Somewhere over the Rainbow - Scrapology October Challenge

For October we were delighted that Steph Devlin agreed for us to scraplift her beautiful rainbow layout, this is my version using our monthly kit in conjunction with Cardinal Colours - contact us for more details.

I edged the white bazzill with a Martha Stewart Around the page punch - pansy - and mounted onto the black which was gutted to 1"

I then punched an edge with the same punch and cut it so it was just wider than my 6x4" photograph.

I have a multitude of flower punches so set to work with the various colours of the rainbow, which I learned from Lynn was Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vein' as a means of remembering the colours and their order for a rainbow (red, orange yellow green blue indigo and violet), not singing red and yellow and pink and green etc! - how silly did I feel??

Anyhow, the Violet appealed the most so took prominence in the centre.

Once I was happy with the placement, they were stuck down together with various pieces of ribbon and punched leaves and fronds. I added buttons and pearls to the centres.

My title is letters from My Little Shoebox and Quickutz Ginger alphabet.

All are outlined with a black micron pen.

This is Steph's original page and our sketch.

Check-out the challenge on the Scrapology blog and see the beautiful pages created by the DT.

Thanks for looking :)

James 1st Christmas - Page 2

Page 2 started in the same way with white bazzill and red bling.

I cut and decoupaged a panel of flowers from a sheet of Jovial paper and added brads to the centres as before.

The tree lights are also a Martha Stewart punch which I cut in white, coloured with Copics and a white gel pen for highlights. I added a length of Bakers Twine to the middle and eased it onto the page with glossy accents.

I finished the line with another brad.

Here they are as a double page.

Back to work on Monday so productivity will slow down again.

x

James' 1st Christmas - page 1

Today's is the first page of last Christmas 2011, which was James' first.

Due to the logistics of travelling etc, we were unable to get together for the day as we have so many year previously - families keep expanding! :)

My brother sent me these photographs.

I started with a sheet of white bazzill and a Martha Stewart punch anywhere snowflake punch and worked my way around the edge - hard work too!

I gutted some red bazzill bling and stuck it behind.

The patterned papers are from Basic Grey Jovial collection again and I used the letters and some elements from the sticker sheets. I added an extra photo with a paperclip (although it doesn't really show here)

These letters were black so I coloured them with a Jelly roll stardust pen then glazed with glossy accents. You can see the detail of the punch well here.

I suspended the baubles from some Bakers twine which had been wrapped around the photo panel.

They are on 3d foam and embellished with diamante and pearls.

Page 2 tomorrow...

TFL

xxx

Christmas (2009)

Following on from yesterday's post, I made the page into a double with the following layout:

White bazzill formed the base and also mat for the photographs.

The remainder of the papers are from Basic Grey Jovial Collection.

The red glitter letters are from an old kit but I can't remember which one! :)

They worked well with this layout though along with the stars which were also on the sheet.

The bunting was cut from strips 1"x2" which were notched and folded over bakers twine.

The floral panel below was part of a sheet of paper, I cut layers and decoupaged it.

Brads from my collection (Basic Grey I think) were perfect for the centres.

This is how they look together

Thanks for looking :)

x



Balloon Envy

I'm loving Pinterest at the moment, so many inspirational layouts, especially when the mojo has left the building!

Still working on Megan's album, I have made the following layout based on one by Angela McKay.

I have used Basic Grey Jovial papers cut to strips 1 3/4" wide.

The photographs were trimmed to the same depth and edged with an EK Sucess punch on white bazzill.

Megan had fallen in love with a balloon that we had bought for Dad's birthday (Christmas Day!) of a fish floating in a bubble.  She held on to it for most of the day :)

I embellished the strips with snowflakes cut with a Martha Stewart punch and dotted the centres with silver stickles.

The title is placed onto two tags which were on the element sheet which I have stuck onto papers to enlarge. The letters are the rub-ons which I have used a lot of lately - why did I not find these sooner!

The ends were cut to a point.

The original layout is below with a link to Angela's blog, as you will see I have rotated the page to fit my photos which were landscape.

Angela McKay

Isn't this a stunner, loving the bright summer colours.

TFL

xxx

Bella Butterfly

Still working on updating Megan's album, I needed a cover page for new 12x12 which had arrived.
Mojo missing at the moment so have scrap-lifted this one.

The photo was from her 1st birthday too and the toy is called Bella Butterfly - hence the title.

