Bathing Bea Bee

This fun layout was created using the bright, summery August Papermaze kit, which has been great fun to work with. Hereis the final layout I have created with this kit. These photos were from a few weeks ago, and show Florence helping her Mummy wash her favourite soft toy. 

For full details of how I made the layout, please see the Papermaze Blog. 

From the kit, I used:
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Coconut Swirl & Pollen 
Lawn Fawn - Bitsy Blooms collection - Begonia
Doodlebug Designs - Butterfly Kisses collection - Garden Party
Simple Stories - Crafty Babe collection - Live. Love,.Scrap
Echo Park - Have a Great Summer collection - Best Life Butterflies
Doodlebug Designs cupcake doily
Flair button
Pretty Little Studio Berry Sweet Word Stickers
Strip of jewels
SS Simple Vintage Flower Shoppe Sentiment Bits & Pieces
Rosie's Studio 2 chipboard pieces Born to Bloom 

From my stash, I used:
Distress Oxide Ink - Speckled Egg
Black Bazzill
Spellbinders - Simple Stories - Say Cheese Classic Mouse Alphabet Die Set

I'll be back with the September kit very soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

It's A Girl Thing!

today I have a new post on the Papermaze Blog, featuring the summery August kit. It is available to buy from the store and online. Here is the first of the layouts in that post, the photos here show four generations of females in our family. 



For the details on making the layout please see the blog. 

From the kit, I used:
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Fussy, Aqua, Granny Smith, Tangelo, Pollen and Coconut Swirl 
Echo Park - Have a Great Summer collection - Best Life Butterflies
Doodlebug Designs - Butterfly Kisses collection - Garden Party
Lawn Fawn - Bitsy Blooms collection - Begonia
Doodlebug Designs cupcake doily

From my own stash, I used:
Distress Inks
White Cardstock
Doodlebug Designs Foam Stamps 'Simply Sweet' 
Black acrylic paint
Doodlebug Designs Rub-ons 'All Mixed Up' Large, Medium and Small Beetle Black
Doodlebug Designs Sew-Easy Rub-on Stitches
Bazzill Scraps
Leaf and flower dies

I'll be back with the last layout from this kit tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Pebbles

Here is my second layout made with the bright, summery Papermaze August kit. I have enjoyed working with the kit this summer. The kit is now available in store and online. I have been working with photos of my granddaughter's recent visit to us in Suffolk. Florence can be seen here, discovering pebbles on the beach at Aldeburgh. 

Please see the blog for full details about making the layout.

From the kit, I used:
Doodlebug Designs - Butterfly Kisses collection Garden Party
Lawn Fawn - Bitsy Blooms collection - Begonia
Simple Stories - Crafty Babe collection - Live. Love,.Scrap
Pretty Little Studio Word Cut Aparts You Are My Sunshine
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Aqua, Tangelo & Pollen
Word Cut Aparts You Are My Sunshine

From my own stash, I used:
Scrap white card
Cutfile & Cricut
Baker's Twine
3D foam pads
Dear Lizzy Thickers Treasure
Pearls & gems

That's all for today, I'll be back with more from this kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Spring, Spring, Spring...

My last layout from the April Papermaze Kit. Spring, Spring, Spring ... - A layout for my daughters' dance album, showing them dressed for a dance school show.

From the kit I used:

Bazzill Basics Cardstock: African Daisy, Coral Cream, Nixon, Stonewash & Limeade
& White
Echo Park - My Favorite Easter - Picking Plaid
Lawn Fawn - Watercolor Wishes - Larimar
9" washi tape
Lace
Easter stickers
strip of enamel dots
5 Perspex domes
Rosie's Studio Puffy Stickers


From my stash I used:
Distress Oxide Inks
Sizzix Thinlits Varsity alphanumeric set
gems and pearls
I used a sketch from Pagemaps

 

 

This concludes my layouts from the April Kit, I will be back soon with mew layouts from the May Kit.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Selfie Card for Catherine

Here is the card I made for Catherine's birthday, using a Kraftin Kimmie stamp. I also used the scraps left from my March Papermaze DT layouts - Simple Stories, Carpe Diem.  The image was coloured with my Promarkers.

I also used:
Small gems
Letter stickers from Basic Grey
Stickles
Black Bazzill
Elizabeth Craft Designs greeting die
Lawn Fawn Stitched Journalling card blank 

Belated birthday wishes Catherine.

Thanks for looking
Lynn 

52 Card Challenge - Week 31

Morning All!It's time for another sketch prompt over on Kool Kitty Musings Blog

and this week's inspiration comes from Mama Elephant:

I kept quite closely to the design with this simple card to thank my friend Hilary for a late birthday surprise.

I finally got around to using my Hello, Doily stamp by Stampin' Up with some Brilliance ink and white embossing powder.
The denim effect paper is from October Afternoon - Farm Girl collection.
Feather Dies by Impression Obsession
Banner Die by Fawn Lawn
A selection for flowers and leaves from my collection.
Stamp greeting from Basic Banners by Wplus9
Distress Inks.

Thanks for looking - I will be back later today with my Christmas Cracker too.
Lynn x

52 Week Card Challenge 2014 - Week 20

Over on Nat's Kool Kitty Musings Blog  The theme for week 20 was based on a very popular tradition of ...

'Show and Tell'

Reminds me of when the children were in reception class and were allowed to take something for show and tell each Friday. Trying to steer them away from taking anything too precious was often one of my biggest challenges.

Every crop I go to we tend to take along our recently acquired techniques, newest gadgets, papers or embellishments to show off and share with all! Often holding mini workshops.

So for week 20 we were asked to make a card to featuring a recent crafty purchase.

I'm a week behind with this challenge owing to the Disney trip followed by a weekend trip to Manchester to bring Andrew home from Uni.

Here is the most recent acquisition to my crafting tools

Die-namics alphabet dies in upper and lower case these cut beautifully and pop out of the die so easily.
I was inspired to but the Lawn Fawn dies having seen Natty use them.
All three of these dies were used on this new baby card for the lovely Helen and Adam who had a baby daughter earlier this month.

I also used:
Patterned papers - Doodlebug Designs Inc. Petite Prints in bubblegum Pink
Inks - Memento Tuxedo Black for stamping and Colorbox Chalk Inks
Crucit - New Arrival Cart.
Stickles - Crystal
Card Blank - 6" x 6" scalloped card by Craftwork Crafts
Cardstock - Miri card and Bazzill
Punches - Woodware
Stamps - Stampin' Up and Lili of the Valley
Other - lace, gems, ribbon

Here is the inside of the card:

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x