It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas

Today the second pair of layouts made with the seasonal December Papermaze Kit went up on the Papermaze Blog. Here is the first of them, showing Catherine and I were given tickets to go to a Christmas craft fair at the O2 in London, we had a great day out together.

From this kit I used:
Kraft snowflake tag
5 wooden stars
Echo Park - Jingle All The Way collection - 6 x 4 Journalling Cards
Bazzill Basics Cardstock -  Dark Kraf


From my own stash I used:
Picket Fence Distress Ink
Distress Texture Paste
Carta Bella Snow Much Fun stencil
Tim Holtz Layering Stencil THS003
Fawn jute ribbon
Sizzix Thinlits Woodlands set
white vellum
Uni-ball Signo Broad white pen
snowflake eyelet
Baker's twine
white foam, glitter numbers
Happy Life foam letter stickers
old white letter stickers

punched white snowflakes
sequins, gems, pearls
Nuvo Crystal and Glitter Drops.

Back with another layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Autumn At Abbeywood

My second pair of layouts using the November Papermaze kit are live on the blog today. This very pretty kit is available from the shop or online. Here id the first of these two layouts.
My daughter's home backs on to the beautiful Abbeywood near London, and these photos were taken when her friend came to visit (Kit and Cat!).

Please see the Papermaze blog for more details of this layout.
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Yukon Gold & Nixon
Cocoa Vanilla Studio - These Days collection - Day Break
Dew Drops
PFS chipboard flair

From my stash I used:
Forest Moss Distress Oxide Ink
Eyelets
Jute Twine
Jute ribbon
Tim Holtz - Sizzix Thinlits - Alphanumeric Varsity
Cocoa Vanilla - These Days mini puffy alpha stickers
Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits set - this time - Skeleton Leaves.

 
Thanks for looking
More tomorrow
Lynn x

Awesome

Her is the second of my layouts using the bright and colourful kit for the month of August, is now available from Papermaze.

This photo was taken of my daughter and her husband on their honeymoon in Bali, The beautiful scenery was ideal for this Vicki Boutin Color Study collection.

I used:
American Crafts - Vicki Boutin's Color Study collection - Palette
Bazzill Basics cardstock - Kachina
foam glitter word

From my stash I used:
Distress Stain (Brushed Pewter and Peacock Feathers)
Distress Paint (Black Soot and Picket Fence)
cheesecloth
jute twine
cake decorating mould
Lite Fimo clay
Distress Inks
metallic gilding wax
Prills
Doodlebug Designs - All Mixed Up - Beetle Black - Tiny Alpha Rubons

That's all for today, I will be back with more from this kit soon
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Josephine and Keith

I am very late getting this layout blogged! It was created at last July's Papermaze Crop, and was designed by Janina.

I chose to use an old black and white photograph from my Uncle Keith's wedding to Josephine  in 1956.

Supplied in the kit for this page - Stamperia papers, Natural Bazzill, flowers, wooden heart chipboard brickwork, vanilla dew drops, jute and twine. I added a few more flowers from my stash. 

Available at the crop to complete the layout was 49 & Market stamps, Martha Stewart border punch, wreath die.

I decided to add my title with a brush and ink.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Norfolk Lavender - October Papermaze Crop

Here is the layout I designed for the October Papermaze Crop last weekend. For details of the crops please see the shop site.

The photo was taken at Norfolk Lavender back in 1995 when the children were three years old, and we spent several holidays on the North Norfolk coast.

For this layout I selected papers from Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Botanicals collection.
I used Distress Oxide Ink pads, an old gardening book from a secondhand book shop,
Stamper’s Anonymous stamp sets - Flower Garden & Nature Walk and jute twine. 

I had fun making this layout, and seeing others make their version of the design. It was another successful crop day at Otley Village Hall.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

My Nan

This post brings me up-to-date with the Papermaze crop kit layouts, as this is the project for July. 
The photo I used is of my daughter Catherine with my Mum at my nephew's Christening in 1993. As this is for Catherine's album - it's called 'My Nan'. Each of the four tags on this layout were decorated with different techniques.

 

The products used are:

Bazzill cardstock
Pebbles Simple Life collection papers
Lace, flowers, Baker's teine, jute twine and washi tape
Nuvo drops, Frantage Embossing Enamel, Distress Inks, various dies and punches.

Here is Vanessa's lovely original design.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x