The Coopers Canvas

At the Cardinal Colours Spring Weekend Crop I took Anita's super canvas class. Please see Anita's blog for more details. As always an excellent value for money class with some lovely ideas. The papers were My Mind's Eye and the canvas was 16" square.

Here is my finished canvas followed by a few close up shots to show the different techniques involved.

The photos were from a professional studio where we attended for a family photo shoot in 2003.

The colours of this layout are prefect in my dining room.

Thanks once again for a brilliant class Anita.

Looking forward to the next weekend in September.

Up On Top Of The World

The photo of Alan and me used here was taken by Catherine, when we visited the Battlesbridge Antiques Centre, Essex a few years ago (2008). We were having a break from browsing the different units within the converted old granary building, right at the very top, with a welcome cuppa!

Battlesbridge has over 80 dealers housed in a variety of old buildings and courtyards. They are just off the A130 on the banks of the River Crouch, midway between Chelmsford and Southend. They buy and sell a wide range of antiques, collectables, crafts, architectural items, garden ornaments, fireplaces and reproductions. With valuation, restoration and interior design services.

I purchased and used these new Basic Grey Plumeria papers from from Jill at Cardinal Colours on the same day! I used papers (Flowerset for the background, Cleopatra for the mat and purple circle and Velvet Bloom for flowers), element stickers and alphabet stickers.

 I added a few tiny letter stickers from My Little Shoebox for 'of the'.

The dandelion was created with part of a larger Woodware Stamp (grasses).

I also used a Martha Stewart corner punch for the lacy circle and the photo corners.

The papers were distressed with a Making Memories distressing tool and inked with chalk inks.

The flowers are made by dismantling some earrings from Primark, and some paper wired roses.

Lots of stickles, perfect pearls and flat backed pearls.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Happy Birthday Emily!

Here is the card I made Emily for her 20th birthday. Coloured to suit her current hair colour and ever present love of books!

I'm entering this card into the Kraftin' Kimmie challenge #123 - Tag Time!

I used a new stamp from Kraftin' Kimmie - Priscilla - purchased from Quixotic Paperie.

Punches - Woodware,Stampin' Up

Greeting stamp - Lili of the Valley

Papers - Bo Bunny - Garden Girl

Letter sticker tags - Doodlebug Designs

Promarkers

Cricut for tags

Gems, chalk ink, perfect pearls and ribbon.

Happy Birthday Emily !

Sweet Nothings

Happy Easter Everyone!

Last weekend we gathered at Stone Cross for the Cardinal Colours Spring Weekend Crop. On the Sunday I taught my Sweet Nothings Class.

Here is the page I designed:

The bride is Vicki who married my nephew Mark last summer.

I drew a sketch from my layout

The kit contained -
1 sheet Patterned paper Kaiser Craft - Sweet Nothings – Silver lining,
1 sheet Bazzill Cardstock – Saguaro,
1m x 6mm Olive satin ribbon,
Woodware Chippies – die cut chipboard alphabet,
3 Pre-made cream crochet flowers and 1 butterfly (4ply Patons Fairytale Dreamer – pure wool),
6 Wired dusky pink paper roses,
6 Wired leaves,
Pink felt,
DMC thread,
10 pearl beads,
Pink double knitting wool
Instructions
& 2 Templates.

Also used - Crackle medium, Kaiser Craft acrylic paint in beige and olive, Sizzix and dies,

The photograph needed to be large enough to cut the main image into a 6 ¾” (17 cm) circle.

I made paper templates for cutting the photo and the scalloped mount from a Technique Tuesday shape.

The paper could be used in any orientation with the flowers in any of the four corners. Use a craft knife to cut along the edge of the floral elements then tuck the mounted photo underneath so the leaves flow over the photo.

Flowers

I crochet the flowers to save time in class. I adapted a pattern found in Molly Makes magazine.

Then using pink felt and Sizzix cut the smallest flower using the Sizzix Originals Paper Sculpting Hydrangea die.

With DMC thread stitch the felt flower to the centre of each crochet flower, Make long stitches radiating from the centres. Cut two pieces of ribbon about 2 cm long. Loop these and attach to either side, just under the felt flower with a few small stitches. Add a bead to the centre. Arrange and stick the flowers to the layout. You could stitch or glue them in place.

Take 4 of the paper roses and twist the wires round a pencil shaft to make a coil. Arrange and stick the roses in place around the crochet flowers. Embellish the flowers with a selection of leaves, wires and pearls. Cut wire from 3 of the leaves near the base and set wires to one side for later. Shape the leaves by bending the wire that runs through the centre. Arrange around the crochet flowers and stick or sew in place.

Take the wires cut from the leaves. Coil these in the same way as before. Add a little glue to one end and thread on a pearl. With a tiny bit of wire showing through, bend this over to help keep pearl in place. Arrange and stick these in place with the roses and leaves.

Butterfly
Take the crochet butterfly (also ready prepared and from Molly Makes Pattern) and a small length of pink wool. Tie the wool around the butterfly twice to form the body and knot at the top, trim to leave antennae.

Arrange this on the photo mount, overlapping the photo slightly, on the opposite side of the circle to the flowers. This is a good time to arrange your title letters so your butterfly doesn’t end up in the middle of a word. Once this is done, stick your butterfly in place. As before, add paper roses, wired leaves and beads.

Title

Select the letters needed for your title. Trim off the knobbly bits where the letters were originally attached to the card you selected them from. Paint letters with base colour, leave to dry for 10 minutes. Paint your letters with crackle medium, leave to dry for 20 – 40 minutes. Paint your letters with top colour and leave to dry and crackle.  Arrange your letters onto your layout and stick in place.

