Hello World .. tis me Janet ..

Its been a while, how are you ?

Life has been a roller coaster of changes, interruptions and patience building exercises for the past 2 years but I am dipping my toes back into the blogging world. I have missed it.

I am still scrapbooking and playing with mixed media and resin.  Albeit, the resin making is now purely for my own work and not for sale. I have soo much that needs a new home but am short on time and would rather spend that time creatively than fulfilling orders. In fact, if your after some FREE resin embellies, send me a message with your details and then I will provide an address so you can a stamped self addressed envelope with another inside it that is addressed to you and also stamped with $4 of stamps (no bigger than A5 size please) - so I can send you some goodies back - for nothing but some stamps! .. you dont need to tag me in your creations, but I wont say not to being able to see what you use it for. Open for Residents of Australia Only and offer closes 30th November 2020.

In my hiatus I have discovered a LOOOVE of kits, and how they all look some wonderful and blend so well. I may or may not (shhh) have purchased a few in the recent Cocoa Vanilla sale for NSD Day. To go with the ones I had from the Scrappery and Kitaholic Kits. If you have a super efficient way of storing them that wont cost me as much as a kit, drop me a comment below. Right now they are all stored seperately in 12" plastic envelopes.

In the meantime, I will get back to the safety of my covid-safe world and play with some paint today. I hope to share a few layouts over the next few days depending on how the weather goes for taking the pics.

Cheers

Janet

Kraft+ October Challenge 'clear'

I don't often get the time to play along with Kraft plus challenges every month but his one was a no brainer. I had it all planned out for a week before I got to it. Way to excited to play along!

I Can See Clearly Now is the October Challenge! 

You need to use something see-through on your layout.

Think vellum, plastic, glass, bubble wrap etc etc. I see lots of glorious clear resin Embellishments! 

Items used:

Background was done using delish cross stencil and colourblast texture paint in tangerine dream and and royalty. 

Embellishments used:

Punchinella Resin Sheet in clear that I broke up into 3 pieces from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Half of a resin maharaj flower in clear from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Part of the starburst resin border and 2 edges pieces all in clear from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Assorted resin flowers from The Resin Rainbow.. 

clear alphabet letters 'GAPPY' are from the resin alphabet set at The Resin Rainbow.. 

Shaker Box is actually a clear cellophane bag filled with sequins from The Scrappery Kit Club for October. 

patterned papers and 'living moments' die cut are from the Kaisercaft range called 'chase rainbows'

 thanks for looking .. 

you can see the other kraft+ entries .. here!
Cheers
Janet

White .. with 1 Creative Team - Pink Whisper Oct2017

This month is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! .. it is an unfortunate fact that 1in3 people will be affected by this insiduous desease at some stage in their life. I myself have lost 2 family members, 2 very good friends. So this month is all about being aware, being safe and getting yourself checked!


Pink Whisper is the name of the colour for October and as you can see its a gorgeous 'baby pink' inspired colour. It was such fun to work with such a pretty colour tone.

In conjuction with the colour, this sketch is also available to use. You do not need to use it exactly as it is, its a sketch - use it as a rough guide to make your layout with.

 

 

Its used:

Watercolour paint in baby pink was painted on the background

Punchinella Resin Sheet from The Resin Rainbow was used as the main/bottom layer

Various Cardstock Layering pieces 

Imaginarium Chipboard scroll frame (cut in half) and painted black

Tiny Blooms Flower Set from The Resin Rainbow Colour Kit for October

Cabbage Flowers from The Resin Rainbow

Resin Dots from The Resin Rainbow 

Scallop Border (cut in half, ontop of polaroid frame) from The Resin Rainbow 

Tulle Piece from the from The Resin Rainbow Colour Kit for October

Now go and see the rest of the Creative Teams layouts for October and get the inspiration flowing to create your own layout in Whisper Pink!

Happy Scrapping!

Janet xx

SUYS July Design Team Entry - back to nature

 

 Wow! What a tricky one this turned out to be for July! .. I couldnt find an image that worked so I had to visit the local show to take one while at the rescue koala pavillion!

I was unsure of how to make this all work and started out with some smears of colourblast colour paste in chocolate? on the background, had a sudden idea to add some gum leaves so out come the ancient HS leaves stencil which I the traced around and then filled in with watered down gelatos. Lastly I added some green and brown sharpie marker around the leaves and inside them.

