Well it's been a while since I had an scrapping projects to share, but last week on the Hey Little Magpie blog I had a post featuring some of my 2014 album catch-up plus a couple of cards that I'll share in another post.
All the details can be found here, this post is mainly photos and a few explanations for the pics. ;) I mainly used Crate Paper's Notes & Things, Kiss Kiss, and Open Book collections.
And some of the stash used from the store can be found here:
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - Memo Paper
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - Honest Paper
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - With Love Paper
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - Be Kind Paper
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - Journal Paper
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - 12x12" Adhesive Chipboard Shapes
Crate Paper - Notes & Things - Ephemera Pack
Crate Paper - Maggie Holmes Open Book - 12x12" Chipboard Shapes
Crate Paper - Maggie Holmes Open Book - Die Cut Ephemera
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - 12x12" Chipboard Accents
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - Constellation Paper
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - Love Rocks Paper
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - Gemstone Paper
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - Be Mine Paper
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - In Love Paper
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - My Heart Paper
Crate Paper - Kiss Kiss - Love Life Paper
Teresa Collins - Nine & Co - Cardstock Die Cuts
American Crafts - Shimelle - Crane paper
American Crafts - Shimelle - Dowdy Paper
American Crafts - Shimelle - Baxter Paper
Pink Paislee - Bella Rouge - Diamond Paper
Pebbles - We Go Together - Sending Love
Pebbles - We Go Together - UR Sweet
Pebbles - We Go Together - Hugs & Kisses
Pebbles - We Go Together - Budding Romance
Simple Stories - DIY Christmas - Enamel Dots
Gossamer Blue - On My Desk - Enamel Stars
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So yes, it's back to April we go!
And the first double spread page was all about my week dog-sitting miss Lola, and the many walkies we went on with various people.
I definitely had lots of gold accents to play with, including making my own Thickers with Lawn Fawn alpha dies, funky foam, and gold glitter paper.
The Notes & Things ephemera and chipboard products have plenty of gold foiling in them too:
And it's the return of the Caroline Gardner 2014 desktop calendar I'm using as a way to mark the dates. The April page was a perfect match for the pinks in the Notes & Things collection.
I'm a big fan of these configurations of Simple Stories pocket pages and Echo Park photo freedom pockets with a 6x12 pocket ideal for each monthly calendar entry.
I really went to town layering up various accents - chipboard, vellum die-cuts, wood veneer:
There were even some apt labels in the Notes & Things ephemera pack, perfect for those photos where a dog has parked her butt in your handbag because that's where the sun is!
And I've now added some little star enamel dots to my rather large enamel dot collection!
And onto April part 2:
The focus was spring fun and Easter celebrations.
Also plenty of random things, like the END of Silk, sob, sob - and it ended on such a non-ending too. I hate how it was left. I'll just have to enjoy re-watching everything that came before the last 5 minutes. ;)
There were lots of signs of spring being in the air - we had sun, bees, blossom...
Ice creams in the park. Fun and Stotties at Finchale Priory... a thoroughly nice time.
I also got using up some journaling cards and cutting them down to size where needed.
I'm wondering when our warmer temperatures and sunshine will hit this year!
Then Easter was on the way.
I found a bunny of a sort in the Open Book chipboard set and ran with it.
The Notes & Things chipboard set had some lovely spring blooms that were the perfect accent.
I cut down this journaling card and altered the layered sticker a bit with a heart enamel dot.
And wood veneer accents were a perfect complement to the rustic Easter display in the pic.
And then it was onto May!
Lots to celebrate in May, my cousin's baby daughter entered the world, my brother got engaged, my mum and dad's Kitchen redo finally happened (many, many years in the making) and some Bank Holiday antics were enjoyed.
The pink for the May calendar page definitely found a great match in Crate's Kiss Kiss collection.
I remembered that this gold ephemera from Notes & Things would finally have the perfect use.
Still digging the look of that darker paper being used for negative die-cutting.
More funky foam and gold glitter paper, plus a DIY engagement ring using an enamel shape and a heart crystal from Prima. Tada!
Got to love how various chipboard sets by Crate Paper can come together so well.
And you can make every bit of a piece of paper work for you some how. :)
And onto May part 2:
I had a lovely long BH weekend with Zoe - we attempted to recreate our Warkworth road trip from the previous year, but the weather wasn't as kind to us. However we finally found some sun in the park!
I think May 2014 also marked the first in the series of photo ops where my friend Kelly and I remember our cinema outings by me making her pose with whatever promo prop they have in the cinema and she obliging like the true friend she is.
May it was the Postman Pat van - perfectly paired with some of the Pebbles Inc We Got Together Valentine's line that had paper aeroplanes on it:
More everyday, the rhododendrons and lavender where in bloom:
I had some little pics that I wanted to frame in some way, and the chipboard frames in the Crate chipboard sets did the job nicely.
As did the cut-outs from the Notes & Things paper:
And next I'll be working on my June 2014 pages. :D