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12 Tags of Christmas, Inspired by Tim Holtz

Thursday, December 17th, 2009

Hey guys,

Have you been following Tim and his fantastic ‘12 Tags of Christmas’? For the first 12 days of December, i’ve been waking up early and checking Tim’s blog to see if he had updated the posts so I could see what treats he had in store for us. Tim shared a LOT of really fantastic tips & techniques throughout the project, and I would really recommend you go and check them out to see for yourself.

As for me, I made a few tags for myself, inspired by Tim. I hope to use them as part of my decorating, and there is a mix of rustic styles and more modern stuff too. Some traditional colours, others a bit more unusual. I didn’t make them with a theme in mind, just that i wanted to have fun whilst making them!

So here they are. I made quite a mess in the process of making them. Inky fingers, rubber stamps everywhere, glimmer mists and more. But i can’t wait to hang them up.

Check out Tim’s collection as well as my own, and i hope you feel inspired to create some of your own! Enjoy!

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Tags: bling, brads, buttons, christmas, distress inks, embossing, flowers, gem, glimmer mist, glitter, grunge board, hero arts, lace, memory glass, metal, mini mister, pearlescent, perfect pearls, raffia, ribbon, rubber stamps, Stickles, tim holtz
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The Wall – Another Legoland Layout

Sunday, October 18th, 2009

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You’ve been very patient, and yesterday I took lots of photos of my layouts to show you over the next few days. But for today, another layout born from our visit to Legoland.

I’ve ran out of 12×12 page protectors lately, so i’ve been challenging myself to use my 8.5″ x 11″ scrapbook album which I got about 18 months ago and is still looking pitifully empty. Because I started scrapbooking in the standard 12×12 form, this size come naturally to me, but I like to push myself out of the comfort zone so I’m determined not to buy any more 12×12 page protectors until my 8.5×11 album fills out a little bit more. So watch this space for more 8.5×11 pages.

This page was fun, as was the activity it documents. The great thing about using this size of paper is that you can print right onto the layout which was something different for me, so I wanted to explore this new element of creative freedom. My journaling for this layout was the exact conversation that proceeded the activity and reads as such:

Lesley: I want to go see the climbing wall
Craig: OK, No Problem, we can go SEE the climbing wall
Lesley: Wait…I want to go ON the climbing wall
Craig: The climbing wall is for kids
Lesley: LOOK! It says the max weight limit is eighteen stone. So it not JUST for kids

Two minutes later…
three big kids climbed a wall

(with varying degrees of success)

Yes, please note the last line of the journaling. It’s true, I sucked. But it definitely was fun.

Two more things to share:

I’m on cloud nine at the moment because two of my layouts have been accepted for publication, the first one will feature in Scrapbook Memories, and the other on Scrapbook News and Review. So I can please give a big THANK YOU shout out to Leslie Ashe who encouraged me to get off my butt and start submitting my work.

Secondly, … Have a great Sunday!

Thanks for looking and I hope you like it.

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Products used:
DCWV cardstock stack
Stickers: Basic Grey Lime Rickey element stickers, American Crafts Remarks Stickers Hannah & Henry, making memories chunky alpha, KI memories mini bubbleletters, Scenic Route Sonoma label stickers, Paper Trunk alpha, sassafras lass robotics cardstock stickers
Flower: Prima
Button: LSS
Chipboard: Bisous, scenic route
Stamp: Pink Paislee doodle circle
Brads: Dovecraft, Do Crafts
Ink: Ranger Archival ink, Alcohol ink
Other: Mini Mister by Ranger

Tags: 8.5x11, acr, alphabets, American crafts, basic grey, bisous, boy, brads, buttons, chipboard, DCWV, do crafts, dovecraft, family, journaling, Ki Memories, legoland, magazine, Making Memories, mini mister, paper trunk, pink paislee, prima, rnager, sassafras lass, scenic route, spray, stickers
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Pokerface: A Masculine Layout For My Husband

Friday, August 14th, 2009

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Do you ever find a really great photo that is begging to be scrapbooked but for some reason you can’t quite seem to find the perfect way to scrap it. This is exactly what happened with this photo of Craig playing poker. It is an awesome photo taken my my friend Sarah, and I love the positioning of the camera and the angles it has created in the photo, but the colour is a little off, too yellowy and this bothered me more than I cared to admit. And so this poor photo seemed to take up a permanent residence in my ‘waiting to be scrapped tub’. Many times I pulled it from the tub, looked at it and put it back, and in my head I get strange visions of the Claw machine in toy story where all the little aliens are shouting, oh pick me, pick me’. Well i finally picked up the poker picture.

Mini mister + alcohol inks +scrap paper & scissors = perfect combination for making a masked design, with a masculine edge ( which is a fancy way of saying that I had fun whilst making a mess). I cut out a heart, diamond, club and spade shape and stuck this to the cardstock using repositionable tape runner, then sprayed inky water over the masked design. I was really pleased with the result and would definitely recommend this technique to anyone who hasn’t given it a go yet. But you better not do it on a fancy dining table unless you have plenty of old newspapers handy.

I used some papers from my Teresa Collins stash, as they supported my red and black colour theme and also had a grungy edge to them, and in all honesty there wasn’t much else to this layout. The chipboard letters are from Basic Grey and I decided to leave these raw so as to not detract from the photo, but I added a little pop of colour by using a red heart brad in the middle of the letter O (except I cut off the legs and mounting him with a pop dot). The tags are from making memories and the postmark is a rub on from 7 gypsies, and the hand is a printed chipboard piece from Bisous. The journaling stamp is from Prima marketing (i love it to bits by the way) and the red diamonds is a stamp that was a freebie from Craft Stamper magazine last year some time, stamped using fired brick distressing ink.

Although I suck at Poker, I think I win with this layout, as I’m really happy with the end result, even if I did wait a year or two to scrap the picture.