Scrapbook Club - April 2013

Sunshine and Sprinkles has to be my favourite designer series paper set that Stampin' Up! have produced, possibly EVER.I love it's whimsical designs and cute images. Plus the vivid colours are just perfect for my style of crafting.

This page was highly influenced by my friend Lesley who was scrapbooking alongside me. She had such great ideas! It's hard to see in the photo but there is lots of glimmer paper and shiny bits. My new zigzag embossing folder had it's first outing and generally provided me with a fun evening's entertainment.

Check back in a couple of days for another project made using this fabulous DSP.

Scrapbook club - January 2013

We had scrapbook club this week and used a kit to get back into our mojo!

The sticker sheets are fab and the whole page came together in less than an hour! Awesome work and the kit left more than 7 pages worth of goodies left for future pages. A bargain at £18.95 for the whole kit.

Have you begun your 2013 Scrapbooking adventure?

12 Days of Christmas - Day 6

Today's project was CASE'd/inspired by a project I saw on Monica Gale's blog.

It's an organiser to help you get ready in December. It's not too late to have a central place with all those lists kept safe!

 

Here's a view of the inside. Had a few technical difficulties, so apologies that the photo is the wrong way around.

The folder is made from one piece of 12x12" cardstock. Score at 4" and then turn the sheet 90 degrees and score at 3" intervals. Fold up the 4" section to make pockets and then decorate!

The whole thing was made with the Snowflake Season simply scrappin' kit. Such a fabulous kit - it contains everything you need to make a double page scrapbook page, including glittery snowflakes, ribbon, mini pegs and die cuts. At just £8.95 it's a bargain!

 This organiser could be made with other products to be non-festive - maybe as a wedding list organiser or holiday planner.

Scrapbook Club November 2012

Here is a short (incomplete and unedited!) video of how the page was created:

Below is the finished page:

 Here is a close-up of the bottom right corner. Am loving those buttons!!!

 To tie in with the patterned papers, a scrap is in the corner with some added bling.

 

So there it is. Just shows how versatile the Affection Collection stamp set really is.

 

Stamps: Affection Collection

Papers: International Bazaar

 

Check back tomorrow for another design with this fabulous set.

Starting Owlets

When Munchkin started preschool in September I took lots of photos. The uniform is so darned cute that I was powerless to resist. We snapped pictures in the garden, driveway and at school.

 

The Orchard Harvest papers came into play, like yesterday, and explain the season. These papers are perfect for start of school type pages as they're quite bright and the leaves are very detailed.

Father & Son

Here is a photo I snapped of my FIL and DH one sunny day when we were on a miniture train at Frimley Lodge Park. I love the picture so it made sense to scrapbook it.

The papers are from the Autumn/Winter seasonal catalogue and are called Orchard Harvest. There's no real journalling but it would be easy enough to add if required. I always think the photo says everything, personally.

Another one for the family album!

October Scrapbook Club

Tonight is my monthly scrapbooking class. This is the page we're making!

It features the stamp set Betsy's Blooms (pg72) in the Floral District Suite. It has matching paper, also called Floral District and a wheel which all co-ordinate together to make this page really easy to put together. The wheel is shown just under the photograph on the wide white strip. It was wheeled in Lucky Limeade and then Daffodil Delight and Rich Razzleberry markers added detail.

We are going to have fun with the jumbo sticky rounds from the Seasonal catalogue (pg 31) making our own floral embellishments with some Orchard Harvest fabric. The colours used are Whisper White, Daffodil Delight, Rich Razzleberry and Lucky Limeade.

I hope everyone enjoys making this page. It's not too late to come along tonight at 7.30!
Check back tomorrow for more from Betsy's Blooms!

Nanny page

This is a page I have been meaning to create for over a year. It's a photo of my Nanny who passed away in June 2011, which I have scrapped for Munchkin's scrapbook. She won't remember her great-nanny so I wanted this to fill in that gap.

I used some retired Everyday Enchantment paper for the green part and then floral part is a retiring hostess paper set. I then raided the scraps box to make some bits and bobs layered up and cut a Top Note shape on Very Vanilla cardstock as a journalling panel.

Again, the Big shot came into use to cut the title out of Bashful Blue cardstock.. The Rose Red seambinding ribbon created a block of colour to separate the two patterned papers.

I hope that Munchkin will enjoy look back at this page as she grows up and sees what a great woman Nanny was.

