Station Porter Hills

This vintage style layout, completed last year, features a wonderful photograph of my Grandad (on the right in the photo) taken in the 1950s when he was a Railway Station Porter. 

I used papers from the Carta Bella Old World Travel Collection. The papers are a nice weight and have a lovely texture.

As well as using stickers from the collection pack, I also used some die cut shapes from a travel themed ephemera pack

I re purposed a metal button from an old jacket as an embellishment.

The layout was finished off with title lettering cut on the craft-robo, alphabet stickers,  and metal snaps.

Scrapology - November Card Challenge

This month design team member Karen Leonard has sent the card challenge on the Scrapology blog. Karen is challenging blog readers to create a card using colours found in a specific image from Design Seeds. 

I created a 5"x7" card featuring a free vintage image downloaded from the Internet.

I used various papers which were free with craft magazines, satin ribbon, paper flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts, adhesive pearls, a paper tag and the sentiment was from a QVC kit.

Here's the image which the card was inspired by.

You can find lots more inspiration on the Scrapology blog and full details of the challenge which runs until midnight on 15 December.

Scrapology - May Layout Challenge

This month on Scrapology the team has taken inspiration from a layout by Tracy Christine Funk from Ontario, Canada. Tracy included corrugated cardboard on her layout so as an extra challenge the team also included some on their layouts.

For my layout I chose an old photograph of my Great Grandfather Charles William Hills, Great Grandmother Alice Maud Hills (nee Burnage) and their daughter Annie Hills taken in about 1915 shortly after my Great Grandfather enlisted. Sadly Charles Hills died in 1919 after the first world war ended when his son (my grandfather) was only 17.

I dug deep into my stash and used lots of old papers, etc. for my layout. The papers were from Hot off the Press and K & Company. To distress the corrugated cardboard I used this tutorial by Gabrielle Pollacco. 

The large paper flowers were handmade using another tutorial from Gabrielle. I used some re-purposed metal buttons as centres.

I also used some antique lace, a gorgeous floral spray cut on the Craft Robo using a cutting file from the Silhouette Studio, some punched paper leaves, some resin flowers and a pearl button.

My journalling was printed onto some co-ordinating paper.

Here is Lynn's sketch ....

.... and Tracy's original layout.

Hop on over to Scrapology to see all the teams layouts and for full details of the challenge and super prize that is up for grabs. The challenge closes at midnight on 5th June 2014.

Scrapology - June Card Challenge

Today is Card Challenge Day on Scrapology and this month Hels Sheridan has challenged the design team and blog readers to 'Make it Vintage'

My card was inspired by a vintage image I downloaded from the Internet. 

I added the image to a tag which I had already covered in script paper and then decorated the tag with an assortment of butterflies, ribbon and lace and a sentiment printed on the computer. Machine stitching was also added to add some interest.

The tag was then put onto a 6x6 square card to which I had added a sheet of papers from Websters Pages. The card was finished off with buttons, faux pearls and more machine stitching.

The challenge will run until the 15th July, so pop on over to Scrapology and check out the details.