New Baby Boy

If you pop over to the Papermaze Blog today, you will see two layouts I have created. This month I'm using 49 and Market's pretty pastel Glimmer & Glee collection. This collection has water colour style images, which are great for documenting parties, birthdays, babies, and garden gatherings. The palette is a clever mix of pretty corals, pinks, yellows, blues and greens. This first layout has photos of my great nephew at 7 weeks.

Full details are on the Scrap, Paper Scissors Blog

The items I used:
49 and Market - Glimmer and Glee collection - Jubilee & Laser Cut Elements 
Distress Ink - Faded Jeans
Distress Paint  Faded Jeans &  Scattered Straw
3D Foam Pads
Making Memories Foam Stamps
Nuvo Glitter Drops - Gold Coast. 
Tim Holtz Alphanumeric 'Label' & 'Tiny Type' Sizzix Thinlits set
Doodlebug Designs Sunshine card stock Alphabet Stickers - Bumblebee
Acrylic domes in pastel shades
Acrylic heart

That's all for today, I'll be back with more from this collection tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.

Lynn x

Kypseli - Let's Get Away!

Here is today's new Papermaze DT layout using The Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Sand and Sea collection. Previously I created two layouts using the gentler colours from this collection, so here is a layout with the stronger blue and red colours.

This layout has a more nautical theme, a photo of my husband and me onboard the yacht 'Kypseli', our home for two weeks flotilla sailing in the Greek Ionian Islands last year. 

I used a sheet of Avalanche Bazzill cardstock, and with a scrap of polythene, I applied watered down Distress Oxide Ink (Uncharted Mariner) to the card. 

I cut pieces from the several papers from the collection:
1.75" x 10" Stay Salty (red & White stripe), 7" x 5" Shore is Fun (Blue & White spot) & 5.5" x 6" Great Escape (wooden board area). The edges were inked and arranged as seen in the image.

My photo was mounted onto white card, and place at the centre of the page. I added the date under the photo with Doodlebug Designs Teensy Type - Blue Jean alphabet stickers. The Yacht name title was made with Doodlebug Designs My Type Alphabet Stickers - Lily White. 

For embellishments I added:
A tag top selected from the Tag Elements paper, with a large white brad. stickers including 'Let's 'Sail Away' and the seagull from the Cardstock Sticker Icons sheet.
The seagull label and a red & white dot label from the Journal Bits pack.
I chose a section from the 3x4 / 4x6 Elements paper, and cut out the yacht and the phrase. 
With the 49 and Market - Summer Porch collection - Laser Cut Elements, I selected the net and the blue knotted rope. 
A few acrylic anchors from my stash. 

The net was placed to the left side of the layout, with the blue rope over the top. I cut a slot in the seagull label and threaded it through the rope. The rope was arranged over the net with the label to the top left of the layout. 

The yacht was placed to the bottom left and stuck down with 3D pads. The phrase 'set sale on new adventures' was placed to the right of the wood paper. the red and white dot label has journalling written on it and it was tucked into the top of the photo. It can be removed to read the details. 

That's all for today, I'll be back with another layout from this collection soon. 
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

All Dressed Up

The July Number challenge over on Peartree Cutfile is to use seven of the same shape. I chose tags and anchors. 

The photo is Alan and me in Kassiopi on Corfu, we needed to create a costume for a fancy dress party held at the final group meal of the two week sailing holiday.

I used:
Simple Stories - Simply Vintage Sand & Sea collection - Stay Salty, Tides & Treasures, Tag Elements & Cardstock Stickers
Distress Inks
Peartree Acrylic Anchors
Peartree Cutfiles Flairs
Peartree Cutfiles All Dressed Up Cutfile
Twine

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Summer Sun

The Peartree Cutfile colour challenge for June was to use the colour Yellow. The photos here are from my daughter, her husband and daughter on holiday on Symi Island back in May this year. 

I used:
Bo Bunny - Boardwalk - Summer Fun
Bo Bunny - Barefoot & Bliss - Barefoot Word
Peartree Cutfiles - Bits and Pieces - Acrylic Tilte - 'Summer Sun'
Peartree Cutfiles - Stencil - Summer words
Various Ephemera die cut images from my stash
Distress Oxide Inks

 

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Mudchute Park & Farm - Enjoy Today

I have two layouts to share over on the Papermaze Blog, using the new September kit. This pair show photos from the same day, at two different places visited, because I used papers and embellishments from the same lovely 49 and Market collection, they also make a good double layout. 

For full details of how the layouts were made, please see the blog.  

From the kit, I used:
49 and Market - Nature's Haven collection - Busy Bee & Happy Place
Laser Cuts - 49 and Market - Nature's Haven
Exclusive Acrylic phrase

Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Touch of Pink & Hibiscus

From my own stash, I used:

49 and Market - Nature's Haven Wildflowers Laser Cuts & Laser Cut Elements
3D foam pads
Basic Grey alphabet stickers
Tim Holtz, Tag Collection Sizzix die set
Distress Ink - Festive Berries
Baker's Twine

That's all for today, I will be back with more from this kit in a couple of weeks. 
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Peartree's 5th Birthday Celebrations: Challenge One - A Day At The Beach

Here is my layout for the Peartree Cutfile - 5th Birthday Challenge #1 - The challenge is to use 5 photos on your layout. The photos I chose, were taken on a day out to Southwold Beach. Flo's first experience on a sandy beach.



Some stash busting here - I used two papers from Studio Light, together with scraps of woodgrain paper, from my stash.

Here is the cutfile I used from Peartree, I cut this from Coastal Bazzill cardstock. 

I used three brads on the cutfile to hang the banner. I added some words using Doodlebug Designs, Alphabet Soup Puffy Letters in Mint. 

The acrylic seagulls are also from Peartree Cutfiles 'Bits & Pieces range.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Easter Egg Hunt

I'm back today on the Papermaze Blog, and the second pair of layouts using the March Papermaze Kit, both the layouts feature my daughter from back in 1995, using the pretty, spring papers and other items in the March kit. Here is the first of these two layouts.

Emily and the others on an Easter egg hunt I set up in my parent's garden for my children and their cousins.

Please see the blog for details of the kit and how the layout was made.

From the Kit, I used:
Simple Stories - Tea Garden collection -  Be Happy
Puffy flower stickers
Bazzill Basics Cardstock: CS White

From my stash, I used:

Distress Oxide Inks
Bubbles Tim Holtz - Layering Stencil THS002
Diamond Die
'Easter' acrylic word
Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup puffy letter stickers (Mint and Bumblebee)

That's all for today, I'll be back tomorrow with the last layout.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x