Mendham Wheelbarrow Competition

This is my second scrapbook layout made with the January Papermaze Kit.

We are new to the village here in Mendham and last summer we were asked to join in the wheelbarrow competition. This photo was taken when we first planted up the barrow, a few months before the judging. We didn't have a wheelbarrow and so I had to buy one. I chose this purple barrow and selected everything from the garden that was white and purple flowering, plus added a few more from the nursery.

This is a very short post to show the layout, but you can find all the details (materials used, where to find them in the Papermaze shop) and how the layout was made on the Papermaze blog - Scrap Paper Scissors.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Smile

My first layout using the January Papermaze Kit is called Smile is a photograph from my daughter Catherine and George's wedding last summer.

This layout was inspired by one of my favourite scrapbookers - Gabrielle Polloco, and her romantic layout I spotted some years ago.

This is a very short post to show the layout, but you can find all the details (materials used, where to find them in the Papermaze shop) and how the layout was made on the Papermaze blog - Scrap Paper Scissors.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Crazy Creature Birthday Tags

I made the Shelton triplets a tag each for their 11th birthday this year. I used the Tim Holtz Stampers Anonymous Stamps, and a selection of his layering stencils, Distress Paint and Distress Inks.  All the greetings were from another Stampers Anonymous set Crazy Talk.

Hannah loves cats and so I used Crazy Cats stamps

Lucy loves all kinds of birds so I made this one for her, using the Crazy Birds stamp set.

For Oliver I used the Crazy Dogs stamp set.

Happy Birthday to all three of you xxx
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

2020 Felt Ornaments - January - 1. A Partridge in a Pear Tree

My daughter Emily and I have admired the felt Christmas ornaments designed by Larissa Holland for some time. Towards the end of last year we purchased the digital patterns via Esty for the Twelve Days of Christmas project. However we got busy with all the crafts we were making for my other daughter's wedding and so didn't get started on the ornaments in time for Christmas 2019. 

I purchased the felt, and other materials needed, and printed all the instructions off to make A5 booklets. Then I printed out the patterns too. When we were together at Christmas we decided to challenge one-another to make one ornament a month during 2020, so we have a set of 12 in time for next Christmas. 

So here is my first month's effort - which is in fact two ornaments, the pear and the partridge.

So I will be back with the turtle dove next month.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Hello Sunshine

Today was crop day at Papermaze and this is the layout made from Janina's Crop Kit. For the first crop of the year I actually started and finished the layout at the crop.

I used a photo from my recent trip to Washington to visit Catherine. The photo was taken of a very cold but sunny day sitting in wooden deckchairs on the waterfront in the quaint Old Town in Alexandria, we took the metro out to Virginia for the day to explore.

The kit contained a pack of Ephemera (Pink Paislee, Paige Evans Truly Grateful), and the Bazzill needed to make the layout.

I added some Distress Ink around the outside edge of the Bazzill to soften it. Using a piece of paper from the Truly grateful collection I had in my stash I made a journalling block. I added cross stitch to one of the paper pieces in the pack using 6 strands of DMC embroidery floss. Some pieces I glued to the page others I added a little dimension by using foam tape.

A good day at the crop.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

CSI - Sun Hat

This is my second answer to CSI challenges (308). Having made the first 'Black and White Cat Seeks Colour' which I blogged yesterday - I decided to use the left over papers to make another layout.  I used the same cold case clues to scrapbook this photo of my daughter Emily when she had a new sun hat back in 1999, we were staying with my parents in Fairlight at the time. 

You can see the full details for all three January 2020 challenges on the website and on the CSI Scrapbook Challenge Facebook page.

The clues I used are:
Find older papers that match some of the colours in The Scene / are bright and colourful / geometric pattern / circular elements - My papers are not as old as some I used on other challenges, but I have been carrying them around with me since they first came out, finding it difficult to decide what to do with them despite loving them. They are from Shimelle's American Craft - Field Trip collection.
Brads, Buttons or Bling - enamel dots and hearts
Pie Chart - took apart the die cut pie chart from the collection and used parts of it and rearranged the elements from it too.

