Special layout and new classes

This layout celebrates my father's 70th birthday. We all got dressed up, took a few props to a nearby farm, and set up a lovely area for a family photo shoot. Most of the photos found their way into a mini album, but these ones of Oupa and his boys needed to be scrapped on their own.

I've used Fabscraps patterned paper for the background, combined with a bit of Graphic 45 paper for a contrasting colour. There are a few 7Gypsies tags, a covered envelope and a bit of washi tape thrown into the mix. A library card (my favourite embellishment of late...) and Fabscraps letters covered with Ranger's Enamel Accents completes the picture.

 

We've had our second last class for the year on Saturday. Here is a photo of part of layout:

 



Patterned paper from Bo Bunny's Gabrielle range was used as the background. Lots of individual pearls and bling were scattered all over the layout, combined with flowers, metal butterflies and butterflies die cut from acetate and then embossed. The layout features a tag booklet, which creates additional space for photos or jouraling.

 

 

Kits are available from info@picsntales.co.za. Watch this space for a sneek peek of our last class for 2012, which takes place this coming Saturday!

I made a card ?!?!

I'm not really into making cards. However, every now and again, I really enjoy making something quick and small. And when it turns out like this one, I wonder why I don't do it more often, as I really enjoyed the process?

This card was inspired by Ezme's gorgeous examples using coated paper, normally used for encaustic art.

I used white ink to stamp a "script" image as a background. Because the card is coated, the Ranger Distress Ink blends beautifully over the dry white ink. I stamped more random images over the Distress Ink, and used an embossing tool to make sure that everything was dry before stamping the main image, using black Stazon ink.

A little bit of lace, a chipboard piece covered with black washi tape and a piece of beautiful butterfly washi tape was then added. A few yellow bling bits completes the card.

Scrap 365 November Sketch Challenge

Thank you, Scrap 365, for naming me as one of your "super scrappers of the month" for the October challenge! What an honour!

This month, the sketch for the challenge was designed by Tiff Firth, and it looks like this:

Those gears immediately caught my attention, as I already had a layout where I've used them before...

For this layout, I used a Kaiser Kraft patterned paper range, and it was the first one I ever scrapped on a black background.

Don't you just love the little robot holding the heart in its hands?

Old pics, old stash

I seem to be on a roll with producing layouts using old photographs, and old stash! This picture was taken in 2009. Don't you just love the amazement on that little face? He just COULD NOT BELIEVE his luck!

I was happy to find quite a large piece of soft blue patterned paper in my "scraps" box, that went so well with the theme for this layout. The colour scheme and embellishments were purposefully kept "calm", so that the main focus of the layout could be the photograph.

The metal frame was originally a red copper colour, and obviously did not go with the rest of the layout. So I painted it with an Espresso Ranger Dabber, and added highlights using the Snowcap Ranger Dabber. A little journaling on an October Afternoon card adds the finishing touches to the layout.