Catching up.....

Good evening, 

So here is a quick post this evening, having got in from my Son's cricket training tonight and had a bit of dinner. I'm a bit behind with this kit but here is a layout I have created from some of these very pretty BoBunny Soiree papers from the My Creative Scrapbook May kit.

These are such pretty papers and mixed with the Prima flowers, BoBunny chipboard stickers, paper rose buds and the Prima Shabby Chic Treasures, I was really pleased with the finished result!

I started this layout by cutting a circle out of my main background paper. I then distressed and tore the rim of the circle left in the paper. I attached a 2nd complimenting paper behind the circle hole and ran some lace in between the two layers

I arranged my flower clusters and then added a little texture paste swirls to compliment these clusters using the Prima stencil in the kit.

I used some stickers off the Soiree sticker sheet to layer with the Prima flowers, some lifted up on cardboard. I also cut the swirl strip up into small swirls and stuck them down so they were angled and not flat to add dimension.

I added some tiny alphas to a chipboard sticker to personalise. I loved this Prima Shabby Chic Treasure too, I left this completely untouched.

I dabbed the lace with some Vintage Photo distress Ink to make it a little more 'vintage' and distressed looking.

I finished the layout off by dabbing over the flowers and stickers with some gesso on a sponge applicator to soften and shabby it up!

And of course the gorgeous subject of my layout is my daughter, one of my favourite photos of her this year so far.

Products used were from My Creative Scrapbook May Kit.

Other products not in the kit were:

Finnabair Crackle white texture paste

Gesso

Black Pen

Vintage Photo Distress Ink

Kaisercraft Tiny Alphas

Thank you for stopping by.

Pop back soon,

Ginny  :)

Vintage Emporium Mini Album

Hey!

Happy Sunday to you all!

Today I am sharing my Prima Memory Hardware Magnetic Mini Album, that was a Technique kit Add on with the Swirlydoos March Peggy's Bicycle kit.  The kit featured the Prima collection Vintage Emporium.

The papers I used on the outside covers of this magnetic closing album, from a 6x6" pad of the Vintage Emporium, were matted with black cardstock.

I extended the opening flap by adding a Prima journal card, again matted on thick black cardstock, on top of the top opening flap but hung over the flap underneath. I thought  this added a slightly different feature to the album front.

I used a Blue Fern Studio chipboard piece called Royal Gate, embossed with a antique gold embossing powder, on the lower opening flap.

The cover was then decorated with Vintage Emporium flowers and bits and pieces from the Ephemera pack including the metal pieces.

I also added a couple of Brads from 'The Archivist' collection and a Prima wood icon 'together' piece.

This photo shows the other side of the extending flap and how the BFS chipboard gate fits nicely onto the lower flap.

The first inside page has a lot of room and allows for some bigger embellishments. I used more Prima flowers and a bottle from the Ephemera kit along with another wood icon piece.

I took these photos outside, I even managed to get a pesty fly on my album page!

I used a Martha Stewart punch 'photo corners' to make all the photo corners for the album from black cardstock. And then added co-ordinated paper mats in the photo area for the time being until some photos go in as I thought this looked better then blank spaces.

For all the other pages I added another photo spot on one side and then on the facing side I used Prima Journal cards, attached to the page on two sides, as pockets and then used more journal cards as mats for more photos slipped into the pocket.

I decorated each page with Prima wood icons and the stickers that were in the back of the 6x6 paper pad.

This centre page I added more ephemera. 

I even used the packaging from a couple of the flower packets as mats for the photo spots!

The back page I added some flowers and more ephemera to finish the album off. You just have to be careful how much big embellishments you put in the album that it will still shut easily.

The edges of everything including the album were inked with Distress ink Vintage Photo.

