Pirate Party

This is for #2 of the Peartree Cutfile 2nd birthday challenges. 'E' is for Ephemera and Distressed Edges.

I chose to scrap this photo of the childred dressed and ready to go to a friend's pirate themed birthday party.

I used:
Various papers including October Afternoon, Mintay and Basic Grey
Matt Silver metallic cardstock
Bazzill Cardstock
Basic Grey letter stickers
Tags and Ephemera from various collections
Peartree Cutfile
Doodlebug Designs alpha stickers
Baker's Twine

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Girl Guides

Challenge 7 for the Bramford Monthly Scrapbook Crop, virtual National Scrapbooking Weekend Challenge. This time we were asked to use a sketch.

For some reason I had three copies of this print, which was ideal for the sketch. The photo is my sister and me in 1973, in our front garden, just about to set out on a guide day out. We would have been 11 and 13 years old. This one is for my sister's album.

This is the sketch:

I found some old papers from October Afternoon, Farm Girl collection, which had the perfect colours for the photos. I also used a sheet of Natural Bazzill and some Doodlebug Designs letter stickers.

The tags were cut with a sizzix Thinlits die set and I used a selection of ribbon and twine to finish these off. They were attached to the page with some Stampin' Up brads.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

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

Freda Edith

Following on from yesterday's post and the layout featuring Winifred, I am back with this month's Papermaze crop kit and Winnie's daughter - Freda. This layout was designed by Lou Collins.

Freda Edith Williams was born in 1916 to Henry David Williams and Winifred Freda Holder (My great aunt). Freda married Sydney Kingswood in 1946 and they had one son, John born 1949.

The kit includes:

Simple Stories - Hello Baby - Wood Veneer/Music paper

October Afternoon Daily Flash 'Snapshots paper

Dotted Swiss Grey Bazzill Cardstock

Doily, dew drops, wooden chevrons. 

Available to use: 

Kaisercraft Postal Clear Stamp
Tattered Angels 'Seven Seas' Chalkboard Mist

Papermaze Coffee Stain Mask

I added a title cut on the Cricut using the Billionaire cartridge. 

Vintage photo distress ink.

Tuxedo Black Memento Ink

Great to catch up with good friends and have the day crafting - I actually managed to completer two pages and start a third.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

New Toy and a Card

For my birthday I was lucky enough to be given a Cricut Explore! It arrived last week and although I haven't had a lot of time to play with it, I did try a basic card and was impressed with how easy it is to set up and use.I had the bundle from Crafts U Love which included some accessories

My package being unpacked

 

Lots of places to store spare blades and tools (above and below).

 

Some of the materials supplied with the Explore

I set it up and made a card for my nephew Simon. It was not a complicated card - I tried out functions I have used with the Cricut Craft Room before, and they are easier with the Explore and the Cricut Design Space.

Simon is scientific so I chose this paper with periodic table symbols on it.
I used Bazzill cardstock, Miri card, October Afternoon patterned paper. The greeting is a rub on.

I made a pouch inside to contain a voucher. 

Happy 16th Birthday Simon.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

52 Christmas Crackers 2014 - Week 19

Back with my Christmas Card using Navy, Vellum and Stitching, the three elements drawn from the jar for inspiration this week.

For details of this challenge please see Kool Kitty Musings Blog

From the element jar I went for sweetie jar!
I used:
Patterned paper - October Afternoon Eggnog collection - both sides of Peppermint
Cricut Craft Room & Simply Charmed cartridge
Stickles - Crystal glitter glue
From my stash - scraps of Bazzill, Vellum, Chalk Ink, marker pen for stitches & Peel Off greeting

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

52 Card Challenge 2014 - Week 17

This week we have another sketch for inspiration. Please go to Kool Kitty Musings Blog for full details of the challenge.

My papers and stickers are from October Afternoon's Farm Girl collection.

I cut the lid off the large jar sticker and backed both pieces with card so they were no longer stickers. I stuck the jar down with 3D foam pads just around the edges leaving a slot from the top.

