Happy 1st Birthday - Bee Happy

I made this double page layout to celebrate my granddaughter's 1st birthday. The photos were taken by my daughter at their home.

For both pages I used a Simple Stories collection called Say Cheese - Classic Pooh.



For the first page I used:
SS - Say Cheese - Classic Pooh - Spledniferous! (border), Sweet as Honey (main background),
4x6 Elements (tags, and letters), 2x2 & 4x4 Elements (letters) and Cardstock Stickers.
Seam binding ribbon - gold
Pollen Sequin Mix - Little Things from Lucy's Cards
Cricut

For page 2, I used many of the same papers and stickers as for the first page. With the addition of:
SS - Say Cheese - Classic Pooh - 100 Acre Wood
My Creative Scrapbook cutfile for daisy background
White, grey and orange Bazzill cardstock

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Crazy Coupe

Here is my second layout made using the new Papermaze Kit for May. The kit is full of bold and bright coloured papers and Bazzill Cardstock. Great for fun filled summer, kids and holiday layouts. 

My children were given a Little Tikes - Cozy Coupe for their 3rd birthday. Andrew especially loved his first car! This layout was inspired by a page made by Niki Rowland for Simple Stories.

For details on how the layout was made, please see the Papermaze Blog.

From the kit, I used:
Echo Park - Born to Travel - See the Sights Plaid
Echo Park - Little Things Mean a Lot - Bright Butterflies
Graphic 45 - Spring is in the Air - Choose Happy
Photo Play - Lucky Cat - Cherry Blossoms
Simple Stories - For the Record - Just the Details
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Bazzill White, Admiral, Wildberry Pie, Mexican Poppy, Grenadine & Hillary

From my own stash, I used:

Tim Holtz, Sizzix Rosettes die set
Cricut
3D foam pads

That's all for today, I will be back with two more layouts from the May kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Emily as Jessie

The new Papermaze Kit for May is available from the shop today. The kit is full of bold and bright coloured papers and Bazzill Cardstock. Great for fun filled summer, kids and holiday layouts. My first lyout show our daughter in costume. Emily loved Toy Story and her favourite character was Jessie, so when the school had a Disney themed Christmas fair, She wanted to dress so, with the hat from the Disney Store, I made her the rest of the costume.

Please see the blog for full details of how the kit was made.

From the kit, I used:
Echo Park - Little Things Mean a Lot - Bright Butterflies
Simple Stories - For the Record - Just the Details
Rosie's Studio Bayfair Sentiments Ephemera
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Bazzill White, Admiral, Mexican Poppy, Grenadine

From my stash, I used:
Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed, Candied Apple and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks
Filmstrip washi tape
Heavy jute twine
3D stickers (cowboy boots and horseshoe)
Cricut
3D foam pads
Baker's twine
Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup in Blue Jeans
Star puffy stickers

That's all for today, I will be back with the second layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Every Day Life

Here is another layout for the iNSD challenges, this one is for two different challenges:

Peartree Cutfiles 'Rainbow colours and Nuvo Drops'. 

Paige Evans 'Scraplift' - I have included an image of the layout I have scraplifted, but I can't trace the creator. If you recognise the maker, please let me know.

Here is my layout with a photo from 1977 when colour Polaroid cameras were popular, my friend brought one to school, to record a few events of sixth form life.

"After the popular black-and-white prints came the peel-apart color prints in 1963, and non-peel-apart color prints followed in 1972. By 1977, the height of its popularity, Polaroid held two-thirds of the instant camera market, despite competition from Kodak."

I used a sheet of Smooth White Bazzill for the background. and flicked some Black Soot Distress Paint over the cardstock in the areas where the paper blocks will go.

From Vicki Boutin's Bold + Bright collection I cut some squares from the Picnic Blanket sheet, in a series of rainbow colours. I cur an extra oeange one, and turned this into a tag.

Will a collection of buttons, Card Candi, and other ephemera, I decorated each square, matching the colour scheme. I used a flair from Peartree Cutfiles. I cut phrases from Simple Stories - For the Record - Just the Details paper.

The title is some old Cafe Rojo alphabet stickers from Basic Grey.

