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Heritage Scrapbooking.............

 

I have been very lucky to have been given so many beautiful family photos which I am trying to preserve for my children and the future.  This is a gorgeous treasure of my mother as a child when she was living in Edinburgh, I was so luck that my grandfather was a photographer!!  I wanted to keep this page simple as I think the beauty of this photograph speaks for itself. 

I have absolutely loved all these stamps out of the new Autumn Mini since I saw them so I had to give them a go on a Scrapbooking Page.  I have used Kraft Cardstock, mounted the photo on Choc Chip, then used the 1" Stitched Choc Chip ribbon, with some Rich Razzleberry Ribbon.  I have stamped the 'Medallion' stamp in Rich Razzleberry (one of my favourite colours - it will be staying in the new Catalogue!!) and a couple of flowers from the 'Vintage Vogue' set and cut them out and put a couple together with a 'Filigree' designer brad with a clear Rhinestone and attached them with dimensionals.  I have also run across the bottom of the page with the 'Very Vintage' roller in Choc Chip, stamped the floral border in the 'Vintage Vogue' set in Choc Chip and put that on the ribbon and thats it!!  Too easy!!

This is such a wonderful way to turn the treasures tucked away in a box into a lovely book for generations to come to flick through and remember special people who are no longer with them!!!!!

Happy Scrapping, Sam

All I want for Christmas is my 2 front teeth!

This scrapbooking page is of my gorgeous little boy, as soon as his front teeth fell out I knew I had to do a scrap page!!  It is amazing how good photos look when you blow them up!  This page was so simple to create, although it does use a few different techniques.  The baubles are circles cut from 'Ski Slope' DSP from the Spring Mini (which is unfortunately unavailable) with 1/4" Choc Chip Ribbon.

The words are printed on Old Olive card on the computer, 'teeth' is stamped on Gloss White Card with 'Big Deal Alphabet' in Old Olive.  The tag out the side of the photo is hand written on a 'Curly Label' Punch.

The final piece is the star strip down the right side which was created useing Gloss White Card, rolling it with 'Classic Stars' Jumbo Roller in Versamark.  Then load your 'Brayer' with Baja Breeze ink and roll backwards and forwards from end to end until you're happy with the coverage.  This technique is a fantastic one to use to create your own patterned paper!!!! 

And I almost forgot the final piece, was 'Christmas' Stamped with 'Many Merry Messages' and sprinkled with Dazzling Diamonds.

Happy Scrapping, Sam!!!