Papermaze January Kit - Part 2

Lynn here today, and I'm back with my second post using the January kit. This is available in the shop or on the website. Plenty of wintery papers, embellishments and cardstock to create new year and winter themed layouts.

Before looking at how the layouts were made, here is what you will find in the kit:

Patterned Papers:
49 and Market - Cottagecore - Moments
Carta Bella - Winter Wonderland - Snowy Swirls
Echo Park - Cool Wood Grains - Pale Wood Grain
Mintay - By The Lake - #05
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Fresh Snow - Cabin Fever & Chasing Snowflakes

The photo below shows both sides of the papers:

Embellishments: 6 x 6" Mintay Snowflake Vellum, 2 Craft Consortium - It's Gnome Time 2 x snowflake charms, 7 x 49 & Market Color Swatch Inkwell - Ticket Essentials, Simple Stories Simple Vintage Fresh Snow - 7 x Floral Bits & Piece, 25cm navy organza ribbon, Prima - the Home Baker 1 x rose, Crate Paper silver glittery acrylic heart, Carta Bella 12" Winter Wonderland  Washi Tape and 49 and Market Moonlight Garden strip of Wishing Bubbles and Baubles.

Bazzill Basics Cardstock: Rain Forest and Pigment (in kit). Moody Blue, Bark, CS White and Pear (in extra matched Bazzill Pack).

Kew at Christmas - A lovely evening at Kew Gardens for the Christmas lights.

To create the wooden background for this layout, I cut the By The Lake - #05 paper, into 1" x 11 1/2" strips, and distressed all the edges. I arranged these onto the sheet of Bark Bazzill.

I cut a 8.25" circle of  Snowy Swirls paper, and an 8.75" circle of Moody Blue Bazzill. I distressed the edges and mounted the paper onto the card, then placed the double circle into the centre of the layout.

My photo was mounted onto more of the Moody Blue Bazzill, then I wrapped the navy organza ribbon around the base of the photo, and attached one of the snowflake charms to the knot in the bow, with sewing thread.

For my title I used some old stash - Chipboard Glitter Thickers (Bonjour) and Foam Thickers (Root beer Float). I also used some Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup letters in Silver and White. I added the Crate Paper silver glittery acrylic heart from the kit.

Finally, I scattered iridescent white sequins over the circle, and nail head stickers where the wood slats overlap.

The Great Avunculi - These photos were taken at the garden centre cafe, when Florence was taken to meet up with her uncle and two aunties.

I chose the 49 and Market Moments paper as the background for this layout. I picked a Dusty Attic chipboard Vine, and painted it with a coat of gesso. Then I painted it with brown and green acrylic paints. This was glued across the top of the paper.

With jute twine tied in four places along the vine, I trailed them down the length of the layout, and tied each one to a rusty metal star or heart from my stash. I tied further tiny scraps of twine to the longer lengths.

I printed four small photos and placed one on to each of the lengths of twine. I stuck them to the page with 3D foam pads.

The title was created with a selection of alphabet stickers from my stash. I added my journalling under the title.

Using embellishments from the kit I added the Prima rose, the Wishing Bubbles and Baubles, and the Simple Stories Fresh Snow -  Floral Bits & Piece. I also chose some cardstock stickers from the same collection.

That's all from the January kit, I'll be back soon with the February kit.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

January Papermaze Kit - Part 1

Lynn here today, with a new kit for the new year. The January kit is now available in the shop or on the website. Plenty of wintery papers, embellishments and cardstock to create Christmas, new year and winter themed layouts. I have used several die sets to make embellishments for these two layouts.

Before looking at how the layouts were made, here is what you will find in the kit:

Patterned Papers:
49 and Market - Cottagecore - Moments
Carta Bella - Winter Wonderland - Snowy Swirls
Echo Park - Cool Wood Grains - Pale Wood Grain
Mintay - By The Lake - #05
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Fresh Snow - Cabin Fever & Chasing Snowflakes

The photo below shows both sides of the papers:

Embellishments: 6 x 6" Mintay Snowflake Vellum, 2 Craft Consortium - It's Gnome Time 2 x snowflake charms, 7 x 49 & Market Color Swatch Inkwell - Ticket Essentials, Simple Stories Simple Vintage Fresh Snow - 7 x Floral Bits & Piece, 25cm navy organza ribbon, Prima - the Home Baker 1 x rose, Crate Paper silver glittery acrylic heart, Carta Bella 12" Winter Wonderland  Washi Tape and 49 and Market Moonlight Garden strip of Wishing Bubbles and Baubles.

Bazzill Basics Cardstock: Rain Forest and Pigment (in kit). Moody Blue, Bark, CS White and Pear (in extra matched Bazzill Pack).

Winter Wishes - My first layout for this month features my daughter and her baby girl in Greenwich Park, on a wintery day in December. Lots of work with Tim Holtz Sizzix Thinlits dies on this layout.

I selected the SS, Cabin Fever paper for this layout and used the whole sheet as the backdrop.

Using the Vault Winter Wishes die set, I cut a lot of snowflakes from a pearlised cream cardstock, and placed them randomly over the page. From the same die set, I cut the parts to make up a pair of ice-skates, using some of the Bazzill from the kit and other colours and some metallic silver, from my own stash. I inked the cardstock with some Distress Inks. I threaded some DMC cotton thread through the holes to make boot laces. I tied two tiny bells to the boots, and hung them from a brad placed near the top of the page. The boots were stuck in place with some foam pads.

