Sealed with a Kiss....Layout

Hello there

I have to apologise to my blog for neglecting it for the last few days.  I have been a little under the weather with the lurgy after someone very kindly coughed and sneezed on me last week.  I came home from my Quilting Group on Saturday feeling dreadful and got generally worse.  I am not going into details ok, but I did not get out of bed much until today.  Though I did have a shock when the person concerned phoned me yesterday to apologise!!! 

Anyway, a few weeks ago I promised to share with you a little layout I had done so here it is...

 This is most probably the last layout of my Wedding Album, but note I only said "probably"!!  I have so many photos left still!

 

 

So where do I start?  The background piece is a piece of black cardstock and I took some of my stencils, my old white ink pad and an inkie paddie thing (can't remember what you call them now...made by that Tim chappie!) and swooshed some ink through the stencils, one of which is a NBUS bought from US by Memory Box...the one with butterflies on.

The die cuts are a mixture of some that were kindly sent to me by my Buddy over the water and some from my Tin of Shame.  The TH clock one was originally a wishy washy beige colour when I started.  I smooshed some TH DIs Tea Dye, Gathered Twigs, Brushed Cord, and then rubbed some Treasured gold wax on top.  

The PPs are bits left over from previous layouts so Snippets...yeay!!  The corrugated card is from a package that had arrived a few days before (again inked with some DIs as above.

I put the little birdies on top as a nod to the pair of seagulls we kept seeing on Guernsey where we got engaged.  Now THAT is another story and why there are two seagulls in our bathroom!!

Now the flowers.  The one at the bottom of the clock and the others like it are NBUS and by Prima.  I only used a few as they are soooo nice.  Can you see the little seeds popping out from behind the flower towards my arm?  There are a few of these dotted around and they came out of my Happy Post I received just before Christmas, along with the sparkly heart...Thanks again my Friend.

The other flowers were made up from flowers in my stash, brads in the middle, some of which are years old, sprayed with Glimmer Mists, Perfect Pearls, layered and scrunched up. 

The MS Monarch butterflies came out of the Tin of Shame and there are others that I made using old books and my SU die.  

I wanted a little bit of watch parts in there and I saw a key somewhere when I was gathering things up so thought I would throw that into the mix too along with a NBUS TH card.  I tied the ribbon with a little bit of silver grey ribbon that was actually adorning a present my friend gave me at Christmas.  Waste not and you will want not.  Lace came from Funkie Junkie.  Only a little piece as it is too nice to use all in one go!

The leaves you can see were punched out of Snippet using my MacGill punch and inked up with DIs.

Finally I used my Cricut to die cut the  title which I cut twice to give it a bit of oomph!  Then I smooshed some more wax around and spritzed a little perfect pearls on there. 

Love the layers you can see in these last two photos.  

Hurrah!  You have made it through to the end.  Well done you.  Unless of course you skipped and just looked at the photos!  I don't mind but please leave me a comment to let me know you have been.

I am taking this over to the Playground for a ride on the swings and then cosy in front of the fire.  I am also entering this into Shopping our Stash as they are looking for old brads...mine certainly count as they are ancient!  And I will flutter past the Butterfly Challenge as there are some hexagons on my layout.   Not very often I get to link up with a few challenges!!  Woo hoo!!

Thanks for being patient.  See you all soon.

Hettie

Scrapbooking Tuesday - Bring me Sunshine

Hello Friends

Welcome to another Tuesday here on Planet Earth.  As I usually try to achieve on a Tuesday, I have some scrapbooking which I would like to share with you.  

This layout came about due to Mr Hettie's Godfather visiting my MIL and bringing with him a shoebox full of old photos that he had and wanted MIL to tell him, if she could, who some of the people were.  Mr Godfather's parents and most of his older members of the family having now passed away, he wanted to know before it was too late. MIL sent the photos over with Mr Hettie for me to see as she knew I would be interested, and in there was this photo......

