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Sunday, 27 July 2014

Five, six, pick up sticks

My double layout from my baby book today features the adorable Noor from Lacy Sunshine.

Little Noor was a freebie recently and was drawn up by Heather to celebrate the birthday of a little girl whose mother runs a crafty shop. Although Noor is supposed to be two I’ve done this layout up ready for a photo from baby’s first birthday. As I’ve used little Noor I am entering this in the challenge at Noor Designs.

The layout is from the current sketch at Sketchabilities and allowed me to use up some of the scraps from the other pages. There was lots of space in the sketch so I’ve used a stencil with a row of butterflies to fill it, this is the same stencil I used on the cover so it ties in nicely with that. With my stencilling I am also entering this at Country View’s current challenge.

I’ll have the last two pages done up over the next couple of days and you can see the cover from this book at this post, the first page here, the last page here, a double layout at this post and another double layout here.

Ingredients:

Copics

Skin E21, E30, E33 (R20 cheeks)

Eyes E23, E27, 0

Mouth RV10, RV11

Hair T4, T6, T8, 100

Outfit RV10, RV11, RV32, RV34, RV66, V000, V01, V09, V12, V15, V17

Balloons BG000, BG01, BG02, V000, V01, V12, Y11, Y13, Y15

Dies, SVGs & Templates etc

Magenta Stencil ~ Nature Element

Embellishments

Carta Bella Alpha Stickers ~ Beautiful Moments

Paper Flowers from stash

Petaloo Darjeeling ~ Wild Mini Blossoms Pink

Prima Flowers ~ Chantelle Medallion

Inks & Paints etc

Teresa Collins Basically Essential ~ Modeling Paste

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye

Papers

Authentique Classique Pretty ~ Tartan

Carta Bella Baby Mine ~ Baby Floral, Baby Girl Dots

Kaisercraft Pitter Patter ~ Bundle of Joy

Ribbons & Trims etc

Baby Girl Ribbon from stash

Green Tara ~ Organza Pearl Trim Pink

Lace from stash

Stamps

Lacy Sunshine ~ Noor

Challenges

Country View ~ Stencil it!

Noor Design ~ Noor

Sketchabilities #119

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Monday, 21 July 2014

The memories are all in my mind

Yesterday I shared a double layout from the baby book I am making (you can see it here) and today I have a single layout.

This one is the last page (I’m not your conventional scrapbooker so have been doing the pages out of order) and I’ve done it in papers and embellies to match the inside back cover (see it at this post).

The current song theme at A Song In Your He{ART} is Three Times a Lady, now if the lyrics to that song don’t just inspire a lovely layout for a special little lady I don’t know what will. Listen to the song, it’s lovely and about the memories inspired by a very loved lady. So while it may have been written for a lover it could just as easily describe the love between a parent and a special daughter. I picked out my journal cards with words inspired by those in the song, they come from a Authentique Classique Pretty’s Life Cards and are just perfect for a layout looking back on the first precious year of a baby girl’s life.

I made up my layout following the current sketch at Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2, I think their sketches are more geared toward cards but I think it worked for this. I just resized it to be a rectangle rather than a square and swapped out the button element for some flowers to match the back cover. I also swapped out the three gems for a swirl of them, again to match the back.

With all the pink and flowers and girl journaling there’s no mistaking that this is a book for a baby girl so I’m also entering it at Fussy and Fancy’s current challenge.

Ingredients:

Embellishments

BoBunny Jewels ~ Frosting (coloured with RV34 Various Inks)

I Am Roses ~ Mulberry Paper Roses Variegated Pink and Pink

Inks & Paints etc

Tim Holtz Distress Ink ~ Tea Dye, Walnut Stain & Worn Lipstick

Papers

Authentique Classique Pretty ~ Life Cards

Carta Bella Baby Mine ~ Baby Girl Dots

Pion Design Fairytale of Spring ~ Hope

Ribbons & Trims etc

Lace from stash

Challenges

A Song In Your He{ART} #11 ~ Three Times a Lady

Fussy and Fancy #118 ~ “It’s all about girls”

Sweet Sketch Wednesday 2 #21

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Sunday, 29 June 2014

Sugar and spice

Today I’ve got the first part of a big project I am doing up, a baby book for a colleague at work who is expecting her first little girl. This is taking a lot longer than I thought to complete so to motivate me I am going to post up the only bit that is finished so far, the cover.

To make up my baby book I’ve used a Tim Holtz Collection Folio, the large size, and gone to town with the decorating of it. To do up the front cover I have followed the layout sketch at Feeling Sketchy and got inky and powdery with all sorts of good things. I started with Tim Holtz Distress Paint in Picket Fence and then sprinkled on some Fran-tage. On the layout I used modelling paste and a stencil for my butterflies and added some Distress Ink into the modelling paste as well as some more embossing powders over the top. I also did the same with the textured background that is only just visible under the papers.

With all my various effects on the cover I am also entering this in the current Craft Hoarders Anonymous challenge. There are copious amounts of flowers all over the cover, as expected for little girl’s book, so I am also entering this in the current challenge at Paper Crafting Journey.

I swapped out the black elastic closure for some pink elastic. I was going to put a word band or some letter charms on the elastic but the cover is way too busy as it is. Notice that border, looks pretty good, doesn’t it? Well it had better for the work that went into it, let’s just say these Collection Folios are made thick and tough and it was also too big to go through my Grand Calibur so I traced and cut round my Sizzix die and then used various sized hole punches for the lacy edge.

Opening up the folio you get two flaps top and bottom and I decorated the outside of these with some chippie words, these I painted up and sprinkled with Fran-tage also. The large heart buttons have been in my stash for ever as have the tulle flowers, I think they were from Webster’s Pages.

I’ve tried to tie things together with matching elements so I’ve got some of the same Organza Pearl Pink on the inside of these flaps. The top one is missing the pocket, I have no idea where I’ve put the packet, it’s got to be somewhere in my craft room! It’s meant to be for the hospital name card from the baby’s crib. The bottom one is ready to go with a pocket for the baby’s wrist tag.

There’s also a flap on the right side and I’ve used the same Organza Pearl Pink on the outside with some buttons from Jesse James. On the inside I have the same lace as the top and bottom flaps and some chippies and more of the Jesse James buttons and flowers to tie in with the other flaps too.

You’ve got to have space in a baby book for all the vital statistics from the birth and I’ve put that on the inside left cover using a piece of vellum over some lovely shimmering cardstock with some more flowers and another piece of lace.

The back inside cover I’ve done up as the last page looking back over baby’s first year with some journaling cards ready to go. I’ve tied this in with the flaps using the same lace and roses too.