This is a birthday card I made from the scraps of a 12x12 scrapbooking layout I posted on the blog a short while ago. Click here to see the Layout.
It is an A5 size card (roughly 6x8"). I deliberately tried to stay very close to the design of the layout as it was for a demo to my crop group, showing that many, if not all scrapbooking techniques can be used on cards too.
There is more about this technique in the February issue of the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com Newletter, due out beginning of February.
Hello! I have been filming a couple of videos today. They are for the February issue of the Newsletter. I also cleared and cleaned most of the house this afternoon, which is only noteworthy because (as my husband would be quick to agree!) I don't "do" housework very often! LOL
Anyway, here is another page I finally managed to finish... one that had been "Half done" for some time! Let me give you a tip... the title to this page shows an example of this tip.
The child's face has been masked at the request of the parents.
You will notice that the letters to the title appear to be printed on acrylic (or similar). Well they are actually rub-ons which I have cut out from their backing. Why have I done this? ... you may well ask. Well basically because I bought these rub-ons from a bargain bin in a local craft/scrapbooking shop and found that no matter how hard I rubbed, there was no "on" going on!
I think as they were old stock (I presume, hence the discount) they had actually dried out too much and didn't want to come off the backing sheet.
So, my tip is that if you have some rub-ons that... frankly, won't "rub-on" then stop rubbing and start cutting. Just cut out each of the letters you wish to use (this is for the bigger sizes of alphabet and for words and quotes really) and adhere them to your project. I have left my cutting "rough" as I wanted that effect, but I could have trimmed in tight to the edge of the letters.
I have used the glue from a glue pen on the back of each letter, but for such things as quotes, you could easily make use of the backing by way of using brads or eyelets etc.
Did you guess where they are? Is this where you meant Dawn? (see comment on previous post).
The two photographs, just with rounded corners and some sandpapering to distress the edges, were tucked under the white-with-black-pattern background paper.
All three photographs were the standard 6x4 size shop printed kind and I didn't cut them down very much. In fact I only cut the front photo down a bit.
Here is a proper photograph of the scrapbooking layout I posted yesterday. As I mentioned, this was made to demonstrate "layering". I wonder if you can "now" see where the other photos might be hiding in this multi-photo page... answers on a postcard please..! LOL - only joking! But you can have a guess and leave a comment if you like!
Anyway, this layout is the subject of an article in the February issue of the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com Newsletter, out at the beginning of Feb.
And here are a couple of close ups. You might like to know that the background to the little frame detailed in the bottom picture (black with white swirls) is actually the top foil of a dessert carton!
Here is a picture of a layout I made as an example of "layering" for a demonstration I gave at the last ScrapBuddies crop this month. I actually took this picture at the crop (as you may have noticed) but I did have a fiddle with it in Photoshop Elements.
Hmmm, does it look all dreamy or just plain weird?! LOL
Anyway, this layout was inspired by a scrapper called Malin (here is a link to a gallery of some of her pages) and I also made a card in the same style - with the left overs in fact.
I shall post the full picture of the layout and the card tomorrow... and I may even put you out of your misery with regard to where in the world the other photos are, bearing in mind that this is yet another multiphoto layout! can you guess?
Hello to you!
I have posted here a photo of a Thank You card which I (and hubby and daughter) received recently...
It's from my Mum! and the photo on the card is of my mum holding "yours truly" in the water... oh what fun I look like I'm having! LoL ! Hmmm... I'm not sure about nowadays... blue traquil waters of a beach in Key West maybe!
Thanks Mum for a lovely card!
Anyway, I'm off out this evening to my Dance class... I do "Ceroc" and enjoy it a lot, it's just a shame that at the mo Miles, my husband, can't join me. Still I'm working on that one... a babysitter is needed.
This is my take on the Art Creations Friday theme challenge (for 16th January 2009)for this week. It's a 6x6 digital layout. Very quick (well about 30 minutes) and I will print it out and add it to my "Random Mini Album"
The lovely photograph was provided by the challenge blog, the background paper is a freebie by Cinzia Loosemoore and the elements are by LouCeeCreations.
Thank you for looking!
