Meadow Barn Layouts: Part 2

I'm back again with the last of the layouts I completed at Meadow Barn. 

Layout 5 Family Love:

For my fifth layout I used the sketch I had myself and Gemma 

As well as the sketch we also had to use Washi 

Another photo from my brothers wedding of myself and Ian with Vincent and Penny 

Papers & cut a parts: Crate Paper Close Knit

Stickers: Fancy Pants, Lily Bee Designs 

Washi from my stash 

Layout 6 Bon Jovi Birthday:

These photos are of myself and my boss Jess at Bon Jovi last year 

Cardstock: Bazzil 

Papers: Amy Tangerine Yes Please & Ready, Set, Go

Alphas: Alison Kreft Recorded

Embellishments: Studio Calico wood veneer stars, Doily & Washi from my stash 

Layout 7 Funky Boots:

A random photo of my pink, floral Doc Martens 

Papers: Amy Tamgerine, Recollections

Alphas: American Crafts Thickers

Embellishments: Doily, buttons, Washi & star from my stash, Elle's Studio flags, Fancy Pants sticker

Layout 8 I love you always:

Ian took this photo of me having cuddles with my niece 

Cardstock: Bazzil

Papers: Crate Paper Close Knit, a scrap of Amy Tangerine Ready, Set, Go

Cut a parts: Close Knit

Doily from my stash

So those were all the layouts I made over the weekend, kick starting my 30 layout challenge. Since I have come home I have finished another two layouts taking my total up to 10. I'm a third of the way there! 

Meadow Barn Layouts: Part 1

It's Wednesday, two days since I came home from Meadow Barn (sob), my stash is somewhat unpacked so I thought I would start to show you the layouts I made over weekend. I have now started my 30 layout challenge and got off to a good start with the final total being 8 layouts completed (only 22 to go eek!) So without further ado: 

Layout 1 The Littlest Pumpkin:

This photo was taken when my niece was a week old in the newborn size Halloween outfit my brother & SIL had brought her. As she was small at birth it was HUGE on her lol! 

Papers: Crate Paper Close Knit, Amy Tangerine Ready, Set, Go

Alphas: Alison Kreft Recorded

Embellishments: all from the Handmade Quirky Kit

Layout 2 Tummy Time: 

This layout is also for Sketchy Scrappers. Sandra set this months sketch with a colour combo option

For this layout I used the Carta Bella Hello Again collection as it had pink & green tones similar to the combo and it matched this photo of my niece having tummy time perfectly. 

Papers & stickers : Carta Bella Hello Again

Alphas: American Crafts Thickers

Twine: MME Lime Twist

Layout 3 Cutie:

Papers: Crate Paper Close Knit

Alphas: Alison Kreft Recorded

Cut a parts: MME & Elle's Studio

Doilys & Washi from my stash 

Layout 4 Looking Like Autumn

I put my hands up and admit when I received the Handmade Kit back in September and saw the Autumn wood veneer I purposely went out and took this photo to use it lol! 

Papers: Crate Paper Close Knit, Amy Tangerine Ready, Set, Go

Alphas & Stickers: Alison Kreft Recorded

Wood Veneer: from a Quirky Kit

Washi tape: from my stash 

Greetings from Meadow Barn

This blog post comes to you from sunny Herefordshire as it is Meadow Barn time again, a time for chatting, laughing, scrapping and cake! 

We arrived yesterday afternoon and started scrapping straightaway, well I needed to if I wanted to get a good start to my 30 layout challenge I've set myself. I was up until the early hours of this morning, had a few hours shut eye and then carried on again over breakfast. 

I have also managed to catch up on the 52 Cards Challenge. Last weeks prompt was to draw inspiration from this picture 

I have to say I struggled with this prompt as I havnt really got anything which matches the colour scheme. However after doing a layout using the Carta Bella Hello Again collection I thought the colours were not too dissimilar so decided to use the collection to make this card

I LOVE this chevron paper! The tag is from the collection sticker sheet popped up on foam tape. The Washi tape is from a new set Gemma had picked up for me from TK Maxx. 

