Selfies with Mum - by DT Sandra Scott

Good morning everyone, Sandra here with a layout from the My Mind's Eye Hooray Collection from the Shop and Crop Store.
 

I chose my photos to suit the collection and I was lucky enough to have a few of these gorgeous selfies of my granddaughter and her daughter.  

The photos were so playful I wanted to add some fun on the background so used one of my favourite stencils from TCW with another product that I love and you can find in the Shop and Crop Store - Colour Blast Paste.

 

I matted my photos with the patterned paper and fussy cut one of the sheets with all those gorgeous circles which I felt blended with the circles of the stencil.  

I layered some strips on the top and bottom of the page to make it feel more grounded.  

I'm loving gold at the moment so added some narrow gold washi tape from my stash and finished with the gold alpha.

Here are the close-ups.

Products Used:

My Mind’s Eye Hooray Patterned Paper; #HRY103, #HRY104, #HRY106

American Crafts Cardstock

Kaisercraft Wood Veneer

Film Strip Die

TCW Stencil;  Coptic Impressions #TCW485

Colour Blast Pastes

Dear Lizzy Woodlands Alpha

Paper Flowers

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My second layout with the same range was for an adult birthday celebration.

Similar to the first one I layers strips of paper to the bottom of the page including my pink washi tape (loving the bling) and to bling it up a little more I sprinkled glitter on the background under my photo.  

I cut the tags with a die and layered them above the photo as well as fussy cutting some circles for under the photo.

I coloured the wooden embellishments with Brilliance Gold Ink. 

Products Used:

My Mind’s Eye Hooray Patterned Paper; #HRY103, #HRY104, #HRY106

My Mind’s Eye Hooray Sticker Sheet; #HRY127

American Crafts Cardstock

Kaisercraft Wooden Embellishments Party ; FL589

Papercraft Glitter

Otto Pink Glitter Washi Tape

Tim Holtz Tag Die

American Crafts Thickers; Doll

Webster’s Pages Little Stickers

Heidi Swapp Color Shine

Brilliance Ink

  

 Thanks for stopping by today and remember if you'd like to purchase from the store you can use the code SS5 to receive a discount.

Autumn Babes

Hello Again to all you Shop and Croppers!

I'm back again today for my first May share, and this time I am working with the Photo Play Falling Leaves collection. There are some really strong patterns in this range, and of course it is very themed for Autumn. Unfortunately, I don't have a lot Autumn pics, so my challenge was to make it work for other occasions.

I choose this pic of my eldest daughter, as the green shirt she was wearing worked with the green stripe in one of the patterned papers. I matted the photo on some kraft cardstock, and built up my layers from there, starting with the stripes and moving toward much more neutral papers, with the beige polka dot (from Kaisercraft Take Note) and the brown leaf. I found that by choosing these neutral papers, they didn't overwhelm the page even though they are patterned.

I like to work with this central photo and paper stack design, as it give a lot of balance and symmetry to the page, and allows the embellishment clusters to be the real feature. I used quite a lot of the sticker from the collection in my clusters, as well as some wood veneer and some paper blooms .

I went in the opposite direction with my second layout, working with a white background and minimal patterned paper.

I love that this layout is playful, and fits with this photo that I took of my girls in a newly baled paddock. Again I added in some wood veneer, and relied heavily on the sticker sheet.

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my layouts.

Happy Scrapping,

Tam x