Swiss Cottage

Here is the layout I designed for today's Papermaze Crop, based on a layout I made years ago for Scrapology. The photo shows my girls enjoying a visit to Osborne House on the Isle of Wight.

Kit Content:
12” x 12” Quartz Bazzill
12” x 12” White Smooth Bazzill
4” x 6” Black Bazzill
12” x 6” Websters Pages – These Are The Days  - Daily Essentials
Buttons
40cm Stranded Cotton

Other items used:
Black & Pink Distress Oxide Ink
Flower Dies

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Bathtime Fun

Here is my answer to the Peartree Cutfile January challenge 'Blue'.  The idea is to create a layout with Blue as the main colour. I chose to scrap this photo of the children at bathtime.

I used this Rainbrops cutfile, cutting it three times in matt silver cardstock, and once in blue glitter card.

Other items:
3D foam pads
Spellbinders, Say Cheese, Classic Mickey, Alphabet die set
Glitter Card in light and bark blue
A sheet of patterned paper, with wavy edges from my stash (not sure what make)
Doodlebug Designs Puffy Alphabet Soup Letter Sitckers - Blue Jean
Doodlebug Designs Teensy Type cardstock stickers - Blue Jean
Cricut

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Paradise

Today was the Papermaze crop and I designed the crop kit layout this month. This time I used some summery, tropical papers from the shop to created a layout with photos from my daughter's honeymoon.

Kit Content:
12” x 12” Vicki Boutin – Sweet Rush - Under the Palms
12” x 12” Kiwi Crush Bazzill
12” x 12” Smooth White Bazzill
3” x 12” Jillibean Soup – Bohemian Brew – Calm
3” x 12” Heidi Swapp – Sunchaser – Sunshine
A4 white card
Selection of black gems

Prepare all the papers:
- Cut the detail strip from the base of the paper, and trim into 4 pieces. Gut a piece about 4”
   x 4” from the centre of the Under The Palms paper. This will give you about 8 orange slices
   to fussy cut, and set aside for later.
- Using the templates, cut a 9” circle from the Kiwi Crush Bazzill, and another - 8.75” circle,   
   from the White Bazzill.
- Die cut a selection of flowers in different colours from the boldly Striped side of the
   Sunshine paper. You should get 2 larger flowers and one small flower from each band of
   colour.
- From the remains of the Kiwi Crush Bazzill, die cut at least 6 leaf fronds and the letters for
   your title (using your own choice of dies). 

With the Distress Oxide ink. and the VB Stencil, stencil the pattern to the top right and bottom left of the White Bazzill circle. Distress the outer edge of the circle and stick to the Kiwi Crush Bazzill circle.

Place the Clam paper (choose which side up), across the middle of the Under the Palms paper. Arrange the circle onto the layout. 

Mount your photos onto the white card to make a fine border. Arrange the photos across the middle of the page, stick in place, but don’t glue the edges down, allowing room to tuck elements underneath later. Using the four sections cut from the details strip, place these above and below the Calm paper band, to shoe the fern leaves. 

Arrange the orange slices, leaves and flowers around the circle and photos. Once happy with your arrangement, glue into place. Add your title to the top of the circle, and journaling to the bottom of the circle. Finally pop the gems onto the flower centres.

Lynn Cooper for www.papermaze.co.uk 2025

thanks for looking
Lynn x

It's A Girl Thing!

today I have a new post on the Papermaze Blog, featuring the summery August kit. It is available to buy from the store and online. Here is the first of the layouts in that post, the photos here show four generations of females in our family. 



For the details on making the layout please see the blog. 

From the kit, I used:
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Fussy, Aqua, Granny Smith, Tangelo, Pollen and Coconut Swirl 
Echo Park - Have a Great Summer collection - Best Life Butterflies
Doodlebug Designs - Butterfly Kisses collection - Garden Party
Lawn Fawn - Bitsy Blooms collection - Begonia
Doodlebug Designs cupcake doily

From my own stash, I used:
Distress Inks
White Cardstock
Doodlebug Designs Foam Stamps 'Simply Sweet' 
Black acrylic paint
Doodlebug Designs Rub-ons 'All Mixed Up' Large, Medium and Small Beetle Black
Doodlebug Designs Sew-Easy Rub-on Stitches
Bazzill Scraps
Leaf and flower dies

I'll be back with the last layout from this kit tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Peartree's 5th Birthday Celebrations: Challenge Two - Year Six

Here is my layout for Peartree's 5th Birthday Celebrations: Challenge Two. This challenge is to use 5 of the same shape or word on your page I have used a cutfile that has 3 Giant Crayons. I cut this twice to give me six crayons and trimmed one off!

For the border, I used a sheet of Doodlebug Designs Fruit Strand - Apple a Day paper, gutting this to give me a 1! border. I trimmed down a sheet of Smooth White Bazzill to 10.5" x 10.5". 
I flicked Distress inks of several colours over this white space. 

I cut the Giant Pencil cutfile twice from Black Bazzill, and then backed it with scraps of coloured Bazzill Cardstock. I also used some silver card for the metal bands on the pencils.

I arranged the pencils on the layout, mounted my photo onto white card, and placed that onto the page too.

For the title, I used the Spellbinders - Simple Stories - Say Cheese, Classic Mouse, Alphabet Dies. I cut the numbers and letters in black, then in coloured cardstock. 

 

That's all for today, thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Central Park - Alice in Wonderland Sculpture

Today was the Papermaze crop, and here is my layout made with this month's kit, designed by Vanessa. I had some papers left over so made a birthday card with the scraps.

My layout shows a photo of the Alice in Wonderland Sculpture in Central Park, from our holiday there back in 2015.

The kit contained:
12" x 12" 49 & Market - Wanderlust Explorer - Expedition Tale
6" x 6" 49 & Market - Wanderlust Explorer - Voyage Log
6" x 12" Maggie Holmes - Pretty Picnic - #4
6" x 2" Maggie Holmes - Marker Square - Very Berry
6" x 4" 49 & Market - Colour Swatch Peach - #4
12" x 12" Almond Cream Bazzill
piece of Cinnamon Bazzill for title
5" Lace

To share
Distress Ink
Border Punchs
Mixed Media Die

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Sweetheart

Saturday was crop day at Papermaze, and Vanessa had designed the crop layout kit this month.
It's a great design for February being the month of Valentine's day.

Here is my version, showing my baby granddaughter at her sensory group - Love Bug themed session.



The kit contained:
Bazzill White and Carrot Cake
Simple Stories - Hearts Eyes - Kissing Booth
Pieces of pink and teal patterned papers
Heart sequins
Sheet of old Bazzill to make a heart template

Tools and media available at the crop to share:
Distress Oxide Inks
Border punch
Alphabet die

My additions:
Nuvo Glitter Drops

Here is Vanessa's original layout:

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

A Grand Day Out

I made this layout for the September Papermaze Crop Kit. Using my current favourite collection - Spectrum Sherbert from 49 & Market. Two photos of a recent trip to Kew Gardens and a wonderful day out with my daughter.

The kit contains:
12x12 49 & Market - Spectrum Sherbet – Butterfly Flight
12x12 49 & Market – Spectrum Sherbet – Speckled
2 eyelets
30cm Green Apple Divine Twine

Also availbale for use at the crop:
Sizzix Bigz Die - Picture Wheel
Sizzix Sizzlit Decorative Strip Die - mini filmstrip and tickets
Sizzix Thinlit die - Doily
Leaf frond die
Tab punch
Tag punch
Nuvo Glitter Drops

From my stash for the title
Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlit Alphanumeric die sets Bold and Label
sizzix

Thanks for looking
Lynn x