I then stuck the lid to a strip of card from another October afternoon paper for messages. This slips inside the jar with the lid back in place. I added the greeting sticker to the lid. I added the Raspberry jam, and flower stickers to the bottom left as accents to the main sticker. The scalloped strip is also from the sticker sheet.

I added a ribbon bow, glitter glue and liquid pearls.

Back with my Christmas card tomorrow!

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

I want to ride my {sister's} bicycle

It's some time since I made a layout with more than one photograph, but I was inspired to have a go at this week's CSI challenge. It's also quite a while since I had time to take part in a CSI challenge. I find these challenges excellent for making me use up my existing stash and for mixing papers from different collections. It is more of a challenge when I'm away from home and have limited papers etc. with me, but more time to take part.

 
Here is the case file (71) we were challenged to solve as a scrapbook page.

Colour Scheme - All colours used:
Summer Sun - Yellow Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss papers, buttons.
Cheery Cherry - Baby clothes in photo, paper from Magnolia, buttons, Basic Grey letter stickers, nail head stickers, twine.
White Whistle - Bazzill Glazed Cardstock, white Bazzill.
Blue Birds of Happiness - Bo Bunny papers as above, papers from October Afternoon Farm Girl collection, Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist - Bell Bottom Jeans, buttons.
Concrete - Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist - Black Magic, Basic Grey letter stickers, Basic Grey papers from Scarlet Letter collection.

Evidence -
*Circles - photos and Sizzix doily and doily border dies
*Birds (on Glazed Bazzill)
*Ink splatters - Glimmer Mists
*Fiber/Twine - American Crafts Premium Ribbon
*Doodling/pen work - Doodling around letters, tag and shapes


Testimony - Song title - The one and only Queen – “I want to ride my bicycle” with a twist to suit the photos.

Journalling - The tag pulls out and contains the story of the bike and my my brother (in the photos)  eventually inheriting it from me and my sister. I remember going to buy the bicycle with my father and choosing it at the bike shop in Penge High Street. The photos were taken in 1969 and were colour slides which have been converted.

This challenge runs until Sunday 19th May.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

This challenge is now closed and I made the 'On The Watch List'!

Farm Girl

October Afternoon's Farm Girl papers were the perfect papers for this photo of Emily when she was 2 years old (October 1994). We were at Stone Lodge Farm. My hidden journalling tells of how we all went to the children's farm with our friends Deborah and Richard and their girls Jennifer and Helen. Emily was really taken with the idea of visiting a farm and even took her farm picture book along with her.

This is the design team layout I made for May's Scrapology Challenge - 'H is for Hand Stitching'.
We are scraplifting this pretty, fresh looking layout by Delaina Farr Burns. 

 Here is our sketch:

 Here is what I used and did:

October Afternoon, Farm Girl Papers - Rose Trellis, Berry Basket, Patchwork, Pie Tin & Mason Jar
  Cream Puff Bazzill
  Wired mulberry paper flowers

DMC embroidery stranded cotton 931, needle, Sew Easy tool
Technique Tuesday square template
  Decorative leaf pins
Sizzix die

Cut cream card so it measures 11" x 11",  with pencil, use Technique Tuesday square template to draw two squares overlapping each other in the centre.

Create holes for stitching using a large needle or the 'Sew Easy' tool.  Rub away pencil lines. Back stitch around both squares with 3 strands of the DMC thread.

Gut yellow dot side of Rose trellis paper to make a 1" frame 12" x 12".

Mount card centrally over frame.   

Cut a piece of 'Pie Tin' paper 2" x 7 1/4", 'Berry Basket' 4" x 7" and a scalloped square piece from 'Mason Jar' paper using the acetate template. Distress and ink all the edges. 

Lay these into position and stick in place. 

Mount the 4" x 6" photo in place over the papers. 

Turn the top right corner of the denim paper over to show the flowers side, place a few 3D foam pads underneath, and stick a little yellow wired flower over the point. Add a leaf cut from the 'Rose Trellis' paper.

From the 1" strips of card left over cut some lacy shapes with the Sizzix die. You will only get the top of this shape, but it's all you need! tuck the shapes either side of the photo.

