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!

At Blogger Heads!!

My daughter Catherine is in the process of starting her own blog now that she has left home and is 'Standing on her own two feet'.  She asked me to give her a hand in making a header for her blog, so this afternoon we played with card and Cricut and came up with this:

We used Urban Lily papers from Crafty Pastimes and the Forever Young and the Don Juan Cartridge for the Cricut from Cardinal Colours.

She is pleased with this and it is now applied to her blog.

Oliver

This is a layout I did at Jill's crop, with a photo of baby Oliver taken back in March when he was two months old.

It is a scrap lift from this one by the talented Gabrielle Pocllaco.
For my version I used Bazzill Basics for the backing as well as the photo mat. Some old papers - Urban Lily's Everyday Lily collection, linen stripe and linen dot, from Crafty Pastimes. I also used some Basic Grey Urban Prairie.

I have used a selection of rubons, crystals brads and stickers. The letters for the title are chipboard painted with acrylic paint and decorated with Perfect Pearls. I used several different punches too.