Layout of Rebecca

This LO I made quite some time ago, but for some reason I have never blogged about it. It is one of my favorites of the LO's I have made so far, I really love how it turned out:

Materials used:
Maja Design – Vintage Summer Basics, Vintage Romance, Vintage Frost Basic
Brown cardstock
Stencils from Dutch Doobadoo and Memory Box
Flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts
Dusty Attic chipboard (Flowerbuds, Bookman ABC set, Leaves 2)
Liquid pears ballerina
Brown acrylic paint
Cosmic Shimmer Mist
China die (beYOUtiful)
From my stash: Lace, cheese cloth, embossing powder, white gesso and 1 half pearl 

Here are a few close-ups:

A new layout of William

I have not made as many layouts of my son, as I have of the girls, so I thought it was about time I made another one for him. And since Maja Design has some great boyish papers I decided to use some of that with some school pictures from 3 years ago. And considering that I think it is really hard to make masculine cards and layouts I am very pleased with the outcome.

A few close-ups:

Materials used:

Maja Design – Denim & Friends collection, 12x12 and 6x6

Dusty Attic – Mini tabs #2, Word pack #6

Dutch Doobadoo stencil – Bricks

Stamps – Crealies No. 27 + one bought at the grocery store

Crealies die – Crea-Nest-Lies XXL no. 19 stars

Distress Ink – Vintage Photo

Pearls from my stash

Gesso and blue acrylic paint

Bokeh confirmation cards

Like many others I have also started working on confirmation cards now. I wanted to try something different and new (at least for me) so I decided to try the bokeh technique, and I am quite pleased with how the cards turned out:

I have used Distress Ink on all of the cards to make the background and also sprayed a little water on the background. Afterwards I used a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo together with a VersaMagic ink to make the circles. I matted the backgrounds with black cardstock, which i also used for the banners. The boy and the girl a cut with a DixiCraft die, the banner is from Card Making Magic, and the stamp is also from DixiCraft.

Layout of William

I finally made a layout of my son. I used a picture of him when he was 1.

For this layout I have used papers from Maja Design from the "Crea Diem" and "Vintage Frost Basic" collections and som light blue cardstock. I have used dies from Marianne Design (LR0455), Nellie Snellen (the flowers) and a China die for the leaves. I used the following chipboard from Dusty Attic: Fancy Trim #4, Word pack #18 and Small Trellis and they were all inked with Vintage Photo Distress Ink. For decoration I used a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo together with some pearl stencil paste from Pentart, blue decoration glass stones, lace, halfpearls, blue and brown ink stains and flowers - both homemade and from WOC. And then I used a script stamp here and there.

I was very pleased with the way it turned out, and most importantly so was William. With this layout I'm participating in Maja Designs October challenge. This is their moodboard:

And you can read more about their challenge HERE.

Cute (Layout of Rebecca)

I made a layout for my youngest daughter, since I had found this really cute picture of her dressed up in a Bratz costume, which we at some point had bought for our oldest daughter. Rebecca thought it was a princess costume and wore it as such, complete with a tiara and high heel shoes.
When I saw the old picture I just knew, that it would match the Gossamer Blue and Everyday Spring collections from Lemoncraft perfectly, and sure enough it was a perfect match.

Besides the already mentioned collections from Lemoncraft, I also cut out 2 butterflies from the diecut sheet from the Forget Me Not collection. After glueing the 2 pieces of cardstock together, I painted it with clear gesso and let it dry. The chipboard pieces, which are from Blue Fern (cute), SnipArt (frame) and Anemone/Scrapek (swirl and branches) was all painted with white gesso first, afterwards the swirl and the branches were painted with white acrylic paint and the word and the frame was embossed with some embossing powder from my stash (no brand). With a mix of modelling paste and white gesso, I stenciled a chicken wire pattern using a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo. I also sprayed some white Dylusions ink and Pergamano ink (pearl blue and fuchsia) on the background and with the blue ink I painted randomly on the corrugated paper. I die cut a doily out of white cardstock using a die from Intricut, and the large blue and pink flowers are made with dies from Nellie Snellen and Lemoncraft paper. The rest of the flowers are from WOC, except for the small blue roses, which are from my stash. Finally I decorated with some pink sequins and used some Liquid Pearls Ballerina on the chipboard branches.

And now for some close-ups:

The framed picture

With this LO I participate in Lemoncrafts summer challenge Picture Perfect. When I read about their challenge I knew right away, that I had to make a layout with this picture, because it's funny and cute at the same time - a perfect picture.

You can read more about their challenge here.

A summer layout

I'm really enjoying making layouts and I have found a lot of pictures that I want to scrap, among those I found the these two which are from May 2008, when we were on our summer vacation in El Salvador.

I have used papers from UHK Gallery from the collections "Spring in Avonlea", "LOFT Marina" and "LOFT" (a sheet named Rusty) and some white corrugated paper. The background is painted with clear gesso, and then I used some modelling paste mixed with white gesso to stencil the circles with a Dutch Doobadoo stencil.

The chipboard is from Anemone (Scrapek) and is painted with white gesso.

The flowers are from WOC, my stash and some homemade foamiran flowers where I have added a light green halfpearl to the centre.

I finished off by adding some shells, some microbeads and sprayed with some Pearl Mist from Cosmic Shimmer Mist.