StampAmemory - Stampin Up Scrapbooking

Missing Ellie

I have been so busy over the past week gardening every.single.day that I forgot to make up my page for this month. However, our front garden is looking pretty good.

So..... I'm sharing a page I made a few years back.  Five years ago today, our beloved Ellie dog passed away from a freak accident.  She was a beautiful girl who loved to lie underneath our front porch and scare away those door-to-door electricity salespeople :-) This page was created for a class I held based on rub-ons, though you can quite easily recreate it using stamps instead. The layout is from a PageMaps sketch.

Stamps: Priceless, Wonderful Favourites, Typeset Alphabet lowercase (retired)

Paper: Bashful Blue, Close to Cocoa (retired, could easily substitute Soft Suede), Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Berry Bliss DSP (also retired, though the Neutral Prints or Elegant Soiree would give the same effect).

Ink: Close to Cocoa (retired, sub Soft Suede)

Other: Chipboard accents, Hodepodge Hardware, Corner Rounder (for the scallop edge, long before we had the punch!), rub-ons.

Melissa

 

A Becky Fleck CASE

Last weekend at The Autumn Escape Luxury scrapbooking retreat  I had the wonderful experience of being taught by Becky Fleck..you know  THE US scrapbooking master who owns pagemaps!

Her style is different from mine..fun/quirky and lots of little photos...and the exact reason why I wanted to do her class. We did 3 Los in the class..well tried to lol

I redid this one with SU supplies and changed it slightly but essentially its the same. Its not quite finished but Ive come down with a bad case of the flu so thats it for today lol

Ive used Sweet Stitches DSP. Punching out lots of circles with my 1 inch circle punch. The paper pinwheel is easy to do ..just a square piece of paper and cut from the corner into but not quite the centre. Bring one edge into the centre and adhere with a brad or adhesive. Do this four times. I popped a large Melon Mambo Designer big button in th middle and used the new Daffodil Delight pom pom trim as my 'stick' for my pinwheel.

Im in love with my new tasteful trim Bigz XL Die..I think you will be seeing it on all my LOs from now on lol

The quote I got from my favourite Quote website.( Quotegarden)

The live life love is from Youre a Gem which is quickly becoming a favourite out of this Autumn/Winter Mini.

Hope you are all having a wonderful Easter and scrapbooking your little hearts out!!

 

Heartbreaker

This is a photo of my gorgeous little great-niece - Daisy Joy. It was taken last weekend at a family gathering. I may be biased but I think she is sooo cute!!!

 

I've scrap-lifted the layout from a book I purchased recently and I've been dying to recreate it!! I wanted to create a vintage feel, so I have used papers from  Neutrals Designer Series Patterns Stack as the basis for the layout. The flowers  are the Fleurettes 11 (page 140 of the 2011 Idea Book & Catalogue). These flowers are white, hand crocheted flowers which I have dyed with Elegant Eggplant Ink to match in with my photo.

There is a gorgeous stamp set in the catalogue called 'Elements Of Style', which is fast becoming one of my favourites. I love it because it is so elegant looking and can be used in both cardmaking and scrapbooking alike (you'll find it on page 99 of the catalogue). Here I've used it to stamp a background onto my layout, which I have then coloured using  inkpads and a blender pen, and also to stamp across my chipboard letters to unite them.  I didn't have enough letters to complete my title, so I used some leftover over letters from a discontinued set. They weren't the same shape or style, but once they have been stamped and inked, it doesn't really matter!!

Products Used:

• Elements Of Style stamp set
• Neutrals Designer Series Patterns Stack
•  Fleurettes 11 crocheted flowers
• Onboard Alphabet Soup
• Vintage Type Rub-Ons
• Old Olive Cardstock
• Clear Rhinestone Brads
• Old Olive, Elegant Eggplant, Basic Black, Crumb Cake inkpads
• Blender Pen, Twine
• Little Leaves Sizzlet Die
• Hearts & Brackets Original Die

Have a great day!!

I Wish

This page started with the title - I Wish.  Never created a page this way before - I found it made me look at my photos in a different way - I had to think about the journalling first.  I love this photo because it was taken at the park Olivia hangs out at after school - here she is with some of her very good girlfriends and her first boyfriend (and his mate), larking around in the background - a perfect snapshot of our daughter as she is now!

I used the Celebrations DSP and I loved the way it emphased the colour of the school dresses - and the squares on the green DSP match the squares on the dresses too.