Ok, hubby has "done the thing with the pin" !!! And the winner is....
GINA. Well done Gina! Send me an email with your postal address and the answer to the question (see previous post) and the papers pack will be winging it's way to you soon.
To the rest of you lovely ladies... thank you for your company on the blog... and I hope you have better luck next time?! I shall see what yummy stash I can find for the Feb Freebie Frenzy.
While I was scrapping the buttons on my little album pages the sun was shining... ah it was lovely. My room faces south and I had to hang a piece of gauze across the window to stop me from squinting!
But as usual... my Jack Russell - Toffee - had noticed the beam of sunlight across the room. Toffee can always be found wherever there is sunlight... she is a real sun worshipper!
So I thought, as I had my camera beside me, I would snap the evidence of the little madam trying to catch a few rays. She had moved to the farthest point of the room which is actually the wall of the en suite shower room (yes folks, I pinched the master bedroom for my craft room/office... well let's face it..., all you do in a bedroom is sleep... right? so it doesn't need to be the biggest bedroom, right?! LOL Well that was my argument anyway... and my hubby bought it!).
Anyway... you can see the "slit of sunlight" she's in can't you... bless her!
Hi there everyone!
This is the left hand page (below)...
And this is the right hand page (below)...
Well here is the finished page... if you can call it that! I specifically made it as the first of a number of "Artwork Layouts" I plan to make. This one is hanging on the pinboard I have in front of me in my office/craft room.
It's made using the Two Scoops collection from Basic Grey. I deliberately made the words fro a similar colour as the background and just darkened the edges for a bit of extra definition because I wanted it to be subtle... almost mixed up with the background.
Why?... because for a better life I am supposed to be thankful for everything around me. Gratitude attracts more thing to be grateful for and therefore a better life. But although I am much better than I have ever been at saying and thinking "Thank You", old habits die hard as they say and I feel it's mixed up with all the "old baggage" I am carrying (soon to be discarded I hope!) But I wanted to keep this uplifting, with an achievable feel, hence the colour scheme.
The words are cut using my Craft Robo, but the "decoupage" swirls I hand cut and coloured.
I realised initially that the words were lost when directly on the background, so I decided to lift them... bit of a bind that was! cutting up tiny bits of pad off a roll, only to find that the roll is thinner than my usual pads and so I had to double up on every tiny bit... hey ho we live and learn! lol
This is the background before the words were added.
My plan is to make many more (sying Thank You and other words such as Love, Believe, Inspire, etc) and hang them all over the house. I also plan to make some with journaling, ie, an affirmation, so that the words are aesthetically pleasing too!
Wed 14th January 09 - Update
I stumbled over this blog this evening and they happen to have had a similar idea!
Here is my first page for 2009!
It's a multi-photo layout and I have made a couple of short videos showing tips for cropping the photographs and for making the "hinged" photograph and they are in the January SSN.com Newsletter.
I wanted to make a page that had a "hand drawn, childlike" feel to it... See below for the pictures of what's behind the main photograph.
Hello!
As promised here is the link to the article on the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com website which gives you 3 downloadable journaling blocks which I created by my own fair hand.
Not only that, but the article also shows how to make use of them. AND how to print on your scraps!
They are suitable for printing out and using on a traditional layout, and/or for use on your digital scrapbooking pages too.
These appeared in the December issue of the Newsletter.
I hope you enjoy using them.
Hello all.
The January Newsletter is now available for subscribers. I published today despite not being able to upload two of the three videos for some reason. Have been trying all day.
So hopefully they will be up soon, but the Freebie Frenzy details and a Freebie Download, plus 6 sketches to use up all those Christmas snaps and other articles are all available right now.
If you're already a subscriber, you will have received the email letting you know, by now. But if you're not, you can sign up in the box top left of this blog (just under the header).
Don't forget there are a lot of articles, videos and freebie downloads available all the time at the SimplyScrapbookingNow.com website. I will be posting a link to one of the freebies tomorrow.
Well I may not be partying, but I am still awake after midgnight here in the UK! Everyone else around me sleeps, but I'm here!
Wishing you all a Very Prosperous New Year!
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