Capital Yacht Club

A new post went live on the Papermaze Blog yesterday, with the new kit for the new year. The January kit is now available in the shop or on the website. Plenty of wintery papers, embellishments and cardstock to create Christmas, new year and winter themed layouts. Here is the second layout I made using this kit.

The photos on this layout were taken in Washington DC at the yacht club on the bank of the Potomac River. A very cold, crisp but sunny winter day.

Please see how the layout was made, by heading over to the Papermaze Blog.

From the kit, I used:
Echo Park - Cool Wood Grains - Pale Wood Grain
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Fresh Snow - Chasing Snowflakes
49 & Market Color Swatch Inkwell - Ticket Essentials
Bazzill Basics Cardstock: Pigment, Moody Blue

From my stash, I used:
Funky Nordic Sizzix Thinlits die set
Foam pads
Tag Collection Sizzix Thinlits die set
Baker's twine
Basic Grey Alphabet Stickers - Aged and Confused and Blitzen
Authentique Sticker sheet
Water droplets
Pinkfresh Studio Jewels

That's all for today, I will be back with another pair of layouts from the January kit soon.
Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

Island Hopping

My second pair of layouts using the July Papermaze Kit went live on the blog today and the kit is available in the shop and online. Featuring greens, blues, white and a touch of yellow papers and cardstock. A pretty and useful selection of embellishments are also included.

Island Hopping - This layout shows photos of our sailing holiday last year.

 

From the kit I used:
American Crafts - Maggie Holmes - Round Trip -  Documented
American Crafts - Paige Evans - Splendid - #10
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - White
Authentique Petite Type alpha stickers
tag

From my stash I used:
Vicki Boutin Color Study Stencil
Clear Embossing Ink 
clear embossing powder
Distress Oxide Ink Pads (Chipped Sapphire, Salvaged Patina and Mermaid Lagoon)
Light and navy-blue jute twine
3D pads
eyelet
Glittery foam letter stickers 

Back with my last layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Happy Soul

I chose this photo of My daughter on holiday in Lindos this summer for a friend's weddingfor this layout. It is my second page using the Papermaze Kit for the month of July.

From The Kit I used:
American Crafts - Vicki Boutin - Sweet Rush - Garden Variety & Sprinkles
American Crafts - Paige Evans - Splendid -  #16
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Parakeet & Jetstream
Authentique Petite Type alpha stickers

From my stash I used:
Technique Tuesday Template
Stormy Sky Distress Ink
Pearl swirl
Gems
VB Storyteller Puffy Phrase Stickers
Nuvo Glitter Drops - Blue Lagoon
Leaf die

That's all for part 1, I'll be back with more soon
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Holiday Memories

My first layout using the delightful Papermaze Kit for the month of July. Some wonderful patterned papers, Bazzill cardstock and a selection of embellishments including an exclusive honeycomb piece cut from chipboard. The photo shows my son on an early outing to Snape.

From the kit I used:
American Crafts - Vicki Boutin - Sweet Rush -  Sprinkles
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - White & Whirlpool
Authentique Petite Type alpha stickers
exclusive chipboard honeycomb
tags

From my stash I used:
Blueprint Sketch and Twisted Citron Distress Ink.
Distress Paints - Cracked Pistachio, Blueprint Sketch, Picket Fence and Twisted Citron
Hexagon Layers dies from Memory Box
3D foam pads
Jute Twine
Dew Drops (Clear, Aqua and Green)
Nuvo Crystal Drops (Simply White Gloss, Apple Green Gloss and Caribbean Ocean)

That's all for today I'll be back with more tomorrow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Girl Guide

Challenge 5 in the Peartree Cutfile January Online Crop, was set by Lorraine Morris. Lorraine challenged us to use more than one photo on a page. I decided to ues these three photos take of me back in 1975. I was about to be awared my Queen's Guide Award and Dad took me into the garden to take these photos with my sister's guinea pig 'Fella'. I have written my memories from this day on the back of the layout.

I used some old papers from Authentique.
Red and Blue Bazzill
Nuvo Crystal Drops
Basic Grey number stickers
Bakers Twine
Sizzix Bigz XL Handmade Alphabet die
Funky foam
Eyelets
Chipped Sapphire Distress Ink

I used this cutfile:

This is Lorraine's original layout:

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Lincoln Memorial

Another layout for the Washington DC album, and another challenge page. This was also fro the Bramfield Monthly Crop 'Anything Goes' challenge. This time I used two photos from our visit to the Lincoln Memorial.





 
I used:
Authentique - Genuine - True for the background
SVG file and Cricut
White Bazzill
Distress Inks
Scraps of Maja Designs papers
Sizzix BIGZ XL alphabet die

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Holly Fairy

Happy New Year! - Here is my fifth Christmas layout made with the December Papermaze kit. This kit has proved to be amazing value for money, I have just added an extra sheet of Bazzill. To purchase the kit and have a look at the other products please see the new Papermaze shop website. The step by step of how to make the layout is on the Scrap Paper Scissors blog.

This layout was made to celebrate the costume Emily and I made for her to wear for Book Week in the year 2000.

Items I used from the kit:
Mocha Divine and Safari Bazzill
Simple Stories - Holly Jolly collection - Home for the Holidays & Cozy Christmas
Authentique - Rejoice collection - Rejoice #22
self adhesive domes 

From my stash I used:
A sheet of cream cardstock
Martha Stewart PATP Cherish punch set
Green DMC Thread 
Sizzix Holiday Greens Thinlits set
Sizzix Bigz XL Handmade alphabet die 
Versamark Ink 
Stampendous Frantage Shabby White Embossing Enamel
Crystal Stickles 
Distress Oxide Ink in Forest Green and Aged Mahogany

There is just one more layout to share from this kit, back tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

2015 Christmas Lego - Gingerbread House

Today I'm back with my third Christmas layout made with the December Papermaze kit. To purchase the kit have a look at the great new shop website, you will find all the products used on my post, and much, much more.  Details of how the layout was made can be found on the Scrap Paper Scissors blog.

This layout using the Mistletoe Kisses SVG file from Pink Fresh Studio, shows photos of a Christmas Lego project my big kids enjoyed building - Christmas eve 2015.

From the kit I used:Kaisercraft - Enchanted collection - Imagine 
Simple Stories - Holly Jolly collection - Cozy Christmas
Authentique - Rejoice collection - Rejoice #22Fawn, Buttermint & Safari Bazzill



From my own stash:
Fired Brick Distress Inks3D foam padsPink Fresh Studio Mini Puffy Alpha Stickers - Just a Little Lovely.
Bigz XL Alphabet Sizzix die WonderlandCrystal Stickles & Xmas Red Stickles
Chipboard 'Merry Christmas'
Glossy Accents

I still have plenty of papers left so will be back with three more layouts soon.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Merry Christmas Cousins

Merry Christmas - This layout features a photograph of my daughter Catherine, having breakfast with her cousins on Christmas Eve when she was doing Panto in Bromley in 2017.
This layout is the first of six I have created for the Papermaze DT for December.

For full details of how the layout was made please see the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog.

From the kit I used:
Simple Stories - Jolly Holly collection - Cosy ChristmasAuthentique - Rejoice #22
Butter Mints and Safari Bazzill Papermaze exclusive star stencil
Glittery chipboard star

From my stash I used: Distress Oxide Ink Pads - Aged Mahogany, Fired Brick, Peeled Paint and Crushed Olive.
red dew dropsPebbles - Merry, Merry puffy stickers
Gold and white paper straw
Tim Holtz Ideology Quote Chip
Yellow star pins.
Sizzix Thinlit set - Retro Merry Christmas
Glossy Accents.
Crystal Stickles


Back with more soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Bubbles and Lucy

Some time ago I made a page about the day we took Heather and Nicholas and their children to Jambs Owls. I made a layout for Hannah, so here is one for her sister, Lucy. There is one to follow for Oliver too. 

When I saw this feathery paper called 'Wander Always' from Vicki Boutin's Field Notes collection (American Crafts), I knew it would be ideal for this layout. The grid paper was from the same collection and is called 'Collect and Document'. I also used some scraps of Authentique - Sea Maiden 7 and Kaisercraft's Anthology - Herbs.


I fussy cut some of the feathers to arrange along the bottom of the photos. The moths were cut from another Field Notes paper 'Take Flight'.

My tag was cut from scraps of Basic Grey paper using a Tim Holtz - Sizzix - Thinlits die. The other dies I used were also from Sizzix - Bright Bubbles and Paper Cuts Alphabet. I tied some jute twine onto the tag and a small silver owl charm.

