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

Back to Nature

The July Papermaze kit is ready to purchase and is full of summery, colourful papers, card and embellishments. This is the first of my four layouts, created with this lovely kit.

I have admired this old door at the farm where the Papermaze shop is situated. I especially love the beautiful colours the wood and paint have become as they have aged and weathered. The photos were perfect for this 49 and Market paper.

For more details of how the page was made and the kit please see the blog and the shop online.


From the kit I used:
49 & Market - Kaleidoscope - Treasured Tea
Rosie's Studio Belleview Postcard

From my own stash I used:
3D foam pads
Distress Inks - Crushed Olive, Forest Moss & Evergreen Bough
chipboard letters
Distress Paints
Crackle Medium
Tonic Studio dies
wood print paper

That's all for today, I'll be back with the next layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Teriffic Trio

Here is my second layout made using bright March Papermaze Kit. This layout features a photograph of a pencil drawing of the triplets, drawn by my father in 1995 when they were three years old. 

Please visit the Papermaze blog - Scrap Paper Scissors to see details of the kit, and how the layout was made.  The kit is available from the shop.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Ma Cherie

Please take a look on the Papermaze blog today to read about how I created this heritage layout using the beautiful Ma Cherie collection from Kaisercraft together with some chipboard pieces and stencils

The photograph shows my Grandfather as Best Man to his Brother Frank, when he married Maud in 1913. It also shows two of his sisters as bridesmaids.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Slate Coasters

I am away at Easthapmsted Park in Berkshire for an annual crafty weekend with a great group of friends. We have a tradition of making one another small gifts each year.

I was thinking about this years gifts when I saw some heart shaped slate coasters. I purchased these with the idea of decorating them. Out came my stamps, inks and paints.

The stamps I used are:

JOFY13 from PaperArtsyr
Stampin' Up Pocket silhouettes & Faith in Nature
Non Sequitur 4D On Gossamer Wings & 5C Old Fashioned Romance

Together with:

Acrylic Paints
Crackle Glaze Medium
Antiquing Cream
Archival Ink Pad

Here are the individual coasters:

All wrapped and ready to go:

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

C.S.I. #32

Here is my second attempt at the C.S.I. (Colour Stories, Inspiration) challenge

I'm away from home still but wanted to have a go at this cool colour combination challenge #32.

My page records a cycle ride Alan and I enjoyed, despite the cold wind, from Thropeness to Aldeburgh earlier this year. We stopped to take a closer look at the Scallop Shell sculpture on the beach.

Here is my layout:

Here is the inspirational case file #32

THE EVIDENCE FROM WHICH YOU NEED TO CHOOSE AT LEAST 2 ELEMENTS

I have highlighted in blue the elements I chose to include, and what I used:

stars - gold starfish clasp holding vellum & Making Memories starfish plaque

something translucent - glass pebbles

wet medium - Acrylic Paint and Chalk Inks

something grainy (e.g., glitter, sand, embossing powder, etc.)

textured paper

vellum - Jorunalling printed onto Vellum

dots (inspired by the pattern on the starfish) - Wild Asparagus - Me and My Brother (dots / brown)

round or somehow soften the edges of your photos or papers - torn and inked edges of papers

mesh, burlap, gauze, or similar element - gauze bandage

I also used:
Patterned papers - Bo Bunny - Country Garden Weathered,
Wild Asparagus Me and My Brother Frame
Some Doodlebug Designs Inc. number buttons which are translucent
Various brads
American Crafts Thickers for the title
1 Sheet Bazzill in an Aqua shade
IKEA Onska Yarn
Wooden stars
Cork chippings
Shells
Skeleton fish beads
Seahorse charm

Crackle medium

THE TESTIMONY FROM WHICH YOU NEED TO CHOOSE AT LEAST 1 ELEMENT

Again I have highlighted in blue the elements I have included. 

Document a beach trip (or other vacation if you've never been to the sea).

Journal about something you collect.
Create a translucent pocket or envelope for your journaling - Journalling on Vellum
Document a transformation (inspired by the broken glass that turns into a beautiful treasure).
Use the first stanza of William Blake's poem as a jumping off point for your journaling:

To see a world in a grain of sand
And a heaven in a wild flower
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And eternity in an hour. 

Words from Britten's Opera instead

Inspiration Words: calm, seek, change -- use these as inspiration for your journaling, not just as a title

My journalling reads:

 'Conversation with the Sea'

"On the beach between Aldeburgh and
Thorpeness, in Suffolk stands Maggi
Hambling's sculpture celebrating the
British composer Benjamin Britten, who
often walked along this beach. It was
unveiled in 2003

Created from 10mm stainless steel, it
stands 4.10m high x 4.60m x 4.25m. It
is made up of two interlocking scallop
shells, each broken, the upright shell
being pierced with the words:

     "I hear those voices that
     will not be drowned"

Words from Britten's opera Peter Grimes.
 The sculpture is intended to be enjoyed
both visually and tactiley.

The monument to the great musician
& composer and a celebration of the
origins of his music. We listen to
 music and we think of the ear as
like a shell. As children we listen
to shells to hear the sound of the sea.

The sounds of the North Sea
are unrelenting, unstoppable. On
this coastline they are augmented
by the rhythmic crash, wash and
drag of its breaking waves on the
shingle shoreline."

THE COLOURS  - YOU NEED TO USE ALL 5

Sunbleached - white, from the starfish
Beach Grass - light brown, from the darker parts of the beach grass
Sand Dune - light kraft, from the lighter parts of the beach grass
Wave Washed - teal, taken from the side of the oblong piece of sea glass near the front of the image robot
Sea Glass - light aqua, taken from the bottom part of the topmost piece of sea glass

THE COORDINATES ARE ALSO AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD IF YOU WANT THEM

The deadline for completing Case File No. 32

is Sunday, August 19, 11:59 p.m. EST.

I have had great fun scrapping this layout and look forward to doing the next challenge when I can get a few more items of stash together.

Thanks for looking.

Up-date on 22/08/12 I have just visited the C.S.I. site and was amazed to see I made the 'On The Watch List' - described as ...and just because there were too many fantastic layouts in the gallery, here are a few more that caught our eye. Not 'Star Witness' or 'Most Wanted' but its great to be acknowledged.