September Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Hello, Lynn here today, with my second pair of layouts using the lovely Papermaze kit for September. A great kit of papers, cardstock and embellishments, with the option to buy extra matching cardstock.

Both the layouts are of my daughter, roughly 25 years apart! The first as a little girl and the second in her current stage management post.

Before looking at how the layouts are made, here are the details of what is in the kit.

Patterned Papers:
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Essentials collection - Little Details & Vintage Tidbits
Simple Stories - Trail Mix collection - Campfire Stories
Mintay - Places We Go collection - #04 & #05
Shimelle - Maine Character Energy collection - Face the Sun
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Pigment & Cinnamon Stick

Reverse side of papers

Embellishments: 3 Simple Stories Chipboard Metal Hardware pieces, Simple Stories Titles Foam Stickers, 5 pieces 49 and Market Acetate Leaves, 49 and Market Bits Essential Tickets,
2 Idea-ology Quote Chip Labels, 3 hardware brads, 1 word tag,1 prima paper flower, 1m grey twine, pinch sequins

Extra Bazzill Cardstock Pack - Stonehenge, Aqua, Beeswax & Rosewood

Document the Details - Catherine sitting surrounded by the abbey ruins, during the rehearsals of the open-air summer production.



I wanted to include both sides of the 'Places We Go #05' I loved the worn boards as well as the florals.

I trimmed 3" off one side of the paper, making sure the remainder left, had the wooden boards running in a horizontal direction. Then I flipped the 3" piece over and rebuilt the paper on a scrap sheet of 12" x 12" paper. Then I created my layout with the floral section to the left of the page.

I found a piece of hessian and cut a narrow strip to cover the join in the papers. I frayed the edges slightly. With scraps of 'Vintage Tidbits' paper left over from the previous layouts, I tore some paper mats for my photo, using both sides of the paper.

I created a selection of layered flowers in different sizes, using Bazzill from the kit (Aqua, Beeswax and Cinnamon Stick). I die cut the petals and leaves using a Tim Holtz, Sizzix Thinlits set - Small Tattered Florals. I arranged the flowers and leaves on the page together with the Prima flower from the kit. The flower centres were made with Nuvo Crystal Drops.

My title was made with Thickers phrases from two different Vicki Boutin sets - Perfect Day and Storyteller. I wrote the journalling onto the wood board under the title.

Further embellishments were added from the kit in the form of a quote chip label, a piece of chipboard metal hardware, and a word tag, which I tied to a length of thread to hang from the flowers.


Life in Photos - Catherine again at the age of 7 years when we visited Woodbrige for the Christmas fair.

This layout stared out much like the previous one, I used both sides of the paper again. This time it was another paper from the same Mintay collection, this time #04. A 4" strip was trimmed off the paper with the bricks running horizontally across the layout. This was stuck across the bottom of the layout and the floral side made up the top of the page.

To mimic the leaded light windows in the old building, I used a cutfile and Black Bazzill to cut this diamond pattern and placed it over the floral area of the layout.


I printed a large photo, and three smaller ones. The large photo was placed centrally over the floral area, and after being mounted on scraps of 'Vintage Tidbits' paper, I arranged the smaller photos across the bricks as the bottom of the page.

My title was made with Storyteller phrase Thickers. I printed some journalling onto some vellum, and placed the pieces onto the layout. 

Finally, I added some cream, cotton lace across the join between papers.

That's all for the September kit, I'll be back with the October kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

November Papermaze Kit - Part 2

It's time for second part of the November Papermaze kit, and two more layouts I made to give you some inspiration. Two separate layouts which will be displayed side by side in my scrapbook much like a double layout. They feature photographs from our holiday in the Lake District two years ago, and a day spent at Near Sawrey visiting the home of Beatrix Potter.

Here is a reminder of what you will receive in the kit:

Here is the first or left side layout.

For 'Hill Top Farm' I layered up two sheets of Bazzill and two sheets of patterned paper to start. I gutted the first three of these layers. The base is Hazard Bazzill, followed by floral side of Echo Park  - Autumn Floral. The next layer of Bazzill is Desert Coral Dark and finally leaf side of Simple Stories - Gather Together. All these edges were distressed and inked with Distress Ink.

Cut some strips of patterned papers in various lengths and widths and layer these so they would be parallel to the base of the photo and vertically just under the right side of the photo. Layer a 21cm strip of the hessian across the strips of paper before adding photo.

For embellishment I added the two wood slices to the bottom left of the photo and built this area up with paper flower and lots of die cuts made with scraps of Bazzill and the Sizzix Thinlits Funky Foilage and Funky Floral # 2 sets. You may want to create these shapes after cutting cardstock for the other three pages using this months kit - so you know what scraps you have to play with.  At the bottom right of the photo I made some oak leaf branches using the same method. I then laid down some Baker's Twine loops across the
base of the photo with some die cut daisies. 

