Life is what you Bake of It

Earlier this month I had another layout on the Papermaze Blog using the Patio Party collection from Pebbles.

The recipe cards in the collection are no doubt intended to be uses as they are - as recipe cards or for making mini recipe books, etc, but I decided to use the cards for journalling about my enjoyment of baking and to also include a bit of family history on my layout. 

I printed my journalling on three of the recipe cards using my computer. It was a bit fiddly and time consuming to make sure it was positioned correctly, but I think it was worth the effort. 

The cards were glued to the left half of a sheet of the patterned paper which I had trimmed slightly before matting onto a sheet of black cardstock. 

I added a whisk cut from black cardstock to fill the space at the bottom of one of the cards.

4 photos which were roughly 3" x 3" square were attached to the right half of the page and a title die cut from black cardstock was added.

Die cuts from the Ephemera Pack were used to embellish the layout and to make these pop a bit I matted them on black cardstock and raised them with some 3D foam. I also outlined some of the elements with a black fine liner pen.

2018 Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt

Once again I have been taking part in the Summer Photography Scavenger Hunt organised by Mary-Lou of Patio Postcards. 

Here are the photo I took:

1. The Rosiness of Red
Car taken at the Revs and Rhythms classic car and music event we attended in July.

2. Stripes
Stripes on a paper tag on a scrapbook layout I created.

3. A Framed View
A view of Tout Quarry Sculpture Park at Portland framed by the hole in one of the sculptures.

4. Wings
I struggled to choose a photo for this so chose two! 
A swan kindly spreading his wings at Abbotsbury Swannery, Dorset......

..... and, wings at the Imperial War Museum Duxford.

5. Pedal Power
A cyclist who photo-bombed my photo of the beach at Weymouth.

6. Glorious Green
My daughter dressed and ready for her School House Olympics day complete with green hair.

7. An Unexpected Reflection substituted with Alternative A - A shopping bag
I couldn't resist buying this cute dog print shopping bag at TK Maxx.
(I could probably have used photo no 1 as an unexpected reflection!)

8. A Pile of
A Pile of origami paper cranes made by my daughter.

9. Looks smaller than you
Portland Bill Lighthouse being held by my daughter.

10. A Field of Plenty
A field full of buttercups.

11. Pretty in Pink
Jellyfish at The Weymouth Sealife Park illuminated by pink lighting.

12. Bell(s)
A bell on the wall of Portland Castle.

13. Equal Portions substituted with Alternative B - A Coupon to use
Various coupons collected during our holiday in Dorset.

14. A Trilogy of Three
Three cygnets at Abbotsbury Swannery, Dorset.

15. Out of the Blue
A crab shell which can 'Out of the blue SEA'

16. Something that could be from a favourite book / movie
The Hogwarts Express at the Harry Potter Studio Tour.

17. Re-purposed
A scarecrow at our village scarecrow festival made by the village store using bottles, egg boxes, an old mop .....

18. Currency, coinage or paper (the odd, the different, the beautiful)
Wizarding money at the Harry Potter Studio Tour. Knuts, Sickles and Golden Galleons.

19. Picture Postcard Perfect
Abbotsbury Sub-Tropical Gardens

20. Mellow Yellow
A dish of Pineapple and Passion Fruit Eton Mess eaten in the restaurant at our local pub.

Pebbles Patio Party from Jen Hadfield - Birthday Layout

Today I am on the Papermaze blog with my first project using Pebbles 'Patio Party' collection by Jen Hadfield. The collection would be ideal for all sorts of scrapbook layouts or cards and would be especially good  for scrapping summer photos, party photos or, as in the layout I created, birthday photos.

Inspiration for this layout was the 'Just for You' sheet of paper.

Several of the tags on the paper are birthday themed and I chose to use 4 of the tags to create a banner across the bottom half of my birthday layout.

The tags were embellished with die cuts form the Ephemera pack and some sequins and stickles.

Using tiny wooden pegs I attached some of the birthday themes die cuts to the banner and the number 15 was put on the cake die cut using pink puffy alpha stickers from Pink Fresh Studio.

In the top right corner of the layout I added another die cut which I stickled for some sparkle.

My layout was completed with a scattering of sequins and the date was put at the bottom of the layout using some little letter stickers.

Well Hello There!

In June we got a lovely photo of a fox on our wildlife camera. He was looking straight into the camera and I knew I just had to scrapbook the photo.

I decided to create a paper-pieced fox for the layout using scraps of patterned paper cut using a cut file from the Silhouette Studio. I pieced the papers together on some white cardstock and then hand stitched with some embroidery floss around the edges, before cutting the fox out leaving a narrow border of the white cardstock. 

