All Dressed Up

Here is my last layout using the Papermaze kit for February. This time I have used the teal / turquoise / aqua papers together with the Echo Park, Coffee and Friends - Whiteboard paper.

The photos show my daughter and her husband ready to go to a friend's evening wedding reception.

Please see the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog for process details.

From the Kit I used:
Echo Park Coffee and Friends collection - Letterboard
Simple Stories - Apron Strings collection - Live Love Eat & What's For Dinner
American Crafts - Vicki Boutin - Storyteller collection - Bohemian
Prima flower
Websters mini alphabet stickers
strip of black gems

From my own stash I used:
Dylusions Black Marble and White Linen Ink spray

white cardstock
small paper flowers
pearl stamen
Evergreen Bough Distress Ink
Ribbon
Tim Holtz, Handmade Sizzix BigzXL die
Ebony Black Nuvo Crystal Drops
Gloss Simply White Nuvo Crystal Nuvo Drops
Turquoise Stickles

That's all for the February kit, although I still have plenty more paper and other bits left, so I may make more at a later date. Off to start work on the March kit now!

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Beautiful Beach

Here is my third layout using the Papermaze kit for February. This time I have used the teal / turquoise / aqua papers and Vanessa's exclusive Cutfile from the kit.

The photo for this layout was taken on our first trip to the Western Isles, the beaches are beautiful beaches look tropical. This is on Harris - Seilebost Beach.

 

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

From the Kit I used:
Vanilla and Blue Ocean Bazzill
American Crafts - Vicki Boutin - Storyteller collection - Bohemian
'BEAUTIFUL' Papermaze exclusive cutfile
Webster's  tiny alpha stickers
Dew drops

 

From my own stash I used:
TCW stencil
Ranger's Transparent Gloss Texture Paste
Distress Oxide Ink (Evergreen Bough)
Distress Paints
Distress Stain
cheesecloth
white card 
3D foam tape
Stampendous Frantage Aged Teal Embossing Enamel
translucent teal embossing powder
glass nuggets
cork pieces
tiny shells
gems

Back tomorrow with the last of this set of layouts.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Garden Girls

A photo I recently converted from colour slide of my mother and me in the garden at home in Beckenham about 1963.

This was my second Scrapology Design Team layout for this month's challenge. It was made in a similar way to the first but I used papers from the Webster's Pages 'Park Drive' collection, white Bazzill and green sewing thread.

I added a lot of flowers and leaves all from Wild Orchid Crafts. The butterflies are cut with a Martha Stewart punch. My title is a green chipboard Thickers alphabet from American Crafts.

I also used some deep white cotton crochet lace and some clear dew drops.
The challenge was to use hand stitching and we are scraplifting this pretty, fresh looking layout by Delaina Farr Burns. 

This is out sketch.

Please pop over to Scrapology for details of the challenge and the prize.

Thanks for looking Lynn x

Playtime

Here is the layout I taught at the Cardinal Colours Crop yesterday.

 

The photo she me in the garden with my mother and sister in 1963.

For the page I used:

Webster's Park Drive Collection - Margaret, Picnic and Snacks
Silver Flourish Frame (Stampin' Up) & 10  tiny brads
  White crochet lace
Pink organza rose ribbon (Maya Road)
Pink dew drops
Flat backed, self adhesive  pearls
Paper doily
Black Bazzill Cardstock

I used a Martha Stewart deep edge punch for the lacy pink edge
Stampin' Up Decorative Label punch which fits inside the Flourish Frame

The Sizzix with the Tattered Flower Garland Sizzlets die with a strip 2" x 12" of each of the 3 papers plus some extra green leaves QuicKutz and the Lucy alphabet dies for the title.

Thanks for looking, and if any of the ladies who attended the class would like to send me an image of their page I would love to add them to this post for everyone to share.

Lynn x

C.S.I. #31 - Down By The Sea

I recently came across the C.S.I. (Colour Stories, Inspiration) challenge blog and I love the concept and the clever colour combinations. I wanted to have a go but haven't had much time, however I have a few days away at the moment so decided to give challenge 31 a try last night (with 24 hours to go to the closing date and time and very limited supplies). It did make me use papers from different collections and manufacturers together, which I must admit I don't often do.

 

My photo shows me on the beach with my Nan and Suzie the corgi in about 1962, and is scanned from a colour slide. I think it is Woolacombe in Cornwall but will check when I go home. Someone (Mum or Dad I expect had built some sand castles and written my mane in shells. 