The butterfly signifies the changes I am seeing in my daughter as she works through Year 10 - she's becoming a little social butterfly :)

I am going to be starting more pages with a title - I love the way this one turned out.

Happy scrapbooking.

Nikki

 

More December Daily pages

I am slowly making my way through my December photos and scrapping them here and there. I have another couple of pages to share with you today. Super simple large photos make up the base of each page.

 

Journaling printed onto the actual concert ticket for day 11.

 

Materials list:

Stamps: Music notes stampin' around wheel, full calendar, calendar alphabet and numbers

Ink: Versamark, crumb cake, real red, old olive

Cardstock: Crumb cake, bashful blue, olive olive, whisper white

Accessories: Big shot, timeless type alphabet, sizzlets merry die

Thanks for dropping by.

Ros Davidson

Big photo and Big shot

I have had a couple of photos developed at this 12x6 size and enjoying making quite quick pages using them.  This photo wasn't as crisped as I had liked but decided it still worked.  I decided to make Lollipop flowers the feature embellishment on this page and it was so quick and easy with my big shot.  I used my Circles Origionals Die and then distressed the edges with my distressing tool and finally strunched them up in a ball.  All that needed was a brad to hold the circles together.

I love love raw Onboard on boy pages and the flower stems seemed to work so well.  The final use of my bigshot to cut out 
the Topnote for a journal spot, some more distressing on the papers and a little doddling with a journal pen and my page was complete!

Products: Bigshot, Circles Die, Topnote Die, Paper Snips, Multipurpose liquid Glue, Distress Tool on Cutter kit,  Antique Brads, Grosgrain Ribbon, Scallop trim Border punch, Onboard Mix and Match, Play Date DSP, Nursery Suit DSP, Pacific Point Cardstock

 

Hope this inspires you to have a go at making some lolipop flowers.

TFL

Liz

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Is It Really? Part 2

Hi!

This month I thought I'd share how I turned a single page sketch into a double page layout.  I completed this layout for the current challenge - to scrap photos that are more than 10 years old.  I used this sketch from Got Sketch as my starting point.

Here is the second page of my layout.

To create the second page I created exactly the same base for my photos.  I used the same DSP and cardstock in the same positions as the first page.  Then I just rotated the whole page 180 degrees to place the scalloped edge down the right hand side.  As I wanted to use a lot of photos on this side I left off all the embellishments, cutting down on the visual clutter.

The only embellishment on the page are  the punchies I used under the Beatles photo.  The photo was trimmed a little larger than the others, so I decided to highlight it by raising it on dimensionals and with the frame provided by the punchies.

So that's one of the easiest ways you can transform a single page sketch into a double layout - I hope you find it useful!

Ink: Crumb Cake, Baja Breeze
 DSP/Cardstock: Elegant Soiree DSP, Baja Breeze, Very Vanilla
Other: Decorative Label Punch, 1 1/4" Circle Punch, Corner Rounder Punch, Dimensionals, Sponge Daubers

Catch you later,

Tina

New Autumn/Winter Mini goodness

I love it when we get a new mini and the AUTUMN/ WINTER MINI 2011 is no exception.

 

 As a scrapbooker I am always hanging for new paper to inspire me.

I ADORE the new Sweet stitches paper. It is so easy to scrapbook with such fun happy colours.

 close up...

 
 

Ingredients Used:

Stamps: Sew Sute ( Autumn/Winter Mini)

Papers: Sweet Stitches (Autumn/ Winter Mini)

Cardstock: Melon Mambo, Whisper White

Big Shot: Simple letters alphabet

Accessories:Stampin' Write markers, silver brads

Punches: Corner, Large Heart

I hope you get a chance to scrapbook today and if you would like a personal copy of the new mini please feel free to contact any of us on the right hand column.

Thanks for stopping by.

Tanja

Winner of Challenge # 20

So sorry for the late announcement.

 The winner for the challenge in which you had to scraplift an idea from the Idea Book and Catalogue is

 

Annie Den Boer

 
 I love how Annie interpreted the scrapbooking layout on page 25. Those flowers are super cute!

Well done to everyone. We love seeing your work.

 

SAM Challenge #21 - Scrap a layout using photos more than 10 years old

For this month's monthly challenge, you are to scrap a layout using photos that are more than 10 years old.

 
Nikki

 
Tina

 
Delys

 
Lynn

 
Tanja

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

OR

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

Entries close midnight Friday 22nd of April