Madrid

This is a double layout that came as a kit from Totalpapercrafts from Making Memories Passport collection. I did not go with the layouts that came with the kit because I think I have done my quoter of cutting out for a while..lol so I decided to do my take on the layout examples that come on the back of the kit cover. Its a great kit with stickers,alphabets and flowers as well as papers.

Talking of Totalpapercrafts if anybody is in the Essex area and fancys a days cropping and the chance to do some lessons as well, Karen is taking bookings for her crop on Sunday 1st March at Great Wakering. All the details can be found on her web site...she is raising money for Fairhavens at this event. The totalpapercrafts shop will be there as well and you get free tea/coffee and cake!!

Zoo

These papers were given to us as a challenge kit when I was on my retreat last year and needless to say I never got around to doing it at. So I picked it out of my crate to see what I could come up with. I had some patterened papers and plain to cordinate and some diecuts, they were all from My Minds Eye. The only thing I have added is a few buttons,string and the title has been done with American craft Thickers. If you are wondering how I do my circles I use the EK success cutter with the glass mat....easily the best cutting system I have brought.

Stampin'Up!

For those of you who dont know me I am a Stampin'Up! demonstrator in the Uk and for a while now I have been wanting to do a page solely with their products. This is what I came up with....in each of the packs of 12x12 designer papers you get two sheets of each six designs plus three sheets of plain cardstock in co-ordinating colours, so you have plenty for card making as well as scrapbooking.

Products Used:

Spiced Cider designer series paper

Accents and elements...the felt flowers in 3 colours and you get over 130 !

Chipboard letters...in the new catalogue the fonts have changed

Baroque Motifs stamp set...the flourish down the side and the Cherish word

Close to Cocoa ink pad

Brads

Hodgepodge..metal embellishments

Scalloped edge punch

Scalloped circle punch

Very Vanilla Taffeta ribbon

Ice Cream

After another dive into my crate of left overs I made this layout with papers/stickers that I had left over from another Totalpapercraft kit. The papers are by Pebbles inc and from the Lovely kit. You get the ribbon in the kit with the word stickers and the alphabet stickers and I just added the flowers, brads and covered a chipboard heart with some of the scraps I had.

You make me smile

This is the layout I did with Anna Bowkis at A trip down memory lane retreat last year...as I said yesterday its not my usual style but I really love this page, so does Emma. It may be hard to tell from the photo but the layout is actually on half a 12x12 sheet of acetate...something very different. Anna is a lovely lady and I just wish I had her talent for taking photos...if you want to see some of her work click here. The papers are Cosmo Cricket Hello Sunshine and Hambly transparency. You did not get the flowers in the kit so they are from my stash.

Tomorrow I have some more left overs from Pebbles inc.

Bittersweet

As promised the two layouts I did yesterday with my new papers from Basic Grey...Bittersweet. The shape on the "Love" layout I cut on the cricut. I love this collection...then again I tend to say that about all BG, dont just think Valentines and love themed layouts..none of the papers are covered in hearts/love words etc so they can easily be used on girly pages and cards.

Products used:

Basic Grey Bittersweet papers

Basic Grey Bittersweet chipboard embellishments

Basic Grey white rub ons

Bazzill pom poms

Stampin'Up! stitched ribbon in Rose red

Martha Stewart border punch

Flowers/brads from stash

Tomorrow I have a layout I have finally finished when I did a class with the fabulous Anna Bowkis...something very different from my normal style, but thats why I enjoy do classes at retreats,to get you thinking outside your comfort zone!

Woof Woof

I am taking a break for the moment from my "to finsh crate" and playing with some newish stash. These papers and embellishments I have had for a few weeks now and doggy pages are not something I would normally do as we dont have any dogs! but I knew I had these photos of my daughter with her boyfriends dogs....and she was with me in the shop and asked if I would do a layout using them. The papers and small doggy words are from Cloud 9 and came from here but the title came from Australia via my friends website here and I coloured it with a brillaince ink pad Crimson Copper...these pads are great as they are so wet when new they cover chipboard brilliantly...you just need to put it to one side to dry for a little while. I have also been trying to use stash and tools that have not seen the light of day since goodness knows when!! Rub ons alphabets is one...so now I have them all hanging on a hook in my room so they are out and can be a gentle reminder to use!!! secondly a fastenator, brought with such excitement yonks ago and I think I have only used it once...shame on me!! lol so I had a test run on this layout, hopefully now, if I leave it out it will be used alot more.

Tomorrows layouts are using Basic Grey Bittersweet, just got some finsishing off to do.

Have a great Sunday!