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.

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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

James meets the (Great) Grandparents

Still playing catch-up on my great niece and nephew's albums, this page is for James'

Papers are the same as the first pages of his book, Up Up & Away by Mindy Terasawa.

I drew a circle inside and out of my large circle cutter in pencil then used a swirl stamp from a SU Christmas set and some Baja Breeze ink to create the shape.

The photographs were matted onto patterned papers with the edges placed under the circles on the pattern.

I used 3 tags and stuck them together then added rub-on letters for the title.

I cut out clouds from another sheet which was thermographically glittered and added their names to two. 

The base paper has a fluffy cloud/floral shape so I used a Martha Stewart glitter pen and traced them, but only the ones inside the circle.

I punched circles from the remaining patterned paper and put them around the edge on 3d foam.

Buttons and pearls were added too.

I ran a edge around the page with a fine-liner to finish.

Megan - James' big sister

I seemed to work in 2's at the crop and made this second page for James' album.

I have used this photograph before for my April Scrapology DT page, click the link to see, still time to enter.

Again I used white bazzill as the base with the same paper collection.

I created the doily circle with a MS corner punch.

She looks so cute with her wings on.

TFL

XXX

Meet the Smiths

Another page for James' baby book, created at the Cardinal Colours Spring Crop - yes, I was quite busy that weekend!

I used white bazzill as a base and papers from my stash used for the previous pages too.

They seem to work so well with this baby theme.

I punched the circles and cut out a bird, all raised on foam pads.

The little letters are from my stash and outlined with a black fine-liner.

The letters are from one of the paper sheets, cut into squares and mounted on 3d foam.

This is the lush album I have bought for my niece to have once finished, it's mock suede and very tactile.

Arrival of Baby James

 Following on from my Patchwork page for baby James, this is the second one for his album, which I made at our February crop day (see previous post).

I used the same set of papers and based my layout on a pagemap.

The paper had a lovely embossed and thermographic glittered circle at the bottom so I used it as a feature on my layout. I cut around the image so the photographs which measure 3x4" fit under the edge. 

The left border was cut with a punch belonging to Lynn, thanks for the loan! :)

I cut a butterfly using a Marianne die twice and layered it up, 3 pearls were added to the body.

A strip of lace from my stash was added and topped with another new die from Memory box, the button strip, which I have stitched into place with some white embroidery thread.

I added a few random "buttons" too along with a few pearls.

A close-up of the lace.

Thanks for looking.

xxx

Another P please Bob! (for Patchwork that is)

Couldn't resist the title - hopefully some of you will remember Blockbusters TV show?

I really enjoyed this challenge, this syle of page really works for all occassions.

My niece had her son last October and I promised to make a scrapbook for her as I did for her daughter, and all the great nieces/nephews so far!

I had been shopping Lynn recently and found this a pad of 12x12 papers called Up & Away by Mindy Terasawa. They were just what I had been looking for to start this project, so here is my first page.

I cut some of the papers into the 3" squares as before and once I had inked the edges, stuck them onto a 12x12 cream sheet.

The papers included a sheet of assorted tags and an alphabet too.

I cut around the letters, inked the edges and added to the tags with 3d foam, then added the bunting with more 3d pads. I used bakers twine through the holes in the tags, looping it along the way.

Some of the papers are thermographically glittered as you can see below, just gorgeous!

 I cut a round tag and added below the photograpgh which is 13x14cm and mounted onto the reverse of one of the papers.

A selection of buttons from my button box were threaded with the same twine and added.

And of couse, the random cross stitches onto the page.

For full details of the challenge and fabulous prize on offer hop over to Scrapology blog - some great work by our amazing DT this month too!

Thanks for looking.

xxx