Mary Poppins

Today I have created a layout for the third challenge in the SCRAP IN COLOUR - For The Love Of Pretty Paper (Facebook UK Scrapbooking Group) - National Scrapbook Day challenges held from 24th to 26th May 2019.

This challenge was to called ALL THE COLOURS. The idea being to use up your open packs of alphas by creating a layout with a multi-coloured title. However, you must include the colour RED somewhere on your layout as well.

My layout was another for the Disneyland Album.

I used Bazzill cardstock in blue and red.
Stickers and papers from Carta Bella's Practically Perfect collection.
Alphabets stickers from Colorbox, Basic Grey, Simple Stories, Pink Paislee and several others that were no longer in packets so I don't know the make!

The Blue cardstock was softened with some Picket Fence Distress Ink. and a few drops of Dylusions white ink.

I used Sizzix Dies for the rosettes, and added scraps of pink ribbon. Then lots of Nuvo drops, gems and pearls were added from my stash. I joined the bunting stickers with a piece of Baker's Twine.

Thanks for Looking
Lynn x

Rosie's Rainbow

I have a few hours to myself this afternoon and had just seen these photos of my cousin's daughter Rosie, so decided to make a layout with some Doodlebug Designs Inc. products  ideal for rainbows.

Rosie went to Build a Bear yesterday and helped make her own bear - 'Rainbow'.

For the layout I used:

Cardstock - Bazzill

Patterned papers - Doodlebug Designs Inc. - Springtime Collection - Bright and sunny & April showers

Scraps of patterned papers - Various collections by Doodlebug Designs

Gems - Doodlebug Designs Inc. - Mini Jewels 

Chipboard letters - Woodware Chippies - die cut chipboard alphabet

Cardstock heart trim - Bazzill Just The Edge strips

Acrylic Paints & Glossy Accents for painting the chipboard letters

Rub-ons - Stitches and letters  by Doodlebyg Designs Inc.

Teeny Type letter stickers- Doodlebug Designs Inc. - Poolside

Chalk Inks - Colorbox

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

52 Christmas Crackers 2014 - Week 5

For details of this challenge please see Kool Kitty Musings 

This week's Christmas card theme has been selected by delving into the prompt jar for three random elements to use on a card.
The challenge being to feature the 3 elements on a card in whatever way you can.
The prompts selected were:

Pale, glitter and love.

Here is my card:

The card was made with:
Daisy Bucket papers I have had for many years.
Cricut and the Winter Woodland Cart.
Dew Drops
Gems
Ice Stickles
SU greeting stamp
Cardwork Cards card blank (6" x 6")
Colorbox chalk ink
Organza ribbon
Heart button
DMC thread

90th Birthday Card

Happy birthday to my Auntie Phyl!

I made this cards for the family to send out to Phyl in New Zealand for her 90th birthday celebrations.

I was inspired by one of the Cricut magazines (April '12) and a card made by Shantaie Fowler. However I don't have any of the cartridges she used so set about finding something similar within my own collection.

I used the watering can from the 'Country Life cartridge and I added a tag from Tags Bags, Boxes and More. The '90' was cut with the 'Storybook cartridge.

The flowers were punched with a Stampin Up punch, the leaf fronds are from a Martha Stewart punch
My greeting is stamped with a Lili of the Valley stamp, then cut out and mounted on a circle punched with a Stampin' Up punch and then a scalloped circle punched with a Woodware punch, as are the flower stamen and the corner rounder punches.

I used a smaller Stampin' Up circle punch to cut a circle in the mat behind the can. The ribbon, gems and studs are from my stash. The papers are from Bo Bunny's Garden Girl Collection. Black, green and Kraft Bazzill were also used. The 8" x 8" card blank is from Craft Creations. The letter stickers are from My Little Shoebox. Everything was inked with Colorbox chalk inks.

Have a great birthday Auntie Phyl, wish we could be with you.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Scrap 365 - Disney in Winter

I loved this month's sketch and wanted to play along with the August Scrap365 Online sketch challenge.

