Crafting Therapy #2

Here is the second page of my layout about Ian:

 A close up of the flowers I made from the DSP and yes Dad is the tickle master according to Jess, I think that's the thing she misses about Dad being in hospital, my tickles are just not the same!

 Both pages together:

Crafting Therapy

 As some of you may know, my husband Ian hasn't been well lately and is in hospital so it has been a difficult time for us all and I haven't managed to do much crafting.  Over the weekend a made a double page scrapbook layout about Ian and the girls helped me, choosing pictures and doing some journalling. I really enjoyed doing it, some crafting therapy!
I did as part of the May have I got scrap for you challenge over at UK Scrappers.  This is a great challenge/workshop as Nikki does a PDF for guidance.  I combined the double page challenge with limited stash challenge. 
In my stash I had two 12 x 12 crumb cake, A4 baja breeze, A4 whisper white and three 12" x 6" of patio party DSP. I used the morning post alphabet stamp set, midnight muse ink pad and marker and some circle punches.
Here is the first page:

To make my supplies go further I cut the card and some paper into strips and stuck them onto the page base, the photo's will hide the gaps. I punched the circle patterns out of the DSP and made some in to flowers, I also copied the doodling pattern on the dsp circles on the card stock.

I will show you page 2 and both pages together tomorrow.

Progressive Scrapbooking #2

This is the second page to match the layout I showed you yesterday so used the same supplies/paper.  Again I started with a 6" x 6" piece, I love this photo of Rebecca and it's nice to see her natural hair colour, its dyed black now!

 Using all this paper may seem wasteful but here's a tip, I marked where my photo would go then die cut lots from where it wouldn't show! (this is from the 6" x 6" piece I used in yesterdays layout.

 I forgot to take a photo of the A4 piece but here is the finished page:

Both pages together:  

I forgot to mention earlier, I used the two tag die to cut two tags which I slid behin the photo's for some secret journalling. You can just see them popping out.

Progressive Scrapbooking

As a card maker a blank 12" x 12" piece of card can be quite daunting when you start scrapbooking so I thought I would try progressive scrapbooking. This is where you build your page up, start with a 6" x 6" piece, layer that onto an A4 piece then put that onto your 12" x 12".
I had some lovely pictures of Rebecca that I wanted to use and this is what I came up with. The papers are from Patio Party DSP pack and the stamp sets are Hearts a Flutter (with matching framelits!) and the Morning Post alphabet
The 6" x 6", all I did was add a strip of scallop edge card as the DSP was very busy:

I layered this onto an A4 piece of midnight muse card: 

 This was then layered onto a 12 x 12 piece of crumb cake card.

This is a great method for newbie scrapbookers, why not give it a go?  I made a double page layout so I will show you the other page tomorrow.

Thinking outside the Boutique Box!

I went to Julie's team training at the weekend which was lovely, (as usual). The theme was Men, which put most of us outside of our comfort zone! In the afternoon we made an interactive scrapbook page using the boutique boxes designer printed kit, Julie named it the 'Thinking Outside the Boutique Box' class.  To be honest I've never really taken much notice of this kit as it just didn't catch my eye, too many feathers I think, so it is definitely something I would never have bought myself.  Surprisingly in real life I liked it and for only £7,25 for the kit it is really great value. It has 8 die cut boxes, 8 note cards, 16 buttons, 4.6m of crumb cake bakers twine a 12" x 12" sheet of die cut decorations and 24 dimensionals! 
I added a couple of sheets of very vanilla 12" x 12" card and an A4 sheet of crumb cake and basic grey to make my two layouts, plus some punches.
Instead of making boxes I made 6 pockets by butting some of the sides down.  Julie had all six pockets on her layout, here, but I decided to do a double page layout with three pockets on each.  Here are my pages, just have to find the right photo's:

Here is a close up of the pockets:

To make the pockets you have to cut the top flap off but then I stuck them back on again to make the pocket flaps.  One tip though is if you want to make a finger hole at the top using a circle punch, it is much easier to do this before you stick the pocket together, (I didn't!).
Both pages together:

Thank you Julie for this great idea. I have quite a bit of the die cuts and two boxes left to make some more things too!