xmas or not?

Morning all....this weekend i set myself a challenge...to make some normal cards from a set of christmas papers.....hmmmm...was fairly easy to be honest lol!!! as i picked the xmas line from Crate paper.

I know the primary use of this line is for xmas, but there are many pieces in this that i think are not that xmas related and can be used for something else...so if you stay away from the christmas papers ( like me and dont really scrap christmas) there are many sheets of this that you can still buy...let me show you some that i picked up...

the stickers...which i didn't pick up but will next time i go to the shop...you can so use for something other than Christmas...

and i picked up these...as i know there are some of them that have Christmas on them...but most of them have not and the ones that do. i was thinking of still using them and perhaps covering up the bits of the stickers with some flowers etc? i love my label stickers!!!!!

i wanted to make some quick cards with these...and i challenged myself to make two cards in half and hour!!!! Now one card normal takes me about 4 hours to make ( sad i know)....but i did it!!!!

I loved the green on this pattern paper

...matching it with dark kraft and the contrast really show up! Match that with a  Jillibean Corrugated shape...

and some pretty bling and pins and you are done!!!

The next card...

I used the same sketch for this one as the one above to keep it simple...

I punched out a scalloped circle using this punch ...it is one of my favourite scallop punches that i have, as the scallops are just that bit deeper....i then cut lines nearly down the the centre....inked the edges and scrunched it up a bit for some texture...

Thanks for looking!!!!

Creating with Crate

Crate Paper never disapppoint.
I love the feel, the look, the colours, just everything about each of their collections. They are always so beautifully put together.

Today I have a card to show you that I made using the Emmas Shoppe papers.


I love how feminine this line is. I backed the card with some bazzill and used a border punch which made for a quick and easy card.
I love the stickers that you can buy to match. Lots of alphas and cutesy words.
I finished it with some Bakers Twine and used an old chip board number 3.
The 3 was the wrong colour so I painted it in pink and aded some stickles.

And that's it!!
An easy to make, no fuss card.

October workshops

Hi, Here are the dates and details for the workshops in october. If you want to come email me at wendy@bbbweb.com and let me know :)

The first one is on the 5th October at 7.30pm at the shop. Bring with you , your normal cropping tools, scissors and glue etc...on this workshop we will be using....

the happy days line from Echo Park.

The next workshop is on the 19th october at 7.30pm. Again bring your normal cropping tools with you.This workshop will be a page done using the October Afternoon line called  Passport...

New people welcome. We make a page, drink tea and eat chocolate...lots of fun! Hope to  see you there!

sketch time...

Are you a big lover of using sketches...i myself love them but find it hard...to adapt the sketch to my style of scrapbooking...but sometimes i get a sketch that i love and use it over and over again...

Today and for a few months, design team member Kim and i are going to give you a sketch and show you how we used it. Though i have to say i have this one easy as the sketch is a 12 by 12 and Kim scraps 8 1/2 by 11...so she has had to change it up a bit...
Here is the sketch...

I created this sketch a long time ago and as i said it is one that i love and have used over and over again...here are some old samples of pages i used for this...some of these you will have seen on the wall at papermaze.

This is done using various Cosmo Cricket collections...i just grabbed all my bags of cosmo cricket that i had and picked out the most brightest colours that i could find...

I used this sketch again on this page...

 

On this one, i added bits around the outside of sketch....i used some old Echo Park...one of my favourite lines from them called For the Record

And then there is this one...

again all made from the same sketch....sometimes i have moved some of the elements of it up and down a bit but basically they are all the same.

So to the new challenge of this sketch...here is my new one....

 And here is Kim's take on the sketch...as you can see totally different to any of them that i did or have done with it.!!!

 

I love how she used the flowers as the circles...it just show you how two different scrappers can interpret one sketch differently!!!!! 

Next month Kim has made up a sketch for us to use....see how they turned out then!

Echo Park Papers

The colours of the pink scalloped bazzill and the echo park papers were perfect for these photos of my daughter on a recent cupcake making day.

This page was made using leafy tree tops paper

                                       I started with a sheet of pink scalloped bazill and some scraps of the above paper. I sprayed some cosmic shimmer chalk mist on the cardstock.

I added a flower stamp and some foam flowers. I added some pink dew drops to the centres of the foam flowers. I finished with a journalling card. Hope you enjoyed this page!

Three Musketeer's with Authentique

Good morning everyone.

This month I had the pleasure to work with he papers of the relatively new company Authentique. TO be honest, the pictures of their products do not do them justice: I was blown away by how fabulous the patterns and quality of the papers are.

When I had the papers of the Uncommon line in my hands I could not wait to get started....fantastic card stock quality papers and gorgeous patterns, which scream to be used for a vintage look.

I wanted to scrap the picture of my Mum, Auntie and Nan for ages but never had the right papers at hand, until now :)

With the use of adhesive foam pads, I raised some of the punches shapes and hand cut flowers to give the layout more depth.

And I also added one of my tags, which I create a few months back (see THIS post) to the layout...I knew it would come in handy to have them prepared!

I love how the colours grey and pink work fabulous with vintage photographs.

But what do you think fits well with this colour combination?

Products used:

Papers - Authentique: Foundations Bi-Fold, Gifted, Unique, Special

Cardstock - Bazzill

Stickers - American Crafts: Lullabye

Mists - Cosmic Shimmer

Guest designer...

Today we have a wonderful guest designer...her name is Karen Barker and she has made this amazing page for me to share with you!

new october afternoon rocket age papers.

She has used the Line from October Afternoon called Rocket Age to make this line... 

She used Bakers Twine for the smoke from the Rocket...such an amazing idea!!! And misted the background!

I think you will agree that this is an amazing page! Thanks Karen for sharing it with us!