Sweet Moment

Lynn here today with my third layout created using the zesty kit for October from Papermaze. The colour pallet this month is lemon, black, white and jade. For full detials please see the blog post on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors blog.

This layout shows me and my sister in the garden on our bicycles, in what we called our 'sweetie' dresses.

From the kit I used:
Photo Play - Tulla and Norbert's Sweet As Honey collection - Sweet Pollen
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Lemon Twist collection -  Fresh Squeezed
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - White & Patch
Pack of Glitz Teeny Alpha Teal Woodgrain Stickers

From my stash I used:
Tim Holtz Layering Stencil #2 - Bubble
Distress Oxide Inks (Mustard Seed and Squeezed Lemonade & Black Soot) 
Black Lace
Martha Stewart Butterfly punch
Black Bazzill
Sequins
Peartree Cutfile Sweet Moments
Tags
Ribbon
Gems

Back tomorrow with another layout using this kit.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Limone

Here is my second layout designed for the Papermaze Blog. This kit for October has lots of lemon, black, white and jade papers, Bazzill and embellishments.

Limone - On holiday at Lake Garda we took a trip to Limone, where we say these wonderful lemons for sale in the market. The journalling about our day and Limone is hidden under the photo pocket - with a little pull tab.

Full details can be found on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog

From the Kit I used:
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Lemon Twist collection - 3x4 Elements and Fresh Squeezed
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Farmhouse Garden collection - Simple Things
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Kachina, Patch & Sunbeam
Glitz Teeny Alpha Teal Woodgrain Stickers

From my stash I used:
White and black paper
Small Tattered Florals, Tim Holtz, Sizzix Thinlits die set
Kaisercraft Pearls
Sizzix Alphanumeric Varsity Thinlits die set
flower sequins
Simply White Gloss Nuvo Crystal Drops
black and white washi tape 

That's all for today, more planned with this kit to follow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Father's Day

Here is my layout created at the Papermaze crop last weekend. As the papers were ideal for a masculine theme, I decided to create another page for my Dad's memory album. The photo was taken last month on Father's day.

 

Janet had designed the layout for this month and Louise had created an alternative. I love fonts and really liked the alphabet stamps used in Louise's version. I am also enjoying spray mists and layering so my layout was based more on Lou's design.

the kit contained:

Glitz Design 'Truly Yours' Motif paper, Brown and Aqua cardstock,  2 Kraft tags, Technique Tuesday Journalling card, Aqua Twine, Assorted wooden embellishments and Aqua Washi Tape.

with use of:

Peeled Paint and Walnut Stain Distress Ink
Melted Chocolate Dylusions Ink Spray

I added:
Thickers alphabet stickers from American Crafts

Some scraps of papers left over from last month's kit behind the tears and for stamping on.

Lili of the Valley Father's day greetings stamp.

Memory Box die (railings)

 Here is Janet's original layout:

 and Louise's page

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Three Generations / Six Generations CSI Challenge # 43

For this weeks CSI challenge I have been working with this photo of my ancestors.

There are three generations shown here and and one element of the challenge was to use an older photo and tie the past together with the present in your journalling. So the writing explains the family link between the folk in the photo and then goes on to explain how the family now has a further three generations (see below). My journalling is framed which was another element and I have hidden it under the photo, which folds open to show my scribbles and a family tree.

These are the colours for this weeks challenge:  Black Tie Event, Lemon Chiffon,  Green Grace,  Alabaster Elegance & Fancy Foliage. 

I used these evidence elements:

Damask - the Glitz Design paper from the Love Games collection.
Ribbons - ribbon with shell and bead trimming and tape measure tape.
Frame -  black Bazzill frame cut with Marianne Designs Die used behind photo for journalling.
Foliage - and flowers cut with various punches and Marianne Dies in green Bazzill and Basic Grey papers.
Something transparent  -   Acetate film strip.
Patterned brad - Basic Grey
Flourishes - cut with Marianne die and Green Bazzill
A Black-and-white patterned paper - The Glitz Design paper.

Here is my journalling, visible by opening up the hinged photo. It reads:

"This photo shows three generations of the family. My mother Mary Holder is the little girl on the far right. Next to here is her cousin Patricia Coppin. Next to Pat is her mother Gladys (Humm) Coppin. In the big chair is Gladys' mother Susan (Dunn) Humm. At the far left is Susan's eldest daughter Winifred    (Humm) Holder (Mary's mother and my grandmother). 

They are all sitting in the garden of 'The Bird In Hand' Public House, where Gladys and her husband Charles and Pat lived at the time. Bickley near Bromley.