I used some photos of my daughter Catherine in Disneyland in the winter of 2008 during a school trip to Paris.

The August sketch is from a layout by Tomoko Takahashi.

This is what I used:
Patterned papers: Bo Bunny - Country Garden - Garden Dot (reverse side), Charm (stripe side)
My Little Shoe Box - Robots Un-plugged - Metal Stars (die cut sheet)
Sassafras Sunshine Lollipop Cardstock Sticker sheet
3 sheets Bazzill Basics in pink, gery and black
American Crafts Glitter Letter Stickers Rockabye and Roller Rink
Rub-On letters - Doodlebug Design Inc. - All Mixed Up
Doily, Twine, Eyelets, Flat-backed pearls
Stampin' Up Build a Banner Punch
Colorbox Chalk Ink - Blackbird
Making Memories - Button brads

Thanks for the challenge 365.
Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Happy 1st Birthday

 A card for little Annabell's first birthday. I love these bright colourful papers from Doodlebug and they were just right for this card.

 

I made this card for Annabell with this 'Maisie Sitting Pretty' stamp and a greetings stamp from Lili of the Valley

Cricut and these cartridges - Accent Essentials, Don Juan and Mother's Day Bouquet

Patterned papers - Doodlebug Design

Ribbons

Button

Baker's Twine

Flat-backed pearls

Chalk inks - Colorbox

Punches - Stampin' Up, McGill and Woodware

Stickles and Liquid Pearls

Scalloped 8" x 8" card blank - Papermania

I'm entering this card into the following challenges

Passion for Promarkers - Gingham / checks

Lily of the Valley - Pretty in Pink

Dotty Dorothy

The challenge for week 137 over on the Kraftin' Kimmie Blog is 'Lots of Dots'. So I selected some old  papers from the Pink Paislee - Spring Fling collection and the newish KK Dorothy stamp.

 

I stamped Dorothy onto digital card already cut to shape using the Cricut and the Lacy Labels cartridge. I restamped her onto dotty patterned paper and cut out her dress. I coloured the image with Promarkers, including adding shading to the patterned paper. 

I also used:

Dotty ribbon

button

Baker's Twine

Metal tag pin

Stampin' Up greetings stamp from the Swirls and Curls Verses set

Stampin' Up circle and scalloped circle punches

Liquid Pearls

Chalk inks by Colorbox

Thanks for looking

Lynn xxx

Happy 50th Birthday Paul

Catherine asked me to make a 50th birthday card for her boyfriend's - Dad's 50th birthday today.

 

I have made a few large number cards for men using the Cricut  and the Don Juan Cartridge, and this was no exception. This time I went for a square 8" x 8" Papermaina card blank, and some Portebello Road papers.

I added 

Craftwork Cards Card Candi

Lili of the Valley Greeting stamp

Stampin' Up Pennant punch and circle punch

Woodware scalloped circle punch

Chalk inks from ColorBox

Happy 50th Birthday Paul x

Family Layout

This layout has taken such a long time to complete. I started it at a crop a few months ago and lost of one the chipboard letters after painting, stamping, inking and glossing them all.

So then I had to find another of the same font, but didn't have one so had to adapt another letter. Then I tried again at the following crop but forgot the stamp!

Eventually I finished off the letter to go with the others and completed the layout!

Although the papers are Christmas ones, Basic Grey Wassail, I felt the colours worked well with the wedding photos. The letters were painted with white acrylic paint, then stamped with a leaf stamp from Clarity Stamps. I inked the edges heavily with colorbox chalk inks, then glossed them with glossy accents.

I rolled back one corner of the paper and held it down with a button and loop feature.

Close up of the button detail. 

Stitch detail added with white gel pen. I included some self adhesive flat back pearls and some numbers from Prima.

The photo shows the family at my nephew Mark's wedding earlier this year.

