How I made my November Layout - Crazy Girl

A reminder of my page for the November Scraplift challenge.

This month we are scraplifting the lovely Lou who is a fellow design team member. This is her original Layout.

Here is our sketch

Here is how I made my page:
The papers are from My Mind's Eye, The Sweetest Thing - Honey Collection

Gut the gold Bazzill to give me a frame 1" deep (12" x 12").

Trim the bee patterned paper to 11" x 11". Gut some of the cream paper from under where the photo mat will be placed about 3" x 3". Also cut the lettering strip 'One of a Kind' from the background and set aside. Stick this paper centrally over the gold frame.

Cut the floral paper to measure 6" x 4" round the corners and stick to right of honeycomb and roses detail.

Cut chicken wire to measure about 8" x 5" and attach to page with the two decorative brads near the top corners.

With four small photos, stick to white cardstock to appear like a photo-booth strip. Stick to centre of wire with 3D foam pads. 

Using the Cricut I the Journalling plates and mats then stuck as shown to the left of the photo with 3D foam pads.  (All cut using the Lacy Labels cartridge. Cut in Cream 'To From' @ 3", Cut in Gold 'To From Shift' @ 3", Cut in Cream 'Hugs' @ 3", Cut in Pink 'Hugs Shift' @ 3". Also cut in Floral 'Welocme' @ 1 3/4", Cut in Gold 'Welocme shift' @ 1 3/4".)

Cut a bee in black cardstock and add to bottom of plates (Cut with Home Decor Cricut cartridge).

Punch a flower from the gutted paper, honeycomb side up, ink and curl petals and apply on top of title block to the right side with a sticky fixer pad. Cut title and add this over the top of the flower. (I used the Cricut and the 'Paisley' cartridge to cut the word  'Crazy'.) Apply off the edge of bottom right of wire using 3D foam Pads.

Make some clay flowers using Fimo Light and a Martha Stewart mold.  When dry paint these with the pink and yellow acrylic paints and glaze. Arrange on layout, sticking down with 3D foam pads or wet glue. Decorate these with the wired leaves, curling the wires round a pencil as you go.

Add some journalling by cutting patterned paper into 9mm strips to feed through the Dymo gun. cut into short lengths sand to reveal the white core where the letters are, then ink. Stick in place over the journalling plates.

Pop over to my blog for more information to see what the rest of the design team created and for more details of the challenge and prize.

How I made my 'C is for Charms' Layout

Here is what I did for this month's scraplift challenge - we are challenging you to use a few charms on your layouts. See 'C is for Charms' posted on 1st May.

The photo is my mother-in-law Rhoda standing outside the house next to her treasured clematis - Nelly Mosa. May 1984

A quick reminder that we are scraplifting this gorgeous page by Karola Witczak

and here is our sketch

I used these lovely products:

1 Sheet Cream Bazzill cardstock

3 x 12” x 12” Patterned Papers - Basic Grey Kissing Booth – Kiss, lip lock and butterfly kisses

Key and clock charms from Kitty Pink and a dragonfly charm from Wild Orchid Crafts

A mix of pink and white hellebores, sweetheart blossoms and gardenia from Wild Orchid Crafts

Pearl beads, pink green and white

How I made my page:
Cut two strips of ‘butterfly kisses’ to 12” x 2.5”, stick this to top and bottom of cardstock.

Cut ‘kiss’ to 12” x 9.5” and trim long sides with deep edge punch. Using the side you don’t intend to use for the layout lay along the pink strips and dab with ink using the paper as a mask.
Flip lace edged paper over to the right side and stick horizontally to centre of the layout overlapping the borders.

Cut a photo mat from pink scraps, and music paper the same size as the photo and mount the mat and photo off setting them from one another.

Cut ‘Weathered Clock’ face using Tim Holts die and Big Shot.
Stamp a Stampin’ Up ‘Sense of Time’ clock face.
Stamp a journaling block onto a plain light coloured paper scrap. Add this to the centre left behind by cutting the clock face. Add journalling.

Cut a ‘Madera Corner’ using Memory Box die and Big Shot.
Punch a butterfly with the Martha Stewart punch.

Make some layered flowers by cutting tattered flowers with the Big Shot from music paper and add pearl beads to the centres.

Arrange all these die cuts and the charms and flowers over the page. When happy with the arrangement attach everything to the layout.

Thank you for looking and please pop over to my blog for more of my layouts and cards.

How I made my August Challenge Page

My version is called 'First Born' ... son of Charles and Margaret Banks 1933 - that's my Dad - Robert Charles. I love this old photo of him as a baby boy in his beautiful lacy gown.

To make this layout from the sketch I used:
3 Sheets Bazzill cardstock, Pinecone, Just Peachy and Patina.

