Back to Scrapping

Can't believe I've not posted anything since May, unfortunately I spent the majority of June in hospital with various complications following my 4th dose of Chemotherapy.  However I feel so much better now and have even started back to work part time.  Crafting juices have been flowing and have done the following layouts :-

 

These were started at Our Little Scrapbook group crop on 06.07.13 and completed at home

The papers are from the Memories Collection by Teresa Collins and I used sketches from Page Maps www.pagemaps.com for all three layouts

These were done at the Merly Impressions crop held at Renhold Village Hall on 20.07.13

Papers are from the Kaisercraft Enchanted Garden Collection and layouts were designed by Chrissy Tingley of Merly Impressions www.merlyimpressions.co.uk

Our Little Scrapbook Group Crop - 04.05.13

It seems ages since I've posted anything on here, unfortunately I've been in hospital again with an infection.  Been home a few days and feeling better so on Saturday I ventured out to Our Little Scrapbook Groups crop at Birstall

 

The kit had papers from Carta Bella's So Noted range together with some Ephipany small dots and punches for us to use.

I did 2 layouts and still have plenty left over to do more.

The first layout I did was using Sketch #90 over at Sketchabilities
http://sketchabilities.blogpost.co.uk/2013/04/sketch-90-design-team-reveal.html

 

The 2nd layout was a scraplift of one of Becca's layouts

 

The photos in the first layout are of my Mum and Dad in their courting days circa 1962

 

The photos in the second layout are of my Mum and Dad with me and my twin sister born May 1963

 

 

 

Get Inky

The challenge for March over at Merly Impressions is to Get Inky  !!

The idea being that some ink is used on the layout, well after much deliberation here is what I have produced :-

I used papers Illusion and Fantasy from the Kaisercraft Charlottes Dream collection

I attached the middle paper strip to the background paper and then using a crafters workshop template of a naked tree spritzed around it with Squeezed Orange Dylusions Ink

Small Trees were created by using another crafters workshop template and sponging through with Tim Holtz Distress Inks - Crushed Olive, Rusty Hinge and Gathered Twigs - the bottom one was done again on scrap card and then cut around and decoupaged ontop of the base one.

The Butterflies were created by using Alchol Inks in various colours on a piece of shiney card and then stamping the butterfly using Ranger Archival Ink

Title was done by stamping letters using Tim Holtz Distress Ink - Gathered Twigs

So four types of ink used and I had very inky fingers by the end but all in all I'm quite pleased with the finished layout.

Monthly Scrap Group

First Saturday of the month and it was our little scrap group monthly crop at Birstall.

The kits for this month included 3 Glitz papers, plain cardstock, washi tape and letters

I produced 2 layouts from the kit, the flowers were created using a free stamp from this months edition of Homemade, extras added were glossy accents to middle of flowers

The first one I used April week 1 sketch over at Lets Get Sketchy
http://letsgetsketchy.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/april-week-1-sketch-challenge.html

For the 2nd layout I used the April sketch from Creative Scrappers
http://creativescrappers.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/april-sketch-challenge.html

 

Book of Memories

Last October I attended a workshop run by Cosby Quilters
http://cosbyquilters.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/cherished-memories-27-october-2012.html

It was with Viv Denscombe and was called a book of memories
www.embroideryviv.co.uk 

It was to produce a fabric book which would hold tags and different things, I decided to use photo's of the 4 generations of my family - Grandmother (Doris Loseby), Mother (Pauline Marshall), Me (Janet Mansfield) and my 3 Daughters (Laura, Rebecca & Amy Mansfield)

The fabric was bonded together with vilene and bonderweb it was then folded to produce each page and then each page and tags were embellished with lace, buttons, beads etc

This is the finished item and I must admit I am very pleased with it.

 

 

Encrusted Crazy Patchwork II

Back in July last year a posted about an online workshop I was doing with Pintangle
www.pintangle.com

It was to produce a block of "Encrusted Crazy Patchwork"

This was something I had wanted to try for a while as although I've done a fair amount of patchwork I had never incorporated embroidery etc.

In my post in July I had constructed the block and the next step was to do the "Encrusting", this consists of adding embroidery, lace, beads, buttons etc

Well 8 months later I've finished the block :-

The middle is a photo of my Grandmother

I am really pleased with the finished result and am going to have it framed to hang in my workroom.

Nieces Birthday Cards

More birthdays in April, this week it is both my nieces - Gemma & Jessica
Wanted to use something a bit different and whilst browsing our local shop came across the Gorjuss range from Do Crafts which I really liked and thought was appropriate for them.

Gemma's is based on sketch Mojo Monday 286
http://mojomonday.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/mojo-monday-286.html

Jessica's who is going to be 21 is based on sketch over at Card Mania Challenge
http://cardmaniachallenges.blogspot.co.uk/

I hope they like them