Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Welcome to another Throwback Thursday here at Make the Day Special Stamp Store! Before we delve into the past,have you SEEN the scrummy new goodness that has been arriving in the shop?! Its very very hard not to blow the food budget and just buy EVERYTHING!!!!

Anyway,back to past releases ;-) Lydia and I decided to try using the same stamp set for different projects. Lydia is a traditional scrapbooker (and has a STUNNING style-pop to her blog and have a peek) and I am an avid Project Lifer,so we chose the cute Mama Elephant Bootastic and got our BOO on :-)

I loved grouping all the little trick n' treaters together on one card-they are super cute! I went with no colour on the images,as my palette for this spread is fairly unaccepting of anything other than orange,grey,black and white-so stamped them on some print cardstock,stamped and stitched the little pumpkins along the top like lanterns.

I did the same for the bats and spiders,stamping,cutting and using stitching to add movement:

Added a little cheesecloth behind the spiders for a web-like look:

Ta-dah!

If you ask her nicely,I'm sure Lydia will show you her gorgeous Scrapbook layout...its boo-tiful!

See you next week-I might have stopped doing Halloween projects by then.....

but then again,I might not have ;-)

Lou x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

Urgh,its cold,wet and windy here today-has your sun disapeared too? I think the Tour De France took it with them when they passed through ;-) Perfect day to catch up with some Project Life weeks :-D

Today is a PL spread that I used Paper Smooches Documented Dies (which are INVALUABLE for Project Life-I use them a LOT lol) I cut a load out and keep them in a pot ready for adding to a layout,they look great glued,sewn or stapled and even stenciled. Paper Smooches have quite a few bits that can add a great touch to a page,have a look ;-)

Also used today are the awesome Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling die and Large Stitched Journaling die,which are both out of stock right now,but will be back soon!

And some closer peeps at the dies in action

I hope you like it and go check out some of the dies in the shop :-)

Lou x

Project Life DIY!!!

Hi there :0) I have something a bit different today!!

I've been pondering around the idea of starting a project life album, those fabulous core card kits look just so scrummy and the thought of speedy scrapbooking is attractive too :0)
When you actually look at the designs in some of those kits though I couldn't help thinking I could use the stamps I already have to make my own.....

I'm a bit of a procrastinator so knowing which photos to start with was hopeless so I thought I'd just get some ideas for core and journal cards out of my head and into real life and hopefully the photos and album will come later :0)

These two are cut with the Lawn Fawn 3x4 journal card die and I've used the tandem from Roll With It the solid speech bubble negative stamp from Oh Yeah and the wording is from Paper Smooches set called Captured Moments which is an ideal set for scrapbooking :0)

This one is cut using the larger Lawn Fawn Journal card die and stamped with the typewriter from Just A Note and the scroll of paper is stamped on white card, cut out and inserted through a slit in the top of the typewriter. The wording is again from Paper Smooches Captured Moments stamp set .... I was leaving the left handside for a photo or journaling :0)

These last two are cut using dies from My Favourite Things but to be honest you don't really need fancy dies as long as you have a ruler and a craft knife... a corner rounder is an optional extra!! I've used the long and short brushstrokes from Avery Elle's Brushed on both of these cards... the long one makes a great striped background for that sketchy camera in #Smile and I used a versamark pen to colour the heart with sticky ink before adding gold embossing for a touch of glamour :0) The torn edge notecard has been stamped with Lawn fawns SchoolHouse Backdrops for the lined paper look and the Hello is from the same Avery Elle set mentioned above :0)

If Project Life or pocket scrapbooking is somethng you've thought about trying I encourage you to take a look at your stamps and see what designs you could turn them into, you'll have a great time being creative and making your pages even more personal :0)

Oh and before I go just a quick reminder it's an Anything Goes challenge over at Paper Smooches Sparks this week, here's my DT card for this week featuring the mad scientist from Great Chemistry. Please pop over and see the DT inspiration and play along too, it would be great to see you in the gallery :0)

Jenny x

Throwback Thursday

Hello!

(made using Lawn Fawn Stitched Journaling Card die and Mama Elephant Sketchy Letters)

Are there any Project Lifers out there? Are you a die hard PL addict? Have you thought about it but haven't embarked on it yet? Did you know that everything you need to create gorgeous,embellished  3x4's and 6x4's is RIGHT HERE IN THE STORE?? No? Well let me show you :-)

First off, Lawn Fawn have two die sets that allow you to create perfect PL cards. For the smaller 3x4 cards and photos this is your new best friend. The Stitched Journaling Card. Look at that cute super trendy stitching!

And for those bigger 6x4 cards? Yup,Lawn Fawn have that covered too,with this bad boy. The Large Stitched Journaling Card

Those extras are invaluable for embellishing! Im just popping one of these into my shopping cart right now ;-)

The store carries a gorgeous range of Lawn Fawn papers, right here, so you can cut some gorgeously different cards.

Ok,so you have cut your cards,now what? 

STAMPS!!! Make those cards PERSONAL! There is hardly a set in the store that wont compliment your project lay out! Go look! Mama Elephant in particular have some great PL stamps as do Unity (But hurry-Unity is now a discontinued brand at the store,so once they are gone,they are gone! 

See you next week!

Lou x