My journalling reads:

Memories of childhood seaside holidays

* My Nan always came on holiday with us

* Suzie the dog on the beach

*The multi-coloured rubber bucket

* Someone writing my name in shells

* Building sandcastles

* That skirt with bunnies on!

Here is the inspirational case file #31

THE EVIDENCE FROM WHICH YOU NEED TO CHOOSE AT LEAST 2 ELEMENTS

I have highlighted in pink the elements I chose to include, and what I used:

wood/woodgrain

liquid medium (paint, mist, etc.) - Cosmic Shimmer Mists in Blue Lime and Mallow Blush and Colorbox Chalk Ink in Deep Lagoon.

distressing, 

Use repetition of an element.

umbrella accents

furniture accents

circles (inspired by the stools) - Large ring circle cut on the Cricut with George & Basic Shapes cartridge, EK Success deep border punch - scalloped border with circles, Echo Park dots and stripes paper in Peony.

Use a solid background (inspired by the cloudless sky) - White Bazzill

Include parallel lines (inspired by the pier railing) - Echo Park Dots and Stripes papers in Peony and Robin's Egg

I also used:

Magnolia Ink - Butterfly Dreams - Butterfly Kisses paper
Pink Paislee - Spring Jubilee - Celebration paper
Bazzil in a colour unknown to match the Caribbean Sea element

Martha Stewart Frond Punch

Cricut for Tags using same cart.

Star buttons

Flat backed Pearls

Lace daisies

Blossoms for a child's hairband

Pleased ribbon from Webster's Pages

Ribbon

American Crafts Thickers for title - Lovely foam rubber stickers by Any Tangerine

THE TESTIMONY FROM WHICH YOU NEED TO CHOOSE AT LEAST 1 ELEMENT

Again I have highlighted in pink the elements I have included. 
Document a vacation.

Write your journaling in the form of an itinerary (doesn't have to actually be about a vacation).

This photo is called "Key West Umbrellas." Begin your journaling with, "The key to ___ is..."

Use repetition in your journaling.

Add something to the top of your journaling spot, sort of like an umbrella or canopy.

Inspiration Words: colour, bright, vacation -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title.

THE COLOURS  - YOU NEED TO USE ALL 5

Island Sky - cyan blue, taken from the second table

Tropical Sunshine - bright yellow, taken from the first table

Key Lime - chartreuse, taken from the umbrellas

Paradise Pink - Persian pink, (a shade lighter than Barbie pink, but the same kind of color, taken from the first pink stool

Caribbean Sea - bright teal blue, taken from the shadowy part of the cyan stool

THE COORDINATES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD IF YOU WANT THEM

The deadline for completing Case File No. 31

is Sunday, August 12, 11:59 p.m. EST.

I have had great fun scrapping this layout and look forward to doing the next challenge when I can get a few more items of stash together.

Thanks for looking.

Eliza Sharp

This formidable looking character is called Eliza Sharp and she is a distant relative born in 1836. I discovered her through my family tree research via Genes Reunited and was sent this photograph.

I decided to make a layout with the photo as my page for the Scrapology Design Team this month.

We are scraplifting this delightful layout by 2Dogs

I used Webster's Pages - Everyday Poetry collection - die cut, Glorious Day and Little Bird Told Me.

and a piece of brown lace trim from the same collection

And this is what I did:

With the die cut paper and Douglas Fir Bazzill, I cut and added strips of cardstock around the edges and trimmed them with scallop edge scissors.  

I cut images from patterned papers, choosing all the cages, 2 butterflies, the bird, blossom branch and the butterfly chart.

From the rest of the Little Bird paper I cut 2 circles – 4” and 5”. Then I cut 2 more circles from Scout Card about 1.5” bigger than the others. I used a Martha Stewart corner punch to decorate the Scout circles, creating a lacy edge.  

I inked the circles and mounted paper circles onto card circles then placed them on to the layout where required. I mounted the photo over larger circle.

I stuck a 3” strip of lace to the top left corner and ‘hung’ a cage from it – using 3D foam pads to attach to the layout. Then added the other cages to the bottom right of the layout. Then I arranged the other items to the page. 

For each net bow, I took a 12” piece of netting and tie in a bow and stick to the page with glue.I cut the lettering with Cricut and stuck to layout.

Finally I decorate the lettering and scalloped border with the mint green liquid pearls, adding little dots to create the effect of a pearl swirl over the top right of the photo and onto the layout.

some close up photos:

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The second bow. 

For more information please go the the 'N is for Netting' post on the Scrapology Blog.

The challenge runs until 5th September.

Thanks for Looking
Lynn x