Crate Paper Gingham Garden - A Moment Captured

Today I have another layout to share using the beautiful Gingham Garden collection from Crate Paper and this time I've scrapbooked a photo of me as a child.

For my background I used a ready-to-use Mixed Media Paper from a pad by Vicki Boutin. 

I trimmed the paper down by 5mm on each edge and matted this onto a sheet of the Gingham Garden Fresh Air paper. 

I then splattered the layout with some gold mist. 

In the centre of the layout I created a large photo mat from torn pieces of the Fresh Air and Nostalgia paper. To add some extra texture I machine stitched the torn edges and the edges of the layout with white thread.

My square photo was printed with a white border and added to the photo mat with 3D foam underneath to add dimension.

Beside the photo I placed a journalling card from the Ephemera pack and used this as a place to put my title.

The title was created with some tiny foam alphabet stickers from my stash. A word from the Happy Life Phrase Thickers was added as a sub-title. Some of the Phrase Thickers are gold and really shine.

To embellish the layout I fussy cut some flowers from the In the Shade paper and butterflies from the Alight paper, and placed these beside the photo.

Finally I added the date at the bottom of the page with more foam alphabet stickers and dotted some gold stars from the sheet of Thickers here and there.

Crate Paper Gingham Garden - Side by Side

Today I have a layout to share using the new Gingham Garden collection from Crate Paper. This collection has a soft pastel colour palette and if full of florals, ginghams and watercolour patterns. It is soooooo pretty and I am loving creating with it. It would be ideal for spring layouts, heritage layouts, wedding layouts. baby layouts and lots of other themes. Today I've created a layout using three photos of Lara investigating a statue found when we were on holiday one summer.

I started by mounting a trimmed down sheet of the Souvenir paper (B side) onto a sheet of 12x12 white cardstock leaving a narrow boarder round the edge. Strips of the Nostalgia paper and Lovely One paper were then layered at the top of the layout and using my sewing machine I straight stitched along all the edges with white thread to add some texture to the layout.

Three 3x4 photos were triple matted in a row with white cardstock, Lovely One paper and Picnic (B side) paper. Finally they were placed onto a slightly larger piece of the Nostalgia paper and attached to the layout with 3D foam underneath.

Using my Silhouette Cameo I cut a 'Side by Side' cutfile by Peartree Crafts. The cutfile was cut twice - once in smooth white cardstock and once in smooth black cardstock. The white cutfile was backed with the Picnic paper and then the two cutfiles were layered, slightly offset, on top of each other to create a shadow effect. When placed on the layout the cutfile stands out more because of the shadow effect.

Three embellishment clusters were created on the layout - two by the photos and one in the top right corner.

Each cluster contained die cuts from the Ephemera pack, flowers fussy cut from the Fresh Air paper, stickers from the sticker book and some wood veneer leaves and butterfly from my stash. The embellishment pack contains a variety of die cuts cut from shiny cardstock, paper or vellum and some have foil accents. 

To balance the clusters I made sure each one included peach, yellow and aqua elements. In the cluster at the top of the page I also included the date, die cut from the green paper.

Finally I sprinkled a few pale green sequins by each cluster to add some sparkle.

Home from Home

This layout is the last layout I have to show from my crafty weekend away last month. It's based on a layout by Crafty Jen Schow and uses a sheet of patterned paper from Crate Paper's Wonder Collection which has images of houses. Jen used the paper as a border but I have seen many other people do this too.

For my layout I used photos of the holiday cottage we stayed at in Norfolk last year.

The base for my layout was a sheet of 12" x 12" white Bazzill cardstock which was trimmed slightly and matted onto a sheet of black cardstock.

I fussy cut a strip of the houses from the patterned paper and stuck this along the bottom of the layout using 3D foam to add some dimension.

My three photos were each matted on black cardstock and stuck to the layout in a block.

I used some black foam Thickers for the title and smaller black stickers for the title.

At the top of the layout I stuck a couple of strips of coordinating papers. Die cuts and a punched heart were used to create a cluster on the the left top corner of the page.