2 sheets 12” x 12”, double-sided Bo Bunny Gabrielle papers -

Cameo & 

Promenade 

1m Ribbon 1/2" brown organza from Hobbycraft.
1m DMC embroidery cotton # 502
6 Flat backed pearls from Quixotic Paperie
Various chalk Inks and a black Memento ink pad,
Jumbo, large and small Retro daisy punches, pine branch punch
Gold glitter spray,
Bo Bunny - Gabrielle Butterfly stamps

Sizzix and Boxed Brush alphabet sizzlets
Glossy Accents.

I used the Patina Bazzill as my base cardstock, and cut papers in the following dimensions:
1. Promenade (white side) 2x4"
2. Cameo (white side) 9x9"
3. Promenade (peach side) 4x4"
4. Cameo (mint side) 8x3"
5. Promenade (white side) 4x5"
6. Promenade (peach side) 2x7"

I distressed and inked the edges of all these pieces and stuck down to the base cardstock. Then I added the 4x6" photo, also distressed and inked.

Using a template I drew an 11" circle lightly in pencil where I wanted the ribbon circle to be.

Next I made the flowers. Two large and one small peachy, and the same in pinecone Bazzill.
For each flower I punched two Jumbo, two large and two medium retro daisies.  Then I made them damp.  Then while damp I shaped them, I pleated each petal using tweezers to prevent damaging the surface of the paper too much.  Once they were completely dry, and this doesn't take long. I layered the flowers off-setting the petals as I stuck them together in the centres with a wet glue. As each layer is added they appear to come to life and become three dimensional. Once completed, I sprayed them with gold glitter spray for a subtle sparkle, then glued large flat backed pearls into the centre of each finished blossom.
Anita showed me how to make these flowers originally, and Linda will be explaining this in more detail on this blog blog in a few days, with a slightly different method. There is another excellent tutorial HERE from Gabrielle Pollocco, again slightly different method.
I arranged the blossoms on the circle where I wanted them and stuck them down.

The next stage was to do the ribbon work on the areas of the circle not covered by blossoms. I pierced holes at approximately 1" intervals around the circle. Then attached the ribbon firmly with a stitch out of sight under one of the blossoms. With the needle and DMC thread I came up through each hole, caught the ribbon down and went back through the same hole. I repeated this for every hole until the ribbon was attached all around the circle. Stopping and starting again to avoid the blossoms. I finished off much as I started with a few stitches hidden under a blossom.

I cut my title using the Boxed Sizzlets and the Sizzix, and Pinecone Bazzill. I arranged them and stuck them in place and added a little Glossy Accents to make them shine.

For the butterflies I stamped them directly onto the layout with Rich Cocoa Memento dye based ink. Then I stamped them again onto the scraps of patterned paper. I cut out the second set of butterflies, inked the edges and attached them by the bodies only over the butterflies on the layout. I folded up the wings, so you can see the butterfly images underneath.

Finally I punched a few pine branches from scraps of patterned papers and added these to the blossoms.

If you fancy having a go at entering our challenge by creating your own layout following this sketch, pop over to the 'R is for Ribbon' post on this blog for more details and check out the prize post too.

How I made my July page II

 Here is how I made my page for July, using Liz Qualman's design for inspiration........

For Liz's original layout and sketch, see the M is for Masks Challenge post. For more information about my layout see my blog.

I started with a sheet of white textured Bazzill. Using the Creative Expressions Leaves mask and Cosmic Shimmer Mist (Blue Lime, Ocean Sunlight & Aqua Lagoon), I sprayed the cardstock to create the background.

These are the Bo Bunny papers used, all from the Ad Lib Collection. I selected the green, blue and yellow areas of these papers.

Pebbles

Stripe

Wild Thing

and Vertigo

I cut a band of three stripes for the horizontal band from the Vertigo paper.

The three vertical strips were cut as follows:
Yellow side of Pebbles paper 2x9"
Green side of Vertigo paper 2x11"
Blue side of Wild Thing paper 2x8.5"

After working out the placement of photos and patterned papers, I gutted a panel from the cardstock. From this piece I cut four retro flowers using an EK Success punch. I stamped a journalling block onto the blue lined paper and matted it onto one of the patterned papers. The flowers were shaped with the scissor blade and attached with 3D foam pads to add dimension. Then I drew in detail with a black pen. The centres were created using the Bo Bunny Ad Lib rubber stamps, cutting the circles and adding them with more 3D foam pads.

For the photo mount I used the blue side of the Stripe paper cut to 5x7", decorating the corners with the Jazz corner punch.

I added doodles lines and patterns to the edges of the patterned papers and the cardstock.

The title letters were cut using the Cricut. The letters were cut in white and the shadows in patterned papers.