I have used a selection of papers from Basic Grey's Sweet Thread collection and some white bazzill

The butterflies are Memory box, 2 different types, layered up and tied with bakers twine.

I left the knot at the top for antennae.

The borders are from the sticker sheet which comes with the paper pack as it the word Bella.

Butterfly is rub-ons from Making Memories.

The buttons are Basic Grey from my stash of many and are tied with the same twine.

I added a line around the word to make it stand out more and dotted the flower border with stickles.

The layout is scraplifted from Lisette Gibbons, the original is below, found on Pinterest

Lisette has some stunning layouts on her blog, follow the link above.

 

Rainy Day Dunes

I love seeing all the challenges on the Basic Grey blog but rarely have the time to make a page within the deadline, so, with some time on my hands, and at the eleventh hour, I would like to enter the following into this challenge!

It was for National Scrapbooking Day 2012 and set by Kelly Purkey who said "use a photo taken with the camera on your phone.

I used my Plumeria collection pack and made the following:

I used a single sheet of paper caller floweret as below, and elements from the sticker sheets.

The title is from the alpha supplied which I have edged with black pen for definition.

The photo was taken with my iphone when we were clambering over the sand dunes at Camber Sands on our March weekend away - in the rain!

I layered the flowers on 3d foam and added all the butterflies having inked the edges.

Flat back pearls were added for bodies and a black fine-liner pen created the antennae.

Below is Kelly's inspiration page, I flipped it around and made it 12x12.

I really enjoyed making this page and actually using the sticker sheet which often gets forgotten in the pack.

Thanks BG and Kelly for a fab challenge!

The Tower of Terror - Scrapology January 2012 Challenge - Double Layout

I have had this set of Basic Grey papers, Eerie, for a long time now and never found the right photograpghs to scrap with them. Until now!  We spent a few days at Disneyland Paris in November 2011 and our favourite ride is the Tower of Terror. The story goes that in 1939 an electrical storm hits the hotel and plunges guests and staff to their death. Everything remained in place as the rest of the guests and staff fled. We join a service elevator and are dropped over 13 storeys, leaving our seats as we plummet down and back up again.
What a ride!!!

Anyhow, back to the layout. I used the off-white web paper, cut it in half and stuck it to the top of 2 pieces of bazzill. The orange paper has rows of bats so I cut around their wings and stuck them halfway down. The base was created with the purple web page. Instead of using two large photographs on this layout, I found the script used to introduce the ride and printed it onto another of the patterned papers which looked aged.
The key was taken from the photo frame which came with the official photographs, mad I know but when you see Robert's face, just had to be done!

This side concludes the narrative welcoming you back safely along with the official photographs and one that Robert took from the top of the ride overlooking the parks.

The semi circle was cut with a creative memories circle and blade, the letters are from the paper pack. The numbers were added to the inner ring on a different piece of the paper pack to represent the service elevator dial along with an arrow cut freehand. I added some "screw-head" brads either side.

 

This was our sketch for this month, the original layout by Stacey Hansen who's work can be found here.

 You have until the 5th February to enter the challenge so why not hop on over to the Scrapology site and take a peek at the other DT pages for inspiration.

Thanks for looking :)

Sepia cards at Cardinal Colours Retreat 2011

Another class Lynn and I taught at the retreat was colouring images in sepia with ProMarkers.
Click this link for the tutorial written by Lynn.

Here are the cards I made based on this technique:

The cards are a selection from Craftwork Cards, paper are Basic Grey and the stamps used were my Faye Whittaker seaside ones.

All items available from Cardinal Colours, contact Jill for details as they may not be on her website as yet.

Good Luck Cheryl....

Cheryl has retired this week so I was asked to make a card.

They had seen a card I made with the lady below but she had a brown bob hairdo so I cut the hair from another Paper Nation Image and stuck it over to try to create Cheryl's spikey blond cut. I highlighted this with ProMarkers.

The card is an 8x8" CWC card and the papers are from my Basic Grey Capella range.

The letters are also from the collection pack covered with glossy accents to accentuate them.

A ruffled seam binding edge was added to the left.

I used some Marianne dies and and cut flourishes and leaves which I added under some paper roses.

This is a close up of the lady, wearing the uniform shirt under her suit too!.

I added some pearls to her ears and buttons.

She is mounted onto another die-cut image from Marianne designs which cuts and embosses.

I used some Distress ink on a sponge to create the colour.

Good Luck Cheryl...

TFL

xxx