New Baby Boy

If you pop over to the Papermaze Blog today, you will see two layouts I have created. This month I'm using 49 and Market's pretty pastel Glimmer & Glee collection. This collection has water colour style images, which are great for documenting parties, birthdays, babies, and garden gatherings. The palette is a clever mix of pretty corals, pinks, yellows, blues and greens. This first layout has photos of my great nephew at 7 weeks.

Full details are on the Scrap, Paper Scissors Blog

The items I used:
49 and Market - Glimmer and Glee collection - Jubilee & Laser Cut Elements 
Distress Ink - Faded Jeans
Distress Paint  Faded Jeans &  Scattered Straw
3D Foam Pads
Making Memories Foam Stamps
Nuvo Glitter Drops - Gold Coast. 
Tim Holtz Alphanumeric 'Label' & 'Tiny Type' Sizzix Thinlits set
Doodlebug Designs Sunshine card stock Alphabet Stickers - Bumblebee
Acrylic domes in pastel shades
Acrylic heart

That's all for today, I'll be back with more from this collection tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Catherine at Pecorama

My last pair of layouts using the Papermaze kit for April are now on the blog and the kit is still available in the Papermaze store. This is another layout I have updated from an older version I made many years ago. This one shows my daughter, Catherine on the zip wire at Pecorama, Devon.

Please see full details on the blog.

From the kit I used:

American Crafts - Dreamer collection - Stamped Hearts
Pebbles - Cool Girl collection - Petals
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Romance

From my stash I used:
Vicki Boutin Sweet Rush stencil
Distress Oxide Ink
Making Memories eyelet letters
coloured eyelets
3D foam pads
jute twine
Sizzix Tim Holtz Thinlits - Tags

That's all for the April Kit, back with the May kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Pecorama

Twilight Crafts Summer Cyber Crop - Challenge #8 - Taste the Rainbow - Use at least 7 colours on the page.

These photos show Emily on the zip wire at Pecorama in Devon.

I used:
Pinkfresh Studio - Happy Heart - Happy Days
Doodlebug Designs - Alphabet Soup - Puffy Letter Stickers - Bumblebee, Cupcake, Limeade and Mint
Distress Inks
Making Memories tags, eyelets and letter charms

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Panto Time

Peartree Cutfile November challenge #3 - Try a new technique - Add testure to your layout. This photo shows my daughter Catherine, as DSM for the panto season 2021, at the Orchard Theatre, Dartford. The production was Jack and the Beanstalk. As a sign of the times, here she is in the prompt corner with the Omicron Covid Screens behind her.

 

 

I used:
Making Memories glitter patterned music paper
Glitter cardstock
Thickers Glitter Alphas
Metallic cardstock

 

Thanks for looking,
Lynn x
 

Out of this World

This is the second challenge over on the Peartree Peardrop challenge for April. To use a hidden element on the layout. I have made a folder with a photo on the front and my journalling and another photo inside.

The broenie pack held a starwars themed fancy dress party. Anything outer space was included. Emily dressed in Andrews old Alien costume and we added a few spots to her face to change it up a bit. April 1999.



I used:
Making Memories - Animal Crackers - Jack papers and stickers
Blue Miri Card
Peartree Cutfile - Out of this World
Glittery Foam Alpha Stickers

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Changing Rooms

Over on the facebook group - FTLOPP - challenge #2 for the Journey of Change is to document Changing Rooms. So I decided to scrap photos of the changes we made to our living room. We moved into this house in 2018 and brought some old sofas and curtains to use until we got a chance to replace and decorate. Early 2021 finally saw these changes. It took some time to redecorate as there as four doors and two windows, and all the paintwork was badly painted before. The beams had paint slopped on them from previously and there were plenty of crackes in the plaster surrounding them. Once redecorated the room we had a wait for the sofas and I made new curtains.

I used:
My Mind's Eye - On the Bright Side collection
Making Memories - Die Cut Scallop Flower Patch
Echo Park - So Lovely stickers
Decorative pins & safety pin
Metal flowers

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Gift Wrapped!

Meet Stanley! One of my sister's new kittens (Dougie to follow). This photo was taken after about a week of her welcoming the kittens to her home.

This layout is for today's FTLOFF Cake Day (6th Anniversary) first challenge - titled Battenberg. The aim is to use a 4 square gird and / or a pair of colours. So I went for red and white and a gift parcel effect, which divides the page into 4 parts. 

For this layout I dug into my store of prescious stash, that I have been saving for something special.

The border is a paper from Magnolia Ink's Sweet Christmas Dreams collection and is called Lingonberry Christmas.

Over this I added a sheet of trimmed white Bazzill, after splattering it with red, white, balck and silver acrylic paint.

The photo was mounted onto some Basic Grey's Black Tie collection background papers (scraps). These are great because they are distressed they are no solid colour and have many other colours running through them.

I tied a bow in dark red ribbon, matching the ribbon in the photo as closely as I could. To this I added two tiny silver bells, just like on Stanley's collar.

The letters for the title (and stars) are from my stash and an old glittery red alphabet from Making Memories, and some silver glitter letters of unknown manufacturer.

The label sticker is another treasure from Basic Grey.

Back soon with a layout featureing little Dougie.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Christmas @ Hogwarts

Little Scarlett with her parents visited Harry Potter World recently and enjoyed the attraction all done up for Christmas.

In these photos they are standing infront of the big Christmas Tree. As the tree was surrounded by gifts wrapped in red, I decided the photos would be ideal for this week's FTLOPP Be Colourful challenge - Sumptious Scarlet. 

