Monday, March 11, 2024

Happy Life.

 Hi,

Today I am sharing this layout of my niece and her daughter for The Mad Scrapper Blog using beautiful papers and flowers available in store.


I started by gutting the black to give a quarter inch boarder all around, then after trimming the Gardenia paper I stitched around from the butterflies using floss in all the colours in the paper. After distressing the edges I stuck it down. Then I decided to add some more butterflies using rub-ons


Next I took 2 double hearts and inked then clear embossed to give a gloss finish which I think you can just make out in the photo!


Here you can see I tucked the each side of the photo. You can see one of the added butterflies too.


Here is the cluster at the top right of the photo. I tucked a little phrase snippet in there too.


Here is the bottom cluster along with a perspextive love heart and more snippets 


I have a full list (huge!!) of supplies used below. Thanks for stopping by today and don't forget to check out all the beautiful things available from Janine in The Mad Scrapper  shop or online.

Sue.

Here is the list:
49andmarket - Butter & Lilac Rub-ons
49andmarket - Beached Ephemera
49andmarket - Rustic Bouquet - Tomato + Blue Jay







Friday, March 1, 2024

Fish Town

 Hello,

I'm just sharing this layout from our day out in Brixham AKA Fish Town!  We went on a lovely walk with my sister & hubby along the cliffs and dropped down in to town for a coffee and cake at the harbour side. It was a beautifully hot day so everywhere was busy which was lovely to see.

I have used 2 beautiful papers from The Mad Scrapper  the base is Amazonite from the Shades of Boho collection by Maja Designs and Legends of the Sea by Pion Designs both I have had in my stash for a few years now but maybe you have them too. 


Here you can see a closer look at the top cluster. I am following along with a sketch challenge and you can see that below, I have twisted the sketch for my layout. The sketch uses multiple circles in its design and I have chosen colours from the photos. 


I have used a new to me fish stencil under both clusters as well as a few diecut fish. I have added glass drops and perspextive circles and stars.


I loved the mermaid image so decided to leave it untouched. Whilst walking about they told us about a TV series that was filmed in the town telling the story of the community and some of its key residents so when we got home we watched it. It was good because we had seen everywhere they were talking about.


Here is the sketch I have followed, it's by Allison Davis who's family own and run the Scrapbook Generation store in USA


Thanks for stopping by today, I hope I have inspired you today by using up old stash and remember if you are stuck for an idea a sketch is always a great place to kick start your mojo.

Sue.




Monday, February 19, 2024

Always Be Us

 Hello!

I am up today on  The Mad Scrapper Blog with this holiday layout from summer 2023.


I have used beautiful papers from Maja Designs along with some 49andmarket embelishments, to start with I took a sheet of blue and gutted out the centre as I only needed a 1/4 inch showing and on to that I added a trimmed down sheet of a vacation/beach theme paper but not before I ripped out a couple of small section tucking a little scrap of heart paper. Then I added the b side to the sneaker paper with a tiny brown mat keeping it all tonal. All edges as always are distressed.


Then choosing my photos I decided to to mat them also on brown to pop them off the blue, I also added a thin piece of card under for definition. Are you like me and save my cornflake boxes just for that job?


Before I started adding my embelishments I added several rub-ons around the page most of which get covered up but I know they are there. I chose flowers from 49andmarket along with chipboard pieces a full list can be found below. The camera's I have fussy cut from a full 12inch page of them.


I used a scrap piece of Maja paper to make my journal tag and tucked under other chipboards from the Serenity collection 


I decided to use this luggage lable as my title today, that is a rub-on there above it. To finish I added some Nuvo drops in denim


Thank you for stopping in today, I hope I have inspired you to get out some of those older papers because they are beautiful and waiting to shine. See what Janine has for you over at  The Mad Scrapper  tell her I sent you!

Sue.

Here is a list of the products used today:
Maja Design - Everyday Life-Making Memories
Maja Designs - Denim & friends - Sneakers
49andmarket - Serenity Chipboard
49andmarket - Vintage Artistry - Everyday Rub-ons
49andmarket - Enchanted Petals - Parchment








Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Pumpkin Patch

 Hello,

Today I am up on The Mad Scrapper Blog with this Pumpkin Patch layout.


I started by taking a sheet of coconut swirl and then 3 sheets of Cocoa Vanilla Heart & Home paper. I cut 4 by 10x1 strips of harvest but you will use both sides. Then 4 by 10x1 strips of leaf litter again you will use both sides and finally I cut 2 by 10x1 strips of bountiful.
Each 10inch strip cut to 5inch, distress all edges then lay on the white cardstock mixing them up this will give you 4 5x5 blocks. Stick down and if you'd like to add more definition stitch down some of them as I have done.


You can just see the stitching here on this next photo.

I took my 2 photos and matted on to green Bazzill cardstock and this one below I added a orange to patch Jack's hat.


I fussy cut lots of flowers and leaves from the  Bountiful paper and after lifting my 2 photos with foam I proceeded to tuck them under giving them some lift with skinny foam pads. I made the one big cluster at the top between the photos and a smaller one at bottom right.


