Day Out to London

 

I'm on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog today with the first two of my layouts using the new Papermaze kit for February. A very bright, cheery and colourful collection. Ideal papers and embellishments for St. Valentine's Day as well as other occasions. Here is my first layout.

A Day Out to London - This paper said 'retro' to me, so I chose a photo of me in the 1970's with my flared jeans and large collared shirt. I was taking my little brother to London for the day.

From the kit I used:

American Crafts - Jen Hadfield - Stardust collection - Lucky Charm
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Bazzill White, Apricot & Princess Pink

From my stash I used:
Black embroidery floss
Black Bazzill
Black marker pen
Cricut
Retro Font

I'll be back with the second layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Good Luck and Farewell Amanda!

The lovely Amanda is leaving work to relocate with her family back in Ireland where she first came from. We are really going to miss our Medical Secretary, but wish her well in her chosen new life.

I made a card for everyone in our office to sign - it's A4 and has several pages full of signatures and good wishes inside.

I decided to use my new Cricut Explore and the Word Collage Cartridge, together with the 'Draw Image' tool and a gold gel pen on dark green Bazzill cardstock.

The Shamrock was made with eight hearts punched from a lighter shade of green Bazzill cardstock and the Stampin' Up heart punch.

The font for 'Amanda' was 'Billionaire' from a selection on my computer and in gold Miri card. I welded the letters so they were joined. The letters for 'Good Luck' were cut with the 'Boys will be Boys' cartridge in white Bazzill cardstock.

I added a green heart button, some baker's twine and a rainbow of colours created with flat-backed pearls.

I wish you all the best Amanda, and hope to visit you one day.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

The Boy Who Bakes

Andrew enjoys baking and my Mum gave him a cookery book for his recent birthday, called The Boy Who Bakes by Edd Kimber. My sister was looking through it with him and said she liked the Apple Pie Cake, so he agreed to make it for her birthday just two weeks later. He made the cake in advance but had to make the filling and topping at the last minute. The cake looked great when complete and we set of to her birthday lunch. After a few sudden stops in the car the cake started to look rather sorry for itself! He almost had to rebuild it at Sylvia's house. However it tasted lovely. I thought it deserved a layout of it's own.

I saw a great layout by Kelly Goree a while ago called 'Life is a Beach', created for Basic Grey's new PB&J papers. I have used her layout as a basis for this one of Andrew and his cake.

I used the Basic Grey Periphery collection - papers and letter stickers.

I trimmed the Syrah paper panels with a Martha Stewart border punch. The Big 3 3/4" letters spelling 'BAKES' were cut using my Cricut and the 'Sure Cuts A Lot' programme, the font is Cafe Rojo. I have added some stickles in dots to these letters.

For the geometric design at the bottom, I played around with different sizes until I worked out what would make up the block to fit along the bottom of the layout. The circles are 2 1/2" and the squares inside them are 1 3/4". I inked the circles added the squares to the centre of the back of each one and folded the sides in. so the pattern on the front shows around the square.these were then stuck onto a base piece of paper  cut to 3 1/2" x 10 1/2" before being mounted onto the layout. If making these shapes with double sided papers, you would not need to cut the squares.

The journaling was written on strips of patterned paper and added over the circles/squares.

This was a good fun layout to create, thanks for looking.

Lynn x