Other items used:
Distress Ink Pads to ink cut edges and to make an ink to spritz over the page.
AC Thickers - Truly Grateful Puffy Phrase & Accent Stickers and Happy Thoughts Foam Letter Stickers
Bazzill White cardstock

That really is the last of the challenges for January!
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

CSI - Black & White Cat Seeks Colour

This is my answer to another of this month's CSI challenges (308). I used many of the cold case clues to scrapbook this photo of our cat, Liquorice when she was a kitten, she just loves all my colourful crochet blankets!

You can see the full details for all three January 2020 challenges on the website and on the CSI Scrapbook Challenge Facebook page.

The clues I used are:
Find older papers that match some of the colours in The Scene / are bright and colourful / geometric pattern / circular elements - My papers are not as old as some I used on other challenges, but I have been carrying them around with me since they first came out, finding it difficult to decide what to do with them despite loving them. The are from Shimelle's American Craft - Field Trip collection.
Brads, Buttons or Bling - enamel dots and hearts
Pie Chart - took apart the die cut pie chart from the collection and used parts of it and rearranged the elements from it too.
Tone-on-tone effect - created with star paper placed underneath grid matching up colours to blocks of colour from top of chart.
Rainbow order - inks splashed on page, star and colour blocks arranged in rainbow order - also the crochet blanket I made in the photo!

Other items used:
Distress Ink Pads to ink cut edges and to make an ink to spritz over the page.
Making Memories Chunky Black letter stickers
AC Thickers - Truly Grateful Puffy Phrase & Accent Stickers and Happy Thoughts Foam Letter Stickers
Bazzill White cardstock

That's the last of the three challenges for January.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

CSI - Snow White

This is my answer to another of this month's CSI challenges (306). I used many of the traditional clues to scrapbook photos from my daughter Catherine's time as Deputy Stage Manager for the Pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Churchill Theatre, Bromley in December 2017.  I used a couple of photos of the Dwarfs posing backstage.

You can see the full details for all three January 2020 challenges on the website and on the CSI Scrapbook Challenge Facebook page.

The clues I used are:
Floral Pattern (in the Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper)
Dots - flat-backed self-adhesive pearls and gems
Flowers and leaves in the papers, rub-ons,chipboard shapes and element stickers Butterflies (in the Basic Grey Urban Prairie paper)
Die cuts - The stickers and chipboard shapes, as well as the letters I cut for the title
Create a pedestal - for the large cake from paper
Multi-coloured alphabet - die cut letters from different coloured papers
Something Powder - clear embossing powder for the letters
Colours used from the code - turquoise, fuchsia, bright lemon yellow, white and powder blue




I used paper, element stickers, rub-ons and chipboard stickers from one Basic Grey collection - Urban Prairie.
In addition I used Sizzix Sizzlit alphabet dies
Versamark Ink and clear embossing powder.
Nuvo Crystal Drops
Paper Flower
Gems and pearls

Thanks for looking, I have one more challenge layout to share for January.
Lynn x

CSI - The Woman In Black

This is my answer to one of this month's CSI challenges (307). I used many of the traditional clues to scrapbook photos from my daughter Catherine's recent experience of being Deputy Stage Manager and taking the current UK tour of The Woman In Black to Washington DC for three weeks last December.

You can see the full details for all three January 2020 challenges on the website and on the CSI Scrapbook Challenge Facebook page.

The clues I used are:
Plaid (in the Basic Grey Max and Whiskers paper)
Graph paper and pens and paintbrushes (in the Basic Grey Recess paper)
Mustache, tags, and eyeglasses (in the Basic Grey Element Stickers)
Books (in the Basic Grey Oxford paper)
Transparent (Glossy Accents for lenses in Glasses)
Mushroom, medium teal, black, white and rust from the colour codes.
This play is a thriller and has a strong detective element running through it
Something Powder (Black embossing powder on word 'Black' chipboard letters)
Labels (Stickers from Basic Grey collections)

I used paper, element stickers and alphabet stickers from three Basic Grey collections.
In addition I used Sizzix dies - Thinlits Alphanumeric Label set and vintage lace Sizzlit.
Chipboard letters with Versamark Ink and Black embossing powder.
Nuvo Crystal Drops
DMC Thread

Thanks for looking and I will be back with another challenge soon.
Lynn x

Confetti Magic

Here is another layout from a Papermaze crop, I just needed to finish off. This time it was designed by Michelle and was from a crop I missed in September as I was travelling around Scotland.

