Pinkfresh Studio Oh What Fun - Merry Memories

Today on the Papermaze blog I'm sharing my first layout using the Pinkfresh Studio Oh What Fun collection. This collection is a holiday collection full of bright happy colours perfect for scrapbooking Christmas memories or for making cards and mini books.

For this layout I used a 5x7 photo of Lara taken when she was a lot younger.

I took a sheet of mustard coloured cardstock for my base and onto this I added a piece of the Merriest Wishes paper and a torn piece of the Home for the Holiday paper (B side). Using metallic gold thread I machine stitched round the outside edges of the patterned papers. My photo was double matted onto some of the mustard cardstock and some gold glitter card and was attached to the right side of the layout with 3D foam underneath.

I also machine stitched over the top of the printed 'strings' from which the printed baubles were hanging.  I punched some tiny stars from some gold glitter card and used these to embellish the printed baubles and added 3D foam pads underneath the stars to raise them up.

I made some bunting using images cut from the Merriest Wishes paper and some red Bakers Twine. This was added above my photo and some punched stars were glued to the ends of the twine.

I used some of the Puffy Phrase Stickers from the collection for my title. 

I printed my journalling onto some white cardstock using my computer, outlined it with a black gel pen and added it to the bottom left corner of the layout.

Finally I dotted some tiny clear crystal stickers around the layout to add a bit of sparkle.

Paige Evans Go The Scenic Route - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (Hand Stitching)

Another layout today using Paige Evans latest collection called Go The Scenic Route. 

My layout today is inspired by, and based entirely on paper #9. This pretty pale lilac sheet of paper reminded me of an old fashion embroidered sampler and I immediately knew I wanted to do some hand stitching on my layout.

I started by machine stitching with white thread round the edge of the layout. Then, using 6 strands of embroidery thread in pink, orange and navy blue I stitched detached chain stitches (also called lazy daisy stitch) on top of some of the printed leaves. This added texture to the layout and emphasised the design. The stitching didn't take too long and was quite relaxing to do.

I then matted my four photos onto white Bazzill cardstock and attached these to the layout with 3D foam underneath to add depth. Before gluing down the photos I carefully fussy cut some of the flowers from the base paper, which would have been hidden by the photos, and added these to the corners of the layout, again with foam beneath them.

I tucked a few die cuts from the Journal Ephemera Pack behind the top two photos ....

...and added a few pieces on top of the bottom two photos. Bakers Twine was added to the Magical tag .

I dug into my stash and found some pink puffy alpha stickers from Pinkfresh Studio for the title and date. The title was added in an arc to follow the design on the paper.

To finish off the layout I added some sequins to the centres of some of the flowers and on a sheet of Doodlebug Shape Sprinkles I found some teeny tiny navy blue dots (like enamel dots) which I dotted about the layout.

Birthday Card

It was my friend Lynn's birthday recently and I decided to make her a card. Several years ago I made an almost identical card to this and really liked how it turned out, so decided to make a copy, in different colours, for Lynn.

I used some Prima papers and lots of sewing themed embelishments - printable button cards, scissors charm, thread wrapped round a die cut spool, pins, a crochet dollie and tape measure washi tape.

My sentiment from Craftwork Cards was mounted on a die cut scalloped circle. I also machine stitched around the edge of the paper for even more texture.

London Eye

This final layout from last year is of our ride on the London Eye in summer 2015. It is a scraplift of a layout by Steffanie Seiler.  

My base for the layout was sheet of white cardstock matted on a sheet of black cardstock. A black circle (which ended up being almost completely covered ) was created by stitching on the layout with the sewing machine.

I layered a variety of papers from Simple Stories and my photos were matted on black cardstock to make than stand out against the bright coloured patterned papers.

My title was created using  alphabet stickers and a cut file cut on the Craft-Robo. Acrylic dots, die cuts and stickers finished off the page.

Moments to Remember

This layout of my daughter was inspired by a layout by US Scapbooker Ashley Horton but turned out quite different to the original.

My base was a sheet of navy patterned paper which was matted on a sheet of red patterned paper. 

The cut file was by Paige Evans and I filled the open spaces with various scraps of red paper.