Crate Paper Emma's Shoppe

I have just spent a lovely weekend crafting with a group of like minded friends. Having a whole weekend of crafting meant I was able to put together plenty of scrapbook layouts .... something I've not done for some time!

One of my favourite layouts was this layout using Crate Paper's Emma's Shoppe Collection. The layout is a scrap lift of a layout by Brazilian scrapbooker Bianca Ribero found on the Crate Paper blog. Emma's Shoppe was released in 2011 so it was nice to finally use the papers I had bought back then.

I used a photo of Lara taken in 2009 after a trip to the library.

The 'books' were made using this 12" x 12" sheet of double sided paper.

I cut the individual books out and shortened them to fit my layout. 'Book marks' were made from ribbon and embroidery floss. 

As well as the patterned paper from Crate Paper I also used some papers from Echo Park, Bazzill Cardstock, BasicGrey letter stickers and a 'print n cut' flower file from the Silhouette Studio. Various paper punches and fancy cut scissors were used to add interest to the paper edges.

Scrapology - November Layout Challenge

This month on Scrapology the team has been inspired by a lovely layout by Australian Scrapbooker Michelle Logan and as an added challenge have all incorporated chipboard in their layouts

For my layout I used a photo of my daughter riding the carousel at the Needles Park on the Isle of Wight. 

I used a mix of patterned papers on my layout from Crate Paper (cream base), Websters (brown spot), Bo Bunny (brown swirl) and Dream Street Papers (memo). I also added a page from an old book behind the photo. The chipboard swirl was from Fancy Pants. 

I embellished the layout with a crochet doilie, a tag, a brad, a button, a mini postcard downloaded and printed from the Internet, a paper flower and some heart pins. 

My title was cut on the Craft Robo using a cutting file from the Silhouette Online Store and I used some Simple Stories alphabet stickers for my journalling.

For the circle on Michelle's layout she used paint and inks. I decided to create a circle of plat backed pearls using a Crafters Workshop 'Dots all Around' stencil to make sure the pearls were placed evenly. 

Here is Michelle's gorgeous layout ....

... and as usual the sketch.

Hop on over to the the Scrapology blog for full details of the challenge and to see everyone's layouts.

Medieval Make Believe

Last month whist at the retreat I put together this layout using photos of my daughter taken a few years ago at Framlingham Castle in Suffolk. Well, I put about 90% of the layout together and have been tinkering with it ever since.

I used papers from My Minds Eye (Wood), Crate Paper (Pink) and October Afternoon (Music). I also used more scraps of My Minds Eye paper to make the bunting and the concertina/rosette  flowers. The flags were made by gluing some of the bunting to wooden cocktail sticks which were topped with a pearl bead. I added some flat back pearls and perfect pearls to add extra detail.

The hardest part about this layout was the title. My crafty friends had many suggestions for titles but in the end I settled for 'Medieval Make Believe' which I cut on the Craft Robo. 


Oops, just realised one of the pearls from the top of the flags is missing. Must have fallen off during photographing the layout. Off to find another. 

Scrapology October Layout Challenge - B is for Borders

On Scrapology this month the theme of our challenge is 'B is for Borders'.

The team chose to take inspiration from a layout by Georgia K Keays and I had so much fun creating my layout. I love Georgia's style and the colours in my choice of photos meant I also chose similar papers to those that Georgia used in her original layout. I decided to rotate the layout as it better suited the portrait photos I used.

Over the summer I developed a taste for homemade still lemonade and Lara was happy to make a jug of the drink for me each week. My layout documents this.

For my layout I used cardstock from Bazzill (black and white), patterned papers from Cosmo Cricket (Blue), Crate Paper (Yellow) and October Afternoon (Text), Leaves and title cut on the Craft Robo, Flat Backed Pearls from Quixotic Paperie, Paper Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and crochet doilies which I bought many years ago whilst on holiday on one of the Greek Islands.

Here is Georgia's stunning original layout.

And the sketch drawn by our own Lynn.

Hop on over the Scrapology to see all the team layouts and then why not create your own layout based on the sketch (and using borders).