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Saturday 23 March 2024

Tropical Adventure

Today is the Papermaze Crop and here is the layout I made for the crop kit. I used a paper folding idea from Paige Evans.



Kit content:
12” x 12” Vicki Boutin – Discover + Create collection - Plumage
6” x 6” Vicki Boutin – Discover + Create collection – Swatches
6” x 6” Vicki Boutin – Discover + Create collection – Create
6” x 6” Vicki Boutin – Discover + Create collection – Discover
1 strip of blooms from Vicki Boutin – Discover + Create collection – Freshly Picked
18” Twine

Items to share:
Orange acrylic paint
Distress Oxide Spray

I used Alphabet stickers from my own collection.

Please see the Papermaze Blog for more details.






Thanks for looking
Lynn x

Saturday 16 March 2024

Egg Hunt

Here is my second layout made with the March Papermaze Kit. With lovely pastel spring colours making it ideal for this Easter themed layout. My three children together with their cousins at my parents' house. My sister and I set up an egg hunt in the garden.

From the kit I used:
Celes Gonzalo - Rainbow Avenue collection - Rainbow Avenue
Selection of Rosie's Studio puffy stickers
Rosie's Studio chipboard frames
Bazzill Basics cardstock
- Aqua, Coconut Swirl Blossom, Coastal, Purple Palisades and Pollen

From my stash :
Distress Oxide Inks 
Martha Stewart border punch
Cricut 
Bazzill
Dear Lizzy - Treasures Thickers (glitter, chipboard letter stickers).
Rosie's Studio - Simply Charming puffy alphabet stickers





That's all for today, back with more from this kit soon.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Friday 15 March 2024

Happy First Birthday

My first two layouts made with the March Papermaze Kit are now on the Papermaze blog.  With lovely pastel spring colours making it ideal for birthday and Easter themed layouts.

My first layout is all about Poppy's first birthday party, featuring the balloons and cake, which were a great match for the cardstock in the kit.

For details of what you will find in the kit and how the layout was made, please see the Papermaze blog:

From the kit I used:
selection of P13 stickers
Bazzill Basics cardstock - Aqua, Coconut Swirl, Blossom, Purple Palisades and Pollen

From my own stash I used:
Distress Inks
Tim Holtz Layering (Brush Arch THS168) stencil
Peartree Cutfile
glittery silver cardstock
acetate
white card
Rosie's Studio Simply Charming Sprinkles
Doodlebug Designs Alphabet Soup in Silver
 



That's all for today, back with more from this kit tomorrow.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Saturday 2 March 2024

The Marriage

Here is my fourth and last layout using the romantic Papermaze Kit for February. A more delicate pink layout this time, with a vintage photo. I used embellishments from the kit and my own stash. kit and a few from my own stash. For details on how the layout was made, please see the Papermaze blog.

The photo is one from my parents wedding in 1957.



From the kit I used:


Stamperia - Roseland collection - Flowers
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Love Story collection - 2x2/4x4 Elements
P13 tickets
12" Lace
Vellum
Pinkfresh enamel dots
word stickers


From my stash I added:
pale pink, seam binding ribbon
heart shaped paper clips







That's all from the February kit. Please see back in a few weeks for the first post using the March kit.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Friday 1 March 2024

Cutest Couple

A new layout made using the romantic Papermaze Kit for February.
I have used the red and pink papers this time, Please see the Papermaze blog for details of how the layout was made.
The photo shows my daughter and her boyfriend at the school prom, declared to be the 'Cutest Couple'.



From the kit I used:
Mintay Papers - Happy Birthday collection - MT-HAB-05
Simple Stories - Simple Vintage Love Story collection - 2x2/4x4 Elements & My Heart
Bazzill Basics Cardstock - Cherry Splash 

From my stash I used:
A Paige Evans cutfile of a bunch of balloons
Divine Twine
Ribbon
Thickers 'Be Kind' foam letter stickers

 


 




Back tomorrow with the last layout from this kit.
Thanks for looking.
Lynn x

Saturday 24 February 2024

Alf

I had a good day at the Papermaze Crop today and created this layout, designed by Vanessa. It shows by Great Uncle Alf (Alfted William Humm).

The Crop kit contained:
Kraft Bazzill
49 and Market - Ticket paper
49 and MArket Stripe paper
Stamperia Coffee and Chocolate Labels
Simple Stories - The Simple Life - Tags
49 and MArket - blue paper
49 and MArket - Nature Study - Coloured Foundations #1
2 49 and Market tickets
Paper flower
blue dew drop
12" twine
washi tape

The shared equipment included:
Distress Ink
Mask
Cream Acrylic Paint
Sizzix die

From my stash:
Alphabet stickers





From my Ancestry research and talking to family:

Alfred William Humm
Known as 'Alf'

Born 8th February 1902 in Wandsworth, London to Henry William Humm and Susan Dunn. Alf was one of six children.

Alf married Edna Ellaline Bryan Holder on 26th May 1928.

They had two daughters Joyce and Janet.

Alf died in May 1994 in Eastbourne, Sussex

The complication in our family tree is that Edna's brother Ernest married Alf's sister Winifred (my grandparents)."

Thanks for looking.
Lynn x