birthday colours

 I don’t feel like I’m flowing with this weeks colours near as much as last weeks, I’m just not feeling it and my inspiration is lacking.

I did manage to force together this card, but I’m not really enthused with it. I did use my silhouette to cut the title using silhouette sticky backed card, super easy for small shapes.

Cardstock: American Crafts, Silhouette

Patterned Papers: My Minds Eye (Stella & Rose), Cosmo Cricket (Social Club)

Other: Flower (Prima), embroidery thread (Anchor)

friends will be friends

 Edited to add: this card was selected by the cards blog as a smashing example of of accordion flowers - I was super excited!

I’m not entirely sure what my colours are, because this is another week where I had to scramble around to find suitable papers for the colour swatches at the summer card class.

I have to add kraft to this mix up, I was also inspired by the accordion flower challenge on the cards blog. I know it’s crazy, but as a brit I should make cards that are A6 but I do love the American 4 1/4 x 5 1/2” cards.

Cardstock: Bazzill (kraft), American Crafts (cream)

Patterned papers: My Minds Eye (Stella & Rose collections and Fine & Dandy) and Prima

Other: Bling (unbranded) embroidery thread (Anchor), Uniball signo broad white pen.

Silhouette shapes: cute heart and star labels.

Tools: WRMK Corner Chomper, Martha Stewart score board

hello friend

 So I’m back from London... seems to have been a good trip, and it was really nice to see A.

Got back to find the colour combination is again ‘not me’ so again I’m way out of my comfort zone. I’ve raided all of my papers to try to get them to fit the bill, thank goodness I had a bit of a splurge on MME 6” paper pads.

I’m not entirely sure what I think of this, I feel it could be better and I think my flower needs 7 petals to fill it out a little more.

Cardstock: Bazzill (kraft), American Crafts (cream)

Patterned papers: My Minds Eye (Stella & Rose collection) and Prima

Other: Bling (Paper Cellar) Ribbon (Stampin’ Up)

Silhouette shapes: cute heart and star labels.

what a wonderful word

 There’s been a lot of ‘hello cards’ this week for summer card camp, and coming up with different titles has made me think of so many songs. Today in my hello mode I have the ‘hello song’ from the movie Crazy People going around my head.

Hello, hello, hello, what a wonderful word hello

Hello, hello, hello, you can use it wherever you go

Anyhue... I’m loving summer card camp, I really feel like I’m stretching myself and I’m trying to make cards that look and feel different.

I’ve already established that purple isn’t a colour that I have much of, I didn’t realise I was so colour particular until the complete lack of purple became evident, however I bought a mixed pack of baker’s twine and there was a purple skien in there, which is what inspired this card. I’ve already used (or lost) all of my pink skien.

This will be my last card of the week, because I’m off for work for the weekend, but I can’t wait until Monday, when another colour combination comes up.

Cardstock: Bazzill, American Crafts

Patterned paper: Echo Park, Basic Grey

Other: Pebbles (rubon), Divine Twine, Kanban (bling), Uniball Signo Broad white pen.

Silhouette shapes: cute heart and star labels

hello, hello

 I’m trying really hard to make a card a day for the summer card camp. This week’s colour scheme has really pushed me, not only because of the bold colours, but because of the number of them.

I had a good rummage through  my supplies and found another purple paper, this time from the Basic Grey Green at Heart collection pack. I’ve been really good at mixing brands and collections here.

 Patterned papers are from Basic Grey (Green at Heart and Urban Prairie) and Echo Park (Summer Days), ribbon from Pebbles and American Crafts, plain card from Bazzill and American Crafts, rubon is Pebbles and Bling is Kanban.

I’ve used my silhouette once again, butterflies from Echo Park and Silhouette and the cute hearts and stars labels.

Rather cheekily I brought the card and my camera to work to photograph it in decent daylight, but here in the bleak north you’ve got to do what works.

fancy seeing you here

Trying something new, not entirely liking it. Another card for this weeks colour challenges, the same Echo Park papers and yet another Echo Park silhouette shape, this time the butterfly.

Lots of bling, some vellum a Pebbles rubon and the feeling it could be nicer somehow.

hello again

 More from the Echo Park summer days paper collection as it’s the only match to the colours this week. Clearly being very inspired from Kristina’s lovely card on Monday.

More from the Silhouette as well, this time Echo Park hearts and yet another Pebbles rub on matched with some bling.

i say hello

I was super excited to sign up for the summer card camp run by Kristina Werner and Jennifer McGuire. What was even better was I got the class fee refunded because I won a place.

I’ve been in more of a scrappy place this last week so this has really kicked my back in to cards. This is so not my usual colours, very bright so I tempered it with a bit of craft, I did find when searching for these colours pretty much the only papers I had in these colours were from the Echo Park Summer Days collection that I bought on a whim a few weeks ago.

The clouds I made myself for my silhouette and the pennant is an Echo Park shape from the silhouette store. The rubon is from Pebbles.

november 2010

This page could not be simpler, I got this really cute colourbok die cut with a bird on, and I really love my birds. All I did was put a title on with some American Crafts glitter thickers and stuck it town on some American Crafts card, my journalling, white pen stitching and I think I have a cute layout.

the miracle of modern science

Back in 2006 I was lucky enough to go to Australia for 4 weeks, I had great plans of doing an album of the trip with the same papers running all of the way through. I never even started...

Of late I decide to just scrap it like anything else. It doesn’t matter if it’s a mix of papers, of style and the events of the trip are all mixed up. So I printed some pictures and I began.

This picture was taken a Soverign Hill a period theme park in a region of Australia which was heavily involved with the Australian gold rush. it is a photo of a guy who was a salesman extolling the virtues of the amazing voltaic battery as a means of activating explosives in the mines. The guy was very amusing and periodly patronising to the women in the audience, who may faint with surprise; and as a chemistry lecturer I can say he was scientifically accurate too.

So finally this tale got told using Pebbles twitterpated papers, journalling stickers and letter stickers and American Crafts ribbon.

october 2010

I’ve been getting behind on my month by month layouts, I manage to keep up with the journalling but don’t always make the page, so I’ve been playing catch up recently.

My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy boy papers, chipboard and stickers made up with a clean graphic look. And the first use of washi tape (love it, buy it, never use it).

The month by month summaries are a great way of putting chapters in any contiguous album.

hands

I loved the look of this layout and wanted to repeat the look with a photo, clean and graphic is the absolute best way to scrapbook and whilst I can admire the talent of people armed with stray mists it’s just not me.

Pebbles ribbon, American Crafts journalling spot, doodlebug letter stickers, Prima flower, another of my ancient flowers and a scrap of WRMK paper.