Scraps by Jen: Heidi Swapp color shine

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Saturday, May 2, 2015

National Scrapbook Day YouTube Hop!!!

Hey everyone!! Thanks for stopping by on this wonderful sunny and gorgeous morning. (or afternoon or whenever you made it here!!)

I made a fun layout using my kit from Memory Workshop (a Canadian kit club) with mainly the Elle's Studio Cienna collection. Here's some photos:

Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Grid layout and process video

Good morning scrappy peeps!! I have a layout and process video to share with you today. This was made using the December Hip Kit. Sorry, I think they are all sold out but the February ones are up and are fabulous!!

Here are some stills:

And here is the process video I just uploaded to YouTube:

Thanks for stopping by!!

Jen

Thursday, December 4, 2014

12 Days of Christmas - Day 3!!!!

So, let me start by saying one thing first. I am dumbfounded I have done 3 layouts in 3 days. Seriously. And 3 I like! But I am going to just ride the wave and enjoy it. (while also believing this can't possibly happen a 4th day in a row... or can it?)

The fun challenge for Day 3 of Victoria Marie's 12 Days of Christmas challenge is "Three awesome die cuts (or more)!" So... I went to town and there are more die cuts on this layout than I may EVER have done before. I borrowed VERY heavily for the concept from a layout Irit Landgraf over on the Hip Kit design team in October. She had used die cuts and other pieces all around a square photo. It was really fun, like a reverse puzzle. I started with that blue snowflake tag and just kept picking up and putting down all the pieces from the Elle's Studio die cut, wood veneer and cut-apart sheet until I was happy with how it looked.

BTW, super happy coincidence that the advent calendar on the picture (a CTMH kit from about 3 years ago) was all red, green and blue, the same as the Elle's Studio pieces.

There are also some very tiny sprinkles of Heidi Swapp Color Shine mist in Citron and Blush to pull in a bit more of the lime green and pink. (and I believe I am actually in capable of doing a layout without adding color shine).

Here it is:

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

12 Days of Christmas - Day 2!!

The second day of Victoria Marie's 12 day of Christmas challenge is mixed 2 fonts! Well, as the proud owner of 100+ sets of Thickers (who am I kidding, it's like more like 200+)... this was an easy challenge for me :) I used my November Hip Kit for this as well. Only additions were the Thickers as the totally adorable striped ones that came with... I just couldn't get to work on this :(

Here is my layout:

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen

Sunday, November 30, 2014

Happy Sunday!!

I did some scrapping last night and had a grand time teaching myself how to do print and cut on my Silhouette (FYI I am soooo happy I decided to figure that out!!!!)

Here is the first layout I did. I truly, truly LOVE it. It turned out really close to how I envisioned it in my head and I actually did this from MY head. I didn't scraplift it, use a sketch or anything else. I hardly ever do that. So that was kind of exciting too.

I did a second layout too that I finished up this am and that will be posted tomorrow!

Thanks for stopping by.

Jen

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Trying new ideas

So, this month I hit a bit of a creative block after using my kits for a while. There was a lot of orange/peach/yellow in the kits and these are honestly not colours I use a lot. They were gorgeous and I found it fun at first to mix it up a bit... but then I started seriously jonesing for just a good blue or green :) haha.

I didn't feel I was ready to just say uncle either though... so I laid the kits all out and had this realization:
1. I actually had used up a LOT of the kits already and done 6 layouts. That is pretty respectable.
2. What was bugging me more was the huge amount of embellishments left over that I honestly knew were unlikely to make it onto layouts later just due to the colours.
3. The photos I had printed for October that were still waiting to be scrapped really did go well with these kits!!

So, here is what I did. I used a technique I saw on You Tube by Irit Landgraf where I used a bunch of die cuts that I then gesso-ed over. This allowed me to use up some of the bits I knew weren't likely to get used due to the colours and it added a really neat element to my page. I really like trying out new things and I figured if it was a miserable failure... oh well, they were bits I wasn't sure I'd use later anyways. It's not my favourite page I've ever done... by a long shot but I also don't hate it, LOL. I look at it now and wish I'd maybe added more gesso out into the white space and had a bit more of the misted watercolour look but I am NOT going back to it. It has been put in my album.

I'm actually pretty pleased with the result as, after all, it was my first attempt and only the 2nd or 3rd time I've tried using gesso. As in EVER! :)

I did try to add gelatos with packaging like Irit does so brilliantly but the limited colours I had were so NOT pleasing me. So I misted some Heidi Swapp gold and coral Color Shine onto the packaging and that gave me the soft colouring I was looking for (ugh, I really tried to get rid of that yellow as it's too harsh but no love... live and learn, gelatos may be Irit's friend but not sure yet it they are mine!!)

So another one bites the dust and here is what I have decided. I am done with layouts for this kit. There is one piece of pp I really like and it will come along to November with me. The rest I am going to try to use up with my PL for October as it's mostly scraps. AND... yet again, the coloured cardstock goes into my stash as I never ever use it. (part of why I moved to a new kit club, 6 pieces of wasted cardstock a month pretty consistently, I'd much rather get a few more pieces of pp or another embellishment and pay the same price)

Thanks for stopping by.

Jen

Saturday, November 15, 2014

Autumn in Victoria

Here's an autumn layout I did with my October kit (Scraptastic). I live in Victoria, BC Canada and we have a very mild climate (it is actually a temperate rainforest here, similar to Seattle but far less rain). This is an early November walk we did around a nearby lake. We moved here from Northern BC which is usually cold and can be snowed over by November so... we still thrill in hiking in a t-shirt/light jacket at this time of year (actually we can do this all winter too )

I got a wee bit mist happy on this but... can you blame me?! The Heidi Swapp color shine is sooooo pretty and once I start, I just can't seem to stop myself. In person the shimmer is amazing (just a wee bit more of it than I'd planned on, haha).

Thanks for stopping by!

Jen