Merry & Bright Layout - Guest Designer - Tina Ollett

Welcome .........

Today I am very excited and honoured to have been asked by the lovely Denise Van Deventer from Berry71Bleu Scrapbook Layouts to Guest Design for December!!! Thank you Denise from the bottom of my heart! Denise is also my Design Team buddy from Fabscraps, so I thought it only fitting to create my layout using the new Christmas Collection from Fabscraps called 

"Christmas Memories". I absolutely adore these patterned papers and chippies from this collection. 

Here's a little bit about myself - Tina Ollett

I am a wife, a mum and a mad keen crafter.

Here is the mood board this month - Festive Fancy

And this is my interpretation of the moodboard!

Layout titled "Merry & Bright".

On my first look at the moodboard is was most obvious to me that I would be using the black and red! My favourite colour combo for Christmas I would have to say, and I also had the perfect photo!! As my son is getting older he is not as happy to be in front of the camera. These kinds of photos are a rarity! So this is one photo from not so long ago that he was happy to be a part of and I think the title sums up the photo brilliantly!

I have used a LOT of embossing powders for this one, making my own transparencies and dressing my chippies and also the metal embellishment which you can see here.

The heart wood flourish was inked and then covered with a great deal of Crackle Accents to achieve these cracks. The Fabscraps title "Merry & Bright" was embossed several times to give a desired dimension to it, then it was sprinkled with gold embossing powders to make the title pop.

Oh and how I love my lace. Well there is plenty here to lay your eyes upon. I have tucked a lace motif under the base of the photo matting. I firstly spritzed it with a charcoal spray but it didn't give me the intensity I was looking for so I then decided to paint it with my Dusty Attic acrylic paint (Soot), and it was perfect. I highlighted areas with some Dusty Attic Vintage Gold and also a dry brushing of gesso.

This fabulous Fabscraps chipboard Candle and Holly was the actual starting point to my layout. It has been dressed with embossing powders in differing sections. The holly leaves were outlined and coloured with a little distress ink and then covered with clear embossing powder.

And from a different point of view.

I hope I have inspired you in some way to use this month's Berry71Bleu Moodboard. 

There is so much inspiration that can be taken from it.

Thank you for looking and until next time happy scrapping.

Tina xx

Materials List

Fabscraps Christmas Memories - Christmas Tags C79 008

Fabscraps Christmas Memories - Working Elves C79 004

Fabscraps Christmas Memories - Father Christmas C79 001

Fabscraps Christmas Memories - Christmas Decor C79 002

Fabscraps Christmas Memories - Christmas Children C79 007

Fabscraps - Merry & Bright DC79 005

Fabscraps - Candle and Holly DC79 013  

Fabscraps Metal Embellishments     

Other Products

Lace Motif

Lace

Dusty Attic Acrylic Paint (Soot) DA0925

Dusty Attic Acrylic Paint (Vintage Gold) DA0926

Liquitex Gesso

Ranger Archival Ink Jet Black

Ranger Gold Embossing Powder

Ranger Black Embossing Powder

Ranger Distress Ink - Black Soot

Ranger Distress Ink - Crushed Olive

Ranger Distress Ink - Forest Moss

Ranger - Emboss It Dabber

Ranger Crackle Accents

Daler Rowney  Acrylic Artists Ink - Black

Splatter Brush

Transparency Paper

Cocoa Vanilla Flowers (Tis' the Season)

Prima Marketing Inc.

Prima Marketing Flowers Inc. Metal Embellishments #583552

Prima Marketing Inc. Clear Stamp  #579210

Stampin' Up Stamps - Flourish

Petaloo International Flowers

Miscellanous Christmas Berries

Kaisercraft Wood Flourish (Heart)

Kaisercraft Acrylic Stamp - Script

Kaisercraft Black Rhinestones

Stampin' Up Stamps - Flourish