I then found some papers in my stash to mount the fox and my photos on. Unfortunately I can't recall who manufactured the papers although I think the speech bubbles came from a Simple Stories collection.

I typed my journalling on the computer and then cut this into strips.

Searching in my stash I found a die cut camera and some wood veneer stars to embellish the layout with. 

The layout was completed with some lettering cut from black cardstock and some outlining in black pen. 

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy with Bo Bunny's Summer Mood

The day we left for our summer holiday in Dorset another layout I created for Papermaze using Bo Bunny's Summer Mood collection went live on their blog.

Some of the patterned papers in the collection have lemons printed on them which inspired me to scrapbook some photos of Lara taken when she was making lemonade a few years ago.

I started with a sheet of 12" x 12" white Bazzill cardstock and using a dry foam brush I roughly  painted a square in the middle with some yellow acrylic paint. Once the paint had dried I trimmed a quarter of an inch off of each side of the page and matted this onto a 12" x 12" sheet of black cardstock. Using my sewing machine I stitched round the edges using black thread.

I matted my two photos on white cardstock and then layered several pieces of the patterned paper behind and also a white paper doilie and a die cut frame from Pink Fresh Studio.

Lemon slices  from the Combo Sticker Sheet and a few extra slices, fussy cut from the patterned paper, were tucked behind the layers. A phrase sticker  from the sticker sheet was used to embellish the frame.

I made a shaker box (lemon slice) from some of the paper and a scrap of acetate which was filled with some yellow and gold sequins. The shaker box and my title, which I die cut from yellow cardstock, were stuck beneath the photos with the title raised on 3D foam dots.

I had received some pink wooden buttons in a previous DT kit but had been unable to use them, so I decided to try painting them yellow to use on this layout. The acrylic paint I used on them took really well and transformed them into the perfect embellishments for this layout.

My journalling strips were printed on the computer and stuck to the bottom  of the page. I decided to outline the journalling strips and other elements with a black fine liner pen to add some definition.

The layout was completed with a scattering of yellow and gold sequins, some enamel dots and a couple of torn pieces of paper were stuck to the top and bottom edges.

Tuxedo

I decided to scrapbook a photo of our cat, Tuxedo and do some stash busting. Everything used came from my stash and much of it was quite old.

I started with a sheet of white Bazzill cardstock which i trimmed to 11" x 11" and mounted onto a 12" x 12" sheet of yellow polka dot paper. I machine stitched close to the edge of the white cardstock with white thread and then roughed up the edges.

Strips of green and yellow paper, washi tape, ribbon and ric rac were glued horizontally to the white cardstock and before sticking down my photograph yellow acrylic paint splatters were added.

My photograph was layered with cardstock and co-ordinating patterned paper.

In my stash I found some very old green felt Thickers. I nearly threw these away a couple of weeks ago because I thought I would never use them, but they turned out to be the perfect choice for this layout.

I embellished the layout with some felt flowers, words strips....

.... die cut leaves, a flair button, a chipboard frame, a bingo card and some resin flowers.

I love how the layout turned out and that i was able to use up some old supplies.

Papermaze - Mini Album Card

Today I am on the Papermaze blog with another project using Bo Bunny's Summer Mood collection.

Having recently seen on Pinterest several examples of mini album cards made using a Paige Evans cut file, I decided to have a go at making one myself using some photos from a family day at the beach when the children were younger.

Using the cut file, downloaded from the Silhouette Studio, I cut the base from some white cardstock and all the other pieces (plus a few extras) were cut from various patterned papers from the Bo Bunny collection. As the papers are double sided this gave me lots of options when it can to using them to decorate the album card.

The cardstock base was folded accordion style and covers cut from some of the patterned paper were attached to the front and back. I added some words from one of the cut apart sheets of paper to the front cover. The words 'Beat the Heat' seemed appropriate for then and now!

The remaining panels cut from the patterned papers were used to decorate the inside of the album card and I also added tiny photos. I machine stitched round the edges of some of the panels and added sequins and stickers to embellish.

The album is very interactive with a tiny envelope which contains a few more photos, some removable mini tags tucked into a pocket and a fold out strip on the right side where more photos and some journalling are included.

A yellow ribbon with a tag attached was used to close the album card.

If given as a gift, the album card can be displayed upright like a conventional card and would make a great gift as a memento of a special event or day out

I really enjoyed making this mini album card and the Bo Bunny papers were perfect for the summery theme.