Christmas in July!

Well, Doctor's orders dictate that I have to rest my knee, so I'm catching up with my scrapbooking as this can be done sitting down - feet up!

I am adding pages to my great-niece Megan's album which I started when she was born - she'll be 4 next week!

I had already made pages of her Christening but Christmas was before this so....I remembered a page made a while back at a crop in Suffolk with Lynn where I had used a photo of Megan with her Mum, Cheryl. I had a double page space so found the leftover papers and made the following to match.

I added a sheet of cream bazzill for the background, the rest are Echo Park - Everyone loves Christmas.

The Poinsettia below was made at the same event to decorate a box we made from 12x12 cardstock.

I added it here instead as the box is still on my craftroom shelf.

The snowmen were cut from a sheet of the paper and mounted onto stamp effect punched squares (Stampin' Up punch) some decoupaged, one glittered and the other with twine added as a scarf.

The borders and letters are leftovers on the sticker sheet which came with the kit.

I had run out of e's so adapted the f's - hope its not too obvious?

I used a fine-liner around the edges too and added diamante to the border.

The larger letters for "Little" were the same colour in the middle (all I had left) so I drew onto them to alter them a bit.

The original page was designed by Lou Collins, my version is below.

This is the box the Poinsettia came from and the kit.

 

Thanks for looking :)

XXX



Mudfields - Fun in the Sun.

Another class taught at the Cardinal Colours 2011 retreat was the following by the lovely Anita.

It uses papers & stickers from the Echo Park Summer Days range, see the original here and was a fast, one hour, class to finish the retreat on the Sunday afternoon. 

I bought a kit home and made the following showing Lianne in the mud at the Creamfields Festival earlier this year.

When she came home her wellies sat in the porch for days absolutely smothered in mud!

I wish I had taken a photograph.

I crossed out the cream and added Mud.

Another great page Anita, Thanks!

If you'd like to make this page, contact Jill at Cardinal Colours as she may have some kits left.

xxx