Christine

I'm over on the Papermaze blog this week with the new July Kit and my first pair of layouts for this month. The pretty kit has a selection of dreamy, watercolour effect papers, which are great for feminine, romantic, family history (and many more) layouts. The kit is now available in the shop or online. Here is my second layout.

Another black and white negative found among my Dad's collection - this time his cousin Christine. Another relative found to add to my family scrapbook album. 

From the kit I used:
P13 - When We First Met collection - #03 & # 06
2 Prima Waltercolour Floral flowers
Boysenberry Delight Bazzill

From my stash I used:
lace
Distress Oxide Inks in Dusty Concord and Faded Jeans
black ink
burlap
corrugated card
cheesecloth
Prima paper roses
paper flowers
silver stamen
rose ribbon
owl charm
purple Baker's Twine
Sizzix Thinlits - Tim Holtz Wildflowers set

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Twenty Twelve Olympics

I may be well overdue, but I finally made a scrapbook page of myself with the Olympic torch from the 2012 London Olympic Games. I wrote a blog post at the time with photos from the occasion, just five days before the opening ceremony when the torch arrived back in Kent from across the River Thames to Erith Yacht Club. It was carried by one of our young members Aaron Reynolds. The torch had travelled across the water on a fireboat. 

I made this page at the Merly Impression Retreat using Kaisercraft papers from the stunning butterflies from the Indigo Skies collection. The design was based on one I found on Pinterest the original was created by Kylie Kingham for the Kaisercraft Design Team.

I used
Indigo Skies papers
Kaisercraft sketch circle and frond dies, and Sizzix Tim Holtz alphabet dies.

Dark blue cardstock

Kaisercraft Spray Ink
Blossoms from my stash.Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Card Class

At The Merly Impressions Retreat weekend Emilie Charmel put on an impromptu class to make three cards, showing us various techniques with inks, stamps flowers and printed images. You could apply these to almost any design making it a very versatile class. It was a lovely surprise to have an extra class and we all enjoyed learning from Emilie's ideas.

 

The kit contained the card and envelopes, a selection of Kaisercraft Blooms, Rhinestone Sparklets,  images from the First Love paper from the Secret Admirer collection. Then we had use of a massive array of Kaisercraft stamps and inks to play with. I added some of my collectables from the Porcelain Rose collection and some other flowers and letters from my stash.

Photoshoot

I am enjoying scrapping some pictures of Catherine taken at a recent photo shoot she had in London. I wanted to pick out the pale turquoise reflected in the metallic background, the black and white of her dress and just a touch of red for her belt.

I used a sheet of white Bazzill which as a glazed leaf pattern on it and spritzed it with inks and mists in black and turquoise. I trimmed the edges by about an inch then cut into it with a Martha Stewart border punch, then distressed the edges before mounting it onto paper.

The papers are all basic grey, the black background paper is from the old 'Black Tie' collection while the others are all from the newer 'Lucille' collection. The scroll is cut with a Sizzix die and the words are various rub ons. There is a little washi tape, some lace, ribbon  and some gems and pearls.

The picture wheel is one from a large collection I have that dates back to when we were children, and has been added to when my children were small. I wanted to include one and was going to use my sizzix die but found this damaged one in the box so decided to use the real thing as only a mall part of it would show.

More inspiration from Heather Jacob went into this page.

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Spit & Polish

 

 

This lovely old photo of my Dad as a little boy in his mother's arms. He looks like he has been playing in the back yard and made himself all mucky. Love the washing drying on the line behind them. Nan's apron and Dad's shoes really date the picture. I created this layout while at Debden and we debated a good title for it - someone came up with 'Spit and Polish' - Looks like my Nan is about to get her hankie out of her apron pocket, spit on it and wipe his face clean!

I asked my Dad about this photo and he said it was taken when they were living in a flat in Blandford Road in Beckenham in around 1935. 

I used Basic Grey's Serenade papers. A sheet of 'Half Penny' was used for the background and this was treated with a little texture paste and spritzed with shimmer mists and some black ink. I also added splodges of distress stain here and there. The edges were inked with distress ink. The layers are all scraps from other layout I have made using the same paper collection.

The blossoms are a mixed selection from my stash, and the wooden fern leaves are from Prima. My title alphabet is a chipboard one from American Crafts. I added a little twine, some flat-backed pearls and some Stickles.

Thanks for looking.

Lynn x