Just before Christmas I was approached to take part in the 3 for £10 budget challenge for Scrapbook Magazine. I nearly fell of my chair when I read the email. OF COURSE I would love to!
So you may remember be speaking of another project that I was working on in early December, well now you can see for yourself! The issue was realised on 11th Feb, and I have been dying to pick up a copy, but only got a chance to do so yesterday. I was also absolutely delighted that my layouts are on the cover…okay, so its just a little picture, but that isn’t stopping me from proclaiming that I am a covergirl! heehee.
So go…go and pick up a copy of issue 44 of Scrapbook magazine so you can see the layouts close up, and all the other great projects in there. And thank you to everyone for their kind words of encouragement, especially my darling hubby who has been telling me for years that my work should be published. He’s so sweet. Love you bear.
Thanks for sharing this excitement with me, and you can leave me a comment here if you wanna.
And you can buy the magazine at the publishers website here.
xo
As we are approaching ever nearer to Valentine’s day, I thought I would share this layout that I’ve made for my cousin Hayley, of her and her boyfriend Glen. Awwwwwwww, don’t they look sweet together! You may recognize Hayley from this layout from my archives.
Last year she decorated her bedroom with a pink wallpaper with a luscious black and silver brocade over it, and the pink & black brocade page from the Hot Mama line from Glitz Design reminded me completely and utterly of her. So I used this page as the main design point of this layout, using my trusty paper punches.
So i’ve made this layout for her to display in her room as a piece of home decor. I hope she likes it.
A New Skill?
I have something else i want to share with you too. Can you see the digital elements on the photos? Do ya like ’em?? I made them myself. :0)
At Christmas our friend Jer showed me how much fun it is playing with a wacom. So i have kinda permanently borrowed his, and have had so much fun making lots of digital brushes. I have made loads, but haven’t got round to using a lot of them yet – so this is the first sneak of three of them ‘love’, ‘together’ & a love heart image. I love the way that I can use these in a way that looks like i’ve placed a rub-on on top of the photo.
Here is a quick image i threw together that shows the exact brushes better (with the addition of the word ‘cherish’)
I am seriously going to be doing some more doodling with ‘my’ wacom.
Thanks for looking & please leave me a comment here. And come back later in the week, as I have another video tutorial to share – making paper roses for cards and layouts!
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Products used
Glitz Design HOT MAMA paper
Glimmer Mist
Chipboard pieces from Dovecraft
Lace
Rock Chick Glitter Chipboard Elements from DCWV
Circle punch
Making Memories tag
Ribbon
Buttons
Bling
Sewing Machine
Brads
Metal charm brads from Dovecraft
Here’s a really, really quick video showing you how I made the blue coloured string from my ‘Sheer Happiness’ layout that I posted earlier this week. Now you can have string of every colour to match any project, no matter what colour of the rainbow you need!
