March class...

I have to apologise...these are up much later than normal...i am currently getting work and everything job wise together to leave in a few weeks so i am badly behind on everything else...

THey will go up on the website asap but for now if you want to come to one, email me on wendy@bbbweb.com and i will add you to the list.

The first class is on the 10th March which is this wednesday...
Starts at 7.30 and bring your normal cropping tools with you.

The next one is on the 17th March...


again starts on at 7.30pm and bring your normal cropping tools with you. Both pages have the same size photos...both pages have one normal size photo and one smaller wallet size...all photos are portrait.
hope to see you there. x

More Prima Papers

Another layout using the fun prima papers again a simple layout to achieve just alot of cut out work from the papers

steps

1 cut a strip of blue card stock and place a strip of orange card stock to both sides as shown using a fishers border punch make your desired pattern down both sides as shown

2 using a prima stamp stamp the image over the card stock make the pattern overlap the white card stock slightly

3 cut two strips of patterned papers and place as shown then add your photos

4 add all your hand cut flowers and a few buttons cut a few clouds out of the paper and layer at the bottom of the flowers to achieve the effect as shown

5 add a strip of ribbon and stitch a few buttons on as shown then add your title finish off the layout by adding a half circle of pleated ribbon to the bottom left of the layout as shown

Sketches, sketches everywhere...

One of the best things about living near Papermaze is seeing the same people who love scrapping as much as i do...i am going to introduce you to one of them...


'Hi, my name's Lou and I am married with two children. I have been scrapping for about 15 months now and I go through many different 'styles' whilst looking for my 'signiture' one! At the moment my two favourite are vintage & shabby, and bold, bright & masculine...totally opposites! I've been on a few online Design Teams and done a bit of work for UK magazines but more recently I have been enjoying having the freedom to scrap about whatever I feel like in my own time!'

Together the two of us came up with some sketches for you and put some pages together for you to see. When looking through you will see that all though we both had the same sketches the pages come out sooooo different!

First sketch...
Here are our pages to go with the sketch...

The next sketch...

The next one...

And the last sketch...

Thankyou Lou for giving us some gorgeous pages to look at...if you have a go of any of these sketches email them to me at wendy@bbbweb.com and i will add them to the blog so we can all see.

BasicGrey Sugar Rush

I received these wonderful new papers and wanted to get the most out of using them. All of these projects are so so easy to achieve negative space is a must to get the most out of your papers for these projects you can make them look more effective as i have by using alot of stamping and layering i am sure there be alittle something for all of you to try .

The first card i have used the free stamp that comes with this months issue of stamper magazine sold in the shop i am sure you cant all wait to play.

when begining to make the layouts cut different size strips of patterned papers roll the edges to give them more effect try using a corner punch to give some of the strips striking shapes.

yet more Minds Eye!

and there are still 2 collections of the New Minds Eye that has not even been shown here...

But today i have been playing with the line called Mary Mary..all i can say is cute cute cute!!!
And perfect for these photos of me and my son that i took at the weekend!

It is full of pretty pinks, blues,yellows and greens...
These thickers!!!
are in the shop and are due to go up on the website soon...they are sooooo cute, chipboard which has little hearts on them, they are in white, red and pink...keep an eye out for them they are a must have!

New Minds Eye...

And there is so much of it...all gorgeous...seriously i had the hardest time picking some to chose to show you...i wanted it all! every last piece.
I am a pattern paper lover so My Minds Eye is one that i always look out for after the new lines have been released bacause it is a pattern paper lovers dream!

The first line i am going to show you is called The little Miss Muffet collection and you can find it here.
Seriously, what is there not to like about this one!!!
just perfect ( if you ask me).
Anyway i grab some when i popped down to Papermaze yesterday...went home and went straight into my scraproom...
after much searching through my photos i came across this one of me and Harry when he was 1 day old..horrible photo of me but i had been in labour for 3 days so i do have a good excuse!!! lol.
Dont you wish the summer would come so all our photos will not look so dark and depressing!!!

Anyway i wanted to use the left overs from this line so i went ahead and created a card as well...
Seriously gorgeous line...

Simply does it with Prima

I was so excited about receiving these papers from Prima. They are so beautiful. Each piece has so much detail. But then when I got them I was quite stumped. I struggled to use them as I liked them so much and just didn't want to cover up the papers too much. I've ended up going 'simple' to show off the design. It's made me realise that you don't have to always fill a LO with misting, stamping, embellishments. Sometimes less is definitely more.

I've started off with my favourite cardstock, Kraft.
I've taken a piece from the Prima, Animal Bash range. Cut it to size and inked the egdes.
I've used a journal card from the My Minds Eye collection. If you haven't seen these, go check them out. They are only 39p and great to use. There are lots to choose from too.
I've added a little Chipboard Tree - from Maya Road which I've also inked and added my title using American Craft Thickers.