I have used a photo from my daughter Emily's wedding two years ago for this layout and it shows them covered in confetti.

The kit included Natural and White Bazzill, and Kaisercraft Morning Dew papers and sequins.

At the crop the materials provided to complete the page were - Distress Oxide Ink Pads, stencil, White Nuvo Crystal Drops, twine, punch and alphabet dies.

From my stash I used Stickles for the word 'confetti' and a die from the Simple Stories Say Cheese 4 - Happy Words die set for the word 'magic'. I added a touch of shine to the latter with Glossy Accents.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Josephine and Keith

I am very late getting this layout blogged! It was created at last July's Papermaze Crop, and was designed by Janina.

I chose to use an old black and white photograph from my Uncle Keith's wedding to Josephine  in 1956.

Supplied in the kit for this page - Stamperia papers, Natural Bazzill, flowers, wooden heart chipboard brickwork, vanilla dew drops, jute and twine. I added a few more flowers from my stash. 

Available at the crop to complete the layout was 49 & Market stamps, Martha Stewart border punch, wreath die.

I decided to add my title with a brush and ink.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Uncle Peter

This is my layout made at the October 2019 Papermaze Crop - I have only just added the final details! I'm having a New Year effort at finishing off and /or blogging some of the things I have made in recent months. This layout was designed by Vanessa.

I used this recently acquired photo of my Uncle Peter when he was a young man. This lovely masculine design was ideal to create a tribute to this lovely man who died a few weeks short of his 90th birthday in 2018.

The papers are from Fabscraps Fantasy Flight and Simple Stories Autumn Splendor. The kit contained corrugated kraft card, ric-rac, and a paper flower.  A Tim Holtz Layering Stencil, Forest Moss Distress Stain and Vintage Photo Distress Ink were available to use at the crop. I added Stickles to the butterfly wings and journalling to a spare piece of patterned paper. I fussy cut the bee from the spare paper too.

For my title I used the revers side of some of the scrap paper and the Tim Holtz Sizzix Bigz XL alphabet die - Wonderland. I also used some tiny letter stickers from my stash.

Peter Charles Holder 1928 - 2018

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Christingle

Hello - Lynn back with the last of my Christmas layouts made with the December Papermaze kit. To purchase the kit and have a look at the other products please see the new shop website. If you are interested in how the layout was made please see the Papermaze Blog.



For this layout I used this old favourite photo from 1995, when the children were dressed up for the Christingle Service at our local church. I have scrapped this again so I can place a layout in each of the children's scrapbook albums.  I'm not sure the photo does justice to the amount of sparkle in these trees!
 

Items used from the kit: 
Grenadine, Safari, Mocha Divine,and Fawn Bazzill
Kaisercraft - Under the Gum Leaves collection - Protea
Doily


From my stash I added: 
Dylusions - Ink Spray - White Line

Woodlands Sizzix Thinlits set
Versamark Ink
Super Sparkle embossing powder
Wanted Sizzix Sizzlit alphabet die
Crystals Stickles.
three wooden stars

That's all for the December kit, and I will be back next with the January kit.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Holly Fairy

Happy New Year! - Here is my fifth Christmas layout made with the December Papermaze kit. This kit has proved to be amazing value for money, I have just added an extra sheet of Bazzill. To purchase the kit and have a look at the other products please see the new Papermaze shop website. The step by step of how to make the layout is on the Scrap Paper Scissors blog.

This layout was made to celebrate the costume Emily and I made for her to wear for Book Week in the year 2000.

Items I used from the kit:
Mocha Divine and Safari Bazzill
Simple Stories - Holly Jolly collection - Home for the Holidays & Cozy Christmas
Authentique - Rejoice collection - Rejoice #22
self adhesive domes 

From my stash I used:
A sheet of cream cardstock
Martha Stewart PATP Cherish punch set
Green DMC Thread 
Sizzix Holiday Greens Thinlits set
Sizzix Bigz XL Handmade alphabet die 
Versamark Ink 
Stampendous Frantage Shabby White Embossing Enamel
Crystal Stickles 
Distress Oxide Ink in Forest Green and Aged Mahogany

There is just one more layout to share from this kit, back tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x