happy craft july 2019 challenge

anything goes   July  challenge
last night I got out my last sheet of   Velvet Crush, its black and white flowers on it, but  of course, I want my page mostly  in the red as my  blouse is in black red and white
I also have  Shaken not Stirred papers  as well as 6-inch book
As i haven't put away my  paradise found collectibles, some of  them may come in handy, I thought

Kaiser Red Mists I have painted over the  velvet crush papers as the mister is  clogged up, but I can paint  things on still  so while I'm having tea, I put the fan on to dry my paper I do this a lot when I don't want to wait overnight  or  hours I just want to get the  layout done so fan  always comes in handy,
I have  put my  6 small photos onto   striped  shaken not stirred  paper and cut to size,
black cardstock is my base, my paper size is  21.5  (8-1/2 inches) x 29cms (11-1/2 inches )
i then cut my now red and black paper to half an inch smaller than the base cardstock.
mat  6 inches shaken not stirred paper and add  3  red bling to the top right-hand corner,
fussy cut  Ebony & Ivy paper flowers big and small ones to add to each other. add bling on top right-hand corner, curl up flowers to give depth.

paradise found is  from sticker sheets and collectables get out desirable    flowers and leaves, and tags
Kaiser  Wooden Flourishes  -  smear gesso  over the  flourish when dry,  write on   your message
Celeb8  chipboards are raw, but i have painted them in red   Kaiser mists and covered with glossy accents not to much just smeared that over the top with my finger.

my friend  Robyn as children were joined at the hips other friends used to say,   everywhere Robyn was you would find me. we met in grade 2  in 1960 but first photos are in 1962,  We went right through  primary and high school and went to the ballroom dancing  until she got engaged, something change, and I hardly saw her, we met again briefly in 1991, 2006  for school reunions  and  this year have met  again  2019.  the next school reunion is in  2031 but, Robyn says that she won't leave it that long this time, of course, we are both busy in our own lives, and she does not live in Brisbane so that may be difficult to meet, maybe meeting every 6 -12 months might work will see. 

hope you like and get inspired.
until next time have a wonderful weekend

cheers
Jacqui McCully

Happy craft creations july 2019 Sketch challenge

hello all, 
how has your day been ???
Today I thought I would try  Happy Craft Creations  July Sketch challenge.

On the 9th August 2015,  I went to my friend's Alison Bevis's  Workshop Wonders   it where  Alison gets  4 lovely teachers to  teach a  90 minute class  though out the day,  we start at 9am &  finish at 5  pm and   we get morning tea, lunch &  afternoon tea  included in the price for the day 
I  always take my camera as on Alison's w.w.   she always has a theme.  this one being Blue & winter .so I made snowflakes to add to my shirt an a name tag in blue that day I had the pleasure of sitting next to  Janet Bott,  from  The Resin Rainbow we had planned it hee he.
I have in my photos  Alison Bevis,  Bec Beattie, Kaye Grieves. Janet Bott and me
This was a 12-inch layout but was falling apart,  so decided to  pull it all apart and revamp,
 
These days I'm using 8-inch x 8 inches to make my layouts, it's far easier to carry them when I need to show people my work.

So got to thinking  today I will get out my white gesso, but alas  i go into the drawer and find 2 black gessos  ohh  dear what to use now,  I had a plan, I don't want to go  out  &  buy  the gesso lets see what else is in this drawer , umm  Glitter Snow, that might work  I've had that in the drawer  for at least  5 years  might be hard  LOl   its a bit hard but good enough to   spread through my stencil  yaaa,  so I want this finished  so turn on fan while I have lunch so it can dry ,
after lunch
the patterned  snowflake papers I have  then just cut up to make tags all  32  of them as I'm doing a double layout, ( who decided to do a double layout . didn't think of  hand cutting out 32 tags & inking them all  did! ! ! ! I LOL )
I've inked with  Tim Holtz  Distress inks Salty Ocean, I love this   colour and use it a lot

I have used Kaiser  Blueberry cardstock 
t  snowflakes stencil
dot   stencil
Cloud  9  Fiskars  blue paper for the backing    paper of photos
the happy days was done in 2015 so not sure what I did to  achieve  that it's on chipboards, I love  chipboards,
I have cut out some snowflakes from the blue patterned paper as it was a class i  don't know the name of it sorry.(I don't believe its not Kaisers LOL)
just as an  added   feature I've got  out the dot  stencil  that I bought at The Crafty Chain and dabbed a bit  of the  glitter  snow over it
the alphabet    date is from   Kmart

one of the photos I have popped up using  Collall 3 D  decoupage  glue for a bit of height 

I had fun creating this today &  its another layout off the floor that  has  been revamped
Thank You   Happy Craft Challenge  for this  wonderful sketch

until next time 
have fun creating
cheers
Jacqui McCully

123 july reveal challenge 2019.