Thank you to those who took this class. Please comment with a link, or email with an image and I will add to the bottom of this post. It would be lovely to see you completed layouts.

Happy Birthday Jill!

I know it's late and Jill's birthday was on the 17th March, but I didn't get to see her until the weekend crop of 31st so that is when I gave her her gift and card.

I made Jill a card as part of the Scrapology March Card Challenge.

Our sponsor for March was Karen from Charmed Cards and Crafts.She challenged us to use a digital image on a card.  I used one of Karen's images.

I coloured the fish with a lot of Promarkers!

Paper is DCWV

Miri Card

Sugared Bazzill

Prima flower vine

Baker's Twine

Jazz punch

Stampin' Up Greeting stamp.

I also made Jill one of my aprons.

A very happy birthday Jill.

x

You Are My Sunshine

Here is another of my design team layouts for the Scrapology Scraplift challenge for April. The technique is using Lace, and in this case I have made my lacy bits with cardstock, punches and the Cricut.

The photo was taken of Catherine at five months old, in a lemon babygrow. We had visitors that day and something has really made her chuckle.

Here is Betty Lou1's original layout that we chose to scraplift.

This is the sketch drawn from the layout.

I used patterned papers from Basic Grey's Picadilly collection

Apronista

Blue Plate Special

Home Sweet Home

Here is how it was made:

Using Sugar Cookie Bazzill as a base, tear a 11" x 11" square of 'Blue Plate Special' with blue side up. Ink the edges and stick centrally to Bazzill.

Cut 3 strips from 'Home Sweet Home' paper 1.5" x 10" distress and ink the edges and then mount onto strips of Bazzill and distress and ink the edges again. Lay these vertically across the layout about 1" apart, starting about 2.5" in from the left.

Cut some 6" circular shapes - I used my Cricut and the Heritage Cartridge and cut yellow side of 'Home Sweet Home' paper Tree 2 - shift - charm at 6" for the larger circle. The smaller circle was cut from the blue side of 'Apronista' paper Tree 2 - charm at 6". Distress and ink inside and out of the yellow frame circle and mount the frame over the solid blue. Either cut off the tiny circle at the top of the charm or position so that it will be under the photo and stick to right side of the layout.

Make a mount for one corner or the photo from Bazzill and trim with Martha Stewart round the page punch in a lacy style. Distress the edges of the photo and stick to mount. Ink edges of mount and stick mounted photo to layout, leaving the very bottom unstuck.

Cut a strip of stripy side of Blue Plate Special 1.5" x 10" - distress and ink. Mount this to a strip of Bazzill, after trimming one long edge with a border punch to give a lacy edge - distress the straight edges and ink all edges.  Stick the velvet ribbon along the length of this strip, tucking the ends under the paper at either end. Stitch over the ribbon with DMC thread and some large cross stitches. Mount this strip onto the layout, tucking the top edge just under the photo.

Tie a bow with a piece of sheer organza ribbon to the right side of velvet ribbon strip.

Decorate the big circles with flowers cut from scraps of cardstock and patterned papers using the 'Mother's Day Bouquet' cartridge and the Cricut

Add buttons to the centre of these flowers stitching in place with the DMC thread, tie in a knot at the front of each button. decorate further with loops of organza ribbon and a wired pearl spray.

Add a small title by stamping onto a scrap of cardstock, cut out, ink and attach with 3D foam pads.

Thanks for looking and reading, hope you will take part in this challenge. Pop over to the Scrapology blog to see full details of the April challenge entitled 'L is for Lace'.

Little Miss

Me!

 This month on the Scrapology  blog we have scraplifted this beautiful layout by BettyLou1 and the theme is to use lace of any kind on your layout.

This was our sketch

For this DT layout Basic Grey 'Hello Luscious' collection

inviting

raspberry syrup

simply grand

Cut the Raspberry Suryp paper until it was about 11"x11", distress and ink the edges and mounting centrally ont the Bazzill.

Cut three strips from Simply Grand paper 1.5"x10", and three strips from the vanilla side of Inviting 1.75"x10.25".  Distress and ink the edges of al six strips, mount the coloured strips centrally onto the vanilla strips. Arrange these strips vertically on the layout about 0.5" apart.

Cut some 6" circular shapes - I used my Cricut and the Striaght from the Nest cartridge and cut the lacy shape from pink Bazzill and the shadow from cream Bazzill. Ink both shapes and layer the pink on the cream and position to the right of the layout as shown.

Make a mount for one corner or the photo from cream Bazzill and trim with Martha Stewart round the page punch in a lacy style. Distress and ink the edges of the photo and stick to mount. Ink edges of mount and stick mounted photo to layout, leavng the very bottom unstuck, for trimming later.

Cut a strip from grid side of Invitng 10.5"x 3. Distress and ink then trim along the bottom long edge with antique style lace. Mount acoss the bottom of the layout about 2" up from the bottom, tucking under the photo. Stick the velvet ric-rac along the length of this strip, over the photo and tuckig the ends under the paper at either end.

Tie a bow with a piece of sheer organza ribbon to the right side of velvet strip.

Decorate the big circles with a selection of flowers from. Add buttons to the centre of these flowers stitching in place with DMC thread, tie in a knot at the front of each button. decorate further with loops of narrow satin ribbon and a wired crystal spray.

Add a small title by printing onto vanilla side of patterned paper and punch with oval SU punch. ink and layer onto another scrap of patterned paper punched using the SU scalloped oval punch, ink and attach with 3D foam pads to top left of photo.

Thanks for looking and reading, hope you will take part in this challenge. Pop over to the Scrapology blog to see full details of the April challenge entitled 'L is for Lace'.