Scrap Matrix Blog: May 2019

Thursday 30 May 2019

We announce our NEW Design Team Members........

So without further ado we are excited to announce our NEW Design Team Members!!!

We had some beautiful entries, there really is amazing talent out there.

Thankyou to all who applied.

Our new members are.....

Tanya Froud........

Hi I'm Tanya. I'm pretty excited to be joining the Scrapmatrix team.
I am from country NSW where I live with my 2 teenagers who you will soon get to know through photos of them in my work and my hubby Ian.

I also have a grown up son who has flown the coup and is living in the city.

My style can be best described as Bright and Grungy.

I LOVE using colour and all things pretty then messing them up.
I look forward to sharing with you all.

And.....

Lisa Amiet.....

I am a mum to two kids, wife to one, fur mum to my pug Lucy & cat Moe. I live in sunny Queensland and I am an avid scrapbooker.

I have been scrapbooking for about 15 years now and boy has it changed! I have fallen in love with how mixed media has joined together with scrapbooking. I am always happy when my hands are dirty.

Welcome ladies to the Scrap Matrix Team!!

We can't wait to see what you create, and are looking forward to getting to know you both some more.

Returning for another stint are.....

Tammy Klingner

Lynn Good

Elisa Ablett

Didn't I say it's gonna be a good year?!?!?!?!?

So much talent!

We will be back on the first of June to announce our new Monthly Challenge and share the NEW Design Team's creations.

xxx

Sunday 26 May 2019

Sadly we say farewell.....

I've popped in today to wish two of our Design Team Members farewell.... (insert sad face).

The super talented Helen Wallace and Monique Crisp have given us so much inspiration over the past year and a bit!

They've been with Scrap Matrix since the beginning - not only will their gorgeous creativity be missed, but they have become special friends to many of us, and their positivity and witty presence certainly give us all a lift. (hopefully they will still pop in now and then and make us all smile).

So I'd like to leave you with a reminder of just some of their work.....

First up.... the lovely Helen.

Here's just a few of Helen's creations.....

Such a gorgeous fresh style, with always so much to 'find'.

Helen always puts so much thought into her creations - they are often 'outside of the box' and leave us all wishing we had thought of that!!

Unique and intuitive....

Enjoy....

Love seeing those all again!

Thankyou so much Helen for just being YOU!!

xxxx

So time to share some of Monique's beautiful work.....

Monique always has a bit of a grungy feel to her work.

She loves colour and boldness and we love that she uses pinks and purples on 'boy' layouts!

Very cool and very creative.

Such beautiful layouts.

Thankyou Monique for your inspiration and wow factor!

Pop back here real soon as we announce our NEW Design Team Members!!!!!

It's gonna be a good year......

xxxx

Monday 6 May 2019

April 2019 - Fly with Helen

Hello crafty friends, thanks for visiting today

as I share a DT page for the April challenge at

Scrap Matrix.

I was inspired by the orangy colours on this glorious mood
board, when choosing my photo and
I discovered a great quote which I thought
would be perfect for my outdoorsy Grand daughter.

The photo was taken at Womadelaide in early Autumn

this year when Miss E climbed a tree to get a

better vantage point of one of the many music stages.

This lead me to using a couple of sets of

leaf stamps and borrowing my DIL's stamp to make

the little girl with the kite.

Hmmm, that's a bit of a long lead in, but it's

how my layouts evolve. An idea here, a thought bubble there,

a few mistakes and cover ups, et Viola!

I hope you're still with me!.

Next, I went hunting for a patterned paper

which would look good with her apricot colored top;

perhaps something with leaves on it.

I found the perfect paper by Studio 75, Lavender morning.

I just flipped it so that the leaves came down from the top.

First I stamped the little girl flying the kite and

embossed it with clear embossing powder.

Satisfied with placement, I created the title on my computer.

The next step was to make some mats for the photo,using

scraps of paper from 7 Dots Studio & Stamperia Clockwise.

The stamping was done on some old music paper,

using Tim Holtz archival ink. I'm not sure

where I saw that idea, so if it was yours - thank you.

Using Jane Davenport water colour inks, I randomly painted

the leaves, with three of four Autumn colours.

I love using these paints, so creamy, rich and luscious.

I wanted to highlight the beads on her T-shirt,

so I added some brown ink through a stencil. I mixed a

Dylusions paint with some thick white gesso and

dabbed it through a stencil.

Finally, the tricky bit of deciding how to arrange the leaves.

I always make twice as many as I think I'll need, so that

I don't have to try and match paint if I don't have enough.

A bonus by doing this, is that I always have

something pretty to add to a card!

I hope you find time to play along, just add your entry to the Scrap Matrix Shares page in the corresponding folder and don't forget to let us know what Scrap Matrix products you used and what inspired you. You could be in the running for a generous gift voucher or perhaps a Guest Design Team spot down the track.