A Winnie the Pooh Christmas

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday! Today I'm sharing a Christmas card made with the fabulous Winnie the Pooh Christmas collection. As well as designing her own papers, Sally also stocks other collections, and this one is from Echo Park. 

Isn't this a cutie!! The papers are 6x6 and the pad has a massive 48 sheets! (watch this space for an album next month)

The pads also contain journalling cards so it's really easy to make a topper for a card.

I've also added a chipboard sticker in the corner.

The papers are a full 6x6, and they also have a header, so I've used these to make the little banners.

There are sentiment sheets too, so it's the perfect little card for a friend's toddler for Christmas.

This is a full collection with stamps, stickers, chipboard and 12x12 papers, and the best bit is that it's in the sale!!!!

I've used

6x6 mega pad

Chipboard Accents

I'd like to say that I've made all of my Christmas cards, but I would be telling big, fat, lies!!

Take care, and enjoy the rest of your weekend xx

It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Yep it's getting around to that time of year again, so here comes the Christmas crafting lol. This card's been made with the beautiful Sam's Seasonal Collection for Relatively Thoughtful.

I really like this collection, it has such a traditional but not old-fashioned feel to it!

I printed the sheets a couple of times so that I could cut around the foliage and layer it up.

I've had this Tim Holtz Bigz die since time began, and he comes out every Christmas. I rather like his dapper frock-coat, I would definitely wear one of these!

He's been layered up with lots of different papers.

And I've added a bit of bling, 'cos it's Christmas!

As always the collection is available in both A4 and digital formats.

A4 Collection

Digital Collection

Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend xx

Happy Anniversary

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm really happy to be sharing an anniversary card made with the beautiful Romance Forever collection from Stamperia.

This is such a beautiful collection, perfect for weddings and anniversaries.

There are also matching chipboard ephemera pieces as you can see from this fabulous chunky watch face.

The colours are so gentle, and the papers take inks and heat embossing beautifully. 

There are lots of smaller pieces of ephemera, such as these butterflies.

Isn't this flower spray stunning. It's from Little Birdie and there are many different ones in the store.

The collection can be found here.

Romance Forever 8x8 pad

Chipboard Ephemera
Little Birdie Flowers

Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend xx

Summer and Autumn in the Relatively Thoughtful Designers Challenge

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm sharing my Summer and Autumn pages in my G45 Interactive album. These have been made for the Relatively Thoughtful Designers Challenge, using the beautiful Season to Celebrate collection. There are papers for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter.

The colours are fabulous, so vibrant, and I have made a page for every month of the year, starting with a Wintery January one.

The whole collection can be found here in the store.

Black Interactive Binder

Season to Celebrate Patterns and Solids 12x12

Season to Celebrate 8x8 collection

Ephemera Cards 6x4

Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend x

Happy Diwali

 Good morning, a very happy Sunday, and a happy Diwali. Today I'm sharing a double tri-fold card made with the beautiful, new Diwali collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

Paul Lang-Ford is doing a monthly 'homework' challenge and this style of card is the topic for this month.

This collection is amazing, the colours are so bright and vibrant.

The images are beautiful, such elegant ladies.

There are pages of cut-aparts like these gorgeous flowers.

What a handsome chap!

As always the collection is available in both digital and A4 formats, as well as American sizes.

A4 paper collection

A4 Digital collection

Papercrafting With Paul

Take care and enjoy the rest of your day whatever you are doing x

The Masquarade Ball

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm really happy to be sharing a pin-wheel tower card made with the fabulous Masquerade Ball collection from Relatively Thoughtful.

As always the collection is full of gorgeous background papers and images.

I guess that we all wish that we looked like these two lol.

Pass me my fan darling...

These are some of the fabulous cut-aparts.

This folds flat for postage (but it does need quite a big envelope) lol.

This is everything that I used - all that fussy cutting, but I think it was worth it.

As always the collection is available in both digital and A4 collections.

Digital

A4 collection

Take care and enjoy the rest of your weekend x

RT Designer's Challenge Winter and Spring

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm really happy to be sharing my Winter and Spring pages from my Graphic 45 album.

I chose the interactive ring-bound album for the designer's challenge, along with the Season to Celebrate collection.

This is my first page. I wanted to start with the photo's straight away, so my first one will be in January. This means that there are 2 Winter seasons in the album, one at the front, and one at the back.

This page is also a pocket page, with room for a 3x4 photo. The flap opposite has room for a 6x4 photo.

And this is the page opened out. As you can see there's space for a 5x7 photo, and lots more space in the pocket.

This is another flip page that lives at the back of the album. Room for 2 3x4 photos and a 5x7.

This is the final page and the back cover. Again space for loads of photos.

Next come my spring pages. The same format of pages just follows through. The back of Winter is done in Spring colours so that there is a double page layout.

This time we have space for a 4x4 photo and a 7x5.

This is the page opened out. I think the journal cards and chipboard ephemera look beautiful here.

Here's another flip page with a pocket added.

The last of the Spring pages has spaces for 2 7x5 and a 6x4 photo.

Everything in these pages can be found here in Sally's store.

Black binder album

Season to Celebrate Patterns and Solids 12x12
Season to Celebrate 8x8 Collection pack

Ephemera Cards

I hope you like what I've done with the album so far, and I'll be back next month to show you my Summer and Autumn pages x

RT Designers Challenge A Walkthrough of the Covers

 Good morning and a very happy Sunday. Today I'm sharing the first photos from my ring-bound album.

I started by making my pages. There were 3 of each sort in the binder, but as I had a calendar collection, I needed four, one for Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. There were spare blank pages in the album, so a bit of measuring and some tape, and we were good to go!

Next, I sorted out my papers into their seasonal collection too. I'll show you the pages another time.

This is the front cover. It's made with the Winter main design, one of the journaling cards, and some of the Little Birdie flowers.

And the back cover is made from one of the Autumn sheets, a journal card, and some of the chipboard ephemera.

As you can see it's a large album.

And it's crammed inside with pages, pockets, flips, and flaps!

I've also made a booklet for each season. I've just folded a piece of 8.5 x 2.25 black card and added a couple of journal cards. These will now take 2 6x4 photos each.

I've also created many tags using the scraps. These are also G45 and will take a range of photo sizes from 2x2 to a trimmed-down 6x4.

This is some of the kit that I've used. From Distress Inks for inking the edges, to dies for the photos and tags. I've also used every kind of adhesive that you can imagine, including permanent glue for the pages and repositionable glue for sticking down the embellishments where photos will need to go underneath.

Here's a sneaky peek at the front inside cover.

I wanted to be able to add my favourite photos straight away next year, so I'll be starting with January.

These Little Birdie flowers are absolutely beautiful!

Everything in the album can be found here in Sally's store.

G45 Binder Album with interactive pages

Graphic 45 Season to Celebrate 8x8 collection

Graphic 45 Season to Celebrate patterns and solids 12x12 collection

Season to Celebrate Ephemera (journal cards)

Chipboard Ephemera

Little Birdie flowers

I'll be back next week and show you some of my Winter and Spring pages xx