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