I glued all the resin leaves down with E6000 by helmar.

Items Used:
Resin Leaves from The Resin Rainbow
Metallic Looking Mesh from Sirrah Sirrah as part of the goodie bag at Escape to Create recently.
Various paper layers from my stash.

Thanks for looking ..
Janet xx

suys June Design team Entry!

Welcome to June!

This layout came together really quickly once I found the image I was after! 

The challenge for this month was to use 2 colours next to each other on the colour wheel.

Normally with a colour wheel you use a colour opposite so they compliment each other but in this instance it was slightly trickier!

 The pic of my crazy daughter on crazy sock day at school was perfect with a mix of blue and green in the image already. 

Products Used:
Parts of the tulip border by The Resin Rainbow 
Green Resin Doily by The Resin Rainbow
Green & Blue Resin Dots
White Resin Deer from Forest Animals Resin Set at The Resin Rainbow
Blue Bow by Rainbow Splendour
Striped Pin by Rainbow Splendour
Green Daisy Pin by an old scrap company thepaintbrushgoesspotty
Various papers from my stash or from Rainbow Splendour Kits

Thanks for looking.

Product Post!

I figured it was about time that I started showcasing The Resin Rainbow's product line in my blog making it even easier for you to see and purchase rather than going to a seperate website to do so.

yes I know I could create a seperate blog that is just for this purpose but by having it all in one, you can see how I have also used the products making it more fun and interesting for you and less work for me by having to keep 2 blogs running!

There will be a tab at the top of the blog that says STORE.. and in here you will be able to see almost everything that can be purchased available.

More than happy to take requests and custom orders. I am working on a way to add variations to each product as your purchasing to add colour so you dont need to me to send you a message asking what colour/s you would like!

For now, you can also view & purchase The Resin Rainbow's products on Etsy. 

 

cheers

Janet

Kraft+ March Challenge - denim

Hi Everyone

I was lucky enough to be given an advance sneak peak of the March challenge at Kraft+ as The Resin Rainbow will be a sponsor for the month!  .. up for winning is a $10 etsy store voucher for 1 lucky scrapbooker! ..  

visit the etsy store at .. http://www.theresinrainbow.etsy.com

It wasn't hard to choose for this layout. The crazy image of my son is all his toothless glory was perfect!

He lost 4 teeth in less than a month - 2 of which while we were away camping. Tooth fairy was very poor for a while there. 

 

 

 

Products used:

Denim star from Charms Creations

Bloom Resin Embellishment Flat Layer (cut up) from The Resin Rainbow .. 

Dark blue star from The Resin Rainbow .. 

striped enamel dots from The Resin Rainbow .. 

Cream car pocket from Daiso

Denim brad buttons from my stash (circa 2011)

Camera flair from funky flair design 

Remember This card from d-Lish scraps as part of a JAP (just add paper) kit in . January 2017.

Terror letters from HS ghost letters. (circa 2010)

Now its time for you to get your own denim inspired challenge going, go check out the Kraft+ blog for all the details!

Happy Scrapping!
Janet 
xx

SUYS Feb Design Team Entry

Welcome to February! .. had lots of fun playing with the challenge at Show Us your Stuff for this month!

 

I started with a swipe of silver paint using a brayer, then I added some 'sunshine' colourblast texture paste over the top using a very vintage HS dots 'mask'. Did some searching for a pattern paper with a cute border edge that I added on. 

Somewhere in the middle of the night, I had the idea to add some silver/grey crepe paper as a sewn ruffle border to the side. 

After that the colours just came just happened. I went for a pastel pallete with baby pink, lemon, mint, cream and a pop of colour using a white/black spotty card. All cards came from my stash of ephemera. 

I received a new mold for The Resin Rainbow .. just as I was starting this layout and knew I was going to incorporate it somehow. So I cut up a part of the bespoke flower and pushed them into spot. 

Items Used:

Bespoke Flower layer in white (cut up) by The Resin Rainbow.. 

Cabbage Flowers by The Resin Rainbow.. 

tiny resin roses by The Resin Rainbow.. 

cream Bow by Rainbow Splendour

Black/white enamel dots by The Resin Rainbow.. 

Hexagon Clip by Rainbow Splendour 

Silver grey heart by The Resin Rainbow.. (from the happy birthday alphabet range)

paper flowers all by D-Lish Scraps. 

