I'm back from my holiday - LOL, if you can call it such! Two weeks of walking isn't everyone's idea of a holiday but I had a great time. It was very challenging which made it all the more rewarding and it was wonderful to see England so close up and personal; the Lakes were spectacular but no more so than the North Yorkshire Moors which had their own special beauty.
So, on to today's card - I'm entering this in Sir Stampalot Challenge and also Saturday Sketch. I have used October Afternoon Thrift Shop: Needs Paint papers. I love these papers and really had to make myself use them rather than just keep them on my shelf and take them off and look at them every now and again :) I've coloured the stamped image in with copics and tried to give the card a bit of a distressed look.
Hubby got himself the new IPhone and I've got his old one. He thought it was very intuitive and didn't need much instruction to use but that was before he gave it to me! I'm just off to have a play with it now and see what scrapping Apps I can download.....
Thanks for looking,
Sue
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Yet another layout completed for my daughter's Scrapbook Album. The photo's aren't of the best quality but they didn't make digital cameras in 1989 although I did work out that if I just copy the photo onto photo paper rather than scan them in and print them, they actually come out not too bad. It's one big learning curve.....
The Sir Stampalot June Challenge is "Punching" and although I used my Silhouette for most of my cutting, I have used the EK Success border punch for the matting of the photos and the two borders going over the page, so I hope that counts :) Yet again, some fabulous prizes are up for grabs so get on over there!
I've used my Silhouette to cut out the text and I'm loving this stork - it's designed by KI memories and available on the Silhouette Online Library. As I had done on my previous wedding layout, I cut out the footprints in the same pink colour to give the impression of embossing. The silhoutte is brilliant at cutting out even the tiniest of objects which you can see from the safety pin! The safety pin and footprints are images designed by Nathan Jenne, and again, are available in the library.
Nearly forgot to say, I was browsing through the Silhouette Blog over the weekend and what a pleasant surprise to see my layout on their Friday Blog! WOW, I was well chuffed :)
I'm really loving doing these layouts, they bring back so many memories. I've done a couple more this month and will post them later in the week.
Hope you all remembered your pinch and a punch for the first of the month!
Thanks for looking,
Sue
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Hi everyone,
Been very busy crafting over the last few days, trying to finish off layouts that I had started and not got around to completing - this layout is to put in the album that I made for my daughter's 21st birthday - LOL, it's an ongoing project as her birthday was last month!
She was bridesmaid to her Aunty Tracy when she was 11 - and my goodness, not sure if you can see but her face was covered in freckles! I remember she really hated them but I always thought they looked gorgeous - they've all disappeared now much to her pleasure.
So, on to the layout - I've entered this in the Sir Stampalot May Challenge as it features butterflies and blossom. There is a fantastic array of goodies to win so get on over there and take a look - it's good enough to make you want to take up crafting even if you've never been interested before! I've used my good old trusty Silhouette to print and cut the flower background and then coloured it in with Copic markers trying to pick up the yellow and green in the bouquets. I've cut the flower several times and decoupaged it to give it depth. I bought some stickles the other day and find them very addictive - they're just so gorgeous and used yellow and green for the butterfly trails and the accents round the flowers.
I've cut out the borders in the matching colour to give the impression of being embossed - first time I've tried this and me thinks I will be doing this again as I really like the effect.It's been very odd doing this album for my daughter - I've been looking through so many photographs since she was born and remembering all the occasions when they were taken - it's made me very nostalgic, if I shut my eyes I can remember what it felt like cuddling her as a baby. In fact, next layout for the album is when she was born :) LOL, you can see I haven't made this album in any particular order!Thanks for looking,
Suex
My daughter has just turned 21 - it doesn't seem any time at all when she was just a little tiny baby and now, 21 years of age! I made this Easel card/box to put a special gift inside - she's mad, mad, mad about butterflies and I thought she would like this - which she did :)
I have cut the butterfly on the Silhouette and then mirror imaged it and welded it together so that I had a back to it. I then made the box and and slipped the extra edge ofthe butterfly under the paper which I had used to cover the box - sounds very confusing but I'm not very good at describing how it's done, sorry. I cut out some extra flowers to layer on the butterfly and decorated with gems. I have used glossy accents on the 21 to give it depth and layered it on scallops decorated with gold stickles. A couple of extra butterflies dipped in glitter and a scalloped border to finish off.
Sir Stampalot have a fantastic prize for this month's challenge which is butterflies and blossom so I'm having a go - pop on over there and you can see what their fantastic design team have been up to.
