All boy

I think this is one of my favourite pages with the Simple Stories Awesome papers from ATDML (gosh that was a sentence!).  I still really like the sunburst effect (to the extent that I have a couple more of this style of page lined up for you too).  I work out the size of my rectangle on a piece of scrap paper and then use it as a template for my patterned papers.  For this one I stitched around the edges and then layered up one of the 4 by 6 papers (says Today down the side), a journal tab and bingo card.  I was also very thrifty as I removed some of the paper that wouldn't be seen behind the photo and then used my ek success punch to make a pulled out book page style thing.

We got given a whole sheet of the stickers from this range, I have really enjoyed using them, and it's definitely something I will look out for in the future.  I added a small sticker banner at the top of the page, some stars, a bit of a sticker strip of stars and cogs and a little 'rock' banner.  I also added some Tando chipboard stars which I left their natural grey and then added some silver stickles to.  I punched out some little stars from sticker sheet too and stuck those on, the alpha is are some chocolate thickets and I added a few splashes of brown cosmic shimmer mist. 

The photo is an old one when we went to Kilve beach and tho it was a windy and wet day I really like the photos and the light, as well as all those pebbles/rocks in the background.  If you want to see more Simple Stories pages then the DT gallery is here.

The cake is on fire

I love Simple Stories and this is their really boy Awesome range of papers which were also in my pack from ATDML.....I feel I have to explain the photo and the title 1st.  It is a shot of my son blowing out the candles on his birthday cake - the photo isn't a good one but it did make us smile as the cake looks positively a blaze and it's not like he is a teenager or even near yet!

I die cut the words out using a mix of fonts on my silhouette and then backed it with some brown cardstock.  I mounted the photo on some vellum and slotted behind it one of the bingo cards and added some of the sticker tapes that come on the sticker sheet.  I cut out Live life on the edge from one of the 6 by 4 pieces and made my own journal card - using the sticker sheet as a template to make the slightly more fancy tab.  I ran a couple of lines of stitching down the main die cut piece and just embellished with stickers.  It was a really quick page to put together, which the papers really lend themselves too as all the fancy bits are in the designs.

I've still got some more creations to show....so I'll be back with some more soon and I have a page up on Created by ATDML today too here.

In the Grain

Here is a page I loved making...  I was mulling over the subject of my Trends on Tuesday post over at A Trip Down Memory Lane and decided on woodgrain, and then thought I really ought to go all out on wood (not sure what it would end up looking like!).  I have to say that I was pleasantly surprised by my page!

My kids obliged me with a lovely shot in front of a beautiful log wall when we were out, and I decided to carry the logs on for the mount around the photo.  I punched 1" circles and then distressed the edges and used a white gel pen for the grain (the paper is Crate's Farmhouse collection).  I added a Simple Stories bingo card, and then some of the Farmhouse stickers and some burlap too.  The alphas are a mix of some woodgrain thickers I picked up on my holiday and a prima pack, I also included some journalling behind the photo.  I had decided the title for my post before I did the page - which was in the grain....and then it turned out to be a great page title too...as the journalling looks at some of the similarities my kids have to me and my husband (like both of our parents reckon both of them look like us when we were kids :) makes me smile every time as I look nothing like my husband!! so I guess they are both a good mixture) and how my eldest gets cold in swimming pools quickly like me and my youngest doesn't...in fact like his father he could wear shorts all year around!

Here is a link the post which has a couple of links to some other lovely woody projects.