It was taken at Mr Hettie's cousin's wedding in August 1990.  I had never seen it before.  On seeing it I could not help but sing "Bring Me Sunshine" to myself and new I had to sit down and scrap it.  So here is what I did.......

Having cropped the photo and changing it to black and white I pulled out some of my MME The Sweetest Thing papers (must get myself another set of these as I love them so much), some Bo Bunny papers and Echo Park.  I used my TH rosette die and made some "sunflowers" and pulled out yellow and orange flowers.  Then came the procraftinating!

This large yellow flower is the last of a collection that my friend brought home from France for me - Boo hoo!.  The large orange one is a Bazzill one that has been in my stash for years and years........  the paper ones are various makes.  Who could resist using a Giggle tag.  

I stencilled using some Glimmer Mist sprays and Gathered Twigs DI.  Another Distressed Doily cut out.  The bling swirlies I bought in Cornwall about 4-5 years ago and have been waiting to use them on a "special" project. 

I liked and kept the dash of pink flowers on the paper without covering them as the colour theme was dusky pink.  A clock to show the passage of time, cut using Snippets, some more misting with stencil and another sunflower.  

I just love this little fairy house.  It was a mould I bought on a well known auction site, and I used some Martha Stewart paper clay in there for the first time.  It is great stuff and so lightweight.  Takes DI great, with a little Treasured Gold on the top.  The paper says "One of a kind" so I altered it to Two of a kind!  This flower ribbon was in with my ATC from my PIF sender.  Gorgeous isn't it?  You can also see some stamping I have done using a TH and Penny Black stamp. 

I cut the letters for the main word using the Echo Park paper and added orange stickles over the top.  The word "bring" was stamped on a near to hand Snippet.  "Me" was on the back of the Echo Park paper.  I stamped the bees on some more Snippets and coloured them in using Copics and stickles.

Thanks for calling by.  I shall be showing this off in the Playground if you would care to call by and see it!  I am also going to enter this into Simon Says Stamp as the theme is "Anything Goes"!  My lovely friend Alison has just told me I can enter this into Our Creative Corner too!  This is a new Challenge for me so wish me luck!

TTFN

Hettie

Scrapbooking Tuesday - Live in the Moment...

Hello there Friends

I am afraid due to circumstances beyond my control I was unable to share a Layout/scrapbook page with you last Tuesday, but I hope you will forgive me when you see what I have brewed up for you today!  You may want a cuppa as it is a bit of a heavy post.....

I am using my lovely new "the Sweetest Thing" papers and stamps by MME.  Awesome papers and I was sensible enough to buy the 12x12", 6x6" and stamps that all co-ordinate bootifully!  

So I started with a fairly plain sheet which I sprayed with a mix of Colourwash (Cranberry and Plum), Perfect Pearls Mist (Forever red) and Glimmer mist (Gold).  

I took another piece which has a pinky damask background and my honeycomb mask and Distress Inks (Festive Berries and Picked Raspberry) and adhered it to the centre of the background piece.

Then came the fun part..... I die cut, electronic cut and "fiddle-farted" with flowers to my heart's content.  I used some of the pieces left from the centre panel, some of the 6x6" paperstock, plain white card stock and some Snippets to make flowers, leaves and more flowers!  I cut some of the flowers out on the Silhouette using plain white cardstock as well as some print 'n' cut flowers and the pink rose picture.  The flowers I put together with my glue gun and then sprayed them with the same mix of colourwash and glimmer mists that I used on the background.  

I die cut lots of the flowers and leaves using printed papers from the collection and also my Snippets box.  Dies used ranged from Tim Holtz, Spellbinders, Sizzix and Paperartsy.  The cream doily pieces were cut from Snippets which my friend Kim thought would be funny to send to me at Christmas with a whole pile of other Snippets!  See! They do get used!!

I used very few bought embellishments other than four teeny tiny paper flowers by Hero Arts, the metal TH embellishment, two TH buttons (very stingy with those buttons!) and the pearl brads.  

The bees were stamped using the stamps from this range with Momento ink, embossed with clear embossing powder, coloured yellow with a Copic pen and then washed with pearl PP.  I then cut them out and added them on to the layout with foam pads to (hopefully) make them look like they had just landed.

Here you can see the depth of the flowers.  This one at the bottom right was made with a die I bartered for at the Crop with Debs!!  It is my newest die and I Love it!!!

Here is another view so you can see the depth of the layout.  Let me tell you, I will not be crushing this into an album!  I shall be taking a trek to a well known Hobby shop to buy a frame.  The colours match our bedroom and this is one of my favourite Photographer photos (scanned and converted into black and white).  Megan broke free from the Bridesmaids and wanted Uncle Simon to pick her up!!  Of course he obliged!  (She is 25 this year!!  Scary!!)

The centres of the flowers were glued and then red and gold micro beads were sprinkled liberally inside.  

And isn't this lace divine?  I bought it a little while ago from HERE and I have not used it until now as it is soo gorgeous!  I don't want to use it all up too quickly now do I?

Well, sorry this is a bit of a long post and thanks for staying with me thus far.  I hope you have enjoyed it and if you wish to know anything about what I have done, please feel free to ask.

I am going to enter this into the following challenges.....

Pixie's Crafty Workshop - Snippets

Frilly and Funkie - Sunday Share - Lace (go check out the shop - I dare you not to buy anything!)

Fashionable Stamping - Something new

Hugs

Hettie

xxx

Scrapbooking Tuesday - One Fine Day...

Hello Blogging Friends

I hope you have all had a wonderful Bank Holiday weekend.  Wasn't it nice to see a bit of sun again?   Unfortunately I was a poorly bunny at the start of the weekend but have now rallied around just in time to go back to work!

You know I recently told you that April is a busy month for me Birthday wise?  Well, one of the Special Birthdays was Mr Hettie's and as usual I made him something daft for his Birthday, and I thought I would share it with you today as it is a Mini Scrapbook.  You might want to make a cuppa or get a glass of something as this is a little picture heavy!

The cover was made using a heavyweight chip board which I painted with some red emulsion, before stamping with Black Soot DI and also rubbing some BS DI over the surface.

I used my trusty BIA to bind the whole book together and added some Snippets of ribbon and two small charms.  The saw is a hint of what is to come!

The main papers used are some We Are Memory Keepers papers which I bought ages ago with an album, that I had quite forgotten about, as well as some Snippets from my Snippets boxes.  I turned to my Diesel Punk, Think and Wonder and Lovely Day Artistic Outpost stamps for stampings.  I also used my new Inkylicious Splodge stamp to look like oil blobs!

The arrows and other embellishments were cut using various Sizzix dies.  Zips from my sewing box for extra layers.  Yes this is yours truly!!  These photos were taken in the early 1990s!!

Those car stickers I have had forever.  I also doodled on all the pages.  Added some pearls, buttons, sparklies, and brads.

This piece of punched ribbon was made for my Christmas Album!  Tee Hee!

Please excuse the pun.......

Some Martha Stewart punchings..

These little glasses were a broach which comes from when I used to work for an opticians....1986-1989!  Talk about hanging on to things "just in case"!

And here is Sputnik casting an eye over the project!

The little white printed arrows came from Wilkinsons and are like post-its! I knew they would come in handy at some point!

Some Czech stickers we bought on one of our trips.

And here is the back cover with a car sticker.  Fortunately we had two so Mr Hettie didn't mind too much!

I hope you enjoyed my Mini Album for Mr Hettie.  I shall be popping it over to the Playground as there are sooo many Snippets in there.  I shall also be putting it into the Artistic Outpost Challenge as I have used my AO stamps.

Have a good week everyone.  

Hugs

Hettie

CC101 Challenge - Resist Stamping

Hello Friends

Talk about leaving things to the last minute!  Today is the last day for the CC101 Challenge which I have to admit I have not taken place for some time now.  The Challenge is to use the stamp resist technique with clear embossing powder.  This is one of my favourite techniques, so without further ado here is my piece.....

I have used three Tim Holtz stamps throughout, clear embossing powder, Scattered Straw, Spiced Marmalade and Gathered Twigs Distress Inks.  A little bit of spritzing of the background and all mounted onto some Bazzill cardstock to mount all the pieces on to the card.

I have made a fold out card with the front panel adhered to the front folded piece.

To finish the piece off I used some of my old book to make a Tattered Floral flower and a brad having inked the pages of the book.

Here is the inside panel.  I was trying to capture the Glimmer Mist which I had sprayed onto the whole card, but no such luck!  You will just have to believe me. Around the edges of the card I used a different flourish stamp which I inked with GT and embossed with clear embossing powder.  The space in the centre has been left in order that I can chose what sentiment to use when I need it.

Snippets were used in the construction of this card with the book as well as some of the dark brown cardstock.  I shall call down to the Playground to show this to the girls.  

Thanks for calling by.  Do please leave me a comment so I know you have been.

TTFN

Hettie

Nature is Unique..

Hello Friends

For those of you who visited my desk this week you will know that I had a layout on there that I was working on so without further ado here it is.....

The photo is of one of Hubby's Bees who was out for a beautiful early February day two years ago enjoying the sweet nectar of Snowdrops.

I started this layout with a sheet of plain creamy yellow cardstock which I sprayed with Ranger Colourwash in Lettuce, Terracotta and Pesto whilst using Heidi Swap, Tim Holtz and Crafters Workshop masks.  I sprayed the colourwash in sections and then unscrewed the spray part, removed the tube and then flicked the ink to get some small splodges.  Well, gotta get inkey haven't we?  The flourish stamp here is from Crafty Individuals and most papers used are 6x6" My Mind's Eye - Tangerine. 

I stamped up a new stamp which I bought from Ebay and unfortunately there is no makers name on it.  I inked it with Archival, embossed with embossing powder and coloured it in with Copics.  The bakers twine is Stampin Up and finished with a little button from my jar. 

I cut the "Nature" letters using my Cricut and Quickutz self adhesive paper (cuts like a dream, glad I rediscovered it).  I went around the edge of the letters with Forest Moss Distress Marker to make them pop as well as stamping them with Stayzon Forest using a Hero Arts flourish stamp.  The word "Is" was made using Grungeboard letters adhered onto a grungeboard block which I adhered then painted with Paperartsy Fresco in Snowdrop,  with colourwash and flicked again then a little Adirondak Lettuce.

The Unique was stamped with A Lettuce again and embossed with embossing powder and trimmed then flicked with Colourwash and edged with A L.    The Stampotique Bees were stamped with Archival ink and embossed with embossing powder.  They were coloured with Wild Honey Distress Marker and an embossing pen was applied to the wings along with some Pearl Perfect Pearls.

I used the lace mask from TH which has given the effect of a crown at the bottom of the page. I will have to remember that for future projects!  I added some lace and Stamping Up bunting below the photo too. On the pink strip of paper you can see a little of a Pink Paislee stamp and the shimmer of the bee's wings.

The layout came a sketch from Liz Chidester of thescrappiest blogspot - so thanks Liz.  I really liked this one and hope you do too. I am linking this up with Simon Says Stamp - Lace, Facebook CC101 - spray ink, as well as the Snippets Playground.  Here is the Sketch....

Thanks for reading all the way to the end and hope you like.  I look forward to receiving your comments.

Have a great snowy weekend and please be careful.  Do heed the advice of the Police and other bodies of only going out if necessary.  

Hugs

Hettie