Today Mary is a great grandmother to two (Jamie and Jessica Prior), grandmother to five Mark and Sam Prior, Andrew, Emily and Catherine Cooper) and mother to three Lynn (me), Sylvia and Robert Banks." 

Then I drew a basic family tree to explain the links.

Other items used are Serendipity papers by Basic Grey (green and yellow)

Crate Paper - Portrait Collection - Honeymoon and sticker border

Tim Holtz Distress Stains - Black soot and Shabby Shutters

Bazzill - Black and green

Flat Backed pearls and gems

Perfect Pearls

Paper blossoms - Wild Orchid Crafts

Sticker '3' from a sheet by Echo Park

American Crafts - Alphabet stickers

Martha Stewart - Round the page punch - Cherish

Lots of chalk and distress inks.

Another great challenge, this week.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Fortune Teller

This is my layout for the February Scrapology Challenge.

This month's challenge was to scraplift this clever layout by SJ, it was a class she taught at the Cardinal Colours Retreat last year.

This is the Scrapology sketch

I used a pad of  8"x8" papers from Glitz Design called Love Games, which is the same as was used in SJ's original, but I picked out the black, white and red papers to go with my playing card theme.

I cut and inked 16 pieces 3" x 3" and arranged them onto a plain piece of 12" x12" cardstock.

Then I cut and inked four card game shapes from scraps of the patterned papers. and added these to four of the squares. I used the Sure Cuts A Lot programme for the Cricut.

I mounted the photo onto some dark grey cardstock and arranged onto the layout. I tucked two fans of four mini playing cards (from a cracker) into position as seen.  I added some large cross stitches in red DMC thread.  Lastly I added the title using Lush black velvet letters.

The photo is my Dad back in the 1950's dressed up for a photo shoot with his friend.

Hop over to Scrapology to see the full details of the challenge for February.

Beautiful Beryl

We have just returned from a lovely long weekend visiting Alan's cousin Beryl who lives in Tetbury, Gloucestershire. We were very busy discovering both ends of the Sapperton Tunnel on the Severn Thames Canal (more of this in another post). We also spent a great day visiting friends in Worcestershire.

While we were with Beryl we spent some time working on the family tree, something I have neglected to do lately. Beryl gave me this favourite photograph of herself, to scan in and add it to the tree. I also printed out a copy and was pleased with the results. It was taken around 1948 to 1950.

While at the Cardinal Colours Retreat last month I helped out with SJ's classes and one of them was this patchwork class using Glitz Design papers (8"x8" paper pad) from the Love Games collection. The base is Kraft Bazzill, the squares of patterned papers are 3" x 3" squares, with a few cross stitches added here and there. The hearts were punched and the flowers cut free-hand, crumpled, inked and with hand drawn stitches. I started the layout at the retreat but without a photo, Beryl's picture seemed the perfect thing.

Letter stickers - Prima

Gems - Giant Rhinestones - Glitz

I added two silver decorative pins

Here is SJs original layout:

Thanks for looking.

Before You Go!

A layout I made after the Cardinal Colours retreat.

Together with Linda, I assisted in SJ's class when she taught this page, but brought my kit home to play afterwards.

The class was called 'White Space'.

The glazed Bazzill cardstock is spritzed with two colours of Tattered Angel glimmer mists, then the xcess mopped up to show off the glazed pattern.

Patterned papers are from an 8"x8" pad by Glitz Designs, from a collection called 'Afternoon Muse'. The flowers were cut from these papers and the patterned strips were cut and trimmed with border punches.

The text photo mat was taken from an old gardening text book, crumpled, torn and inked.

The green glittery alphabet stickers are from K and Co.

I used a random selection of buttons from my stash.

The tag s made from patterned paper, it has hidden journalling and is attached with butcher's twine.

Most of these items are still available from Cardinal Colours.

My photo was taken on the day before my daughter Emily returned to Nottingham for her second year of university. The journalling tells of how I wanted one last photo before she went away again. She is pictured with her treasured possessions as a student of creative and professional writing - her notebook / diary, kindle, Filofax and beloved camera.

Missing you Emily x

This is SJ's original page:

Smile!

While at the crop on Saturday I made this layout using a photo of my daughter Emily taken at the wedding two  weeks earlier. Where has that two weeks gone?

Patterned papers - Glitz Designs, Love Games Collection

Rub-ons - Kaiser Craft

Letter stickers - Jenni Bowlin Studio,

Lush flocked chipboard Letters -My Mind's Eye

other - blossoms, lace, ribbons, perfect pearls, brads, eyelets

Die cuts - Cricut

This is inspired by the work of Gabrielle Pollacco, one of my favourite scrapbook designers.