Playing around

Good Morning all.

 

Back again to share just a little bit of scrapping fun I have been busily creating with a little help from some products from The Robin's Nest.

 

I am so in love with the quality and versatility of these products. i have been able to create many pieces of work using these products as they suit so many different themes.

This year we went away to the beach for Easter. I had a ball playing around with the camera while we were away. Having a look back on them recently while I was looking for photos to play around with I found that the colours of quite a few photos really suited some of The Robin's Nest paper range.

I liked the fact that the paper range really help make the photo the feature of the layout. I was able to mute the paper down with a bit of stamping and inking quite easily. This also helped to create a bit of depth to the layout.

 

I must say however the most fun on the layout I had was with the teal flower. Because they are created from a heavy tissue like material they were really crying out to be scrunched, misted with gesso and then given a light mist of glimmer mist to age it a little. In the end the flower held its shape quite nicely. I am most impressed with the flowers.

 

Products used -

Calamity Jane Stripe

Calamity Jane Roses

Map Paper

Time Flies Rub on

Gold Glitter Journalling

Parisian Dew Drops

Teal Flowers

 

Why not check out the store for yourself and see all the fun products on offer.

 

TFL, M x

Mixing it up with a masculine theme

Hello everyone.

Back again to share with you a card I created just recently using some fun products from

I had a chance to be able to create a masculine card last week for a very special friend. Now masculine cards had be a bit of a hard one at the best of times. I wanted to create a card that was too frilly or sparkly.

So I sent to work with these products from The Robin's Nest

Calamity Jane Roses

 Calamity Jane Stripe

 Fairy Dust Dew Drops

and got creative.

By using a piece of recycled card as the base it help to add to the grungy masculine look I was trying to creative. Then by just layering and inking I was able to make the card look a lot more masculine look.

By adding some old rub ons layered over the base of the paper parts of the card I could add what I wanted to say to the card and create a bit of depth at the same time.

Finally to add that last bit of dimension to the card I added my all time favourite embellishment, Fairy Dust Dew Drops. Not a card or layout goes with some of these on them these days. They are so much fun to add and look so good.

So why not grab some goodies from The Robin's Nest shop and have a play.

Get creative.

TFL, M x

Looking for challenge

Have been playing around with some products from The Robin's Nest Design Team kit. I though this month's page map challenge looked like a bit of a challenge.

Here's the details about The Robin’s Nest Page Map Challenge:

The Page Map Challenge is a monthly challenge starting on the first Friday of month and will last for one month. The winner of the past month will be announced on that first Friday here on The Robins Nest Blog. All winners will be notified by email.

Entering into the contest you are giving The Robin’s Nest the right to use your project to promote the challenge on their blog and other Social Media sites.

Create your own layout using the current Page Map – the Page Map can be incorporated vertical or horizontal in the layout.

The Robin’s Nest Papers or embellishments must be used in the layout.

HOW TO ENTER:

Add your layout to the inlinkz tool. If you have a blog grab our button and add it to your blog post.

A blog is not a requirement for this Challenge, you can use FlickR or any other Social Media Site to enter.

The winner will receive a $25 Gift Certificate to The Robin’s Nest On-Line Store!

So.. here's the page map for this month created by The Robin's Nest's own Michelle Frae Cummings

Here's my take on the sketch. Found it a bit of a challenge myself as I don't normally use more than two photos on a layout. However.. as I am always up for a challenge it was lots of fun to create this layout.

I used some of The Robin's Nest papers and dew drops to create my flowers. The dew drops I think look really good as the centre of the flowers and add great dimension quite easily.

With a little bit of help from a cardboard texture paste, paint and glimmer mist the background was created quite quickly and game a great dimensional effect.

So why not pull out some papers and have a play with this months challenge.

Get scrapping.

TFL, M x

Making a mess and getting creative with The Robin's Nest and Helmar

This week, the Helmar Design Team have been having a blast playing around with some fun products from

I must say.. that until recently I knew very little about The Robin's Nest and what products they have.

Well.... I have been majorly missing out that's all I can say.

Since I have received some of their products from Helmar and am now part of The Robin's Nest Design Team, I have had a chance to really play around with some amazing products.

As I said in my first post for The Robin's Nest I have ABSOLUTELY fallen in love with their dewdrops.

I think I have used them on every card and layout I have made in the last week. They are so versatile and add the extra pop to cards and layouts alike. I know that I am eager to pop over to the shop and stock up as they are so much fun to play with.

Plus to add to the added bonus I am now in love with their papers. I have been covered in glitter for the last week playing around with their paper ranges. I have never really been a huge glittered paper fan. That was until I received some of The Robin's Nest papers to play with. I have found the quality to be really good and the thickness of them perfect for playing around with and making a huge mess.

And yes... as most of you know I do like to mix it up a bit and play around with my papers.

So.. I got to work when I received my supplies to create this layout.

The base of the layout was created using old book pages adhered using my trusted Helmar Acid Free Glue wash to a piece of pasteboard cut to size and then lightly misted with gesso spray to mute it down. I then spread the centre of the layout with a layer of texture paste roughly and added a colour wash when the texture paste was dry.

The hearts were then created by book page adhered to light card stock using Helmar Acid Free Glue wash, and the others are hand cut from The Robin's Nest paper that I had chosen to work with because of the thickness of The Robin's Nest paper it was perfect for creating embellishments from. I was able to hand stitch them onto the card stock base quite nicely and fold the edges upwards and they help their shape.

I was then able to add that extra little bit of pop to the layout by adding The Robin' Nest dew drops to the smaller black hearts and randomly adhered them using Helmar Gemstone Glue over the base of the layout. I used the clear dew drops, which meant they were able to pick up the colours from the base of the layout nicely.

So super easy to create such a simple layout using some great products from Helmar and The Robin's Nest.

Off to play some more with my Robin's Nest products.

Happy Scrapping.

TFL M x

SUPER SUPER EXCITED !!!!!!!!!

Hello everyone....

Super excited today as it is my first post for

I was lucky enough to be chosen to be on the design team.

I must say that when my design team box arrived in my mail I really didn't know where to start. I didn't want to cut up any of the paper and WOW where have the dew drops been all my life.

I think I have used them on every layout I have created so far since my design team box arrived. They are so cool and fun to play around with.

So.. when I finally pulled myself together I managed to cut up some of my goodies up this is what I ended up playing around with.

So with a little help from the about I was able to make a major mess and get completely cover in glitter!

I started by recycling a piece of packaging to create the base of my layout. Then I adhered layers of book pages to start with using Helmar Acid Free Glue watered down. Once that had dried I then lightly sprayed it randomly with gesso and a few different colours of glimmer mist in different spots. Finally to finish the base off stamped the whole think with script stamp randomly and then added some butterflies a bit more heavily.

Once all that was done I was able to add in my Robin's Nest Glittered Papers which i had inked the edges of to give a bit of dimension.

Then came the process of layering my Robins's Nest Viva Rubons, Paris Clip Ons and some flowers that I had almost misted lightly with gesso

The main part of the title was also created adhering a scrap of the paper to thick chipboard then stamping directly onto the reverse side of the the Robin's Nest Glittered Patterend Paper and cutting them out by hand. to finish off the layout I randomly adhered some dew drops around the clustered embellishments. They really popped too with the glimmer mist behind them and added a really nice finish.

So here's the full layout..

And don't die of shock... YES is actually a layout with a photo of me in it. Very few and far between I know.. but these paper really inspired me.

Better get back to scrapping. There is so many other goodies in my design team box I want to play with.

TFL, M x