Bethinking

Our Family

Many people have commented that the photo on my Blog of my family only shows two children. In fact, we have three children, and have done so for over three years now. Clearly it's time to rectify the omission of Annabelle from our family photo!

So, here's my new scrapbook page of my family, using my favourite Sale-A-Bration product, the Everyday Enchantment designer series paper. I've also used some of the gorgeous coordinating ribbons & brads, and the Elementary Elegance stamp set, which makes a lovely journalling block for a scrapbook page.

Scrapbooking Alice

I've really been enjoying scrapbooking through January - so much so that when I tried to make some cards the other day I was a bit lost about how to start!

Duck's work Christmas party had an Alice in Wonderland theme this year. We had some great costumes to wear {thanks so much, Sylvie & Nat for the loans!} but because it was so dark inside the venue the photos weren't fantastic. I still wanted to use them, though, so decided to print them quite small. This sketch from Big Picture Classes worked well for them, and I stamped and embossed some hearts on the background paper, then sprayed and spritzed over the top of that with Smooch Spritz and a marker. I also used the Artistic Etchings and Notably Ornate stamp sets to create my journalling panel and a few embellishments. This page was a little bit different for me, but I loved how it turned out!

Trick or Treat!

Last year on Halloween we went Trick or Treating for the first time. It was pretty memorable due to the torrential rain that completely soaked us, but still fun!

The best part about it, from a papercrafting viewpoint, was the fact that it meant I had some photos to scrapbook, so I could use some of the Halloween themed stamps and papers that I've got, which don't normally see a lot of action. The papers that I've used here are called "Frightful Sight", and I've used those for the background patterns and also to create the title banner. I stamped a few little pumpkin accents and added some leaves and paper curls to those. The other fun thing was using some doily paper as a mask to spritz on the journalling block - it gave it a silvery cob-webby kind of feel. The page was based on a sketch from a class that I'm doing over at Big Picture Classes, with Nic Howard and May Flaum.

Stamps used: Button Buddies, Got Treats, Just Perfect Alphabet.

 

Circus Party

Felicity had a circus themed party earlier this year, so it's fantastic that Stampin' Up! have circus themed papers and stamps in their new catalogue! This was a really fun page to scrap. It's based on a sketch for a class that I'm doing {Double Take with Nic Howard & May Flaum} over at Big Picture Classes.

I'm loving creating banners on my pages at the moment. It's really easy using the Petite Pennant Punch, which can cut out triangle pennants & scallop edged pennants together.

Supplies Used

Stamps: Sweets for the Sweet, Under the Big Top, Just Perfect Alphabet

Paper: Whisper White, Under the Big Top dsp, Domestic Goddess dsp, Flirtatious dsp.

Punches: Petite Pennant, circle punches

Accessories: Vanilla Smooch spritz, brights buttons, glimmer brads, ribbon, colour spritzer, glitter

French Day

Each year Felicity's school celebrates "French Day". Last year they held a French themed parade, so Felicity dressed up as Queen Celeste, from the Babar the Elephant stories. I don't think people immediately realised why she was an elephant for a French parade, but she got used to explaining it!

It's fantastic for me that Stampin' Up! has some lovely French style stamps at the moment, so I used En Francais to stamp the French script writing for my title letters, and Artistic Etchings to create some accents for the page. Rather than using the traditional bright red, white and blue, I was able to tone these colours down by using Riding Hood Red and Not Quite Navy, which was better for the colour range in my photos. Some coordinating ribbon and dsp, plus a few vintage style trinkets finished off the page!

 

 

Botannical Gazette

I am loving the Botanical Gazette range of papers, and the matching Nature Walk stamp set that are in the Autumn Winter mini catalogue. I loved how the colours of the papers went so well with the dress that Felicity was wearing in this photo - they were calling out to be scrapbooked together!

I've been using these papers and stamps a lot lately - even though I haven't been blogging much, I have been creating! If you haven't seen the mini catalogue for yourself, then please drop me a note (mail@elisabethstewart.com) and I'd love to put one in the post for you.

Presto Scrapbooking

Being an English teacher in my previous before-I-had-kids life, I love that one of the sheets of the Presto Patterns paper has a script font with excerpts from A Midsummer Night's Dream. I was trying to find some photos of my girls dressed up as fairies to scrapbook with the paper, but came across this picture of Felicity and decided to use it instead. I was following a sketch from a class that I've been taking over at Big Picture Classes.

I sponged the paper with Pretty in Pink and Concord Crush ink to get this effect. It's a bit different from my normal "clean" scrapbooking style, but it was fun playing around and I love the end result.

Also, I wantedto use the Sale-A-Bration stamp set "Bliss" to decorate the page, so I've used that down in the bottom right hand corner. This is definitely my favourite of the Sale-A-Bration stamp sets! I'd made a card that was very similar to this a couple of days before, and decided that it would also work on this page. I love how card making and scrapbooking so often go hand in hand.

 

Swing

This picture of Annabelle is so typical of her - she loves to swing by lying with her tummy on the swing, so we often get this view of her gorgeous little nappy-covered bottom and grubby feet!

I based my layout for this page on the Case Study challenge for this week, CSC09. The card made by Barbara was beautiful, and I've used my photo as the focal point instead of her main stamped panel. I've also changed up the flower for a butterfly, but I think that it still works!

I think that this combination of Pretty in Pink, Marina Mist and Daffodil Delight {suggested to me by my Colour Coach!} will be getting a lot of use in my house - it satisfies Felicity's need for Pink, Emily's need for Yellow and my need for Blue.

Here's a close up of the butterflies, just in case you're interested in how they look!

Vintage Carousel

 At Darling Harbour in Sydney there's a beautiful vintage-style carousel. I've had these photos sitting around for a little while, and when I saw the Music Note paper in the "Newsprint" DSP pack, I thought that it would be perfect for this page. I wanted to fit all 5 photos on the page, so it's a little crowded, but I thought that was better than leaving one off and then having that single photo kicking around on my desk waiting to be used by itself!

I also used some of the music dsp to create the scallop flower accent. It's a little hard to see in my dodgy photo of the page, but there's also an edge done with the new "Scallop Trim" border punch, which is available in the new Idea Book and Catalogue.

Supplies Used

Stamps: Artistic Etchings

Cardstock: Pink Pirouette, Crumb Cake, Soft Suede, Very Vanilla, newsprint DSP

Accessories: Scallop border punch, scallop trim border punch, Very Vanilla taffeta ribbon, Big Shot alphabet, pink button, corner rounder punch and Carousel tickets [those are not available to purchase from me... you'll have to visit Darling Harbour for yourself!}

Hoppity

I like scrapbooking about the ordinary things in life, not just big events. One day, Felicity spent a long time hopping. Not for any particular reason, but just because she felt like hopping. The photos I took weren't fabulous, but the memory was still worth recording.

I made this layout using the Sunny Day Simply Scrappin' Kit, so the layout came together so quickly. As embellishments, I added glitter to some Sticky Cut shapes, and it was done. I used one of our favourite A. A. Milne poems for the title, so I included that on the page as well. Felicity loved the layout!