Pura Vida

Near to where we live there is a lovely plant nursery, called Pura Vida Plantarium. Inside the building is a coffee shop called The Coffee Den. When we visited on a day in August 2021 The celing had been decorated with brightly coloured umbrellas.

This is one on Paige Evans online classes - Origami Flowers, I felt this was appropriate for the bright umbrellas as well as the flowers.

Paige used a paper from the Horizon collection, but I was unable to purchase this as it was out of stock. I found another similar sheet from the Garden Shoppe collection #9. The squares on this sheet were a little smaller than those on the sheet Paige used, so I made 6 rosettes rather than the five on the original.

For the background I used a sheet of Paige's Go The Scenic Route #4.

In addition I used two Paperchase paperclips, various stickers, pearls, sequins, Nuvo Crystal Drops and Thickers.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Valentine Card II

Back with another Valentine card. I saw a card with this wording on in a newsagent while queuing to pay and thought it would be brilliant for someone better known as 'Toad'!

So as a last minute card I made this with some of the bits left over from other work which remained on my desk top. I used the Cricut and the Sweetheart cartridge. when I searched on the My Cut Search site I was amazed how many cartridges had toads/frogs on them. This is such a useful facility for finding what you already have without searching through every booklet.

There is a mix of patterend papers Magnolia and Doodlebug Designs Inc. included, and several colours of Bazzill cardstock.

The font is 'cheri', I liked the way it dots the 'i's' with a tiny heart. I cut and layered this with my usual combination of Woodware and Stampin' Up punches.

The hearts are a combination of two different packs I have had a ling time, they were purchased from Paperchase.

Happy Valentine Day All
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Back from the USA

Andrew spent three of his four year degree course in Toledo America. The photographs in this layout were taken a few days after he returned in June 2013. We were in a cafe, enjoying tea while waiting to see a show Catherine was working on in Camden.

I used a sketch from this month's Scrap 365 Magazine challenge:

Together with:
Bo Bunny's Zip-A-Dee Doodle Collection papers - Zip-A-Dee Doodle and Zig Zag.
Acrylic paint
Paperchase metallic dot stickers
My Little Shoe Box, Mini Alphabet Stickers - Seaside
American Craft Thickers - Foam Letter Stickers - Elm
Buttons
Washi Tape
Uni Posca Pen - Balck
My Mind's Eye - Cut & Paste - Tiny Word Stickers
Distress Ink
Chipboard colour slide frames (? manufacturer)

The challenge ends tomorrow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Congratulations and Celebrations

This photo was taken of my daughter and her friend Jem a few days after her 18th birthday, when we were celebrating with friends and family at home.

The papers are Junkitz Fanciful papers, Basic Grey Infuse papers and Making Memories Hillary Artisan Edge Blue. I was inspired by a LO by Steph Devlin, I had seen on The Basic Grey site some time ago. I used Stampin' Up punches for the journalling block. The tiny hearts are stickers from Paperchase. The Cricut was used to cut the title and the leaves. The circular stickers and the tabs are all from the same Fanciful range by Junkitz.

Street Life

I spent a good day with my friends at Jill's crop, at Cardinal Colours on Saturday and made three layouts.  The first is this one called 'Street Life'.

Another layout for Catherine's dancing album. The photos were taken last summer when she was in 'Disco Inferno' at The Bob Hope Theatre with Liz Burville's Performing Arts Centre. One of the dances she took part in was 'Street Life'. The photos were taken in our garden with Catherine dressed as she would be for the danc. The scenery was very green, and did not work with the title or the papers I had selected to match her outfit. I decided to try cutting her out from two different photos and mounting her onto a piece of patterned paper. I think it worked well in the end.  The papers were from Cosmo Cricket, a kit I purchased from Cardinal Colours a while ago. The papers are double sided and the patterns were in a range from peach to orange and lilac to purple. The kit contained a sheet of die cut shapes and the letters spelling out 'Life' which was coincidental as well as convenient! I used some of the shapes on the layout together with shapes cut on the Cricut, using my new Storybook cartridge as well as the Sweet Treats cartridge. The word 'Street' was cut with the Lyrical Letters cartridge.

The journalling block was also from the die cut shape sheet. I added Prima flowers, elaborate floral brads from Making Memories (I think) and some orange self adhesive dots from Paperchase. Lots of glitter added with Stickles from Ranger Inks.

Summer by the Sea

I am away on holiday in Suffolk and thought I would take some card making bits along with me, including some stamps I have been meaning to try out. Linda and I also swapped some of our stamps, we thought we could give each other some inspiration with our existing stamps if we tried out a few belonging to one another - that's our theory! So today I have been playing with these delightful Stampin' Up stamps.

The first two were made with Stampin' Up stamps from Linda's collection, I have stamped lots of images and coloured them with water colours, I have only made two of these into cards so far, but will add the others later when complete.

I also used scraps from the August Scrapholix kit both the Bazzill card stock and the Daisy Bucket papers. The blossoms are from a delightful little organza bag full of mixed blossoms given to me by Jilly Beans two years ago and still going strong (thanks Jill). The greeting stamp is an old, well used favourite from The Craft Barn, made by Fun Stamps.

For the next two I used a fish stamp (sorry I can't remember who made this one, please comment if you know). I used a Craftwork Cards frame and some garden twine for the first one. I also used lots of chalk ink. I coloured the fish with Letraset Promarkers. More left overs from the Daisy Bucket papers and Bazzill card stock were used here too. Some self adhesive metallic dots from Paperchase, and plenty of Liquid Pearls to add the finishing touches. The greeting is also from Stampin' Up.

Next I used an old stamp of beach huts, one of my favourite things, influenced by a trip to Felixstowe sea front today! The first uses water colours and some 'Phresh and Phunky' papers by Basic Grey. The second is a blast of colour using more Promarkers and Basic Grey's 'Colour Me Silly' range of papers.

Love to Love!

This is week 119 for the Mojo Holder Blog and the guest designer is dutch born Marjolein Bussink who now lives and scraps in Canada. Marjolein's blog can be seen here.
It's my fifth week on the design team, and I am really enjoying the challenge of coming up with a layout each week. Here is my LO followed by Marjolein's LO and the sketch:



I used a photo of my daughter, Catherine dressed for this Summer’s show ‘Disco Inferno’. One of the songs that has been going round and round in my brain since I saw the show at the end of June became the title for my page. Tina Charles "Oh I love to love but my baby just loves to dance”. Thing is, I remember when it was in the charts. Catherine doesn't even know who that is! I wanted a retro feel to go with the 70’s outfit, and was surprised to find just what I wanted in Basic Grey’s Bittersweet collection. I made a file folder and added a sticker from the Elements sheet for the date of the show. The flowers are cut from felt using the Big Shot. The shiny flower centers are stickers from Paperchase who have a lovely new range in silver, orange, turquoise, pink and purple. (I do hope they bring back the primary range too some time.) The small pink letter stickers are old ones from my stash made by Colorbök. The Puffy white letters are Thickers Chit Chat from American Crafts.

Please visit the Mojo Holder Blog for inspiration from the rest of the team. Have a go yourself and let us know on the blog.