Anita Bownds

About Anita Bownds

https://neat-n-crafty.blogspot.com/

Anita is a stay at home mum to 3 girls and lives on 12 acres in a small town called Maryborough, surrounded by cane fields and cow farms in Queensland, Australia. Anita was an arty kid at school, and first started scrapbooking 2001 after being invited to a crop. A lover of all things paper, she says scrapbooking is now her favourite thing to do and she just can't get enough. She enjoys creating fun projects that include lots of colour, cut files, fussy cutting and hand stitching.

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Welcome to Paradise | Sunkissed | Anita Bownds

Hey lovely’s Anita here with you today sharing my very first layout with the brand new sun kissed collection as soon as I seen this beautiful bright colourful collection on my desk I knew those flowers had to be fussy cut . Something about the waves crashing on these rocks had me , the swirling of the water it just made me want to take a photo to remember that moment..
I started with white cardstock and using the wood grain pattern paper from the paper pad
I cut a strips and cut on shorter then the other and made them into tags and glued them down in the middle on both sides
Added brads and twine to tie them together and added my photo backed with pattern paper from the paper pad
Then fussy cut a bunch of flowers from growing wild pattern paper to add around the 2 tags and my photo
Then I tucked ephemera and stickers in the top of the photo and added some to the bottom of my photo. I also added some palm trees, one to the side of the photo and one on the other side of the layout

 

Then I cut 2 strips of just chillin and punched a decorative border on the edges and added them to the top and bottom of layout then I fussy cut out more flowers and added them to the strips to tie it all in , then the little flowers from the growing wild pattern paper to add around the clusters of flowers

 

And to finish off the layout I used the clear stickers to add something on the edges of the 3 main clusters of flowers.

 

 

And a few little phrase stickers at the bottom of the layout.

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my inspiration today
Happy crafting..xx

Hello Sunshine | Sunkissed | Anita Bownds

 Hey lovely’s Anita here with you today sharing a fun scrap lift swap with the lovely Danny Visser
Using the new beautiful Sunkissed collection so bright and beautiful
A day at the beach breathing in that sea air just absolutely love it ….
 (Check out Danny’s sweet layout below )
If you missed seeing Danny’s scrap lift of one of my layouts check it out here

I started off with white cardstock and trimmed 2 sides to add more colour to the background adding Bright side Then I chose 2 pattern papers from the A5 paper stack and adhered them in the center of the layout Next I Matted my photo on 3×4 cards and added a card next to my photo to add a sub title and then started tucking ephemera around the photo along with some cutout pieces from the A5 paper stack 

 

Next I fussy cut out a bunch of flowers from growing wild pattern paper and added them around the layout I also added the rest of my title underneath the pocket card using glitter foam titles
Then I punched little flowers and scattered them around the fussy cut flowers

 

 

I popped some of those little puffy hearts around the little flowers from the puffy stickers 
Then I added some accessory stickers and a wood epoxy button in the center of one of the flowers to finish off the layout

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my scrap lift inspiration today

Happy crafting..

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Love This | Day Dream | Anita Bownds

 Hey lovely’s ! Anita here with you today sharing a sweet floral layout using the daydream collection and this months Mood board with all the sweet dreamy colours to choose from so I pulled out the Kraft cardstock to match the coffee and the rest of the colours from around the mood board and of cause I added a photo of my cute fluffy boy sleeping ..
So I started with  Kraft cardstock and a paw print stencil and used white ink and just used a blender to add the ink. Then I added some light pink paint by just quickly brushing across the cardstock trying not to put it on too thickly then I used a light blue to flick around the cardstock along with some white and rose gold..

 

Then I matted my photo on sweet serenity to layer behind then I tucked a few bits of ephemera , doily and a few accessory stickers around my photo and my chipboard title from (bohemian dream ) I think …..
I wanted to add the title before I started adding my title so everything would fit in place.

 

Then using happy place I add a strip down the left hand side then tucked a doily and little strip from sweet serenity that I punched a little decorative punch and a little piece from the ephemera.
Then I pulled out a few dies and used happy place, daisy days, sun shower , all a flutter to make a bunch of flowers big and small and a few leaves.

 

And to add more white in the background I die cut sprigs and tucked them in underneath and around the flowers and leaves ,
For the center’s I use enamel dots and buttons all in white to add that shabby look and just placed them diagonally across the page in 3 clusters to draw the eye across the page …

 

I finished the page off with some glitter gel painted on the flowers just to add some shimmer..

 

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my mood board inspiration today
Happy crafting..

Beautiful | Day Dream | Anita Bownds

Hi lovely’s , Anita back with you today sharing a another floral layout using day dream collection .
full of fussy cut flowers and pretty paper layers ….seriously who doesn’t love some flowers all layered up.
I started off with white cardstock and then I cut 4 strips of sweet serenity about 1 x 12 and punched a border on 2 of the strips then I layered the punched strips over the other and added them to the top and bottom of the layout

 

Then I tucked a fussy cut flowers from the garden variety patterns paper and added some phrase stickers from the accessory stickers
Then I cut a big 4 1/2 inch strip and punched 2 sides and then cut 2 more inch strips to tuck underneath to make the border punched edges pop

 

Next I matted my photo on papers from the paper pad and tucking a doily and tab from the accessory stickers then I add a few other stickers around the photo then next I added more fussy cut flowers around the photo and tucking them at the top of the photo

 

Then to finish off the layout I added a cardstock title popping it up on double sided foam tape to add that cute dimension

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my floral inspiration today
Happy crafting..xx

Beautiful You | Day Dream and Merry and Bright | Anita Bownds

 Hi lovely’s  , Anita here with you today sharing a floral layout mixing 2 collections together day dream and merry and bright using a photo of our Luna sleeping on my chair in the craft room and I often find her asleep on my chair she likes the craft room as it’s quiet and a great place to just chill out..

You know me ..white cardstock first then I was thinking with this layout I wanted to add some mixed media
To the background so I used the plastic package technique and kissed light pink paint and peach watercolour to the background across the page and let it dry before adding a stenciled modelling paste across it

 

Then I flicked white watered down paint and did the same with rose gold to add a bit more colours in the background, I kept it light as I didn’t want the background to take away from the foreground I just wanted it to blend

 

Then I matted background on all aflutter and machine stitched around the boarder then I matted my photo on papers from day dream 6×8 and tucked in some stickers from the accessory stickers from day dream in the top of the photo layers and adhered my photo in the center of the layout..

 

Then I started cutting out my flowers using joy to the world pattern paper and for the leaves I used oh Christmas tree , count down and sun shower to make my clusters. Using a white pen I added so detail to the flowers and just bent them up a bit to add dimension and layered them with a enamel dots in the center’s to finish them off

 

And I bent up the leaves just to add more dimension to look more like flowers instead of them being flattened out
And then I clustered them on 2 sides of my photo and finish off the layout with a few ephemera butterflies from the day dream ephemera pack and a few drops of liquid pearls I rose gold.

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my floral inspiration today

happy holidays and happy crafting lovely’s

Xx

Favorite Days | Day Dream | Anita Bownds

Hi crafty friends,
Anita here with you today sharing my first layout of the new year using day dream collection
My photo is of my kitty enjoying the morning sun in front of the window this was before we decided that all that fluff needed to be shaved off … and yep he wasn’t happy about losing his fluff!!
I started off by trimming a 12×12 by 5 inch strip from sweet serenity and machine stitching around the edges then I cut 2 more little strips 1 inch by 12×12 from sweet serenity then using daisy days I cut 2 more strips 12×12 by inch and then with all the little strips I punched a border on each of them

 

Then I matted my photo on papers from the 6×8 paper pad ( you can substitute the 6×8 for the 12×12 using all aflutter and sun shower ) I then tucked a the circle ephemera piece behind the photo that I fussy cut around the edges.
Using garden variety pattern paper I fussy cut out a bunch of flowers and started adding flowers around the bottom of my photo along with flowers from the ephemera pack that I fussy cut around to match the rest of the fussy cut flowers

 

I added ephemera around my photo and more clusters of flowers around the photo and to the right side of the layout I also added some other bits from the ephemera, butterflies and my title then finished off with hearts around the flower clusters and enamel dots in the center’s of the fussy cut flowers..

 

 

pop on over to the cocoa vanilla YouTube and watch my process video

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my floral inspiration today
Happy crafting..

Love To Be Jolly| Merry and Bright | Anita Bownds

 Hey crafty friends, Anita with you today sharing a Christmas layout using the merry and bright collection 
Each year I like to take a bunch of close ups of new little Christmas ornaments hanging on the tree I think it always great to document because we don’t always decorate our tree the same each year but I’m totally in love with these cute heart ornaments…
I chose another I created and decided to scrap lift myself and this gives you the opportunity to use the same design but with different products and colours
So I started off with my white cardstock background and pulled out some pattern paper from the 6×8 I then trimmed a strip off one side then using a border punch I punched 2 decorative edges on both pieces and added the on opposite sides of the background then using the pink pattern paper from the 6×8 I cut another 2 strips just a little shorter and tucked them just underneath the first bits of pattern paper

 

Then I matted my photo on more pattern paper from the 6×8 and added a doily behind to add softness and texture then I adhered it down on the right hand side just overlapping both bits of pattern paper then next I pulled out a bunch of ephemera die cuts and tucked them in the photo layers and clustering them on the right hand side of the photo I then add my title and sub title thickers and a accessory stickers 

 

I then added another cluster of ephemera and flowers on the left hand side and added the puffy gold stars in the clusters and on top of the Christmas tree to add a gold touch then to finish it off i did some stamping with some tiny stars with gold , added some gold threads to my tag and a few pearls from my stash in the Centre’s of the flowers.

