What I've been up to and E-scape and Scrap Team Reveal 1/6/2014

Hello all
Well its been quite a while, have been really busy, my Mum is not well and am sending a lot of time helping her. Also I have my Stampin' Up! business www.facebook/StampandScrapCheshire and am really happy getting gluey and glittery again Lol, But it hasn;t stopped me from working digitally too, especially now Stampin' Up! have fantastic Digi kits too!

They are also doing Digital Project Life and here is my 1st Digital Project life peice using Stampin' Up! Everyday Adventure Project Life Cards. So thats what I have been doing

So hee is my 1st layout for this weeks team reveal at E-scape and Scrap. The brief was Borders so I have added loads of border, I hope you like it. Kit Used Algera Designs Textured Love kit , Its great it has loads of ace metal elements and I think the staples enlarged worked really well as rails.

 I started this layout with the same basic border idea , Using papers on angle to create a border, but I didn't want the rigid regimented feel of On the Rails. So they are all a little of kilter . I then added layers of embellishments to create an extravagant lush feel . Kit used the very Beautiful Old Roses by Celinoa's Designs.

So thats it for me for now. I hope you are all well, and I hope that you found something interesting in my post. 

I hope to be back blogging on my blogs regularly but in the meantime you can see what I am upsto on https://www.facebook.com/StampandScrapCheshire

Thanks for reading

e-scapeandscrap Team reveal 6th April

Layout for e-scapeandscrap.net team reveal 6th April. Theme was weather and blending . The lady was from a bicycle advert which I blended ito the page  I love the kit that I used Algera Designs Romantique kit

I will be coming back to add another layout sometime this week but have been really busy with my new business . www.stampandscraptips.stampinup.com and the blog is www.stampandscraptipsandtechniques.blogspot.com

Here are a few pics from my other blog

Pop over and take a look or check out my facebook page www.facebook/StampandScrapCheshire

Hi there
A quick post to tell you all that I a now an Independent Stampin' Up! demonstrator. I will now have two blogs this one, where I will post my usual posts and freebees and Creative team layouts etc.

My new blog www.stampandscraptipsandtechniques.blogspot.com where I will be offering classes, kit clubs  tutorials etc You can sign up for the blog newsletters which will keep you updated with classes offered and dates etc

Here is my 1st layout using My Digital Studio and my Digital Studio kits. Hope you like it. You can also visit my shop at http://www.stampinup.net/esuite/home/stampandscraptips/

Just had to share this for pancake day

Just nipped in to share this lo about pancake day, It was a mobile phone pic and not very good quality but still had to play with it.

Isn;t he a little cutie Background was from Daisytrails 50's fever
bye for now
Rattytatty

My second team reveal at e-scapeandscap.net

Well its my second team reveal at e-scapeandscrap.net . The challenge this week was to create with the theme rainbow. Either use rainbows or rinbow colours.

Here is my 1st layout

I love this pic of my grandson. The rainbow theme made me think of Rainbow Brite and I thought I could turn him into a rainbow brite by giving him multi coloured wings .  I also wanted to create a rainbow .
The kits I used for both my layouts were Coat of Many Colours by BH Designs , Hats Off to Autumn: Doilies and Circle Stitches by Julie Mead Designs and Julies Painted wings by Julie Mead designs

I used Coat of many colours kit and the wings kit or this layout.  I made all the flowers and butterfies from the wings kit and used the paper and stitches from the Coat of many colours kit.

I got thinking about what else I could do just using the wings kit and nothing else . I allowed myself to colour, straight cut  and stretch the wings. I allowed myself one font and a couple of lines of the pen tool.

Here is the layout 
The sky is the blue wing stretched until it was big enough to look like sky. I think I may have made it slightly more transparent, The hills and the leaves were made withe the same wings. The clouds were made wih multi layered transparent wings 
The butterflys by cutting the wings in half,The tree trunk and branches were made by stretching and squeezing the same wing that made the sun ,The bird was made with two sets of the same wing using all of it for the wings and cutting it apart or the tail. The head was cut from the sun wings. 

I have a small free bee paper for you today I adore Kalidascopes so I hope you like this paper too

You can download this Free Paper Here

bye for now

3rd week at e-scapeandscrap.

So its my third week at e-scapeandscrap.net and I really really love it. I love all their designers and am really enjoying working with such amazing products

A layout I did for a challenge at DaisyTrail, where I was runner up the kit used is

 Lavender Designs

Speaking Fashionably kit

Two layouts which use the Kit

The Nifty Designers Love is everywhere Mega collection kit

I am so much more prolific when i am on a design team. I sometimes need a reason to get started but once I get started I just keep going,

Anyway come back tommorow for more layouts This weeks e-scapeandscrap Team reveal  and a free paper

bye rattytatty

Team Reveal at e-scapeandscrap.net

Hello all

Its my 1st team reveal at e-scapeandscrap.net and the brief was to use themed  kits and embellishments.  As soon as I saw the brief I knew I just had to scrap last weekends trip out with my grandson where I caught a great shot of him with an owl, and some nice shots of the owl on its own.

