Elephants.

As I said previously I recently brought a new elephant template, which I just love, so I thought I'd show you some of the crafting I've done with it.

I made some lovely cards using the elephant template, some beautiful patterned paper and some peel off stickers or greetings I got from a magazine. The result is simple, elegant yet fun cards for any occasion.

Whitby Seaside

I've had some pictures sat on the computer just dying to be scrapped for over a year, so now I'm getting around to scrapping them. This page remembers when James and I went to Whitby last summer. I had such an enormous portion of fish and chips I didn't think I would fit in the car to get home!!!

I tried to make the background look like the seaside.

I used some gorgeous acetate over the images and added little seaside themed nametags too

I wrote my journalling in wavy lines to mimick the ocean.

I used a bold sparkly chipboard title to add some bling. (These letters were actually found in poundland and they're really good quality too)

My Parents.

As you can tell I'm really into my scrapping at the moment. I loved this picture of my Mum and Dad together, they just looked so happy and in love so I decided to use it on the first page of my new scrapbook. I used a title sticker, a quote sticker by Helen Keller which is beautiful adnd some butterflies to fly up one side of the picture, I put them on the RHS so that they looked balanced with the photo as my Mum is leaning to the left into my Dad. The background paper has a beautiful vintage feel to it and such a soft colouring that worked well with the tones of the photo. I love scrapping picturesof Mum and Dad as I think they contain wonderful memories to share with future generations.

London Page.

My mum brought me a beautiful scrapbook for my birthday in April, so I've started to fill it with some beautiful pages of what I've been up to over the past couple of months. I really love this page about a trip I took into London with James. I've tried to do something a litttle different with this page by putting together a square of photos and writing my journalling around the outside of that square. I used a beautiful background paper with some of the dots being foiled and added an unusual title.

2010 Scrapbook

This year I decide to try and do a layout a week in my scrapbook so I didn't miss any key events. Here's some of my pages so far......

Front cover.

Engagement page:

Walking in the snow double page:

My mum and Dad:

Cole Mini Book.

I made a mini book full of pictures of my beautiful nephew Cole.
 

This is my favourite page, I used blue tones to tie in with the beach photo.

I decided to keep it quite simple and just matted the photo onto dark blue card tied with pale blue ribbon and a bow which I matted onto paler card.

I then embellished the page with two lines of buttons in similar tones.

Again I decided to keep these pages quite simple so as not to detract from the georgeous photos.

On these pages I used red and black mirror board as the backgrounds and embellished with Laua Ashley velvet rub ons.

I kept to black, gray and red to give a striking page with the black and white photos.

Christmas Table.

I like to take lots of unusual pictures at Christmas to show what Christmas means to me and my family.

For us the table decorations are a main focal point as my mum spends alot of time making sure both the table and food are perfect over the festive period.


So I decided to dedicate a page of my Christmas scrapbook to the Christmas breakfast table.

I used a rich red background paper.


The title is made of muddled up red/white letters on white/red squares which I applied a little wonky and messy.


The four pictures are arranged in a square and matted onto white and gold vellum.

Snow Scrapping

These pictures were taken on the town moor in Newcastle last year. I love snow because it makes me feel so Christmassy. Me and James (the boyfriend) went for a walk on the moor to enjoy the snow. Lets wish for snow this Christmas.



This page is made using silver glittered chipboard letters which look snowy with the blue and white patterened paper. I also journalled in silver pen to keep with the icy theme, and added snowflake brads to the bottom corners of the photos.

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is one of my favourite crafts because it's so personal. There's no right or wrong way to display your memories and pictures on the page. Sometimes I like to work from templates to help me decide how to lay my ideas out.

This template is my 'Less is More' template. Don't be afraid of empty space as it can be used to draw the eye to important photos/details.

Craft Show Page:

Christmas Baking Page