Looking Cute

Today was the Papermaze crop and I designed the crop kit layout this month. This one shows my daughter and her daughter, having fun exploring their image in the mirror. It was fun to get the old foam stamps out for a play too! 

Kit Content:
12” x 12” Smooth White Bazzill
A4 white card
6” x 12” Pink Paislee –#03
6” x 12” Maggie Holmes Round Trip – Passage
3” x 3” Heidi Swapp – Sunchaser – Sunshine
5” Doodlebug Designs Washi Tape
10” Jute twine
A sprinkle of sequins

*** It’s worth reading through before cutting or sticking! ***

Stencil small hearts across the layout using both colours of Distress Oxide Inks and the VB Stencil. (Wipe the stencil clean between colours to prevent the colours getting messy!) Splatter a little wet ink over the page too. See positioning on sample layout. Tear a piece from the top of the Bazzill.

Use the inks provided to ink the edges of the photo mounts, tags and other cut pieces (optional).

Prepare your photo - depending on the size of your photo, (I started with a photo 4” x 5.25”, so the following measurements reflect this, please adapt to your own photo size).
First layer is white card 4.25” x 5.5”, Black and white floral side of #03 paper 4.5” x 5.75”, and pink ombre side of #03 paper 4.75” x slightly deeper at 6.25”. Don’t stick the photo down yet.

From the Passage paper die cut 2 tags (one yellow side up and one rainbow stripe side up). Cut a piece 3” x 2.25” yellow side up and a piece to fill the tear at the top of the page, rainbow side up.

Cut a piece of white card 2” x 3.75” and apply to the rainbow tag, write your journaling onto this tag. Die cut two rings from the scraps of #03 paper, and apply to the tags. Thread a length of twine through the hole in each tag. 

Using the rest of the A4 white card stamp the letters needed to make your title / part of your title. Use the paintbrush and the Distress Paint, then allow to dry. Cut the letters out with a fine white border, then ink the edges with the pink ink. 

Build the layout by placing everything into position before sticking down. Once happy with the arrangement, stick the small pieces of patterned paper at top left of photo, and the yellow tag into position so that about 1.5” show beside the photo. Make the mounted photo into a pocket for the journaling tag - put adhesive onto three edges of the photo, so it is only glued down at the top, bottom and left side, allowing room for the journaling tag to be slipped in and out easily. 

Arranging the title letters along the base of the photo, stick some flat, and others raised with 3D foam pads. Add other words to the title with your own choice of lettering.

Divide the washi tape, and place a piece at the base of the torn cardstock area, and the other piece at the top of the photo.

Scatter the sequins, randomly over the page. 

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Lynn Cooper for www.papermaze.co.uk 2025

Badsell Farm Park

Yesterday my first two layouts created using the March Papermaze Kit were published on the Papermaze Blog. Here is the second of those farm themed ayouts, with a photo of my son on and old tractor, taken on a day out at the Badsell Farm Park, Paddock Wood. 

Please check out the Papermake blog for full instructions for making the layout. 

From the kit, I used the following items:
49 and Market - Whispering Way collection -  Sunshine Days

From my own stash, I used:
Brushed Corduroy & Aged Mahogany Distress Paint
Texture Paste
Stencil (TCW259S)
Sizzix BIGZ XL die (Block Tall Capital)
Greyboard
49 and Market Laser Cut elements (Krafty Garden and Whispering Way)
49 and Market Vintage Bits Essential Tickets - Sunbeam
Alphabet Rub-ons
 

That's all for today, I'll be back with more from this kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Cobtree Museum

Im over on the Papermaze Blog today with two layouts created using the March Papermaze Kit. Full of pretty floral and rustic papers, colour matched cardstock and embellishments. For my first two layouts I have picked the farmyard style papers from 49 and Market's Whispering Way collection. Here is the first of those layouts, featuring the Cobtree Museum.  When the children were on their school summer holiday, we spent a Day at The Cobtree Museum of Kent Life, in Maidstone. They all enjoyed playing in 'The Darling Buds of May' film set. Here is my daughter Catherine, on Pop Larkin's Truck.

For full details to make the layout, please head over to the Papermaze Blog.

The items I selected from the kit:
49 and Market - Whispering Way collection - Farm Fresh 
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Yukon Gold

From my own stash, I used:
Brushed Corduroy Distress Ink
BIGZ XL alphabet die (Wonderland) 
Greyboard
Distress Paint (Ground Espresso and Brushed Corduroy)
Cracking Medium
Glossy Accents
Sizzix Thinlits Alphanumeric Label letters die set
Sizzix Framelits Tag Collection Die set
Fine jute twine
49 and Market Laser Cut Elements - Whispering Way 
3D foam pads
Raffia 

That's all for today, I'll be back with more from this kit tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Eaton Sisters

This is my last layout using the February Papermaze Kit. This showing two generations of the same family. The photo here shows three sisters (the mother and aunts of the girls in yesterday's layout). I will add details of these ladies below. Please see the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog for full details of making the layout. 

To make the layout I used the following items from the kit: 
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Junk Drawer collection - Notes And Things
49 and Market - Vicki Boutin - Curiosities in Willow Grove collection - Starters Paper #5
Graphic 45 - Journalling Through Time collection - Wild Flowers & Golden Rod Pattern & Solid Sheet
49 and Market Nostalgic Memories chipboard words

From my own stash, I have used:
3D foam pads
Sizzix Thinlits Tag Collection die set
Brown seam binding ribbon
Gold enamel dots
Basic Grey Alphabet Stickers
Wood effect Thicker Alphabet Stickers 

The Eaton Sisters-

Parents – Charles Eaton (1841 - 1931)and Sarah Heron (1844 – 1925)

Sarah Frances
Born – 14^th May 1875 Islington, London
Census 1891 – Age 15, Hove, Sussex
Death – 27^th Jan 1943, Age 67, Ilford, Essex

Irene Leonora
Born – 9^th Jan 1869, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, USA
Census 1881 – Age 12, 93 Hornsey Road, Islington London
Census 1891 – Age 22, Hove Sussex
Marriage – 11^th November 1896 to Thomas George Kiff (1859 – 1936) Hove, Sussex
Children – 1. Frank Kiff (1889 – ), 2. May Kiff (1890 - ), 3. Alice Kiff (1891 - ),
4. Charles Kiff (1897 – 1995), 5. Leonard Kiff (1899 – 1974), 6. Thomas George Kiff (1903 – 1946), 7. Irene Leonora Kiff (1903 – 1998), 8. Dorothy May Kiff (1905 – 1959)
Census 1901 – Age 32, Dulwich, London
Census 1911 – Age 42, Crestalta Stables, Champion Hill, Camberwell, London
Census 1921 – Age 52, 4 Clarence Avenue, Bickley, Kent
Electoral Register 1924 – Age 55,  73 Pevensey Road, St Leonards, Sussex
Electoral Register 1939 – Age 70, Widow, living with daughter , 25 Tower Road, Orpington, Kent
Death – October 1956 Age 87, Tonbridge, Kent

Maryon Emma
Born – 21^st September 1885, Hove, Sussex
Census 1891 – Age 5, Hove Sussex
Death - March 1974 Age 88, Cuckfield, Sussex

Other Siblings – 1. Charles Heron Eaton (1870 – 1943), 2. Clement Stewart Eaton (1871 – 1957), 3. John Bayford Eaton (1877 – 1906), 4. George Boff Eaton (1878 – 1963)


That's all from the February Kit, I'll be back with the March kit soon.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x