Stuck!? at Versailles

I used this pink paislee paper as the basis for the Stuck!? sketch this month.I added 2 photos of inside Versailles palace showing all the ornate decoration,then decided to make my layout over the top as well.I used my little shoebox tags plus the bird one I received in a swap,Sam and Lucy "weave extra square buttons,a lace doiley I hand dyed,Scrapmatts birds and lettering which says "over le top".This is a mix of languages, but describes Versailles perfectly.

Our Vintage affair box

The challenge on our vintage affair was to make a box to contain photos. I chose this flat square box for my old polaroid photos which are precious as I have no negatives.
I covered the box using Grant Archival paper featuring a chrysanthemum.I used rhinestones to highlight the centre of the flower. The chipboard heart circle was embossed after inking it white.I then put rhinestones in the centre of each tiny heart.I used antique lace around the edges of the box.

Aussie Scrapjacked

Here's a layout I've made for Aussie Scrapjacked which is a scraplift of one done by Bec Miller.I used chipboard hearts by scrapmatts,2 of which I embossed and 2 left raw on patterned paper.The pink spangly lace was an offcut I found at Vinnies.

During Chinese New Year a violinist visited my mother and played beautiful music to her such as Pachobel's Canon.You can see she was delighted.

Diamente spider webs

I used CB4044 Floral design 02 from scrapmatts with diamente over the top to emulate the spider web with raindrops in the right hand photo.This was an old castle in Ireland near Ennis,where we had a medieval banquet.The Bella paper matches this branch almost exactly. I loved Ireland!

Monthly winner on Crafty sketches.

I'm amazed to discover I won the January layout of the month on Crafty sketches. My problem is I can't log into the blog.If you can get in please redirect the organiser to my blog and I'll take it from there. Thank you.It was the Lest we forget layout that gave me such hell doing it....see a previous post.

Just for fun-first day at kInder

Something weird happened with the scanning on this one...the lettering is bright pink! Perhaps because it is felt-I don't know.
Anyway I used a topiary tree from scrapmatts plus matching topiary rub ons I found in my stash.The quote on the doiley says "sugar and spice and everything nice...that's what little girls are made of". I haven't done a girly layout for a while and enjoyed getting this one done.Annabelle looked so cute in her uniform.

White with 1

I used a scrap(which is all I had) of lace from my great grandmothers stash above the photo as my vintage item.

The chipboard fler de lises and lamp post are by twiddlybits.The papers are Kaisercraft Duchess and the lettering is Rusty Pickle.Added to all that was some old sheet music and some Kaisercraft pearls,plus a luggage tag.I used my sewing machine to stitch the shaped paper on to the white card.