A Touch of Frost and Cute As A Jenson

Still trying to use up all the bits of paper left over from Emma Trout's One Wish kit, the top layout is made up of lot of the scraps and although you can't tell from the layout, many of the strips of paper are tiny and only just hide behind the surrounding papers. The photo is of my daughter's best friend Maddi, at that Blackpool waxworks again. I've done some journalling and tucked it away on a tag on the right hand side of the photo. I decided not to go mad with the embellishments on this layout as the last few and the next one are embellishment heavy so I wanted a cleaner look. Decided to use some really old, clear, plastic snowflake embellisments from Heidi Swapp as masks to spray with some glimmer mist. I've added one of the snowflakes to the layout with a brad and used some old thickers for the title. Still got lots more scraps left, think I can get at least one more layout out of it.

The second layout was an excuse to gaze at the gorgeous Mr Jenson Button, my gorgeous F1 motor racing hero (who came 2nd in the first Indian Grand Prix today) and also to have a good play with the new Martha Stewart double embossing button punch. I bought this punch from an ebayer in the USA as I couldn't seem to find any over this side of the pond. The papers were part of a kit I bought a few months back and the temperature gauges and the stars seemed to go with the Jenson theme. I think I might have gotten a little bit giddy punching the buttons but I enjoyed playing with my new punch and that's what it is all about.

Beautiful You

Another layout made with the leftovers from Emma Trout's One Wish kit from Scrapstars. I really wanted to try the paint dabbing technique she taught at the retreat so I got out a couple of stencils and some of the left overs andthe result is above. I think it all goes together, it's stuck down so it's tough if it doesn't - lol!!!! I still have enough paper left to do one if not two more layouts with it. It's become a bit of a challenge to see how many layouts I can create before the papers are all used up, I might even get a card or two out of it.

The Dame Edna Experience

This is the second layout I have done using the left overs from the One Wish kit by Emma Trout from the Scrapstars Retreat. The papers are from Webster's Pages Western Romance range. The photo was taken by my daughter of her friend Maddi at Tussauds in Blackpool recently. I love the colours of the papers, the blue gems on the cowboy boots match the colour of Edna's dress, Maddi's denim jacket matches the other greeny-blues papers and the colour of Edna's hair matches the purple in the papers.

One Wish

This is another class project from the fabulous Scrapstars Retreat in September. This project was created by the wonderful Emma Trout using the gorgeous Western Romance paper range by Websters Pages. Inside the little glass bottle there is a wish for my daughter Louise, can't tell you what it says as wishes are supposed to be secret. Louise didn't even mind posing in a cowboy hat for the photo to go inside the little CD case on the layout. There were alot of part sheets of paper left in this kit so I added a couple of sheets of white Bazzill and managed to do another two more 12 x 12 layouts with the left overs. Neither have photos on them yet, might have to see if Louise continues to be co-operative and pose for some more photos. Right, off to find another retreat kit to finish. Trying to take my time with them, doing extra layouts with the left overs before moving on to the next kit.

Kirsty's Flip Flap Scrap Page

This is the second project that was taught by Kirsty Wiseman at the wonderful Scrapstars Retreat in September. It is a layout with a mini album that folds out from the centre of the page and gives you lots of spaces to put photos. I wasn't sure how I felt about the papers when I first saw them, yellow and grey aren't my favourite colours to scrap but by adding some black to the mix I absolutely love the result. Deffo one of my favourite projects of the weekend. I filled the album with photographs taken at the retreat. Kirsty brought some punches to the class and she had a Martha Stewart Double Embossed Button punch that we used to punch lots of buttons to use on the layout, I used them in the centre of some of the flowers on the front of the layout. I loved the punch so much and couldn't find one in the UK so I have ordered one from the USA, hoping it comes soon cos the buttons it makes are gorgeous, so much easier to carry a punch in my tote that a box of buttons.