'Sunshine' colour paste by ColourBlast Australia  

 

That's about it for now .. be sure to check out what the rest of the DT have done with this seriously fun challenge this month - and get yours in, you still have 2 days!

Rainbow Splendour are the sponsor this month so you dont want to miss out on your chance to win some of her amazing handmade products!

Happy Scrapping
Janet
xx

SUYS January 2017 DT Entry ..

Welcome to January! 

With summer comes water, beaches and plenty of sunshine!  .. it was a no brainer for this layout to fall into place and a pic of my DD building a HUGE sandcastle on a beach on the Gold Coast, Qld kinda made it all work. 

Here is the idea that the design team had to create with!

I grabbed a few pattern papers in colours & patterns that worked well with my mage and tore them up into smaller bits. I layered them over and under each other to make a paper collage and then added a coat of clear gel medium afterwards to keep them in place.

Items used:

White damask layer (cut into pieces) from The Resin Rainbow.. 

Mini Resin Roses from The Resin Rainbow..

Pink Camera from The Resin Rainbow..

Enamel dots from  The Resin Rainbow..

yellow glitter stars & 2 butterflies by Rainbow Splendour

 Happy Days chipboard word by Corbett Creations 

Felt Bow by Dlish scraps.

 

you can see the rest of the amazing design teams January entries here! ..and dont forget to submit your own to win a prize pack from Burdies Embellishments!

Have a fab month!

Happy Scrapping

Janet xx

White .. with 1 January - Princess Pink

Happy 2017!

What a gorgeous colour 'princess pink' is and how nice it is to use such a easy colour! 

Wasn't a hard task choosing an image his month, given the plethora of pics I have of my girl!

Products used on this layout
Pink Waffle Heart
Pink Camera
Mini Blooms Kit
Mini Cabbage Roses (black)
Bubbles Layer (cut up in black and clear)
Scallop Border Layer
Pink Bow 

IN OTHER NEWS::: 

In case you haven't heard (or you have been living under a rock made of resin, like I tend to do). The Resin Rainbow has proudly become a major sponsor for White..with 1. Each month a mystery kit plus the matching alphabet will be given out as a prize to a lucky entrant of the challenge! ..

This is what is in the January Kit, they are still available for $10each inc post in Australia if you would like one.

Now that you have seem mine, go and check out the rest of the Creative team's work and get started on your own so you can go in the running to win a FREE Kit of Resin Embellishments from The Resin Rainbow .. 

Happy Scrapping!

SUYS December Design Team Entry

Im not sure how December has snuck up on us all so fast! ..

This months challenge is a sketch with a twist! We would love to see what you can do with this sketch, but we also want you to include the word TOGETHER on your page!

Don't forget to also include your handmade items! :)

Yes, mine is very bright and very crazy!  ..

The Handmade Items used are:
Resin flowers, black scroll piece, Pink Daisy Border and butterfly from The Resin Rainbow;

Apricot Daisy Pin from Rainbow Splendour

 

 

Now go check out what the rest of the Design Team have done with this fun & easy sketch and gets yours done and uploaded today! 

Cheers

Janet

 

SUYS for November

This one had me scratching my head for a few minutes until I took a look-see through my 'one day i will scrap this' box!  ..

 

It became an ode to my crazy little guy writing his name for the first time! ..

 

Handmade Items used:

Clear Scallop Border from The Resin Rainbow

Resin Dots from The Resin Rainbow  

Apple Embellishment from The Resin Rainbow

Black heart from The Resin Rainbow

Clear/Mint Resin Alphabet Letters 'first time' from The Resin Rainbow

Tiny Mint Resin Rose from The Resin Rainbow

Handmade Tassel from Delish Scraps

Now that you have seen mine!.. click here to see what everyone else has done and to submit your own!

White .. with 1 November Creative Team .. Niagara

I had a ball playing with Niagara this month and had the perfect image for it.

Its a pic of someone I love very much doing his amazing job as a photojournalist for the defence force. For security reasons (much like a dentist lol) I had to blur his face out but you get the idea still. He looks damn handsome in his service dress uniform. Pic was taken earlier this year in Belgium at the Anzac Day celebrations to comemorate 100 years since WW1. You can see some of his amazing work on the defence force you-tube channel if your interested.

A quick breakdown of the embellishments used:

Clear Hexagon Layer by The Resin Rainbow

Blue Resin Frame by The Resin Rainbow

Blue Resin heart (part of a set of 7)  by The Resin Rainbow

Blue Resin Cabochon Flower  by The Resin Rainbow

Blue Resin Alphabet  by The Resin Rainbow

Blue Resin Picket Fence by The Resin Rainbow

Flowers from D-Lish Scraps

Doily part of the last d-slish scraps 'just add paper" kit 

Now go and check out the rest of the Creative Team and get your crafty hat on to start on yours!

Have a super Month!

Cheers

Janet xx 

White.. With 1 October 2016 - Creative Team submission - cayenne.

Had such a ball playing with Cayenne this month. It was a great shade of red which leant perfectly to this image of my daughter on her last day of school a few years ago before we moved states/schools.
She was not a happy little reindeer at all.

The colour for this months challenge is .. 

Items used are:
parts of the Resin Border set by The Resin Rainbow
Red Sprinkles by The Resin Rainbow
Black/White Stripe Dots by The Resin Rainbow
Red Spotty Heart Pin by Rainbow Splendour

Now go and check out what the rest of the Creative Team have done this month and get some inspiration to work on your own!

Cheers
Happy Scrapping
Janet
xx

White.. With 1 August challenge - magenta purple

I will start by saying I'm not a fan of purple at all. Too dark for me. I'm all about the bright colour's, lots of layers and plenty of texture! .. 2 out of 3 on this layout was there!

So to rid myself of the darkness, I rolled on a layer of burgandy paint mixed with gesso, then i toned it down with plenty of white paint mixed with golden gel mediums 'glass bead gel' mixed into it. It came out a messy, grundy, bumpy mess. 

Then it was time for some tyre track circles using big circular hand sweeps on the page & Flutterby Designs black acrylic paint and i have added plenty of layers using bits from my stash and my store - The Resin Rainbow.

Items used: (click on the words to go straight to that product in the store/s)

Black picket fence by The Resin Rainbow

Burgundy resin stars by The Resin Rainbow

Celtic lace resin border (cut into 3 parts) by The Resin Rainbow

8mm size black/white resin dots by The Resin Rainbow

Hair clip by Rainbow Splendour 

Wood veneer happy face in the 'mixed emotions' kit by rainbow splendour 

Thanks for looking, now don't forget to go checkout the rest of the amazing creative teams August work here and get cracking on your own challenge entry!

Happy Scrapping

Janet

Xx 

SUYS July Challenge - blue / winter

This month at SUYS took me a long way out of my comfort zone!  .. I don't work with Blue on a big scale like this - ever!  so this one had a me little bit stumped until I figured out i could make it my own!

So this was the challenge this month! 

and this was what I came up with!  .. certainly no snow or cold weather when we took this picture of us all in the pool in Malaysia earlier this year!  - hence the title 'no snow here'.

 

Products used: (click on the link to go to the items or website)

Curves & Swirls White resin border (cut in 2 peices) by The Resin Rainbow

Snowflake Decals are a cut up Heidi Swapp mask from at least 10 years ago. I misted with them and then cut them up to use as well. 

Dark Blue Flowers by The Resin Rainbow

Stick Pin by Rainbow Splendour in her mixed emotions kit

Now that you have seen mine, go check out the rest of the DT's amazing work and get cracking on your own!  you have 16 days left to enter!  

Happy Scrapping!

Cheers

Janet

White .. with 1 July Challenge - Island Paradise

Hello Everyone

Welcome to July!  .. how did that happen so fast ??

I absolutely love the colour for this month 'Island Paradise' it makes me think of sunshine, water, swimming and all things summer. It sure doesnt feel like summer right now in Brisbane Qld Australia with a high of 16deg! ..

 

The pics are of my youngest on a recent family holiday to somewhere very warm (Penang, Malaysia). He became a steam pork bun addict in no time at all and even figured out how to say it in Malaysian so that the sellers at the macaan stalls would give him an extra one for free!

Supplies Used:  (click on the link to go straight to the website to grab yours!).
Resin Scallop Border by The Resin Rainbow
Small Teal Rose is from The Resin Rainbow
Clear Camera is from The Resin Rainbow
Flair Button is from Funky Flair Studio

Now that you have seen mine, go check out what the rest of the incredibly talented team have done with this gorgeous colour!

Have a safe and warm July!
Happy Scrapping
Cheers
Janet
xx