Alf

I had a good day at the Papermaze Crop today and created this layout, designed by Vanessa. It shows by Great Uncle Alf (Alfted William Humm).

The Crop kit contained:
Kraft Bazzill
49 and Market - Ticket paper
49 and MArket Stripe paper
Stamperia Coffee and Chocolate Labels
Simple Stories - The Simple Life - Tags
49 and MArket - blue paper
49 and MArket - Nature Study - Coloured Foundations #1
2 49 and Market tickets
Paper flower
blue dew drop
12" twine
washi tape

The shared equipment included:
Distress Ink
Mask
Cream Acrylic Paint

Sizzix die

From my stash:
Alphabet stickers

From my Ancestry research and talking to family:

Alfred William Humm
Known as 'Alf'

Born 8th February 1902 in Wandsworth, London to Henry William Humm and Susan Dunn. Alf was one of six children.

Alf married Edna Ellaline Bryan Holder on 26th May 1928.

They had two daughters Joyce and Janet.

Alf died in May 1994 in Eastbourne, Sussex

The complication in our family tree is that Edna's brother Ernest married Alf's sister Winifred (my grandparents)."

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Julia

This heritage layout is one for my father's album, Julia is a distant relative but I had four photos of her which have been shared with me via Ancestry.

I made this for the FTLOPP Cake Day (6th Birthday) challenge #3 Red Velvet Cake. The options were to use a hidden element and some red.

For this layout I used four photos of Julia Chancellor, One photo shows when you look at the page, but there are three hidden behind the first when you open out the accordian. There is also all the information I have gleaned about Julia's life:

Julia Chancellor, Wife of 2^nd Great Grand Uncle
Born in Chelsea in 1836 and baptised on 19^th October at St. Luke’s Church
Julia was the 10^th of 12 children born to John Chancellor (1794 -1876) and
Rebecca Mary Wilmott (1797 – 1869)
Julia married Michael Hinde (1812 – 1872) on 19^th December 1866 at St. Mary’s Newington
Julia and Michael had 3 children, Frederick Michael (1869 – 1927), Albert Edward (1870 -1951) and Julia Gertrude (1871 – 1913)
Widowed in 1872 when she was 35.
Julia married Arthur Maddison (1833 – 1887), on 20^th August 1874 at St. Andrew’s Church, Lambeth. Julia and Arthur had 3 sons, Arthur Algernon (1875 – 1948), Harold Chancellor (1877 – 1925) and Cecil Willmott (1880 – 1858)
Julia was widowed again in 1887 when she was 50.
Several of her children emigrated to Canada.
Julia died in 15^th October 1925 in Huntingdon

For this layout I used three Basic Grey collections (papers and stickes) - Bittersweet, Eskimo Kisses and Wassail.
Gems and plearls
metal lock and paper clip embellishment
DMC thread and chain stitches
Doily
Circular journalling stamp
Scalloped Circle Punch

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Hilda Marguerite

My third layout using the fabulously pretty February Papermaze Kit., and this one is for the  family history album. I have used a studio portrait photo of my husband's Aunt Hilda. I have added chipboard and embossing enamel for this page. 

For all the details on papers and embellishments used and how I made the layout, please see the Papermaze blog - Scrap Paper Scissors.

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

Toast

Catherine finished working as DSM on Nigel Slater's 'Toast', back in July, just before her wedding. I have tried to scrap a page for each show she has been involved in, and so usually wait to the end of the run when the take company photos. The theatre was in Victoria - The Other Palace, from March to August 2019. I went along to see it with my friend Hilary, it was a very brilliantly, amusing foodie trip down memory lane.

I used some papers from Bo Bunny's - Dreams of Autumn, which I think I have had for a few years.  I also used scraps of Bazzill from the previous few layouts. The toaster was cut using the Cricut (From My Kitchen Cart) and the title is from the programme. 

Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

Treasure

I have had this photo in my box, ready for scrapbooking for some time - it was taken in 2011 and shows my daughter Catherine with baby Annabelle (who was her 8 year old flower girl last month). Annabelle is now Catherine's niece by marriage.

I have finally used the 12" x 12" watercolour paper I purchased a while ago, together with a selection Distress Oxide Inks.

I started by placing a selection of blue and pink Distress Oxide Inks onto my craft mat and mixing each colour with a little water, I flicked some specks of colour over the watercolour paper.