The layout was inspired by a layout by Angelica on Scrapbook.com

... And in Colour

Using the same designs I showed you yesterday and the day before here are a selection of cards to show the use of full colour. Of course this involved a lot more Promarkers, but keeping to a minimum, this is what I came up with.

When colouring in a full range of colours, it is still a useful tip to start by colouring the whole area with the palest shade you have. Then build up the shades and finish by using the palest shade to blend the colours. Alternatively you can buy a blending pen which can be used with any colour. You will need a few shades of each colour.

Useful Additions: It is useful to have a fine liner pen in black for detail. A white gel pen is also useful for adding highlights to your coloured image.

All supplied from Jill at Cardinal Colours

Papers - October Afternoon - Seaside Collection

Card Blanks, Card Candi and A4 Digital Smooth White Cardstock - Craftwork Cards

Pens - Promarkers - Pastel yellow, mustard, gold, sandstone, caramel, red, poppy, ruby, pale pink, dusky pink, ivory, powder blue, cornflower, china blue, sky blue, arctic blue and midnight blue. 

Cardstock - Bazzill

Chalk inks - Colorbox

Tuxedo dye based ink pad - Memento

Stamps - by Joanna Sheen's All Our Yesterdays stamps designed by Faye Whittaker

Punches - Stampin' Up

Ribbon - Cardinal Colours

Washroom Teddy FW908 

Lifebuoy FW901 

Bucket and Spade FW912 

Sandcastle FW911 

Dolphin FW907 

Postcard FW909

TFL

Oh I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside

Sepia colouring with Promarkers Class for the Cardinal Colours Retreat.


The cards I made as samples, and included in the class, taught with Linda at Cardinal Colours Retreat last weekend.

Papers - Basic Grey's Basics Collection

Card Blanks, Card Candi and A4 Digital Smooth White Cardstock - Craftwork Cards

Pens - Promarkers in 5 colours - Satin, Pastel Beige, Sandstone, Cinnamon and Caramel.

Cardstock - Bazzill

Chestnut chalk ink - Colorbox

Tuxedo or Rich Cocoa dye based ink pad - Memento

Stamps - by Joanna Sheen's All Our Yesterdays stamps designed by Faye Whittaker
Punches - Stampin' Up
Ribbon - Cardinal Colours
All available from Jill at Cardinal Colours

SEPIA COLOURING TUTORIAL

1. Stamp your image with Memento Tuxedo Black, fade resistant, dye ink onto Smooth White Digital Cardstock. This is a good combination and means the alcohol based ProMarkers will not ‘bleed’ with the paper or water based ink.

2. Start by colouring the entire image using the SATIN marker.

3. Using the PASTEL BEIGE start shading the Shadowy parts to add some definition. For example the folds and shaded areas of the straw hats, shadow where limbs etc. overlap and areas inside or behind items.

4. Now move to SANDSTONE to deepen the shading a little.

5. To deepen shading further take and highlight some  areas with CINNAMON.

6. Use the SATIN pen again and colour the whole image to blend in any sharp lines between colours.

7. Add touches of CARAMEL in darkest parts to add warmth.

If you wish to continue adding darker shading, add in touches of additional darker shades on brown.

I have also achieved similar (but darker) results using the colour range - Ivory, Tan, Cinnamon, Cocoa and Walnut.

Useful Tip – stamping images a while before you want to colour them, helps to prevent the ink running into the colour.

Instructions for making the five cards included in the class

Lifebuoy Stamp - FW910

Cut a piece of light paper 13.5x14cm, and a dark piece 10x8.5cm. Ink the edges of both pieces with brown chalk ink and place on the square scallop edge card as shown. Ink edges of card.

Sandcastle Stamp - FW911

Cut a piece of light paper 11x15cm. Stick over the front of a top notch card. Trim paper to shape of the card and ink the edges with the brown chalk ink. For this card the corners of the image and greeting are rounded – optional.