Products used:

Prima Marketing Memory Hardware Mini Album

Prima Marketing flowers Vintage Emporium #578589

Prima Marketing flowers Adele #58121

Prima Marketing Brads The Archivist

Prima Marketing 6x6 Vintage emporium paper pad

Prima Marketing Vintage Emporium Ephemera

Prima Marketing Journal 3x4 cards

Prima Marketing Wood Icons from various sets

Blue Fern Studio chipboard Royal Gate

Distress Ink pad Vintage Photo

Stampendous Aged Gold Embossing powder

Black cardstock

For more details on Swirlydoos kits and Add on kits visit

http://www.swirlydoos.com/

Thanks for stopping by

Ginny  :)

CSI: Color, stories, inspiration Case File 203

Afternoon all,

Its time for another case file to open at CSI: color, stories, inspiration.
This weeks case file is a fun challenge with a lovely colour palette.

Here is the case file:

                                                 Its very easy , just follow these rules:

Here is my DT layout of this case file:

Now for the low down!

The colour scheme -  all 5 colours used, most of them were in the photo!

The Evidence -  * dots - clear stamp

* clouds - wood icons

*cars/transportation - photo

*mesh - stencil Memory Box 'mesh'

* string - string & cotton

* wood - clouds & buttons

* hearts - chipboard & in the clouds

The Testimony - *Inspirational words - 'play'

* journal about a child hood memory - well, one of Holly's !!

This is my daughter when she was around 9 months old in her car. She loved being pushed around in this car especially by her brother. She always looked so proud and important whilst being pushed around like she was somebody very important!

The patterned paper I tore up and took two sections out to create the effect I achieved. The torn edges I inked using a red chalk ink pad. Then stuck them on the cream cardstock. My alphas have been outlined in a black Pro-marker pen.

I used 2 stencils on my background with texture paste along with mist splodges and sponging some white acrylic paint over the page too. Also random stamping with the bubbles dots clear stamp and grey ink.

I journalled along all the torn edges for a different look. I splattered some yellow acrylic paint over the layout and used some to add some edging to my photo.

Some of my chipboard hearts were coloured with the Firefly mist and some with the soft apple paint. The clouds were painted with white acrylic paint.

The string and cotton were just twisted round and round, then glued down under the photo.

I stamped a faux stitch stamp with grey ink around the outside edge of my layout with the Prima clear stamp.

Products used:

Bazzil cream cardstock

Basic Grey; Porcelain - doulton

Tando Creative;  mini hearts

Simple Stories;  'Lets Party' chipboard stickers

Freckled Fawn; Wood chips - clouds

Jillibean Soup; Wood Nickels - Journal

Finnabair; clear stamp - bubbles

Prima Marketing; clear stamp - Rosarian

Prima Marketing Alphas

Prima Marketing; Chalk Ink pad - Blossom Bud

Prima Marketing; stencil #64216

The Memory Box; stencil - Mesh

Cosmic Shimmer; mist - Red Firefly

Staz-on; Dove grey ink pad

Folk Art; acrylic paint - Soft Apple

Finnabair; Texture paste - white crackle

Indigo Blu; acrylic paint - banana custard

Pro-Marker pen  - Black

White Acrylic paint

String & red cotton

Please pop over to the CSI blog and forum using this link to check out what the other Design team members created for this case file!

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/case-file-no-203

Hope you enjoyed this post, thank you for stopping by, until next time :)

Ginny :)

Case File 202

Hiya all,

Here I am with my DT layout for Case File 202 for CSI - color stories inspiration.
This case file had a lovely colour palette great evidence and testimony to work with AND its sketch week too!

Here is the case file:

Here is my take on this case file:

My evidence used was:

* solid white background

* Diamonds

* Triangles

*Speech Bubbles

* Stamps

* Stars/asterisks

My Testimony used was:

* Document something about a building

* Scatter your journaling in a series of speech bubbles

This is Spinnakers Tower in Portsmouth. We went up to the viewing deck at the top.

There were amazing views from up there and we watched Royal Navy Frigate ships coming into port with all the sailors lined up on the sides of the ship.

There was a glass floor up there too which was 100mtrs above sea level.

