Time for a Change

Hi there - Karen here with a quick little post on how I changed some of the papers and elements for this months gallery.

Firstly, for my Jubilee Cupcakes layout,

 

 I cut all the cups and saucers from the Graphic 45  Kraft Reflections - Tea for Two and layerd them onto my page .

 

I felt it needed more more colour and so took inspiration from the Union flag and coloured the cups and saucers blue and red with water colour pencils.

I found that the paper took the colour really well and I was able to blend the colours out with a water brush.

For the Beach Baby page

 

I only had black letters in the size I wanted to use

and these looked too stark against the muted colours of the page.  I stamped them with white ink

and a text stamp similar to these ones

and this had the effect of toning down the black and making them blend in with the feel of the page more.

So there you have it - don't always settle for what the manufacturers give you, mix it up a bit to make it your own!

Seussing it up!

With the imminent departure of my daughter to university, I wanted to give her a little surprise mini album that would make her smile and give her some subtle advise. Who better to turn to than Dr Seuss? I wanted to make a quick and inexpensive project so I used a card blank to make the covers, white card-stock off cuts for the pages and covered it all with papers from a 6 x 6 pad. On reflection the pages would have been sturdy enough using just photographs with the patterned paper glued to the back. The text blocks were printed on tracing paper but vellum would have looked better.

So here is my 'Wisdom of Dr Seuss'.

I also cut two acetate pages and put a white rub-on on each of them but

you could always use a stamp and white Staz-On ink

For this page I made a little pocket and tag.

I wished I had used this paper for the front

but hey-ho you live and learn.

A 6 x 6 pad is ideal for making mini albums, cards or even putting the pieces together to make a 12 x 12 page. I used the beautiful and quite girly (very appropriate if you know Gracia) Lime Twist - Happy Go Lucky pad, but there are pads to suit every taste and type of mini album.