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I made the tag by cutting up the photo and overlaying (slightly off-set) a transparency with a black flower design on it. I attached it with a brad and angel hair. A Prima flower, more stickles and gems were added.

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Here I used some gel sticker embellishments and an overlay acetate with some words on it. I attached it with MM pewter flower brads.

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A few touches up photos using photo shop, more tags from a tag pad and chipboard letters which are glitters and textures from the same collection - a real fun page to do too!

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This was almost - how many things can I get on one page!


I used blue rag on the tag which has a cut out ephemera hammer on it! I used vellum from the same ephemera collection that had screws and bolts on (teared into strips). I then added a prima flower with a stickles glitter center. - i love the textures on this page. The writing was done with a black gel pen.

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Here is a pocket made with luxury Blue Awning card, embossed and pearl glazed. I added diamond glaze around the pocket flap with some sparkle dust.

A flower brad from the collection holds down the pocket.

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A digital scrapbook page mix.

The letters and square tiles were printed as a photograph which I then cut up (I altered them in photoshop to suite) I then decoupaged each one so they pop off the page. Finally I added words that started with the letters using a black glaze pen.

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Sorry - the colour came out terrible - but you get the idea.

‘Sharing our Lives Together’


This features a hidden pocket - can you tell where it is?

I used vintage corners from card-stock stickers and peel-offs to spell out ‘Lives’.




Here is the secret pull out page... our wedding with the words ‘Together’.

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A simple page using prima flowers, brads, pre-made tags that open up (and a good old peel-off!).

It says ‘because you are special...’

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This photo I altered in photoshop which was taken on a beach in Ireland - I used blue tones and played with lots of the adjustments until I found something I liked!

Across both pages it says Bright and Breezy.

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This page features more ripping and tearing.

Also - I used ‘caring’ sticker from the vintage stickers I have (glossy cardstock)

The embellishment was made from the Blue Awning journaling cards. Onto this, I used 2 Prima flowers, a brad with a gem in the middle and a parchment craft leaf I printed onto and embossed the veins.

A real mixture of all sorts.

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I bit of ripping and tearing happening here.

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As you can see, I used one piece of paper for the main page and wen down the spine with another paper from the collection on each page.

Here i am simply using embellishments and pre-made tags from the collection - ‘Thoughts to Cherish’ opens up with a personal poem and things I love about my hubby (but I’m afraid you don’t get to see that!).

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Here is page two.

Most of these products you will recognise from the Blue Awning collection - actually - it all is. The only things I have added are the green brads, the tag, stickles copper glitter and the tag was done on photoshop - so a blend of the digital and traditional scrapbooking!

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This project has been my favourite - perhaps because I got to look at my wonderful husband every day whilst doing it and every day I look at it afterwards!

‘This is what I Love......’ about him.

My first attempt at an altered book. With a thousand and one Tim Holtz goodies, paints, powders and K&Co Blue Awning papers (which I adore)... here is what I did.

Ps I do not endorse any of these products - but have included them in materials to share techniques.

Cover

Material

Board Book from Prima - 6x6 embossed pattern in the chipboard with the flowes and words.
Diamond Glaze
Tim Holtz distress embossing powders (a pale blue and and sand color)
Copper gel glitter pen.
Copper and blue shimmer ink pad (Brilliance ink)
Blue ink pad.
Blue Rag strips to bind it.
K&Co Blue Awning paper.
Blue Glaze Pen (Sakuro Gel Glaze)

Technique

I used the shimmering blue ink all over the front and blended in a bit of copper.
I then used the ink pad flat (copper) and picked up the pattern from the embossed chipboard.
Next came the embossing - I inked the flower at the top and the words and embossed with distressed sand coloured powder. This didn’t work according to plan and I didn’t like the texture so I later went over it in Diamond glaze a few times to add more height and a clear glass like look. Before it dried I used the gel pen (copper glitter gel pen) to deboss into it to add the veins of the flowers and other highlights.

I used the same pen to go around the leaves and all embossed parts with blue glaze pen for the words ‘this....’.

Finally I ripped pieces of some of the papers and inked the ends. I then used the dark blue pieces on the board to make it look as if it was coming through the main book.

All in all, the front is full of sparkle, vintage and textures which took many many hours but I am pleased with the look.

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Over the summer I visited London Zoo and have just got round to scrapping my zoo experience with the fab QVC TSV that came up recently.

I have done about 20 pages (8x8) altogether and here is my favourite featuring my first attempts at using alcohol inks on acetate shapes.

