Things I love about ....

I made one of these "Things I love about you" albums for my eldest daughter, then my second daughter, and now it is time for one for my son. I think it's a great gift for your teenager - they need reminding that we do love them and see the many good, funny and original attributes that they possess.

I grabbed some masculine stamps sets (WPlus9 So 80's, Hero Arts Alphabets, Arrows, Borders, Paint splatters) and added texture and colour to my pre-printed pages. The tin is from a Club Scrap project - been in my stash so long, I can't remember which one.

When I needed to get the mustard colour on the dark paper, I embossed in Gold Pearl.

Silhouette die cuts are great ... 

Colouring with Prisma pencils ... and using the new WPlus9 cloud die cuts.

Love this Clarity Stamps stencils ... got it just in time!

Another entry to the WPlus9 Throwback Thursday Challenge.

Last Words

Almost finished the album. All the LHS are done (except for an embellishment or two on the last page). This has been a gift to myself. So enjoyed doing it, and found it so meaningful. A rainbow of reflections . . .

And here are some of the double page spreads . . . most of papers and embellishments are left overs from other projects.

Words, Paint and Gremlins

I signed up for the Big Picture Big Idea Festival and the theme was Words {to live by}. I was way behind as I was away for the first week, so I played catch-up yesterday. I prepped and played with my Silhouette Studio in the afternoon plotting and planning my pages. So happy. Then I waltzed into my studio around 9:00pm to cut, print and glue. Thought it would be a cinch. But the gremlins got there first and attacked my silhouette. It would NOT load the media! OK, so on to plan B  . . . the good old fashioned way with some adjustments . . . cut, punch, dig in the stash for replacements.


I took my inspiration from Kelly's inspiration on Hero Arts Friday Blog (just loved those tags in rainbow colours) and Sally's video on paint splattering, also at Hero Arts Blog. Such inspiring ideas.

For the cover, I decided to use the Hero Arts Word Pops as it went so well with the theme. And it had to be colourful!

So I used a rainbow of colours for my album : each page is one colour . . . paint splatters on white, with a coloured tag, a strip of patterned paper to match, some stamping on the background and a black line around the page. Here are the first 6 left hand side pages (the right hand side will have photos . . . still to be printed!) The last 4 will be posted as and when they're done. OK?!

A fun little 6" x 6"album. 

Inspired by Tacha

I just loved Tacha's sketch and examples at Scrap RDV. We have Mother's Day tomorrow, and my MIL is now a great-grandmother. Nothing is so special as I baby, so I made a mini album of her first grandchild (now nearly 2 months) as a gift. I found these delightful "ribbons" of baby clothes at my local hobby store. Couldn't resist them!

And the inside  . . .

Each of the tags is a mini booklet with 4 photos. Here is the first page of each one.

4" Book & 90 minute scramble

Made this 4" book using the Bind-it-all and the absolutely beautiful Fabscraps papers. I've been dying to get my hands on this set.

Fabscraps is a South African company that has a great paper range amongst the many products they offer. They have just been to their first CHA, where they won an award. Congrats to the Fabscrap team!

The cover was made in layers . . . cardstock, pp, acetate stamped with Staz-On mounted with foam dots to give depth, flower and title also mounted with foam dots.
And some of the inside pages too . . .

And while I was trying to finish this, I realised that the Hero Arts Flickr group 90 minute scramble challenge was running at the same time. Had to make a 2 or more fold Birthday card. I only read the instructions with 30 minutes to go. So CAS this time. Punched border stamped with the antique flower background stamp.

5 Good Things

The practice of seeing the positive instead of the negative is something that needs an occasional reminder. The little book for a week of noting down our 5 Good Things each day that came from Whiskergraphics via the scrap RDV site was one that I could not resist. I plan on making many more!

What better gift for a happy life than to be thankful!