Mount image to left of the card and the greeting to top right overlapping the image. Mount with 3D foam pads.

Dolphin Stamp - FW907

Cut a piece of dark coloured paper 18x9cm. Ink the edges with brown ink and stick to an oblong scallop edge card. Line the paper up with the top of the card. Ink edges of card. Attach the image to the left of the card.  Add the greeting to the top right overlapping the image.

Washroom Teddy Stamp - FW908

Cut a strip of dark paper 5x15cm and mount onto a piece of Bazzill 5.5x15cm. Ink the edges with brown ink and mount the paper onto the Bazzill. Stick to an elegant Square card about 2.5cm up from the bottom. Trim ends of Bazzill and paper to shape of card with scissors or craft knife. Ink edges of card.

Mount image centrally and add greeting to bottom right of card.

Bucket and Spade Stamp - FW912

For this card stamp and prepare the small bucket and spade image in addition to the main image and greeting.

Cut some light paper 14.5x14.5cm, ink edges with brown ink. Mount onto a square card. Cut a piece of dark paper 14.5x5cm, and trim with scalloped edge punch and ink the edges. Add this to the top of the card like a canopy. Mount the Large image centrally onto the card tucking the top under the canopy. Add the small image to the bottom right and the greeting to the bottom left.

There were five cards in the class, but six stamps in the series, so I made this easel card using a cream coloured card blank and added some Card Candi.

Postcard Stamp - FW909

Thank you to all who attended the class.

Black and white and colour versions to follow.

TFL

Some great feedback from Sue (Mini Owner on her blog) and here are her cards.

Thanks Sue - so pleased you enjoyed the class.

If anyone else wants me to share their cards here, please comment with a link or send me an email and I will add them.

Cute as a Button

Another challenge from the Online Scrapbooking Weekend. - 'A Colour Story Challenge'. This time we were required to create a project in red, white and aqua!

I decided to use this photo from 1999 of my nephew Simon when he was a year old, featuring his red and aqua tartan dungarees.

I chose red white and aqua cardstock from Bazzill, Bo Bunny's Ocean Dot cardstock and patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket's Dutch Girl Collection. I used Audrey, Klara and a die cut shape.

The large shape and frame were cut using a Technique Tuesday template.
The letters are George and Basic Shapes Cricut Cartridge, Doodle Bug Design rubons and stickers.
I also used white ribbon and Colorbox chalk inks.

Tulip Decoupage Pack

Linda and I called in at The Kraft Shop on Friday at the Gorse Hill Nursery. We treated ourselves to a Do Craft Tulip Decoupage Pack each. This pack is called 'Birthday Wishes'.

There are two copies of each of four designs in a pack, plus two each of  four different patterns background papers.  Here is what I made with one of each design.

Generally I prefer to cut my own images for decoupage and don't like the die cut ones as you get all the little tabs attached which in my opinion need cutting off and there is often a bit of a white 'halo' around the images in some places, which I also end up cutting off, making it a bit of a waste of time buying them pre-cut. However there is no option but to by them like this sometimes. Although I still had to do the trimming with this pack it wasn't too bad, the die cutting was more accurate than usual. Tidying the images with my scissors was a job to do while watching TV!

Here are the four cards I made on Friday evening, lots of 3D foam pads and double sided tape later:

Additional materials:

Card blank - Craftwork Cards

Rub-on greeting - Making Memories

Stickles glitter glue on icing.

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Other from my sash - gems and ribbon

Additional materials:

Shaped Card Blank - ? Craftwork Cards

Ribbon and beads from a child's hair decoration - Claire's Accessories

Punches - Stampin' Up

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Additional materials:

Card Blank - CraftCreations

Seam Binding Ribbon - Stampin' Up

Papers - Basic Grey Lily Kate

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Other - Gems

Additional materials:

Card Blank - Craft Creations

Chalk ink - Colorbox

Punches - Stamin' Up

Other - gems

 Thanks for looking.

