StampAmemory - Stampin Up Scrapbooking

08/12/2011

Meeting Shelli

Hi!

Today I have a layout for you that shows you some ways to incorporate two different techniques into your layouts. I have done some hidden journalling and also some emboss-resist. I have used photos taken at Convention of myself meeting Shelli. Thanks so much to Nikki Sadler and Christine Blain for the photos.

I went with a vintage look for the layout, mostly because Shelli is a big fan of vintage. The colour scheme was based on the colours in the photo. Funnily enough, in these photos my top looks to be the same colour as the background!

I spritzed the Very Vanilla cardstock base with Silver Foil Smooch Spritz - a great way to add instant vintage look to a project. The medallion that is the main focus of the above photo was created to hold down the center photo, as I included some hidden journalling under it.

You can see I was also hiding a not-very-flattering photo under there too! The photo was of Shelli's lipstick on my cheek, which was an important part of the story I was recording. But let's face it - who wants a photo where you can see up your nose on a layout?!?

Here I used some emboss resist to add some elegance to the layout. I die cut some Scallop Circles then stamped and clear embossed them using the En Francais background stamp. Finally I used my sponge dauber to sponge some Pool Party ink over the top. I sponged around the edges in a circular manner so that the inside of the circles remained unsponged.

Stamps: En Francais background stamp Ink: Pool Party, Versamark, Basic Black Stampin Write Journaller Cardstock: Very Vanilla Textured 12 x 12, Pool Party, Basic Black Other: Big Shot, Timeless Type Alphabet Sizzlits Dies, Simple Letters Alphabet Bigz Dies, Beautiful Wings Embosslits Die, Scallop Circle Bigz Die, 1/16" Circle Punch, 2 3/8" Scallop Circle Punch, Circle Cutter, Silver Foil Smooch Spritz, Sponge Dauber, Dimensionals, Basic Jewel Rhinestones, Clear Embossing Powder

As this is my last post on the Stamp A Memory blog for the year, I'd like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New year. I look forward to scrapping some more with you in 1012.

Tina

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05/12/2011

Challenge #29 - Photo inspiration

Our challenge topic this month is to scrap a layout using the below image as inspiration.

Click on the team members name to visit their personal blog page to see their full layout.

Tina

Lynn

Steps to enter the challenge

1. Create a layout using the criteria mentioned above. Our design team creates with Stampin' Up! products, feel free to use other products but we would love to see some Stampin' Up! products if you can.
2a.Post you layout online, on your blog, an online gallery, such as Splitcoaststampers.com or Flickr.com or e-mail photos to rosnat@iprimus.com.au (and your entry will be uploaded to the SAM challenge blog) with a direct link back to this post

2b. Add your name and link to Linky tools (not necessary for those e-mailing photos)

Entries close Midnight, Friday 23rd December

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20/11/2011

Me And My GIrl

I've been using Crumb Cake cardstock a lot recently as a basis for my layouts and this one is no exception. It just seems to go with everything!!

I just love these photos taken at Candace's football presentation night just recently:

I saw a layout in one of the Scrapbook magazines that I thought would be perfect for these photos, so of course I scraplifted it!! I can't remember which issue though - I'll have to go searching through my pile to find it again.

I've used the Silver Foil Smooch Spritz across my cardstock, just to add a bit of interest to an otherwise plain background, then just added strips of colour with patterned paper and plain cardstock. I've added a strip of doilies from the Flirtatious Specialty DSP, though because the colour wasn't right for this layout, I used my brayer and Cherry Cobbler inkpad to change the colour to one more suitable.

My title has been made using a combination of chipboard letters from 'Onboard Alphabet Soup' and diecut letters using the Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Dies.

I am so loving my Bigshot and all the fabulous dies that are available - I'm sure you would agree!! I love the fact that you can create so many of your own embellishments to use on layouts - and you can create them again and again and again - in whatever colour you need. I've used the Tasteful Trim Die to create the scalloped border along the bottom of my photos and the Perfect Pennants die to create the journalling spot at the top of my page. The holes in my scalloped border have been made using my Crop-A-Dile (another oh-so-handy tool!!).

