Music Inspired Birthday Card

Hi Bloggers,
I made a card for a good friend of mine that I'd like to share with you.

The mats were cut using the Elegant Edges Cricut cartridge and I used a music stamp to create the background pattern on the white layer (with Victorian Velvet Distress Ink).

I cut the pianist from the Quarter Note cartridge and embossed the top layer with a swirl design.

The flowers and leaves are from the Flower Shoppe cartridge. I shaped and layered them before adhering to the card.

I covered the swirls and text with glossy accents and also added Stickles glitter glue on the burgundy mat and brad.

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx

Train Station Layout

Hi Bloggers,

Today I would like to share with you a layout I made from our trip to The Lakes in Cumbria (UK).
The scenery there is so picturesque and I just adore this photo of my husband and son on the platform at Haverthwaite Station.

For the second background layer I inked through a mask with a brick pattern and for the third I punched the edges.
I made a sign for my title using my Gyspy and Cricut. I stamped the text and used jump rings with chain links to "hang" it up.

The two black scallop border strips were designed on my Gypsy and cut with my Cricut. The scallop photo mat was also made this way.

I cut a tag for my journaling and tucked it behind the photo mat.

I designed small train tracks on my Gypsy and arranged them amongst the flower clusters.

All the flowers and leaves were cut from the Flower Shoppe cartridge.
I distressed and shaped the flowers adding brads to the centres.
I stamped the leaves with a crackle design before shaping.

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
pam xx

Down by the Sea

Hi Bloggers,

We've been enjoying some lovely sunshine here in the UK over the last few days and it's put me in a summer mood.
So, I thought I'd share with you this beach layout I made a little while ago.
I love the photo of my son jumping out of the sand and, if you look closely enough, you can just make out "Blackpool Tower" in the background.

I used my Gypsy to design the large fancy edged circle and the irregular scallop border, cutting them both with my Cricut.

The sand in the bucket is cut using a sand design patterned paper (cool huh?).

The title was cut using my Cricut and the "Life is a Beach" cartridge (I cut off the attached lighthouse).

I added magic mesh and raffia to my layout to emphasize the beach theme.

Thanks for stopping by
Pam xx

Easter Egg Hunt Invitation

Hi Bloggers,

Today I would like to share with you an invitation I made for an Easter Egg Hunt.
I was asked to make a shaped card but did not have a suitable image. So I designed my own using my Gypsy and based it on an image from the Simply Charmed cartridge.

The chick pulls out from the egg.

Most of the designs were made up of basic shapes.
The chick was an egg shape from the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge, along with ovals from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge.

This is a close up of the shapes that make up the chick design:

This is a close up of the actual cut lines:

Same for the feet. This is a close up of the shapes that make up the design:

This is a close up of the actual cut lines.

The eyes and beak were circles and a triangle.

The cracked egg was made using a half circle shape from the Gypsy Wanderings cartridge (I had to use the "hide" feature to hide parts of the design) with triangles cut from the top edge. The triangles are from the George and Basic Shapes cartridge.

Once cut, I embossed the cracked egg with the Swiss Dots Cuttlebug embossing folder.

I hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx

Love Dancing layout

Hi Bloggers,

It's been a while since I blogged as we've just moved house (I think that's quite a good excuse!!).
We're almost sorted out now so I'd like to share a layout that I made when I came across a photo of my dad dancing as a child.

The large octagon frame was designed on my Gypsy and cut using my Cricut.

I used the Cricut Pens to draw the letters before cutting them out, so they had an outline.
Then I adhered them to their shadow.
Finally I embossed them with a script design and applied Distress Ink to the embossed areas.

I used ribbon to tie around the octagon frame, the letter "I" and to thread through the ribbon border piece.
Two colours of Distress Ink were used to colour the ribbon.
The ribbon border piece was designed on my Gypsy.

I used a corner from the Heritage Cricut cartridge to cut the corner embellishments.

I had a lot of fun designing a dancing theme layout for a boy - it was a nice change from the usual pink that's so popular for dancing layouts.

I hope you like it too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Pam xx

Steampunk Birthday Card

Hi Bloggers,

I don't know about you, but I struggle to find the right images for teenage boy cards.
I finally decided on a Steampunk theme (as I love it anyway) when I came across a fantastic skull stamp.

The background "frame" was made using a cogs and gears border stamp with Black Soot Distress Ink.

The smaller background was made using a crackle stamp and Weathered Wood Distress Ink.

The large cog frame and smaller cogs were all designed on my Gypsy and cut on my Cricut. Some have also been sprayed with silver mica.

Here's a close-up of the fab skull stamp.

Hope you like it.
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx

Chip and Dale Disney Layout

Hi Bloggers,

Today I thought I'd share with you a layout from my "on-going" Florida album.
I'm slowly working my way through the holiday photos and this page is for our "meet and greet" with Chip and Dale at Epcot.

The journaling is on a tag, hidden behind the larger central photo.
I coloured the ribbon with Distress Ink.

The Chip and Dale characters, clouds, sun, tag and tree were cut with my Cricut.
The fence, photo mats, frames and title were all designed using my Gypsy and cut with my Cricut.

I cut (by hand) leaves from within the design on the patterned paper and layered them to create a 3-D effect.

Hope you like my layout.
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx