Beautiful Bridesmaids

I have just caught up with last month's (13th October) crop kit layout which I started at the Papermaze Crop - and it's nearly time for the next one (Saturday 10th). The pretty October layout was designed by Janina and suited the photo of my daughter and great niece, who were bridesmaids for my nephew and his new wife in September this year.

Please see the original design on the Papermaze blog.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x.

Emma Jane Florence

Time to share another crop kit layout from Papermaze, this one is from the August crop and was designed by Janina.

The photo I chose to scrap is of my great grandmother Emma Jane Florence Holder. My tiny journalling (so it would fit on the panel) reads:

"Emma Jane Florence Holder née Williams born 1866 to David Williams and Charlotte Williamsnée Allen. She married Frederick Henry Holder in Bromley on 9th February 1886 at Hatcham.

Emma & Frederick had 14 children and lived at

 120 Southlands Road in Bromley, Kent."

My page is fairly true to Janina's original with the addition of a title, and a couple of distressed tears with a little of the reverse side of the paper showing through the gaps. I chose to cut out and use the numbers '120' as that is the house number in Southlands Road where Emma Jane lived.

The kit contained:
Cream Bazzill cardstock
Marion Smith double sided patterned papers - from the Nirvana collection (Family Record, Cloud 9 and Typograph)

I added:
Color Box Chalk Inks
White gel pen
Prima Engraver Alphabet Stickers

Here is Janina's original layout 'Reasons to Smile':

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