I used:
White Bazzill
Bella BLVD - Christmas Cheer collection - Jingle All The Way and stickers
Making Memories - Fa La La - Glittered Poinsettia Red
S.E.I. - Doodley-doo Holiday - Tree Trimmings
Red Glitter Card
Doodlebug Design letter stickers
Simple Stories Sn@p Stickers
Cricut and Burton's Nightmare font
Echo Park Star Stencil
Distress Ink - Candied Apple
Distress Paint - Candied Apple, Festive Berries, Picket Fence, Black Soot
Sizzix Thinlits - Woodlands and Retro Merry Christmas

Thanks 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

Little Miss Sunshine

Back to Rosie's album today, and this time with a photo from last summer, picking out the character on her T-shirt as a theme for the layout.

I used the lovely papers - Broadwalk from BoBunny to create this layout. 

White Bazzill cardstock

Several cuts were made using the Cricut.

The title was cut in cardboard using Linda's 'Word Play' Sizzix die. I painted these with Distress Paints and glossed them.

I added buttons tied with twine, including some old Making Memories fish shaped ones.
Liquid Pearls was used to create the effect of nails in the wood effect paper
I used Stickles to add a little sparkle to may waves.

thanks for looking

Lynn x

Fresh Herbs

I love to grow my own and so my daughter Emily sent me a kit for growing some kitchen herbs for my birthday in May last year. It was a delightful picket fence box, which holds three pots for growing individual herbs. It has a little shed at the end to hold tiny tools. The photo in my layout shows the herbs some months later.

I created this layout in response to the Dusty Attic Blog - June Mood Board challenge.

I created my background with two sheets of Bazzill cardstock - the base is cream and has been trimmed all around with a Martha Stewart punch around the page punch set. The top layer started out white! I trimmed this down to fit inside my cream border and set about creating a background using stencils (Tim Holtz and PaperArtsy -JOFY) and Distress Paint (Picket Fence, Antique Linen and Walnut Stain). Then I added colour with Distress Inks (Shabby Shutters and Bundled Sage). After this was all dry I spritzed a little Dylusions Ink (Black Marble and White Linen). I stitched round the edges of the finished cardstock before sticking to the larger piece.













Behind the tear in my cardstock is a small piece of 'Raspberries' paper from Maja Designs Coffee in the Arbour collection, these colours blend well with the colours I chose from the mood board and my inks and paints, and a tiny hint of the red.

My choice of Dusty Attic embelishments for this page was Chicken Wire 12" x 12", Flutterbies #3 and Flower Buds, all from Papermaze. The butterflies were painted with a little Picket Fence Distress Paint, then some red ink lightly dusted on the the butterfly wings followed by a fine layer of glitter. Some beads of glossy accents were added to the seed heads of the flower buds.

I tucked two halves of a small doily under the photo. My date is Prima number stickers on a scrap of white Bazzill surrounded by a metal label plate from Tim Holtz.

My lettering is Making Memories Simply Fabulous, velvet alphabet stickers in peapod for 'HERBS', and Doodlebug Designs Inc. Fancy Fonts letter stickers in black cherry for 'FRESH'.

I enjoyed making this layout, and creating my own background for a change rather than using patterned papers.

Take a look at the Dusty Attic blog to see beautiful creations from other entries as well as the amazing design team work.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

The Dodd Sisters

Over on Scrapology this month we are inviting you to join us in scraplifting the talented, Australian scrapper Melinda Spinks . We have called the challenge 'S is for Squares'.

Here is my layout:

The photo shows my cousins in New Zealand back in 1958. Kathleen Mary age 8, Susan Elizabeth age 6 and Glenda Raewyn at 2 years of age. This photo was a Christmas portrait.

I used:

Patterned papers - Kaisercraft - Rustic Harmony

A selection of flowers and embellishments from various Papermaze kits purchased over the last few years:

Badge buttons

Twine

Dew Drops - clear

Decorative Pins

Chalk Inks

Rubons - Basic Grey & Making Memories

Embossing folders

Kraft Cardstock - Bazzill

I cut the patterned papers and cardstock into 5cm squares and embossed some of them, before inking the edges and arranging them on the background paper. The photo has four layers to the mount.

I had lots of rubons in my collection to choose from, I had just sorted them all out as I won a Sticker storage system in a crop raffle at Cardinal Colours last month. I find some makes of rub-ons are much better than others, the two I used above are easy to use and give great results. Although I love most of the Kaisercraft products I find some of their rub-ons impossible to 'run on'! Please comment with your experiences using various makes of  rub-ons, would love to hear what you have discovered.

Here is the original layout and the sketch:

Do pop over to Scrapology and take a look at the details of the challenge.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Double Sprouts!

Another Christmas layout with the theme of racing sprouts. Just before Christmas 2012 I found some sprout crackers when shopping in Devon. The little wind up clockwork sprouts are designed to be raced. This caused much fun at lunch time on Christmas Day.

This is the first double layout I have made for a long time. I used a Pagemap from the same year.
The patterned papers are from Bo Bunny's Mistletoe collection. 

Mum and Dad 

We were a small group that year as Robert and Elaine were in Brazil and Andrew was in America.

A few close up photos:

My title was created with an old Making Memories wire and bead 'Christmas' word,
The black letters and numbers are both from Doodlebug Designs Inc. and the 'Sprouts' are American Crafts glitter Thickers.

I used lots of self adhesive gems.

The tree was cut from the papers and embellished with more gems. I added a yellow glittery chipboard star.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x