November Papermaze Kit - Part 1

Lynn here today, with the new Papermaze Kit for November. Papers, card and embellishments in a collection of bright, cheery colours. Here are my first two layouts:

Here are the details of what you will find in the kit.

Patterned Papers:
49 & Market - Spectrum Gardenia - Painted Foundations Color Wheel
Doodlebug Design - Hello Again - Dainty Dots
Simple Stories - The Little Things - Always Remember
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Life In Bloom - Make Time
Simple Stories - What's Cookin' - Let's Eat
American Crafts Shimelle Main Character Energy - After Hours
Bazzill Basics - CS White and Hillary

Reverse side of papers

Embellishments

9 frames of Tim Holtz Film strip ribbon, 3 Paige Evans die-cut leaves, heart button, 1m black twine, 1 sheet alphabet stickers, 1 strip of enamel hearts, 1 flair badge, 6 water droplets

Bazzill Basics extra pack - Blackbird, Apricot, African Violet and Petunia

Lego Love Birds - a colourful Lego project completed this summer.

I started off with the 'Colour Wheel' paper from 49 and Market as the base, and matched scraps of Bazzill cardstock to match the colours printed on the paper.

With the Brick Wreath Cutfile from Paige Evans, cut from white Bazzill, I used the coloured scraps to back each of the the bricks. Once complete, I arranged the wreath over the paper and attached the bricks with some 3D foam tape.

I mounted both photos on white and then black Bazzill to create borders, these were arranged within the wreath.

My title was created with Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup puffy stickers in Ladybug for the word 'Lego', and Lilac for the date. For 'Love Birds' I used Paige Evans Gathered foam and cardstock Thickers.

Finally I scattered the tiny heart stickers from the kit.

October 2023 - My great nieces enjoying a day out at Tully's farm, to collect some pumpkins.

The African Violet Bazzill in the kit seemed perfect for these photos, especially with Scarlett's purple jumper. I splattered Distress Paint (Pumpkin Spice, Picket Fence and Black Soot) over the card and set it aside to dry.

Using 'Let's Eat' paper I fussy cut the large flower cluster and attached this to the bottom right of the Bazzill using 3D foam tape.

I mounted both photos on the reverse side of the same paper and attached them to the cardstock too.

My title was die cut from more scraps of the paper and also from black cardstock. I arranged them onto the layout with the paper letters overlapping the card letters to create a shadow.

To embellish I used some Nuvo Glitter Drops and Nuvo Crystal drops to highlight parts of the flowers. I also added the flair button from the kit between the two photos.

That's all for today, I have more to share soon.
Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Simple Stories - Vintage Costal #3 - Sun, Sea & Sand

Hello! Happy Monday!

ScrappyAdam back with you at Papermaze today, finishing up September with my third Vintage Costal layout!  

I did bring in a couple of elements from 49 + Market's Beached Collection and the older release of Vintage Costal because it all works together so well!

I started with a sheet from the Basic Kit which have a lovely slight distressed look. Using a mix of scraps and 6x8" Paper Pads from both collections, I cut 9 squares at 4" to make a grid. I also inked the edges with some blank ink. 

I added two photos - matting them on a 6x8" sheet, cutting the photos down to slightly less than 6x4"s and set about creating some clusters around the page and photos. I wanted each square to be a little feature without overshadowing the photos. 

I am a big fan of dimension on my pages - it does mean bulky layouts and bulky albums but I love the dimension and different textures! So, I am a fan of the very dimensional layered stickers, the foam stickers and the chipboard - so they all feature on my layout here!

Of course, more is more with me and so I also brought in the adhesive brads, sticker book and element stickers. I also used a netting style die cut piece from Beached. 

I used a combination of foam and flat stickers for my Sun, Sea and Sand title and finished off with some flair from Dotty About Flair. 

Thanks so much for joining me today - I hope you have a brilliant week and look out for lots more inspiration coming up!

Stay safe, take care.

Adam x

Let's Go Anywhere with Photoplay Collections

Good Morning! ScrappyAdam back with you today and I am continuing my mix and match of Photoplay - and loving it - they all match so wonderfully!

Those eagle eyed amongst you will see that I have brought in a few stickers from another collection on this layout because they worked so well and I used a few from Echo Park's Scenic Route Sticker Book!

I started with a sheet from Photoplay's America The Beautiful - Celebrate as my background as I loved the dark blue star background. 

I cut a large circle from Photoplay's 'Little Boys Have Big Adventures - You're a Star' and used this as a base for my background, following a Pagemaps sketch I then added a strip of the same paper but the B-Side, matted my photos on a paper from Birds of Feather and a cut apart card from Time to Travel. 

Then the fun bit - embellishments!

I used flair from Dotty About Flair and lots of bits from all the various Photoplay collections to add clusters roughly in each corner of my photos - a sticker from Echo Park did sneak in again!

