Dad's girl

Two of my lovelies snuggled up on holiday last year. The papers are a bit old, but I liked the colours! 

The whole layout started with those stamped stars. I had some left over, and wanted to use them up- isn't that how a lot of projects start? I'm liking the white glitter too- it's a cosmic shimmer one I think. 

Thanks for looking!

 

Love cats

Aw. I miss my Loki cat. He's no longer with us, but he was such good mates with his (adopted) sister Luna. They were always thundering up and down the stairs chasing one another. Spot the cat stamp peeking out on the right.

The love is 3D and wooden, until I got a black promarker on it, now it's 3D, wooden and black.

I went for multiple layers on this one, with washi and lots of understamping in related colours. Ooh look how well the #awesome turned out. I can't remember if that's on purpose, but I'm claiming it anyway!

Loving an enamel dot. Or 3.

Thanks for looking.

 

I am grateful- TN

Another traveller's notebook page made to a prompt- What are you grateful for? Well I'm grateful for my husband, he's a gem amongst men. Really he is.

For some reason I'd taken photos before and after darkening the lettering!

I'd slapped a bit of paint on this one to try to pull the colours together with the blue, and the pink to lift it a bit- successful I think!

Thanks for looking!

What scares me most? TN

This was a page in response to a prompt- a Hallowe'en prompt even, so I've had it hanging about for a while...

Fantastic Stampotique stamp there, I love my collection of handsome ugly boys. The TN page hides a journaling tag, you'll be stunned to discover I'm scared of celery.... Evil devil's food!

Thanks for looking!

Curls- TN

I've already confessed my love for these spectacular spectacles stamps, so I won't do it again. Fantastic in black though, aren't they?

Perfect for a page in the TN about my lovely little spectacles wearer having her magnificent mane of hair curled. I'd dripped orange paint down the page, so I went for a black and orange theme.

The photo is a PixPax one, and I'd had it printed with the caption already on it. Jury's out on whether I really like that, but it looks nice on this page.

Thanks for looking!

Mini Me

OK so first things first. I love these glasses stamps. Picked up on the free, needs a new home table at my monthly crop. What a bargain! I'd have happily paid for these, and I love them more than chocolate. Well, no, maybe not more than cadbury's but I'd definitely give you galaxy for them.

For this 12 x 12 layout I used a scrap of hearts paper and painted the hearts to match my stamped specs. Worked out pretty well I thought.

I wanted a spot of bling, so I added gems in matching colours too. And black pen, gotta have the black pen...

Thanks for looking!

Awesome

New Year's Eve- time for reflection I guess. I'm not a big new year's eve fan, but I do love New Year's Day.

I thought I'd end the year with my favourite layout. Maybe my favourite ever, but definitely this year.

For a start it's an awesome photo of my girl laughing, it's pretty awesome all on it's own. 

I'd had a big sort out of my ribbon drawers, and pulled out lots that I didn't want anymore, and lots of odds and ends that I'd kept. You know the inch here and there that you cut off a project and think- it'll come in... and then it never does?

Well I found a use for them. A rainbow of ribbon offcuts stapled onto my layout.

Awesome take 2, right? And my favourite layout. Because of the smile on the photo, but also because it was a bit of inspiration that used up something I'd have thrown away, and it looks so pretty!

Thanks for looking, and may inspiration strike you often in 2020.

Christmas- a layout with a cut file

I've never used a cut file before- now before you seasoned scrappers take a sharp breath, let me explain. I don't have the equipment to cut them, and to be honest, they're never particularly appealed to me enough to invest. I don't think I'd get the use out of it. I love scrapping, but it's not my only creative outlet, so...

However, at the December Central Crop, the fragrantly lovely Cal gave us all a kit to make this layout. It was fiddly to back the letters, but I love how it turned out!

Of course, once I'd done what I was told, I then went off piste with my black pen. Had to be done...

I'm not sure how to display this- I think it needs a box frame so that the stars don't get squished.

I really like the mix of papers, and the red backing to frame it all. Thanks Cal!

Thanks for looking, and Happy Christmas!

Luv a duck

My favourite layout from this month's Crop to show today. I'm so chuffed with how it turned out! Hvae to say it's a favourite photo from our 2016 Disney trip- I love my girl's hair, and the angle, and Donald was fabulous.

