Gingham Farm Layout with a Tutorial

Hello everyone!

I'm excited to be back again to show you more of the Gingham Farm collection by My Mind's Eye. This time I used a picture of my daughter's artwork. She drew some family portraits and they were so cute, I wanted to make sure I preserved them. I cropped the photographs I took of her artwork and placed them in frames or on journal cards. I realised that the stripped paper looked like wall paper so I decided to hang my pictures on a wall!

Step 1: Fussy cut the flowers.

Here is the paper with the flowers before I cut them out.

Here are the flowers cut out.

Step 2: Add a few pieces of chipboard on top.

Step 3: Crop the photos to fit the following frames. Add journaling cards to make them pop off the background. Add some die cuts and wood pieces. Poke a hole in each frame and add a brad so it looks like the frames are hanging on the wall.

Step 4: Add a border along the top. Use a thin strip of black cardstock to separate the border from the "wallpaper".

Step 5: Add a background rectangle of paper. I really hummed and hawed over whether to add this because I felt that all the black and white might get lost but I didn't want to have an awkward rectangle on my wall. In the end, I wanted some extra colour so I kept it.

Step 6: Add a title. These are Dear Lizzy Thickers that are also available in the Scrap Shotz shop. Just be careful not to bend them too much or the gold gets creases.

Step 7: Play around with the placement of your different pieces. The flowers above are in the brad set. The wood piece was to cover a word on the frame that didn't go with my theme.

Here is the result of moving things around to see how they looked.

Step 8: Add journaling and the date. I always do this. I keep scrapbooks by year so I need to have the date somewhere otherwise I can't remember where it goes.

I felt like the green rectangle looked like it was a bit misplaced so I thought I would do faux stitching with a pen around the border. However, I thought it might be fun to do something different so I used some black embroidery thread to make x's to make it look like the rectangle is part of the wall.

Here is the final layout again:

Aside from my daughter drawing my face with an insane sunburn, I like how it turned out.

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Thanks for following along with me! Have a great day!





Gingham Farm Scrapbook Layout

Hello everyone!

It's Carolyn here for my first Scrap Shotz post! It is so wonderful to be a part of this scrapbooking community. Let me tell you about a really neat, new line by My Mind's Eye. It is called Gingham Farm. It is black, white and grey with a hint of light green and teal. It is unlike any other line out there. You can use the pieces as a base and add colour or use it as is. I decided to make my first layout using much of the collection as it is. It is very easy to do - check it out below.

I began with a white piece of cardstock. I cut a thick strip of the plaid paper for the border and another smaller strip from black cardstock. I used a stencil to cut the wavy shape. I glued them down and tied a piece of black and white twine around the papers. Here is what the paper kit looks like. It also comes with a sticker sheet. Click here to see this product in store.

Next, I used a paper from the kit and two journal cards to frame my picture. I layered another two journal cards in the corner to write about my picture. Click here to find them in the store. Here is a close-up of one of the cards.

I used lots of ephemera on this layout! The titles, corner flowers and tags can all be found here in the store. Another favourite embellishment of mine is chipboard. I used it under and over my picture to help frame it but also to pop it up off the page. Here is how it looks:

Here is the chipboard that can be found in the store. This is one sheet. There is another on the other side.

Thanks so much for taking a look at my post! I'll be back soon with some more Gingham Farm goodness! Have a great day!

 

And so the Countdown Begins!

It's almost December 1 and if your household is anything like mine, we start decorating for Christmas and we count down the days to Christmas. This year, I decided to make a project that I have wanted to for years but never had time! LOL A set of countdown blocks! It would help build the anticipation and excitement for my girls and help my littlest with counting backwards.

Here are my countdown blocks.

The blocks are from Making Memories; they are called Photo Cubes. (Sandy did carry these and if you are interested, send her a quick email.) Other supplies are as follows: My Minds' Eye (pattern paper); Daisy Bucket (chipboard plaque); unknown source (alphas, pattern paper scraps from previous Scrap Shotz kits, various accents); Tattered Angels glimmer mist; Close To My Heart and Kaisercraft (gems); American Crafts (silver photo corners); Basic Grey (alphas on plaque); Fancy Pants (chipboard holly).

Here is a close-up of the plaque.

The chipboard alphas are from Basic Grey - Periphery line and have been liberally sprayed with glimmer mist!

And a close-up of the countdown blocks.

The number sequence on the blocks are 0 to 5 for the first block and 0, 1, 2, 6, 7, 8 for the second block. Choose a 6 that can be flipped to look like a 9.

I hope I have inspired you to get into the Christmas spirit! If you make a set of countdown blocks, please link me up!

What's on Your Mind?

I am sitting here with a wee frown on my face, staring in disbelief at the snow falling. What happened to fall??

Just to capture a few more moments of summer, at least until the chinook in Alberta hits, is a layout using the yummy My Mind's Eye, Bloom and Grow Collection Pack. The fancy edge was created using the Fiskars Apron Lace Border Punch. The journaling is a Jenni Bowlin journal spot from a previous Scrap Shotz kit and the brads are from an older Basic Grey brad pack. Of course, I used thickers for the title! Lastly, I used a Copics Multiliner Black Pen 0.5 to create the stitching around the circles and die cut flowers.

I hope this layout makes you feel a bit warmer!