Before sticking the cut file onto the layout I flipped it over and drew round the outline with a pencil onto the right hand half the layout. The pencil outline was then stitched using some red embroidery thread.

My 6x4 photograph was matted onto white cardstock and stuck onto the layout and the layout was finished off with sequins, and die cuts.

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 4

On Thursday we used a tutorial on craftpassion.com (found via Pinterest) for a zip-itself purse. Lara has a pencil case and a bag which zip-into themselves so we were keen to try and make one our self. The tutorial is not for the faint hearted! Boy did we stress over making this and will NOT be making another!

We used a 20" zip and a 20" piece of animal print patterned ribbon.

All was going well until the last step where we had to finish it off. The purse should have been a tetrahedron but we decided to make it rectangular instead. Lara's please with the finished purse and it works. It can be unzipped to form one long strip or zipped up to make a cute purse. We decided not to line the purse.

Scrapology - October Card Challenge

This month on Scrapology our card challenge is sponsored by Mei Flowers. The challenge is to create a card taking items from a bingo style grid - any 3 items in a line either across, down or diagonally

I decided to choose stitching, buttons and layers ... and here's my card.

I had such fun making this card. I got carried away with a sewing theme and just ran with it.

I used 5x7 card blank and a sheet of papers from the MME Miss Caroline Howdy Doody range.

I also used a lovely 'scissors' charm from Mei Flowers.

I die cut a 'spool' on the CraftRobo from some card and wrapped some thread round it and added a couple of heart pins.

I downloaded from the Internet free button card images ( found here and here ) and printed these onto plain card. I added some wooden buttons to one of the cards.

I used some Washi Tape to add a corner and also a lace doilie.

Finally I added a digital sentiment from mcmahonfivedesign.com which I printed onto card and cut with a circle punch and mounted on a scalloped circle.

Please pop on over to Scrapology and see all the teams cards and here's the bingo card grid to inspire your creations.

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 12

Today Lara had a go at making some felt birds that we spotted on Etsy (via Pinterest of course). 

We used a paisley shape as a template for the birds bodies and wings and used some scraps of felt and fabric and a few buttons.

I think Lara needs a bit of practise with her blanket stitch but otherwise she did a great job.

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 11

Todays craft project was found on Pinterest and came from the 'Zaby and Kuku blog'. 

I knew that Lara would love the cute dogs and so I bought some co-ordinating fabric for her to make one. 

When we made the worms last week we used the sewing machine but today Lara did all the sewing by hand. 

It took a little while and she got in a knot a few times. 

But, she persevered and finished the toy.

We have more fabric so may make another one another day.

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 7

Todays craft idea came from a Pinterest pin which I pinned nearly a year ago. It was an idea from the Darling Petunia blog which was a link from the Dollar Store Crafts website.

Our project was to make a toy from a microfibre cleaning mitt - the type of thing you perhaps use to clean your car. I hunted everywhere for the right type (it had to have a thumb) and then eventually I found some in Poundland. When planning summer holiday craft projects it's important that they don't cost a lot and so to find the mitt for £1 was great. I bought two!

A tuorial for this project can be found on the Darling Petunia Blog, but here's mine.

First Cut off the cuff and the thumb. Leave a little fabric at the base of the thumb.

Add some beady little eyes.

Turn inside out and sew the cuff portion into a point but leave the thumb open.

Turn the right way out.

Stuff!

Sew up the opening where the thumb was.

Add a pom pom nose and your hedgehog is complete. Lara called him 'Spike'.

We also made up the orange mitt and called him 'Prickle'

Summer Holiday Crafts - Day 5

Whilst away on holiday we bought this book - 'Make Your Own Misfits'.

The book is full of bizarre creatures made from scraps and odds and ends. Lara decided she liked the look of Bernie, George & Denzil the worms.

We should have used an old sock to make them but not having the right colour old socks we instead made our worms from some scraps of pink fleece fabric left over from a previous craft project. 

They were quite fiddly to turn and stuff, but we managed, and after adding beads for eyes and embroidery thread mouths our worms were made

Bernie .....

George .....

 and Denzil.