My 2nd bit of Christmas for the month

Hello again,

As promised, my second Christmas layout for this month.  Completely different to the last one, with bright, blue colouring encompassing the snowflakes of Christmas.  I didn't actually use the specific AltairArt Christmas papers and picked up a lovely blue and white polka dot paper.  I think this comes from the Ever and Always II.  This was another pretty layout to work on, framed up by the lacy piece of Dusty Attic chipboard in the bottom left hand corner.  I actually had the 'sparkle and shine' theme for this month constantly on my mind and you can see that shines through in this layout too.

See you next month, have fun, Delia

Getting a wee bit Christmassy with AltairArt papers!

Hello All,

So, Altair Art have released their range of Christmas papers and ephemera and they are very lovely papers with some wonderful deep, rich colouring.  It is almost hard to cover them up with decorations.

I did two Christmas layouts for this month, so here is the first for your enjoyment.

This was a pretty layout to work on and I enjoyed my time working on it very much.  I fussy cut all the ephemera out supplied with the Altair Art papers and some I wet down and then scrunched up and dried as you can see to the top right of the white picture area.  Creating a base on the photo matt with cardboard and then mounting this upon 2 straws, I then built up around the outside with various pieces of ephemera, some also from Kaisercraft, plus a piece of Dusty Attic chipboard until finished.

I know it is Christmas early, but you need to get in and have your papers ready as it is not really that far away ...

I will be back on the 16th with a more of a blue layout, but still with the Christmas theme.

smiles, Delia

Crazy busy but still finding time to enjoy my papers

So, since my last post, I have now seen much more of New South Wales and I think I have seen most of it now in the last 8 months!  I had to do a flying trip back to my old state of Queensland to change my drivers licence name and 3300 kilometres later, we finally arrived back home.  Needless to say, I am completely done with travelling .. until next month anyway!  Ho Hum.

However, before I left, I got my creative groove on so I could at least be up to date with my artworks and this is a little piece I created, but it is not quite finished as I really want to find the right pieces of ephemera to put with it and I am just a tad undecided, so it will have to sit until I am inspired by the right wording and pieces. However, I love the grey backdrop of the Altair Art paper against the maroon reddiness of the layout.  My favourite bit however is the die cut pieces of the flower.  I do not know where I got the die from, but it is totes brilliant.

Anyway, I hope you are all having much fun with your own creativity and wherever that may take you.  I have some very cool pieces in my possession for doing some off the page projects or I should also get my Silhouette machines up and happening and create some groovy 3-D piece.  Just so many options and never enough time.

Pictures below of my creative piece.  Kids are on school holidays which means I get much more time to be in my craft space ....