I made sure that some blooms came off the edge on to the white. I have also used puffy heart stickers around the page.


The title is from the pack called Titles with gold foil and I have cut words from the Golden Field paper (there is soooo much on there) to finish off. The couple of extra pumpkins are from my stash.


Thanks for stopping by today do go checkout all the lovely paper collections Janine has over at The Mad Scrapper  and I'll see you next time. Happy New Year!

Sue.

Please find the list of supplies I have used today:
                                                     HEART & HOME – LEAF LITTER 
                                                       HEART & HOME – HARVEST 
                                                 HEART & HOME – BOUNTIFUL PAPER 


Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Christmas Box

 Hello,

I'm up on The Mad Scrapper Blog today with this Christmas surprise treat box. These are so easy to make and lots of fun for the recipient. You can make it double lined but this time I chose not to as I wanted to add some sweet treats to the centre.


I started with a sheet of candyfloss scoring at 4 and 8 turned the card and again scored at 4 and 8. I burnished all score lines and then removed the outside squares to give the the design as below. You can see I have made a 1 inch deep box for the centre but this is a 31/2 to allow the flaps to come up.


Then I took a paper from the Boho Christmas kit and added it the outside flaps. I chose the Falalala one as I thought it to be fun. I took images from the journal paper along with stickers to add on top. I also made a lid for the box and put paper inside too. All these additional layers will give the box strength 


To the inside flaps I first cut up cherry splash and used deckle edge scissors to give a more playful look and on top of that I used more images from the journal page. You can see I have lined the inside of the shallow box and you also get a glimpse of the lid too.


I added some glitter ribbon to the edges of the lid (again strength) There are so many lovely papers and stickers in this kit it's hard to choose!


Here you can see I have added a little bag of chocolate coins you could add what ever is age appropriate for the recipient 


Thanks for stopping by today, I hope you get chance to make one of these as they are lots of fun. Janine has lots of different papers and kits you could use so pop over to The Mad Scrapper  and find one that suits you.

Sue
Here is the list of supply's I used:


Monday, December 11, 2023

A Great Day

 Hello,

Today you can find me over on  The Mad Scrapper Blog with this layout of myself celebrating my 60th birthday with my best friend Julia having  afternoon tea. We had a lovely time.


For this layout I have used 2 beautiful papers from Maja Designs a full list can be found below. I started by ripping an inch from all sides of the sunshine paper and then I inked through the Tapestry Stencil with Walnut Stain distress ink, I have also added some stitching on 2 corners using bright olive green floss which is very similar to the chair I'm sitting on. You can see from the photo below I have inked the larger of the frames and then snipped apart because the photo is 4x6.


In this next photo you can see I have added 2 mats to the photo before adding it on top of the frame.


Then I start to make my floral clusters using Prima and 49andmarket flowers. I cut apart some of the sentiment strips to add along with fussy cutting a few teapots which are on the opposite side to the brown paper used for the frame.


Here you can see the other smaller cluster which I tucked a balloon chipboard in to which I coloured first with Archival ink. A few more teapots and some Nuvo drops were added.


This photo shows a couple of images of the stack of food we had to eat along with a decorated plate and that's my friend Julia who took me. I tucked a little tag under the photo with some journaling on it. Oh and I made sure not to rip the little sentiment off the bottom of the yellow paper.


Thanks for stopping by again today. Do go over and see all the beautiful papers both new and older collections Janine has ready to tempt you with.   The Mad Scrapper  if you can't make it in to the shop itself.

Sue.

Here is the list of items used :
Boxed Flowers - Noted   These can be coloured using any of your inks
Wildflower Collection Kit 12"X12"  I used the tag and the tiny sentiments from the sticker sheet.
49andmarket Rustic Blooms in Marigold
Nuvo drops










Monday, November 27, 2023

Beamish Day Out

 Hello,

Today I am up over on  The Mad Scrapper Blog with this layout of a recent day out at Beamish Living Museum in the North East of England.


I decided to use a couple of papers from Simple Stories Boho Baby collection along with some stickers. As always I like to add some stitching to my layout so after I had ripped my papers I did a running stitch using white and mustard threads.


The two photos of the girls are on a single mat and the one of Eleanor on her own is double matted and a little smaller too. The girls went in the school house so I chose to use the stickers of the ABC and the camera was perfect to reflect the smiles

They girls got to have a ride on the bus which went down well judging by the smiles. You can see more stickers used and you may just see my attempt at paint splatters, I used gold acrylic paint.


A few puffy hearts are dotted about the page along with little fussy cut stars


A closer look at the ripped paper and some splatters.


Here is Eleanor trying her hand at a hoop and stick she is a little star.


Thanks for stopping by today, I hope I've inspired you to try something different with your papers. These maybe from a baby collection but you wouldn't know.
Pop in to the shop to see what other goodies you can find or if you are unable go online The Mad Scrapper  Janine will be happy to welcome you either way.

Sue.

Here is the list of items used today:
Simple Stories- Boho Baby Twinkle, Journal Elements and sticker sheet.
Cocoa Vanilla Designs- Puffy Sticker hearts
White and mustard embroidery floss.