My Baby Sister

I'm interrupting my holiday scrapping to share a page which I started for the GoGoGetaway Cybercrop at the end of October but completed a week later. One of the challenges was to include moon, stars and clouds on a page, and Marie at Peartree Cutfiles gave us the perfect cut-file for the occasion. 

The cut-file shouted 'sleeping baby' to me (and several other people) and I went all the way back to 1973 for this photo of my sister as a baby (though she's not sleeping).

I backed the moon with yellow glitter paper, the clouds with pink patterns and the stars with cream cardstock. I trimmed away a few of the stars so that I could nestle my photo in among the remainder.

I fussed around with my background for ages, as I was trying to include pink floral paper for a Be Colourful challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper. I was originally planning to use it as a background, but the colour was overwhelming so I switched to torn strips at the top and bottom of a sheet of white cardstock. The cut-file got a bit lost against the white though, so I added distress inks to the area behind it for a little contrast.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts, Bazzill

Paper -Heidi Swapp Hello Today, Docrafts Spring Chic

Letters - Crate Paper/Maggie Holmes

Puffy Stars - Pinkfresh Studio

Ink - Ranger

Tools

Silhouette Portrait

Peartree Cutfiles 'Moon in the Clouds' Cutfile

Hello Summer

Laura's Sketch

I made this page for the final NSD challenge at For the Love of Pretty Paper, and it was a jumbo challenge - a sketch by the fabulous Laura Rumble with bonus points for including items from a list of 18 stash pieces, colours and techniques. Of course, if you give me a list like that then I set out to bust them all.

The full list was: ink splatters; flair; gold; twine; camera icon; kraft; sewing; teal; 3x4 photo; sequins; handwritten journalling; scraps; wood veneer; Project Life cards; tags; puffy stickers; washi tape; something from your random junk bowl. That bowl was something we were asked to start at the beginning of the weekend, a place to put the leftovers and reject pieces from one page ready to incorporate them on a later page.

I stuck with my childhood for these beach photos (I'm the one with dark hair) and pulled out some scraps and coordinating Project Life cards. Starting with the background, I laid down some stripes of ink directly from my ink pads, and then added some lines of machine-stitching. I found the large tag in my scraps and decided to use it as my title, with its size and orientation dictating that it went in the previously empty space at the top right. Having established that I didn't have to keep the Project Life cards whole, I cut and punched various pieces from them and more scraps to include in my embellishment clusters, while taking care to include all the other items from the list. Can you spot them all?

(My 'random junk' was the pink puffy camera, the twin of one on this page. I'd already stamped tiny cameras on the background to fulfil that element of the challenge.) 

Supplies
Cardstock - DCWV
Paper - Crate Paper Craft Market, Crate Paper The Pier
PL Cards - Summer Mini Kit
Wood Veneer - Advent Swap, Studio Calico
Puffy Stickers - Pinkfresh Studio, MRI, American Crafts/Shimelle
Word Stickers - Pretty Little Studio
Flair - Imagine That
Sequins - Pretty Little Studio
Washi Tape - Ebay, Pretty My Page
Ink - Ranger. Hobbycraft
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Sewing Machine
Woodware Tag Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
Big Shor
Dovecraft Tag Die
Studio Calico Pinked Circle Die
X-Cut Bunting Die
Studio Calico Camera Stamp

Snapshots from Bognor Regis

It's not often that I can put a whole year on one scrapbook page, but when I raided my parents' old photo album for my childhood photos there were just four pictures for 1972, and they all came from our summer holiday in Bognor Regis so they all went on one page.

I've had this large scrap of floral paper for a few weeks, and when I saw it with the pink I knew that I had the colour scheme for a new page. I lined the photos up in a row, layered them on some more scraps and machine-stitched a couple of overlapping circles around them. I used a mask for the two lines of chevrons for a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper and included a shaker pocket in my layers for a subsidiary challenge from the same group to combine one with any other challenge. 

Supplies
Paper - American Crafts/Dear Lizzy Saturday, Crate Paper Random, American Crafts Shimelle Head in the Clouds, My Mind'd Eye Cut & Paste
Letters - Studio Calico, Creative Devotion
Puffy Stickers - OneCanoeTwo
Washi Tape - Dovecraft
Star Gems - Simply Creative
Enamel Dots - Echo Park
Ink - Memento
Stars and Micro Beads - from Stash

Tools
Sewing Machine
Big Shot & Dovecraft Tag Die
Pretty My Page Borders Mask

Christening Day

I'm going back to my childhood for this page; I'm the baby being christened here. I had scans of two photos from the day and they are both quite small (as were the 1970s originals).