So here are the two layouts that I have done

the layouts were both created with  Who Who Summer by The Busy Elf Designs  more of The Busy Elf Designs are available at e-scapeandscrap.net

I loved the Owl on the 1st layout as it sort of looks like its glancing lovingly at something. It goes so well with the picture.  It is an embellishment, but I decided I wanted it as a frame. I think it works well.  The second layout I colour changed the owl and faded it into the background as I wanted something a bit more subtle. I loved the arty paint clusters in the kit and I will be using them in many more projects. The s on the who is an edit of the kit.

I also put together another layout this week featuring my favorite dolls 

Layout created with Valkyrie Designs Love me Tender and Celinoa's Designs My Templates Vol 2

Well thats it for me today as when you are reading this I'll be chuffing along on a steam train at Churnet Valley Railways steam galla and if I don't go to bed now. 1 am Sunday. I won't be up in  5 and a half hours. 

Back and scrapping

Hello

Its been a while. Have been ill for a while and then had a hectic last couple of months catching up with life in general.

But now I am back and hope to be giving away some free papers very soon in the meanwhile. I am now on the Creative team for e-scapeandscrap.net . I love all their designers and am so excited to be working with them.

I have created a couple of layouts to start

The 1st is of my grandson reading one of his Christmas presents. He really enjoys books and I love giving him books as I love reading myself and love the magic of reading and adore sharing it with JAKE
Kit used is A woodland Winter  add on Kit by Algera Designs avalable HERE I love Algera Designs and more of her kits are avalable from e-scapeandscrap.net

My next two layouts feature the same kit and shows how differently the kit can be used without any colour changing.

This is a pic of my grandsons 4 month old smile .  I love his smile . Kit used is Rosee Martinale by Angel's Designs available HERE

My second layout using the same kit is of my friend Bindi

Angel's Designs has loads of great kits and Commercial use kits as well and are also  available at
e-scapeandscrap.net

Well its a short and sweet post today , Hopefully I will have a freebee paper for you in the next few days

bye for now
rattytatty

Design House Digital June House Party Blog hop

So hope you are all well and scrapping, SORRY TO EVERYONE who has been effected by my missing images for the links all corrected now! Would have sorted it yesterday but have been really il in bed

This month Design House Digitals House party is called Whimsy and its as per usual a stunning range of co ordinating kits by DHDs fantastic designers.

We are also running the inspirational blog hop again 

Anyway my inspirational post this month will start with the two layouts I have created with the House party kits. I love all the kits and the colour scheme is great for summer. There are so many lovely papers and elements that you will be truly spoilt for choice , as I was

 This layout was of our great day out at Churnett Valley Railway this weekend . With my daughter and grandson. We had so much fun. Sam and Jake got their faces painted by one of the most amazing facepainters.

This layout is of my daughter and her friend at one of the pagan festivals that they go to , They always dress up as fairies.

So for my inspiration I am giving you two free papers designed with the Whimsy theme in mind

You can download the freebee papers here

A few layouts , a hybrid sewing project and a freebee

Welll its all been amazingly hectic, and great fun. With loads of new kits coming out at Design House Digital the decorators have been busy busy busy. The smell of burning hard drives everywhere . But one thing I love about being paprt of a design team is that you get a lot of scrapping done.

My 1st layout is of my grandson when he was lucky enough to be invited onto the footplate of a steam engine at Foxfield Railway. The kits used are the Boys things kits and Things that Go  all by Sarah Sullivan

My next layout is All about my wish to travel back in time and go to the great exhibition and features this stunning pictorial alpha by Tia Hoffman Shadow Art Alpha The Font is the art of illustration and the paper is mine

The next layout is our family day out at Churnett Valley Railways 40's weekend The kit used is called Family Time and is a collaboration by  the Design House Digital designers and is for the May issue of Scrap 'n Art Magazine. Subscribers will get the kit

Next layout again features my neice Morgaine who is a beautiful girl and shes not just a pretty face, she  is teaching herself japanese these pretty papers have a hint of the oriental about them The kit used is Isabel by Angie Hinksman whos kits are now available at Design House Digital

My last layout for todays post features some of my photos of Spey bay, Love Spey Bay in Scotland. Kits used are the Summer Dreams kits by Cheryl Ann Kammerer at Design House Digital

A quick pick of my Hybrid sewing project on Design House Digital 

Must admit Im not a great seamstress but so wanted to make something more substantial with the May house party kits for the Inspiration post today a tutorial on this Jasmine bag

Here is todays freebee Doiley Paper Download , plus preview shows my new logo I think its much better than my old one

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Thats it for today 

Night Night 

Rattytatty

Design House Digital Inspiration Blog hop and May House party

Hello to all visiting my blog.

If you have found your way here whilst on the Design House Digital Inspiration blog hop. I'm the last blog on the hop and you will find the Inspiration post  below. Also you will find a FREE March House Party themed Word art kit designed by myself .

To all of you who have found your way here from elsewhere. I.m sure that you will find my inspiration post and freebee just as interesting and I know that you too will enjoy our hop .

This month, our House Party at Design House Digital is being extended to a blog hop! Some of the Design House Decorators have prepared great  inspirational blog posts for you, full of layouts and ideas.  Our theme is “Romantic,” and the color scheme is gorgeous.  We’re sure you love the kits, ideas, and blog posts as much as we do.  

The House Party kits are on sale, 30% off, through May 5.  As it happens, the rest of the store is on sale this week as well, for iNSD.

We want to see the pages and cards you make using House Party kits! Post them in our Color Swatch Challenge, to share them with us!

To start the hop Click on the arrow which will take you to the 1st post on the Design House Digital Blog

May House Party Layouts

Official House party layout  The happiest day of my life

I love you and all your faces

This is an amazing and stunning set of kits so many wonderful papers and embellishments . I have been a bit carried away with playing with these kits. I am doing a hybrid project on the Design House Digital Blog on the 7th also using these amazing kits. I'll be making a Jasmine bag Like a lavender bag only with Jasmine.

Anyway those were my May House Party Layouts

So to my INSPIRATION POST (which is quite long but I hope you will bear with me)

PHOTO LESS  LAYOUTS

We all fall into a rut now and again , and don't break out of the box of what is normal or expected.   Photos are the usual basic starting point for a layout, or sometimes we will take photos to match a specific paper (who isn't guilty of that). But how often do we actually make layouts with no traditional photos.

Either having absolutely no photos or  using your photos in a completely different way.

My 1st 2 examples are paper layouts , they were made to explain complicated feelings or stories. The 1st is a layout about My daughters and my story, its a complicated story and a story that was and is a huge part of our lives. There are bits that are really sad, and you could say horrific, how could I do scrapbooks of our lives and not tell the story.

How do I tell the story without it being graphic and upsetting.

Here is my solution,

So that was my 1st photo less layout and it made me realise that Scrapbooking should not just be about the fantastic things in our lives, its about our lives.

My second example of a photoless layout again was to record something complicated. At the time the man my daughter was with the very very wrong for her, he had caused trouble between us. I found out she was going to marry him in the August and I wasn't to be invited because he didn't want me there. This layout was about my feelings about all of that

The gold panels are metal that I have embossed in the same way that I did in my last Hybrid tutorial on Design House Digital 

Fortunately the wedding did not go ahead, the man is no longer in my daughters life and our relationship is now amazingly strong. My daughter has seen and read this layout and it made it so easy for me to explain how I felt at the time.

My next layout has no traditional photo. I did use a photo to create a digital stencil or mask, and this time its a happy happy layout

Goodnight Beautiful

So this is my Knight in shining armour, and he truly truly is. The "I'll love you" quote and all the papers used are from the May house party kits , the layout also features one of my pieces of wordart from my freebee word art kit

So this is my freebee kit . I hope you like it and will find it useful . If you would like it you can download each piece seperatly FREE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

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So that's it for me today.

However I will be posting a couple of posts over the next few days so pop back. You never know what you might find.

A hectic week on my blog and on Design House Digital

Well its all go go go this week at Design House Digital and with iNSD this week what more can you expect.

With loads of things happening this week its worth your while dropping by

Today I have a layout that I did for todays 29/04/203 Design House Digital 4play challenge,

The pics were taken at Catalyst Science Museum . Jake had loads of fun making the bubbles in the bubble tube. I had loads of fun photographing him and making this layout with the 4play kits, 

Bare Necessities – Fasteners & Flowers
Kraftsy Chic Paper Pack
Purity Digital Alpha
Cute Basics : Borders


Three of the kits are $1,and the other is FREE, but the sale is today through Wednesday (May 1).


I also have another layout today something a little OFF THE WALL

Using Jennie Schoenberger's great HALFPIPE kit  a fantastic skateboarding kit. As you can see I  had a bit of fun with this kit.

So thats it from me for today look out for some freebees over the next few days.

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TTFN