Photoplay Notting Hill - A Few Cards

Today I have a set of cards to share that I made using the scraps of paper and cut-apart sheets left over from my previous projects using the Notting Hill collection from Photoplay.

The eight cards are all made using 6x6 card blanks and are all a variation of the same design.

The first card is designed to hold a gift of a book token in a pocket inside and I used two of the tags from the My Library sheet of paper on the front.

All papers used on the cards were matted with black cardstock to make the colours pop.

With the addition of the word 'thanks' the typewriter journalling card from the One More Chapter paper was perfect for a thank you card. 

Die cut sentiments cut from cardstock were added to some of the cards.

Card Candi (from my stash) were used to embelish the cards.

Where tags were added to the front of the cards, I added bakers twine to the tag holes.

All the cards were Tent Fold Cards - my preferred style of card.

The position of the the journalling card or tag on the card front varied depending on how it looked best against the background.

Echo Park Coffee & Friends - Cards from Scraps

Recently I've posted scrapbook layouts I've created using the Coffee and Friends collection from Echo Park. After creating three layouts with my DT kit I was left with a few random sized scraps of patterned paper and some of the die cut Ephemera Frames and Tags.

None of the scraps were bigger than about 6" square so rather than try and make another scrapbook layout I decided to challenge myself to make as many cards from the scraps as I could. On YouTube I follow American cardmaker Kristie Marcotte. Kristie has a series of videos where she takes a 6x6 paper pad and turns the entire paper pad (plus cardstock and minimal embelishments) into a set of cards. I love Kristie's style which uses a lot of black cardstock and took inspiration for my cards from her. By coincidence, Kristie has recently used the 6x6 Coffee & Friends paper pad to make cards. Unlike Kristie I didn't have a full 6x6 paper pad so didn't have as many papers or patterns to choose from but double sided papers help.

I managed to make 9 cards.

Four of the cards were just under 6" square and five were 4.5" square.

I used a lot of black cardstock to mat the patterned papers and die cuts. This made the colours pop.

The die cuts were mounted on 3D foam to add some dimension to the cards.

I used some cardstock in colours picked out from the patterned papers and die cuts on some of the cards.

Embelishments were minimal - sequins, ribbon and card candy.

Because I didn't have much patterned paper left I had to be creative on some of the cards. Some of the papers were joined and the join hidden behind another element.

For this card I was able to add blue cardstock to emphasis the blue cups on this paper and the die cut.

Some of the sentiments were printed onto white cardstock.

Carta Bella By The Sea - Portland Bill

Today on the Papermaze blog I have a second scrapbook layout using the By The Sea collection from Carta Bella. This collection is perfect for scrapbooking all those memories of days spent by the sea and on the beach. I decided to scrapbook a memory of a visit we made to Portland Bill lighthouse a couple of years ago.

For the base of my layout I used a sheet of white 12 x 12 Bazzill cardstock. Onto the cardstock I smooshed some watered down pale blue acrylic paint and then when it was dry I splattered some white acrylic paint on top. Much of the paint was eventually hidden, but what is visible gives some subtle added texture.

I layered pieces of the Beach Woodgrain and Coastal Words papers onto the layout and after matting my photo on red cardstock I attached this too, with some foam underneath to add some dimension.

A frame from the Ephemera and Frames pack was cut in half and one half  was tucked underneath the bottom edge the woodgrain paper. Three lighthouses were fussy cut from one of the journalling cards and attached to the corner of the photo, again with foam underneath.

The words 'By The Sea' were cut from the branding strip of one of the papers and stuck beneath the  lighthouses and I tied a knot in a piece of natural twine (left over from my previous layout) and stuck this on too. I used some tacky glue to stick down the twine. I find tacky glue is excellent for sticking twine, ribbon, etc.

The remaining part of the frame which I had previously cut in half, was placed at the top left of the layout as well as an image cut from the Sea & Sand paper.  

I recoloured some Simple Stories Sn@p letter stickers with a red marker pen and used these for my title.

I printed my journaling strips onto white cardstock using the computer and placed these at the bottom of the layout. I outlined the journaling strips with a black fine liner pen and also doodled round the edge of the layout and the edges of the papers.

I finished off the layout with a few blue sequins and the date was added with some tiny letter stickers.