A two-photo page meant that I had another go at Hey Little Magpie's NSD recipe challenge (having failed at an earlier attempt when I couldn't make all of the elements work). This called for sewing, fussy-cutting, something shiny and twine or ribbon to go with the two photos.

Original Page

I spotted scraplift challenge #18 from Scrap Squad and made this the basis for my design. The original appears to be a DT page for The Digital Press but I haven't been able to find the original creator.

I chose a soft pastel floral for my triangle but didn't have many other papers that matched it so used Project Life cards for my photo mat and arranged the recipe pieces around them. I added the extra smaller triangle in the opposite corner for a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper to use at least two triangles on a page. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Stampin' Up!
Paper - Docrafts Spring Chic
Cards - Project Life
Doily - Dovecraft
Family Charm - American Traditional Designs
Washi Tape - Efco
Flowers - Unknown
Pearls - Scrapberry's
Gems - TPC Studio
Ink - Memento
Mist - Tattered Angels

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Sewing Machine
Big Shot
Dovecraft Tag Die
X-Cut Bunting Die
Dovecraft Butterfly Stamp
Woodware Flower Punch

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The admin team at For the Love of Pretty Paper love to launch a surprise challenge on us. Following five challenges based on the letters S-C-R-A-P with our choice of four stash items plus a compulsory colour each time, they set us an extra challenge to use all 20 stash items plus our choice of the five colours. I do love a list to work through, so set out to bash all the items and ALL the colours (and I wasn't the only one).

Our full list was stickers, scraps, sequins, scallops, sapphire, chipboard, clips, cork, crosses, charcoal, ribbons, rub-ons, rik-rak, rectangles, red, acetate, acrylic, arrows, adventure, amber, puffy, punches, plaid, portrait and purple.

I started with a portrait photo of me aged five, and a number cut-file which I cut in charcoal cardstock and backed with a rainbow of papers which included all the other colours. I placed those to the left of my page and added a line of rectangular scraps of the same papers to the right hand side, with a punched scalloped border.

I backed my photo with more rectangles (including a strip of plaid print which I added to the right side too), clustered a few of the list of embellishment items around it and scattered others (like the puffy hearts and sequins) around the page. The hardest thing to include was 'adventure' which I eventually managed as part of a series of word stickers - 'life is an adventure - live it'. 

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill
Paper - Crate Paper Wonder, K&Co Daydreams, K&Co Cut 'n' Paste, Crate Paper Random
Vellum - Papermania
Word Stickers- Tim Holtz
Sequins & Paperclip - From Advent Swap
Chipboard Stars - Studio Calico
Cork Heart - Freckled Fawn
Ribbon & Rik-rak - from Stash
Rub-Ons - DCWV
Acetate Label - Studio Calico
Acrylic Paint - Golden
Puffy Stickers - Jillibean Soup

Tools
Silhouette Portrait & Background Check Cutfile from The Cut Shoppe
American Crafts Scallop Border Punch
Woodware Scalloped Circle Punch
Big Shot & Little B Arrow Die

Daddy's Girl

I'm still doing Shimelle's challenges from her Online Scrapbooking Weekend, despite the fact that the link-up deadline has passed. Her sixth challenge was to create a page inspired by a wall of frames.

I was very much product-led on this page. I don't have or use many frames, but I received a pretty pink one in a RAK some time ago, so I decided to base my page around that. I also dug out a packet of kraft polaroid frames that I hadn't used. They were purchased on-line and were much smaller than I'd imagined when I received them.

Starting from the pink frame, I wanted a 'little girl' photo for the page. Failing to find one of my daughter, I went back to my own childhood and a photo of me and my dad from the summer that I was born. We're in the garden so I picked green to go with the pink. 

The papers came mostly from a 6x6 pad which had a sheet that was the same colour pink as the frame; I also pulled in a floral print that would tie the green and pink together.

Supplies
Paper - Dream Street Papers Gracie, We R Memory Keepers Love Notes 6x6, K&Co Paper Doll
Letters - American Crafts
Frames - Crate Paper Maggie Holmes, Studio Calico
Ink - Docrafts

Tools
Craft Creatives Butterfly Punch