A productive crafting day at the crop

Yesterday I went to EK Craft and Crop hosted by Suzy and Audrey. Despite their being a slight crisis with the heating (not working) and a flooding toilet which meant we had to find the stop cock (which we did) it was a great day. The room soon heated up with all the hot air floating from numerous crafters happily swapping ideas, stories and laughs. I managed another double layout in my Paris album. I can't remember why I decided to make it such an odd size but the plan is to bind it all together in a book form so I think that's why I went with the American page size. although as I do not measure accurately don't hold me to that. 

I also managed to make a card for mum with a great deal of encouragement from the girls as I muttered about not liking making cards as it required neatness and precision. Thank you Audrey for keeping me on track and mum did like it and I did almost get the house tidied and clean before she arrived for her birthday dinner... It helped that I had made the tag earlier in the week using TH Spiced Marmalade and Worn Lipstick distress inks for the background and stamps from Lost and Found and Paper artsy. Suzy suggested the contrasting turquoise and I found a piece of ribbon that finished off and sewed some buttons on. Due to wonky stamping I had to stamp the sentiment again on turquoise.

Last of the Hybrid scrapfactor Layouts featuring Jasper

This Layout took ages and yet appears so simple. 

Coordination’s Black Magic/Blue – Embossing Folder – di lavender and china blue ink. Cut into strips to make border. Made frames for photos. Sprayed with dylusions sky blue, pink and fuchsia

Cut out centre of page and mounted large frame onto lilac/black coordination

Hybrid – Created title using Miss Mint Vintage Mix Alpha, Printed out three balloons (changed colour) from OTS You Look Like a Monkey kit, drew round edge with white and stuck to page – added journaling details and ties in pen. Printed, embossed, inked and highlighted with white sakura pen

 Using scrap paper sprayed with inks freehand drew arrows and stuck to card. Details added with black and white pens. Highlighted little balloon and write on small photo. Drew fine lines and journaled onto page.

Hybrid Scrapping Mirror Fun

This is a double page LO and will be part of my Paris album. I created the background of the first page by printing out elements of french graphics from the graphic fairy web site and then distress inking and stamping onto it. 

The second page used TH shabby French stamps which are embossed with distress powder. I didn't have suitable coloured alphas so coloured them with alcohol inks and promarkers. I punched the flowers out of Rangers metal and put ink on them too but it was a little too "yellow". One day I might go back and change it.

Hybrid Scrapping Layout Juggling Me

I gave sneak peaks of this but here  it is in full now the audition process is over. I have to say I enjoyed the challenge of making 5 LOs. I like this one as it combines stamping and scrapping and an element of art journalling as I am now happy to messily write on my scrapping layouts. I used Dylusions Ruby Rainbow and Love Struck Lucy stamps, Stampotique Oh Dear Stamp and I coloured them with Pro markers. I have a long way to go with this am going with a cartoon feel till I improve.

  I used SJ Journal panels from uk scrappers digi downloads and  RPENN express yourself font and Shabby Princess Sweet Sensations fonts. Papers are DCWV Gorgeous page, Crate Paper – north pole, Basic Grey – Lily Kate, Chloe’s closet – accessorise. There were torn and distressed with  Distress inks faded jeans, shabby shutters, pumice stone. Flowers from the Martha stewart flower punch.

More Hybrid Scrapping

Having created 5 Hybrid LOs recently I have been enjoying playing with this more. These pages will become of a Paris album of double page LOs  using 8 1/2 x 11 pages which I intend to bind with my Cricut. Like many projects it may not ever be finished. I have created a concealed pocket on one of the pages as I have too many photos  but not all should be scrapped so I have decided to place them on tabs in the hidden pockets. This began as a way of using up scraps from a previous LO which you can see a sneak peak of in the previous post. I created the background paper for one page using three images from Graphics Fairy that I then altered the colour on and printed out.

I also printed out journalling on the Carte Postale (this is going to be used throughout the album) and the Fleur De Lys (also all from the wonderful Grahics Fairy site).

I made some ribbon embellishments and added lashing of Lavender Distress Inks.  My one concern is that on the one photo page I thought I was randomly placing and glueing the Fleur de Lys but now they just look off register - oh well it can't be helped - especially as I did not spot this until all was dry. I may find a way to hide this...

not so random more off register...

the hidden caption is above the black fleur de lys

Art journal and pin wheels

I  did not have much time this weekend to play with paper, paint and and digital bits and bobs as I was seeing friends and my mother was here for a visit. I did manage to complete the art journal page which was on the subject of Home is where the heart is.  I created an acrylic paint background and then stamped with a pearl paint dabbler using the claudine hellmuth houses and then overstamped the detailed outline. I printed photos of our house and scribbled over them with permanent pens. The hearts were stamped using dylusions stamp and added to the page as was the journalling written on scraps of paper that had been sprayed pink.The more I worked on this the more I came to consider that our home is where our table is and this has given me the idea for my last scrap factor layout.

I also discovered how to make windmills/pinwheels and have been using them on another lo. The photograph is of my youngest nephew.