Lazy Sunday Afternoon

If you pop over to the Papermaze Blog, you will see two layouts I published yesterday. Here is the second one of the pages I created.

This month I'm using 49 and Market's pretty pastel Glimmer & Glee collection. This collection has water colour style images, which are great for documenting parties, birthdays, babies, and garden gatherings. The palette is a clever mix of pretty corals, pinks, yellows, blues and greens. 

Here is my granddaughter, all dressed up and visiting her other grandparents for Sunday lunch.

Full details are on the Scrap, Paper Scissors Blog

The items I used:
49 and Market - Glimmer and Glee collection - Cheers, Toast & Laser Cut Elements 
Distress Ink - Faded Jeans
3D Foam Pads
Sizzix Tim Holtz Alphanumeric dies 'Tiny Type - upper and lower case
Cricut

That's all for today, I'll be back with more from this collection 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

Winter Wonderland

Here is my final DT layouts using the January Papermaze kit. This time a layout with a winter theme. Florence loves to be outside, whatever the weather, here she is all rosy cheeked on a cold day early in January.

Please see the Scrap Paper Scissors Blog to find out how the layouts were made.

Here is what I used from the January Kit:
Graphic 45 - Deck the Halls - Calm and Bright 
Craft Consortium - Enamel Dots
Rosie's Studio - Full of Wonder - Snowflake

From my own stash, I selected:
Doodlebug Designs Frosty Friends collection - papers and stickers
White pom-pom braid
Mr Frost Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits die set
Selection of scrap cardstock
3D foam pads
Silver glitter paper
Spellbinders, Say Cheese, Classic Mouse Alphabet die set 
Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup alphabet stickers in Lily White
Peel-off snowflake stickers

That's all from the January kit, off to make a start on the February kit now!
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Family Fun

This layout is my version of the Peartree Cutfiles January Number Challenge - this month it's #1 - The idea is to use one cutfile. 

I selected this photo of the babies with me, their cousin, and aunties in a local park.

I used the Family Fun Peartree Cutfile
Patterned papers and element stickers are all from Basic Grey - Sweet Threads:
Boutique Shopping, I Want, Retro Clutch, Mix & Match, Knotted Shirt and Edgy Stripe
Tags, borders, labels and flower stickers all from the Sweet Threads cardstock sticker sheet
Gold / white Baker's twine
3D Foam Pads
Purple flat-backed pearls

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Bathtime Fun

Here is my answer to the Peartree Cutfile January challenge 'Blue'.  The idea is to create a layout with Blue as the main colour. I chose to scrap this photo of the children at bathtime.

I used this Rainbrops cutfile, cutting it three times in matt silver cardstock, and once in blue glitter card.

Other items:
3D foam pads
Spellbinders, Say Cheese, Classic Mickey, Alphabet die set
Glitter Card in light and bark blue
A sheet of patterned paper, with wavy edges from my stash (not sure what make)
Doodlebug Designs Puffy Alphabet Soup Letter Sitckers - Blue Jean
Doodlebug Designs Teensy Type cardstock stickers - Blue Jean
Cricut

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Vault Winter Wishes - Sizzix Christmas Cards

Today I'm sharing some Christmas cards I made using one of the Vault Christmas Sizzix Die Sets from Tim Holtz. I added in another of Tim's die sets and some 3D Texture Fades. Then got busy creating backgrounds with some multi media.

I used:

Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Die - Vault Winter Wishes
Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits Die - Merry and Bright
Sizzix 3D Texture Fades - Arched, Brickwork, Lumbar, Quilted, Sparkle and Woodgrain.
Distress Oxide Inks
Distress Inks
Tiny Bells
DMC Crochet Cotton
Watercolour Paper
Card Blanks and Envelopes
Selection of cardstock and metallic cardstock scraps
3D Foam Pads

      

For each card I trimmed a piece of watercolour paper to measure slightly smaller than my card blank. I placed a selection of colours of Distress Oxide ink onto a messy mat. spritzed them with water and ran the paper back and forth through the colours to create the background for the card.

While the paper was still slightly damp, I place it into the 3D Texture Fade folder, and passed it through the Sizzix Big Shot. Then this was set aside to dry off completely.

I highlighted the embossed patterns by rubbing over with some Distress Inks and a blending tool.

With the Winter Wishes Die set, I cut two ice skates, heels and blades and three snowflakes,  from a selection of the scraps of cardstock and metallic card I had collected together. I also used the Merry and Bright die set to cut the phrase in metallic card.

I applied the snowflakes to the background, overlapping the edges in places and trimmed off the excess. This was then stuck to the front of the card blank.

I added the greeting placing it as seen in the photos.

Next I made up the ice skates, stitching the crochet cotton through the tiny holes in the boots to make them appear to be laced up, leaving enough cotton to tie on the bells later. I placed one boot over the other at a slight angle so you can still see they are a pair. Then I tied the laces together in a knot. I threaded a tiny bell onto each lace, then tied the laces together into a bow, and trimmed the ends off neatly.

With 3D foam pads applied to the back of the ice skates, I attached them to the centre of the card.

Here is a closer view of each card.

That's all for today. Back with more for Christmas soon.
Lynn x