You & Me

Today we had an extended crop at Papermaze, to help raise funds for the roof of the Otley Village Hall, where we meet every month. So instead of one, there were three layout kits available to purchase. Here is the first of those, designed by the talented Lorraine. 

I chose to scrap these two pictures of a lovely day I shared with Catherine and Florence, last December. We went to Greenwich Park for a walk to Greenwich Village for a little Christmas shopping. We had lunch in The Pavilion, then back to Florence and Catherine's home to read one of the books we purchased. 

The kit included:
Pre-Die-cut shapes and letters in funky foam and card.
12" x 12" White Cardstock
4 pieces of 12" x 6" patterned paper from various designers

I also used:
Distress Inks
Black fine liner pen
Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup letter stickers

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Springtime at the Old Post Office

Here is my first layout with the new April Papermaze kit, using the pretty pastel papers, card and embellishments.

This layout will be framed to hang in the reception of The Old Post Office Hotel and Spa, in Harleston. I took these photos of their Easter decorations last year.

From the kit I used:
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Life in Bloom collection - Celebrate Life & Shine Bright
49 & Market - Art Options Rouge collection - Coloured Foundations #1
Bazzill Basics Cardstock -  Silver Sage & Bazzill White
Pinkfresh Studio mini puffy alpha stickers

From my stash I used:
Cricut
Faded Jeans Distress Oxide Ink
Distress Mica Spray (Winter Frost)
Funky Foam
Nuvo Crystal Drops

That's all for today, I will be back tomorrow with more.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Merry & Bright

Over on the Papermaze Blog today you will see two new layouts I have made using the last of the December Papermaze Kit.  It's amazing value to have been able to make six layouts from one Kit. Here is the first of those two layouts and this time I have gone with a pink and silver theme.

This is Scarlett in her pj's proudly standing in front of the silver tree, decorated in pink, white and silver decorations. 

 

 

From the kit I used:
Berry Blush Bazzill cardstock
P13 light chipboard phrases
Simple Stories - No Peeking!


From my own stash I used:
Silver Idea-ology Tinsel Twine

glittery silver funky foam
Memory Box die
foam alpha stickers
Sizzix Shadow Script Christmas die set
Star gems
Doodlebug Designs Shape Sprinkles - Winter Hugs hearts
Nuvo Silver Moondust Glitter drops, Carnation Pink Crystal Drops and Chalk White Stone Drops.

 

 

Back with the last layout for Decemberm tomorrow.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

This Boy is Spectacular!

Andrew first wore glasses when he was three, here he is in 1996 on the steam train , North Norfolk Railway.

This layout was inspired by one I saw but can't find again to acknowledge. 

I used black and white Bazzill cardstock and both sides of a sheet of Paper Moxie - Doctor, Doctor - Seeing Clearly paper. 

The letters were cut with a Sizzix Bigz XL alphabet die and some Funky Foam.

I cut the glasses from Black Bazzill with the Cricut.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

First Day at School

Catherine's first day at St. Paulinus Primary School. The teacher took each child's photograph which was a lovely idea.

I used papers from Pinkfresh Studio's My Favourite Story collection, and white Bazzill.

The title was cut from Funky Foam with a Bigz XL Sizzix Alpha die. With the Thinlits Rosette die set I cut the three rosettes, and added ribbon.
I scattered small letter stickers over the page (Pink Paislee Puffy Word Stickers).

Messing About On The River

This layout has been many months in the making, I don't really know why but I kept doing a little more then moving on to something else, and it took a while to decide on a title.

We took the children to see some friends on their boat at Woolverstone Marina back in 1994. they all had a great day and I recently found this photo of Andrew on deck.

I used:
Patterned paper - Lauderdale by Basic Grey
Funky Foam for letters
Letter Dies - Die-Namics
Chipboard shapes - Dusty Attic
Acrylic Paint
Distress Stain
Brads
Twine
Selection of buttons and embellishments from my stash.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Rosie's House

Another layout for Rosie's album. Her 6th birthday and a new doll's house last year.
Much paper pleating here with Bella Bvld. papers

The letters are cut from Funky foam

Dies - Die-namics little upper and lower case alphabets, Whimsy Stamps ticket die, Memory Box
Patterned papers Bella Bvld. Snapshot collection.

Thanks for looking

Lynn x

Advent 2013

More news from the Papermaze Christmas Crop. Vanessa provides a kit and we are challenged to make a layout using the contents.

Here is what I made:

The photo is from our niece Heather of her 4 year old triplets. I had these advent calendars for my triplets when they were about the same age, and we thought it would be good to fill them for Oliver, Hanna and Lucy to enjoy. Seems they have had great fun with them.

Most of the items used were in the kit including the Bazzill and the papers from the Bundled Up collection by Crate Paper. I cut the title from Funky Foam.

Thanks for a great Crop and Merry Christmas to all at Papermaze.
Thanks for looking.
Lyn x

B is for Buttons!

Hi everyone, I'm back to show you how I used buttons on my Design Team layout for this month's Scraplift challenge over on Scrapology.

We are scraplifting this fun layout by Laura Vegus:

and I drew a sketch as always:

I used Echo Park's Scoot papers:

border

4x6 journalling

Numbers

Stripes

I also used a sheet of Bazzill cardstock, blue and red funky foam, DMC stranded cotton thread, and a lot of buttons!


I made an 11" x 11" square of paper using the grid side of 'numbers' paper. Then I cut across creating a wavy line about 3" to 4" up from the bottom. I cut a piece of the coloured sided of 'stripes' with the stripes running vertically 11" wide and about 5" deep to place behind the 'grid' paper to complete the 11" x 11" square. The outer edges were distressed and inked. This was then mounted over the gutted Bazzill.

I cut a strip from the blue side of 'stripes' 10" x 1" this was trimmed with a scallop shape using a stencil. I inked the edges and stuck this vertically over the grid paper, from the top and about 5.75" in from the left.

I cut random strips from the left overs of 'numbers' and 'stripes' and cut more from the other two papers as well, these were distressed and inked and placed to show under the photo once matted.
The photo was mounted onto a piece of patterned paper and stuck over the strips, close the the scalloped border.
The funky foam lettering and shapes were cut with Sizzlets on the Big Shot.
All the buttons were stitched in place with the thread over the join between the two papers, with a few bows tied here and there too.

A fun and colourful page to make.

Thanks for looking. If you are interested in the challenge please pop over to the Scrapology blog. The challenge runs from today until 5th November.

Lynn x