Pinkfresh Studio Some Days

 

Hi everyone, Dolly here. 

It's been quite a week in our house as our kitchen has been ripped out and there is mess and stuff everywhere and I am fed up of living on sandwiches and takeaways but having new lovely lush papers to work with cheered me up no end. The Pinkfresh Studios Some Days are lovely - really thick quality paper and so much fun to work with from the small images perfect for the fussy cutters to the bold prints and the gorgeous soft florals. 

 

I have three pages to share so far and, as they are all for my 2021 album which is A4, something a little bit different than my usual 12" x 12"  

This one is the obligatory selfie and vaccination card as I really did feel it was something to celebrate and gace us a little bit of hope. 

 

 

You know how I love fussy cutting so the florals were a perfect fit for me 

 

 

I loved that the collection included little houses and shops and I really wanted to use them. So this was a bittongue in cheek. No shops we can browse around at the moment so we are enjoying our time on our local heath instead. 

More fussy cutting - which I find very theraputic

 

 

 

 

 

and as those two worked with the pastels it was fun to aing it up with the bright yellow 

 

 

I hope you get the chance to check out the collection because it really is lovely. 

Now I am off back to sawdust and making endless cups of tea!

March Virtual Crop Class 3 with Mel

 Hello and welcome to the final class of today's Virtual Crop.

I worked with the Chasing Adventures collection from Jen Hadfield and reminisced about a time when we could go on holiday with some 2019 photos!

Although there is a travel and adventure element to these papers you could easily adapt the projects to suit photos from adventures closer to home (or walks - let's face it we have all done a lot of those!)

Here is one of the layouts

Click HERE for instructions and the second layout.

Don't forget to share what you have made over on the ATDML # Create Facebook page.

March 21 Virtual Crop Class with Ann

Happy Sunday crafty ones. I hope we find you in good spirits today joining in our March Virtudal crop.

Today I have created two layouts and a little fold out book with the fun Simple Stories Bro & Co which whilst a predominatly teen boy range can be used as I have shown for any subjects. I still have much of the kit contents left over so you can definately make all that I am sharing plus more.

Click HERE to download the instructions and enjoy the rest of your Sunday.

Ann

March Virtual Crop Class by Karen Leahy

 Hello everyone and - well dare I say it... officially welcome to Spring as we hit the spring equinox. 

Here's to better weather, a good summer and, hopefully, a more normal way of living on the horizon. 

I have a class for you today using the gorgeous PinkFresh Studio Days of Splendor and there are two pages for you to create with plenty of bits and pieces left over. 

This is one of the two pages making full use of the chevron papers and yes - my two baby boys feature on this one.

I hope that you enjoy the two pages and please do share your creations in our facebook group. 

You can find my instructions here 

Have fun everyone and happy Spring.

Going Vintage

 

Hello, I thought I would share some vintage pages using the beautiful Vintage Ancestry collection from Simple Stories.  I decided to stick to heritage photos for these pages and it is really easy to scan them in with phones and get a decent print.   For my first page I have a picture of my great grand parents, and I decided to cut out the edge of the large yellow flower so that it could overlap with the photo, the same with the butterfly wings, so I carefully used a craft knife and looked at which parts I needed to cut to be able to slide my photos underneath.  I also added in some of the frames, a bit of lace and collection of flowers that pulled the colours from the papers.  I chose a crocheted flower as Nan (my Great Grandma) loved a bit of knitting or crocheting so it reminded me of her, I made the poppy using chiffon and carefully burnt the edges of it with a candle - it is 3 hand-cut circles, decreasing in size with a brad in the centre.  I chose the poppy as this was part of how my great grand parents met - Teddy was carried to safety by Nan's brother in the First World War.

Here  you can see the flowers up close - I also used a vintage button for the centre of my crochet flower.

This shows the details on the papers up close and some of the co-ordinating chipboard.

For my second page I wanted to add lots of photos so went with a more modern style, but tried to keep to the heritage theme.  I cut out several of the cards that you get on the papers - a mix of 4" square and 2" squares.  I arranged them with my photos and left one for the journalling.  This is a more recent photo and was the coronation of Elizabeth and here you can see my Mum and her sister all dressed up for the occasion by my Grandma!  There is also a larger picture of the street part where they are down the from in more normal attire!

The colours in these papers are so pretty, I love the pops of blue and red.

I hope that has inspired you to dig out some older photos and write down the stories behind them!