Vacay Vibes

Yesterday I was on the Papermaze blog with the first two of my layouts made using the August Papermaze Kit. This kit is full of bright and colourful scrapbook papers, embellishments and cardstock. Ideal for all those summer layouts. This one also features lots of doodling.

Vacay Vibes - Another photo from the early summer days with the children, Aboard Glisser in Woolverstone Marina. This is inspired by a layout from Paige Evans.



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From the kit I used:
Vicki Boutin - Bold + Bright collection - Spinning Wheels
Paige Evans - Adventurous collection - #21
Pebbles - Fun in the Sun collection - Picnic Plaid & Get Away
Pebbles puffy thickers
AALL & Create labels
water droplets
Bazzill Basics Cardstock Avalanche

From my stash I used:
Memory Box Hexagon die set
Black pen
Hole punch
Twine

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

Sandy Toes + Salty Kisses

I'm over on the Papermaze blog today with the first of my layouts made using the August Papermaze Kit. This kit is full of bright and colourful scrapbook papers, embellishments and cardstock. Ideal for summer and seaside layouts. The first of these layouts features lots of doodling.

Sandy Toes + Salty Kisses - My girls on the beach at Joss Bay, a hot August day way back when they were just 3 years old.



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From the kit I used:
Vicki Boutin - Bold + Bright collection - Light of Day & Spinning Wheels
Pebbles puffy thickers
 
From my stash I used:
Circle Die
Black pen
Enamel Dots

I'll be back with my second layout tomorrow.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Emily's Princess Quilt

Here is my layout for the 6th challenge in the Peartree Cutfile - January Online Crop. This is Essie Jane's challenge - to use a cutfile in a different way, so I chose to use the the Hexagon Background file as a stencil.

I made the children each a quilt when they were small, this is Emily and me in the garden with her newly finished quilt. 

This is the cutfile I chose:

I cut this from a 12" x 12" sheet of cardstock I didn't want for anything else, and with repositional tape, I applied it over a sheet of White cardstock. Then with brushes and Distress Oxide Inks, I blended colour to match the quilt, over the whole page.

I sprinkled drops of water over the ink to make it oxidise. Then splattered diluted black and white Distress Ink over the page too.


My title was created with different Bazic Grey alphabet stickers. Then with a fine black pen doodles threads and stitches.


Finally I added gems, pearls, sequins and Nuvo Crystal Drops over the page to embellish.


Here is Essie's original layout:

Thanks for looking - back with more as soon as it's light enough to photograph what I have made!
Lynn x

Mystery Shopper

Time for a bright fun layout featuring my son Andrew when he was little. We used to go to the Playbin Toy Library in Erith with many of the other families from the Twins Club. One week the children chose to bring the shopping trolley home and they all had great fun. Although the photo is not of brilliant quality (rather dark), I love Andrew's expression and he went shopping in the hallway at home, still in his pyjamas!

I used:

Basic Grey patterned papers and element stickers from the Green At Heart collection

Woodgrain paper from Simple Stories which was grey and inked to make it brown

Various letter stickers from Making Memories and American Crafts

Cricut for the tree cut using the Create a Critter 2 Cartridge

Buttons

Twine

Distress Ink

Black gel pen for doodling

Sizzix die for journalling label

Ribbon

I was inspired by this layout I found on the Basic Grey website by Frances Sylvia and have stuck to it quite closely using papers from the same collection. I created my own tree and used different labels and letter stickers.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Cake CSI #72

The famous 21st birthday cake needs to be recorded! - so it now features on two layouts (one in black and white which I can't show you yet, but will be revealed in June), and this one I have created for this week's CSI challenge (#72).

 

Here is what was required to crack solve the mystery this time (more details on the site):

This is what I chose to include:

The Scheme - I used all the colours
Krafted - Kraft Bazzill as by background
Bottle Green - in the Scenic Route and My Mind's Eye papers, Chalk Mist on background and the flowers (which were grey - an old Prima purchase which was gathering dust!), also the distress stain and ink used on letters (Basic Grey Chipboard alphabets stickers, painted with acrylic paint and sprayed, then inked) and numbers (American Crafts Foam Thickers).
Yellowed Pages - from the MME papers.
Olive Oil -  Also from the same papers and the leaves.
Toasted Baguette - From the papers.

Evidence - I have used:
A doily.
Book page print on the Tim Holtz paper used to create the heart.
Labels cut from the MME (The Sweetest Thing - Tangerine) Event / Place / Date details and used for hidden journalling.
Leafy vines - the Prima vine.
Drawing - I drew in white gel pen round a lacy border I made with a Martha Stewart Punch Around the Page punch set and an sheet of spare 12" x 12" paper. I also used this as a template to draw the same pattern around the heart. I drew in some black lines free hand around the border and the heart.
Metal - Book plate Tim Holtz for the '21'.
Kraft Background - Kraft Bazzill - spritzed (chalk mists) and splats (distress stains) and doodled on.rote my journalling on a series of stacked labels, cut from 'Tangello' Greetings Paper MME. They are tucked under the photo and can be pulled out to read.

Testimony - Write your journalling on a series of stacked labels.
My journalling (written on the labels and tucked under the photo) tells of the day we celebrated the triplet's 21st birthday - 31.03.13. The photo only shows the girls as Andrew is away in America.  We were at my brother's flat and he made a lovely lunch for us all (he is also waiting for his lovely Elaine to get home from Brazil). The cake I made was in 7 layers, each one a different colour of the rainbow, so it was very tall, and covered in a white icing. I also made a second lactose free cake for Emily.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

I want to ride my {sister's} bicycle

It's some time since I made a layout with more than one photograph, but I was inspired to have a go at this week's CSI challenge. It's also quite a while since I had time to take part in a CSI challenge. I find these challenges excellent for making me use up my existing stash and for mixing papers from different collections. It is more of a challenge when I'm away from home and have limited papers etc. with me, but more time to take part.

 
Here is the case file (71) we were challenged to solve as a scrapbook page.

Colour Scheme - All colours used:
Summer Sun - Yellow Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss papers, buttons.
Cheery Cherry - Baby clothes in photo, paper from Magnolia, buttons, Basic Grey letter stickers, nail head stickers, twine.
White Whistle - Bazzill Glazed Cardstock, white Bazzill.
Blue Birds of Happiness - Bo Bunny papers as above, papers from October Afternoon Farm Girl collection, Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist - Bell Bottom Jeans, buttons.
Concrete - Tattered Angles Glimmer Mist - Black Magic, Basic Grey letter stickers, Basic Grey papers from Scarlet Letter collection.

Evidence -
*Circles - photos and Sizzix doily and doily border dies
*Birds (on Glazed Bazzill)
*Ink splatters - Glimmer Mists
*Fiber/Twine - American Crafts Premium Ribbon
*Doodling/pen work - Doodling around letters, tag and shapes


Testimony - Song title - The one and only Queen – “I want to ride my bicycle” with a twist to suit the photos.

Journalling - The tag pulls out and contains the story of the bike and my my brother (in the photos)  eventually inheriting it from me and my sister. I remember going to buy the bicycle with my father and choosing it at the bike shop in Penge High Street. The photos were taken in 1969 and were colour slides which have been converted.

This challenge runs until Sunday 19th May.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

This challenge is now closed and I made the 'On The Watch List'!