A Little Extra - September Kit

Lynn here, back with a little extra layout made using the September Kit.

Not the colours you would normally associate with a baby layout. However, I had the remainder of the kit on my table, when I laid down some photos I had just printed of baby Scarlett. The colouring was perfect for the photos, so I set about making another layout!

Scarlett Rose has just turned 10 months old.

First I gutted the 'Brown' Bazzill, leaving a 1" frame. To this I mounted the 'Spice' Bazzill which was cut to measure 11.5" x 11.5".
From Pink Paislee - Auburn Line #3 paper, cut a piece 8" x 8" for the central square, floral side up, and another piece 3" x 11", green side up (keep the rest for bunting). Ink these papers with Walnut Stain Distress Ink, and stick in place.

Mount all three photos onto pieces of the Brown Bazzill, and arrange these on the page.

Take the wooden word from the kit and tie a scrap of ribbon through the hole in a knot or small bow, and add to the green paper at the bottom of the layout. Add three pearls from the kit to the top and three more to the bottom green areas of paper.

With Baker's Twine and the remaining two wooden buttons create a line for the banners to hang from, across the layout just below the photos. Now from the left over papers, cut a selection of flags and add them to the twine with 3D foam sticky pads to add dimension.

Finally add a title of your choice, I used some old American Crafts Puffy Thickers - Glass Slipper - Glitter.

Thanks for looking, back soon with the October Kit.
Lynn x

October's Crop

It's crop day tomorrow here in Suffolk and our beautiful kit has been designed by Janina, using a mix of Prima and Kaisercraft papers... 

Homemade cakes, as always, will be on the agenda, along with the usual tea & coffee, an array of punches & dies to use, and of course, lots of chatting too!  Drop us an email if you'd like to join us!

Travel Mini Book - It's all about the details...

Hello. Lisa here and I'm adding the finishing touches to my Savannah Mini Book.

If you missed my previous blog post which was back in July. I made this book before we headed off on our US Roadtrip. The plan was to then just add the photos and journaling when we got back.
Easy peasy!! ( The blog post is here)
So that's what I'm up to today. Adding photos with some fun flip pieces and adding journaling and memorabilia too.
If you would like to watch the video along with a complete flip through, you can watch it here...

I've used the Crate Paper collection 'Here & There' which is just so perfect for travel projects. You can view the collection here.

 

I've added a couple of glassine bags to store receipts and tickets. 

 

 

My hubby and I love coffee and as a family we love cute little independent places for brunch. We found a place just a 5 min walk from where we were staying. It was opposite the Cathedral. So I kept of coffee wraps and I've stuck one in here.

 

 

I've cup the cup holder down on the left so it opens out and I've added photos and …

 

journaling. I love how this opens out like this.

 

 

I've cut pieces from the patterned papers to use as embellishments.

 

I've also made another flip page so that I could add some extra photos of the cute house that we stayed in. You can see this in the video.

 

 

I felt like my white pages needed a little more detail, so I used a couple of stencils from Creative Expressions. They are just £1.50 and great value. I just dabbed a green ink pad for a subtle design on the pages. 

 

 

 

 

I'm so happy with this book. So many memories, stories and bits and pieces all in the one little book.

 

 

I'm so pleased that I've taken the time to make this.

Thank you so much for joining me today. I recommend this collection so much.

 

I really hope you enjoy the video too.

 

Lisa x

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

September Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Lynn here, back today to share the second two layouts using the lovely September kit.  This time I have been working with some family history photos.

A reminder of the September Kit content.

I made a page in celebration of Joyce's 90th birthday this month. I was inspired by the work of Karola Witczak when planning this page.

I used both sides of the beautiful Stamperia (Garden - Score Watering Can) paper, first cutting a section from the top of the paper - 8"deep x 12" wide to use score side up. Then I cut another section 0.5" deep x 12" wide and a third piece 12" deep x 2" wide. The latter two are used stripe side up. 

There is so many lovely images on this paper, I didn't want them to be covered by my circles, so I did some careful cutting with my craft knife. I cut out the tag, watering can, and robin to use later. I then cut around the base of the wreath and the butterfly, allowing me to lap the images over my circles.

 

I distressed and inked the edges of the largest and smallest pieces of paper, the third was trimmed with a Deep Edge Martha Stewart punch, then inked. All the inking was done with Distress Ink pad 'Broken China'. All three pieces were then arranged onto the base cardstock which is Fig Swirl Bazzill.  

To make my circles I used two different sized doilies (5" & 4"), Then I used 6" x 6" piece of 'Stonehenge' Bazzill (taken from the next layout) and 'Yam' Bazzill to die cut two more doilies. The doilies are both Sizzix Thinlits dies. I used the centre of one of these die cuts (Yam) over the small paper doily. Then with some circle dies I cut two circles (3" & 1 1/2") from some 'Natural' cardstock left over from a previous kit. My photo was cut with another circle die 3 1/2" wide.

I used the wide cream lace from the kit and laid this across the join (3" up from the bottom) in the papers. Over this I wrapped some Baker's twine, tie it all together in the centre. Arrange all these pieces over the page, I added in the crochet flower, three wooden buttons and the four paper flowers from the kit together with a few additional flowers from my stash. I also added two key charms.

Add the journalling to the cardstock circles once you know where they will be positioned. 