This weeks challenge was to use wood, plastic and stickers. I brought some of the Studio Calico wood veneer stars sometime ago and have been seriously hoarding them! But I decided to finally use them and made this card

The paper is from the Close Knit collection which again Gemma had been holding for me. The sticker is from the Hello Again collection again. For the plastic element I added some star sequins from an old kit. Anyway back to the scrapping and cake! Xx

Introducing Amelie-Rose: My Creative Sketches Challenge

As some of you know I became a first time proper auntie (I'm auntie to my friends children but they are not family) back in October to Amelie-Rose. I'm starting to collect a few photos of her now and thought it was time to give her her first scrapbook page. I also wanted to have a go at entering my first My Creative Sketches challenge so without further ado here is February's sketch

I decided to rotate the sketch to accommodate a portrait photo which I then chopped down to a 4x4 square photo. This is the layout I made

The majority of the papers are scraps from my scraps bag, the MME butterfly paper in particular has been in there for ages and is a section of fancy edged paper. The only paper which was a new sheet I cut into is the aqua spot paper which is from Pebbles Front Porch. 

The embellishment cluster below the photo is made up of an Elle's Studio tag, a doily cut in half with the other half being at the top of the page, a flower I received in a grab bag sometime ago, a chipboard butterfly I painted with Picked Raspberry Distress Paint, and a Fancy Pants sticker. 

The top cluster is made up of the second half of the doily and arrows cut from a scrap of Dear Lizzy paper. I finished up by adding some spots of pink Mister Huey's. 

52 Cards Wk8: Sketch number 2

For this weeks 52 cards prompt Nat set us another sketch

Seeing the sketch I knew straight away that I wanted to use a doily for the circular element, you can't go wrong with a doily! I must admit I cheated a bit, if you are a regular reader this card may be ever so slightly similar to another I made last month even down to the papers! 

I used papers from American Crafts Mayberry collection. The butterfly was a white die cut I received in a swap sometime ago misted with some Mister Huey's. For the sentiment I cut part of a manufacturers strip from one of the papers. 

Sketchy Scrappers: Best Laid Plans

This months sketch over on Sketchy Scrappers was set by Fiona who as a recent Instagram convert set this sketch which allowed us to use two Instagram photos

For my layout I revisited my Best Laid Plans blog post & chose two Instagram pics from back in the summer. 

I decided to try and pick up on the grunge type look of the sketch by using two Glitz papers from the Finley collection with a running paint effect on them as well as spraying some pink Miser Huey onto a background paper from Heidi Swapp. I wasn't sure how to create the tab tops to the papers until I found some Fancy Pants stickers. If anyone knows of any tab punches please let me know. 

I had to add some Washi to the top of the photos as I originally placed one photo in the wrong place, tried to pull it up and ripped the paper slightly...oops! The bottom cluster is made up of an Elle's Studio banner, a Lillybee Design sticker and a resin star from my scrappy friend Julia. 

In other news, I have set myself a crafty challenge. I recently received my latest Quirky Kit and canceled my subscription as I need to catch up and use my stash up. So I have been inspired by Kitty Nancy on Instagram to not buy any more stash until I have completed 20 projects (layouts or cards), Nancy did 30 but I'm starting small lol! I'll be starting this when I go to Meadow Barn and collected stash Gemma has brought for me from TK Maxx in a couple of weeks so keep checking back on my progress! 

52 Cards Wk7: Aqua, green & blue colour combo

This weeks prompt for the 52 card challenge was another colour combo. This time Nat chose this lovely fresh colour combo of green, aqua and a hint of blue 

As with the last colour combo challenge I went through my scraps bag and pulled anything close to the colours. I had more light blue and aqua scraps than soft green so I went with these. I will admit now that I had a crafty tantrum while making my card as my original idea of running banners over a white doily on white card back fired as the doily blended  in too much for my liking and I just couldn't get it to go how I pictured it. I tried misting the doily, inking it with an ink pad to match the colours but no it just didn't look right. After lots of shuffling of papers & browsing through Pinterest I decided to scraplift this card from Page Maps 

Using only scraps I made this card

I used scraps from three different Echo Park collections and one (the ledger paper) from Dear Lizzy. I'm still not completely happy with it I admit, but it is growing on me.