Where flowers bloom

I love this page. I wanted to use lots and lots of dimension. So I have about 3-4 dimensional layers her. It was a lovely page to create but very time consuming. I used Little Yellow bicycle papers and heaps of foam dots. Heaps of them! I love the trim, it's so gorgeous and a wonderful colour. The butterflies seem to have just landed there and are still fluttering their wings. I did a lot of cutting and layering and lots of thinking and repositioning. Jostling everything to get it in it's correct place was a bit of a trial but it worked out in the end I think. I hope you like it. You can see a montage of photos on my You Tube, it should be Video 27 I think? Enjoy.

Cute Birthday Card

Here's a cutie. Simple but I love these colours. I made this for a little girl who is 10 but is just starting out and loving the world of scrapbooking. I hope it will inspire her a little. This paper is from a previous post "Bundeena" layout. They are My Mind's Eye - So Sophie and My Mind's Eye - Alphabet Soup. It's gorgeous and not colours that I would usually choose but every time I use them I love the result. I punched flowers and used them back to back and folded the petals give them a 3D look. I used twine in the button holes and lots of foam dots. Hope you like it. :)

Quick Card

Here's a card that I made for my friend and her family as they have just moved into their new home.
I love the stamp set, it's called Butterfly Garden by Pink Paislee. I thought it was nice to put the 3 dimensional butterfly on the front as if it had "landed" in it's new home. The little tag was dyed with tea and coffee and I used cotton twine to tie it on. The border punch and the pearls up in the corner made all the difference I think. You can view it on my You Tube videos to the right hand side of this page (just click on them) and the videos relating to this card are numbers 23 and 24. Have a look, maybe you will find some inspiration. It's a great stamp set to have, I have used it many times.

Happy creating!

Tagged

I adore this stamp set! It's just beautiful. If you click on the photo you will see them in more detail. I made this set of 6 tags and I will be making more for sale. They turned out really lovely. I can just image one of these on simply wrapped gift to give it that elegant touch! I will do that tomorrow and add a photo just so we can see. Stay tuned... Actually the set of 6 would make a lovely gift themselves!

Wedding Mini Album (Commissioned SOLD)

and here it is packaged and ready to go to it's new owners...

Well here is the Wedding Album that I was asked to make. I am happy with the result. It was a bit of a challenge, it always is when you have to start from scratch.

I ended up making the Organza flowers because I couldn't find any that I liked enough to use. I am so tough on myself, such a perfectionist. I drive myself crazy with it. The colours are corresponding with the Wedding and I think they work lovely together. White, Silver and Cream and black. I used eyelets on the punch holes on the pages to save the wear and tear on the paper and it always gives a finished look. I think the album holds about 18 photos all together. I have a waterfall album on one page, a triple slider, a gate fold and various other ways of holding the photos. There are plenty of tags for journalling and more photos, plus pockets for keepsakes such as Invitations etc. It was a HUGE project but rewarding. I hope that the Bride and Groom will be happy to keep their wonderful memories amongst these pages. If you check my You tube videos you can see the final results in a photo montage and also after I had packaged it. The music on the videos makes all the difference I think!

My Summers - You tube video No.20

Well I like the way this turned out. My inspiration came equally from the photograph and the song that I have printed on my page. The song is One Summer by Daryl Braithwaite. You can hear it on my You Tube video NO. 20 as it accompanies the photo montage of this page.

The colours of this page are so beachy and the patterned paper is just gorgeous. I used my Derwent pencils (I love them) and some chipboard letters. I like the mix of the written letters and the chipboard. One flat and the other has dimension, one smooth and the other has texture. A bit like the sand and the sea...

Hope you like it. Check out the video, it's worth it just to listen to the song.

Life Long Friends

Well the story of this page goes back about 40ish ("ish" always sounds better) years.
This is a photo of myself andd one of my longest friends and our mum's and our kids.
Unbelievable. We went to Taronga Zoo for the day. Our friends travelled by plane to get there and it was a lovely day. The weather was beautiful and we all had a wonderful time.
It was an interesting page to create as the paper was gorgeous to start with. There was a lovely sentiment printed across the top and bottom and I did not want to add too much to take away from that. I bought an extra co-ordinating page and cut out the branch and used foam dots to lay it across the top. The chipboard word was painted with my stamp pad and I made the leaves with green cardstock and a bit of glimmer glitz.
I like it. Yep, very happy how it turned out. So if you are one of my friends - beware! You might scrapped next... (or so to speak *chuckle chuckle*). You can see how I made this page on my YouTubevideo numbers 16 and 17 - Life Long Friends Part 1 & 2, and Life Long Friends Part 3.

There are links on the right of this screen or you can go to You Tube and type inthe search bar - Leah's Paper Passion...