Using ribbon

Latest challenge at the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog is to use ribbon. I love using ribbon though it's sometimes difficult to stick the damned stuff down, particularly if it's thin. This card I made on Sunday uses two types of ribbon. It's my favourite Hanna stamp and I coloured it in with pencils and gelly roll pens. I embossed the "But I need it" title in copper. The blue paper is by Twelveby12.

I also made a couple of Easter cards. Here's one, which is a lily decoupage I highlighted with glitter. I always associate lilies with Easter because of the glorious heady scent of lilies in Buckfast Abbey when we visited one Easter. The decoupage pack (including card blank) came from Lakeland and the ribbon sticker is by Papermania. The Easter greeting was free with a magazine last year.

Story of my life in pictures

I'm creating a scrapbook album, 12 x 12, about the story of my life. I've decided to have all the photos in black & white for continuity and to use different colours for different times of my life.

Fired with enthusiasm at the weekend, I created five layouts from my childhood years with the colour theme of mostly blue (with one exception!). Here are the first three.

Unusually, I haven't used any cardstock (except for letters in one case). Instead, I will use cardstock as a background for some additional pages about some of my interests: music, perfumes, ballet and so on, throughout my life.

This first LO (top left) goes back to when I was a baby. The paper is by Urban Lily; the flowers are by Making Memories and Rebecca's Scrapbook Stast, the pearls by Hobbycraft and the glittery "This is Me" chipboard sticker by K&Co. The journalling was written on self-adhesive vellum and I did a bit of doodling.


The second LO dates from when I was probably three or four, when we lived briefly in Morden, Surrey. I finally used one of my sheets of Twelveby12 Colorflowers paper. The vellum saying is by K&Co, the buttons by Craftime and the green sparkly letters by Making Memories. I highlighted the petals on the left with Glossy Accents.


The third LO, "Wellies," uses a great picture I've been dying to scrap. I hand cut the title from black cardstock, and also the arrow and boots. The paper is by Doodlebug.

I'll share the rest during the week, plus several cards from one stamp and two altered items.

I'm going to the US on Saturday on business and will be breaking my stash diet. The recent creations have used a lot of supplies, and I need an album for the story of my life. I may also bite the bullet and buy a Cuttlebug so I can create titles.