True Friends Are Priceless Treasures

The Blossom Babes at or Debden retreat 2011

Karen took this photo and Anita took one which included Karen, so I cut and pasted Karen into the space she had been standing in before being photographer!

Over on the Scrapology blog this month we scraplifted a layout by DT member Anita.

This is her beautiful original layout and the sketch.

These are the Bo Bunny's Garden Girl Collection

papers we used:

Die Cut

Garden Girl 

Cut Outs 

First of all the 'Die Cut' sheet had to be prepared, by cutting along the thick brown inner line. You are left with a scalloped frame and an orange square with decorative corners.

Stick the frame piece centrally onto the purple cardstock.

Build up the centre with double sided foam tape, and stick the orange piece back in position. 

Lots of careful cutting of the 'Cut Outs' helped to make a decorative surround for the photo. Cut a quote for the top right hand corner of the layout.

I wanted slightly different words to those on the wide strip Anita used, so I used my computer and a font called Rivanna, I used two sizes and colours. First of all I cut the two butterflies and all the flowers I needed from the floral side of the 'Garden Girl' paper, then I printed onto a strip of the green side.

True friends are priceless treasures

Now take the butterflies and flowers, carefully ink and curve with scissors and add to layout with 3D foam pads as shown on the photo.

Then the fun begins, add tons of glitter with the stickles!
I also added flower stamen to the butterflies for antennae.

Thanks Anita x

Tide Mill

These photos were taken at Woodbridge Tide Mill Marina in 2002 when we were on holiday on yacht Oryx. We were all on our way out for dinner when Alan took these photos of us all in front of the Tide Mill.

I have made this layout following a Page Map I have been carrying around for a few weeks intending to take part in the Page Map Websters Pages Challenge. I finally made this yesterday at our monthly crop at Cardinal Colours.

Papers, alphabet and element stickers - Basic Grey Sugar Rush Collection

Cricut for shapes - Ashlyn's Alphabet

Bakers twine, Chalk ink, Cosmic Shimmer Mist, Papermania felt die cut butterfly, Prima mask and flat backed gems.

Thanks for looking.

March Scrapology Challenge Layout

Here is my layout for this month's design team on Scrapology, using this photo of sweet little Esme from our visit to her and her mum Amy back in October last year.

The layout was made with these ingredients:
K & Company green letter stickers.
Prima pink songbird vine
Bo Bunny Love Bandit collection - Birdie die cut, Bee mine, Nuts 4 U.
Stampin’ Up Aviary stamp set.
Stampin’ Up ink pads in Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade and Rose Red.
Journalling block stamp - custom made
4 x 6” landscape photo
Stickles – crystal and lime green
Gems

Here is how I made the layout:
Gut the green side of ‘Bee Mine’ paper so you have a 12” x 12” - 1” frame, stick the ‘Birdie Die Cut’ sheet centrally over the green frame.

I Stamped bird cages in a variety of colours across the centre of the Die cut Sheet, add birds to the cages. Stamp more birds and cages onto smooth white card, and cut out leaving a fine white border around each image.

Using a Technique Tuesday Template, cut the outer shape from the pink side of ‘Be Mine’ and the inner, smaller shape from white side of ‘Nuts 4 U’.

Ink the edges and mount the white shape centrally onto the pink shape. Build this up with 3D foam pads and mount into the centre of the layout. Mount photo onto a piece of the green side of ‘Nuts 4U’. Mount the photo towards the top of the Big shape.

Stamp a circular Journalling block and mount this onto a circle of green paper. Add the journalling details and stick to the top right of the layout overlapping the photo slightly with 3D foam pads. Arrange a selection of bird cages around the journalingl block, some raised and some directly onto the layout.

Arrange the vine down the left side of the layout. Add a cage to the top branch so it appears to be hanging from the vine. Trim off a couple of flowers and add to the journaling block..

Add title with the glitter stickers under the photo. Then add stickles and gems to the cages and flowers.

We scraplifted this fabulous layout by the very talented Anita:

Here is the sketch. 

If you would like to join in the challenge please pop over to Scrapology

Thanks Anita x

Sunflowers

I was asked to make a sunflower card. I looked up at my Cricut Cartridges and found this on the 'Walk in my Garden Cartridge. I used a mix of cardstock and patterned paper scraps. The mount is cut with the Lacy Labels cartridge.

Then I made a couple more.

The greetings were made with a Lili of the Valley greeting stamp and a Woodware scalloped circle punch. I added some ribbons and some Craftwork Cards card candi.

Confetti and Botanicals

A few card made using the Confetti collection from Craftwork Cards. I added in some candi from other collections and some ribbon as well.

These were made with the Botanical collection.

Thanks for looking. x

Knight in Shining Armour

I found an image I coloured a while ago and as I still had the bits out on my desk from making Nicola and Stephen's wedding card, I matched them up to make this card.

Papers - Bo Bunny Enchanted.

Stamps - Kraftin' Kimmie

Pens - Promarkers - Cool Greys 1 - 5

Silver ric-rac

Black flat backed gems

Silver miri card

White Craftwork Cards card blank 6" x 6"

Butterflies

A few cards made using the waste from the Craftwork Cards butterfly shaped greetings. I added scraps of papers from the different collections.

Thanks for looking.