The Photo was mounted onto more of the pearlised card, and then again onto Moody Blue Bazzill. I tied some raffia around the base of the photo and attached one of the snowflake charms from the kit.

For the bottom right corner of the page, I created a sledge using the Vintage Sled die set. Again, I used more of the same cardstock, bells and metallic card. I made extra foliage using this die set to add to the ice-skates, sled and a small cluster under the photo.

My title was created with more dies - the Bold Text - Christmas set, together with more of the Moody Blue Bazzill and cream pearlised card. I mounted one set of letters over the other to create a shadow. I added embellishment with some SS Simple Vintage Fresh Snow Cardstock Stickers from my stash and Floral Bits & Piece from the kit.

Capital Yacht Club - The photos on this layout were taken in Washington DC at the yacht club on the bank of the Potomac River. A very cold, crisp but sunny winter day.

I cut two strips from the EP Pale Wood Grain, 12" wide and 3" deep. These were stuck to the top and bottom of a 12" x 12" sheet of scrap paper. The centre was filled with a 12" x 6" piece of SS Chasing Snowflakes paper, with the snowflake side up.

The join between the papers was decorated, by cutting several pieces of scalloped edging (Funky Nordic Sizzix Thinlits die set), with Pigment and Moody Blue Bazzill. My photos were also mounted onto both these sheets of cardstock and arranged onto the layout, I raised one photo up with foam.

I made a small tag with the Tag Collection Sizzix Thinlits die set and the Pigment Bazzill. I added a little Baker's twine to the tag and tied this into a bow. My journalling was written onto this tag.

In an effort to use some of my older stickers, I found a few sheets of alphabet stickers from Basic Grey to match my papers and photos. I embellished the layout with the tickets from the kit, a few more stickers from my stash.

Finally, I scattered water droplets and pinkfresh Studio Jewels over the page.

That's all for today, I will be back with another pair of layouts from the January kit soon.
Thanks for looking,
Lynn x

December Papermaze Kit - Part 2

Lynn here today, wishing you a happy new year! Christmas may be over, but if you want to scrap this year's photos, here are two more layouts using the December Papermaze kit. The pack is full of traditional Christmas colours - papers, embellishments and Bazzill cardstock.

Here is my second pair of layouts:



Before we look at how the layouts were made, here is what you will find in the kit.

Patterned Papers:
49 and Market - Evergreen Season collection - Ceremonious Poinsettias
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Yuletide collection - Holiday Wishes and Filled with Wonder
Carta Bella - A Vintage Christmas collection - Holiday Floral and 3x4 Journalling Cards
Vicki Boutin - Wrapped in Ribbons collection - #5

The photo below shows both sides of the papers:

Embellishments:
Vicki Boutin - Wrapped in Ribbons Acetate 6cm strip, Prima - From The North Pole 2 lines of chipboard phrases, 2 Holly Berry stems, 6 ephemera pieces and 3 flowers, Rosie's Studio - All Wrapped Up - Puffy Word Stickers, Strip of gold pearls, 12 sequins.

Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Natural and Pomegranate Splash (in Main Kit). Aspen, Quartz, Parakeet and Grenadine (in extra Bazzill pack).


Nativity - Here are the children all dressed up for the annual Christingle service.

I gutted the sheet of Pomegranate Splash Bazzill to make a frame 1", then trimmed the Filled with Wonder, paper to measure 11.5" x 11.5", then made two tears into the paper one from the top and the other from the bottom. I used the holly side of the Holiday Wishes paper to fill the gaps.  All the edges were distressed and inked with Festive Berries Distress Ink. I placed the paper centrally over the Bazzill.

I matted the photo with cream and more Pomegranate Splash Bazzill. With 3 of the cards cut from the 3x4 Journalling Cards paper (I chose those which gave me room for journalling), placed to the right of the layout, overlapping one another. I added the photo to the centre of the page.

I used some old stickers from my stash - (Holiday Traditions, die cut alphabet stickers from K and Co.) and used them to add a title and a date. My journalling was one of the cards. I added image stickers from the same collection, to embellish the page.

With two lengths of seam binding ribbon in a deep red, I placed a short length near the top left and a longer length running from the bottom right. I added a bow in the same ribbon at the end of the longer piece.

Finally, using the Tim Holtz, Sizzix Thinlits Seasonal Sketch set, metallic gold card and Aspen and Pomegranate Splash Bazzill, I made three clusters of flowers to add to the layout.

Holiday Magic - This super photo shows a professional photo of my great nieces, Christmas 2023.

For this layout I chose the sheet of Holiday Floral paper for the background. Then from the Natural Bazzill, I cut the Winter Berries Peartree Cutfile.

I backed the cutfile using scraps of Bazzill, then highlighted the leaves and berries with marker pens in darker shades of the same colours.

The wreath was placed the centre of the layout using 3-D foam pads to give some dimension. I placed the photo onto the page in the middle of the wreath.

From the kit embellishments, I chose the All Wrapped Up - Puffy Word Stickers, as my title, together with the strip of gold pearls which I scattered over the page.

In keeping with the gold embellishments, I used some Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup stickers to add the date.

Finally I covered the photo, and splattered a little white acrylic paint over the whole page.

That's all from me for the December kit, I'll be back later with the January kit.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x