Happy 21st Birthday Katie!

I was asked to make a 21st birthday card for Katie. So I created this vintage girly easel card. It's 8" x 8" and made using Bo Bunny's Ces't La Vie collection.

The girl stamp is one of the Prima dolls, I layered up her shirt using some of the patterned papers and coloured the rest of her with my Promarkers.
The large lacy circle and edging were cut form a Sizzix die set and cream Bazzill. The charm has been in my stash for a while and was perfect for Katie. The ribbon is from Cardinal Colours. The various flowers are all from Wild Orchid Crafts.  I also used lots of flat backed gems.

 The numbers were stamped using Papermania stamps and cut from patterned paper. These were raised up with 3D foam pads.

 I added lots of stickles to create sparkle to the numbers and the letters. 'KATIE' is made from foam American Craft Thickers, which were inked and glittered.

Thanks for looking, and have a great birthday Katie.
Lynn x

English Rose

One of the photos from Catherine's recent photo shoot has a union jack as the backdrop, so I dug out the remains of some papers I had for last year's diamond jubilee layout. The are Papermania's Portobello Road.

Here is what I used:
Cream Puff Bazzill
Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist on the background paper.
Making Memories glitter alphabet stickers with some Liquid Pearls added. 
Martha Stewart border punch
Ivory crochet lace
Ruby Slippers Stickles
Flat backed pearls
All My Memories Twill Alphabet stickers.
Distress Inks
Decorative Pins
Pearl rose cabochon embellishment, and sweetheart blossoms from Wild Orchid Crafts.
Ribbon
Charm
Dusty Attic Chipboard ornate corner

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Mini Christmas Album

Using a Paper Mania chipboard album and left over papers from my 'Magic of Christmas Eve' double layout. I made this small album of my Christmas decorations. The title is created from Basic Grey chipboard letters painted red with red glitter added. Each paged was painted around the edges with acrylic paint then papers to decorate. I used lots of odds and ends of left over Christmas embellishments. The papers are all from the My Mind's Eye - 'I Believe' collection from Cardinal Colours.

Front cover

I don't know where the photo of the back page went, will need to add this later.

Thanks for looking.

Special Blend!

It's our 26th Wedding Anniversary today and so I made Alan a card.  The Stamps are Kraftin' Kimmies, from the Tea Time collection, I used a mask to overlap the two characters slightly. (I buy my Kimmies from Elaine in the UK from Quixotic Paperie.) They were coloured with my Pro markers. The papers and the bow are from Docrafts - Papermania's Persimmon Collection. I added a few pale blue and brown pearls too. I hope he likes it - HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO US!

Mr Toad

Week 121 for the Mojo Holder Blog and the guest designer is Micayla Metcalf. Please read more about Micayla on her own blog and also on the Mojo Holder blog. My layout shows our friend Steve outside church just after the wedding of his eldest daughter Helen back in 2004. From this day he acquired the nickname ‘Mr Toad’ we have never seen him dressed up like this in all the many years we have known each other! (In fact only one other time since this day, more recently, for his younger daughter’s wedding last year).

This photo shows the street where they live in the quaint fishing village of Beer, in Devon.I used My Mind’s Eye papers, the background is Deena’s Penny Lane, and the other sheet is double sided and I have used both sides – Trés Jolie, Mademoiselle “Mother”. More American Craft Thickers alphabet stickers, this time in a vinyl finish. The tiny letters are Making Memories, brown ledger, tiny alphas. The ‘Once Upon A Time’ was cut on the Cricut, inked and mounted on a scrap of the MME paper. A wide variety of blossoms were attached with Paper Mania pearl brads. I have not worked on the album for some time, so it’s good to get another page completed. Micayla’s origins original layout and the sketch: