Good Together

When I first started Scrapping Your Family many years ago, I started making pages for a memory album. Over time I have included many pages that cover current family and events but I thought it was about time to use some older pictures especially as it was Margaret (one of our class mates) 50th Wedding Anniversary.

The pictures for this layout are of my maternal grandparents. I love the pictures in the little film strip.

I found that my old photo programme Picasa prints off contact photos which fit perfectly into the tiny holes.

The flowers are by Cottage Garden by HobbyArt and are one of their new releases (you can find them HERE)

All of the flowers are coloured with Distress Oxide Ink Pads and a paint brush.

and I used a die cut for the little branch. This was coloured in using promarkers and some people in class added a bird on the branch.

I have set the blog up to release a new post every day for the next 7 days so please keep checking back. xx

Lovely

I lost my dad three years ago and since then I have been gradually making layouts for his album. To start with it was really hard but as time passes I have found it easier.

 This one uses flowers cut both from floral paper and from stamped images.

 I have sewn around the edges of the white card and used words typed out on my computer and then printed off. I tend to do this a lot now.

The title and the wording in the top left hand corner are cut from the paper used for the layout.

Just Chillin'

I had had the feather paper for a while and wondered what to do with it as it is so busy and has loads of colours. About this time I was completing a feather layout for my own album (you can see it HERE) and it gave me this idea.

I used Distress Oxides to colour in the stamped feathers

 and I left the stamped flower without any colour just adding a small amount of NUVO Drops to the centre of each one. 

Everything was cut by hands.
The Feather stamps are from The Works and cost me £1 for the set.

Art - Human Skill Layoout

You have no idea how excited I was when one of my class mates Margaret let me have a copy of this photo to make into a layout. The picture is of her great grandad showing off all of his wonderful tattoos.

 So what stamps did I go for? Well it just had to be AALL & Create and they worked so well.

 I used die cuts for the pipes and the clock and I stamped onto the photo as well. (just in case you're wondering, the photo is a black and white copy)

Everything was distressed using Distress Inks including the colouration on the pipes.
I used the following:
AALL & Create 116 Industrial Script 
Distress Inks Rusty Hinge, Old Paper, Vintage Photo
Archival Black Ink 
Sizzix Bigz Die - Pipeline

Scrapping Your Family post 4

OK so there were another two layouts that I made as examples for this special class. The first is titled
TODAY 

and the second which was made using the square elements from one of the papers is
MY FAMILY

That's the end of the class projects for the Special Scrapping Your Family class but there are still loads of other projects to be uploaded so please keep checking back. x

Scrapping Your Family Post 2

There are more layouts to share but next I thought I'd show the four cards that we also made from the Simple Stories Kit

All made using the papers and the sticker sheets.

Even after making three layouts four cards and a mini book there is still enough left to make another 8 cards at least.
I will share the mini book tomorrow along with a Facebook live. Ooh exciting x

Scrapping Your Family Special Post one

Last Saturday was one of the two Scrapping Your Family Specials that I do every year. This time i made three layouts, four cards and a Mini book for everyone to use as inspiration.

Over the next few days I will be sharing all of these projects starting with this really fun layout.

The extra flowers are cut from one of the papers in the pack and the title is from the sticker sheet.

            

The kit included a Simple Stories paper pack including a sheet of stickers, four card blanks and a ready made mini book blank all ready to be decorated and everyone had a great time. Keep checking back for more inspiration. xx