GRAPHIC 45

The Layout!

Oh wow, the owners of Graphic 45 - I hope they liked it :-)

MORE EXCITEMENT

YIPPEE!

Mel and Jaki have left comments!  The wonderful Mel I know personally, and Jaki I am so thrilled to hear from you, my first comment from someone I don't know in my day to day life! Here's two layouts just for you. I did them yonks ago, but they are here on my laptop, its raining today so I cant photograph any newies :-( Will do as soon as the sun is shining so check in again.

Papers - Heidi Swapp; Letters American Crafts .... Oh and the irony of posting this page today is it is Mother's Day! ;-)

Papers - Basic Grey; Label stickers - Fontwerks; letters - American Crafts

Thanks so much for having a peep at my brand new blog. Please leave comments as I  would love to hear from you. Nicole x

OH MY GOODNESS!

Hello hello! Welcome to my blog. Now the first thing I will say is Don't be shy, please leave comments! Please pretty please!! The second thing which is the reason for the title of this post is OMG OMG I made it to the top 25 finalists for the Kaiser Design Team callout, I am so thrilled. I still have a huge project to complete, and a month to do it in so fingers crossed.

DIY LAYOUT

Step by step instructions follow to  make this cute layout!

1. Select photos that work with blues and greens.

2. Remove all die cuts from one sheet and sand the “tabs”. Cut photos with scissors/ pencil to fit neatly in the holes.

3.Mat photo – about 1 cm, use bracket punch on the right edge and stitch around the mat twice




4. Scrape sides of die cut sheet and photo mat with edge of scissors then ink with brown ink. Machine stitch edge and adhere to layout with magic mount.

5. Adhere title - negative letters look funky and interesting

6. Stitch round the outer edge of the layout

7. Now add the "wow" factor, the little details - sew buttons on the big bug, make a little ribbon/ button tab for your bracket, sew a few buttons and french knots for eyes on the bugs at the bottom, put a button on a photo corner to make it really sweet..... The sky is the limit! These are the details that I love to add that take a cute page to an adorable layout.
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8. Display your layout somewhere in your home for a week or two - until the next one takes it's place. Enjoy and admire your gorgeous work!

And here is another one done with the Jungle Bug range .... oh the letters are from "Rewind" and the Orange paper is from "Pina Colada". I have a massive stash of buttons!

TEDDY BEAR ALBUM

I made this specially for the Kaiser DT call. The heart charms were off a very tarnished bracelet I found last night in the bottom of my scrapping tote - must have been there a few years I reckon! Buttons from my massive personal stash. The rest is Kaiser!

CHRISTMAS MINI ALBUMS

I have been inspired by Ali Edwards in 2008, 2009 and 2010 to create a "December Daily" where you take at least one photo a day and put them all together in a yummy little album. My '08 and '09 projects were predominantly Kaiser, particularly the wooden album which I combined with acrylic album and rubons!  Here are a few sample pages. I did one in 2010 with my wrist just out of plaster, but using different products. Bring on December 2011 - this is one of my favorite projects!

The page on the right is Christmas fabric with wadding in it! And I loved the Kaiser Gingerbread man.

There is a circle acrylic page there on the right, see there is a rubon on it!

Just a Christmassy envelope and lots of rubons.

 And from the year before - 2008 - this was my first ever December daily.

Lots of layers, lots of hidden interesting bits and details.

My little boy called him Fireman Christmas!!  I thought I did something cool with the acrylic square, it frames little Andy's sleeping face, then when you turn the page....

here we all are!

YEAH I DEFINITELY THINK THIS PAGE IS THE BEST PAGE IN THE ALBUM!!! :-)

Some of the other products are: Making Memories, Theresa Collins & American Crafts. A product list can be supplied for particular pages upon request :-)