Simple Stories

Hi All,

I've had a lovely Sunday afternoon scrapping and here are the results. These two layouts have both been made with a lovely bright girly collection from Simple Stories called So Fancy.

Here's the first one,

I have used some pieces out of the 'Bits and Peices' as embellishments. Some of them I have lifted up to give a little depth to the page. To do this I just use pieces of cardboard from the boxes that all our goodies arrive in in the post, just like a foam pad but with glue. So much cheaper and readily available.... I don't waste anything!

 

I inked my edges and did some faux stitching.

 

 

And a layout wouldn't be complete without a flower, these ones from Prima I thought fitted well with the papers.

 

Products used in this layout:

Simple Stories So Fancy Paper 'Besties'

                   "           "                "    Berry Waterfall/Triangles

Simple Stories So Fancy Bits and Pieces

Simple Stories So Fancy Self Adhesive Brads

Prima flowers 'So Cute'

Prima Chalk Ink Pad Farmers Jeans

"   "         "      "         Blossom Bud

Sakura Gelly Roll White Pen

 

  Here's the next one...

I tore the paper into 3 for an extra feature to this page, everything is inked again and elements lifted up with the good old cardboard box!

These papers and ephemera in the Bits and Pieces have some gold foiling in them for an extra sparkle.

And I love the Enamel dots!!

                                                              Products used in this layout were:
                                                          Simple Stories So Fancy paper 'Fancy'
                                                         "     "       "      "    Teal Waterfall/Triangles
                                                                   Simple Stories Enamel Dots
                                                                   Simple Stories Bits and Pieces
                                                                       Prima flowers 'So Cute'
                                                             Prima Chalk Ink pad Farmers Jeans
                                                                "         "        "     "   Blossom Bud

Hope you enjoyed these bright and cheerful layouts. I will write my journaling on now I've taken my photographs - some things still need to be kept private don't you think !!!! :)

Thanks for looking  :)

Prima Gatefold Mini Album

Hi All,

Today I'm sharing with you my Prima, Frank Garcia, Gatefold Journal Mini Album. This was the Technique kit add-on for July with Swirlydoo's monthly kit club. http://www.swirlydoos.com/
The album came with gorgeous Prima papers Garden Fable 6x6 pad, a selection of Garden Fable flowers, the Garden Fable Wood Icons and Garden Fable Tags and Tickets plus a selection of ribbon, lace and string.
The only extra things I used were lots of Walnut Stain Distress Ink, some small flowers from the July Belle Fleur Swirlydoo's kit, some Prima Metal Butterfly Paper Clips and the gorgeous clasp on the front to keep it shut, from my stash.
It was really nice, for a change to have a mini album ready just to cover in paper and decorate without having to make it first!!

 

I am now going to give you a photo tour of the mini, showing you all the pages.

I have added pockets that hold tags. They could be used for extra small photo's or for putting a journaling spot on to or just for decoration.

I have left lots of space on the non pocket pages to put larger photos on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I hope you enjoyed looking at my mini album, Thanks for looking. :)

 

Hot air balloon with Prima Princess

Hi all,

Today I'm sharing my blogpost on https://inhouseinteriorsandcrafts.wordpress.com/  featuring these adorable Paper Mache balloons all ready to alter. As soon as my daughter saw these she very sweetly asked if she could have one for her bedroom, so I just had to oblige!!
Here is a before and after.....

 

 

Products used to complete this project were;

Prima Princess A4 Paper pad

White Gesso

Distress Ink Pad Frayed Burlap

Flowers: Kaisercraft,  Craft Fairy, Anne Marie Designs

Pearl trim and Lace from my stash

 

Here are some close ups ...

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to look.  :)

 

 

Challenging myself....

Do you ever decide to challenge yourself to something different, just to make yourself think in a different way even if only for one project.

Well I decided my odd bod/ left over patterned paper box was growing to big  and I needed to use some of it up.

So this is it.... a mixture of MME papers, Simple Stories papers and BoBunny double dot paper.
Some gesso splattering, paper tearing and lots of layering and not a single flower in sight!!!!
I am pleased with how my self challenge turned out and think it suits the photo well, I hope you agree!

   Having now emptied some papers out of the leftover paper box ( I can't see any difference in the amount from when I started) I feel I passed that self challenge..... and now back to getting a flower or two out for the next LO!!!!

                                                      Thanks for stopping by   :)

Swirlydoos June kit layouts

Hello all,

I loved this June kit from Swirlydoos, with Kaisercraft Antique Bazaar and BoBunny Heritage collections in it. www.swirlydoos.com

Here are two layouts I did from the kit, the first using the Kaisercraft papers. It had all my favourites on it - flowers, flourishes, lace, a little bling and lots of layers.

And the second one is using the Bobunny papers. We had this piece of bling made up of lots of squares in the kit  which I decided I wanted to cut it all up and make a mosaic effect with it... so I did!
A bit time consuming but I liked the end result.

 

Thank you for stopping by.   :)

Creating 'Boy' Pages....

Hi all,

You may have noticed that most of my layouts are usually very flowery and quite heavily loaded with pretty embellishments, so when it come to doing LO's of the male side of my family I do find it quite challenging to do a LO without a flower on it!!!
However, I do like setting myself challenges and stretching myself out of my comfort zone and find it is an opportunity to use other methods that I love to use like paper layering and using mixed media forms.
Here are a couple of LO's I have created this week of DS using these methods and i really enjoyed it, doing something different.

This first one is using Simple Stories 'Awesome Me' papers and stickers and alpha's.

With some added trims, a bit of punch work on the layering and some plastic mesh - love that stuff!

This LO is done on a Prima Lifestyle paper I've had in my stash for a while. This one I masked with a Prima chalk pad and then I did some stamping . Combining some a little paper layering, Washi Tape, Candi Core, bakers twine, some wood icons and alpha' and Voila!!!!

Hope you like them! 

Enjoy your day!

I Love Shabby LO's......

Afternoon All,

This post is back to flower power Shabby style, I love this way of doing my pages.
I am using my Swirlydoo's  monthly kit club kit, the April one, which had papers from 'My Besties'.
I used two papers from the kit that have made it very easy to get the shabby romantic feel that I try to achieve with my LO's.
The first one was based on layers. I got my sewing machine out and sewed away merrily, round the edges of some  of the layers, not neatly which is the best bit about it!! I wanted to do a LO based on the pink white and browns of the kit. I think these colours are perfect together and give a very romantic pretty feel. I did a lot of distressing and added some masking with texture paste and a second layer of masking with the texture paste coloured with some pink mica powder. I layered up using the papers, lace and craft doilies and then finished of with the metal trellis, flowers (kaisercraft & Petaloo), pearls and Chippy butterflies from BoBunny.

The second paper again was distressed and layered up and had the masking with texture paste treatment. I used strips of paper behind the photo layer, Kaisercraft and Petaloo flowers, Liquid pearls for the pearl circle and Prima alpha's and Prima Doily stickers. I tried to make this look like we were sat in a fairy tale! I finished off with lots of gesso! Hope you like them!