we have an abundance of riches to share with you today all featuring some of our favourite patterned paper ranges from Crate Paper. To begin, Mel Goodsell has outdone herself with these four fabulous layouts.
Mel has blanket stitched around a sheet of Coral patterned paper (Crush collection) and combined Orange County Crateboard alphas plus Hambly Screen Print rubons to create a layout about her son's favourite memories from their Easter camping trip this year.
The Zoom range of patterned papers doesn't always have to be about planes, trains and automobiles! Mel has demonstrated that here with a fun layout using up some of those hard to scrap photos. The circles have been hand cut from the Wheels patterned paper and the title is a mix of Zoom crushboard and rubons.
Of course if you do just happen to have some plane, train or automobile photos around, the Zoom range is just perfect! Mel has used the train track rubons to add a border to the top and bottom of her layout and the main title (Zoom crushboard) has been stitched into place to reinforce the train track theme.
The yummy autumn tones found in the Crush collection of patterned papers sit perfectly with many of the Heidi Swapp orange, green and brown coloured decorative tapes available. Mel has used a single strip of tape across the bottom half of her layout and completed the page using chocolate chipboard alphas found in the Orange County Crushboard pack.
Why not use this range to make some gorgeous handmade gifts for a new born baby as Chris has done. Plain gift bags can be found at craft shops and door hangers can easily be made by covering some chipboard that has been measure and cut to size. Chris loves how 'inkable' the crate paper range is also.
Keeping with the baby theme Chris has blocked her photos and journalling on this layout and kept the lines very simple yet effective. Chris added a very interesting stamped border around her photos using the Sassafras Lass border stamp. Chris stamped the images onto the Baby Bee paper, cut the images out and then secured them around the edge of her photos.
We discovered these gorgeous layouts both created by Donna Meuli and both using the Baby Bee range. We love the way Donna has incorporated hand stitching and machine stitching to her layouts, it really compliments the Baby Bee range. It's wonderful to have your creations on the blog this week, thank you Donna.
A big thank you to Ann Lederhose for sharing her scrumptious layout using the Twirl collection of patterned papers. We loved her beautiful use of hand cut and punched flowers and the little added bit of bling scattered throughout the page. Such a pretty and well balanced layout!
We love this little beauty created by Jamie Gavin using both the Birdie and Cowgirl collection. Jamie created the stars by using the reverse sides of the papers. Thanks for sharing Jamie!
Last but not least this week, the Crush collection of papers are certainly perfect for those upcoming Christmas layouts as Cathy Bodini has demonstrated on this elegant page of her daughter. Cathy has also used the patterned papers to cover the brackets from one of the Crateboard chipboard packs (alphabets, numbers & punctuation) and we also adored the cool page title!