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Here is an example of a layout with no photos. I always like to map the places I visit and this is the Scenic Coastal Drive in Ireland. I used a tourist map, highlighted the route we took and added stickers that caught the feel of that part of the route! It was very bumpy, as you can see we got lost and ended up back where we started at one point..... it took us on a river ferry and more pages follow of the route.

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Very simple this one. Patterned background. White Alpha stickers (and White Sakura Gel Pen), a photo (already printed with a white border) of Hook Lighthouse and a bit of card with some journaling about the history of the Light House from a tourist leaflet - quick and easy!

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Double Page - Hook Head, Ireland.

This page used my newish tool - corner scissors from Fiskar. The photo of the ship is mounted on DCWV metallic pale blue card. The lighthouse is from a postcard which I double mounted on patterned paper then the metallic blue card. I cut out lots of flowers from the patterned paper and dotted diamond glaze for a watery effect on both the flowers and waves. The rock pool is a photo also taken on that day but 'cut out'.

I used a free set of clear plastic blue letters from a craft magazine and highlighted with Blue Sakura Gell Pen for the word 'Sail' and mounted it on the patterned paper. I then wrapped fibres around a pre-cut frame and attached with foam pads for a raised 3D frame effect (you can tell that from this picture). A Few Prima Flowers attached with brads were used on the second page.

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I really enjoyed doing this one from a photograph that a relative sent me after we met doing our family tree. This is my Grt Grandmother Sarah and her husband James.

The large silky satin flower is a Bazill Bliing Blossom and the remaining page and embellishments are mostly from one of my top two favourite scrapbook companies who produces beautiful embossed, flocked and satin papers and yummy chipboard embellishments. The brown daisy matt has flocked daisies on a silky brown background and feels beautiful to the touch.

The whole page is very touchy feely and I had resisted from using these for a while because they are a tad more expensive then the usual things I purchase for scrapping! Alas you can't see the shimmer of feel the page unless you know me personally and look at the real thing...

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Last August we went to Ireland for a week - here is one of the layouts from the Dunbrody Famine Ship.

The ships is in New Ross in the South of Ireland (Waterford) and visitors are taken on board to hear from 'passengers' about their journey on a ship to escape the Potato Famine of the 1840's. The boat is accessible for wheelchair users and the only place you can't see into are the very end cabins of the ship (unless you can be lifted over a ridge about 4-6 inches high).





About this page.

Visitors are give a 'ticket' to go on board which I 'aged' using chalks and ink. I scratched the edges of the matt photographs and inked them with a sepia stain which made a good wood effect.

As well as our photographs I also cut out pictures from the tourist leaflet to add to the information and the 12x12 paper is a celtic knot background.

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I love the flower NRN Paper (I think that's what it is) and it's zesty tones of orange fitted in well with the photos from Llangollen on our Wales holiday. You can't see the orange colours so well in this photo of the page.
I used a a tag with a transparency overlay that reads 'Llangollen' and some rustic orange Ange Hair for the photo corners.

The 'hand' sculpture is made from lots of different bricks that have the company's name on the side. You can take a ride across the famous Pontcysyllte Aqueduct on a narrow boat - 126 feet above the River Dee. They have a small water museum and no trip to my beloved Wales would be complete without a visit!

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A very simple design using K&Co Daffodil Kit papers.

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With this 12x12 layout, most of the background was already part of the paper. I used a simple 'cymru' peel-off underneath the English already printed on the paper. The paper is a glossy card texture.

I started picking out my favourite pictures depicting scenes of Snowdonia and sheep. The colours were vibrant with lots of orange, green, brown and slate colours. I used textured glossy card stock from HOTP to double mount each picture.

The dragon was a Welsh Peel-off (that I had bought in anticipation of scrapping a welsh trip - as you do) and when I was there I discovered a small craft shop selling celtic stamps. I used Brilliance Ink, in dark green, and used the stamps on the same red card. I cut around the stamped squared and went around the outline in a gold metallic gel pen. Next I mounted each celtic stamp image on a square piece of dark green Angle Hair for some texture.

The result was a very pleasing celtic layout.

A 12 x 12 Welsh Cottage.

Made from K&Co daffodil range using a basic tag and a photo of the cottage we stayed in on a simple mat.
A K&Co 3D butterfly sticker made an easy embellishment and a simple brad and ribbon.

I've just started doing Pergamano and my first 'major' piece is this one on white parchment paper using embossing, pricking, perforating and some colour. The hearts are pricked but you can't see that in the beneath.