card for Mum

Just a few updates on my projects. I made my Mum's birthday card to her taste  - I'm not particularly flowery myself, but she loves them and I enjoyed making this.

Very pretty My Minds Eye papers, Tim Holtz vellum, Prima flowers & leaves.

LIVE Layout

Sorry for neglecting you Blog, but here I am now with a layout! I haven't done a stand-alone scrapbook layout in forever and I enjoyed getting back to basics. 8 x 8 inches of pure enjoyment on my part, using lots of little techniques and products which have been there waiting for me to play.
Tim Holtz Spritzer using distress markers on water colour paper background, with Heidi Swapp Color shine over top. Distress inks, Staz-on, with Tim Holtz & Indigo Blu stamps, Prima cloth tape & Embelli and 7Gypsies washi.
When I say 'Back to basics", I usually mean stamping (my great love) and some kind of paint/ink treatment (I can't help myself :). But it's always, always the photo for me. It's the emotional pull of the image and what it means to me that stirs my creativity.

Nice and simple

Now I am going to play some more and will post the results ASAP!

Wood mini album - Today be amazing

Here's my completed wood Heidi Swapp album - been done a while but I've only just got round to uploading it as I haven't been very well. I had a lot of fun playing with the Color Shine mists and loads of bits and pieces. Sorry about the amateur photography - although the sunshine does show the layering and texture.

This is an envelope

Inside the envelope - some "from the heart" journalling to Cara

Last layout straight onto the wood!

An old Websters Pages layout that I still love

I'd forgotten how much I love Webster's Pages stuff - I did this layout back in 2011, but I remember enjoying all the paint effects I was inspired to use directly from these papers. I had fun continuing the paper pattern with paint and brush (I think i used distress inks actually) - and look at Cara's eyes! She was so fed up of me saying "let me take a photo", I thought she was going to explode! I originally uploaded this to scrapbook.com gallery and UK Scrappers too I think. Good fun!

12 x 12 layout You Are Beautiful, 9 x 7 layout Oh So Lovely

These are probably the last of my old projects that I am uploading
.The first one is all stamping and layering and prettiness.
Its a very dimensional layout, hence being in a box frame (residing in my conservatory :0)

The second one is more recent and uses American Craft Dear Lizzie papers and is 9 x 7 inches I think. A very quick and simple layout to do.

Mixed Media Tutorial 1 - Are you really16?

This is a new one for me - impromptu tutorial of a project I did this morning. Next time I will pluck up the courage to video myself as I create maybe!!!

Here is the finished product - so much fun! I used a photo of poor quality (BUT gorgeous subject}, because it kind of fits in with the overall look I wanted. Also I mean Vintage Photo and not Old Photo when I use the Distress Paints! Slight blank moment for me.

So here is the tut

 

prom dress grunge

Another layout from a while ago of Cara's prom dress. This was a very emotional purchase for us. I couldn't really afford it as it was a lot of money, but Cara was so determined to have it (bought from Molly Browns in York, a Sherri Hill designer dress size 0), that she withdrew some of her savings and paid half. It's such a beautiful dress and I have many photos. She looked amazing on prom night.

This particular layout is very shabby, grungy, messy. It's a "from the heart" layout.

Good Bad Grunge

A grungy mixed media 12 x 12 layout of Cara. She was actually posing for a drama assignment she was doing at college and I couldn't resist making something with the photos myself. at 16 she is full of ups and downs and I sometimes don't know where I am with her, but the love is, of course, unconditional. Check out the tights !!!

Shopping trip mini album

My daughter and I like to go on shopping trips together. This particular time, (Feb 2012), we decided to go to Manchester Trafford Centre. It's about one and a half hours away normally, but because of road works it took us over 2 hours. We were booked into the Premier Inn, (just over the road), for the night which gave us two shopping sessions. The hotel was great for us - our room was perfect. We enjoyed ourselves so much that we vowed to go back when the time, (and finances!), were right. I know it will happen! When we got back I decided to immediately set to and make a mini about the event, using pictures taken with my phone. I used Tim Holtz papers which were just right for the occasion, also used my own patterned paper, (rustled up with paint and spray inks), and memorabilia from the day. This was a very quick and simple little book - I turned my photos into polaroid shots and used a really scribbled handwriting and stamping technique for my journaling straight onto the photos. I echoed the architecture of the Centre with my choice of papers and inks. Here are a few pages - there are more of the same believe me! (If anyone wants to see more just ask and I will put them up.)