The Start of Something Amazing

This year I started the 5K Parkruns on a Saturday morning at my local Hockey club, but last weekend I was in Norringham with my daughters and so we tried the Wollaton Hall Parkrun, through the Park with deer the Hall and a beautiful lake. The weather was very windy but it stayed dry and we all improved our time. There were nearly 300 runners, compared the the nearly 100 here is Suffolk.

The layout is made with the freebie Cutfile from Peartree Cutfiles for this month's Design Team challenge. I picked out the colours from our clothes.

I used:
Distress Inks
Peartree Cutfile
Basic Grey Lauderdale stickers and papers
gems
Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits - Alphanumeric Label
Creative Expression Mini Stencil - Boot Print
Cocoa Vanilla - Happiness - Meadow

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

 

Christmas Crop Cards

Over on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog, I have written a post all about the make and take we did at our Christmas Crop. We made special Christmas cards using a Kaisercreaft Card Creations Die and papers from the delightful, Authentique - Colourful Christmas Collection.
Please go over to the blog to read how they were made. 

To add sparkle to the project I introduced the use of Creative Expressions - Cosmic Shimmer - Glitter Kiss .  Please see Julie's review of this product from earlier this year.

Here are a few made from the same paper collection.

Thanks for looking & Merry Christmas
Lynn x

Rain'bows'!

The Scrapology card challenge this month is sponsored by Sue Wilson, here are the two cards I made using one of her Creative Expression dies for the design team gallery.

Thank you to fellow design team member Sandra for lending me her die set 'Finishing Touches - Classic 3D Bow set at a recent crop.

I cut two sets of bow pieces in each of the seven colours of the rainbow from Core'dinations card stock. I used A4 card blanks from Craft Creations, and some black and white Bazzill.

I cut the black greetings using the Cricut and the white greetings are glittery 'Peel-offs'. I inked all the edges with distress inks - Work Lipstick, Spiced Marmalade, Squeezed Lemonade, Mowed Lawn, Salty Ocean, Broken China & Dusty Concord.
The only other ingredient was a lot of wet glue!!

Please pop over to Scrapology to see what the rest of the team have made and to find out more about the challenge and the prize Sue is offering.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Giddy Up!

A photo from before my son Andrew started school. We were members of the local Twins Club and attended a summer fair they held in the grounds of a primary school. (The school Andrew was about to join for the next seven years). I guess the year was 1996 and Andrew would have been 4 1/2 years old. He had his first ride on a horse which he loved at the time, but. I don't think he has ever repeated the experience!

I created this layout from a class kit designed by the talented Janina. 

The kit contained a sheet of Kraft Cardstock from the 12 x 12 stack by Tim Holtz Idea-ology Kraft Resist Paper Stash Cardstock, with the intention of using the plain reverse side, but I liked the resist design side for this project, so decided to use that.

The paper was spritzed with two shades of Cosmic Shimmer Mists (Green chalk ink and black).

Then using the Creative Expressions stone wall mask and modelling paste the brick wall was created. Once dry I inked this with green and brown chalk inks. 

Both sides of the Jilly Bean Soup paper were used for the zig - zag and spot patterns, together with free hand cutting and punches. 

As this was for a layout for my son, I exchanged the pretty lace trim for some printed tape, but still used the striped ribbon. 

White bazzill was used for the photo mount and the scalloped trim.

I added a little Bakers Twine, some flat backed gold dots and American Crafts Thickers alphabet stickers.

I printed my journalling onto some spare cardstock and tucked it into a pocket under the photo 

Thanks Janina.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x