Heritage Layout

Afternoon All!
Today I thought I'd share another scrapbook layout featuring Crafter's Companion products.

The photo is a colour tinted one of my Nana as a young woman, and I tried to match the warm tones with the papers I used. The Kimono pad has some lovely designs in it, so I used these, fussy cutting all the flowers, and embossing one design with an Embossalicious Vintage Floral folder. I used the Sheena Douglass 'Distress Stencil to ink through to break up the Coredinations background.

I framed the photo with a diecut frame created with a Downton Abbey die, and used the waste centre as a panel to pop my title on. This I cut using my Alpha dies and Diamond Press machine. Finally I made a little secret pocket to house a tag with all my info about the photo written on it, embellishing it with one of the cut out flowers and tucking it away in the design.

Anyway, hope you like it!
Best wishes
Karen x

Lullaby meets Kimono

Morning All!
Today I'm back to share another layout. This time I chose the Kimono Glitter Pad from Crafter's Companion and teamed it up with papers from Sara Davies' Signature Collection 'Butterfly Lullaby'.

I first punched a border on one of the Lullaby 12x12 sheets and mounted it on to Coredinations. From another sheet I drew around a plate to create a circle and inked the edges to emphasise the sun ray effect of the pattern. I matted the decorative corners from this sheet also onto Coredinations to create a central focal area.

 Then it was simply a matter of cutting elements from the Kimono pad...even one of the lanterns from the front cover... and then building them up around my photo to create some dimension. The sentiment 'Just Us' was cut from the left over fans using my alphabet dies in the Diamond Press machine. I finished with dots of glitter glue and pearl pen to highlight.

Hope you like it...I love how these two Crafter's Companion Paper Pads teamed up together...the colours are lovely with the black and white photo.

Thanks for popping by!
Best wishes
Karen x

Diamond Press Duo

Hi Crafty Peeps!
Hope you are having a lovely Sunday!
Just thought I'd pop by and share a little card and pillow box I made using the Diamond Press dies and stamps! I love that little machine!

Hope you like this little duo!
Thanks for looking :)

Being Thankful

Afternoon All!
Happy April 1st! Hopefully the weather will start to cheer up a bit now and start getting warmer - we can live in hope lol! :)
Anyway, today I have a lot to give thanks for, so I thought I'd share this little card I made using my Diamond Press machine from Crafter's Companion and the little circle dies that go with it.

I cut different sized circle and inked them with my Distress Inks, and used the waste card as a stencil to create the background. The little 'Thanks' sentiment is also part of the range.
This is a really simple, but effective card, and can be created in many different colour schemes.
Hope you like it!
Have a great  weekend!
Karen x