School's Out For Summer

The first weekend of the school summer holidays - year 12 was over and Catherine and her friends went for a picnic in Greenwich park. This is a photo I scrapped for the Mojo Holder Blog which sadly appears to have folded. The planned guest designer was to be Christiane Muller and here is her LO. followed by my version.

The title is made up of Making Memories and American Crafts Runaway White stickers.

The papers are Fancy Pants, Kraft Kutz - dotted girl and stickers sheet.

I had great fun with these lovely card stock butterflies from Bazzill Basics (see Cardinal Colours for an excellent range of Bazzill and other card stock).

Here are all the bits I used to create them.

First I dabbed the butterflies in the centres with some yellow chalk ink.

Next I added some red chalk ink to the edges of the bottom wings.

















Then green ink to the edges of the top wings.

Also some blue.

Lastly I ties a length of organza ribbon round each butterfly, some green and some blue.

Special Family Bond

Last night I started work on the October kit for scrapaholix.

When I saw all the black and white I thought I would add colour as a contrast, but here is the finished LO and no colour added, it worked without. The only tiny bit of colour is in my daughters nail polish and Oliver's babygrow, and the two just happen to match perfectly!




The journalling reads "Special Family Bond. 6th March 2009. Catherine's first cuddle with baby Oliver. Not only are Catherine and Oliver cousins, they are also both triplets!"

This kit contains (all 12"x12") plain white cardstock, Black Cordinations, Daisy Bucket 'Little Black Dress' papers, a length of white organza ribbon with black spots, two balck and two white blossoms, black and white felt, sand paper and a pin! I used a Page Map from August 2009

The technique is paper piercing. I pierced a circle and patterns onto my layout, then with black embroidery thread joined up the holes. I added two black and white brads from my own stash. The title lettering was done using three different alphabets from my own stash, velvet lettering for 'special' and felt lettering for 'Bond', both from Making Memories. The word 'Family' uses
letter stickers from Doodlebug Designs.

For the journalling I wrote on white cardstock. I cut this into strips and inked the edges with chalk ink. The crystal brackets at top and bottom of the photograph are by 'Say It With Crystals' from Prima Marketing.

There are lots of papers left over so I will be back with more!

Apron Strings Contest

Remember my post about the Apron Strings contest on the Page Map Blog? Well here is my entry (above) and the original sketch (below).

The idea as to use the sketch with summer as the theme and any papers or embellishments.

I chose this photo of myself at age 7 in the garden at home, Surrounded by the roses my parents grew. The papers I picked are from Cosmo Cricket's (CC) Early Bird line. I also used a sheet of Basic Grey (BG) 'Lady Kate's Roses' from the Stella Ruby Collection as a border. The colour worked and the title of the paper was by coincidence so appropriate!!

Here is a close up of the larger flowers cut from the Farmer's Market papers, I cut several different size flowers within circles, stitched on buttons with embroidery floss over the existing pattern on the paper, two threads into each hole on the button. Then I went round again and made a french knot it the end of each stitch on the paper. I added some heart pins in coordinating papers.

For the smaller flowers, I cut two blooms from the Sunrise paper. These were curved with scissors and stuck down with a 3D pad under each petal but not in the centre, then I pulled the centre down tight to the LO by stitching on with a tiny button.

My main title was added with American Crafts Thickers in leaf fabric finish, I added smaller lettering with Provo Craft letter stickers. If anyone knows where to buy these in the UK, please let me know. I'm running out and they are so useful.

The Journalling block was from the Early Bird Elements paper.


I added a few stitches between the BG paper and the CC paper to link it all in with the rest.

Then I had some of this lovely paper left over and decided to create a card, in the theme of Apron Strings, so using a Horseshoe Craft Stamp I created an Apron. Stamping the pockets again and cutting them out. I added them over the pockets on the original apron with 3D foam pads. The strings are just that 'string'! I plan to finish this card off with either a gardening or a cookery theme.