Inspirational Crafts

mandysea · at 7:47 PM

Here's an array of the weatherboard papers and ways to use them from MME's 2012 release....

'On the Bright Side' has some fabulous coloured weatherboard-look papers.

Weatherboard LO #1

I've woven the diagonal RED paper into the horizontal BLUE paper - so fun! (weaving is getting a bit of a resurgence!) You might wonder why there is a 'chip' cut out of one of the red pieces - that happens when I cut out the middle of a 12x12 paper if I need a small bit but the photo covered this :wink:

The little banner is a diecut from an accessory sheet which as loads of useful bits on it! Making up the banner is Miss Caroline Twine and Black Lost&Found2 Buttons

The photo has a lovely transparency over it that gives a soft white doodle effect around the edges and some decorative brads

Bigger Red Alpha
little red alpha
Label stickers - blue framed label, blue label and date ribbon label
Blue bow

Weatherboard LO #2

Again, I've used this pink gingham paper (reverse side) in a previous project and had cut out the middle to use a little piece, so now I'm using the remainder as the background paper by covering up the hole with grey and white weatherboard paper

Cutting out the butterflies and long strips of the negative leftovers (from the middle :wink:

) of this butterfly paper forms a nice element to add to the LO too.

Slicing down the side of this Fiddlesticks Journal Card is another way of double-using a product. The numbers are attached to the side of the weatherboard papers and I'll use the rest of the journal card in another project probably butted up against a photo for example

Adding some banner stickers, cream cotton lace, paper clip, small tan and cream trim and , pale blue trim with brown glitter alpha and little red alpha to finish off.

Weatherboard LO #3
Weave the orange weatherboard paper with the grey wood
works well, and ink all edges with black ink

Adding stamping for some sort of background like a script stamp (not quite the same stamp as I've used but just as good) then over stamping with another more solid element gives an interesting additive to a page.

Finishing off with: ticket rubons, buttons, banner buttons and 'love to see you happy' sticker

Flocked Hay coloured Thickers

mandysea · at 10:43 PM

This week, I've played with the MME 'On the Bright Side' papers.
I love them - one of which are the denium coloured papers.

When I saw this denium 'stitched' paper, I felt compelled to punch out some shapes in the squares... so out came a couple of hearts, flowers and a bracket die-cut.

Of course a little distressing doesnt go astray... it gives it a little '3D' effect rather than a flat one.

I totally love the larger zigzaggy patterns and tend to be drawn to them like I do to gingham.... so this time I've used the yellow and red(reverse side) zigzag ones to back the punch-out holes. (oh and there's a blue too but didnt use it this time)
Paper saving tip: I tend to cut out the middle of my papers if I need only a little bit, cos the rest can be used another time as a background paper with photos and embellies etc covering the hole :wink:

Here's the finished LO:

Here's a list of the embellishments available in the shop
On the Bright Side 'awesome tag' This is an accessory sheet full of fabulous tags, journal blocks and banner pieces
Red Alpha (love this cos its a great font, size and a 'red' red :wink:

bauble trim
Natural coloured lace and blue trim
Too cute for words sticker and blank ribbon sticker
And if you put 'decorative brads' in the search box - all the fabulous MME ones will come up!

Close up
The punch outs can be used again... with a little bit of distressing and a MME brad perhaps..

mandysea · at 8:56 PM

More HEXAGONS!

I know, I know, I cant get enough of them lately! :roll:

But totally in my defense :oops:

... I'm ENABLED! :shock:

My Mind's Eye's 'Follow Your Heart' is RIDDLED with them!!! :lol:

Check out this background paper. I actually cut out a few of the little hexagons from under the photo (so you cant see where! :wink:

) and then mounted them to make the pattern larger and to add depth :wink:

Here's some close-ups

Here's another hexagon 'Follow Your Heart' LO...
I love a gingham! Click on that background paper here (reverse side)

I started to cut some of the really patterny hexagons to see what might come of it (yeah its one of those....goodness knows how this will turn out LO's :roll:

)

Then I thought I'd like to just leave the really pale coloured hexagons in which left a fairly skeletal template to stick down. Even after this pic.. the blue hexagons had to go!
(this 'blue' paper is sold out, but the 'pink' one can be found here)

Click to find these products:
Paper Clip

Miss Caroline:
Heart Pins
Twine

Brightside
Banner Tickets