The photo is of my daughter at the Farm so I used the manufacturer's strip to create my title. 'Farm Girl' and 'October Afternoon' were perfect! Create your own title using left over papers.

Cut a few flowers from the 'Rose Trellis' paper and arrange on the layout, some flat and others on 3D foam.  Cut the centres from a few more flowers and add these over a few of the flowers on the page. Cut a few leaf stems and arrange these around the flowers. Also cut a few leaves to use on their own without the stems.

Arrange the wired flowers on the layout and stick down.

Place the decorative pins, sticking them through the 3D foam pads to hold them in position. 

Please pop over to Scrapology for details of the challenge and the prize.

Thanks for looking Lynn x

Happy Birthday Anita

Earlier this month I showed you a cake I made for Anita with pigs bathing in a hot tub. Here is her card.

I used a stamp I purchased at Ally Pally last autumn, from Dimensions Stamps. The papers are all from October Afternoon. My card blank is Craftwork Cards 6" x 6" scalloped white card. Stickers are October Afternoon and unknown from my stash.
I stamped the whole image twice, coloured the pigs with my Promarkers and cut them out and mounted them over the other pile of pigs image. They are all glittered up with crystal Stickles.

Happy Birthday Anita x

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Advocate

A while ago I blogged about my daughter Emily being interviewed at Nottingham University about her course, and as part of that she was videoed and photographed outside one of the Jubilee Campus buildings. A true advocate for the university and her Creative and Professional Writing course. I wanted to scrap this event and when I saw Vanessa's crop kit for the Papermaze February crop I knew the content was perfect for the colours in the picture.

 

The kit contained:
White and Kelly Green Bazzill
Jillybeans Soup - Grandma's Lima Bean Soup - Small Onion and Leak Bulb
October Afternoon - Farm Girl - Fresh Eggs
Jilly Bean Soup Hexies stickers
Clear Dew Drops
Buttons
Green Twine
Washi Tape

To complete:
Circle and border punches
Butterfly die
Olive green chalk ink
Prima Alphabet Stickers

The waste from the stickers was used as a mask for inking through onto the white Bazzill.

 
To see the interview please follow this link:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/ugvideos/emilycooper/emilycooper.aspx

this was another photo from the interview.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Glass Jars

The Scrapology Card Challenge for February is to make a card using or representing something transparent! I saw these October Afternoon - Farm Girl papers and stickers with preserving jars and decided to make a card with them. There is a lot of Glossy Accents on some of the jars.

I used a Stampin' up greeting which is stamped onto a label from the sticker sheet. Some of the jars are raised on 3D foam pads.

This second card is an easel card made from a 6" x 6" card blank. I added lots of ribbon bows.

Back with some different cards tomorrow. Please see Scrapology for details of the challenge and prize.

A Box of Books

While at Paper Maze on Saturday I purchased the crop kit for June. As I mentioned yesterday I decided to use it to make a layout of Emily at 20 months showing how she used to tip all the books out of the box and get it it to read!

This page was designed by Vanessa and uses papers from October Afternoon's Sasparilla Collection (Rustler, Wagon Train, Stagecoach, Tumbleweed and Pony Express)

Bazzill in Berrylicious, Natural and Indigo

Blue buttons ( I added some red and cream ones)

Cherry Red Bakers Twine (I added some Navy)

and some Natural Ribbon.

Some close up photos

I used one of the buttons to centre my windmill rather than a paper rose.

I used my Stampin' Up punch to create my bunting, but followed Vanessa's method of stringing the flags together.

I used Basic Grey's PB&J letter stickers as did Vanessa, with some letters created with spare papers and a Cuttlebug alphabet die set.

Here is Vanessa's original, please see the Papermaze blog - 'Scrap, Paper, Scissors' for more details - There is a link in my sidebar.

Here are the original photos of Emily, taken in 1993 at home. She looks amazed at the news in this Lego catalogue!

Love these pictures, although they are scanned in from the original negatives so the quality is not brilliant, but the memory is preserved.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x