March Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Lynn here today, back with more from the brightly colourful March Papermaze Kit. I have had more fun creating with rainbow colours for these two layouts.

Before the details on making these layouts, here is a reminder of what you get in the kit, but for more details please see March Kit Part 1 post HERE.

Easter 1998 This photo was taken by a professional photographer who came to the twins club in the Easter holidays when the triplets were 6 years old.
 

I gutted the sheet of Crafty and Happy paper and with the striped side up, I made a frame for my layout. I cut the Pear Bazzil to measure 27cm x 27cm, and the white to measure 28cm x 28cm. I also gutted the white to give me plenty of card to cut my leaves. Then I layered these papers as in the photo.

With a Vicki Boutin stencil I created some daisies on the Pear Bazzill with white texture Paste. Once this was dry I attached the green lace across the middle of the page. I applied my photo with 3D tape, leaving the edges free from adhesive to allow for the leaves to be tucked underneath later.

With a Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits die set - Cut Out Leaves, I cut three sets of the leaves. The dies cut the intricate internal patterns of the leaves only, so I then trimmed around each leaf with my scissors. I arranged the leaves around the bottom of the photo.

I die cut my title using more of the Crafty and Happy paper and White Bazzill. I created shadows with the white letters under the coloured letters. Then I drew around the letters with a fine marker.

Centres were added to the daisies with some Nuvo Crystal Drops, then I added random smaller drops in various colours, scattered over the page.

Girl On Tour - My daughter is on tour with PW Productions and The Woman In Black, and they travelled to Washington DC last December, as Stage Manager she had to organise the costume and prop luggage as well as her own!

 
I was initially inspired by a layout made by Neftali Zambrano, although she used stitching and I went for paint, making for a very different finished effect.

For this page I chose the sheet of Petalsoft Bazzill. From the sheet of Round Trip paper I cut out a selection of tickets, I wanted a few in each colour of the rainbow. Then I arranged them along the top of the Bazzill. Before sticking them doen I marked in pencil where the colour changes would be, then removed the tickets and started with the paint.

Using acrylic paint I ran drips of each colour from the top of the page, allowing them to take their own path downwards. Once each colour was dry I started the next, and so on ...

The tickets were placed back onto the Bazzill and glued in place. I added two pale pink tickets to the bottom left of the page.

Using a set of Tim Holtz tag dies, I cut come luggage labels, one in White Bazzill, and three in Crafty and Happy paper. I arranged these around my photo, leaving enough room to write my journalling on the white tag and place my title on the larger striped tag.

From the kit I used the puffy words stickers for the title, one of the chipboard quotes and the two stitched hearts. I made ties for the tags using thin strips of Pear Bazzill.

After making four layouts this month, I still have a complete sheet of Bazzill and one of patterned paper as well a several embellishments, so plenty to make another layout.

Thanks for looking, back with the kit for April later this month.
Lynn x

'Epic Adventure' - 12x12 Layout - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Legendary Collection

Hello, Rebecca back with you with another 12x12 layout created using the Legendary Collection by Cocoa Vanilla Studio. This time I've opted for a grid-style layout.

To create this layout, I've used the 'Epic Tales' patterned paper. I've cut apart all the individual elements and distressed all the edges using the blade of my scissors and Distress Ink Pads in various colours (Mowed Lawn, Chipped Sapphire and Salty Ocean).

I positioned my photos on the page and then decided which of the 3x4 cards I wanted to fill the other three spaces, and which I wanted to use to layer behind them and my photos. I decided to have the 'Epic' and 'Adventure' cards as top layers to form my title. The other card I've used has very faint lines on it which lend themselves perfectly to journalling so there was my 3rd winner! I used the other cards as layers behind, and I also used some of the other patterned papers from the collection to add a burst of colour around the edges.

I cut the smaller 'tabs' from the cut-apart sheet and also used them behind the layers. I fussy cut the 'The best' piece and used it as I would use ephemera, to embellish the corner of my journalling card.

I added a black Flair Button to the layout which says 'Yeah that's my boy'. It sits nicely on the top centre grid.

I then added more sections of the cut-apart sheet to the top and bottom of the layout and embellished with some fussy cut stars from the 'All Star' patterned paper. I distressed the edges of the entire 12x12 cardstock by running a Distress Oxide Ink Pad (Broken China) around them.

I finished off the layout by adding my journalling and some Nuvo Drops in co-ordinating colours.

I hope you've enjoyed this layout. I love how simple grid layouts are to create, and I've managed to use pretty much all of the cut-apart sheet in one layout - a first for me!

Stay safe everybody, and I'll be back again later in the month.

Take care,

Rebecca x

Cherish All your Happy Moments ... Carta Bella... Farmhouse Market

Hello again,

 It's Anita here and I am kicking off April with another layout using the lovely Farmhouse Market Collection from Carta Bella.
I  have been sorting back through old packets of photographs, from before I had a digital camera and I found these cute photos of both our girls. Chloe ( with the hoop) had a gorgeous little outfit on with Pooh Bear and the trousers were a coral coloured gingham fabric. They matched the reverse side of the Tags sheet perfectly and made my decision of what photos to scrap an easy one.

I based the page on a sheet of  Cubbies and use the reverse side of it, showing the text patterns.Tearing 12 inch strips from both Tags and Vintage Floral sheets I then layered them and placed at the top and bottom of my layout

Photos and the 'Cherish' panel were matted with Flamingo cardstock and I cut a few flower and leaf clusters from the sheet of Timeless Floral. These were then scattered around the page.

In my DT kit I had a couple of mini frames from Dear Lizzy She's Magic
The one used on the page is holographic and catches the light beautifully as you move.

I cut a couple of different sized tags from the 4 x 6 Journalling Cards and the Tags sheets and strung them with some cotton crochet wool and layered them onto the right hand side of the layout.

And finally I sprinkled on lots of sequins and various sized flat backed crystals.....who doesn't love a a bit of sparkle here and there right??

I hope you like my layout, I really enjoyed making it.

If you pop over to the shop there are lots of lovely new items winging their way in.....and we all need some lovely stash to keep us busy in these uncertain times don't we!

Happy Crafting

Warmest wishes
Anita xx

'Adventure' Scrapbook Layout - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Legendary Collection

Hello, Rebecca back again with another 12x12 layout created using the new Cocoa Vanilla Studio 'Legendary' Collection.

I have used the 'One Way' patterned paper for this layout. I cut out two triangles and placed them either side of the page. I made sure to turn the paper before cutting the smaller triangle so that the arrows were all pointing towards my photos in the centre.

I love the different colours of the arrows on the paper and mounted my photos on Bazzill Cardstock in colours that co-ordinated well.

Next I added some stars from the Die Cut Ephemera Pack in a diagonal line across the page. I mounted these on foam dots to add dimension to the layout.

I added a couple more bits of ephemera to the top right corner. The 'Explore the Great Outdoors' piece actually had mountains and a sky scene at the top but I cut it in half and just used the bottom section. I also added the deer (stag?!) piece as in one of my photos my son is holding an animal skull. (We were doing an organised nature trail in the woods collecting fossils, bones and bugs!)

I added my title 'Adventure' from the Die Cut Titles pack, and then decided I wanted to add some borders as the deer/stag/animal head was made up of black lines. So I added a border to the page, the patterned paper and all of the stars to match.

I hope you've enjoyed this layout. I'm really enjoying working with this collection. It's not often a collection comes out that doesn't include pinks and flowers so it's perfect for me to scrap photos of my little boy!

I'll be back with you next month, sharing some more 'Legendary' layouts.

Take care,

Rebecca x

A little Extra from the March Papermaze Kit

Hello All, Lynn here today, I had a fair amount left over from the March Papermaze kit and thought it would be good to try to create an extra layout. So in between my usual two posts, here is my additional layout.

This layout shows a photo taken in Washington last December, when we visited the  Smithsonian National Museum of American History. We saw this amazing exhibit - Dorothy's ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the 1939 film of The Wizard of Oz. Several pairs of the slippers were mad for the movie. These are actually a mismatched pair. White pumps were covered with red fabric, painted red soles, sequins, bows made of stiff cotton and adorned beads and rhinestones. This pair has felt adhered to the bottom to muffle Garland's footsteps as she danced on the yellow brick road. 

For a reminder of what is in this kit please see the previous blog post.

The base for this layout is the sheet of Simple Stories - So Happy Together collection - Time Together from the kit. Then using the Rainbow cut file by Paige Taylor Evans I cut the parts from white Bazzill. I used Distress Ink Pads to colour the pieces of the rainbow and the edges of the clouds. Then I die cut lettering - with red metallic card I cut the words 'Ruby Slippers' and from black and white Bazzill I cut the words 'Somewhere Over the Rainbow'. 

I mounted my photo onto White and then Pear Bazzill. My journalling was printed in red onto white Bazzill, then I punched down one side with a spiral binding punch. Everything was arranged carefully on the page and then glued into place.

Finally I added two flowers from the kit.

Thanks for looking, back with more from the kit next week.
Lynn x

Simple Stories Hey Crafty Girl - Create

Hello Karen C here with one final layout using the Hey Crafty Girl Collection from Simple Stories.

I started with a sheet of white Bazzill cardstock and in the centre I painted a rough square with some aqua coloured acrylic paint.

I then cut a piece of the Crafty & Happy paper into strips and used various paper punches to punch the edges. The punched strips were then layered horizontally in the centre of the layout on top of the painted square.

My 6x4 photo was stuck to the right side of the layout with foam underneath to add dimension.

I made a tag using one of the 4x4 elements and some pink Bakers Twine and attached this to the left side of the layout overlapping the corner of the photo.

I fussy cut some flowers from the B side of the 4x4 elements paper and used these and one of the 2x2 elements  to embellish the layout.

A few sequins and sparkly star shaped enamel dots were scattered around the layout.

To finish the layout I doodled with a black gel pen around the edge of the layout and on some of the embelishments and added some small punched paper strips at the top and bottom of the page. The date was due cut from coordinating card stock.

'Happy Dude' - 12x12 Layout - Cocoa Vanilla Studio Legendary Collection

Hello, Rebecca back with you with my first layout this month and I've used the Cocoa Vanilla Studio 'Legendary' Collection again.

I had so much fun creating this layout and just let loose and chucked loads at the page! I used the beautiful 'Wild One' patterned paper to border a sheet of white cardstock. I mounted three photos onto a single strip of white cardstock, and then mounted that onto black cardstock. I then used the Wild One paper to mount the whole thing on.

I used the large wood-effect frame from the Die Cut Ephemera Pack to frame the centre photo as it matched the wooden tunnel my son was crawling through perfectly. I added an arrow piece from the same pack on top of the frame, after spraying it green to match my son's coat using an Ink Spray.

I added several other pieces from the ephemera pack around my photos, and also added some frames from the Pinkfresh Studio 'My Favourite Story' Chipboard Stickers. I wrapped some thread around the two large open stars to add interest to the page.

I used one of the Flair Buttons on the bottom left hand corner of my photos which says 'Lets Go'.

I built a small cluster up in the top right corner of the page as it felt a little bare at the top of the page.

I finished the layout by adding my title 'Happy Dude' using the Die Cut Titles and some Nuvo Drops.

Thanks for reading! I hope you've enjoyed this layout. I'll be back next week with another.

Take care,

Rebecca x