A little while ago I 'treated' myself (the way scrapbookers do) to most of the Etcetera collection by Bo Bunny as I liked the antique(y), newspaper, printed look and felt I could do something with some of the papers and embellishments so here are some pics of the scrap crap and the pages I've made with the collection so far. Overall I probably spent about £22-25 on the bits and added to from the supplies with flowers, cardstock etc.
Some of the embellishments and some prima flowers - Harlow I think
Ribbon and trinkets and some threads courtesy of Craft Obsessions
The jigsaw mini-book which accompanies the line and more prima flowers from my stock - I've had those a while and cannot remember what they are called but there was a great selection some crochet, some tulle, some ribbon - a great mixture in one pack.
Some chipboard and I just love the chipboard alphabet in the line.
Shaped cardstock - probably bought 6 or 7 sheets of paper from the line and used SU cardstock which I truly love.
Some more paper and some alphas
More cardstock, I love the Bo Bunny sheets where you have multiple embellishments and interesting images you can cut out and use thus getting a lot out of one sheet of paper
The paper with its sepia, antique, printed look!
Some flowers from my flower box with an orangey theme going on here!!
And this is what I've created out of these items so far - I'm hoping to get at least 6 - 8 pages out of the line and still have some leftovers for use later!
The first one called 'Mam' what those of us from my part of the world call our Mums. This was the biggie from this selection as its about my Mum and I used lots and lots of flowers including some in blue which was my Mum's favourite colour. I loved the journalling card as it said "little moments big memories" - I've added "My mum in very familiar poses to me, working in her garden in her housecoat and carrying a cup of tea back to us whilst we were on holiday, these are small everyday events but so very important to me as there were so few" (My mum has been gone for 33 years now - I had her around for such a short time)
Layout 2 is Live for the Moment Your In - First Class Jamie. I took the ideas for this from a page maps layout so I guess this one is scraplift - a couple of cute photos of Jamie - one on Kefalonia waiting to go into the Melissani Lake at the Drogati Caves and the other dressed up and hair spiked up for a school disco - he looks so yummy. Lots of distressing on this layout and inking the edges which I am very into at the moment.
A close up here of one of the elements I used adapting a floristry prop - a trimmed giunco stick - into a scrapbooking embellishment - I love it when I can bring the two hobbies together!!
A layout about Binnie - "Every little thing she does is magic" - she is looking her cheeky and delightful self.
More layouts to follow soon - allowing for work commitments!!
Ciao
Sue
Reading challenge 4/20 - currently reading on Kindle The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and in print Drop Dead Beautiful by Jackie Collins (I will finish this book even if I have to take it on the plane for our summer holidays and read it during the flight!!)
