Simply Delicious

I was recently on the Papermaze (Scrap paper Scissors) blog with another layout using the Pineapple Crush collection from Heidi Swapp.

A few weeks ago it was Royal Ascot week and watching it on the television inspired me to scrapbook some photos taken last year when Wayne and I were lucky enough to attend Royal Ascot, as guests of a friend, watching the racing  from the balcony and restaurant of the luxurious Royal Marquee. I decided to scrapbook two photos of some of the delicious food and drink we were served and also a photo of the menu.

I started with a sheet of the cabana patterned paper. I cut two strips from the paper and then reattached these to the top and bottom of the page with the reverse side showing. Two pink paper doilies (which with some careful cutting and placement look like four!) were glued to the background. The photos were matted on white cardstock and one was also matted onto some gold glitter card before being put on the layout using 3D foam pads.

The two restaurant tags, which we had to wear throughout the day, made perfect embelishments on the right hand side of the layout. 

I used a white Heidi Swapp Acetate Word for my title as well as some gold glitter Thickers from American Crafts.

More gold glitter card was used to make some photo corners and sequins and punched confetti dots were sprinkled around the layout. I used little letters stickers from Websters Pages to add some details.

There wasn't room on the layout to include any visible journalling so I made a tag from some scrap card which I tucked behind one of the photos

Papermaze Design Team - Heidi Swapp Pineapple Crush

This week I'm on the Papermaze blog with Heidi Swapp's  Pineapple Crush collection. I chose to create a scrapbook page using a favourite recent photo of Lara and some of the pink and black/white papers from the collection.

I trimmed a quarter of an inch off of each side of a sheet of the pineapple crush paper and matted this onto a gutted sheet of 12" x 12" black Bazzill cardstock. A narrow strip torn from the palm beach paper was glued to the left side of the layout. A 9" x  6½" piece of the south beach paper was matted onto black Bazzill cardstock and placed on the background with 3D foam. For some added softness, my photo was first matted on several layers of pale pink tissue paper and then various pieces of paper from the collection.
A paper doilie and a hand made tag were tucked behind the left edge of the photo mats.

For my title I used a Heidi Swapp White Acetate Word and black Simple Stories Sn@p Letter Stickers. A punched paper heart was glued above the title.

Near the bottom of the layout I hung bunting made from scalloped circles punched from some of the papers and some twine. A pink button was glued at each end.

I machine stitched with white thread round the edge of the layout, on some of the paper layers and across the bunting.

The date and Lara's name were added with Websters Pages The Good Life Little Letters Stickers .

A few sequins were used to embellish the photo.

I finished my layout with some word strips, a scattering of sequins & seed beads and a splattering of some black spray mist.