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

Sri-Lanka

I am lucky enough to have been to some amazing places and I have loads of photos still to put in my scrapbook album so when I saw the Pink Ink Elephant stamp it was a wonderful opportunity to do a Sri-Lankan page.

It doesn't show in the picture but the patterns on each elephant as really sparkly and this worked well as I kept the elephant colours very neutral.
If you like the elephant and want to see more Pink Ink stamps you can find them HERE.

If Flowers Were Friends

This was my first time using this Die Creative Expressions Paper Cuts -Sunflower Edger and to be honest I was at a loss as to how to use it. It didn't take long though, I put my brain in gear and played for a few minutes and this is what I came up with.

 The secret is to die cut the edger in white and make sure you keep ALL of the pieces.

Choose a background and stick your edger in place. At this point you can start colouring the design in. I chose to colour the loose leaves and stick them back into the design.

Lastly I fussy cut the flower heads from a second die cut and stuck them in place to create a 3D effect.

I've ordered a few Christmas Edgers so I'll post the results nearer the end of the year and after the card class of course lol. x

Pink Ink Dragon Fly Cards

So in class my ladies were given a choice of two backgrounds for this amazing Dragon Fly by Pink Ink Designs one made using distress inks

and one made using a background paper

Both backgrounds were stamped on using black Archival ink and AALL & Create stamps and then highlighted with a Signo White Pen. The Dragonflies were attached to the cards using glue on the body and sticky foam pads on the wings.
I am loving these stamps.x

Christmas Card Bear

Are you a Pink Ink fan? Well I am and this bear will be appearing on a lot of my Christmas Cards this year. So easy to colour in and a great card for a grumpy husband in Christmas denial lol.

The background was made using Distress Oxides , spritzed and then stamped with small snowflakes using the same ink. I also love the way you can move the eyes to suit the card, in this case the bears eyes are looking towards the Christmas hat.