Birthday pages with Prima's Meadow Lark

OMG, I'm going purple! Not a colour I usually use much of, but it all started with my Christmas gift, a pair of funky purple pants. And I wore them on my birthday party, which gave Tracy from my2angels the idea to let me play with the new Prima range, "Meadow Lark".

Have you ever noticed that there are 200 photos of each of your childrens' parties and none of your own? That's what happened to me. I had an awesome wine and cheese tasting party with over 40 friends, most of whom are scrappers and only a handful of unfocused photo to prove it. But it needs to be scrapped, so fuzzy or not, here are my photos:

I used the Labelle paper for a background and the new charming word embelly in a cluster of gardenia, chipboard leaves and a calico rosette:

When a paper range has cute barcode strips, they are fun to use as flags:

 Here you have the white stemmed flowers all glimmer misted:

This little set of white mulberry flowers and butterflies is so versatile! So easy to colour with paint, glimmer mist or inks:

 

And guess what my lovely class ladies gave me for my birthday: a Cricut machine! (To use in class, to be sure) I couldn't believe my eyes!

For this page I used Chloe and Bronte paper with a little masking thrown in.

Here is how you can make a cute felt banner: Draw a few flags on a piece of calico, stick some felt ribbon on the other side...

 and cut out the flags before inking them:

Arrange them as bunting with a rhinestone strip:

The bird needed some feathers and I cut apart 3 small white mulberry flowers and inked the edges:

And lastly there is a deer! Don't ask me why, it just matched in colour. 

Psst! If ever you need to change the colour on a number 40 charm, cover it with Liquid Pearls.

A bit of baker's twine for a frame and now I think I've got the colour purple out of my system until the next decade. I hope you liked it.

Finishing touches with My2Angels

I made this layout for my parent's yearly album. It needed something else, but what? My2Angels is the perfect place for finishing touches.

First I took a rhinestone buckle and used a pin to hold it down, since the ribbon was already glued on. 

Then I started digging for some charms. I found the wings, key and the hatpin. The heart got a red coat with Perfect Pearls, but I knocked it over by accident and it landed on the paint side (of course!). I kind of liked the effect, so I left it. In your face, Murphy! 

I trimmed down the hatpin and attached the key...

...and glued it into the buckle. 

Check out this set of white mulberry flowers and butterflies. They are really good value because you can change their colour so easily. I simply inked the petal tips...

... and then put some rhinestones from a leftover piece of a rhinestone square on them.  

Add a cabochon flower and some stamen and you have the perfect mini cluster to balance the rhinestone buckle and charms. 

And here is the finished layout: 

Geli

Hobart ducks

And here is the class version of my last post! As you can see, with just a few small changes, different colours and photos it looks quite different.

If you are interested in coming next week, this is what we'll do. It's excellent for leftover papers. 

How to shabby emboss charms

I made this layout for My2Angels, the place to get charms. (If the sky wasn't so grey I could get a better photo of this, but for now this will have to do)

Charms look quite cute just the way they are, but sometimes it's nice to alter them a little.Here I want to show you how to shabby emboss your charms.

First, I heated a camera charm with a heat gun (use tweezers!) and sprinkled embossing powder over it. It looked like this:

Quite nice, but I wanted a different colour. So I heated it again and sprinkled pink embossing powder on top:

I liked that effect, but now I had overdone it a bit and all the detail of the charm had disappeared. So I scratched some of the embossing powder off again:

 

 And heated it once more to set. After it was cool, I used a watermark pen to add some copper embossing powder to the lens, so it would stand out a little. And there you have it, a shabby little charm:

It's fun to experiment a little.

The yellow rosette is made with this super useful rosette die.

Here are some closies:

For the background I inked a Crafter's Workshop template with Distress ink and printed with it, but it was a little hard to see. So I repeated it, but this time with Glimmer Mist and got this effect. Nice.

A cute little dolphin charm and some resin flowers, definitely one of my favourites: 

If you want to stitch and have no embroidery floss left, you can use a single strand of the mega-versatile baker's twine. Tracy thinks I use it as dental floss, I go through this stuff so quickly...

My little fish

My Hannah has always been my fish. No matter how cold the water, she'll be in it. 

Just a quick sweet little page for my sweet little fish.

waterfall album page

Here's a class I've done before with a flip-out waterfall album, which has been very popular:

You can fit a whole bunch of smaller photos in the small album. Pull on the tab and it all opens up.

Life is an adventure

We are making cogs in class. How cool are they! Really shiny and multi-coloured. 

Throw in some buttons and some crackle paint and there it is, a cool boy's layout!

Love you - Valentine's Day layout

Just in time for Valentine's Day next week here comes my new class project. It's got a hidden spot for love letters! 

Open sesame...

...creak!...

Hannah wrote me this sweet little note on a tissue that I want to keep.  You can have love letters, ticket stubs, invites, etc. Whatever you want to hide in here.

Last weekend I had my big birthday party (let's just say a big round number was involved) 

All my wonderful class ladies put their money together and bought me a Cricut machine. I am so over the moon. 

I have played with it a little bit already and put it to good use with the little flags:

Hope you all have a lovely week!

Having fun with leftovers

 I can't throw out scraps! Normally I try and keep only pieces that are at least as big as a photo but if we're talking about my favourites (ATM that's October Afternoon and Simple Stories), I can't part with even the small bits. I'm trying to use them up and made some leftovers pages and cards. One of them I can't show because Scrapbook Creations is going to publish it. Yeah!!!

But wait, there's more: 

This will be our class layout next week:

And you'll get to make this cute little felt thingy:

Did you see the glass capochon in the flower center? Follow the link to see how to make them!

And now a couple of cards with some My2Angels beauties:

Remember the ribbon rosettes?  I had one left from the tutorial a while back. Here's one with some high heels charms, resin flower, skeleton leaves and stamens:

Find my tutorial here!

And how easy is it to make a simple paper flower look great with just a large rhinestone and some leaf charms:

None of these project were made with more than 1/4 of a piece of paper at the most. So now there really isn't much of an excuse to have so many scraps anymore. Hmmm, does anyone have a few hours to donate to my day?