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Tuesday, 20 August 2024

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.



Please see the blog for full details.


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

Monday, 19 August 2024

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.



Please see the Papermaze blog and the store website for full details.

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

Saturday, 27 July 2024

Day Dreamer

 Here is the crop kit layout I designed for the ladies at the Papermaze Crop today. I tried out a paper folding idea to make petals to build a flower, I just made half the bloom here with four circles. The photo shows my daughter, Catherine at Stone Lodge Farm, age 2.

In the kit:
12” x 12” Simple Stories – Simple Vintage Linen Market – Life is Sweet
12” x 12” Simple Stories – Simple Vintage Linen Market – Enjoy Every Minute
12” x 6” Simple Stories – Simple Vintage Linen Market – From the Heart
6” twine

To share
Nuvo Drops
Circle templates

Use of crop dies to create own title from scraps.





Thanks for looking
Lynn x


Tuesday, 23 July 2024

Majestic Birds

I have a post on the Papermaze blog with my first two layouts using the July Papermaze kit.
The kit is available online and in the shop. Full of summery, colourful papers, card and embellishments. As always there is an additional pack of carefully matched Bazzill cardstock
 available to purchase.

This is my second layout -
These beautiful peacocks lived in the grounds of the hotel we stayed in a few months ago, while travelling in the Lake District.



For full details of making the layout please see the Papermaze blog.

From the kit I used:

Photoplay - Cocoa Paradise - Paradise Found & Tropical Floral
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Whirlpool

From my stash I used:
Distress Inks in Peacock Feathers, Twisted Citron and Evergreen Bough
Peartree Cutfile
Large gems
Pinkfresh Studio - The Best Day Puffy Letter stickers



 

That's all for today, I'll be back with the next two layouts soon.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Monday, 22 July 2024

Back to Nature

The July Papermaze kit is ready to purchase and is full of summery, colourful papers, card and embellishments. This is the first of my four layouts, created with this lovely kit.

I have admired this old door at the farm where the Papermaze shop is situated. I especially love the beautiful colours the wood and paint have become as they have aged and weathered. The photos were perfect for this 49 and Market paper.

For more details of how the page was made and the kit please see the blog and the shop online.


From the kit I used:
49 & Market - Kaleidoscope - Treasured Tea

Rosie's Studio Belleview Postcard


From my own stash I used:
3D foam pads
Distress Inks - Crushed Olive, Forest Moss & Evergreen Bough
chipboard letters
Distress Paints
Crackle Medium
Tonic Studio dies
wood print paper








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

Saturday, 20 July 2024

This Is London

 I created this layout after visiting my granddaughter, Florence recently. I travelled to blackheath with my daughter and Florence, we visited Daddy at work in Blackheath, then went for a walk through Greenwich Park, weher we had lunch, then we walked sown the steep path in Greenwich, before returning back to Blackheath later in the day.

I used:
49 and Market - Spectrum Gardenia - Painted Foundations Color Wheeel
Simple Stories - Life in Bloom - Tag Elements
Bazzill White CS
Nuvo Crystal Drops
Vicki Boutin Stencil
Distress Inks
Baker's Twine
Doodlebug Designs Alphbet Soup letter stickers - Beetle Black





Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Tuesday, 2 July 2024

Summer 1969

Here is my last layout made with the June Papermaze Kit. This kit gives you Bazzill and patterned papers in bright cheerful colours. I have used them along with the embellishments included to make this page featuring Kodak square format photos of my baby brother with my dad, on the beach at Seaview on the Isle of Wight, summer of 1969.


From the kit I used:
Pinkfresh Studio - Picture Perfect - Write your Story
Bazzill Basics -  Aqua

From my stash I used:
Tim Holtz Layering Stencil THS006 Dot Fade
Distress Inks
Pretty Little Studio, Hey Summer Beach Bits Die Cuts
Pretty Little Studio Sunkissed - Fun in the Sun Word Titles
Sizzix XLBigz Alphabet Die
Black Bazzill
 



 



That's all for today.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x