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

Layout of Isabella - contribution to More Than Words April challenge

Hope you are well and staying safe at home in this unusual time. Even though I have been staying at home, I haven't been very creative. I still have to work and at the same time I have 3 kids at home who also had to follow some online teaching, so it has been very busy, I have had to help them more with their school work than I have ever done before. At the same time the weather has been very nice, so I have been spending a lot of my free time working in the garden. Last summer we didn't get so much done out there, and it was kind of boring when we moved in 1½ years ago, so this year I have 4 projects I would like to get done, and I have now completed 2 and started the 3rd one, so I am getting there. I must say the weather makes a huge difference, when you have to stay at home, imagine how depressing it would be, if the rainy weather had continued. At least that is the situation here in DK.

Anyway, I was inspired by More Than Words April challenge which was the word Everyday and the creative challenge is bugs and/or birds. I remembered we had a picture of my oldest daughter where she had her face painted with a butterfly – perfect for this challenge. The picture reminded me of an EVERYDAY life where you were able to go places and do fun things together with your family and friends, like in this case where we had gone to a zoo. I wonder how long it will be before we get that kind of life back again.

Click here to go to the challenge

Here is the layout I made:

And some close-ups

Materials used:

Maja Design – Sofiero, Coffee in the Arbour and Life in the Country collections

Pink cardstock

Dusty Attic chipboard, and I think the frame and butterfly was from Scrapek

Flowers from WOC and my stash

Distress Ink – Bundled Sage and Spun Sugar

Lindys Stamp Gang – Pretty in pink pink

Stencil from TCW (Balzers Design)

Liquid Pearls – Ballerina

Halfpearls and sequins from my stash

Family layout

Recently I made a layout with a picture of my husband together with his siblings and his mom. It was taken on my husband and his twin sister's birthday several years ago. Here is the layout:

I really had fun making this layout and I am very happy with how it turned out. I used papers from Maja Design ("Worn Indigo" from the Denim & Friends collection and "Stark och Fri" from the Crea Diem collection + a piece from the 6x6 Denim & Friends paper pad). The paper was first covered with clear gesso and when that dried I added some white gesso all around the edge of the papers. I used a stencil from TCW called "Mini sketch grid" and added some modelling paste. The ornaments chipboard pieces are from Scrapek and covered with white gesso and a Lindys Stamp Gang spray - Flat Fabio Kissin Kenickie Coral. The chipboard letters are from Craft Emotion and covered with My Mojito green from Lindys Stamp Gang. Flowers are from WOC and China. Buttons, butterflies, jewellery pieces and art stones are from my stash. Here are some close-ups:

With this layout I participate in Scrap from your heart's challenge no. 23: Anything goes. You can read more about their challenge HERE.

Another layout of Isabella

Dusty Attic has the prettiest mood board for March and it looks like this:

Which inspired me to make this layout of my oldest daughter:

I absolutely love soft pink colors and adding flowers to my things and in this layout I most definitely combined these two things :-).

I have used papers from UHK Gallery from the collections "Misty Morning", "Spring in Avonlea" and "Loft". From Dusty Attic I have used "Page Pebbles #11", "Foliage #4" and "Mini Scroll #2". The page pebbles and mini scrolls were first covered with white gesso, afterwards they were inked with "Spun Sugar" from Distress Ink and finally I sprayed them with a Lindys Stamp Gang Starburst spray (but I am not sure if it was "Pretty in Pink Pink" or "Cotton Candy Pink". The foliage chipboard was also covered with white gesso and then inked with "Bundled Sage" and "Forest Moss" Distress Ink, but I wasn't happy with the color, so I mixed some gesso with Lindys Magicals "Drop Dead Gorgeous" and sprayed them with the matching starburst spray. I used a stencil from Balzer Design (The Crafters Workshop) and some modelling paste, and when it had dried I also used the green spray on those. I added some pink lace and a couple of silver crowns from my stash, and made af few ink splatters with both the green spray and both of the pinks I mentioned earlier. All the flowers are from WOC.

Here are some close-ups:

You can read more about Dusty Attics Mood Board challenge HERE.

A Christmas layout

A while back I made this Christmas layout. The picture is a from 2008 and is one taken by a photographer for our Christmas cards that year.

