Lisa Pate - My Last Post

My last post!!!

It's been so very lovely to share in this space.  A huge thankyou to Raquel for the opportunity to work with such a wonderful team.  Ebony, Gina and Nat have been the my wonderful supportive and creatively inspiring girls to work with. It really has been a wonderful *gig*.

Now only my last share.

Guess what ? MORE PURPLE!  ha! and HELLLOOOO chalk board paint + sharpie.

So with all that said and done, just one extra thankyou ...... to all our readers, who pop in, leave a comment, or a message on FB.  ThANKYOU for taking the time to read and hopefully be inspired to create something beautiful.

Lisa

Designer Inspiration - Lisa Pate. Girly Grunge

Hello Everyone!!!

I'm back to share another project I put together with the August Main Kit.   The kit was full of super pretty colours and embellishments... BUT my 14 year old has morphed from the girliest little girl ... into a music loving, black wearing, combat boot lover kind of teen.  Which I LOVE. 

But the colours in the kit needed a little grunging up to suit her.

So I set to work.

Here is a few ideas on how to turn pretty papers into grungy goodness.

• Gesso.  I slathered it on my base cardstock as well as liberally brushed it over my papers after attaching them to my papers.  It's patchy, and lumpy and bumpy.  Perfect.
• Staples.  They are awesome to attach anything quickly, but they add a little more metal to a pretty page.
• Crumple, fold, tear.  Crumpling, folding, and tearing all add more texture.
• Splatter and spray.  You all have sprays or water colours to splash and spray around,  I used them both on my base cardstock and over the whole layout.
• Scribble it. Grab a pen or pencil and scribble.  A border, a design element (circles were used on my layout) or your journalling.
• Scratch it up.  Those gold alphas were just a little too shiny.  So I took my scissors to them and gave them a scratching up.

 Here is my layout, and lots of other images to show you how it came together.

 

Thanks for stopping by everyone.  I hope it inspires to you take papers and kits and make them suit your theme or personality.

Lisa

Designer Inspo ... Natalie May

 Happy Sunday peeps!

So I have created another page using the August Cupcake Kit!

Gee I have got a lot of totally different pages out of this kit!

So with this page I wanted to use the MME Die Cuts as the main embellishments!

Added a little Lindys Stamp Gang Mist using the water brush technique I used here.

And I'm done!

I love this page .. a new fave for me!

Have a great day

Natalie

Designer Inspiration - Gina Rodgers - A River Somewhere..

I'm really drawn to the pastels in this main kit and have created another page using these shades along with some gold and cream.. I've started with a soft pink watercolour background using watered down mist and some splatters of grey mist for contrast..

once again the die-cuts in this kit make layering easy, and I just LOVE the washi too which adds a subtle touch of colour without dominating the page..

I've included a small paper doily from my stash and some messy thread behind the flair, resin stars and sequins..

happy Friday all!
Gina x

Designer Inspiration - Gina Rodgers - So You..

Morning everyone, I'm back with another page created with the current main kit..  I've gone with some earthy browns, cream and gold in the papers, die-cuts and stickers and combined with a blue, aqua and gold background.. A few scrapes of gesso on the white cardstock provides a good base for applying sprays and mists and preventing the card to warp.. 

I've finished with some random stamping..

title and of course..it's not complete without a barcode!

Happy Friday all!
Gina x

Designer Inspiration - Gina Rodgers - Love This..

Happy Friday all,  I've having a ball with the latest Main Cake kit and have created another layout featuring to gorgeous pastel colours in this kit along with some gold, mustard and brown.. This page came together quickly starting with a soft splash of pink and mint on the background, followed by a bit of layering using die cuts, papers, stickers and washi tape..

Thanks for stopping by, have a great weekend ahead!
Gina x

Designer Inspiration - Lisa Pate. August Kit is here!

And it's so delicious.  Not that I eat paper or anything.

I cracked open my August Kit today, and sprinkled all the lovely inclusions all over my desk. SO much to work with, so many cute little "bits"

I really love the trend of layering up one edge of the page and creating a layout in this space. Time to give it a go.  It was so easy just to stick random bits along the edge then stitch and staple it all down.  No double sided tape needed.

 

Have you opened your kit yet????

Lisa

Designer Inspiration - Lisa Pate. Getting Stitchy.

Hello Everyone!

I'm back to share a layout I created using the June Mini Kit .

As I sort out my new creative space, I am finding lots of lovely supplies and revisiting a few crafts that I have enjoyed over the years.   Armed with a selection of lovely bright embroidery threads I have been cross stitching most evenings away ... was only a matter of time before the hand stitching found a way onto my layouts.

Mixing my crafts and supplies is something I've always really enjoyed.  I *know* you all have dabbled in other crafts, why don't you pull some supplies out and see what you can add to your next layout?

Lisa

Designer Ins[piration - Lisa Pate

Happy Monday !!

I'm finally started to feel settled in my new home and have almost a totally functioning and pretty creative space.  Shame the internet is STILL not working!

It's lovely to have lots of creative work to keep me busy (and I am probably keeping up better without the distraction of internet surfing!)

If you read my previous post you would know I had a rather large disaster with all of my old scrapbooks.  Rather than be sad and upset, I am pulling the photo's off and creating new layouts with older photo's.  Totally LOVING scrapping my babies again.

Using the gorgeous June Kit, I created a messy, fun layout of my youngest babe when she was oh so very little.

I will admit I have a *thing* for cutting up and pulling apart just about everything in the kit(as you can see by the quote sticker) .  I loved using some inks over the top of the stencil to give a background that wasn't perfect.

Hope you all have a wonderful, creative week.

Thanks so much for stopping by.

Lisa

Designer Inspiration - Gina Rodgers - Sweet Memories

Hi everyone, I'm sharing my last page created with the June main kit.. which is still available!

I wanted the beautiful heart shaped doily to pop against the kraft background so I coloured it with some aqua mist, then incorporated lots of bright colours using the papers and Chic Tags die-cuts..

I've added a little hand-written script in white pen, then stamping over the gesso, mist and ink background..

and I'll share a little tip for making the acetate die-cuts pop, scrape some white gesso on the back and let dry before sticking down..

have a great day!
Gina x

Designer Inspiration - Lisa Pate

Hello Everyone !!

Can I just say how glad I am to be back in this space?? anyone who has ever had to move house will understand how time consuming and tiring it is.  And lets not forget the nightmare of trying to make sure you have a working internet connection.  We are still working on that!!

So I have had the lovely June Kit for a few weeks now, I had created some backgrounds and was waiting for some time and the right photo's.... fast forward to this weekend while we were re-stacking boxes in the new garage only to discover that three boxes which had housed my oldest scrapbooks for 6 months were WET ... and MOLDY and not at all salvageable.  It was a pretty sad moment I tell you.

I pulled all those pages out, and popped them into a crate and one by one I am cutting the photo's that can be saved off the wet and ruined layout and starting again.  Yes it's a huge job, but it's kind of fun making new layouts from old ones.

So onto the layout!!! I've done my usual messy collage style, but for the background used the gorgeous Lindy's Stamp Gang Spray that was provided in the kit (plus another I already had in my stash).  These sprays are all kind of lovely to work with ... and the are PERMANENT !!  yep, that's right they do not run together and turn brown.  Plus they layer so well over dark coloured cardstock.

 So much fun.

 

I hope you never ever have to find your scrapbooks ruined like I did.  So please if you do have your scrapbooks stored out of sight, check them :)

Lisa