Old School Photo layout

Darn it, I seem to have lost the ability to post a slide show on here, so the wacky challenge I had from my docrafts buddy Gina will have to wait! Meanwhile, again another challenge from Gina....many moons ago as punishment - which thinking about it, I believe it was because I sent a shop bought card for my brothers birthday! Cripes, that makes it way back in March. Anyway, the challenge was to make a layout using an old school photo. So at long last, here it is.....and as you can see, if Im going down, Im taking my sister Carol with me! Im on the right.

Guess what....more buttons lol!

Here is a layout I made using my favourite photos from my little book. Carolines' poem is placed on some hidden journalling which opens up to show a piccie of my little book. I adore these supplies - Blue Awning papers, and of course....my Foof A La buttons.

...sorry, Im not done with buttons yet!

I have to say a very special thank you to Caroline who composed the poem for my button book. Caroline AKA cannycrafter, is wonderfully creative in all that she does...and she writes a mean poem! Check out some of her lovely work on her blog: http://cannycrafter.blogspot.com/

But before you do that...as her poem flips by too fast to read on the slide-show, I am posting it above...if you cant quite read it, Im sure if you click on it, it will get bigger!

Thank you Caroline - you are a star!!!

Sue x

Is it really crazy to make a book about buttons???

I LOVE buttons, and when I received a particularly lovely bag of buttons from the Foof A La range, I was inspired to make an entire album about them! I also wanted to make my first maze book...and I thought buttons would be the perfect topic.
At first I made patterns with them on the table and snapped away, but then we had a sunny day...and I thought, lets go have some fun and chase some buttons around the garden! A perfectly normal thing to do in my view...but my buddies think Im kinda potty! Anyway, I was really happy with how most of the photos turned out and they look so cute in my maze book - made with yummy Blue Awning papers! I'm thinking of doing a homage to ribbons next....ha ha ha!

Another first...I finally figured out how to make a slide-show - so here is my homage to buttons...

A Homage to Buttons

The Beauty of the Dandelion

Okay okay...I know they are not so beautiful when they are sprouting up willy nilly all over the garden....but they do photograph well and make for a nice card lol!

Adapting a card idea shown on the docrafts site, I created this to be used in a 'book of my garden' that I am currently making. For the triangle sections that back the main yellow flower, I used a close-up of the fluffy seed head - I thought this was so effective. Then hidden inside is a little bit of folklore about dandelions, and another photo with a half-blown away seed head (sorry Dad...I had to - in the name of art!)

All the supplies used - papers, ribbons & brads came from the Serengeti kit from Club Scrap.

If you would like to make a card using these techniques, the instructions can be found at: http://docrafts.co.uk/asp/projects/project.asp?id=1805

Sue x

Dotee dolls are about spreading love friendship and joy!

Way back in June, my forum buddy Alma introduced me to dotee dolls by posting a link to this wonderful blog: http://dotslifeandart.blogspot.com/2008/01/dotee-doll-fervour.html.

Loving all things pretty and embellished I set about making one for myself which was such fun as I adore sewing! But the main point of dotee dolls is to share them, so Alma and I made dolls for each other - thank you Alma, I love my little doll and will treasure it always!

I love sewing...and I love scrapping - so what about combining the two! The results were two layouts showing off our dotee dolls, each page created using techniques that were used on the dolls themselves...a little beading, blanket stitch, some chain-stitch swirls and a few lazy daisies. I simply loved making these pages, and havent stopped stitching onto layouts since!

Treat yourself and take a peek at the above blog....and maybe you would like to make a dotee for a friend in your life...or yourself...!

Sue x

COMING SOON: A Homage to Buttons