Botanical Gazette Scrapbook Layouts

I finally got around to photographing my finished layouts for this months scrapbooking class. I themed this months pages around the Botanical Gazette Designer Series Paper and Nature Walk stampset. I tried to decide on a central 'technique' for the evening and I ended up choosing homemade embellishments as the focus. This gave me the perfect opportunity to showcase the lovely Stampin' Up! Bevelled Window Panes framed with Baja Breeze Glass Glitter.

Now when I first got my hands on the Bevelled Windows from the Stampin' Up! mini catalogue I am not afraid to admit that I didnt have the foggiest what to do with them. But now I have had a bit of a play and started trying different effects with them I am slightly hooked on using them. I have exclusively been using them to highlight specific areas on my scrapbooking LOs and havent even started with cardmaking (I can feel another Window Pane order coming on....).

The first LO features a Cherry Cobbler base layer and uses elements from several designs from the Botanical Gazette DSP. I have also stamped the matching butterfly image from the Nature Walk stamp set and framed this within the Bevelled Window. I have created embellishments with my Blossom Punch and Basic Pearls. And the title was stamped with my Just Perfect Alphabet and matching sized circle punch.

 The second LO was created using two 4x6 prints. The handmade embellishment element on this page is the chipboard tree. I will be teaching the paper covering technique to my ladies in the class and showing how effective creating perfectly matched chipboard embellishments can be in scrapbooking. The Nature Walk bird has been heat embossed in gold and cut out. I have raised this with dimensionals layered on top of Old Olive ribbon and a branch punched with the Bird Punch. I have stamped the title in gold on Very Vanilla and Cherry Cobbler.

Any questions about Stampin' Up! or to book your place on any of my monthly classes, please get in touch: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk or 609249.

Happy crafting ;0)
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Nature Walk Workshop Make

Bet you were all wondering where my Nature Walk crafting had gone? I cannot get enough of this stamp set. I just love everything about it (and its matching Botanical Gazette Designer Series Paper). Its never off my craft desk at the moment.

I took my inspiration for this workshop make from a card I'd seen Monica Gale make over on her blog. I thought this would be perfect for my upcoming workshop with a lovely group of local crafting ladies. I also got to use my favourite Big Shot die, the Top Note, again.

For this card I used:

Colours: Cherry Cobler, Chocolate Chip, Very Vanilla, Always Artichoke
DSP: Newsprint and Botanical Gazette
Stamps: Oval All and Nature Walk
Top Note Die
Scallop Trim Edge Punch

Happy crafting all ;0)
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Card class

Here is another Lisa Young inspired creation that I will be teaching in this months card classes. This is inspired by the Nature Walk stamp set and Botanical Gazette Designer Series Paper (this DSP has really grown on me since the Mini was launched last month). I've even managed to utilise my favourite new products- Four Frames and  the Decorative Label Punch too.  This is such a simple but effective card which I have left intentionally blank so that it can be stamped with a sentiment at a later date. The beauty of leaving the card free of words is that it could work for a multitude of occassions ;0)

Uses:
Cardstock: Very Vanilla, Baja Breeze and Night of Navy
DSP: Botanical Gazette & Newsprint
Stamps: Nature Walk and Four Frames
Ink: Night of Navy
Punches: Decorative Label
Other: Linen Thread & Dimensionals

Any questions about this project or Stampin' Up! please get in touch: poulton_sarah@yahoo.co.uk  or 609249.

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