The White Lady

I'm going way back in the photo archives for this page (and the next few); back to 1993 when I was living in Devon.

I made it for a stamping challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper; I had a new set of outdoors-themed stamps that I wanted to try out, but I wanted just one or two photos for that rather than the multiples that I take these days.

The photo that I used comes from Lydford Gorge, a place that I have visited and scrapbooked many times over the years; in particular, it's of the waterfall there, which is called the White Lady.

I started off with the leaf-print paper which I machine-stitched to the page and stamped lines of boot prints above and below it. I stitched the red paper in place too, and then layered up an assortment of scraps, including a circular element that I had cut and then rejected for a previous page. I stamped and cut out the signpost and camera, and added a few small die-cut pieces around the circle and by my journalling.

Supplies
Paper - Crate Paper Journey, Prima Marketing Zella Teal, Basic Grey Mon Ami, Pebbles/Jen Hadfield Warm & Cozy, Crate Paper Mia
Letters - Basic Grey
Die-Cuts - Pinkfresh Studio
ink - Ranger

Tools
Sewing Machine
The Great Outdoors Stamp Set (Creative Stamping Magazine)
Silhouette Portrait & The Cut Shoppe 'Right on Target' Cutfile

I Want to Ride my Bicycle

I made this page for a challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper to include texture on a page. I went with the obvious, using texture paste through a star stencil, but first I laid down some ink through a mask for colour and pattern on my plain white cardstock.

I used a photo of my son on his tricycle, taken shortly after his second birthday, and layered up on an assortment of predominantly turquoise papers which included a bicycle print.

Supplies

Cardstock - UK Crafts, Papermania

Paper - Echo Park, My Mind's Eye

Letters - Hobbycraft, American Crafts/Shimelle

Word Stickers - Tim Holtz

Puffy Stickers - Jullibean Soup, MRI

Enamel Stars - Label Shop

Structure Paste - Flying Tiger

Ink - Ranger

Mist - Docrafts

Tools

Big Shot & Dovecraft Label Die

Tando Creative Harlequin Mask

Creative Embellishments Star Mask

Heidi Swapp Spray Mask

Love You to the Moon

Blue Moodboard

I've wanted to use this cut-file for a while, and always intended to pair it with a photo of our son as a baby. An NSD challenge from For the Love of Pretty Paper with a blue moodboard finally got it out of my head and down on paper.

I stayed mostly monochromatice, but I did inject a touch of red with one of the layers behind the photo. The strip on the left was a late addition after I smudged ink on the edge of the page. Extra blue paper there looked off, but the red looked more deliberate.

Supplies
Cardstock - Bazzill Swiss Dot, 
Paper - Basic Grey, Carol Wilson, Jillbean Soup
Puffy Stars - Bella Boulevard
Word Sticker - Tim Holtz
Washi Tape - Unknown
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait & Paige Taylor Evans Cut-File
Big Shot & Dovecraft Star Die
Fiskars Postage Stamp Border Punch
Hobbycraft Star Punch
Woodware Tiny Star Punch

My Little Brother

Maria's Page

One of the NSD challenges at For the Love of Pretty Paper was to scraplift another member's favourite page. There were some gorgeous pages to choose from, but this one from Maria Kennedy struck me immediately.

I replicated her circle by manipulating the Very Squarey cut-file which I backed with Bo Bunny papers. I only had four patterns but I found that I could use the large spots behind the small squares which gave me plenty of colours to play with.

I think that the coloured corners of Maria's page are pre-printed on her background but I had nothing similar. I picked a paper with a distressed finish and added ink to it by both stamping direct from the ink pads and dragging the pads over the paper. I then stencilled stars and stamped polka dots and asterisks over the inky background.

I copied Maria's small word stickers to add 'my little brother' to one of the squares and ultimately decided that was sufficient to be my title. The photo's an old one so I have no memory of it being taken and no story to go with it.

Supplies
Cardstock - Stampin' Up
Paper - Bo Bunny Shabby Princess
PL Card - Boys Rule
Wood Veneer Stars - Studio Calico
Puffy Stars - Bella Boulevard
Washi Tape - Unknown
Ink - Ranger, Memento
Mist - Docrafts

Tools
Silhouette Portrait
Very Squarey Cut-File - The Cut Shoppe
Amy Tangerine Stamp Set
Star Stencil

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