January kit...

Hi and welcome to a new year and a new kit from Papermaze...
This kit is so pretty, we had great fun putting it together for you...it is full of Dear Lizzie, Pink Paislee and My Minds Eye.

And here it is..

Here is the complete list that you will recieve...

Papers: Dear Lizzy 5th and Frolic:
Little moments lane
Pretty Parkway
24th and sparrow
7th and sunshine
Blossom Boulevard

American Crafts: Ready set go
Love on kraft paper

Cardstock:
pink and white

Embellishments:
My Minds Eye Tiny word stickers pink
My Minds Eye Stickers Lavender reasons why
A strip of Washi Tape grey and white stripe
A length of pink bakers twine
A strip of white pearls 12 in all

The following embellishments are from packs so they will vary from kit to kit.
Maya Road polka dot envelopes
5 Pink Paislee Artisan Resistable chipboard hearts
Pink Paislee Portfolio - Tiny Tabs
Dear Lizzy - Printed wood buttons
2 butterfly Maya Road pins

Also we have the usual coordinating cardstock kit as well!

Merry Christmas...

The big day is nearly here...the presents are wrapped and my turkey is all ready.

We are signing off here for a few days..to spend some time with our families and have some down time.

We thank all our customers that have shopped with us over the last year...all those that stayed with us during the fire and the times after. It has been an eventful year here are Papermaze!!!!

So we wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year...

and we will see you back here soon for some more gorgeous inspiration!!!!!

Christmas cropping!

Last Saturday was our Christmas crop and instead of the usual kits, the ladies get a challenge kit.  With no instructions to follow, we end up with a great variety of pages and it's always interesting to see that the same kit can lead to so many different creations!  The kit contained Carta Bella Christmas Day papers with some holly ribbon, Dusty Attic chipboard, and various other embellishments. 

So I thought I'd share a few with you.  My apologies that I can't remember who all the layouts belong to!

 

 

 

And a few that just need photos to finish them off.. 

 

 

 

 

We had a great day, and if anyone would like to join us cropping in 2013, just drop us an email!  We would love to see you :)

3rd card...Dec kit...

 I am here today to show you another card that I made using the December kit...

I die cut the poinsettia flowers out of the cardstock...added some buttons...and dug out my Glitter glue to put some sparkle around the edges....

More October Afternoon goodness

Hi
 Hope your December is panning out nicely and is not like mine a whole heap of chaos that will eventually be Christmas!
I am here to share with you another layout that I created with the October Afternoon Midway collection
I decided to stick with the same sketch that I used in this post, and this time I stayed more true to the sketch

My daughter took these fun pictures of me "doing my bit" for Movember (you can read more about Movember here)
I flipped the sketch on its side and then punched out small triangles from this piece of paper. I arranged them across the top to create a banner.

I then stitched across the top of them, do you see how I flipped a couple for a fun element to the banner

I added some of the stickers to create some sub titles here and there.

The arrows on the photos were punched out of the balloons and darts sheet 

and help to focus your eyes back to the pictures

I love how this range has so many posibilities!

All supplies can be found in the shop

It is time for me to say goodbye...

When I heard that there was going to be a scrapbooking shop opening within driving distance from me...to say I was happy was the understatement of the year.

I went down to Papermaze on the day that it opened...in fact my sister and I were there before she had opened the door.

I went back two days later and then a few days later and then over the next few months I was there more and more. After a while Vanessa asked me if I would mind designing some pages to put around the shop walls.

After that we came together and started up the blog and then came the design team...I then became the design team co ordinator...and then ran the workshops.

I have been part of Papermaze for many many years...I have enjoyed many days of putting together kits, sorting out design team supplies, looking through the new boxes and picking out the supplies I wanted before Vanessa had even had a chance to look!... going down there just for a chat and a cup of hot chocolate. I was there when it was thick snow and all the workshop girlies braved the country roads just to get together to scrap and eat chocolate. I have been to the Christmas work dos and had lunch in Vanessa's farm kitchen and cried when I got there to see the damage that the fire did.

But as most of you know, I have bad hands...I have had carpel tunnel in both of my hands for years now and the time has come where I have to do something about it. I am due to have an operation in the next few months on one of them....and looking at having my other hand done next year.

It has become apparent that doing this much scrapbooking and computer work has to stop....so after lots of thinking and upset I have decided to step down from the Papermaze design team.

I have enjoyed being part of the venture so much and I am going to miss it.

I hand the reins over to Lou...she works at the shop, designs for us, puts the kits together and she makes the most beautiful pages you have ever seen. Her email is now on the side bar if you want to ask her a question.

 I am still here...I don't 'officially go anywhere till the end of December.... I still have a few posts that have still to be posted over the next few months..so I will be here for a little longer.
 I have worked with some amazing designers over the past few years and I look forward to seeing what the girls have in store for you over the next year.

 I want to thank Vanessa, for believing in me, making me smile and laugh and making this job so much fun... Wendy xxx

More October Afternoon?

The other October Afternoon line that came into the shop the other day...was the new Farm Girl line....I only picked up the papers for this line ( as I may have taken far too much of the Christmas line ha!) But they were enough...I have had these photos of my son for ages...but not used them.

I wanted to use them in colour and not black and white as I really wanted the colour of the trees to show up as they were so beautiful....the yellow in this line was just perfect for them...( is is really sad that I got really excited about this?)