This started with the stamped strip. I've been planning this for a few weeks after a chance Pinterest viewing (what else!). I ripped a page of A4 in half and lightly washi taped it down, then stamped a lot of teeny stamps in black Versafine, overlapping the torn paper edged. Once I'd filled it in quite densely, I sponged some Peeled Paint Distress ink onto the edges. 

Then came the search for a photo. Probably should have started there, right? I dunno, sometimes I do, sometimes I go with the flow and then try to find a photo that fits, colour/theme-wise. This time I struck gold. Donald's jacket is green, and if you look closely...there are ducks in the stamping! Karma? I think so.

I was equally pleased with the title- luv a duck seemed appropriate and the alphas were another snag from the freebie table at Crop. Perfect, right?

Another Disney layout for the album.

Thanks for looking!

be Happy

Layout 2 from Crop today. 

The challenge on the Crop Central Facebook page was to use:

Blue

Purple

Vellum

Camera

Mixed Media

Challenge accepted!

I was a little bit generous saying I'd used Mixed Media, but I kinda have a problem with that term. What does it mean? It's all media and it's all mixed. I've always used inks and paint and watercolours, and paper and stencils and all sorts on my ATCs and cards, and never thought of it as mixed media really. Anyway, I splodged watercolours onto this one, and ticked off the Mixed Media box.

I cut the arrow out to match the arrow paper. I chose the photo becasue it had purple flowers on it, however I wasn't sure the purple would fit in, but a camera, some splodges and a photo mat, and what do you know? It looks good...

My lovely Crop friend Vicky loaned me some stamps, so the white images and stamped and fussy cut, I quite like the contrast of the coloured cameras and the monochrome.

Challenge accepted, challenge smashed!

Thanks for looking.

Tired but happy

 Yesterday was Crop day. Hurray! I love Crop day. 

Only 3 layouts to show this month, but they're good ones...

This first one was based on the square offcut of inky stampy goodness that I found on my desk and took along to Crop. I chose colours for the mats that complemented it, and the same for the photo. It didn't need much!  

I snagged the alphas from the freebie table, my girl was so exhausted in this photo. We'd had a full on day or two and were waiting for my son and husband in Costa coffee. The smoothie perked her up, but she had such a tired little face.

I am pleased with this background. It's Distress Inks splodged onto a craft mat and sprayed with water, then I dunk the paper in. Lots of stamping over the top too. Happy inky fun!

Thanks for looking- more layouts to follow!

Post TKD Meal

OK, so today my habit of naming my posts after the title or sentiment on the layout of card I've made is a bit dodgy..... ah well, I'll stick to it, I'm not one to back down from a questionable title!

Today's layout is a 12x12, inspired by the gorgeous floral paper which is so lovely it makes me smile to see it. I'm not usually a very floral person, but the colours on this page are smashing!

Faces covered up beacuse there's someone on there who doesn't belong to me!!!

I've got a stock of little word and phrase strips now, and they're fab to layer up at the side of a photo. For this one I went in descending size order for some reason- looks nice I guess!!!

These are interesting thickers- half wood effect, they remind me of laminate flooring! I do like the different colours in the pack though, it makes it much more versatile.

The backgroun of the page is splattered with pale pink paint- just a bit of something extra, and it brings the pink in from the flowers.

I do love an artistic splatter...

Thanks for looking!

Smiles

I do love to create in my TN. I have a long history of making ATCs, so the smaller size of a traveller's notebook appeals to me. I often use scraps from other projects on these dinky pages. As is the case in this one- the background is left over from a 12x12 page I'd painted and stamped (take a look- it's called Summer).

For this page I picked all of the pretty offcuts and punchings on my workmat and used them.

I'm quite partial to wonky lettering too. Life's too short to line letters up... Spot my beloved scribbly circle stamp from Lollipop Box Club too.

Thanks for looking!

Love you

How do you start a layout? It's any number of things for me. This time it was the green frondy paper, and an idea of a page I'd seen on pinterest with a black and white stripe down one side.

I went for splodgy paint on the stencilled sun (another Lollipop Box Club treasure), along with some splashes of paint on the side. 

I worked ridiculously hard to get the words "the good stuff" to appear under the photo section. I kept covering it up with things and having to unstick them. I was determined to have it there. Can you spot the Hema washi tape with golden monkeys?

I'm partial to a paperclip, and I like paper that looks like it's been torn out of a notebook- another favourite punch. I splodged some paint on the paper to echo the green.

Hope you like it. Thanks for looking!