I really don't have the time for time consuming projects these days so it's very rare I do any scrap booking.
My self set task was to create a first year baby album using Stampin up products, my printer and toner foil.
I started off well, then I ran out of suitable stamps and decorations....
So I failed miserably and ended up adding a few other things that didn't fall into any of those categories.
But on the whole it is mainly S.U products.
I wanted to start the album cute and baby-ish and grow into something a little more colourful and mature as he got older If that makes sense.
So the first few pages were all blues and white, with ribbons, & bows, lace and silver foil. with decorations that fitted the theme of the photos.
I didn't want to do all the pages to be too fussy.
So I did some quite simple and plain looking.
Our little Grandson is just like his father an adrenaline junkie.
He just loves being thrown in the air and caught. I have to confess to being a little scared at times when I see how high he goes.
But as you can see from his face he's loving it.
I also have to remember how short I am so most things look high to me.
Baby boy was left with daddy for the day while Mummy went to work. So Daddy brought baby to see Grandma.... on the back of his bike.
I am glad to say Baby boy has now got a safety helmet for his journeys on daddys bike.
This open zipper page was fun to create.
I had no idea how this was going to turn out, it was just a wacky idea that sprung to mind that I thought I'd try, I am actually quite pleased with the way it turned out.
I honestly thought it would end up in the bin rather than in my mini album.
I started by sticking the zipper on a sheet of red a4 paper and spreading it out as far as it would go without it distorting the zipper peel of was not long enough on it's own so I had to extended it with the extension pieces that came on the sheet of peel offs.
Then I cut out the section between the zippers teeth added the zipper pull. cut a small piece of card to make the pocket and pricking the edges to give the impression of stitching.
I sponged on some streaks of ink to create the look of folds in the fabric and stuck the front of the pocket on to a denim 6x6 scrapbook paper. I stamped and punched some tickets to go in the pocket. printed off the title on my lazer printer and hot foiled it in blue foil. I made a small concertina book to go inside the pocket added photos of the family day out with labels, rub ons and quotes.
On this page you can see I used a retired children stamp set stamps to create the background paper. I can't remember what it's call now I think it may be Forest friends.
As well as noticing this gorgeous little little boy struggled so hard to walk to me. He made it and he was so pleased to reach me.
I don't very often use my colour coach but for this page I thought I would.
It turned out better than I expected.
The last page in this post was of my two grandchildren together.
They thought the dogs bed made a great sofa.
I used stronger colour for this page combined with the dsp from S.U. That awful little bow shouldn't be on this page so that's coming off.
But I thought I would share with you a couple of pages on what's been keeping me busy this last couple of weeks.
I can't show you all of them for various reason. One of which would be the privacy of the couple and another would be there are an awful lot of pages for one post and I don't want to dominate the whole of my blog with this.
If you are anything like me you get bored with looking at strangers photos.
I started off well, then I ran out of suitable stamps and decorations....
So I failed miserably and ended up adding a few other things that didn't fall into any of those categories.
But on the whole it is mainly S.U products.
I wanted to start the album cute and baby-ish and grow into something a little more colourful and mature as he got older If that makes sense.
I didn't want to do all the pages to be too fussy.
So I did some quite simple and plain looking.
He just loves being thrown in the air and caught. I have to confess to being a little scared at times when I see how high he goes.
But as you can see from his face he's loving it.
I also have to remember how short I am so most things look high to me.
Baby boy was left with daddy for the day while Mummy went to work. So Daddy brought baby to see Grandma.... on the back of his bike.
I am glad to say Baby boy has now got a safety helmet for his journeys on daddys bike.
I had no idea how this was going to turn out, it was just a wacky idea that sprung to mind that I thought I'd try, I am actually quite pleased with the way it turned out.
I honestly thought it would end up in the bin rather than in my mini album.
I started by sticking the zipper on a sheet of red a4 paper and spreading it out as far as it would go without it distorting the zipper peel of was not long enough on it's own so I had to extended it with the extension pieces that came on the sheet of peel offs.
Then I cut out the section between the zippers teeth added the zipper pull. cut a small piece of card to make the pocket and pricking the edges to give the impression of stitching.
I sponged on some streaks of ink to create the look of folds in the fabric and stuck the front of the pocket on to a denim 6x6 scrapbook paper. I stamped and punched some tickets to go in the pocket. printed off the title on my lazer printer and hot foiled it in blue foil. I made a small concertina book to go inside the pocket added photos of the family day out with labels, rub ons and quotes.
On this page you can see I used a retired children stamp set stamps to create the background paper. I can't remember what it's call now I think it may be Forest friends.
As well as noticing this gorgeous little little boy struggled so hard to walk to me. He made it and he was so pleased to reach me.
I don't very often use my colour coach but for this page I thought I would.
It turned out better than I expected.
The last page in this post was of my two grandchildren together.
They thought the dogs bed made a great sofa.
I used stronger colour for this page combined with the dsp from S.U. That awful little bow shouldn't be on this page so that's coming off.
