Scrapbook Saturday

Hello! Sorry for not blogging yesterday, it’s been a busy week.  For today I wanted to share two scrapbook layouts ‘from the archive’.  I met one of my downline, Georgie just over 2 years ago.  Quite soon she expressed an interest in running a scrapbook club but didn't want to do it on her own, I’d never done any scrapbooking but was willing to ‘give it a go’ – I'm so pleased I did!

This first one is my very first attempt at scrapbooking ever!  Very clean and simple, we wanted to focus on a couple of techniques and I remember this one was punching and different ribbon methods.

Some beautiful pictures of my little angel taken by Debbie at Ido! Photographic when she was only four weeks old.

This next one focused on texture and making your own embellishments, here a pinwheel and a flower.  Each of the panels is a different texture or pattern.  We also dyed some linen thread too.

 

 

Traditionally a pinwheel is made from a square of paper but this one was actually four triangles, this enabled us to achieve the two tone finish.  You can also see the spotty embossed finish on the yellow square.

Here’s a close up of the flower, I made this using the build a blossom punch.

    

I hope you like today’s shares, come back soon for more.  Happy Crafting!

New boxes for wood mount stamps

Some quick info from Stampin’ Up! today, starting on July 1st all wood mount stamp sets will come in NEW style packaging, it’s been designed so that it fits neatly on the shelf next to the dvd style cases that the clear mount stamps come in.  Watch this quick video to see it in action.

Perfect neat storage, now that’s a way to make me smile :)

A Happy Birthday Cuppa

Good morning!  A quick post for today, I've got another ribbon trim card to share.  I made this along with Monday’s card when I had all my bits out prepping for last month’s class.  I've used a crumb cake base with Baja Breeze and a touch of Island Indigo.  Baja Breeze is another of the 10 colours that retires at the end of June – don’t miss out contact me to order yours today.

I first inked the cup stamp from ‘Tea Shoppe’ in Baja Breeze and then used an Island Indigo marker to accent the flowers.  That's me for today, happy crafting! x

Good news!

I should have shared this news ages ago!  The petite curly label punch that was part of the SAB promotion is now available to purchase. 

It’s a really cute little punch and a bargain at only £11.50.  Best of all it co-ordinates with the ‘Ciao Baby’ stamp set from the spring mini catalogue.

That's all for today, happy crafting x

Pretty ribbon trim

Hello!  For today I have a really pretty card to show you.  I've used pretty in pink card stock for the base, this is one of the 10 colours that is retiring at the end of June so make sure you get your order in soon if you want some.  This card uses the chevron stamp from ‘Oh Hello!’ I've used markers in the red/pink spectrum, I also used a marker on the sentiment from ‘Curly Cute’ and stamped the words separately instead of using the sentiment lengthways.

I used the same markers directly on the ribbon trim and graduated down the colour spectrum.  Once I’d done that I spritzed it with water and let it dry, here's a close-up.

I hope you are enjoying your day, see you again soon for some more lovelies.

Scrapbook Saturday

Hello!  We’ve had a glorious sunny day today and I’m really pleased as it was the St George’s Day parade for Northampton’s Scouts today, it wouldn’t have been fun cold and wet!

I have decided that I want to start a series of blog posts about my scrapbooking, I have two quick layouts for today.  Because of the parade I’ve had to pull some pics from my ‘archive’.  I’m not a natural ‘scrapper’ but was talked into helping a member of my down-line run a monthly group – I am nearly converted!  

This first double page spread is one that I designed for our monthly scrapbook club.  The pages are still damp in this picture as I've spritzed the background.

This next page uses the lovely Afternoon Daydream simply scrappin’ kit and was a layout that we got shown at a team training session a while back now – it’s still one of my favourites!

So, like I said a very quick one for today.  Come back soon for more crafty goodies!

Tea for Two meets Oh Hello!

Now don't all fall over in shock but I've managed to post every day for 5 days!  Today I wanted to share some pictures from my March classes.  This class was based around the beautiful Tea for Two product suite.  I got my inspiration a long time ago and am sorry that I can’t remember where all of it came from, if you think you deserve the credit please send me a quick message and I can add your details :)

This is based on a card by the very talented Julie, I am always inspired by her work!

I showed the ladies a few ways to colour the gorgeous ribbon trim, here I used a marker and spritzed with water.

A pretty, muted card using the flower image form the stamp set.

I LOVE the hexagon embossing folder!

A quick birthday card.

I hope you like today’s makes.  Come back soon :)