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Hallo Everyone!

Hope you've all recovered

from your Bank Holiday

excesses!  

Here we have had the annual

Jack in the Green Festival

(Some of you may know him

as The Green Man) but in 

these here parts...............

Street entertainers galore,

a bit of a fun fair and parades.

Definitely one of those Oh to

be in England moments......

Sorry to drivel on if you are

elsewhere in the world......

You could get your own back

and tell us what is happening

where you are................!

In the meantime, we have

Jane Castle to share her new

Scrapbook with us.....:

"I made myself 2 promises this year, 

the first was to start an art journal 

( which I've done) the second was 

to make a start on sorting out my 

Mum's old photos and to make a 

scrap book for my daughter's family.

As Mum is heading for her 98th birthday

I felt I'd better get a move on while she 

can still identify some of the Great Aunts

 and Uncles etc.

The page I'm sharing with you today 

has a photo of my Mum, Nan and Aunt. 

For this I've used some of Kaisercraft's

beautiful 12 x 12 papers.

To begin with I trimmed my base paper 

to 27cm x 27cm----- I decided that I might

 need to move some pages as 

more photos are found so thought

 that if they all measured the same and 

were placed in the scrap book with photo 

corners moving them wouldn't be a problem.

The 2 pieces that were trimmed off 

would be used on the page but turned over. 

Next I cut the frame for the photo using 

another piece from the same collection and 

a Spellbinders Die.

Measuring on the back of the frame I marked 

where the slits were needed  for slotting in 

the corners of the photo. 

I then stamped in Archival Ink some random 

bits of text using a PaperArtsy Mini stamp, and 

some flowers using a Lavinia stamp. 

For both sets of stamping I used 

second generation ink.

The flowers were then brushed 

with Ranger's Perfect Pearls.

I then cut various flowers and leaves ready 

to decorate the page.

For this I used some Core-dinations sanded it, 

tore it and the trimmings from the 2 sheets of 

Kaisercraft Mademoiselle Collection

Then it was down to attaching everything 

to the page. 

The 2 strips that had been reversed after

 trimming were stuck with double sided tape, 

the 2 hollyhock flowers were tied with 

some string and stuck with Cosmic Shimmers glue.

The centre piece of pink Core-dinations was 

lightly sanded before attaching. 

For the journaling I used a 

Tim Holtz Idea-ology journaling ticket 

and wrote on it with  a matching brown ink. 

(I had a blue ink in my fountain pen 

and it looked so out of place!!)

A few pearl embellishments for the flower centres

 and the page is complete. 

I really enjoyed putting this page together 

but when you've got beautiful paper/card

and some wonderful photos 

how could you not have fun?!"

Items Used

Kaisercraft Madewmoiselle Collection - Timepiece and Posy

Core-dinations sand it, tear it emboss it - 

Thinlits Tim Holtz mini Tattered Florals 

Memory Box dies - Hollyhock Stem and Ivy tendrils

Archival Ink - Sepia and Watering Can

Ranger Perfect Pearls

Tim Holtz Idea-ology Journaling Tickets

Lavinia - Wild Flower stamp

PaperArtsy Mini Ink and the Dog stamp

Spellbinders Nestabilities die

Thank you for sharing Jane.  

So good to still have your mum

with you to explain who's who

in the old photos. 

I wonder how scrapbooking will

evolve now that we seem to

have lots of photos.............

.........stored in our digital devices

but nothing printed

Leave you with that

'Till tomorrow

Mickie xx