How I made my March Layout III

The Blossom Babes at or Debden retreat 2011

Karen took this photo and Anita took one which included Karen, so I cut and pasted Karen into the space she had been standing in before being photographer!

Here is how I made my March layout which was a scraplift of a layout by talented DT member Anita.

This is a reminder of her beautiful original layout and the sketch.

These are the Bo Bunny's Garden Girl Collection

papers we used:

Die Cut

Garden Girl 

Cut Outs 

First of all the 'Die Cut' sheet had to be prepared, by cutting along the thick brown inner line. You are left with a scalloped frame and an orange square with decorative corners.

Stick the frame piece centrally onto the purple cardstock.

Build up the centre with double sided foam tape, and stick the orange piece back in position. 

Lots of careful cutting of the 'Cut Outs' sheet helps to make a decorative surround for the photo. Cut a quote for the top right hand corner of the layout.

I wanted slightly different words to those on the wide strip Anita used, so I used my computer and a font called Rivanna, I used two sizes and colours. First of all I cut the two butterflies and all the flowers I needed from the floral side of the 'Garden Girl' paper, then I printed onto a strip of the green side.

True friends are priceless treasures

Now take the butterflies and flowers, carefully ink and curve with scissors and add to layout with 3D foam pads as shown on the photo.

Then the fun begins, add tons of glitter with the stickles!
I also added flower stamen to the butterflies for antennae.

Thanks Anita x

How I made my March layout

Here is my layout from this month's design team gallery, using this photo of sweet little Esme.

The layout was made with these ingredients:
K & Company green letter stickers.
Prima pink songbird vine
Bo Bunny Love Bandit collection - Birdie die cut, Bee mine, Nuts 4 U.
Stampin’ Up Aviary stamp set.
Stampin’ Up ink pads in Calypso Coral, Island Indigo, Pool Party, Lucky Limeade and Rose Red.
Journalling block stamp - custom made
4 x 6” landscape photo
Stickles – crystal and lime green
Gems

Here is how I made the layout:
Gut the green side of ‘Bee Mine’ paper so you have a 12” x 12” - 1” frame, stick the ‘Birdie Die Cut’ sheet centrally over the green frame.

I Stamped bird cages in a variety of colours across the centre of the Die cut Sheet, add birds to the cages. Stamp more birds and cages onto smooth white card, and cut out leaving a fine white border around each image.

Using a Technique Tuesday Template, cut the outer shape from the pink side of ‘Be Mine’ and the inner, smaller shape from white side of ‘Nuts 4 U’.

Ink the edges and mount the white shape centrally onto the pink shape. Build this up with 3D foam pads and mount into the centre of the layout. Mount photo onto a piece of the green side of ‘Nuts 4U’. Mount the photo towards the top of the Big shape.

Stamp a circular Journalling block and mount this onto a circle of green paper. Add the journalling details and stick to the top right of the layout overlapping the photo slightly with 3D foam pads. Arrange a selection of bird cages around the journalingl block, some raised and some directly onto the layout.

Arrange the vine down the left side of the layout. Add a cage to the top branch so it appears to be hanging from the vine. Trim off a couple of flowers and add to the journaling block..

Add title with the glitter stickers under the photo. Then add stickles and gems to the cages and flowers.

Here is the original layout by the very talented Anita:

Here is a reminder of the sketch. 

If you would like to join in the challenge please go back to the 'G is for Glitter' post on this blog

Thanks for the inspiration Anita x

G is for Glitter

This month we have chosen to scraplift this colourful, glittery layout by our very own, very talented, team member Anita.

Here is our sketch...

.... and here are the Design Team's layouts. Please click on their names to view their blogs.

LYNN 

LINDA

KAREN

SANDRA

ALISON

LINDA

 LYNN

ANITA

DEIRDRE

Our Guest designer this month is Katherine Sutton, better known as

SUTTY 

please follow link to view Katherine's blog.

*** Thanks for creating this beautifully cute layout for us Sutty ***

Prize Time

This month Jill of Cardinal Colours is offering 10 stickles, so you can get really glittery on your cards and layouts! Prize available to UK residents.

Our grateful thanks as always to Jill, to this month's guest Sutty and Anita.

August 2010 Re-visited -Our first challenge

Our first ever challenge was as follows:

A is for apertures -
or in this case starbursts!

The inspiration for our first layout was taken from our talented friend Anita.
She has made these two stunning layouts based on the same idea (see below).  She kindly agreed to us featuring them on this blog for the first monthly challenge from Scrapology back in August 2010. Please take a look on her blog, Inky Blossoms for even more inspiration - you won't be disappointed.

