A multi photo travel layout

Travel photos - Anyone who's ever been on a trip has a million of them! And they're not always nice enough to dedicate a whole layout to each one. So, let's scrap a whole bunch on this double layout. 

You have space for:

One 4x6" (landscape)

Two 3x4" (landscape)

Four 2x3" (portrait)

Feeling adventurous? Pop mini 1x 1.5" photos into the filmstrips!

You can also scrap vintage photos, if you prefer. They'd go really well, too.

We're using papers from the "Just landed" Kaisercraft collection. I originally planned to make this a single layout, but I liked the old suitcase stacks so much, I didn't want to waste any. And so it had to be a double. I managed to use only 3 papers and a cardstock and I'll show you a few tricks in class how to stretch your papers further. 

You will get a choice of wooden embellishments, they may or may not be the exact same one I used. Janet used the same set in her Friday class and I got inspired by her using them around a circle, so I have gone with a similar design. If you attended her class too, this is a great way to continue the story in your album. 

There's surprisingly little fussy cutting (I know who will appreciate that!) You will only need a black or pine cone ink pad for the edges, a cutter and the above mentioned photos. Do your best to have the photos printed before the class, as it will be tricky to finish the layout without them. 

As usual, class times are:

Monday 9:30am

Tuesday 10am & 6pm

at Scrappin' With Style @ TJ's

Cost is $25 and includes everything you need. Kits will be available if there is leftovers. Let me know by Tuesday morning if you can't attend class but would like a kit. 

Cheers, Geli

♥♥♥

How to print on calico - Winnetou and Old Shatterhand are back!

Another UFO is no longer an unfinished object. I recently did the "Stop and smell the roses" class:

(the original layout)

I knew I wanted to do a cowboy & Indian version of this page:

(my cowbow version)

If you grew up in Germany and you didn't spend the last 50 years under a rock, you know who these fellows are. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand by Karl May are absolute cult figures of the Wild West and if you don't know them, you have truly missed out on something awesome. As kids we used to watch the movies many times and play cowboys and Indians for hours.

My cowboy version still has the feathers... 

 ...but these cool charms from my2angels were just what the doctor ordered to give it some Wild West charm. Here's a cowboy hat and lantern... 

...and a gun:

 Of course I have no photos of our childhood games, so I found a photo of the movie heroes online. I knew the photo needed something to give it the Wild West look and I decided to print it on calico:

 Now, I didn't re-invent the wheel, I'm sure someone has shown how to do this before, but this is quick and easy and looks oh-so-cool!

Step 1: 

Make a little pencil arrow on the top sheet of paper in your home printer's tray to show which side is up and in which direction it goes through the printer. (Sounds dumb, but will make your life so much easier in step 3) 

Print the photo in the size of your choice on plain copy paper. Bigger is better, mine was 5x7".

  Step 2:

Got a good image? Now cover it with a piece of calico that's at least  1" bigger all round and tape it down with packing or masking tape on top of the picture. Make sure none of the tape covers the area of the picture.

Tip: If the calico it crinkled, iron it first!

 Step 3: 

Put the paper back in the paper tray (Use the arrow from step 1 to show you which way! Mine was up-side down) and press print again. Your picture will come out perfectly printed on calico. 

Now trim and fray the edges, sew it onto your layout and you're on your way to be a good cowboy. Yee-haw.

Psst: This is also great for giving photos a vintage look!

Beate

A few months ago I did a page of my youngest daughter's first day at school and explained about the tradition of the cone. (Check it out here)

I finally got around to scrapping a photo of my mum, Beate, in 1950 on her first day of school. Now I have 4 generations of cone-ness scrapped!

This Graphics 45 is cute as:

another little bottle-top, they're so much fun to make:

Thanks for looking!

Trip to the Baltic Sea and some cool cheating techniques

In 1919 my Great-grandfather Julius took his 3 daughters on a trip to the Baltic Sea (only 5 of his 11 children survived into adulthood, one of them my grandfather. See his page here) 

 My Great-Aunt Meta, whom I knew well as an old woman (front row at right), always always had fond memories of this trip because it was their only family holiday ever.

I like the old vintage feeling of the Webster papers and of course aqua is my favourite colour. Here are some pretty lace and paper layers:

If you want to give your chippie letters an old feel you can ink or paint them first, apply Crackle Accent and let it dry and then rub a contrasting ink over it. I smooch it on with my fingers. It's a little messy but works for me. The contrasting colour will be seen along the outer edge and in the cracks.

Renee told me this awesome trick to make fancy bling on a shoe string budget:

Draw or photocopy a swirl that you like, cover it with some acetate and paint the "pearls" with Liquid Pearls or 3D fabric paint (from Riot). Vary the sizes to make them look really nice. Don't stress if you end up with a string of gnome hats! Give the bottom of your acetate a few sharp taps and they will flatten themselves to perfect little pearls. They will take a while to dry and don't be tempted to use the heat gun to speed it up. It'll deflate your pearls and curl your acetate. I pop mine on top of the warm espresso maker and they're dry in  less than an hour. My husbands thinks I'm abusing his beloved coffee machine... When they are dry cut it out and attach your home made swirl with mini glue dots under the larger pearls.

Pretty cool cheat, eh?!

Ah, the good ol' kindy days

I bought a book at Lincraft with some super cute vintage clip art and used some of them for this kindy photo of Joel:

I did a scroll again, this time "stuffing" it with some muslin instead of flowers:

and one of my favourites, the sweet little bottle cap with a tulle circle:

Thanks for looking, bloggers! xoxoxo

More Graphic 45 for My 2 Angels

I had some papers left from Graphic 45's "Once upon a springtime" collection. I was thinking it'd be fun to use it in a masculine sort of way and I had just the right photos of my grandfather.
Take a look at My 2 Angels for all the materials used.

I added a bit of yellow baker's twine to break up the felt ribbon, and a cute painted scrapware bird cage 

and some of Tracy's awesome word pins:

With my leftovers I made 2 tags for friends with birthdays. I thought they make a nice change from the normal birthday card.

The Graphic 45 Woodland Fantasy paper is so cute, you really don't have to do much to it.

It's so easy, it's almost like cheating! 

My ABC's

Wow, as of yesterday I have 3 school children! My little Leah had her first day of grade 1 and it was also Joel's first day as school captain.

I used this layout for the fortnightly challenge on the Boxx. It was to use a photo of your kids in school uniform.

From way, way down in my stash I dug out the paper doll template and dressed it up in our school colours. The skirt is an inked and folded doily.

Did you spot the tiny school boy charm?

In case you're wondering what Leah is holding, it's a German thing. All kids will get those cones on their very first day of school and it's full of sweets and school supplies.

We had a little party for Leah and her best friend. Quite the collection, girls!

Look at this old photo of me and my sisters! (I'm the little one and it was actually my oldest sister, Ulli, who started school that day)

Since I'm reminiscing, here's one of my grandmother in 1917, which I scrapped a couple of years ago: