Love Forever / Jackie Ashton / Punches

Hi scrappers, Jackie here with my layout for this month using punches.  I do have a passion for punches especially circle punches, but I decided to step away from ones that I use on a regular basis, and chose another design, so I choose to use some of my heart punches.

As it February and we have just had Valentine's Day, I decided that I would do a ‘love layout’ of my hubby, son and myself.

I’ve used a heart punch, which I punched the heart shapes out of several patterned paper, and layered them together.  

To give them some dimension I only stuck the paper down in the centre, so that the outside edges could be raised off the page.

I added some hand stitching down the centre and left the ends of the thread trailing down.

I also added machine stitching in gold thread on my white cardstock, behind where I placed the hearts, and added some 'xo' wood veneers and puffy hearts in-between the paper hearts.

I had the perfect title from Bramble Fox prespextive, which I added some patterned paper to the back to allow the word to be more readable on top of my photograph.

That all from me for this month, don't forget we would love to see your layouts using punches over on our Facebook page.

Thanks for stopping by..

Happy scrapping ...

Carpe Diem / Jackie Ashton / 6x6 Pads

Hi UK Scrappers,

I don’t know about you, but I love getting 6x6 pads with the collections, I tend to use them to layer behind my photographs or to die cut, but then I do end up with either bits cut out of a sheet, or an irregular piece that I don’t know what to do with it. As this months theme is to use 6x6 pads, I decided that not to do my usual thing with them, but to make a ‘messy’ jumble of papers as a background to my photograph.

Carpe Diem ...

I used the Crate Paper - Good Vibes collection, and randomly choose several sheets of patterned paper, distressed the edges and added to my cardstock - which I had previously added some distressed ink using the packaging technique to the background and stamped a few word phases over the ink.

I mounted my photograph on to some patterned paper, and placed this over the top of the messy pile of papers.

I finished the layouts with chipboard pieces, stickers and die-cuts from the collection.   As the photographs was taken in Disney I punched some ‘mickey heads’ in patterned paper, and added three clusters to my page.  

I also added some cute ‘mickey head’ wood veneer.

For the title I used two perspextives from Bramble Fox.

How do you use your 6x6 pads? please share with us what you do, we would love to see them on our Facebook group.

Till next time ...

Explore | Tags | Jackie Ashton

Hi scrappers, Jackie here with my take on this months theme ‘tags’.

This is my layout ...

 and as you can see I went for the 'more is best approach' and die cut various sizes of tags from patterned papers and used them as a base for my photographs.

I used Crate Paper - Here and There collection, which I purchased from Hey Little Magpie.

I mainly used the 6x6 pad, and a few scraps that was left over from a previous layout, as well as added with printed vellum from the same collection to give my page some added texture and detail.

Before laying the tags across the page, I added some ink to the background using Tim Holtz - Distress Inks and the packaging technique, then added white thread to each of the tags.

I also added some hidden journalling behind the photographs, tag was cut from white cardstock and I added a piece of patterned paper on the front, with the journalling on the back.

I added my photographs to my layouts mounted then onto some 6x6 pattered paper.

I then finished my layout with some chipboard and puffy word stickers from the collection and some wood veneer from my stash.

We would love to see how you use tags on your layouts, please share with us on our Facebook page we would all love to see them.

One Crazy Bunch | Jackie Ashton | Multiple Photos

Hi, Jackie here for my first blog post for this site.  The theme this month was to use multiple photographs on a single layout, and I knew just which ones I was going to use.

I recently went on a craft retreat with some of my crafting friends, and to start our fun weekend off, we met for lunch and some shopping and of course we had to take a couple of silly selfies or two, and which as you can see from the photographs was hilarious, but we ended up with these fun photographs which just had to be scrapped.

I used Simple Stories - Emoji Love collection, which was just perfect for these fun selfies.

The collection is a fun and very easy to adapt for all types of photographs and has a large selection of chipboard, word stickers and phrases that captured the fun in the photographs.

I made the photo strip by printing the photos size 2 inch by 1.5 inches, which I printed on my Selphy, printing 4 on a 6x4 photo print.  Then I cut them into 4 and struck them onto white cardstock to represent a photo strip.  These I then layered on several strips of patterned papers.

The main photograph is printed as a 4x4 square and layered on a piece of patterned paper, which I then 3D mounted before adding it to the right-hand side of the background paper.

I added some of the chipboard phases to the top and bottom of the photo-strip, as well as some word and phrases stickers.

To add some more detail and texture, I machined stitched over the title, which not only held the letters in place but it just added an extra detail to the page.

I finished the layout by adding some enamel dots and flair badges that I had in the stash.

I hope you get some inspiration from my layout on adding multiple photographs to your scrapbooking pages.

Castell Caerfilli | Susan | multiple photos

 

Good morning and welcome to my first post as a proud member of the UK Scrap Addicts design team. When I saw our topic for this month my first thought was, ‘Oh no!’ because I almost always scrap with one photo, or two at the most. I think the trick with using lots of photos is to arrange the page so it doesn’t look crowded – I really don’t want the ‘get all my photos on, come hell or high water, look’! So I rapidly put myself back into my comfort zone and drew a sketch!

Sometimes my sketches are literally a quick doodle on a scrap of paper – how you do it isn’t important – as long as it gets you past that paper shuffling stage it’s done its job

 


I adore these papers from the Fancy Pants, Golden Days
collection available at UK store, Hey Little Magpie. All the matching bits and bobs make the page hang together so well.

The gold alphas I have used are cheapies from Hobbycraft. They are very pretty but the sticky back does peel off so I keep them in place with wet glue.

That’s it from me; come back tomorrow for another DT post – you won’t regret your visit.

Happy Scrapping

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