The five jewels were added to the vertical paper strips. Journalling was written onto the papers and the title was created with the remains of a pack of Pink Fresh Simple & Sweet puffy alpha stickers in gold, which I had in my stash.

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For the second layout I wanted to present several photos of the Hill Top Farm garden - affectionatly known as 'Mr. McGregor's Garden'.

For this page I printed nine small landscape images onto a sheet of A4 and cut and arranged them on a piece of Natural Bazzill 10" wide x 8". This was mounted to the far left of the Simple Stories - Autumn Love paper, 2" down from the top - when sticking in place don't glue right to the edges, allowing the leaves to be tucked underneath later.

Using the American Craft's leaves cut these up and arrange on the Autumn Love paper,
tucking under the Natural Bazzill. Using scraps of cardstock die cut leaves with the Sizzix Thinlits - Skeleton Leaves die set. Arrange these on the layout and stick in place when happy with the placement.

For the title I used fonts from two old sets of stickers from my stash. A little journalling was added using the label plate from the kit and a little more Natural Bazzill.

Thanks for looking.
Back with the December kit very soon.
Lynn x

Sun Kissed Explosion Box

Hi There

Its Anita here, sharing my explosion box with you today....made using the last of my left overs of  the gorgeous G45 Sun Kissed!

I haven't made one of these for the longest time, but they are so simple and great fun. You can fill them with various layers if you wish and add lots of photos. They make great gifts for people and can be created in any theme and for any occasion.

I followed this basic plan, measuring in cms. I cut and removed the shaded areas on the top diagram to make the drop down base. The smaller diagram is for creating the lid to pop on the box. I followed the dotted lines to crease and fold in the right place for a good fit.

I used a sheet of orange cardstock for the base and a sheet of navy for the lid although you could of course use the same colour cardstock for both.

I used little bits and pieces throughout the inside and outside of the box from various sheets of paper I had left over. Here is a list of those used.
Sail Away
Turtle Time
Kids at Play
Floating Floral
Splish Splash

I had a good rummage through my blossom stash at home....I really wished I had some shells of some sort, but alas no! I also added some hessian and mini scrabble tiles to the box for some decor.

I wanted to create the feeling of the turtles swimming about, however, I didn't actually have any acetate available. Not a problem though, one of my lovely cropping friends had been eating a punnet of grapes, so I cut a couple of lengths from the side of the punnet....and voila!! Swimming turtles and starfish!

                                                     Here are a couple of close ups xx

I cut one of the tags from the sheet of Kids at Play and added some ribbons of orange mesh and a few light blue half pearls.

And some die cuts and mini wooden scrabble tiles from my stash.

This has been a really enjoyable project to make and as I said before, these boxes can be themed to anything. if you haven't had a try at one of these dear little albums, the please do go and have a look about and have a play.

Thank you very much for looking at my post, I hope maybe it inspired you a little. Everything you need is available over on the shop site
And don't forget, there is a huge SUMMER SALE on over at the shop too....so grab a bargain whilst you can!!
Happy Scrapping

Warmest wishes
Anita xxx

Beach Boys....... G45 Sun Kissed pt 2.

Hello again, it's Anita here today.
I hope you have had a fabulous week and have enjoyed the amazing summer sunshine we are all being treated to at the moment. Its really inspired me to scrap some summer fun photos of 2 of my nephews enjoying themselves on the beach last summer.
Once again I am using the stunning Sun Kissed Collection from Graphic45, such vibrant summer colours and great designs.

This has also given me the chance to have my first ever play with Distress Oxide inks and Gesso.... and I have to say I loved it. I can see lot more inky times coming up!
So, to start with I used a sheet of Cream cardstock and gave it a good coating of Gesso, once dry I set about playing with the Oxide ink Pads. I used Spiced Marmalade and Peacock Feathers...and I applied them using the Smooshing technique
I also added a couple of squirts of Distress Stain spray in Blueprint Sketch.

 The page itself was based on a sheet of Floating Floral, I used the reverse side and then added a wide strip of the cardstock that I had inked and sprayed up. I used bit and pieces of the following sheets to decorate the rest of the page by cutting out turtles, shells, words and thin strips.
Sunkissed ,
Turtle Time ,
 Kids at play
Splish Splash

I also used some hessian sacking as a photo mat for some added texture  and layered fussy cut shells, starfish and turtles around the photos.

 

To finish off the page I added huge clusters of sequins and scattered a few single ones about around the edges of the layout. And I also used some Jillibean soup teeny alpha stickers, in Navy Blueberry to add a few details.

I have thoroughly enjoyed working with this beautiful collection of papers and its also made a really nice change to scrap boys for a change.
For an excellent selection of Graphic45 papers and all your other crafting needs, just pop along to the shop...you will be glad you did!

Warmest wishes
Anita xx