Welly Weather

There are two challenges over on the Peartree Cutfile for the month of February. This one is the number challenge - Use 2 Tags and only two!

After a few days of being cooped up indoors due to the bad weather, we went out for a stroll along the Thames Path, at Woolwich. Florence enjoyed splashing in the puddles in her new wellies.
 

The following is a lsit of items used to make this layout:
Papers from the Simple Stories - Say Cheese Classic Pooh - Better with Friends, Oh, Bother!, Sweet as Honey, Splendiferous!,Tag Elements and the Cardstock Stickers. 
Welly Weather Peartree Cutfile
Distress Inks
Eyelets
Ribbon
Water drops
Aspen Bazzill

Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup - Bon Bon

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Everyday Stories

The February Colour challenge over on the Peartree Cutfile Facebook page is to use the colour Red. 

The photos are Florence at the local library - she loves to vist the library, to choose some books to take home. The alphabet rug is a big hit, and she likes to crawl (and now walk), about telling us what each letter is, and naming all the objects. 

For this layout, I used the following:
Alphabet Background Peartree Cutfile
Doodlebug Designs Inc. - Lovebug collection - Heart Garland and He Loves Me...
Doodlebug Designs Inc. - Farmer's Market collection - Market Preserves
Doodlebug Designs Inc. - Teensy Type Alphabet Stickers Lily White
Acrylic flowers
Pearls
Simple Stories - The Little Things collection - Cardstock Diecut Ephemera Bits & Pieces
Thickers - Puffy Phrase Stickers - Stories of Us

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Bathtime Fun

Here is my answer to the Peartree Cutfile January challenge 'Blue'.  The idea is to create a layout with Blue as the main colour. I chose to scrap this photo of the children at bathtime.

I used this Rainbrops cutfile, cutting it three times in matt silver cardstock, and once in blue glitter card.

Other items:
3D foam pads
Spellbinders, Say Cheese, Classic Mickey, Alphabet die set
Glitter Card in light and bark blue
A sheet of patterned paper, with wavy edges from my stash (not sure what make)
Doodlebug Designs Puffy Alphabet Soup Letter Sitckers - Blue Jean
Doodlebug Designs Teensy Type cardstock stickers - Blue Jean
Cricut

Thanks for looking
Lynn x

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

World Book Day

This layout was created for challenge #1 in the Under The Influence - Children's Book Cyber Challenge. Elma is a bright Patchwork elephant and likes to play tricks on his friends! The idea was to make a layout using at least one of the prompts:
1. Use squares
2. Use lots of patterned papers
3. Use grey as the base colour

I used:
scrap patterned papers
Martha Stewart PATP punch set
Grey Bazzill
DAF flairVarious American Craft Thickers


Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Dad's 80th Birthday

It's another weekend full of challenges on the Branfield Monthly Crop Facebook page. Here is my answer to the first challenge - using scraps to make a birthday themed layout. 

This photo of my Mum and Dad was taken at Dad's 80th birthday party, held at my sister's home.

I used:
White Bazzill
Scraps of blue patterned papers
Memory Box hexagon set of dies
A Happy Birthday die
Alphabet dies from DieNamics

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Cricut Card for the Triplets

We have many birthdays in January for our family, so I'm busy catchin up with the blogging of the cards I made.

Oliver, Hannah and Lucy were nine this year, and I decided to get the Cricut going for these cards.
 

I used a selection of papers and cardstock from my stash.  

I used the Hello Kitty Greetings and the Robotz cartridges with the Cricut.

I inked the edges with distress inks and added a little sparkle with Crystal Stickles.

 

Happy birthday Hannah, Lucy and Oliver.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Spring Faces

Back to the cards made using My Scrap Chick SVG files and the Cricut.

Again I used downloaded SVG files again and decided not to add greetings so I can use them as note cards.

More patterned papers, cardstock, chalk and distress inks, together with a few highlights and details drawn in with gel pens.

These cards were simple to make but effective and fun.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Pigs with the SVG files

Happy Easter to you all.

Following on from yesterday's selection of Easter cards, here are some of the other finished cards I cut at the same time.

These little 5" x 5" cards are made with two of the designs from the Trio of Piggies SVG file.

The card blanks are cur from thick patterned papers.
As before I inked all the edges.

The second one was intended to be a tag, but I mounted it on a card instead.

I used lots of stickles and liquid pearls as well as gems to add some sparkle. A couple of ribbon bows were added too.

Thanks for looking, more to follow.
Lynn x

A day with the Cricut for Easter Greetings

I dusted off the Cricut the other day as I decided I would make some Easter cards and needed quite a few. I had already downloaded a few SVG files from My Scrap Chick and thought these would make quick, cute cards. The other benefit was to make me use up lots of scrap cardstock and patterned papers.

Here are some of the creations:

I used a greeting stamp bu Lili of the Valley, and circular punches by Stampin' Up and Woodware. All the pieces were inked with either Chalk Inks or Distress Inks. I used a selection of card blanks from mys stash. All of these cards are 6" x 6".

I also cut many more images while I was busy cutting these, and I will show you these another day.

My Scrap Chick have recently improved all their SVG files for better cutting and fold lines with the Cricut, so if you tried before will limited success it is now worth trying again.

Thanks for looking
Lynn x