 

 

 

 

Happy holidays everyone I hope you have enjoyed my Christmas inspiration today…
Happy crafting…

Merry | Merry and Bright| Anita Bownds

 hi crafty friends, Anita here sharing a layout for cocoa vanilla studio using the new

Christmas collection merry and bright absolutely adore the colour palette

I took a bunch of photos of my Christmas tree last year

 

I started with white cardstock and some mixed media to add to the background using a stencil , heavy body gel and some light pink paint and Mixed it all together and applied it to the stencil then once it dried I trimmed down my white cardstock and added oh Christmas tree pattern paper to the back of the cardstock

 

Then next I cut a strip of pattern paper from the 6×8 paper pad and added a fringe to one side then I punched a border with a border punch from joy to the world patterned paper added some crape paper to it to add more texture the I just layered them together and added them to the layout

 

I then Matted my photo on papers from the 6×8 paper pad and created a tag from the 3 x 4 pocket card to tuck in my photo layers the a doily and adhered it down add it just over lapping the fringed border strip

 

Then next I used a title cut file from @neatncraftycutz  to add on top of my border strip just overlapping the bottom of my photo then I started adding a bunch of ephemera and fussy cut flowers cut from joy to the world around my photo and title to add floral elements to the layout and a sticker from the sticker sheet to the top of my photo

 

 

Then I finished off by adding some rhinestones from my stash to add some bling to the flowers and around the clusters.

pop on over and check out my process video on the cocoa vanilla studio YouTube channel  

I hope you have enjoyed my inspiration today

And you are enjoying all the beautiful merry and bright creations .

Happy crafting…

Tis the Season | Merry and Bright | Anita Bownds

Hello lovelies, sharing my first layout using the merry and Bright collection and as this week we are mixed it up with new and old I use some ephemera, stickers and one of the hearts from day dream..

My photo is of Luna kitty all curled up asleep after attacking the Christmas tree playing with the ornaments .. but seriously what kitty doesn’t have a super fun time with the Christmas tree…lol

I started with a snowflake cut file design from Paige Evans that I cut out on light pink cardstock to match the light pink in the collection then I adhered it in the center of the white cardstock and then matted my photo on paper from the 6×8 and a few little labels from 6×8
Then using the season greetings pattern paper I chose to use tis the season for my title and popped it up with some double sided foam tape at the bottom of my photo

 

Then I cut 4 border strips 2 from joy to the world that a punched a lace border and one from oh what fun that I trimmed in half that I layered on top of the lace strip and added them to the top and bottom of my layout

 

Then using joy to the world I fussy cut out a bunch of flowers and started clustering flowers at 2 corners of my photo and the top and bottom of layout I also added a few bits from day dream like our happy place from the ephemera pack , the tag from the accessory stickers and one of the puffy hearts

 

Then to finish it off I added little fussy cut berries and enamel dots from the legendary collection..

 

 

 

I hope you have enjoyed my inspiration today

 don’t forget to pop on over and check out the process video:

Happy crafting..

Heart This | Day Dream | Anita Bownds

Hi crafty friends Anita here, sharing a layout using the beautiful Day Dream Collection

I really enjoy spring each year all the flowers are in bloom it’s all so pretty and probably my favourite time of year

I started of by trimming 2 sides of my cardstock and then I matted on sun shower pattern paper
Then using my cameo and a cut file from the silhouette store I cut out 3 border strips using all aflutter pattern paper and then I trimmed 4 strips of sun shower and adhered them down underneath each other, then using my sewing machine I added stitching on each of them.

 

Then I matted my photo on happy place and sweet serenity pattern paper and adhered it just off center of the strips then I started tucking ephemera and accessory stickers under and around my photo. Using pattern paper garden variety I fussy cut out a bunch of flowers and added them to the top and bottom of layout and around my photo

 

Then I added a flower I had previously made to one corner of my photo with fussy cut flowers around and a flair button. Then to finish off with my title from the cardstock titles and a couple of butterflies from the ephemera then I popped a sticker from the accessory stickers underneath the clusters of flowers..

 

Check out my process video of how this layout came together..

 

 

 

Happy crafting everyone I hope you are enjoying this fun collection with all the beautiful colours

Crafty hugs..

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