I have used papers from Maja Designs Christmas collections "A Gift for You" and "Home for the Holidays" and from "Vintage Frost Basics" plus some white cardstock. The 2 chipboard baubles are from Scrapiniec. I have used dies from Sizzix, Crealies and Precious Marieke. I used gesso and a stencil from Carabelle Studio for the scripture. All edges are distressed and I have used some silver thread, silver star half pearls and silver Stickles for decoration.

Here are a couple of close ups of the layout:

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.

Lemoncraft summer challenge - Back in time

As I have written before Lemoncraft is having some summer challenges, their first one was with the theme "Back in time". I decided to make another LO for this challenge, originally I was going to make one with a picture of my son, but I wasn't satisfied with the match between the picture and the colors on the paper I had, so I went through my photo's and found a couple of old pictures of my oldest daughter, Isabella, who is now 13. On the pictures she is only 1 year old, and it was her first trip to a zoo, and she was very excited to see all the animals.

For this LO I used paper from the Everyday Spring collection, I just love the greens and pinks in this collection. I painted the paper with clear gesso and after it dried I used modelling paste and a stencil from The Crafter's Workshop, and stenciled two doilies. After the paste was dry I sprayed with 3 different inks from Dylusions: Cherry pie, White linen and Black marble. I diecut 2 doilies in dark pink cardstock using a die from Intricut. I handcut some squares to put behind my pictures and I diecut some flowers using Spellbinders Make a wish-die. All the flowers are from WOC, the butterflies, sequins and halfpearls are all from my stash. For the sentence I used a stamp that was a magazine freebie and used some cream colored embossing powder.

Some close-ups:

You can read more about Lemoncrafts 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.

My very first layout

Well I think it's about time I show you guys my first layout. I made it as a present for my Godparents, since I thought they needed some updated pictures of the kids. I chose the colors for the layout to match the colors my Godparents have in their house. And as you can see, 2 of the kiddos actually have on shirts that matches the papers, I plan ahead you see, LOL, no it is just a coincident, but a good one I think.

I used papers from UHK Gallery and Lemoncraft, the chipboard clock is from Scrapek (Anemone), and the flowers are from Wild Orchid Crafts (WOC) and a local craft store. For the frames around the pictures I used the Regal Frame from Spellbinders, and I cut out 3 frames that I glued together for each picture, this way it got a little thicker and looked more like a piece of chipboard. I also used some Gesso toghether with the Rings and Puddles stencil from Memory Box. The letters are made with a die that came with an issue of Die Cutting Essentials. I cut out 2 of each letter and glued them together to get a bit more chipboard feeling to it. "Tiden flyver" means Time flies. And then I added part of cake doily and some half pearls here and there. I was very happy with the result, since I hadn't tried it before, and my Godparents were very happy with it as well.

My second LO - Sweet

I made this layout during my summer vacation, and the weather was really bad.  I can't remember the story behind the picture myself, since I was only about 3 or 4 years old, but I have heard it several times: It was picture time at the kindergarten, and when it was my older sisters turn, she started crying and didn't want the photographer to take a picture of her, so the adults there suggested that I came along on the picture, and then my sister was okay again, but as you can see, she still looks rather sad, and I have my arm around her to comfort her.

I have used papers from Riddersholm and UHK Gallery, I can't remember the brand of the 3rd piece of paper. All of the paper is distressed along the edges, and some of it is a little torned as well. The flowers are all homemade with paper from Riddersholm and some shiny no brand red paper. I have used chipboard from Scrapek (butterfly and corners) and Blue Fern Studio (Sweet). The branches is a Marianne Design die, and for the flowers I used a die from Nellie Snellen. I also used some black lace, stamped black text and sprayed with a postbox red inkspray from Dylusions (Ranger).

My third LO

For my first actual blogpost I'll show you a layout I have made. The picture is an old picture of my oldest daughter, I think she is about 2½ on the picture (she is now 12), and we just thought it was cute the way she was able to sleep with 2 pacifiers at the same time.

The paper is from Maja Design, except for some shiny yellow paper, that I bought at Tiger. I have used a stencil from Dutch Doobadoo, flowers from Wild Orchid Crafts and different chipboards from Dusty Attic. Other items used are an old metal button, a cake napkin, a piece of soft grey tulle and some halfpearls. I also sprayed a little with some black and white Dylusion Ink Spray.

I painted the chipboard pieces with white Gesso, and then I used a black marker to color the scrabble letters, and for the little round one, I used the Scattered Straw Distress Ink to make it yellow, and I think it matched my other yellows pretty well.

I'm entering this layout to the Dusty Attic challenge, this is their mood board for October: