Capturing everyday moments

It's been so relaxing creating a layout for myself these holidays and what a different layout it is, stretching me beyond what I'm used to doing.

I love creating mini albums but have never really wanted to do flips and flaps on a scrapbooking layout because I'm always unsure how I need to store it so that whoever is looking at it, can use it to it's full potential. Having said that, I decided to try my hand at one of these "interactive" layouts, being inspired by some very beautiful ones that I've seen lately.

I absolutely love all the cacti as well as the colour combination of these papers.

I created a large flap on the right hand side of the layout.

This large flap lifts up and over to reveal a smaller flap with space for quite a few photographs.

There is another large flap on the left side of the layout which lifts up and over to reveal some smaller flaps beneath it, as well as a pullout on the left side.

I heat embossed some elements on both pages and coloured some chipboard elements as well as made some splashes using Tim Holtz Distress Oxides.  I hope you enjoy this layout and feel inspired to create something similar.

With love 💙

Create and Inspire

  

I finally did it! My very first blog and it has only taken me about a year to do so. Blogging is not something I ever envisioned doing (because of time), but we'll see how it goes.  And to celebrate my first blog, I thought I'd share a little mixed media project that I created recently using some of the amazing Finnabair products.

I do like to scrapbook, but I love to play with mixed media.  And if I can combine the two, even better! I created these two mini canvasses to go alongside each other - CREATE and INSPIRE - because, as crafters, that's what we hope to do ... to create the things we love and to inspire others to do the same.

I love using Prima and Finnabair products on my mixed media projects.  The make mixed media so easy and so much fun.

I also love the combination of these two colours ... jade and purple.  I highlighted some of the elements with Finnabair gold wax to bring out some of the amazing details.

And micro beads ... who doesn't love gold micro beads?!

I added a bit of  Ranger "Mermaid" Liquid Pearls to the texture paste and I love the colour!

I do hope that this little project has inspired you to get creative and to go get your hands dirty ... who knows, you might just enjoy it!