I made some leaf fronds punched from scraps of the patterned paper with a Martha Stewart Punch, and tucked them into each of the flower clusters. I added back in the three elements I cut from the paper at the beginning. A few of the Tim Holtz Clippings Stickers were added here and there where appropriate to the theme of my layout. 

Finally my Title was created with some Glittery Chipboard American Craft Thickers White Letters.

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For my next layout I chose a photo of three generations of the Maddison family, taken before the younger two set off to live in Canada.

The first task here was to cut a piece from the 'Stonehenge' Bazzill about 6" x 6" for the layout above. Gut this from where the gap will not show later.

I used a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil to apply some Distress Grit Paste onto three areas around where the paper and photos would sit later. Once dry, I lightly coloured the paste with some Distress Ink in 'Gathered Twigs'. 

Next I cut a selection of the antique doors from the Kaisercraft - Gypsy Rose 'Doors' paper. I mounted my photo onto white card, then 'Yam' Bazzill, with very fine borders. The doors, mats and photo were all distressed and inked. 

Once I had arranged all these elements, I stuck them in place. I wrote the details of the people in the photo onto another light coloured door and cut these out into narrow strips and added them to the left of the photo. 

My long title was created with some letter stickers from Pinkfresh Studio - Sweet and Simple - Puffy Alpha Stickers - Gold.

I have one more layout using this kit to show you soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Pumpkin Patch ....... Simple Stories 'Forever Fall'

Hello again

Anita here today with a layout this time, using up the rest of my DT kit using the beautiful Autumnal papers from the Simple Stories Forever Fall collection.

This paper collection was perfect for this large photo I have been waiting to scrap of my Mum and our girls taken back in 2011.
 For several years running we have visited a local Pick Your Own Farm at various times throughout the year, but my favourite visit is always the one to the pumpkin patch.
We have been making these visits since our girls were small and they always have a lovely display of various harvested pumpkins and also lots left out in the fields and we enjoy walking about and finding the largest and smallest ones that we can.

I based my layout on a sheet of Gathered Together  and onto the right hand side of the page I added a strip of the reverse side of a sheet of  4 x 6 Horizontal Elements 
I had my photo printed out large, it was initially an 8" x 10" print, but I cut it down to 7" x 10" and I placed this on the left hand side of the page and then cut a panel from a sheet of  4 x 4 Elements
and I overlapped this on the right hand side of the photo.

 I cut some flowers from a panel on the 4 x 4 Elements sheet and added some mulberry paper glittered leaves in various places. 
I wanted to add some extra texture using fabric on my page, so I took some white cheesecloth and popped in a small bowl with a little water and some drops each of Crushed Courduroy and Barn Door Distress Stains 
After a few hours in soak I hung it to dry and added it to the page. The cheesecloth takes on the stain really well and I have often used this technique with a big variety of colours.

 After it had dried thoroughly I tucked small pieces of the dyed cheesecloth under areas of the page and then completed the layout using adhesive copper tone studs, various buttons and a raffia bow.

Sometimes I really enjoy using a very large statement photo and less embellishments on a page for a change, especially if I need to make a page quite quickly.

All of these gorgeous papers and many more are all available over at the shop..... so why not pull up a chair and a cuppa and treat yourself to a little shopping spree ;)

See you again when I am back later on in the month.

Happy Scrapping!
Anita xx

Pebbles Patio Party from Jen Hadfield - Berry Sweet

Hello Karen here with another layout using the beautiful Patio Party collection from Pebbles. Although hot summer days now seems a distant memory, I have a layout to share with you today which captures the memories of summer strawberry picking when my children were small.

I started with a 12 x 12 sheet of white Bazzill cardstock which was trimmed slightly before matting it  onto a 12 x 12 sheet of red cardstock and machine stitching round the edge with black thread.

Three 3 x 4 photos and three pieces of 3 x 4 patterned paper cut from a sheet of the Fresh Berries paper were matted on some black cardstock. With black thread I machine stitched around the edges of the pieces of patterned paper before arranging these and the photos in a grid in the centre of the white cardstock. Small scraps of the reverse side of the Fresh berries paper and some of the die cuts from the ephemera pack were tucked underneath and around the grid. I also added a couple of the tags cut from the Just For You patterned paper and threaded these with some bakers twine.

In my DT kit there were some of the die cut chipboard pieces from Scrapiniec. 

I snipped a small section out of the The Blueberry Fairy Square Frame to make it into a rectangular frame and added some vellum to the back of it before sticking to my layout.

The Capture the Moment chipboard piece was the perfect size to fit inside the frame.

Stickers from my stash were used for the title and I also added butterflies punched from co-ordinating cardstock.

I finished off my layout with journalling strips printed onto white cardstock.

I've really enjoyed using the Patio Party collection and all the products used can be found in the Papermaze store.

Take Care
Karen x x

Doodlebug Design ~So Much Pun #2

Hi, it's Anna back with my second layout using Doodlebug Designs So Much Pun. Take a look at the collection here and my first layout using this collection here.

For my second layout, I decided to base it on my sons love of his PlayStation and a game in particular. The bright colours and element stickers were really relatable to this.

I began by cutting two strips of the Just My Stripe patterned paper and placing them either side of a white piece of 12x12 bazzill cardstock.  

I used some Pretty Little Studio word stickers on top of my cardstock and patterned paper layered strips.

I used the element stickers here and here around my title, which I used the Doodlebug Abigail Alphabet Stickers for.



Thanks for looking!

See you next time.

Anna

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