Pop over to the July challenge post to take part in this month's challenge and be in with a chance of winning a prize.

Bazzill, Bo Bunny papers & stamps, Cosmic Shimmer Mists, Cricut cart and punches all available from Cardinal Colours.

How I made my February Challenge page.

By Linda

For more details see Linda's blog.

For this challenge I used BG Sugar Rush papers - Runts, Nerds and Gumdrops, plus some Petunia Bazzill.

I cut my paper into random sized strips and then used punches and decorative scissors to edge them.
After inking the edges I laid them onto the bazzill base and arranged them to overlap and finish at different widths. Once happy I stuck them down leaving the overhang, I trimmed this edge once all were in place.
I placed my photographs on the page then added some punched strips overlapping the photos.
I used some page elements for journalling, adding details and the date.

As I wanted this to be a double layout, I created a mirror image for the second side.
Once completed, I used a sharpie pen to add further notes to one photograph and drew 2 lines around the outside edge.
My title is some left over foam stickers (American Crafts) which I edged with the black sharpie for definition.

Random buttons were tied with DMC thread and stuck on.

P is for Punching your 'art out!

This month we are scraplifting the work of the talented Laura Buckingham. (See her blog - Lazy Dynamics.) Laura was taught this layout at The Cardinal Colours Retreat last September, it was great fun to create, so we decided to share her ideas here. Lots of different border punches were used on these layouts.

About Laura: "Hai, I'm Laura. I am 28 and just recently got married *yay* I live with my husband in London and generally spend my time wishing I had more time to be a crafty, scrappy type. I like donkeys, cheese, llamas, lolcats, mushrooms and scrapbooking.

I wish I had a pony, but I don't. I wish I liked tea or coffee, but I don't."

From Laura's blog entry about the retreat where she says: "The second layout I taught was all about being BOLD and ways to use a sharpie pen in your scrapbooking. Every class member was given a permanent sharpie pen as part of the class kit and we journalled on our photos, outlined our thickers and used the pen to add details across the page. This page used the very bold but ultimately gorgeous vibrant colours of the Cosmo 'delovely' range... plus a couple of Jennie Bowlin butterflies thrown in for good measure!"

This is the sketch we have made from Laura's layout.

KAREN

LINDA

ANITA

LYNN 

ALISON

DEIRDRE

The next two layouts were made at the Cardinal Colours retreat during Laura's class.

LYNN

LINDA

Please join in the fun and create a layout using these pages for inspiration. We hope you will let us share your finished layout on this blog.

Please make a comment below.

We would also ask you to become a follower of this blog to be considered for the prize. You have until midnight on 5th March to enter the competition.

If you create a page after that date, please still share it with us.

Please can bloggers leave a comment with a link to the relevant post on their blog. If you don't have a blog - no problem! - Simply drop us an image attached to an email. (If you don't have Outlook, copy and paste the email address into your normal web based email system.)

Please note the email address has been updated.

The prize winner for the best layout will be announced on 7th March. Please check for a new post on this blog in a few days for details of the fab prize Jill has offered for this month's scraplift.

Thanks to Laura and Jill. x

How I created my Page.....

Papers by Bo Bunny - Peacock lane collection, from Cardinal Colours

I gutted the peacock lane parade sheet of paper.

I used my Martha Stewart PATP flower punch on the turquoise bazzil and also gutted the centre of this sheet.
I cut the peacock lane – peacock lane sheet to fit inside the frame 10.5" square, rounded the corners and inked then fastened all three sheets together.

I cut a strip of white bazzil  2.5" and also a strip of purple swiss dot bazzil @1.5", used the same punch on the purple and stuck vertically onto the page.

I used the offcut from the peacock lane sheet to mount over the two along with a rectangle of the dotty side of Parade and cut one edge with a different punch.

The photographs were cut to 2 different sizes (2x3" & 3.5x4"), two mounted onto the leftovers of the turquoise bazzil. I cut a piece of Parade the green side to the same size as the third photo and offset it behind. They were then placed on the page together. The smaller of which I tied a thin piece of ribbon around in a knot.

I punched some retro daisies in two sizes from the scraps, inked the edges and curled them in, layered the 2 large, then 2 medium so they looked like a rose.

I folded a piece of ribbon into 3 points, fixed with a stitch and glued to the back of each flower then decorated with heart pins.

The journaling block was left over pieces of Parade and Turquoise bazzill and some copier paper which Lynn kindly wrote for me (don’t like my hand-writing!)

The letters are glitter thickers from Cardinal Colour, see here  & I used the dots from the sheet to create the flower centres.

A few blossoms, brads and buttons (threaded and tied with DMC) were added from my stash along with a chipboard butterfly and dragonfly which I coloured with Adirondak paint daubers.

Floral cake making stamens were added as antennai.