Category Archives: scrapbook

Feeding the birds

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Well the weather can’t make up it’s mind what it is doing…sun..rain..sleet…sun…wind…snow etc.
so I have been staying warm indoors with my scrapbook stuff spread all over the place for the last couple of days and here are my latest scrap pages. We put out birdseed and peanuts to attract the little birds to our garden but we often have other visitors to the bird feeders.

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Inks: brilliance black, Distress ink dried marigold, various copics to colour image and embellishments, glaze
Card: paper is cloud 9 design Sunrise buds, card from stampin up
Stamps: Sugar Nellie bird house, The Artistic stamper Stitchels dashy dot birds and leaves, Studio g bracket, free flower stamp from Craft stamper mag.
Other: letters and frames Cosmo cricket, grunge board arrow and plate, bird food, feathers, brads, primas

Thunderbirds ARE GO

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Another scrapbook page about our garden. It was also made for the CBC crew challenge ‘stars and stripes’ – the stars are on the 4 silver brads (the photo makes one look like a white brad) and the stripes are ribbon. We were looking after our friends son while they were away and as you can see – he loves the Thunderbirds!

The background paper is from Stampin up’s Summer picnic, and the ribbons are from Cosmo cricket.

Fairy Forest scrapbook double layout

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Here is my double layout which I finally managed to take photos of – my camera has gone kaput and I had to borrow my husband’s which is a newer model and works slightly differently.
The first photo was taken in a beautiful forest at Gosford Estate. and The second photo is of Maranna, my lost wax bronze sculpture. She now lives in the conservatory after a frisky fox knocked her over and she suffered a broken shoulder and wrist (all better now though).The verses are taken from the certificate that authenticates the sculpture and the magic fairy coin has her limited edition number on the back so is kept hidden behind the fairy door.Inks: Tim Holtz distress inks antique linen and frayed burlap, alcohol ink black
Stamps: house mouse fall commuters, Dovecraft fantasy emblems, tapestry stamps and Lavinia stamps (small leaves on the door)
Card: DCWV Once upon a time stack, BitsNPieces woodgrain paper
Other: dragonfly charm, bookplate, key, dried leaves and flowers from my garden, button, Tim Holtz grunge board elements, distress embossing powder

Fungi scrapbook page

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So I have finally managed a scrapbook page using the napkin method demoed by Pam (thanks Pam) at the Edinburgh scrappers crop ages ago. Even though I used mat mod podge it is still rather glossy, hence the bright patches in this picture.

Inks: Adirondack woodlands, Archival ink coffee
Stamps: Stampin up pocket silhouettes, Tracy Dutton mushroom stamps from Lavinia stamps
Card stock: stampin up; creamy caramel, chocolate chip, sage shadow
Charms: dragonfly from Crafts by Carolyn, mushroom from ebay
Materials: napkin from a napkin swap, mat mod podge

Take a 3 ply napkin and peel the layer with the image on it from the other 2 layers. Roughly cut out the patterned bits you wish to use and paste mod podge on the areas of your page where you want to put the napkin. Gently lay the napkin on the mod podge and squidge it around to create a little texture. leave it to dry and paste a little more mod podge over it. It goes semi-transparent so you can still see what lies beneath it.