Scrapbook Layout



Hi All,

Thought I'd give posting a layout a whirl :).. This is the first time I have tried this  - so please bare with me.. I finished this layout last night, and the photo was the day after Master 2 was born - one of my favourite photos ..



Materials Used:

American Crafts Cardstock: Spinach

Kaisercraft Blae and Ivy Collection

Kaisercraft Pearl Flourishes

Kaisercraft Pearl Brads

Kaisercraft Pearls

Kaisercraft Lilac Avenue Brads

Kaisercraft Mini Roses (Coconut)

Prima Buttons

Distress Inks - Tumbled Glass and Peeled Paint

Spell Binders Die

Martha Stewart Monarch Butterfly Punch

Fiskars Lace Border Punch

Fabric - Blue Chiffon, Blue Ribbon, Green Satin (From Spotlight)

Green Leaves from my stash :)

I handmade the four material flowers:

The blue chiffon (I think, its the barely see through material, not the really see through material... I will ask my MIL lol) flowers are the same flower but just different sizes. The youtube videos for these flowers are everywhere, but the main person who I watch is LuvLeeScrappin, who is the flower master :) .. The links for her flowers are :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bdqalnz9kQ     The organza flower

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nuRcLP3BCs&feature=fvst  The organza carnation

Now I don't follow them exactly, I do an organza flower, but use the carnation method lol.. are you following? I think at some time I will actually do a video of exactly how I did mine.. And they look incredibly hard, but I PROMISE they aren't, or I wouldn't have tried!

The blue twisted ribbon flower, you just twist your ribbon very tightly, and glue the end to the centre of a cardstock circle, and then keep twisting and gluing in a spiral! ..kinda like a snail shell... but nicer lol

And the green satin flower was 4 flowers cut from the Tim Holtz Sizzix Tattered Florals Die, the second smallest flower, folder over twice, and then glued to a cardstock circle again :)

Eventually I hope to get all of the flowers I make up on to my blog, with videos on how I do mine (everyone does them just a touch differently), but for now its links to those who I learnt them off :)

And the other bit of my layout, which I think turned out to be my favourite bit I think, was the green border around the blue Kaisercraft paper. I learnt this from the blog of a lady, Gabrielle Pollacco, who does INCREDIBLE scrapbooking - so this is the link

http://gabriellepollacco.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/new-bo-bunny-country-garden-new-dusty.html

And you would be crazy not to browse through her blog while you are there, I just love her pages :) I used the Fiskars Lace Edge Border punch for this LO. Yes, you read right, it was a STRAIGHT EDGE punch that did it!

So thats it, my LO done :) Except the journalling spot, which I have written and erased 4 times... I have awful handwriting, and whenever I write on the page it gives me an eye twitch! So, the journalling spot is ready and waiting... I'll have to talk to Bowbear about his beautiful writing :)..

Well Miss 6 is at school, and Master 2 asleep - so I am off to do crafties :) My husband and babies bought me Bo Bunny's Country Garden range for Mother's Day - very VERY excited. Plus, I am making flowers for a Kaisercraft Tigerlily LO of Miss 6. So until then..

TFL,

Tam

First Blog EVER!

My very first blog post (and blog) EVER! Thanks for taking the time to look at my blog :) My name is Tammy, and I have been scrapbooking for about a year. I am an avid reader of other peoples blogs, and decided maybe it was time to show a little of what I craft to the rest of the world (or family members who I send links too lol). I would also love to one day be on a design team, and I know that having a blog is a requirement.

I really thought I didn't have a SINGLE crafty bone in my body - but have spent 10 years admiring the amazing crafties my mother-in-law (MIL) has been doing. 'One Day' I decided to make an album (it turned into two) for my MIL for her birthday (she has made me BEAUTIFUL gifts, and I thought how she deserved to have memorable gifts to keep of her grandchildern). I would borrow supplies (I seriously had like a packet of textas - borrowed from my VERY crafty Miss 6, and some embroidery cotton from a misguided attempt at cross-stitching) from my MIL, and give various reasons as to why I needed them. Once I got into the swing of it.. well the buying began (just ask my husband, Bowbear). And I think anyone reading this would know what happens once you begin the buying..

And so it began..

I am ABSOLUTELY in love with scrapbooking! I have a 6 foot tressle table in the lounge room (as does Miss 6!), and an overpacked bookcase of supplies. When Master 2 has his day nap, I craft. When the kids go to bed, I craft. When my kids are wrestling with Bowbear and are occupied, I craft. When I can't sleep in the middle of the night, I cyber-craft on my Iphone, admiring everyone else's crafts. It is amazing to have a hobby that you enjoy so much! (Which I am sure anyone reading this understands about scrapbooking... except maybe Bowbear... honey, liken it to playing World of Warcraft). At night I set up on my table, and my husband and I chat while we go about our hobbies. Me, on the 6 foot table, overspilling onto the floor, and occasionally, such as when making roses and they need to be held in place as they dry, it extends to Bowbear's free hand. Bowbear sets up on the foot square lot of space I allocate at the end of the table for the laptop, and is so incredibly helpful as I ask him 50 times a night 'how does this look?'. And in return, I admire World of Warcraft computer game swords and weapons and ... goblin-y things.. And so we spend each night together, while the kids sleep, and we enjoy our hobby time together :)

I feel very blessed to have my beautfiul Bowbear, and our two beautiful kids (who are being tucked into bed this very moment!). And I feel very blessed that my MIL started scrapbooking - and after many years I finally realised what I was missing out on! Over the next few weeks (this is going to be a slow blog! im a newbie ) I will post crafties I have made, and try to make sure I can link them to all of the tutorials and inspiration I have found online. Including the 2 albums that started it all! Even in 12 months my scrapbook style has changed so much! (However, so has my scrapbook supplies and  collections.....). And eventually - when I feel brave - I will connect it to Google, and actually hand out the link to someone other than my darling Bowbear.

So, under the guise that one day other people will be reading this, thanks for looking!!

Tam