a Christmas themed one. And with that in mind, I decided to document my boys from the past 7 years.

Every year, we take a photo under our tree after we have decorated it, and this year I couldn't help notice how grown up the boys look. So I went through my old photos to see how little they were. That's when I had the idea to scrap them all on a layout.

For this layout, I wanted to try using the Snow White Colour Paste as a resist. It worked out really well. I started out by applying my colour paste through a star burst stencil I had. Then used my heat gun to dry it really well.

On my white background, you can't really see the Snow White Colour Paste. It gives a gorgeous shimmer in the light, but its going to show up amazingly in the next step.

Sticking with my traditional Christmas colours, I wanted a vibrant red for my background. So I chose the Love Colour Spray. I didnt want to spray the colour, I wanted more control, so I poured some of the spray into a small palette and used a brush to apply it like a water colour.

And this was my result. As you can see, that Snow White Colour Paste pops right off that Love Colour Spray. I loved how this worked out.

I then needed to add some gold I felt. Good old Bling Colour Shimmer Spray for that. Adding some gorgeous gold splatters to my page, giving it a real Christmasy feel.

My original plan was to have a small strip of photos, with the star burst coming from behind the top and bottom. Only problem was, I had too many photos. I couldn't bring my self not to use them all though, i really wanted to see how they had grown. So i modified my plan and made it work. In the end, I think the composition looks a little like a Christmas tree lol.

After adding my photos and title, I didn't do much else with my layout. I'm not usually one to use multiple photos on a layout, and this is definantly the most I have EVER used. So I felt it was fine not to embellish too much. I added a gold title, to the top and bottom of the layout, which I really like. Then I added a border just to tie it all together. I didn't want to use a black pen, I didn't think that work work, so I grabbed a lead pencil and used that. I also used it to add some journalling. And I called it done. 

I hope you enjoy my Christmasy layout. My next post is the day after Christmas, so until then, have a Merry Christmas Lovelies.

Chrissi xxx

Special Delivery with Melinda Sweetman

Hey, hey Colour Blasters! Melinda here with you today sharing a little Christmas project with you! I know that the big day has been and gone but I had lots of fun creating this and it was SOOO easy and quick that I HAD to share ;)

I purchased the box from my local K-Mart and was inspired by another box also made by K-Mart but I was unable to pick up the one I was after so I DIY'ed it!!

First up I cut a cut file on my cameo. This cut was cut diagonally across my 12x12 piece of cardstock (I chose a colour I wouldn't use!) so I could make it a wee bit longer which turned out to the be the perfect size! I also cut a bunch of snowflakes so that I had a snowflake stencil!

Next up, I laid my stencil where I wanted it, grabbed my Colour Paste in Bling and got to spreading the colour across my cut file - using it like a stencil. I took a progress shot but it has vamooshed so you can see exactly what I mean in the next step as it is essentially the exact same thing!

I left my Colour Paste to dry over night and then did my next step this  time using my Snow White Colour Paste and my snowflake stencils. Again,  I just spread the colour through the stencil and left to dry!

While it was drying I got brave and added some splatters, hoping desperately that I didn't mush any of that wet Colour Paste. I used my Colour Shimmer Cubes in Fire Engine and Bling and LOVE how that added a tiny pop of colour and a little more randomness!

Again that was left to dry overnight and I am seriously in love with the finished project! My boys don't know that I made it as our Scout Elf Pixie turned up with it on 1st December filled with Advent Calendars and a letter from Santa!!

I (ok, ok, and Pixie!!) have found a couple of other uses for it over the month of December and love that it is now something we have that I can use each year!

Pixie used it to stack all of our Christmas books in one morning.

My littlest guy used it for reading!! He sounded out each letter of the word Santa and announced "Santa" afterwards! Kinda took me by surprise but man, it was CUTE!

And on Christmas Eve Pixie turned up IN the box with our Christmas Eve PJ's and a couple of other things she brings each year on her last day with us!

I have a super short and sweet process video for this if you are interested! Just click here and it will pop up!

I hope that however you celebrated it that each and every one of you had an AMAZING Christmas Day spent with those you love. Wishing all of you the very best for 2018 and I'll see you in the new year! Until then, happy scrapping!!

Melinda