Katherine O'Shea

I knew I had the perfect photo for the Scrap the Boy challenge this month, however with a slump in my creative mojo I did struggle to know where to start in creating a layout. I checked out the Design teams creations and took some inspiration from the lovely Melinda Sweetmans layout. I found a beautiful cut file from the CUTtoYOU esty shop called 'Flower Crown', created by Gwen Wruck and pulled out a range of Cocoa Vanilla Studio supplies to create this: The background paper is the B side of 'Full Bloom' from the 'Hello Sunshine' collection. The light woodgrain was speckled with Heidi Swapp colour shine in gold before adding the cutfile bumped up on some craft foam. I backed the flowers of the cutfile with the beautiful pink 'Hip Hooray' paper from the 'Make a Wish' collection and the leaves were backed with scraps from my stash. I used the ephemera from the 'Colour me Happy' collection to create the title 'Sweet smiling fac

I was super thrilled to be selected as a guest designer for Scrap the Boys April Challenge. It was very fitting given my beautiful boy celebrates his birthday in April! I took great inspiration from the colours and the sprinkles of the mood board, using the Kaisercraft "Party Time" collection. I used the 100's & 1000's paper as the border and machine stitching the white card stock to it. The mixed media background was created by using a stiff brush with Gelatos through a stencil. The embellishments are a mixture of the Kaisercraft "Party Time" collection as well as some Cocoa Vanilla Studio "Colour me Happy" ephemera. As always I used my Muji pen for my journaling.  I loved how it turned out, even though it was completely different from what I had first imagined I was going to create. It is alway satisfying to get a special occasion documented and be able to look back at it to remember the fun party!