Scrappin Saturday – beautiful Mum

I made this page months ago but because I was mid sharing design team projects I never got around to sharing on my blog at the time.

It was made in response to two challenges – firstly the sketch from the March 1 sketch 3 ways Facebook group that my lovely friends Helen, Sarah and Janet run. They provided this sketch …

And this is what I made…

I kept all the elements of the sketch in – but obviously added more stuff too!

The second challenge was at the Bash Your Stash Facebook group where the April challenge was to use flowers! So the floral paper worked for that along with the flower stickers and other elements I added in.

I didn’t film this one so I’ll explain what I did for it.

The picture is of my Mum at my graduation back in July 1999. And I think she looked amazing! Definitely better than I did that day! 🤣

The sketch suggested some mixed media in the background so I used the Kingston shimmer spritz but painted it roughly over the background rather than spraying it – this meant the mica was in different intensities for the background. I then added a large amount of white gesso splatter for contrast too.

I then set it aside to dry – I mean it looks like a right old mess! But I knew it would be fine once I covered most of it with paper!

I then grabbed the paper and cut it into 2.25” strips and then cut it down a by about 4” so it would work as a square block when I put it down over the messy background.

I added a white border to the picture and then the reverse of the flowery pattern is the black dots so I added that as a layer too. I also had some scraps of a pink textured type paper so I grabbed my Hey Little Magpie dies and cut the bumpy border for the left hand side of the photo and a tab for the top. These dies are so handy for these sorts of elements – that bumpy border is a real favourite of mine!

I then grabbed lots of bits and pieces from the embellishments box including the gold doilies from the February embellishment kit from Hey Little Magpie.

I chose my title from a Simple Stories puffy sticker set and then just worked through random stickers and the 49th & market embellishments to add layers behind/to the side of the photo.

I then added my journalling onto white strips of card to add to the page as I didn’t have anywhere clear to write my journalling.

It was good to use up bits from the March Hey Little Magpie embellishment kit too to add in the yellow… like the ribbon tab I made and the little fabric daisy.

I’m really pleased with how this page came out and good to get two challenges in one done for this page. Sorry it’s taken so long to share it here! But got there eventually! And also good for me to have a prepped post for whilst I am on my holiday!

I love how shimmery the background is too – I don’t think the photos show off the shine – but it’s super shiny!

Happy crafting!

Catherine