Over the die cut bubbles I attached some clear watch crystals and added some dots of Diamond Glaze. I cut some bingo cards from Kaisercraft's Pen and Ink collection - Stamps paper. Finally I added a little glitters to the feathers with Stickles.

Thanks for looking, back with Oliver's page soon.
Lynn x

30 Today!

Here is a layout of my sister when she was celebrating her 30th birthday. I made this with the  beautiful June Papermaze kit. 

Please see the Papermaze Blog to see how the page was made and what materials were used.

See you next time, thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Happy Ever After

Happy Ever After is the first of my layouts for the Papermaze Blog using the June Kit, which is now available in the shop to purchase. Please see the blog to see what is included in the kit and how I made the layout. This one makes part of the album for my daughter's wedding album.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Treetops

Here is the second layout from my Design Team blog post created earlier this month.  I made the layouts using the Papermaze May Monthly Kit. Such a delightful selection of colours, papers, cardstock and colours as always. If you wish to buy a kit and it is out of stock - please call the shop as I know Vanessa is waiting for more stock to come in. 

This layout was about my daughter and her fiancé on the day they got the keys to their own home. I used plenty of the cardstock for this page as well as a lot of left over patterned papers. Please see the blog for full details on how I made the page and what products from the kit I used. 

Thanks for looking

Lynn x 

Brighton Rock

Earlier this month I created two layouts using the Papermaze May Monthly Kit for my Design Team blog post. This was the second post using this lovely kit.

Here is one of those layouts, using a photo of my daughter in a sweet shop in Brighton, we were visiting my son and doing the Sea Dog trail in December 2016. 

I loved the colours and the quilted pattern of the Beginnings Four paper from Authentique and so made a wide border with it. I also liked the pink brick work side of the Kaisercraft So Amazing paper. I had fun creating the bunting with Baker's twine and aa selection of embellishments from the kit and my stash.
For full details on what I used and how I made the page please see the Papermaze blog. 

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Christmas Crop Cards

Over on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog, I have written a post all about the make and take we did at our Christmas Crop. We made special Christmas cards using a Kaisercreaft Card Creations Die and papers from the delightful, Authentique - Colourful Christmas Collection.
Please go over to the blog to read how they were made. 

To add sparkle to the project I introduced the use of Creative Expressions - Cosmic Shimmer - Glitter Kiss .  Please see Julie's review of this product from earlier this year.

Here are a few made from the same paper collection.

Thanks for looking & Merry Christmas
Lynn x

Christmas Cutie

Today I am sharing a Christmas layout I made using my 2016 Christmas Crop Kit from Papermaze. I only made it last weekend but knew just the photo for it. Sunny hiding in the Christmas tree, he is Robert and Elaine's cat and the photo was taken when he arrived at their flat as a tiny kitten just over a year ago.

Tha papers are from Echo Park's I Love Christmas collection and Authentique's Classic Christmas collection Most of the items used are in the kit and are available from The Papermaze shop. I added some Kraft Bazzill cardstock and gold letter stickers I have had in my stash forever!

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

52 Christmas Crackers 2014 - Week 45

Catching up with the blogging of my cards - The inspiration for this week's Christmas card is all things botanical. 

Please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog for details of the challenge.

Here is my card:

Here is the inspiration image:

Natty said:

"I loved the look of this illustration and well, there are so many botanical aspects to it that you could incorporate into cardmaking. From autumnal leaves, winter greenery and berries, colourful spring flowers and delicate summer blooms. So much to choose from!"

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I used patterned papers and stickers by Authentique - Festive collection
Sticker picture by Penny Black
Gems and Stickles for sparkle

Distress Ink

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Mr & Mrs Wiliams

I have my Papermaze Crop Kit layout from October to show you today. When I say Vanessa's design and choice of papers I knew it was just right for another Heritage layout.

My photo is the wedding of my great aunt (my grandfather's older sister) Winifred Freda Holder and Henry (Harry) Williams in 1915.

In the kit:
Patterned papers - Kaisercraft - Be-YOU-tiful collection, Prima - Sunrise-Sunset, Authentique - Gifted & Simple Stories - Good Day Sunshine
Bazzill Avalanche
White Vellum
Doily
Flower
Lace
Eyelets
Twine

We used: Punches and dies at the crop

I added a title with Prima letter stickers, and some liquid pearls to the swirl.

Here is Vanessa's original layout:

Thanks for the crop kit and thanks for looking.
Lynn x