Fancy Pants - Forget Me Not Birthday Cards

Hello, Forget Me Not is the name of the Paper I have used on these cards - isn't it funny - I had no idea what a paper called Forget Me Not would look like - but here it is .....  Green Hearts....

September - A Year in Time

My daughters both love One Direction and we were lucky enough to get tickets (purchased well over a year before the actual concert). So you can imagine the excitement come September :) not only did we organise for the girls to go in a stretch limo we had fanatic seats, only 10 rows back for the stage. The lads put on an awesome show Miss six is adamant that Harry smiled and waved at her lol just love the innocence.

Using the reverse September foundation page, lots of distressing with Ingvild Bolme distressing tool and TH Vintage distress ink as previously done with the majority of the pages within my album. After using my stamps last month I forgot how versatile and fun they are. Will definitely be using them more often now.

Snowflakes are Winter's Butterflies....

Hello,

How beautiful is that quote - "Snowflakes are Winter's Butterflies"!  My family and I recently had a holiday in the snow - skiing, falling over (hehe - that was mostly me..), getting up again, snow eating (my daughter), snowball fights (mostly my husband)- love it!

I have printed out quite a few photos to add to my scrapbook album and this is one of the pages I have created ...

July - A Year in Time

Good morning, hope you are all enjoying this gorgeous weather and having a great weekend, Sue D here with another page in my Graphics 45 Album. How many of us have unfinished projects? How many times do you start a project excitedly only to get bogged down in everyday life chaos... well I have and do often and I am sure it's not going to change in the near future. I am always starting new projects which get put on hold because I discover a new product or technique and sometime a new craft! My promise to myself this year was to finish all my 'works in progress' starting with the 'A Year in Time' album. I do love the G45 papers and the unique vintage inspired themes.

This months page, July is of my precious little girl at her new school helping prepare their sustainable garden. They didn't let a little shower of rain put them off. All the children happily planted seedlings or tiny trees throughout the school. It is going to be so nice to enjoy the fruits of their labor :)

Christmas in ..... APRIL ?

Hi there.  It has been a little while between drinks here for me.  Sometimes life just gets in the way of what you love to do ... namely scrapping and creating!  But here I am and I have managed to use up more items in the kit from way back in December .  My layout is a photo of my mum from the family Christmas Day celebration lunch at my sister's.  

Butterfly Love Tag

Hi Guys.. Yup it's Karen here with you again.. and yup I've got another tag to share with you.. hope you aren't getting sick of them!!

 

Today I'm going to go through with you step by step how I did this Tag..

 

 

I had been eyeing off the Wendy Vecchi stamps that are in the store for a little while, and finally got a set. These stamps are just lovely to use, they are so nice to stamp with,  The one I have used is now sold out, but the others that are left are just as nice, There is only a couple of sets left in the store here and here ( at a great price too) so you'd better get in quick if you think you might like some.

 

I started off by inking my background using a mix of distress inks in Broken China, Peacock Feathers and Walnut Stain, then flicked with water and dried.  ( I think this may be my new favourite colour combo!).

 

 

My next step, I stamped the background stamp from my stamp set with embossing ink, and embossed it with Ranger Sticky embossing powder, and then sprinkled it with peeled paint distress glitter while it was still sticky.

 

I love how it looks, with nice subtle vintage sparkle.

 

 

Next I took the quote from the stamp set, and stamped it onto waxed kitchen paper using archival ink in Jet black, fussy cut around the quote and stuck it on to my tag using Multi Medium in matte. By using the multi medium and waxed paper when it is dry all you can see if a very feint outline of the paper,  as you can see in the photo below. I also added in a stitched border around my tag at this point..

 

 

Next I pulled out a few bits and pieces.. a fussy cut butterfly left  over from an old project, some wooden prima embellishments, and a Tim Holtz Numerals and pen nibs, and a Graphic 45 Keyhole.

 

 

I played around with them a bit till I had them arranged just right and finally stuck them down, again using my multi medium and I was done.

 

 

I really love the pop of orange against the background!

 

 

 

 

Thanks for stopping by again, I hope I've shared a little inspiration with you.. Don't forget we'd love for you to share your gorgeous creations with us on the Wild about Scrap Facebook page, so why not pop on by and show us what you've been up to!

 

Happy Creating

Karen

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Embossed Love Mini Album - Bo Bunny

Hello

Embossing Folders - are you like me and have quite a variation of embossing folders - from spots, to hearts, to stripes, to music..... today I have a project to show you where I have used more than 8 different folders - an embossed Mini Album entitled - "I Love You, 7 days a week".