The sketch we drew for the challenge can be used in any orientation:

Lynn and I used the same set of papers from the Rusted Sun collection for our layouts.

Lynn

  

Linda 

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Anita is working on another design for next year, so watch this space...      

August Scraplift Challenge Again

Bringing this post back to the top for easy access.

For the month of August we have selected this delightful layout to scraplift.

It was created by the talented Ingrid

A few words from Ingrid:

"I'm Ingrid Gooyer. I live in the Netherlands with a very sweet husband and two adorable girls, Tessa and Yiscka, 20 and 17 years old. For almost two years now, Tessa's boyfriend, Tom, is also living with us and it feels a bit like having a son too! A busy household sometimes, but I love every minute of it!

I work three days a week as an analyst in a lab. After a workday filled with lots of numbers and analyses, it's great to relax and do something creative as scrapbooking!  Started scrapping some years ago when I saw a friend making a holiday album. Thought this looked very nice so I gave it a try. No need to say that I was totally addicted to it since then! LOL!  I mostly scrap on a white background. Love the fresh and clean look of it.

Hope you all have fun with this challenge. Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!!"

Please see more of Ingrid's work HERE on Scrapbook.com - she is called IngridG.

The sketch we created from Ingrid's layout:

Here are the Design Team Layouts for some extra inspiration. Please click on their names to view their blogs.

KAREN

LYNN

LINDA

ANITA

MARIA

DEIRDRE

LYNN

This month our GUEST DESIGNER is the talented

SANDRA DRY.

Here is Sandra's layout - to see more of her lovely creations, please visit her blog.

Please join in the fun and create a layout using these pages for inspiration. We hope you will let us share your finished layout on this blog.

Please make a comment below.

We ask you to become a follower of this blog to be considered for the prize.

You have until midnight on 5th September to enter the competition.

If you create a page after that date, please still share it with us.

Please can bloggers leave a comment with a link to the relevant post on their blog.

If you don't have a blog - no problem! - Simply drop us an image attached to an email.

Please note the email address has been recently updated.

The prize for the best layout had been generously provided by Jill of Cardinal Colours.

  This 12" x 12" DCWV Cardstock Stack called 

'Immortal Love'

48 sheets of white core cardstock - 4 foiled, 8 glittered and 36 textured.

Prize offered to UK residents, but all welcome to join in the fun.

Our Thanks to Ingrid, Sandra and Jill. x

R is for Ribbon

For the month of August we have selected this delightful layout to scraplift.

It was created by the talented Ingrid

A few words from Ingrid:

"I'm Ingrid Gooyer. I live in the Netherlands with a very sweet husband and two adorable girls, Tessa and Yiscka, 20 and 17 years old. For almost two years now, Tessa's boyfriend, Tom, is also living with us and it feels a bit like having a son too! A busy household sometimes, but I love every minute of it!

I work three days a week as an analyst in a lab. After a workday filled with lots of numbers and analyses, it's great to relax and do something creative as scrapbooking!  Started scrapping some years ago when I saw a friend making a holiday album. Thought this looked very nice so I gave it a try. No need to say that I was totally addicted to it since then! LOL!  I mostly scrap on a white background. Love the fresh and clean look of it.

Hope you all have fun with this challenge. Can't wait to see what you all come up with!!!"

Please see more of Ingrid's work HERE on Scrapbook.com - she is called IngridG.

The sketch we created from Ingrid's layout:

Here are the Design Team Layouts for some extra inspiration. Please click on their names to view their blogs.

KAREN

LYNN

LINDA

ANITA

MARIA

DEIRDRE

LYNN

This month our GUEST DESIGNER is the talented

SANDRA DRY.

Here is Sandra's layout - to see more of her lovely creations, please visit her blog.

Please join in the fun and create a layout using these pages for inspiration. We hope you will let us share your finished layout on this blog.

Please make a comment below.

We ask you to become a follower of this blog to be considered for the prize.

You have until midnight on 5th September to enter the competition.

If you create a page after that date, please still share it with us.

Please can bloggers leave a comment with a link to the relevant post on their blog.

If you don't have a blog - no problem! - Simply drop us an image attached to an email.

Please note the email address has been recently updated.

The prize for the best layout had been generously provided by Jill of Cardinal Colours.

  This 12" x 12" DCWV Cardstock Stack called 

'Immortal Love'

48 sheets of white core cardstock - 4 foiled, 8 glittered and 36 textured.

Prize offered to UK residents, but all welcome to join in the fun.

Our Thanks to Ingrid, Sandra and Jill. x