1.2.3. reveal july challenge
hi everyone 
what a cold wet  day it is today here in Logan qld
when  this challenge said it was going to have a gap year, i thought , what am i to do , as this is one of my favourite  challenges to get me out of my comfort zones , after a few  months i thought , maybe i too  needed a gap year to reflect  on my year &  do something different  for a while ,which i found  8 inch mini  albums . i still get the enjoyment of doing layouts but in a smaller version  which i  really love  still of course  i can enter them  into   anything goes challenges, but not ones that require  12  inch  pages ,
After having a 18 month break , its lovely to see this challenge back again
For the month of july  we have ( 1 )  a sketch  love their sketches, i always  know they will turn out  great,
                                                 (2)  two words    THIS MOMENT
                                                  (3)  3  colours

my products  ive used today are
KAISER   -  2 sheets ,cardstock ,  steele  CD 105
                   1/4 sheet of black  scrap cardstock .
                  1   Garden Arabesque  P398  fountain , patterned papers ,  this is a very old range of Kaisers
Kaiser   Violet crush patterned sticker sheet - butterflies ,
BoBunny, sticker sheet , beautiful dreamer  #item 19403345
Inks  Kaiser  IP732  orchid   ink
Kaiser  Alpha   letters  lower case   # 3
Kaiser  black cardstock 
Kaiser  purple bling
TIm Holtz  -dusty concord
                  wilted  violet
                  seedless  preserves
Staz-on jet black
Embossing folder & Die  are from cardmaking  magazine by chloe ( out this month)
Stamps,   Beccys Place -  Orchid
water brush 
Punch  EK large  2.25 scallop punch
flowers from stash
Dina Wakley  Black  media gesso
 magicals - prima  donna purple
doilies  white

 My thoughts  on this  challenge ,
after seeing this challenge  the other day, i thought why not   give it a try, but  im in the middle of holiday  album . this is where i start something & then start another thing ,before i  know it i have  10 things started and nothing finished,  today is going to be different , after me  starting  yet again to change  my table around yet again  lol

Getting my   Garden Arabesque i  cut   the middle out at  10 inches, (25.4)  on all four sides,  the middle is going to be punched  later. 
next cut  my steel cardstock at  11  inches, (  28cms )  glue both  together .
 I have distress the edges of  the grey  and have inked it   something i have a habit of doing lately  with anything  i distress or  even on straight edges if i  dont want to add a mat .
Ek scallop  punch  with the paper you put aside 
Kaiser  garden arabesque  - cut out  6
punch out  middles of  3  doilies,
cut 2 grey steel  cardstock
 when you punch this out be very careful as the doilies are very fragile and may tear,  lucky mine didn't,  i have a misti that i  place  my stamps into , so placed the doilies in and stamped and then coloured i also  used the   scalloped punch then cut out the  scallop part & fuzzy cut the  scallops off ,then is a circle  on some

while  i have my water brush i get the  chosen butterflies  from the  violet  crush sticker sheet and colour  them in also.
i havent measured anything  with  the   where i placed the scallops 
i have loads of scrap black cardstock  placed my  2  photos  and then just cut around  it
I wasnt going to  colour the  alpha  chipboards ,  but then thinking  i have all these wonderful magicals  just sitting in the cupboard. so then  got my gesso and with a paint brush  painted all the cardstock as well as the alphas
while i went for tea,  i put the fan on so it would dry  while i was away so i can come back straight away &  start again

i then added the   magicals which only take a few mins to dry.
added bling to die cut  flowers and  added my flowers and the butterflies to  each 

thank you once again  123  challenge i had fun creating this layout today .
until next time 
have a happy crafting time
cheers
Jacqui McCully
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