Anyway...here is the page that I made using this line...

I loved the blue and the yellow on this page but the flower paper just added this little pop at another colour.

You can find the new October afternoon in the New products section here.

Now it's really Christmas... ( not for the eyes of your children)

 First off the winner of our blog hop...chosen at random was...

Lynn said...
Beautiful card. I love the look of this month's kit. Great blog hop, thanks.
Lynn x

email and give us your address and we will get the December kit sent out to you x

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 (PLEASE NOTE THE JOURNALING ON THIS PAGE DOES INCLUDE FATHER CHRISTMAS INFORMATION...NOT FOR THE EYES OF SMALL CHILDREN)

I am not really a 'theme' scrapper...But this year I have done more than my normal amount of Christmas pages and cards.

One of the lines that I was looking forward to arriving at the shop was the new October Afternoon Christmas line...it is really hard to tell if you are going to like something just by looking at it on a computer screen so I normally wait for it to arrive or I go by the samples or pages that I find on the internet.

This was one that I was sitting on the fence on...I was just not wowed by it when I saw it on the internet so I was interested to see it in real life......I SHOULD NEVER HAVE WORRIED!!!

This line is adorable...I fell in love with it as soon as I saw it in real life. So I grabbed as much of it as Vanessa would let me take ha!...bought it home and just had fun.

Here is what I made using  it....It is about my sons realisation earlier on this year about Father Christmas....I knew this was a real mile stone for him and the day that Christmas changed for ever....though he took the knowledge very well.

I used the matching letter stickers on this page and the new wood grain Mini Market stickers that match the other new line called Farm Girl....I also picked up some of these...

 though there are many more them in the other colours that would match perfectly! This was the first time I had used these types of thickers and now I am going back for more!!!!

I have made a page using the Farm Girl line so pop back in a few days to see that.

2nd card....

Hi all...

first off I have to remind you that we are having an advent challenge over at our page on Facebook...so dont forget to pop on over and check it out...

Also the blog hop is still open on the post below so check that out as well!!

I had the chance to play with the December kit this month....After thinking about what I wanted to make, I chose some cards....I showed you one of them during the blog hop...here is the second one...

I really wanted to use that linen heart ...so I started with it and went from there...I used two circles of pattern paper to make the snowman...I did add some vellum and one of my own christmas stamp to make the sentiment...

I wanted to make it into a real card so I added some paper on the back...

which opens up at the back...

See you soon for another card!

December blog hop...

 Welcome to the December blog hop...
As you know every month someone in the shop puts together a kit for you. We change it up from person to person every month as each of us has different styles! so you get lots of variety in your kits.

We also split up packs of products...so you can have a try of something that you would not normally buy...or you think that is too expensive.

Today the blog hop starts here with a card using the December kit.

Here is the December kit... ( for more details and more photos see yesterdays post )

and here is a card made using it!

Right okay...now your turn...click on each blog ...leave a comment on them all and follow along until you get back here...then leave a comment on this post and put yourself in for the draw to win this gorgeous kit. We have listed all the blogs below just incase there is a problem. If there is a problem...don't worry...just try the link later.

Papermaze blog - http://scrappaperscissors.blogspot.co.uk/

( please note that Wendy's blog is not part of this blog hop... Tracee is in her place )

Tracee - http://stresstickled.blogspot.co.uk/

Carol - http://www.kraftypieces.blogspot.co.uk/

Karen - http://apapergallery.blogspot.co.uk/

Lisa - http://scrappyfairies.blogspot.co.uk/

Lou - http://prettypaperandchipboard.blogspot.co.uk/

Anna - http://mycreations-anna.blogspot.co.uk/

 Once at Anna's blog come back here to Papermaze again and leave your comment!

You have until  Saturday the 8th to do this!!! have fun!

Welcome to the December kit...

Morning everyone!

Welcome to the December kit...it is full of Basic Grey,Simple Stories,  Maya Road and Tim Holtz...

Here are the paper on the other side...

and as always there is a matching cardstock kit to go with this...

The kit contains the following :

Basic Grey papers:
copper kettles
Strudel

Simple Stories:
Dictionary
Santas list
Music

Cardstock:
Kraft/ Beige
Deep red

A sheet of gold glitter paper
Some cream lace
A strip of red polka dot washi tape
Linen heart
resin flower
heart pins
Tim Holtz foliage
Heidi Swapp polaroid
Maya Road card and envelope ( perfect for that Father Christmas letter!!!)

The reason we have posted this kit a day earlier than normal is that tomorrow we are having a blog hop..with the prize at the end being a December kit...so come back soon!!!!

Fancy some cards?

I have been thinking about getting my christmas cards done lately...yes a bit late, but life has got in the way over the last month so I am making a late start! ha!

Anyway I have made two to show you today!

Here they are individually...

 I had seen this type of card with the folded ribbon over the internet lately...and I wanted to try it...but as I am not a ribbon fan ( and don't own any!!!!) I had to try and replicate it using paper...it turned out well! though not one I would want to send through the post.

I added some stamping to the background...and some buttons to the snowflakes!

Here is a look at the card from the side.

and the other one...

I cut the front half of the card off in a diagonal line...just to make it a bit different!

the products used on these cards are.... Echo Park this and that Christmas line and some simple stories cardstock stickers.