Millie

 I have been doing a lot of work on the family album. Here is one of the pages of one of my grandfathers sisters- Millie.A lot of bits and pieces were placed together up the  right hand side. I started with a piece of lace and then, a preprinted chipboard cut out.I have also used some flowers, and tulle roses across the bottom. The little tile with the insect,  I made using sculpy clay which was painted in acrylic paint and then stamped. These were made after seeing a tutorial on Gabrielle Pollacco 's blog . They are really quick and easy to make and so pretty to add to scrapbooking pages.I thought the pretty purple page compimented the vintage photo.

 

Lavinia stamp card

 

I love the techniques and stamps from Lavinia stamps.

http://laviniastamps.com/

  I started off doing one thing for this card and ended up doing another, hence the image is not as clear and clean as I wanted. Unfortunately this was the third attempt to get the back ground right, and as I was running out of time did not have the time to do it for the fourth time. Generally you would get the colour in the background done and dry before you stamp the top image done. But once I stamped the image on the background colour I did not like how it turned out so decided to put more colour beind the image, henze the smudging...a good lesson to learn.

 

It is a bit hard to see but I stamped the vine in red on the background and then once more in black. this was fancy cut and placed on the top, with a bit of bling added.  A sentiment was stamped onto white card. This was masked and a scrolly stamp was placed over the top to give the look that they are all one thing. Bling was added to this too.

Globe card

I had so much fun making this simple but effective card. The stamps are from docrafts papermania "Chronology" set. http://www.docrafts.com/ and the card is featured in here too.

I have cut out the card, a complementing colour card and then used white card to stamp the background cogs onto. I then added a little colour using Tim Holtz "Walnut Stain" distress Ink.

The globe as stamped three times. The first image was cut out in its entirety and placed on top of the cogs. The second image was just the globe itself with no stand, and the third image I cut out just the central circular,horizontal frame, to give it a three D look. I added in to the image to give it a bit of an antique lool. The outer card was embossed by Couture Creations "Heavy Duty" emboss envelope. A sentiment was cut out and swiped with ink and attached with puff spots .

Hubby's wallet

Gosh, I can't believe that it has been so long since I posted on my blog. Several issues with the computer, Christmas leave, lost photos to post a and life seem to have delayed things. Anyway, back into things and I have been rbusy with several things
I found this wonderful wee wallet on pinterest and have made three of these. The tutorial is from this website where there is some really lovely stuff.http://www.elkekaarteenfeestje.nl/.

I have really enjoyed making these wallets. I decided to make them for my daughter, a friend and my hubby. The idea was around giving a gift, but something that was meaningful to them too, with words of encouragement and enlightenment
 Embossed with a Tim Holtz embossing folder to make it look like an old leather wallet.

 Male theamed stamps used on the tags.

Kristy's wallet

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For Kristy's wallet I embossed the paper to give it some texture. Coordinating papers were chosen for the outside and inside.

 Stamps were chosen with care and sentiments adhered to the other side.

Becky's wallet

This one I made for my daughter. This is the outer cover of which I put a brad with "R" on to tie the ribbon around and then wrapped this around the wallet to hold it closed

 I cut cards and stamped each on the glued a sentiment on each card .