The Fancy Pants Mixed Media Bracket Book and I love it!!!!! It is open for so much playing and different types of creating. I used the Scenic Route Grafton range of papers to make it a real boy style book but it would also be gorgeous in pinks too.
I have printed off a variety of my favourite pics of the boys through their life together. I couldn't decide on an event so decided it would make a nice quote/inspirational book for them. I found gorgeous quotes on the net and included them in amongst the photos.
The front cover uses up a variety of old chipboard letters. A little bit of paint and ink too.
The inside cover uses Scenic Route Grafton Carr St and the gorgeous Carolee Creation Tiny Stickers.
This is one of the printed acetate pages. I have added rubons and stamped with staze on so the most of the felt page underneath can be seen.
The felt page has simply been stitched and had some felt shapes added. The felt pages are lovely and thick allowing you to sew through both sides or only through one layer so that the stitching does not show on the other side of the page. The green stitching cannot be seen on the other side of this page. I have also stitched the photos on which has left stitched oblongs on the reverse side.
This page has again used the very cool Grafton range paper. It makes for a very economical book as these papers have been reduced in price in the shop. I chose to cut the paper just smaller than the page and ink the edges of the chipboard.
I really like the colour of chipboard left naturally and so I just dry brushed some paint onto the page to add texture. It also has rubons and odds and ends from my stash.
And of course I just cannot resist stamping here and there.
A simple back page using the stickers again and a sharpie pen to write out a gorgeous quote.
This book will be put together using the rings provided in the pack, I have tied a variety of ribbon scraps to them. Pauline and Adrienne are punching the holes for me using acrop- a- dile.( something I will be adding to my shopping cart now!!)
Keep an eye out for another piece of inspiration using the bracket book. I will be posting it up soon
I have printed off a variety of my favourite pics of the boys through their life together. I couldn't decide on an event so decided it would make a nice quote/inspirational book for them. I found gorgeous quotes on the net and included them in amongst the photos.
The front cover uses up a variety of old chipboard letters. A little bit of paint and ink too.
The inside cover uses Scenic Route Grafton Carr St and the gorgeous Carolee Creation Tiny Stickers.
This is one of the printed acetate pages. I have added rubons and stamped with staze on so the most of the felt page underneath can be seen.
The felt page has simply been stitched and had some felt shapes added. The felt pages are lovely and thick allowing you to sew through both sides or only through one layer so that the stitching does not show on the other side of the page. The green stitching cannot be seen on the other side of this page. I have also stitched the photos on which has left stitched oblongs on the reverse side.
This page has again used the very cool Grafton range paper. It makes for a very economical book as these papers have been reduced in price in the shop. I chose to cut the paper just smaller than the page and ink the edges of the chipboard.
I really like the colour of chipboard left naturally and so I just dry brushed some paint onto the page to add texture. It also has rubons and odds and ends from my stash.
And of course I just cannot resist stamping here and there.A simple back page using the stickers again and a sharpie pen to write out a gorgeous quote.
This book will be put together using the rings provided in the pack, I have tied a variety of ribbon scraps to them. Pauline and Adrienne are punching the holes for me using acrop- a- dile.( something I will be adding to my shopping cart now!!)
Keep an eye out for another piece of inspiration using the bracket book. I will be posting it up soon
These flowers can be made in any size, and are great on cards and layouts, and the best thing is, they can be made from half a piece of Bazzill and some tools that most of us have! 
To start with, I used a half-piece of Bazzill white cardstock - I like the texture on it. I then stamped the Bazzill randomly with a script stamp and Brilliance black ink. I sprayed Glimmermist over the card - you can spray lightly or heavily, depending on the look you want. I like a distressed look, so sprayed reasonably lightly. (If you don't have any Glimmermist, you could use coloured Bazzill, or you could simply use a patterned paper instead, and distress it. Or you could use white c/stock and ink it to your desired colour.)
When the Glimmermist has dried, you need to cut some petal shapes from the cardstock. I used my Slice diecutting machine to do this, with the Basic Shapes 2 card, but you could just cut a petal shape - rounded at one end and pointed at the other - from card, and use it as a template. For the card, I cut 4 flowers, 2 at 1.5 inches, and the other at 2 inches. 
I then distressed the petals, by scrunching them and inking the edges. I then rolled them over a pencil, as shown above, to add dimension.
I adhered 5 petals in each layer, alternating the placement as shown below.
For a more muted look I also use sponges and dauber the ink onto the ribbon. I use this technique on lace as well! Oh and as a general rule, I probably only use full ink pads rather than versacolour spots because they are foam pads and might get damaged after awhile.
and did a blanket stitch around the whole cupcake as well as some straight stitches - it was fun!!
On this page, I used 2 of the butterflies as masks. I put temporary adhesive on the printed side of the butterfly, stuck it to the page and Glimmermisted, then gently removed the butterfly masks, and rubbed off the temporary adhesive, and I was still able to use the butterflies on another layout. I then used the diecut sheet with the butterflies removed, as a stencil, placing it over the masked butterflies, then applied swirl rubons. I very gently used a kraft knife to cut around the inside edge of the stencil, ensuring I didn't cut into the background paper, only through the rubons, to make sure the rubons stayed put when I removed the stencil. It is a very effective look. I then also used 2 of the pink/red butterflies on the page. Check out the pic below for a closeup of the rubons on the masked butterflies.
I used the following products on this page, available in the shop:
First, I painted a round circle on the background page with cream paint, then adhered the body of each butterfly around the circle. I bent up the wings, then applied Kindyglitz for some sparkle. I then added the photo, title, journalling and ribbon bow inside the circle, and the page was complete. And look at all those gorgeous butterflies! Below is a closeup of the Kindyglitzed butterflies:
I also used the following product on the above layout:
The colours in these papers are perfect for beachy and sunny day layouts, so for this page I used the papers as background to my beach photos, and also made some lollipop flowers from them, adding Kindyglitz for sparkle. I stamped and diecut the journal block from the yellow paper, and used my new Fiskars Effervescence Border Punch on one of the paper edges.
The collection is great value at $27.90 for 24 papers; that's less than [b]$1.20 per sheet![/b] And all the papers are coordinating, so you have heaps of options.
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