That's it for this one - fairly simple but I love the result!

I will be back soon but in the meantime take care and happy scrapping!

Adam x

'Happy' with Photoplay's Sweet as Honey

Hello! ScrappyAdam back with you today and I am continuing on with using various Photoplay collections - mixing and matching them because lots of the new releases work so well together! Today's is a little different because I haven't done much mixing! I have used, almost exclusively, Tulla and Norbert's Sweet as Honey collection - and I absolutely LOVE this collection!

I started with the lovely woodgrain paper - the B side of Tweet Tweet which I used as my background. I then took some strips of patterned paper, using three of the papers (and a mix of A and B Sides) and tore some of the strips. I then used my notebook punch to create a notebook style strip towards the top. For the bold, black strip that I tore, I made sure to gradually increase the width as I went from one side to the other. 

I decided to use three photos and mine are all 3x4" and are matted together on piece of the B Side of Buzzing By. I popped my photos up on some foam for some added dimension. 

It was then a case of embellishing! This collection has a sticker sheet and an ephemera pack and I have used a mix of both on this layout. I created an embellishment cluster at the bottom of the page where I used the sticker sheet to create the title; "Happy" and used some more patterned paper strips. 

I created a circle and then cut it in half and used both sides as some extra interest to the top right and tucked a flair underneath the notebook paper. 

This was a fairly quick layout for me with the strips of patterned paper, photo and title placement doing most of the work. I love this design for a scrapbook layout as it allows your photos to shine but gives you fun with the products!

I will be back in August where I am carrying on with my mix and match of Photoplay because I still have so much left!

Do you like to mix collections? Do you mix collections within the same brand or mix and match completely? I like to do a mix of everything but find stash diving for bits and pieces once I have the base of a layout done so much fun!

Don't forget to check out the shop - there is so many new goodies on their way and arriving everyday! 

Till next time, take care and stay safe - and happy scrapping!

Adam x

Time to Travel to Wales with Photoplay

Good Evening and welcome back to Papermaze! ScrappyAdam here with you sharing my first layout of July! I can't quite believe we are in July already! Where has 2021 gone!? 

Have you seen all the new collections instore from Photoplay? There are so may to choose from - it's hard to decide which to go for... so I went with them all! I have started the month off with 'Time to Travel' and added in some patterned paper from Snail Mail and Birds of a Feather! The latter two collections mix together perfectly for sure. 

I started this layout with some inspiration from Scrap Squad's 12 Days of Summer Lifts and I decided to have a play with Day 7. I absolutely love this design and will be playing with it again soon! The original layout which I took inspiration from/scrap-lifted had just the one photo but I adapted it and used two photos. That's what is great about taking inspiration from scrap-lifts - you can lift it exactly or change it to match your style, your photos, your stash!

Do you ever use layouts from other creatives or sketches as inspiration start points for your scrapbooking? Or do you prefer to start your own way? I have to admit, I never got on with either but I am finding it great fun using both and adapting it to my photos, stash and more is more style! 

So, I started with a full sheet of the B-Side of 'Pack Your Bags' as my background. I took a Pinkfresh chevron stamp and stamped chevrons in two areas - coming out (approx.) from where my photos/clusters/layers will be and added a 1" strip of 'Tourist Mode' across the page - slightly more upwards than centre. This red strip is actually one of the four 6x6" patters on the B-Side of Tourist Mode and so I simple adhered them together and then stretched them to make it look like it goes from one side to the other! You can see the join in the middle but I am ok with that!

I went crazy with lots of patterned papers - I started off with sticking with the inspiration layout then went my own way, cutting lots of different papers in different sizes. 

I used two 3x4" photos - one on each side, I didn't mat my photos since there were already a lot of patterned paper layers. There are lots of torn paper layers too!

Then it was my favourite part - embellishments! I fussy cut a few cars and caravans from 'Let's Go' which are perfect for fussy cutting. They seemed appropriate as we were travelling for a short caravan break! I have stuck some embellishments down with foam to add dimension along with the torn paper. 

I mixed up embellishing from the stickers and ephemera. I added in some Bramble Fox cars and geotags as well as three flair from Dotty About Flair. I did bring in some stickers from Echo Park too as well as some washi tape. 

Thanks for joining me today. I will be back soon with another Photoplay layout - using another new collection! Until then, take care and stay safe!

Adam x

Arcade Fun & Games with Echo Park Let's Go Anywhere

Hello, another evening edition on the Papermaze blog with ScrappyAdam. 

I am still using Echo Park's Let's Go Anywhere and have a fairly simple layout for you today - it goes to show I can do quick and simple! This collection is very much a travel collection but I wanted to show you don't necessarily have to document travel memories! I have documented some fun at the arcades when we went bowling! 

I started with a sheet of white cardstock to add a border to a sheet of the B-Side of the 3x4 Journaling Cards and cut two strips - one at 3" from the B-Side of Pack Your Bags and a strip of cameras from the Cameras paper. My photos are matted on the woodgrain paper which is the B-Side of Take Me Away - the photos, which are two 6x4", printed with quite a thick white border which I decided to leave on to help the photos stand out with the black background. 

I added a cluster to the right of my photo using two chipboard frames topped with a chipboard piece and some stickers from the 12x12 Element Stickers and the Sticker Book. 

I took some Thickers from my stash, mixing two, for my title and an ampersand from a third set. I added a few puffy stickers from Bella BLVD, the McIntosh stickers along with a red flair from Dotty About Flair. 

Finally adding a couple of bits on the photos directly and to the left and then I decided to tear a piece to the top right as it was looking a little bare and added some strip stickers and a Dotty About Flair flair. 

That was this layout done - unusually simple for me - and quite a quick one too. I'll be back with another layout very soon and there's so much on the blog right now so do pop and see all the other inspiration from the fab design team!

Stay safe, take care and see you soon. 

Adam x

Echo Park - Let's Go Anywhere - Spotting Jodrell Bank!

Welcome back to the Papermaze blog! 

ScrappyAdam here with you for an evening edition blog post for a change! This month, I am using the brilliant Let's Go Anywhere from Echo Park which has just been added to the shop. It's a fantastic collection full of black and white with red and woodgrain - I am loving the monochrome feel of it. 

'Spotting Jodrell Bank'

For this layout, I wanted to use the Forest Stencil and also used an arrow stencil from Safe Travels so I used some black ink and the two stencils to create two border strips across the page. I then used four strips of patterned paper, torn into strips from the collection and added in a washi tape for good measure and another pop of red!

I then added two strips from top to bottom, a strip of the B-Side of Cameras and a strip of the B-Side of See the World on top. 

I used the 6x6" pad to back four 3x4" photos and placed these two-together in the middle of the page and decided to use stickers and chipboard to add some detail below the bottom photograph. 

I have used Alpha's from the sticker book along with some from my stash to create the title to the top left of the page, nestled into the stencilling and overlapping the photo. 

I decided to utilise some 'empty' space on the photos by adding sticker, brads, chipboard and enamel dots. I have also added in two flair from Dotty About Flair. 

This collection is absolutely brilliant and I am loving creating with it. It's a big change for me to use limited colour but the black and white with pops of red and woodgrain make a refreshing change!

I will be back later in June with another Let's Go Anywhere project and in the meantime, have a look at all the other fantastic layouts! Do take a look at the collection, it's all in stock currently but I can't imagine it will be for very long - such a different collection!

Stay safe, take care and happy scrapping!

Adam x

Disney Inspired Collections - Magic at Chef Mickey's

Welcome back to the Papermaze Blog! ScrappyAdam with you today with another layout using a mix of Echo Park and Simple Stories. For this layout, I have used an exclusive sketch from Dotty About Flair as my initial inspiration as it just grabbed me and I wanted to use that blue background!

I started off with the Happy Magic Memories paper from Say Cheese Main Street which was this fab ledger paper in blue with some red lines. The sketch basically called for a strip of patterned paper across the middle and then lots of little strips from the middle to the bottom. I used a variety of papers from the Say Cheese 6x8" Paper Pad and the Echo Park A Magical Place 6x6" Mega Pad. For the strips across the middle I used a strip of Smile Words, white cardstock, B Side of Balloons and B Side of Here We Go.

I have used two 4x4" photos which I have matted on Full of Smiles and then a longer strip of Here We Go, the red side once again and for this second mat, I have torn the top and bottom - I do really like the texture and look of torn paper on layouts!

The base of my layout done, it was then a case of embellishing!

I have used a combination of embellishments from both collections. I have used the Brads, Sticker Book, Ephemera and Elements Sticker from Echo Park as well as a Chipboard from an older Echo Park collection and then some stickers, foam stickers and ephemera from Simple Stories. I have also added two flair from Dotty About Flair and a puffy sticker!

I added my title with alpha's from the Echo Park sticker book and "Magic" was from the 12x12" Stickers from Simple Stories. 

Finally, I felt like the top right was missing something and so I layered five banner pieces from the collections with a scrap of patterned paper and two phrase stickers which pulled the layout together and finished it off!

This layout is part of an album/section all about our character dining at Chef Mickey's and so there isn't any journaling on this page as there is/will be on other pages. 

I am going to carry on with this Disney combo kit into June as I have so much left and I am working on a smaller album to share with you through June!

Thank you all so much for taking the time to have a read of the blog today! Take care, stay safe and see you all back here soon! Happy Scrapping!

Adam x