I finished off with a rainbow of different coloured Nuvo Drops.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Rainbow Day

This layout was made for the 2025 iNSD challenges on the Page Evans facebook page. The photos show my granddaughter at her Baby Sensory group back in January, and the theme of the week was rainbows. She wore her little rainbow dress, and there wer many rainbow activities to take part in.

For the page I used a sheet of Paige's patterend paper from an older collection, with a pale denim effect printed over it.

I worked the rainbows and clouds in six strands of DMC embroidery cotton.

The title was added with Doodlebug Designs, Alphabet Soup puffy letter stickers.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Kool Kiwi

Peartree Cutfiles are holding 'Pear it Up challenge for iNSD this year, where there are a series of challenges asking you to pair up two different techniques, cutfiles or embellishments. This one is in response to 'Hidden journalling and one or more flair'.

The photo shows Andrew on the doorstep, ready for school with Kool Kiwi. (the journalling is hidden under the photo, whith a pull tab. (please see below to read journalling).

I used papers (Undisturbed Brilliance), Acetate Assortments and Lasercut Wildflowers from the 49 and Market, Krafty Garden collection.
My title was cut using the Sizzix BIGZXL Handmade Alphabet and more paper from the collection.
The flair are from Peartree, I liked the globe to demonstrate the fact the gift of Kool Kiwi had travelled to us from the otherside of the world. I outlined each flair with some Jute twine.

The Journalling reads:
"Kool Kiwi

When Andrew, Catherine and Emily were in year 1 at school, their teacher; Miss Hunt went off on long term sick leave. There was no-one in the small school to take over teaching the class, so after a few weeks of being taught by the head teacher, Mr Vinall, a temporary teacher came from New Zealand.  Mr. Sparling was an instant success, and ended up teaching the class for two terms, moving up into year 2 with them. He was an excellent teacher and will always be remembered.

Mr Sparling taught the children many interesting things including much about life New Zealand and many Māori traditions. One day he introduced a system for rewarding achievement, effort or good behaviour. At the end of each day the child who stood out the most was allowed to take ‘Kool Kiwi’ home for the night. This was extremely popular and resulted in the children striving to ‘win’ the honour. 

Kool Kiwi was a mascot for the New Zealand All Blacks. He was a soft toy rugby ball that unzipped and turned inside-out to become a kiwi dressed in rugby kit.  With three children in the class, he came home with us a few times.

The kids loved Kool Kiwi and Nan wrote to her sister in New Zealand telling her about the teacher and the toy. Sometime later the New Zealand cousins tracked one down and sent it to us, so we had our very own Kool Kiwi"

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Memories

Here is my fourth and last layout using the April Papermaze kit. I have dipped back into the past for these layout and a photo from 2008.  'Memories' - A photo of me with my husband on a family day out in Essex. We visited the Battlesbridge Antique Centre, and here we are at the very top of the building in the café.

For details on how I made the layout, please see the Scrap Paper Scissors Blog.

From the kit, I used:
Mintay Papers - Photographer collection - #02 & #05
Stamperia - Alterego collection - Postcard
Stamperia - Create Happiness collection - Dewdrops - Wood
49 & Market acetate ephemera
Prima crystals
Cocoa Vanilla foam stickers
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Whirlpool

From my stash, I used:
Corrugated card
Tim Holtz Idea-ology label holder 
Alpha stickers

That's all for the April kit. Back with the May kit soon.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Home Sweet Home

My second DT post, with two layouts made using the April Papermaze kit is available today on the Papermaze Blog.  As well as the six patterned papers, the kit has a collection of  embellishments. There are two sheets of Bazzill cardstock included, and you can also buy four more in the co-ordination pack. Here is the first of these two layouts, showing a photo of My son at 3 years old, helping to clean the Wendy house.

Please view the blog and the website for details of how the layout was made.

From the kit, I used:
Mintay Papers - Photographer collection  #05
Stamperia - Alterego collection - Turquoise Wallpaper
Stamperia - Create Happiness collection - Dewdrops - Wood
Cocoa Vanilla foam stickers
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Cinnamon Stick

From my stash, I used:
Distress Inks
Filmstrip washi tape
Tiny letter stickers
3D foam pads
Cheesecloth
Wooden house, numbers and key
Tim Holtz Sizzix Tag collection set
Water drops.
 

That's all for today. Back with the next layout tomorrow.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x