A different style

This page was a challenge for me as it was quite a different style. I was keen to use as much stamping as possible on the page without taking the focal point away from the photograph.

I spritzed in Gumball Green, smeared Platinum paint, stamped off butterflies and used the swirl stamp from Creative Elements in Rose Red. The floral scrap of paper is from the retiring paper set Beyond the Garden and a few scraps from my box was also added. Over the top of this I stamped a few times using Creatively Yours stamps saying things like "made with my own two hands" and "just for you".

The journalling panel is NOT Stampin' Up! (gasp!!!!) but was a gift from a lovely friend, Lesley, for my birthday earlier this year. It gave space for journalling but also a title of sorts.

The tag for the photograph was made with Bashful Bride cardstock *shortly retiring!* and a 1/2" circle punch with some bakers twine.

I hope you like this page and come back for more scrapbooking inspiration tomorrow!

Bank Holiday Page

Hello there! Today's post is a scrapbook page I cobbled together to display some photos I took at couple of weekends ago when we were enjoying the Bank Holiday:

 I used some patterned papers that are retiring. The stripey base is from Mocha Morning which is an awesome set as some of the papers are flocked and others have shimmery gold bits like in these stripes. The other paper is from Paisley Petals.

Here is a close-up of part of the title:

Daffodil Delight was used for the main title to pick out the yellow of the squash plant. I cut it out on my Big Shot using the alphabet set that is retiring.

To make the punched title a bit shorter I punched out a word window punch shape and then put one end of the punched piece back into the punch to trim it. It  means that you can customise the shape so it's not too long, which is handy.

To be honest with you I am not sure about this page. The pictures are really busy so I wanted a muted background but I am not 100% sure it works. What do you think?

P.S.
Many of the items in today's post are retiring. Don't forget to place an order for retiring items sooner rather than late as many items are selling out fast. As the ink pads are being reformulated they are all reduced by 25% which makes them about £3.72 each - a total bargain and a great budget way to increase your own colour collection.

September/October Scrapbook Kit

This is something new I am offering: A bi-monthly scrapbook kit. The kit contains enough stash to make a number of scrapbook pages and you will receive accessories to match along with a tutorial to make 2 12x12" scrapbook pages.

The kit contains:

6 Sheets of 12x12" double-sided Orchard Harvest DSP
4 12x12" sheets of co-ordinating cardstock
2 copper brushed buttons
1m 7/8" cotton ribbon
1m Crumb Cake seam binding ribbon
1m linen thread

All for just £15

(plus £2.50 P&P if you want it posted)

Sept/Oct Scrapbook Kit

Pick up kit £15.00 GBP Posted direct £17.50 GBP

Do let me know what you think of the kit - I welcome any feedback!

September Scrap club

Last night was scrapbook club. I LOVE this monthly class. Such interested talented people attend!

This layout was based around the journalling box. We learnt to brayer an ombre background, this one was in Poppy Parade.

The patterned spotty background paper comes from the specialty papers Mocha Morning. LOVE these papers and I'm sad that they are retiring :-( This was paired with Concord Crush and Crumb Cake. The title was stamped using the Broadsheet Alphabet stamp set. It's great as when it's in clear as you can stick all the letters in a row on a long block and stamp the whole word in one go.

If you'd like to join us for scrapclub next month we are meeting on Tuesday 2nd October.

August Scrap Club

This month's scrap club was delayed as I was away on holiday so we had it this week! Here is the page we created, based on one I saw on Jenni Pauli's website.

The base is Whisper White and was distressed with Sahara Sand ink. There were flowers stamped all over the base from Bordering on Romance in Peach Parfait, Rose Red, So Saffron, Blushing Bride and Sahara Sand. Matching mats were cut in the same card. Some edges were decorated using Edgelits which match the Bordering on Romance stamp set.

Across the centre were 3/4" circles cut, some were stamped images and others were in solid coloured cardstock. Leaves were cut im Sahara Sand on the Big Shot, as well as a So Saffron flower. The large flower was distressed and a paper daisy was layered on top with a Pumpkin Pie button in the centre. This page will look great with monochrome photos and could have a Sahara Sand title cut on the Big Shot once photos are chosen!

We had a lovely time, so thank you ladies!!

The next scrap club will be held on Tuesday 4th September at 7.30pm (GU12) - Let me know if you'd like to come along.

Deje Vous

You might recognise this layout as I have posted a very similar one before: Peekaboo, I See You!

