Vera Enid 1925

The January Papermaze was a couple of weeks ago now, but was a good opportunity to catch up with creative friends. Vanessa designed the crop kit using papers from Crate Paper's Open Book collection. Another opportunity for me to scrap for my Holder family heritage album.

This is Vera Enid Kiff, age 3 in 1925. She emigrated to Canada a year after this photo was taken with parents Florence (my great aunt) and Charles.

The kit contained:
Patterned papers - Crate Paper - Open Book (Sweet Story, 3 x 5, Clippings)
Cardstock - Bazzill - Cinnabar
Prima flowers
Buttons
Chipboard Chevrons (which I covered with scraps of patterned paper and inked)
Twine
Dew drops
Lace
Filmstrip ribbon - Tim Holtz

I added letters cut from cardstock with Sizzlets alphabet die
Letter and number stickers from Prima
DMC thread for the buttons.

Here is Vanessa's lovely original layout:

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Character Cards for the Triplets!

Heather's triplets are 6 years old and for their birthday I made these character cards with the Cricut and several different cartridges.

I used:

Cricut and Cartridges - Pooh & Friends, Pooh alphabet, Mickey & Friends, Mickey font, Hello Kitty Greetings

Patterned papers - Queen & Co., DCWV, My Mind's Eye
Cardstock - Bazzill

Distress Inks
Card Blanks - Card Creations

Thanks for looking and Happy Birthday to Oliver, Hannah and Lucy.

Lynn x

Double Sprouts!

Another Christmas layout with the theme of racing sprouts. Just before Christmas 2012 I found some sprout crackers when shopping in Devon. The little wind up clockwork sprouts are designed to be raced. This caused much fun at lunch time on Christmas Day.

This is the first double layout I have made for a long time. I used a Pagemap from the same year.
The patterned papers are from Bo Bunny's Mistletoe collection. 

Mum and Dad 

We were a small group that year as Robert and Elaine were in Brazil and Andrew was in America.

A few close up photos:

My title was created with an old Making Memories wire and bead 'Christmas' word,
The black letters and numbers are both from Doodlebug Designs Inc. and the 'Sprouts' are American Crafts glitter Thickers.

I used lots of self adhesive gems.

The tree was cut from the papers and embellished with more gems. I added a yellow glittery chipboard star.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Esme's Tree

I loved this photograph my friend Amy took and added to Facebook. It is her daughter Esme by the tree back in December. After completing my 'Christmas Eve' layout, I had some of my December Papermaze crop kit left over.  Together with some Bo Bunny papers and other embellishments I created a new layout. Lots of gloss and glitter added which doesn't show will in the photo.

I used:
Scalloped circle template - Technique Tuesday
Patterned papers - Bo Bunny and Simple Stories
Stickers - Simple Stories
Cradstock - Bazzill
Alphabet Stickers - American Crafts Thickers
Cricut - Create a Critter, Lacy Lables and Simply Charmed cartridges
Ribbon and ric-rac
Gems
Glossy Accents, Stickles and Chalk Inks

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

The Agatha Christie Co.

This month over on Scrapology Anita has chosen this stunning layout by American scrapbooker Larua Vegas for us to scraplift.

My layout shows Catherine as Deputy Stage Manager for the Agatha Christie Co. together with the Company Manager and the Actors. This was the last week of the tour for 2014 and the photo was taken at Derby in at the end of November. She has a few weeks off now before starting rehearsals for the next play with a new group of actors.

Here is Laura's original layout and our sketch:

For my layout I used:

Patterned papers and stickers - Something Blue collection from Kaiser Craft
Cardstock - Bazzill
Distress Inks

Various letter stickers from my stash - including American Crafts & Prima

Cricut and Art Deco Font and border, Tags, bags, Boxes and More2 for Sun shape

Metal triangle fans from my stash

Gem

Pop over to Scrapology to see more details of the competition.

Thank you for looking.

Lynn x