Pretty Paper Party - Stash Diving Part 3

On Thursday at my mum's I once again took my original stash diving 'kit' with me and came up with this Layout:



Although initially my plan was to scrap as many Libbi photos as possible, I have been getting so much done within the class that I'm also making great headway into my New York photos from the summer!

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Pretty Paper Party Day 9

Prompt 9 was all about using Kraft cardstock and one other. In one of Shimelle's examples she had used orange as her accent colour, and this seemed perfect to go with my photos, as in my top there were coral colours which could be seen as orange from a distance! I also had plenty of orange scraps from scrapping my wedding over the last couple of years :D

I wanted this page to show the various shots of the Empire State Building taken from Top of the Rock at 30 Rock (Rockerfella Center), and I also thought it was about time I included myself in a LO from the party! The butterflies were from a Martha Stewart punch that I borrowed from my mum, but may need to purchase for myself, and the journaling block was from a Jeni Bowlin booklet (as were the journaling
stickers).



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Pretty Paper Party Day 8

Prompt 8 was all about taking 2 colours and adding a neutral (white, cream, grey or kraft). I just bought this wonderful My LIttle Shoebox paper, so it was perfect for this theme. I chose the yellow as one colour, with pink as the accent from the little birds. Althuogh the other little birds were almost a kraft colour the kraft cardstock I had seemed the wrong shade to work with this paper, so I went with grey instead, adding a little grey in amongst the embellishment blocks. Most of the paper strips and circular shapes are pink, so I added a bit more yellow through the title stickers (two styles of American Crafts Thickers) and the little birds, from the Dear Lizzy range.



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Pretty Paper Party - Day 7

Prompt 7 at the party was all about different ways to mix patterns. You could mix within a collection, using similar shapes and patterns, or by finding another collection that was a natural match. I decided to use a variety of floral patterns, mostly from My Mind's Eye but then liked the colour match from the Dear Lizzy manuscript paper as well! I then paired this with some chipboard embellishments from that same collection.

Once again I am back to scrapping photos for Libbi's album, so pink is a key colour :D

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Pretty Paper Party - Stash Diving part 2

Yesterday (Saturday) my dad came round to help Carl in the garden so I took the opportunity to teach my mum the principles of stash diving. She loved it and managed to produce 3 layouts in under two hours.

At the same time I made another 4 layouts from my 'kit' and started to put another one together, choosing the papers and starting the cutting.

Here are the 4 other layouts I produced:



The blank space on this one was left so I can ask Joshua exactly why he loves the Hiro book more than the others!



This is another one for Josh's album. Although he has many more layouts than Libbi, it is still severely lacking!





These last two layouts were the start of my New York album from our trip this summer.

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Pretty Paper Party Day 5

Friday's prompt was all about edges - in this LO I used a combination of border punches, tore some pieces of paper and used a lot of Distress Ink! I also used the idea of making a sewn edge mini book to hold additional photos.



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Pretty Paper Party Day 4

Last night I finally got caught up with all the other day's prompts so when I got home from work I was able to crack on with the enw one. Today it was all about mixing spots and stripes - it turns out I definitely have a big thing going on for yellow at the moment, along with several other bright colours - I guess that comes from having such smiley nieces and nephews to scrap :D



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Pretty Paper Party Day 3

On Day 3 Shimelle shared with us a prompt, all about concentrating page elements together, and a limited edition video that taught us how to carry out "Stash Diving" in order to get the most from our supplies, and to stop us from being afraid to cut our favourite pretty papers. It also taught us the mantra "Use it while you love it!"

I decided to dive right in with the idea and selected papers from the brown/yellow/teal/red colour palette. It wasn't the palette I was originally going to go for but I found I didn't have a great deal of grey to go with my yellow and teal.

The first picture shows my papers before they were cut, and the second is after I had chopped them all up, according to Shimelle's instructions:





As the video suggests, I started big, making a double layout first. I scraplifted the placement of papers from Shimelle's own layout on the video as I am never totally confident on the positioning over a double. However, with the completely different colour scheme, embellishments and subject it looks completely different!



I am looking forward to seeing how much more I can make from this pile, and will definitely use this method again.

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Pretty Paper Party Day 2

Yesterday was day 2 of Shimelle's Pretty Paper Party class and the prompt was all about using a patterned paper as a background sheet instead of plain cardstock. I immediately went to my American Crafts A La Carte box as I knew there would be lots of suitable prints in there. I then looked through my scraps and chose a couple of papers from the Dear Lizzie range, which I love! Again I was trying to choose photos of Libbi, and I am loving yellow right now so this had to be my background. I then decided on the green as it matched the colour of Oscar's T-shirt exactly. Finally I added a pink and white flower print, as well as using the opposite side which was the same pink in a block colour.

I finished up the principle of using my stash while I love it by adding embellishments from a giant K&co box that I got at Costco about 2 years ago! I had been saving the 3D butterflies and flowers but decided they would work well on this layout - I am really pleased I used them.

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Pretty Paper Party Day 1

Party Ring Princess



So today our challenge was to use strips of paper and I started by digging out my scraps drawer. I already knew which photo I wanted to use, as I am aiming to get lots of layouts of Libbi completed, as well as a couple of Joshua.

The colours of the crown and the party ring biscuit led me straight to the pinks and yellows. It turned out I had much more in the way of pink, so I used the yellow for the base card (American Crafts) and the accent features. I also decided to use American Crafts princess stamps to create embellishments, and added punched circles from the bright pink spotty Bo Bunny paper (luckily it was double sided so I could use the plain and the spotty!).

I am off out again tonight, so tomorrow I will do today's prompt alongside the new one. Really enjoying having the opportunity to scrap in the early evening - thanks Shimelle!

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Pretty Paper Party Day 1 Ice Breaker

So today is the first day of the Pretty Paper Party and our first prompt was to take a photograph of our paper. I love paper pads, although I do mix and match from collections, so I decided to layer up lots of my paper pads for this photo. On top had to be my current favourite, Tim Holtz's Kraft stack :D

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Sketch by Shimelle - Layout 2

I really liked this week's sketch from http://www.shimelle.com/ so I used it twice! This layout shows photos from Father's Day earlier this year.

I have also started a layout from the "Starting Point" at Shimelle's website for this week but it isn't quite finished.

Tomorrow is the first day of Pretty Paper Party, so I'm really looking forward to that too!

Find the original sketch here: http://www.shimelle.com/paper/1261/scrapbooking-sketch-of-the-week/

Sketch by Shimelle - Layout 1

I realised recently that I have only got 2 or 3 completed layouts of Libbi. She suffers from being the youngest of my nieces and nephews, each of whom have progressively less in their albums! As such I decided to use this sketch to start to rectify that. I also used some of my gorgeous Tim Holtz stamps for the first time.

Find the original sketch here: http://www.shimelle.com/paper/1261/scrapbooking-sketch-of-the-week/

Pretty Paper Party

So I've signed up for another class at www.shimelle.com. This one is all about pretty papers and, seeing as these are some of my favourite things in the world of scrapbooking, it was very hard to resist!

With half term coming up only 5 days after the class begins, there is no reason for me not to keep up :D