The chipboard label is from a retired set of On Board chipboard shapes. I have a whole sheet of them left over that I still have to use! They come in so handy. All I have done with this one is to cover it with Baja Breeze cardstock, then cut and sanded the edges down to fit the shape of the label. I've stamped an image from 'Love Defined' (a retired set) to place under the label.

I'm really happy with the way it has turned out - what do you think??

Here is a list of what I have used to create this layout:

Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla, Cherry Cobbler, Early Espresso, Old Olive cardstock
Mocha Morning Specialy DSp, Flirtatious Specialty DSP
On Board Alphabet Soup
Paper Daisies
Silver Foil Smooch Spritz
Antique Brads
Paper Daisies
Love Defined stampset (retired) , Notes & Details stampset

Tools: Bigshot, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Die, Tasteful Trim, Perfect Pennants Dies, Crop-A-Dile, Circle Scissor Plus

Have a great day!!

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15/11/2011

Starting out small

I am also really sorry for being late a nd rather absent. I went for a very last minute trip to the UK to see my Mum and help her get back on her feet after a hip replacement. Once back I blinked and missed October! Wow and is only 30something days to Christmas...had best start shopping then!

I am very sad to say I havent done a double layout for the challenge but do hop back and see the one I did for my last monthly post! Double pages just don't happen in my house. I have also been busy with some work for a magazine and so I will post more details and ask you to keep an eye open for some of my stamping in some issues to come!

At our Auckland Big product day out back in August we were given a sneak of the new product from the 2011/12 catalogue. We were given the UNDER THE BIG TOP stamp set as part of our attendance and we were able to assemble a gorgeous 6x6 page.

I loved the page but had no idea how I would use it as most my boys albums are 12x12. What a great way of showing how easy going bigger really is I thought! My customers who are 6x6 gals, but a little scared of going bigger, loved seeing this technique of starting with a small page and building up.

My 6x6 page started out his the white area and red background. I found some matching pattern paper for the background and went from there. I loved the idea of the flags made in cardstock and embossed with PERFECT POLKA DOTS and thought a banner mirroring this look would work well. An extra large flag brought the page together with some strips of paper. Don't you just love the little stamped and coloured clown!?

I added the tab punch to help keep your eye on the page, especially the photo. If you have spotted that yummy Bakers Twine it might just be a little sneak peak from the new Summer Catalogue!

So am off to scrap; yes you heard right! I have found my mojo and loving getting crafty. See you next month

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08/11/2011

The Movie That Wasn't

Hi!

Apologies for the late posting of my layout today - my family has been hit hard by a nasty virus which was a tad more important to deal with! My layout today was of a much happier moment though - a family trip to the movies. We don't often get a chance for all five of us to go to the movies, so it was a fairly special family day for us.

A wonderful organisation runs a movie day several times a year for families of children with special needs. It's lovely to be able to go to the movies and know that it doesn't matter if your child cries or crawls around all over the floor - everyone in the cinema is very understanding!

To create my title I used the Just Add Cake DSP and my smallest circle punch. The smaller letters were punched from the sheet of DSP with the letters in circles. A quick and easy way to create a title, or in my case, to create some of the smaller words in the title.

I also decided to use some of the tickets to help tell the story of the day. We had tickets to see Cars 2 but we were directed into the wrong cinema and ended up seeing Kung Fu Panda 2, hence the title of my layout. I don't think the movie we saw really mattered, it was more that we had a trip to the movies as a family. I used some circle punches to highlight the name of the movie we were supposed to see on the ticket. I added some extra journalling using the back of one of the tickets so that the colours would match.

Ink: Basic Black Stampin' Write Journaller DSP/Cardstock: Just Add Cake DSP, Poppy Parade Other: Big Shot, Timeless Type Junior Alphabet Dies, 1/2" Circle Punch, 3/4" Circle Punch

Catch you later,

Tina

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07/11/2011

Challenge #28 - Double Page Layout

Our challenge topic this month is to scrap a double page layout.

Click on the team members name to visit their personal blog page to see their full layout.