With a sheet of Cocoa Vanilla Studio paper - from the Happiness collection called 'So Fresh', I did a lot of fussy cutting! I cut the wreath free of the paper and then carefully cut away the inside too. I saved the scraps for later. I placed the majority of the wreath to the bottom right of the page, as shown and slued this in place. then I trimmed off the excess. The remainder of the wreath was then used in the top left of the layout. Any left over, incomplete, flowers were tucked into the areas already glued into place.

With the remains of the patterned paper, I cut a photo mount and using the side showing the blue hearts. placed the photo into position. This was then adhered to the centre of the wreath , tucked under the flowers.

With a round paintbrush I painted the title with some watered down Distress Ink. I added a little detail journalling along the side of the photo. Finally a smattering of flat-backed pearls in a variety of colours was added here and there.
Here they are 8 years later:

A relatively simple layout, the time consuming part being the fussy cutting. I'm enjoying using different medium to paint or pen titles, and the Distress Oxide worked well on the water colour paper. A light mist with water helped this and the coloured specks to wick a little too.

Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

Naughty or Nice - CSI #271

My response of the CSI Cold Case 271 (Colour, Stories, Inspiration), is this layout called 'Naughty or Nice?' with my nephew's children the Christmas before last. 

In answer to some of the clues:
Find older papers that have a winter theme / match the palate - I used papers from several old Basic Grey collections:
Blitzen, Figgy Pudding, Eskimo Kisses, Pulmeria, Wassail and Fruit Cake.
Use at least 3 seldom used stamps - managed one with 49 and Market Gabi's Stitches
Use Stickers - Letter Stickers from the Basic Grey Collections mentioned above.
Use Enamel Accents, Liquid Pearls or similar to make dots around the page inspired by the white dots in the scene - I used Nvuo Crystal Drops around the large heart and on two of the paper strips.
I also used paper with dots for the background.
Use products from a kit you have not used or that you did not use much - several items from a Christmas Papermaze kit form a couple of years ago - the Christmas greeting, the glitter heart and the tickets. I have a box of Christmas embellishments which I have collected over the years and that is where I found some wooden gingerbread men, a button badge, silver painted wooden stars, Santa charm a glittery brad and a Christmas postage stamp.
Create a wreath from some of the items - I made a heart wreath from my papers using an old set of templates from my stash - They were from Technique Tuesday.
Update the look of your items by adding stitching - my rubber stamp as mentioned above - stitches.

Thanks for the challenge and for looking.
Lynn x

Abbey Road

I'm back today with another layout created for my brother's album. This one marks his love of the Beatles, and I used one of the photo taken when he crossed the legendary Abbey Road.

I used a papers from some older collections of papers by Kaisercraft.
Sheet music from the Timeless collection
Apothecary from the Anthology collection
Wood and brick effect papers are from the Basecoat IV collection
The black and white stripes to reflect the zebra crossing is Eternal is from the Always and Forever collection.
The rub-ons for the title and date are both from different sets by Making Memories.
The record stickers are from the In the Attic collection.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Happy Birthday Teenager!

I wanted to make a card for Jessica's 13th birthday, and I was inspired by the Basic Grey Fresh Cut papers I had on my desk from completing a layout for Scarlett's Birthday layout.

For the card I took a white card blank and using patterned papers, cut three different sized deckle edges rectangles using a set of Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits dies. I inked all the edges with Black Soot Distress ink. The greeting was stamped with Archival ink and Avery Elle Clear Stamp (Sentimental Too), across the largest rectangle.

The rectangles were stuck in lace on the card, then I flicked Black Ink using a Dylusions Spray.

Using the Sizzix dies from the detailed butterflies thinlits set, I cut a Base butterfly from patterned paper and a matching detailed butterfly from Black cardstock. I built these up on the card using 3D foam pads, adding antenna in the form of black stamen.

I added two words using the letter stickers from the Fresh Cut collection. The large number was cut with some dies from Crafter's Companion.

I still had some left over papers from the collection, so continued making cards in the same way to add to my stock. I used up all the sheets of paper from the collection that had already been cut into. A good bit of stash busting!!

Hope you had a lovely birthday Jess.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Graduation Congrats.

My brother graduated from the South Bank University with a degree in Estate Management. Here is another layout I made for the album I gave him for Christmas.

The background is a sheet of Gallant from the Mister Fox collection. Then the coloured blocks of paper are from several different collections. The title is made from foam Thickers. I added some old Joulee's Boutique stickers and journelled on some paper scraps.


Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Family Tree

The new kit from Papermaze have a lovely selection of papers, Bazzill and embellishments all with an autumnal feel. For my first layout I have created a family tree. It shows my great grandparents and 14 of their children, dressed up for the wedding of the eldest child in 1913.

For full details and step - by - step please see the blog and the shop website.

Thanks for looking.
Back with two more autumnal pages soon.
Lynn x

Aunty & Uncle

I chose this lovely sheet of paper when shopping at Papermaze recently and the colours worked well with the photo of us, as Aunty and Uncle at my nephew's wedding.

 

The paper is called 'Meadow' from the Indigo Hills 2 collection by Pink Fresh.
I gutted the centre of the wreath with a craft knife, carefully cutting around each of the leaves. Then backed the space with a sheet of 'Misty' from the Indigo Skies collection by Kaisercraft. The leaves were then raised with 3D foam pads to add dimension.
I used the reverse side of 'Meadow' to make a mat for the photo.

The title was cut from the denim side of 'Chambray' paper, also from the Indigo Skies collection. I used Crafter's Companion dies.

 I added paper blossoms and a pearl swirl from Wild Orchid Crafts.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

We Will Remember Them - 1918 - 2018

I thought I would have a go as the CS Get Crafty October sketch challenge. We are approaching November 11th, so I decided to use the centenary of the end of World War I and some of my ancestors who fought in the war as my theme for the layout. 

Here is the sketch:

I used a mix of different papers, including the remains of a sheet of paper from the Mintay Farmlife collection left over from the layout I made using a C&S Get Crafty kit. This is where I cut, gutted and inked the six frames from.

I printed out photos for six ancestors from my mother's family. I used papers from several older Kaisercraft collections:
Timeless Collection - Botanical
Be-You-Tiful collection - Glamorous
In The Attic collection - Closet
Base Coat collection - 
Remember Me collection - Sticker sheet

My title was cut with a Crafter's Companion alphabet and was layered up with scraps of the papers used for the rest of the page. 

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Scarlett Rose

Scarlett Rose is the newest member of the family, she is my great niece, born to my nephew Sam and his fiancée Chelsey last November. I can't really believe this cute little baby girl is already 6 months old!

I made this using the delightful April kit from Papermaze, These kits are such great value for money and you get six sheets of patterned paper, 2 sheets of Bazzill and a bag of embellishments. I also had the extra 4 sheets of matched cardstock. The colours are stunning, not sure my photo does them justice. Here is a photo of the kit. I have only made one page so far, but there is plenty more to play with.
 

I used three sheets of Bazzill for the base of this layout. The first was Whirlpool, the second Blossom and the third layer was Lily. I cut the latter two down in size slightly to give a fine border and the former two were gutted.

I just loved the little square designs on the Kind paper from the Be You collection by Pink Fresh. The reminded me of the flower dies in the new Sizzix Thinlits Funky Floral #3 set from Tim Holtz, so I simply had to combine the two!
I used a QuicKutz alphabet for 'SCARLETT ROSE' and another Sizzix Thinlits Tim Holtz set for the months (thanks for the loan Sandra x).  

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Fabulous Four

Every month Vanessa and her team at Papermaze put together a popular scrapbooking kit, carefully selecting papers from a variety of current collections, together with coordinating cardstock and embellishments. These kits are designed for you to create your own layouts and so do not contain any instructions.

Occasionally people have said they would like some ideas to go with the kit to help in making a start. So I thought it would be a good idea to do a couple of blog posts showing some things I made with the pretty May kit and hope this will inspire you. Please see full detials on how I made the layout the Papermaze blog HERE.

I was inspired by a post I spotted on NőiCsizma blog. I chose a photo of my nephew and his family and hope to frame this for them later.

I used Bazzill, patterned papers and embellishments from the may kit together with a Sizzix die.

I will be back over the next few days with the other three layouts I made from this kit.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

The Cake

I have shared a little more of the Kaisercraft Romantique collection over on the Papermaze blog.

 

This layout is another for Emily and Jack's wedding album, and is all about the wedding cake I made for them. I wanted to dedicate a page to a photo of the cake, but there is a story behind the making of the cake, which I decided to tell using a Project Life style page. Otherwise there would have been several pages about jut the cake!

Here is the page depicting the story behind making the cake, uisng a  Project Life Page Protector. 

 

As you can see I used some of the same papers and techniques on the story page as I had used for the main page to tie it all together.

Thanks for looking. Please see details on the Scrap, Paper Scissors Blog.
Lynn x