I did have to take a deep breathe when I took the first step onto it! It is my feet in the photo looking down through the glass floor. The kids thought it was wonderful and were lying on it!

The speech bubbles and the arrow were cut from a Sissix die set.

                       I hand wrote the title and coloured in with distress marker Bundled Sage.

Products used:

Bazzil cardstock - white

Bazzil cardstock  - yellow

Cosmic Shimmer Chalk Mist - pastel  blue

Indigo Blu Acrylic paint - banana custard

TCW stencil mini Harlequin

Prima Color Bloom mist - Sunshine

Kaisercraft clear stamp - triangles

Staz On ink pad - Black

Indigo Blu rubber stamp - script background

Sissix Thinlets - I Heart This

Finnabair texture paste - white crackle

Tando Creative chipboard Mini Stars

Dusty Attic acrylic paint - forest

Tim Holtz Distress Marker - Bundled Sage

Black Pen & white card

Teresa Collins Far and Away Journal quotes

Thanks for taking a peek at todays post,

If you would like to see more details about this case file and the other layouts created by the DT please visit the CSI blog and forum with this link

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/major-case-file-no-202-case-closes-on-june-30-2016

Ginny  :)

Swirly Girl Challenge (SGC)

Hey there!

This month I am hosting the SGC challenge over on the SWIRLYDOOS forum.  This is where members of the Swirlydoos forum set their own monthly challenge for us all to have a go. I have never done one before but thought  'hey why not'? so here we are!
Swirlydoos is a world wide monthly kit club from the USA, so I was trying to combine an element from there and incorporate something from the UK as well.
June is the first official month of summer and along with it the Summer Solstice here in the Northern hemisphere. In the UK the longest day ( of sunlight) is June 20th.
Having done a little research I notice that its the 'Great Outdoors' month in the USA, so taking all this into account I decided that my challenge would be about summer and being outdoors.
BUT there's a twist! I'm adding a Bingo board, a craft version! The idea is you choose any straight line of four items, whether vertical, horizontal or diagonal and you HAVE to use these on your layout or project.

 I created two layouts for inspiration for this challenge using two different lines from the Bingo board.

                                           Here is the first one, using the diagonal line :-

                                Use a Die  -    Paper Folding   -   Chipboard  -  Leaves/foliage

This layout is a summer holiday photo of my family on Torquay seafront a couple of years ago.

This layout is done on a We R Memory Keepers White Out 'Promenade - Parasol' paper backed with a beige Bazzil cardstock. I found the piece of green and orange paper, in my stash which matched perfectly with my photo. I have used a paper only a 180gsm so it is easy to fold. I folded the paper like you would to make a paper fan, 3 times from each end of my 12" wide paper leaving the middle flat to place my photo over.

The flowers and embellishments are all from previous Swirlydoos kits.

Use a Die - Tattered Lace - Foliage & Joanna Sheen Signature's - Ivy

Paper folding - the green and Orange paper

Chipboard - BFS chipboard Ornate Sign

Leaves/foliage - die cut leaves & Hydrangea leaves

No. 2 layout I used the horizontal line of :-

Diamond Shapes   -  A Tag   -  Garden Architecture  -  Leaves/foliage

My layout is about my one of my favourite outside things to do and that is walking in the countryside. In this case it was a walk in the Bluebell woods near to our home.

This layout has been created with a Blue Fern Studio Courtship Lane 'West Plaza' paper from the Swirlydoos  Purple Haze kit. All the embellishments on this page are from previous Swirlydoos kits.

My Diamond shapes is the texture paste through a TCW stencil 'mini harlequin'.

My journaling I wrote down, then cut up into strips and inked the edges.

My Garden Architecture is the Prima Shabby Chic Bird bath.

And a whole variety of leaves/foliage - paper, material, wood.

For more details on this challenge and to join in please come and visit us at the Swirlydoos forum using this link

http://www.swirlydoos.com/forums/topic/june-sgc-the-great-outdoors/

Thanks for stopping by today

Ginny    :)