Nikki

Tina

Lynn

Steps to enter the challenge

2b. Add your name and link to Linky tools (not necessary for those e-mailing photos)

Entries close Midnight, Friday 25th November

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11/10/2011

Do Your Kids Scrapbook Too?

Whilst sorting through the garage looking for items for this week's 'roadside rubbish collection' I found a scrapbooking album that belonged to Kieran (I know I know, what was it doing in the garage?). He only made four pages; of which none of them are dated ... but I think he made them about 3 years ago.

I know that you will understand when I say these are 'priceless'! As KP is now 13, I have about as much chance of him scrapbooking again, as I have of seeing snow at Christmas in Melbourne ....

It was all pre-Stampin' Up! days, but these pages are just so special. This one was made in a local scrapbooking store - it was a case of if you can't beat them join them for Kieran as he made this page with three friends - all girls!

I love this page. I remember sitting with him at the kitchen bench and watching him create the little pockets - inside the pocket is the score for each game. These pages are now safely stoed away in my album.

My kids have of course made cards (not so much now but definitely when they were younger), but then they were sent to the recipent and I will never see them again. These four pages are so special right now - let alone when he is 18 or has children of his own.

So be inspired to get the kids (and grand kids) involved too - a page a year would be nice wouldn't it, but if you have a boy like mine that would have been pushing it a bit too far, I'm just grateful for the little time he did spend sharing my hobby with me.

Nikki

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08/10/2011

Layering Photos

Hi!

I hope you're having a fabulous weekend. I'm here today with a layout that uses layered photos. It's a great way to give a layout a bit of impact that isn't difficult to do at all. It just requires a little planning when developing your photos for scrapping.

You can see I have layered the two main photos to give them a bit of emphasis in the layout. All I did was print two copies of the same photo - one regular (4x6 inches) and the other half sized (3x4 inches). I then used dimensionals to adhere the smaller photo on top of the larger photo.

This technique works best on a photo that isn't too busy but still fills the whole photo. Notice in the photo above you can still see bits of the larger photo from behind the smaller photo? If the photos are too busy you lose the effect of having the layered photo.

In this case the photo didn't work quite as well as a layered photo as the left side of the photo didn't have anything visible in the larger photo. In this case it was deliberate as I wanted to layer my title over the photo and I needed a blank section of photo there anyway.

You can also see details of theborder I created using my Scribbles Swirls Sizzlit. I am loving this die and finding uses for it everywhere!

Ink: Silver Gel Pen (non SU as my SU White Gel pen ran out!); DSP/Cardstock: Just Add Cake DSP, Poppy Parade, Whisper White; Other: Big Shot, Simple Letters Alphabet Dies, Scribbles Swirls Sizzlit, Dimensionals

Catch you later

Tina

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03/10/2011

Challenge #27 - Fears

Our challenge topic this month is to scrap a layout focusing on your fears.

Click on the team members name to visit their personal blog page to see their full layout.

Nikki

Tina

Lynn

Steps to enter the challenge

2b. Add your name and link to Linky tools (not necessary for those e-mailing photos)

Entries close Midnight, Friday 21st October

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25/09/2011

Daisy In The Dandelions

Sorry I'm a wee bit late putting up this post but since my great-niece came to stay with us, my time is most certainly not my own! Who knew looking after a 10 month old would be so hard!!! But I am loving it anyway - she is just so cute!

This is a photo I took of her the other day sitting in the dandelions in our paddock:

I don't think she was too sure about what was going on, so I had to snap the photo quickly before she got upset!!

I've used two of the new Designer Papers on this layout - 'Just Add Cake" and "Flirtatious Specialty". The "Flirtatious Specialty" has two sheets of doily laser cut designs that are coloured on one side and white on the other. I have just cut off a strip and placed it along the bottom of my layout. This DSP also has matching fabric as well. I have just used paper daisies to make the flowers on this layout, but you could die cut fabric flowers instead from the matching fabric and use that on the layout instead - I think that would look fabulous. In fact - I think I might just do that! My niece wants me to make this layout for her as well, so I might do hers with fabric flowers instead.

Here is a list of products used on my layout: