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New Layouts

Thank you very much to my wonderful friends who came over to scrap using FTI products.  Here are some of the layouts below.

 

 

More layouts to come. :-)

Ngaire's Christmas Layout

Haven't scrapped your Christmas photos yet?  Looking for some inspiration?

Ngaire Bartlam has created a fabulous layout using the FTI chipboard hearts as Christmas trees! 
Click here for the list of the items used to make this great layout.

  

 

Ngaire's Class

Ngarie Bartlam will be teaching at FTI on Monday 10th November 2008.

Using the fantastic FTI range, you will be creating an awsome layout with the eclectic touch that is unique to Ngarie.

If you are a retail business and would like to book into this class on Monday 10th November 2008, please email us at classes@finishingtouchideas.com.au or call us at 07 3245 5555 for more information.  Be quick as we have limited spots available. 

Terms and Conditions

* We will contact you on the Thursday/Friday before the class to charge your credit card for the class fee

* Please do us the courtesy of cancelling an appointment.  48 hours notice cancellation is required in order to give those on the waiting list an opportunity to attend.  If the notice is not given, the class fee will not be refunded

* If you do not turn up on the day, we will happily send out the class kit to you, however your credit card will not be refunded for the class fee

FTI products distributed in Canada!

We are very happy to announce that Scrappers' Anonymous are the Canadian Distributors for the fantastic FTI range!!  They have a huge range of items already in store and you can see the range at:-

Scrappers' Anonymous

#2-50 Burnside Road West
Victoria, V9A 1B5
British Columbia, Canada

250-590-1266

Emeline's Layouts

 

This rhyme keeps ringing in my ears i just had to lay them out on a layout ! I used FTI's raw alphabet chipboards for a fun mix.

 

The jumbo brown flower is the highlight of the purse ! It is so pretty in this unique color!
I laced the edge of the purse with lace and brown velvet ribbon. These are attached using double sided tape. Stitching can be used as an alternative.

 

I absolutely love the colour combinations of aqua + brown !i wanted to showcase the pretty ribbons, hence i arranged them in a linear vertical manner and embellished with flower chipboards.

 

 

The puzzle design is an extension of my journaling/ title. it is our hope for our son that all things all into place nicely (if not perfectly) for him in his life path.I used my children's jigsaw puzzle and traced the pattern onto pattern paper and cut out the shapes. I layered FTI's rub ons to bring out the fabulous colours on the rub ons.

Emeline's Layouts

Emeline-I've wanted to do a monochromatic layout and was inspired by FTI's White chipboards and velvet ribbon. They look and feel luxurious and brings out the pure sweet innocence of a child which i wanted to convey on the page.

 
Emeline-Love the blue rub on !! I managed to find a paper which complements the lovely blue shade and attached a white chipboard on top of the rub on for added interest.

Emeline-i matted the photo onto the velvet ribbons and tucked flowers and chipboards beneath for dimension

Emeline-totally inspired by the ribbons and ric rac, i used them to tie the photos together.

 

Kristy's Layouts

Kristy decided to concentrate on wedding layouts using the black and white theme. 

So this is Marks wife Hayley who am close friends with and she looked truly amazing the day they got married, Again I wanted to keep the layout simple but elegant I used the felt cut in half in white, some white ribbon crossed and a heart 3d with foam dot, The black flourishes sanded back a little and the three tear drop shapes 3d with foam dots aswell, half the white flower machine stitched down to add interest.

So on this layout I used a pic of my husband and his best mate Mark on his wedding day, I wanted to keep the layout simple but manly so I used the floral grey ribbon with the hint of elegance being flowers, black ribbon to make it bold,  a combo of the black and white chipboard letters and the white and black brads to finish it off.

Again here I love this pic from my wedding day and used the chipboard flourishes and used 3d dots to raise them of the page, I used half of the black 6 inch flower and finished the centre off with a white heart and a smaller black heart 3d with foam dot to lift it off the white heart.

A new Marriage I love this picture of my husband and I and not wanting to take too much away from the photo I used the 6 inch, 4 inch and 2 inch flowers cut inhalf to show them off, the black ribbon with the fleck of white and the pearl ribbon slide as my necklace was pearls.  I also used the chipboard letters in a combo of white and black.  I used the Purple, Orange and Pink cardstock to pick out the colours from my boquet, while the black and white FTI stuff added the touch of elegance it needed

We are sorry to say goodbye to Kristy as she has a break while waiting on the birth of her third child.  We wish you all the very best.

We also welcome Tracey onto our Design Team.  Keep an eye out for Tracey's creations in the next month.

