So Sweet

The photographs I took of the sweet shops, on the outside of the Back to Back houses we visited in Birmingham ,made a perfect subject for my final hen day layout.

Again, I converted the picture to black and white, and layered it on top of a stack of 6x6 papers.I decorated the journalling block after writing the journalling with washi tape, a wooden camera, and a button and twine

A 6x4 card cut in half was tucked under the paper stack to give the illusion of a larger piece of patterned paper; a good way of using up Project Life style cards.

This page was probably the most tricky of the three.  The picture wheel (a Tim Holtz die) was die cut and backed with scraps of the patterned papers.

The title was also die cut from funky foam and the page decorated with images/banners cut from the cards and papers.I loved these papers.  At first I was a little apprehensive about using them as they do have a Disney theme on some (and I am not a Disney fan!) but very few of the cards or papers mentioned the mouse; I think if you didn't know they had a DIsney theme you wouldn't be able to tell by looking at my pages.
Hope the bride likes her final scrapbook.

The Secret Garden

The second of my Hen Day layouts to share.  This is a grid layout, making use of a landscape 6x4 photo.

I converted the photo to black and white to go better with the papers.

Again I used images cut from the cards and papers, and added faux stitching between the grids in black pen.

The camera is stamped a number of times, cut out and paper pieced.

I also added pieces of washi tape, punched stars and hearts, buttons.  The title was made using a mix of fonts from the sticker sheets. I am pleased with how this page turned out, I rarely do grid layouts, but thought this would work well in making use of the lovely double sided papers.

Bood Moon

A friend of mine is going to be  bridesmaid to a girl who loves photography and crafting.  When they discussed what to do during the Hen weekend, the bride to be said she was interested in doing something crafty...so my friend suggested scrapbooking and recommended me! All the other ladies there for the afternoon will each make a page about their memories of the bride or happy couple.  All the pages together will be put into a scrapbook to remember the day.
So, where did I come in? Along with my friend, we chose a suitable kit (Say Cheese by Simple Stories) and other embellishments, and I designed three pages and wrote up the instructions for them.

Here is the first and easiest of the layouts, designed to make use of a square or instagram photo.
The photo was taken during the lunar eclipse back in September, as I had bothered to get up in the middle of the night I thought it deserved a scrapbook page.

One of the reasons we chose the kits was that they came with cut apart cards, embellishment stickers and plenty of images that can be cut from the papers and cards.  The title is partly cut from one of the 6x4 cards with added stickers underneath.

I made an embellishment of banners and washi tape to give the layout a diagonal flow.  The small stars were punched using a set of  Xcut palm punches.

I also used a border notebook punch to edge the journalling background.
Two more layouts to share later in the week.

It's a disgrace....

...a whole week has passed since since I updated my blog!!!

I was up in Lancashire today to teach a scrapbooking class to the Pink Booby 24 hour charity crop for breast cancer care. My team-mate on UKS Dawn invited me to design a page for a class back in the summer, and today was the day. The room was packed, I've never been to such a busy crop before, 4 shops, more stash than you could shake a stick at and over 50 ladies crafting away!!

This is the page I made, it is a copy of an earlier page as I had very little time to put it together after receiving the kit. The papers are by crate, and I generally wouldn't have chosen these colours, but that's the beauty of a kit, it makes you try something new. The photo is of Hannah last summer at the school fete, just after finishing her A levels, with the whole summer ahead of her.

The butterflies are stamped (Unity, Martha Stewart) and stitched down the centre so the wings can be lifted up a little and a bit of irridescent glitter glue added. Title is a Sizzix die (The Ginchiest), not sure about the trim, bit it is really cute!!

And now I need to try harder to keep this blog more up to date!!Dawn says I should give up work (as I used to be able to update every other day) but Kev isn't too impressed with that idea!

Vintage Class

I made this LO for a class I gave at the Nuneaton crop yesterday. The photo is of my Great Grandmother, and the journalling is in the form of a letter to her, as I didn't meet her, being born after she died. I made the journalling block using Jenni Bowlin Ledger paper and the Stampin' Up notepad punch.

I used Chocolate box Core'dinations papers, and sanded the frame shape by putting a template behind the card. I then stitched around the is edge to make the frame stand out more. The papers are Graphic 45, and the flowers are made by scrunching up circles of the paper and layering them.

Work starts today, and I'm up very early fretting about it. I can't do any more to prepare either as one computer won't go online, and the other won't print... whoever said technology would help to reduce workload of teachers was in cloud cuckoo land!!!! Hope I survive the day with only 4 hours sleep. :(

Second LO

Here is the second page made for the class on Sunday. Tried to upload last night but Blogger/ Internet was playing up.

I tried to make this page more suitable for a boys page, so avoided the floral papers (It's one of the things I love about double sided papers, double the choice!) and went for the grid and stripes instead.

The paper isn't die cut, I drew a template and used this to cut the paper and the frame. The butterflies are stamped and cut out, I stitched them down the middle so the wings can be curled, giving them and the page a more 3D look.

The scallops are cut from the paper, and the trim is just glued around the edge of the LO. One of the interesting things about making a class is that you have to use most of the kit you are given... and that discipline made me do things (like the trim) I probably wouldn't have thought of before.

Well as i am now officially on holiday until the full time job starts, I will hopefully get some scrapbooking done.

First Scrapbook Class.

I taught my first scrapbook class at a local crop today, although i use the word taught very loosely, as I only had to explain things once very briefly at the start, give out the instructions and then off they went!! I'm hoping they liked the pages, but here is the first one.

The photo is of Mum and Dad on their wedding day, I had seen pleated paper on pages, so decided to make a pleated paper border using a long strip, punched with a Martha Stewart punch, and folded in to a frame shape. I used DST to stick it down as you need a strong adhesive. The flowers and bird cage are cut from other papers in the kit, swirl is a Sizzix extended strip die, and the journalling block is a stamp by Unity. The title is die cut again from the cardstock using the Sizzix alphabet Sunset.

I'll upload the next LO tomorrow. I think the best thing was

that they needed so little help I actually made 2 other LOs while I was there for my own album :)