However I was asked to do a more masculine layout for a party I demonstrated at for a group of experienced scrapbookers. I thought this layout would be good as it uses the products that are on offer this month.

This layout is 8x8" in size and has a Pool Party base.  I stamped the base with the same colour ink using the swirl in Creative Elements. It's such a beautiful stamp set that at the party many other stamped the background using the other images in the set: flowers, butterflies etc. A small strip of Everyday Enchantment DSP added a seasonal touch!

I paired this with Lucky Limeade (to tie in with the ribbon we used), Soft Suede and Peach Parfait.

The insides are made with the 1 1/4" square punch.

If you'd like to take advantage of July's offer before it's too late, click the image below to find out more:

Circle flowers

Last night was scrapbook class night! We had a good laugh, as usual, and this was the page that the ladies we using as inspiration. As is often the case with my projects lately it was inspired by a very similar page by Jenni Pauli.

I used Sahara Sand and Baja Blue but I think Jenni used Pool Party instead. It was a simple page to put together and making the flowers was great fun. Each flower petal is made by a circle that has had two sides folded in. These are then arranged in a circle to make one single bloom. I used different brads for the centres: silver, glimmer and antique!

The swirly stamp in Creative Elements created a nice elegant background that I finished with tonnes of pearls and rhinestones.

Yet another page made for our wedding album!

Peekaboo, I see you!

Hello at last! I've been attempting to blog since Monday but Blogger has been refusing to post my pictures! Fingers crossed I can now share this scrapbook page with you.

It's based on one from the monthly magazine all demonstrators receive: Impressions, April 2012. It's yet another great reason to become a demonstrator. It is full of great colour combinations, gorgeous projects and ideas with all sorts of products.

 Here's a view with the peekaboo flaps open. Such a cute way to add additional photos, journalling and stamped images without taking away from the main image. I've used Delicate Doilies DSP, which has this lovely Wisteria Wonder colour featured. The background stamping came from the set (soon to be retired!) Spiced Paisley, stamped in Wisteria Wonder.

Here's a close up of the little flaps. They were made by punching out Wisteria Wonder card using the Decorative Label Punch. Then the centre square was punched out. To attach the flaps the Jewellry Tag Punch created a hinge so the windows open and close!

Did you spot the pleated satin ribbon? Yes! It's going to be available from 1st May in a few different colours. The colour you can see is Blushing Bride. Consider this your sneak peek! There is another coming later in this post too....

Lastly here's a close-up of the decoration I made. It's using a cocktail stick with a card flag wrapped around it. There's a Soft Suede butterfly with jewel and a stamped image (also stamped using Spiced Paisley) and cut out. The Tiny Tag was tied on with BAKERS TWINE! Yes, there's bakers twine in the new Summer Mini catalogue. I've used white but there are also the striped versions in the 2011-13 In Colors. Yum-o!

Mixing patterns

The 11th challenge on the shimelle.com online crop was to mix patterned papers.



I was heavily influenced by one of the designs on there but this is my interpretation. I've actually squeezed four different designs from the same range. These are hostess papers that you can get for free if you host a party that totals £150+.

The owl punch made the embellishments super quick and easy. I also added some glimmer brads, de cut orange mini doilie and some big shot die cuts.

The writing is all about words that Munchkin has made up eg see-saw means horse. Got to preserve those memories!!

Pocket page

Another Shimelle online crop weekend challenge: add a pocket.



I've gone from one photo per page to photo overload. I think perhaps in hindsight this should have been a double page but since I'd started I went on to finish!

The patterned paper acts as a giant pocket for all the holiday memorabilia we collected whilst on the trip. At last a page that uses that bag full of bits I so carefully collected (as I always do) on holiday. Only this bag won't sit gathering dust for a year or two until their significance is forgotten and they are recycled.

Scrapping

There's an online crop at Shimelle.com so I've had a go at some of the challenges.

This first one is based on another layout you can see here.



The second was a colour challenge: to use Grey, yellow and one other colour.



Hope you like the designs!

Scrapbook club: April

Morning! Last night was scrapbook club. It was lovely to focus on creating a page as I've taken lots of photos recently.



The page was inspired by one I saw on Pinterest which looked like photo booth strips. It was a chance to dig through my scraps box and make use of them. The stamp sets used are Broadsheet Alphabet and Creative Elements.

If you'd like to come to Scrapbook Club next month it will be held on Tuesday 1st May at 7.30pm at my home (GU12).