December Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Happy New Year! 
Lynn here today, back with the second post sharing Christmas layouts for this year. The December kit is available in the shop, it has a traditional red, green and white colour pallet. The papers are beautiful and include Mintay, Simple Stories and Graphic 45.  

Before we look at how the layouts were made, here is what you will find in the kit:

Patterned Papers:
Mintay Papers - Holly Jolly collection - #02 & #04
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Believe collection - Holiday Traditions & Tag Elements
Simple Stories - All Wrapped Up collection - Magical Season
Graphic 45 - Deck the Halls collection - A Little Sparkle

The photo below shows both sides of the papers:

 

Embellishments:
Simple Stories - Vintage Believe - Foam Stickers & Floral Bits and Pieces

Mintay Chippies - Xmas Wreath
Rosie's Studio - Oh Joyful Day - Button
Pretty Little Studio - Comfort and Joy - Holly Jolly Word Titles 
Divine Twine - Green Apple
Doodlebug Designs - Doilies Ladybug
Gold enamel dots

Bazzill Basics - Aspen, Grenadine (included in kit), Cinnamon Stick, Coconut Swirl, Cinder and Parakeet.

Merry & Bright - My nephew and his family took a trip to Lapland UK last December, this layout shows a group photo from this exciting day out. 

My first task for this layout was to gut the A Little Sparkle paper, giving me a frame of 12" x 12" and 1" deep. I trimmed a sheet of Bazzill White cardstock to 11" x 11". 

With two colours of Distress Ink (Barn Door and Rustic Wilderness, slightly watered down, I lightly splattered over the cardstock, to take away from the starkness of the white.

I divided the Tag Elements sheet to separate the 15 tags. The I selected 8 of them to use on my layout. I printed out the large photo with a white border, and arranged this with the tags and one of the Doilies Ladybug on the cardstock, without sticking anything down. 

Once I was happy with the arrangement, I inked the edges of the tags, punched a hole in the tops and applied a large red eyelet each one. Then everything was glued into place. The Divine Twine - Green Apple from the kit was threaded through the eyelets, and caught into place with a few spots of glue. 

I embellished the layout using the Button and Gold enamel dots from the kit. The title is a foam Sticker Holly Jolly Word Titles, also supplied in the kit. 

From my own Christmas embellishments, I added Simple Stories Vintage Christmas Lodge Farm Foam Stickers, and a little clay gingerbread man. I used some old Basic Grey Alphabet Stickers for the date. As I had already used the gold enamel dots from the kit, I found some more from my own stash to add to this page.

Our Dear Reindeer - Our granddaughter last Christmas sporting a set of reindeer antlers, and enjoying a spear of asparagus.

I selected a sheet of Kraft Bazzill from my own stash for the background, and stencilled some stars over it. I used Picket Fence Distress Ink and a Tim Holtz Layering Stencil - Sparkle.

I painted the Mintay Chippies - Xmas Wreath, with Distress Paints - Lumberjack Plaid for the berries and Peeled Paint with Shabby Shutters over the leaves. Then I coated the whole wreath with Glossy Accents for some shine. I set this aside to dry.

Meanwhile, I built up the layers on the layout. I used my Cricut to create the shapes, and cut them from the remains of A Little Sparkle paper. I cut the same shapes a little larger from Cinnamon Stick Bazzill to frame the paper. I cut a 6.5" x 7" piece from Holiday Traditions, and a 3" x 9" piece of Magical Season. Both these pieces were mounted on more of the Cinnamon Bazzill, I gutted some bazzill from the largest piece, to use as a mount for the photo.  

All these mounted papers and the photo were arranged on the Kraft Bazzill witout sticking down. I arranged two pieces of burlap in place on the layout. I backed the dry wreath with another piece of Holiday Traditions paper. These were all glued down. 

I had some old alpha stickers that were the wrong colour for this layout, but I stuck the numbers '2024' into the centre of the wreath and drew around them with marker pen. I removed the stickers, and painted some watered down Barn Door Distress Ink between the pen lines. I added a December sticker from my stash.

From the remains of the Tag Elements sheet, I selected a tag and mounted it onto the layout with 3D foam pads. I tucked two decorative pins through the hole. I cut the top of another tag, and tucked this under the photo, I added two more pins as before. 

My title was cut using the Cricut, using Cinnamon Stick and Grenadine Bazzill, I layered these up to create a shadow. 

Finally, I embellished the layout with Simple Stories Vintage Christmas Lodge Farm Foam Stickers. 

That's all from the December kit. I'll be back with a new wintery kit for January in a few weeks' time.
Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

February Papermaze Kit - Part 2

 

Lynn here today with a second pair of layouts using the romantic Papermaze Kit for February.
I have used the red and pink papers this time, and created a bold and a delicate layout with embellishments from the kit and a few from my own stash.

Here are the details of what you will find in the kit:

Patterned Papers: (The photo below shows both sides of the six papers)
Mintay Papers - Happy Birthday collection - MT-HAB-05
Stamperia - Roseland collection - Flowers
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Love Story collection - 2x2/4x4 Elements & My Heart
Simple Stories  - Fresh air collection - Fresh Start
Cocoa Vanilla Studio - Happy Days - Little Blossom

Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Cherry Splash and Walnut Cream (included in the kit). Yukon Gold, Blossom, Flintstone and Sea Glass (extra Bazzill pack).

Embellishments:
3 wooden hearts, 12" lace, 5 water droplet unicorn hearts, 1 exclusive acrylic word, vellum, 2 Simple Stories Chipboard Clusters, 1 strip of Pinkfresh enamel dots, 5 P13 tickets and a selection of word stickers.

Cutest Couple - My daughter and her boyfriend at the school prom, declared to be the 'Cutest Couple'.

This layout was made using a Paige Evans cutfile and her inspiration. I chose the bunch of balloons as I wanted to highlight the balloons in this rather poor quality photo (the only one we have of the event). I cut the cutfile from the Cherry Splash Bazzill.

I backed the cutfile with both sides of the 'My Heart' paper. Then I cut four extra balloons from the same paper, scored a fold down the centre of each one, then attached them over the cutfile by adding glue to the fold only. Then I tucked some 3D foam under each side to raise it up from the base layer. 

I placed the balloons onto the 'Happy Birthday' Mintay paper. I tied Divine Twine to each balloon then gathered them into a bunch and tied them with a ribbon. The bow was then glued to the page.

My photo was placed to the bottom left of the layout. My title was created with Thickers 'Be Kind' foam letter stickers. 

I cut images from the elements paper (butterflies and phrases) and attached them to the page and balloons.

I wrote my journalling on one of the balloons.

The Marriage - This layout shows a photo from my parents wedding in 1957.

Both sides of this Stamperia paper are really beautiful but I went for the less busy side, with all it's pretty lacy patterns. I placed the lace from the kit across the paper, about 3" up from the bottom.

I place the photo in the centre of the paper. Then set about fussy cutting, birds, letters and books from the 'Elements' paper. I inked around the edges, and layered them around the photo.

I cut two oval shapes from the vellum in the kit, I wrote the wedding details onto them with a dark pink pen. Then I placed these either side of the photo, above the cut-outs.

I added the P13 tickets, cascading down from the base of the cut-outs. Then I tied three bows in some delicate, pale pink, seam binding ribbon. These were arranged on the page, one to appear as if it was tied around the watch winder.

I found some heart shaped paper clips in my stash, and added these to the photo and the cut-outs.

Finally, I added the gold enamel dots in clusters of three about the page.

That's all from the February kit. Please see back in a few weeks for the first post using the March kit.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x