Happy 2015

 

Can you believe it: Today is the very last day of 2014 and I hope it has been a wonderful year for you and yours. It sure has for me.

 

This week I've created yet another shaker card but this time I've made it a bright, busy New Year's card to ring in the new year. I find that using various phrase cards originally inteded for Project Life makes making shaker cards a breeze.

 



 

When making shaker cards it is a good idea to glue a few of the sequins in place and leave the rest shaking around. The ones that are attached makes the other cluster and hang on so that not all the shaker material ends at the bottom of the card.

 

With this I send you my very best wishes for the new year - may it be everything you hope for.

 

 

Supply list:

Sizzix Big Shot Starter Kit (Powder Blue & Teal)
Sizzix Accessory - Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies

Thinlits Die Set 10PK - Phrase Cards
Paperned Paper
Silverfoil Paper
Sequins - Fancy Pants
Letter Stickers - LilyBee
White gel pen
Clear cardstock
Foam adhesive
 

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Tænk sig, i dag er det årets sidste dag. Jeg håber, at det har været et godt år for dig - det har det i hvert fald været for mig.

Endnu en gang har jeg lavet et shakerkort. Denne gang har jeg lavet et i dramatiske farver, der minder mig om nytårspynt og -fyrværkeri. Jeg har fundet, at det er super nemt at lave shakere, hvis man bruger Sizzix's phrase cards.

Når man laver shakers er det smart at lime nogle af palietterne fast, fordi de andre palietter samler sig om de fastlimede frem for at drysse ned i bunden af kortet. På den måde ser kortet også fint ud, når det står op.

Og med det vil jeg ønske dig et fantastisk nytår - jeg håber, det bliver et år, hvor dine drømme bliver opfyldt.

Ingredienser:

Sizzix Big Shot Starter Kit (Powder Blue & Teal)

Sizzix Accessory - Magnetic Platform for Wafer-Thin Dies

Thinlits Die Set 10PK - Phrase Cards
Mønstret papir
Sølvfoliepapir
Palietter - Fancy Pants
Alfabetstickers - LilyBee
Hvid gelpen
Overheadplast
3d puder

A layout with lots of flowers!

October is being a busy month for me but a great one too. In June my cousin Angela (who is one of my closest friends as well as being my cousin) and I decided we wanted to participate in this year' Ofrenda de las Flores in our native Zaragoza (Spain). It is a lovely fairly modern (sixty years or so) celebration and it consist of dressing up in our local traditional attire and take flowers to a Virgin Mary statue. We already done it together once before fifteen years ago and we felt it would be nice to do it again. So we did! We had a blast that day and the previous and after days, and because of it I felt I really needed to keep the memories with a layout.

I wanted a layout with pictures of us two. As she lives in Spain and I in London we dont have that many moments of us together, so this is more about us than the sights. I printed my favorite in a larger and then the rest in more or less half the size. I cut all the photos to size ready for later.

I like to have a border all round and a white base. It is something that I do all the time, and I always cut the bit of the patterned middle to save for a future project. Frugal? Me? Of course!

I placed all the photos on the page and started to pull different dies to see how would they look. Since I was there to bring flowers, I thought it had to have loads of them so I die cut them using my Intricate Flowers 2 dies and the Happy card from the Phrase cards set.

Finally, I added embellishments for the centers and some printed stickers from the same collection as the papers which is Spice Market from Basic Grey.

And a couple of close ups:

I treasure this moments and I think it is important to capture and preserve them. That is the point of scrapbooking, isn't it?