Scrapbooking - BJ will stop singing, when pigs fly.

My father n law sings everywhere, so this page was great for him, especially when I read the Graphic 45 tag that said when pigs fly.  I just folded the corrners of the page over. Added black cardstock behind them to make the pages back to 30x30  I put a strip of green cardstock down the centre of the page, and then added some Kaisercraft music paper down the middle.  I backed the photo with black adn green cardstock, and then stamped a darkroom door stamp on a small piuece of green and matted it again in black.  I mounted the tag onto black cardstock, and then added some tape measure ribbon to the tag.  Then i added a birdcage from the sam graphic 45 paper, and then added anothe rlittle flying pig that i cut out.
I added a plain bown flower (layered) with a red bling brad.  I added a Graphioc 45 butterfly to the top left of the text panel, and then added text, BJ will stop singing, when pigs fly.

Book - Mini book

This is the cover of a box, that holds a book I made for my niece for her birthday.  I used Bobunny paper, and used a Twiddleybitz frame, that I painted brown, I added Kaisercraft flowers, some leaves and websters pages pompoms and some tulle.   I had this fantastic crystal handle, that I screwed in to the cover.  I used lace and Bobunny chipboard embellishments.  I used a 7 gypsies elastic to hold the cover closed.

then I decorated the inside left cover and then the right.  Then I decorated each page, I now am going to add photos of my lovely niece. 

 

Off the page - vintage camera

This is a vintage camera that I purchased, don't worry it was broken before I started to make it better.  I used paper to cover the camera first, that was quite hard to do.  I actually did it twice, because I decided that I didn't like the first paper, so i did it all again.  I put brads through the handles and then glued them back into place.  (I will not admit to anything, but i may not have marked where the screws went).  Then I added prima vines, and then birds nests and some greenery and I had this little cardboard clapper that I added, and a film strip that I would a round the camera, and some tulle, and flowers.  I had a little 7 gypsies rubon about photography which I added.  I have it with my other vintage camers.  

Off the Page project - My little old curiosity shop

This was a project of love, I spent hours and hours on this project, and may have got totally obsessed with it.  First I used a dusty attic advent calendar, but changed my whole thoughts on what i was going to do.  Starting with graphic 45 paper, I covered all the boxes and then decided not to add four boxes, which gave me two bigger areas.  I wallpapered all the walls and aheavy paper for the floor.   Then I started designing areas, on the left an apocothary room, on the right a sewing room.  I made everything where possible, the cotton reels, the bottles I filled, even the book that the bear is reading, I made.  Then I moved from left to right.  I used some gates that I changed my mind on with another project, and damaged takign them off, and used that as a base, and added earth sort of products, like shells, and straw.  Then on the right I started off with a dressing table, and mirror.  I used foil to make the mirror and papered the dressing table.  Then I kept finding all sorts of bits and pieces, i kept playing until I was happy.  I used alcohol ink to colour metal things that were the wrong colour, and then went on the scounge to find all the other bits and pieces that I wanted.  I wanted the sign to look like it was flying, but not being that mechanically minded I added wings.  I must admit everyone who sits and stares long enough, start to see all the very cool little things I have collected over the years, I knew they would come in handy one day. 

Off the page - nature in love

This is an off the page project that I finally managed to finish.  I love this project and I spent ages, just getting the edges of the revered canvas to look like wood.  I started with gesso and put it all over the back of the canvas edges.  I then painted it, and then started the changing of mind, colour and products used.  Everything from paint, to sprays, to inks, to stains, well you get the picture.  I inked all the edges as well.  I added metal Tim Holtz corners to the project.  I added the picture in at this stage, it was cut fom the inside of a calendar. I then added chipboard flourish painted brown, up the left handside and then some glitter tule stapled amongst it.  Then added a Prima marketing vine, prima birds nest and a couple of little birds.  I added extra kaiser flowers and then some black and green leaves.  I still wasn't happy so i added the top chipboard flourish and some flowers in the top right hand corners.   

Scrapbooking layout - college ball 2

This page was made using a plate to make a large circle, then added corresponding paper, in two colours as a strip down the page. I used a strip from the Kaisercraft stickers and added to the sides of these.   I used flower stickers from the same sticker sheet,  I added popdots to the back and then wrapped a pink satin ribbon around the bottom of the flowers, I added a few soft pink feathers.  I carefully cut the butterfly wing from the paper, and then slid it over the circle.  I added a few pearl blings under the photo, then added text around the circle. 

Scrapbookign Layout - Munchkin cat

This page was done after the death of our Lovely little cat - Halo.  I kept this page fairly plain, going for a muted back page, and then just added some rectangles of delicate pink paper, that I inked and layed out bigger than the photo size.  I matted the photo on brown cardstock, and then adhered to the top of the rectangles.  I cut up flowers from a left over page of paper, then added brown cardstock flowers cut from Tattered flowers die, and added a birdcage to the left of the page.  I added a swirl using Zva rhinestones.  Some text and the page was done.