The Corpus Clock

Hi Bloggers,

Today I would like to share with you a layout that I made to include rubber stamping and texture.

I used a cog border stamp to stamp a "frame" around the edges of the grey background card, then added some mesh.
I stamped steampunk spiders and butterflies on the kraft background card in black ink.
Then I stamped extra spiders with black ink and embossed them with clear powder before cutting out to use as embellishments.

The "brick" mat behind the photo was made using an embossing folder. I applied ink to the folder before running it through my Bigshot. I just love how it turned out!
The edges were distressed and then inked before stamping the title and journaling - I wanted a graffiti look.

I cut various cogs and gears with my Cricut.
Some I embossed using several different embossing folders.

Some I heat embossed in gold before running through an embossing folder.

Some I covered with Tim Holtz Rock Candy Distress Crackle Paint.

One I covered with clear embossing powder...

and one I covered with Tim Holtz Distress Embossing Powder.

The large clock was designed on my Gypsy and cut with my Cricut, with gold paint applied to the edges.

I distressed the edges of the background card layers and the "brick" mats to add some extra texture.

I had lots of fun creating this layout. Hope you like it too.
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx

Teenage Rock Star

Hi Bloggers,

I have the original Cricut Paper Dolls cartridges, so when Cricut recently brought out the Paper Dolls Teen Scene cartridge, I knew I would love it.
The teenage boy with a guitar was screaming to be used, so I just had to make a layout.

Here's a close up of the teenager - super cool!

I used cotton for shoe laces and left them untied (as most teenagers do) - this idea came from Lesley, a good friend of mine.

The border strip was designed on my Gypsy using images from the Paper Lace cartridge.

I used Glossy Accents on the guitar to make it shiny like my son's.

I used a phrase from the Quarter Note cartridge for my title and embellished my layout with chipboard shapes, gems and ribbon. I also stamped a brick design on the background paper - as shown in the photo below.

Hope you like it.

Thanks for stopping by.

Pam xx

Cropping Fun

Hi Bloggers,

Just a quick post to let you see the layouts I made at the Merly Impressions crop (details here).
I had to finish them at home as I did way too much talking and cake eating on the day!!

Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx

Holey Flower card

Hi Bloggers,

I've been very busy over the last couple of weeks as I started a new job (very proud am I!!) and have also been working on a couple of projects for a later date.

Today I'd like to share a card that I made for a friend. it's adapted from a card I designed for one of my Gypsy classes.

The flower was designed on my Gypsy using an image from the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge. I then added circles to the petals.
I used the same design but cut smaller for the "scrunched" flower, securing with a brad.

The leaves were also from the Mother's Day Bouquet cartridge and the letters from Mickey Font.

The original card:

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

Rockstar Layout

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'd like to share with you a layout that I made using the PC version of the Cricut Design Studio software.

I made the "music lace" paper by welding images from the Hannah Montana and Indie Art cartridges.

The title "Rockstar" and it's shadow were made by welding letters from the Hannah Montana cartridge.

The doll is from the Paper Dolls cartridge and the clothes are a mixture from Paper Dolls and Everyday Paper Dolls cartridges.
The guitar is from the Hannah Montana cartridge and I used stamps to make the journaling spots.

The music lace paper took quite some time to design, but I think it was worth the effort.

Hope you do too.

Thanks for stopping by.

Pam xx

Robot For a day layout

Hi Bloggers,
Today I'd like to share with you a layout I made of my son after he'd had his face painted.

I stamped a swirl design onto pale blue card using dark blue ink to make the background.
I then scattered cogs and gears around the four corners.

The cogs and gears were designed on my Gypsy using Indie Art and Accent Essentials cartridges.
Some were painted with silver acrylic paint, some were spritzed with a silver mist and some were left plain black.
I also used embossing folders to add texture to some of them.
The large central cog was cut at 11" using the Indie art cartridge and I painted it silver, leaving the shadow black.

The little robot is from the Robotz cartridge and I painted some of the parts silver.

The title was designed on my Gypsy using Robotz, Gypsy Font and Indie Art cartridges. I used glossy accents on the word "robot".

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

Sewing Theme Layout

Hi Bloggers,

Today I'd like to share a layout I made using the Sewing mends the soul stamps by IndigoBlu and, of course, my Cricut.
This layout is about my nanny (or grandma) who was a most amazing seamstress - so I wanted the layout to have a sewing theme.

The "tape measure" stamp is extremely versatile and I stamped several onto kraft cardstock, then wrapped them around the dress form. I tied another around the neck like a scarf.

I also used some like ribbons and threaded them through the large frame.
The frame, dress form and small flowers were all cut on my Cricut.

I used the thimble border stamp to make the flower in the top left corner of the layout. I cut the thimbles out individually and layered them up like petals.

The cotton reels, scissors, yarn and sewing machine were stamped onto white card and coloured with Promarkers.

I layered lace ribbon and patterned ribbon along the bottom of the layout and added another stamped tape measure.

I wanted my journaling to be hidden so I used a tag (cut with my Cricut) and tucked it behind the photo, adding a small piece of patterned ribbon to the top.

I distressed the edges of the background papers and added a hand sewn border with black thread.

I thoroughly enjoyed playing with these stamps and my Cricut, and I like the way this layout turned out - I hope you like it too!
Thanks for stopping by.
Pam xx