I Love My Teapot

My layout for the Online Scrapbook Weekend From The Heart challenge.  Shimelle set the challenge by saying "create a layout with I love… or I heart… as your title. Your page design can be anything you fancy and please be encouraged to have fun with your topic. What certain something really makes you happy but you haven’t really recorded in your albums?"

One of my very first blog posts back in 2009 was about this polka dot tea pot, which I purchased from Whittards, not an expensive pot, not an antique or valuable - but I love it. I love the shape and the colour, it makes a great cup of tea and it even pours well. At the time I said it would make a good subject for a layout, so here it is over two years later!

For the layout I used:

Patterned papers - Basic Grey's Lime Rickey Collection - Boston cooler, howdy doody, tart & tiny, element stickers.

Letter stickers - Sandylion birthday alphabet, Making Memories black puffy alpha, American Crafts foam daydream, Me & My Big Ideas and Doodlebug Designs.

Rub-on's - Doodlebug Designs, Kaieser rustic elements, Urban Lily framed fill ins,Basic Grey.

Other - felt, brads, flat backed gems black pen, price tag, blossoms.

Some elements from ideas I have seen created and used by Gabrielle P. 

P.S. Sad to say this pot is now destined to be a flower pot as the lid went the same was as many others. My hubby has a knack of breaking them! But I now have a lime green one!

Guitar Dream Come True

Scrapaholix February 2010 Kit


This month the kit was made up of Upsydaisy Designs Papers from the Enchanted Line, together with card stock and the technique is using Grafix Rub-Onz Transfer Film. I added some blossoms, Sandylion rubons, gems and Perfect Pearls. I used the Cricut for Emily's name.

When Emily first wanted to have guitar lessons we purchased a Guitar kit locally to see how she got on. Having paid for lessons in other instruments over the years between the three children, only to find the enthusiasm did not last! However she stuck at the guitar lessons and eventually we helped her to buy the Luna she really wanted. She still treasures this guitar and plays it frequently.

Mojo - Kelly Goree

My lay out (above) is for Mojo Holder Challenge 122.
Please pop over the the Mojo Blog and welcome this weeks guest the fantastic Kelly Goree. Kelly is best known as a fabulous designer for Basic Grey (BG). If you would like to see more of Kelly's Brilliant paper crafting please visit her blog Behind the Pages. Kelly is one of my favourite designers and uses my favourite papers too. See more of the design team's takes on Kelly's lay out (left) by visiting the mojo holders blog.

The sketch:

For my lay out I used a photo of me and my son at our niece, Heather's wedding in 2007. A rare affectionate moment shared with Andrew deserved a page of it's own in the wedding album. When I look at this photo I realise how much his appearance has changed in the last two years - the difference between fifteen and seventeen is amazing!


I used BG Phoebe papers for the background, tags and weaving papers. Using a combination of 12 x 12" and 6 x 6" papers. I added a lot of brads from too many different companies mention!

I started by cutting all my strips 1.5 cm wide, and inking all the edges. I worked the vertical strips by sticking them with reposition-able Herma just at the top of each strip. Then worked in the horizontal strips, varying the distance between the strips. Again I stuck these just at one end (the left). These were carefully woven in amongst the vertical strips.
I cut the ends of the strips off so the lengths were randomly different as in Kelly's original design.

Once happy with the weaving, I added two rows of machine stitching around three sides of the page. Then I arranged my photo and the tags (cut from papers, using one of the tags in the collection pack as a template).

The dark grey letter stickers were from an artist called Marjoline Bastine (I'm not sure who makes them). The pink letters were American Crafts Thickers. A whole mixture of different coloured brads (to match the papers) were added one to each end of the woven strips.

The flower and tree stickers are Disney Princess by Sandylion, stuck to scraps of Phoebe papers and either added directly to the page or raised with 3d foam pads.

Don't forget to check out the Mojo Holders Blog for more challenges.