Emeline goes off the page

Emeline has gone off the page with her creations this month.  Have a look at the card and the fantastic wall hanging which was made with one of our new 6" flowers.

i used black felt ribbon over a laced cardstock to create a dimensional effect and used brads to secure the ribbon in place. The black and white definitely signify elegance.

                                     

On this layout, i used ribbon stripes to frame the picture and used mini brads to use as journaling points

                                                                      

I used large brads as fillers for the scalloped cardstock. These brads are truly very versatile. They are so great even to use it on its own!

I used Jumbo black flower as a base and layered hearts chipboard onto it. I love the different sizes and shapes of the hearts!

Shop of the Month-Crafting in Style

Thank you so much for Ally from Crafting in Style for these great layouts and sketches. 

I had some black and white photos of my sisters wedding and as soon as I saw the combination of red rubons, felt trimming and matching bits I knew it was the perfect combo to finally scrap them. I decided to make use of white space in this layout and let all the elements do the talking. Layering up the chip pieces with buttons and adding brads to buttons helped give dimension.

                                                

In this one I used some Stampin Up pp. I wanted to add some flower elements to this so I could use some of the felt trimming. I love that you can cut up the felt trim and use pieces of it on a layout to get the effect you are after. I also combined brads and chip flowers in this LO and added a FTI affection rubon.

                                                                      

I wanted to keep this layout simple looking too and let the wonderful bold colours do the work. I loved the mix of colours in the chipboard pieces

Using a variation of the sketch for this one was a fun way to add circles into the mix. The photos had matching boy colours to the elements as I find bold colours fit really nicely when doing masculine LO’s.

    

   

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Design Team Layouts

Our design team have excelled themselves using our primary range this month.  Have a look at their creations below.

Michelle - Driven by the photo here.  Orange is my son's favourite colour, and went well with the Primary theme.  The photo was taken on an angle, so I introduced a vertical spliced mat in orange to balance it up.

                         

Michelle - The rub one flourishes and felt ribbon were great to go with the series of red and white dominant photos.  The thin strip of text printed paper is balanced by the vertical journalling strip on the right hand side.  The felt ribbon and title chippies complete a frame which draws the eye into the block of photos.

                                                                                 

Michelle - Red and green with a dash of blue suited both the photos and the Primary scheme.  The textured cardstock adds visual interest without distracting pattern, and this is balanced by the border of felt ribbon.  A hidden journalling block stamped in white on navy cardstock ties the blue chipboard and flowers in with the blue in the photo.

Michelle -This cheeky photo sums up my son's personality!  He loves ribbon, bling and scrapping with my leftovers, so this collage style heart border made a great mat with lots of texture and interest.

                           

Emeline-I was totally inspired by the solid red found in "Primary" Range products. It was easy to decide on which picture to scrap with. Here, i used blue and red as the dominant colours to coordinate with Spidey's theme color.

                                             

Emeline-On this page, I raised the capital letter of the title with a square chipboard. These squares are so functional and versatile. The swirls and curves on the rub ons are such great elements to add onto the page. They make such great difference to my page!

                                                                                 

Emeline-Red Again! It's such a fun colour to scrap with and the redness literally pop off the page! Red ribbon as photo corners, red rub on, red velvet ribbon - I simply love the highlight ... for balance, I layered chipboard onto flower and added buttons onto the chipboard for visual interest.

Emeline-this picture was taken recently at my son's birthday party and the theme colour : Blue and yellow which happens to be sponge bob's theme colour too! I punched holes onto the flower petals and punched additional holes onto the chipboard centre and tied with a ribbon.

                                 

Kristy-WOW these new flourish rubons were fantastic as they added the touch of fancy to the whole layout and the colours worked so well with the pictures of the kids

                                                                              

Kristy-So Reggie the family pet posed for me and as he is black and white the colours this month were fantastic, the red felt stitched over cutout in cardstock something different, The ribbon and buckle to make the collar, brads to make a bone, flowers cut to make corners finished off nicer, hearts combined for how much we love reggie and some white ribbon tied through holes on cardstock.

Kristy-I opened this months pack and had ideas running through my head, I love these new pics of the kids and the colours were perfect for what i wanted to do,done some machine stitching and used buttons, brads, ribbon and one flower cut in half for something a little different and the great felt I cut it in half it added the red i needed without being a block colour of red.
                              

Kristy-I used abit of everything on this layout, Brads, flowers, Buttons, New flourish rubons, chipboard letters for numbers and I traced around the edge for the title using chipboard letters, done some twisting with some ribbon and stitched it down and some more of the fantastic and so easy to use felt, just love the whole feel of this page.

Kristy's sketches