Today I am showing you the Round Clock decorated with the Devonshire Collection.  I just love the intricate roses featured in this collection and I chose the reverse side of the “Wild Violets” paper to cover the front of the clock.  I used the “Sepia” inkpad to colour the chipboard numbers and I then applied some of the black and white and coloured rubons to decorate it before adding a few flowers and pearls to finish it off.  I have chosen minimal embellishments to keep it “flat” so that it doesn’t interfere with the clock mechanism.

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Do you ever scrap about yourself?   Renee and I have had some fun creating these two layouts for today, about none other than ourselves!

I know for me personally,  I would love to have some pages for my kids about their mum when they get older.

I was drawn to the beautiful colours and patterns of the Gypsy Sisters collection for my layout.

“Note to Self” by Tanya Tahir – Gypsy Sisters papers, die cut elements, letter stickers, chipboard alphabet, pearl strips, flowers

And Renee has used the gorgeous Peachy Keen collection for her sweet layout.

“I find we often scrap about the world around us and forget that we are part of this world.  It is important to scrap about ourselves so that in the future our children and ourselves can look back and see what we were feeling at a particular point in time” – Renee

“Looking up” by Renee Ludlow-Peachy Keen papers, die cut elements, embellishment pack, alpha stickers, black rub-ons, pearls (copper)

Most of us tend to scrap about our children or loved ones so why not try a layout all about YOU!

Family photos.  We all have them, little snapshots of our daily lives together.  It was this thought of snapshots that inspired me to create this photo display of my family.  I loved the layered feel to the photo display and rather than using larger photos I decided to print out several smaller photos and create a sort of mosaic with them.  “Family” by Renee Ludlow-Kaisercraft photo display, Devonshire papers, 6″paper pad, embellishment pack, die cut elements, black rub-ons, colour rub-ons, alpha stickers, chipboard alpha #1, paint (raw umber), ink pad (brown), rhinestones (copper).

To create this photo display I first painted the back and edges of all pieces in Raw Umber. I then covered using various papers from the Devonshire collection.  I printed out different sized photos (3×3in, 1×1in and other sizes in between), then  mounted these to chipboard cut to the same size and inked the edges.  I embellished with die-cut elements as well as die-cuts from the 6″paper pad.  For the flower in the corner I applied a small amount of hot glue and then squished (sorry I couldn’t think of a better word) and pinched the the flower into it.  Then I  added the lace, pearls and smaller flowers.

This photo display would make a great gift for any of those treasured members in your family.  Mine now sits proudly in the lounge room, although I am thinking of making another one for hubby to put on his desk at work (minus the lace and frills).  I hope I have inspired you to go out and give this photo display a go, I would love to see what you come up with.

Hello again! Tanya and I are back again today but this time with a couple of different takes on multi-photo layouts.  How many of us take a million photos of the one event and yet only scrap a single photo on the layout? I will admit that I am normally a “one photo” type of gal, but after giving these layouts a go I think I will be making more of these multi-photo creations.  I love how using extra photos gives  more depth to the story that the layout is telling. For my daughter’s first day of school I was a very snap-happy Mummy (in between tears of course). I found that I had a few favourite photos from the day which lent itself perfectly for this multi-photo layout.

“Her big day” by Renee Ludlow – Devonshire papers, die cut elements, embellishment pack, colour rub-ons, alpha stickers, chipboard alpha #1, mini alpha stickers (chocolate and white), rhinestones (bronze), ink pad (brown)

Another way to tackle multi-photo layouts is by spreading them over two pages.  This is what Tanya has done with this gorgeous double layout using the  La Di Da collection. Don’t you just love the way that Tanya made her double layout in a vertical orientation rather than horizontal, very clever!

“Little Miss Sunshine” by Tanya Tahir – La Di Da papers, embellishment pack, die cut elements, alpha stickers, chipboard alphabet, Lilac inkpad, Butterflies mini clear stamps

We hope we have inspired you with these mutli-photo layouts and maybe you will start seeing more photos creeping into your creations as well.

1. Start by cutting varying sizes of circles out of miscellaneous KaiserCraft patterned paper from several different collections (varying sizes of circle punches or a circle cutter works well for this).

2. Sand the edges of all the circles and attached them layered one on top of the other by small dots of glue (too much glue will gum up your sewing machine in the next step).

3. Sew 4 straight lines through the middle of the circles, creating 8 wedges.

4. Cut narrow wedges into the circle between the sewn lines to create separate petals of the flower. Cut slight rounded edge at the top.

5. Crinkled the edges of each petal for greater texture and dimension.

6. Adhere flower to your favorite project or card and you’re done!

Supplies for card: Patterned papers- La Di Da Paper Pad by Kaisercaft (PP809) Stamped sentiment- “Wishes” Mini Clear Stamp by KaiserCraft (CS903). Ink-  Black Ink Pad by KaiserCraft (IP707) Letter stickers- Alpha Stickers by KaiserCraft (MA502).Other- sewn flower made by following instructions as written above, sewing machine, thread, cardstock, decorative edge punch, flower button, hemp cord.