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Tuesday, 3 June 2025

I'm Gonna Learn How To Fly

Here is the last layout made using the Papermaze Kit for May. This time I chose the travel themed paper. These photos were taken when we celebrated my father's 70th birthday with a Tiger Moth flight. After the flight, the grandchildren were allowed to sit in the cockpit for a photo.


You will find details of how the layout was made, by following the link to the Papermaze Blog.

From the kit, I used:

Echo Park - Born to Travel - Postcard
Woodware junk Label Stamps
Dress It Up red hearts
Rosie's Studio Bayfair Sentiments Ephemera
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Admiral & Wildberry Pie

From my stash, I used:
Tim Holtz, Thinlits, Sizzix die sets - Vault World Travel, Vault Noteworthy & The Destination
R
ed, white and blue twine
Black Archival Ink
Blueprint Sketch Distress Ink









That's all for today, I will be back with the June kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Monday, 2 June 2025

Geisha Girl

The second pair of layouts has been posted on the Papermaze Blog today, where I am sharing my layouts using the Papermaze Kit for May. Here is the first of these layouts, using lovely cherry blossom paper.

The photo in this layout is one of a series my father took while experimenting with a camera and colour photo processing back in the 1950's


For full details of how I made the layout, please see the PApermaze blog.

From the Kit, I used:
Photo Play - Lucky Cat - Cherry Blossoms
Doilies
Rosie's Studio Bayfair dragonfly
Bazzill White & Grenadine Bazzill Cardstock

From my stash, I used:
Black & Tutu Pink Bazzill cardstock
Lace
Gold Cardstock
Gold Coast, Nuvo Glitter Drops








That's all for today, I will be back with the last layout for May tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Thursday, 29 May 2025

Happy 1st Birthday - Bee Happy

I made this double page layout to celebrate my granddaughter's 1st birthday. The photos were taken by my daughter at their home.


For both pages I used a Simple Stories collection called Say Cheese - Classic Pooh.



For the first page I used:
SS - Say Cheese - Classic Pooh - Spledniferous! (border), Sweet as Honey (main background),
4x6 Elements (tags, and letters), 2x2 & 4x4 Elements (letters) and Cardstock Stickers.
Seam binding ribbon - gold
Pollen Sequin Mix - Little Things from Lucy's Cards
Cricut


For page 2, I used many of the same papers and stickers as for the first page. With the addition of:
SS - Say Cheese - Classic Pooh - 100 Acre Wood
My Creative Scrapbook cutfile for daisy background
White, grey and orange Bazzill cardstock





Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Tuesday, 20 May 2025

Crazy Coupe

Here is my second layout made using the new Papermaze Kit for May. The kit is full of bold and bright coloured papers and Bazzill Cardstock. Great for fun filled summer, kids and holiday layouts. 

My children were given a Little Tikes - Cozy Coupe for their 3rd birthday. Andrew especially loved his first car! This layout was inspired by a page made by Niki Rowland for Simple Stories.




For details on how the layout was made, please see the Papermaze Blog.

From the kit, I used:
Echo Park - Born to Travel - See the Sights Plaid
Echo Park - Little Things Mean a Lot - Bright Butterflies
Graphic 45 - Spring is in the Air - Choose Happy
Photo Play - Lucky Cat - Cherry Blossoms
Simple Stories - For the Record - Just the Details
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Bazzill White, Admiral, Wildberry Pie, Mexican Poppy, Grenadine & Hillary

From my own stash, I used:
Tim Holtz, Sizzix Rosettes die set
Cricut
3D foam pads







That's all for today, I will be back with two more layouts from the May kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Monday, 19 May 2025

Emily as Jessie

The new Papermaze Kit for May is available from the shop today. The kit is full of bold and bright coloured papers and Bazzill Cardstock. Great for fun filled summer, kids and holiday layouts. My first lyout show our daughter in costume. Emily loved Toy Story and her favourite character was Jessie, so when the school had a Disney themed Christmas fair, She wanted to dress so, with the hat from the Disney Store, I made her the rest of the costume.




Please see the blog for full details of how the kit was made.

From the kit, I used:

Echo Park - Little Things Mean a Lot - Bright Butterflies
Simple Stories - For the Record - Just the Details
Rosie's Studio Bayfair Sentiments Ephemera
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Bazzill White, Admiral, Mexican Poppy, Grenadine

From my stash, I used:
Squeezed Lemonade, Mustard Seed,
Candied Apple and Blueprint Sketch Distress Inks
Filmstrip washi tape
Heavy jute twine
3D stickers (cowboy boots and horseshoe)
Cricut
3D foam pads
Baker's twine
Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup in Blue Jeans
Star puffy stickers









That's all for today, I will be back with the second layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Sunday, 18 May 2025

Every Day Life

Here is another layout for the iNSD challenges, this one is for two different challenges:

Peartree Cutfiles 'Rainbow colours and Nuvo Drops'. 

Paige Evans 'Scraplift' - I have included an image of the layout I have scraplifted, but I can't trace the creator. If you recognise the maker, please let me know.

Here is my layout with a photo from 1977 when colour Polaroid cameras were popular, my friend brought one to school, to record a few events of sixth form life.

"After the popular black-and-white prints came the peel-apart color prints in 1963, and non-peel-apart color prints followed in 1972. By 1977, the height of its popularity, Polaroid held two-thirds of the instant camera market, despite competition from Kodak."

I used a sheet of Smooth White Bazzill for the background. and flicked some Black Soot Distress Paint over the cardstock in the areas where the paper blocks will go.

From Vicki Boutin's Bold + Bright collection I cut some squares from the Picnic Blanket sheet, in a series of rainbow colours. I cur an extra oeange one, and turned this into a tag.

Will a collection of buttons, Card Candi, and other ephemera, I decorated each square, matching the colour scheme. I used a flair from Peartree Cutfiles. I cut phrases from
Simple Stories - For the Record - Just the Details paper.

The title is some old Cafe Rojo alphabet stickers from Basic Grey.

I finished off with a rainbow of different coloured Nuvo Drops.





Thanks for looking
Lynn x


Wednesday, 14 May 2025

Rainbow Day

This layout was made for the 2025 iNSD challenges on the Page Evans facebook page. The photos show my granddaughter at her Baby Sensory group back in January, and the theme of the week was rainbows. She wore her little rainbow dress, and there wer many rainbow activities to take part in.


For the page I used a sheet of Paige's patterend paper from an older collection, with a pale denim effect printed over it.

I worked the rainbows and clouds in six strands of DMC embroidery cotton.

The title was added with Doodlebug Designs, Alphabet Soup puffy letter stickers.



Thanks for looking.
Lynn x