My Little Girl's Not So Little Anymore

Miss C lost her first baby tooth yesterday. It had been wobbling for ages and the last few days it was so loose, she could push it around with her tongue. I kept teasing that I would pull it out for her but in the end, it was herself that pulled it out. She was so excited to lose the tooth. It marked another milestone for her and really put it into perspective for me that she was growing up. Way too quickly. The "tooth fairy" visited and took the tooth to place on this layout. Hopefully, she won't notice until a few years down the line.

Look at how happy she is to have lost the tooth.

I die cut a mini camera in matching papers and I love the muslin flower. So shabby chic.

I placed the tooth into a mini brown envelope and created a pocket behind the photo to hold it.

Products Used
Papers from Prima Marketing Madeline Collection
Tags and paper accents from The Girl's Paperie Paper Girl Collection (discontinued)
Camera mini die from Tim Holtz Alterations for Sizzix
Flowers selection and flower trinket from Prima Marketing
Distress embossing powder and distress inks from Tim Holtz for Ranger
Alphas Thickers from American Crafts
Envelope and other accents unbranded

Beautiful You

Only one layout in the last week. I was tidying up my scrap area when a row of photos I had printed a while ago fell out. I was wondering where they had gone to. Shows me that a little cleaning up can be beneficial. I say that as I don't have the neatest of scrap areas. I do try though.

For this page, I scraplifted from an Amy Tan layout. For those who don't know, scraplifting is to take someone elses's layout and interpret (or copy) it for your own. If you compare both layouts, they are quite different, however, I used it as an inspiration.  The photos were taken in September last year after a ballet lesson.

I love this grey, yellow and blue combination. So striking yet understated.

I dug into my rub-on stash to find the cute doodle rub-ons under the title. It ties in with the freehand doodle I did around the yellow matt. The green crown accent is covered in distress stickles to give that great texture.

I love the column of butterflies that give visual dimension to the page.

Products Used
Papers from Little Yellow Bicycle Elizabeth Park 2010 Collection
Chipboard mini accents and Red Gel Leaves from Heidi Swapp (discontinued)
Rub-Ons from Making Memories Doodles (discontinued)
Crochet flower from Kaisercraft
Small yellow flowers from Pebbles (discontinued)
Washi tape from MT
Word stickers from Teresa Collins Everyday Moments Collection and Bella Blvd Lovey Dovey Collection
Bling gems from My Mind's Eye Follow Your Heart Collection
Distress Ink and Distress Stickles from Tim Holtz by Ranger
Buttons and brads unbranded

12 Tags of 2012 - July

Another new month, another new tag from Tim the man.  This one uses alcohol inks and specialty paper. Tim uses pressurised air to create his "fireworks" but I had to rely on my own breath so my splodges are not as pretty. Note to self to get some canned air as after this project, I feel like a chipmunk who has stuck too many acorns in its cheeks.

Since Tim's tag was based on 4th of July (which we don't celebrate), I decided to use one of my nature stamps to create my tag. I like how how the puffballs look like fireworks.

My splodges don't look as good as Tim's but I like the colour combinations that I chose.

Envelope Photo Box

Hi all! It's been a week since my last post. I have been doing projects but just haven't had time to post them until today. First off, is one for my August class with HKMC. I was inspired by Prima educator and designer, Marion Smith from one of her live videos. I love the way the gears sit on top of each other and you secure the lid by interlocking gears. Very cool.

I die cut the gears from lightweight chipboard and covered them with a crackle paints and distress embossing powder before gluing them down in a specific pattern so they would interlock.

I covered heavy chipboard with paper to make the box itself and gave it a bit of a distressed look.

The inside pockets are made out of normal brown envelopes sized to 5"x7".

Since this is for my August class, forgive me for not putting in the full instructions.  I will be holding this class on 7th and 14th August (Tuesday) from 7:30pm to 9:30pm.  Again, you can sign up for this class with Erika from HKMC.