Sunday 6 June 2010

New Colour Blog Hop

It's been a quiet week on the crafting front for me, mainly as it's half term and also I needed a rest from all hard work over the last few weeks from the Extravaganza. I'm back though and today we're on another Blog Hop tour featuring the New Products and Colours that was introduced last month. If you've not seen the new colours there's a flyer on the right hand side of my blog which will tell you all that's on offer. Rich Razzleberry, Melon Mambo and Soft Suede are the colours and WILL be in the new catalogue and part of the core colours...yippee! Ok so if you're already on the tour you should of arrived from Clare's blog. I'm off to do the rounds myself shortly but I'll bet there's some real inspiration out there - can't wait to see. Now the NEW Cottage Wall Designer Papers are absolutely gorgeous and are only available while stock last, but that's ok with me as I've bought plenty of supplies to keep me going. As I feel the urge to use them as much as possible at the mo and because I'm back into my scrapbooking lately, I wanted to use them on a layout and I had this photo which I took of Jake last year whilst on holiday visiting the Eden Project. I know boys and flowers don't really go together but as you can see from the photo it had to be on this occasion and what a match.I've used Pale Plum textured cardstock as the base and stamped the leaf image from Vintage Vogue in the same colour round the edge. I punched Whisper White cardstock with the Scalloped Edge Punch to give a pretty frame then used the Cottage Wall DSP on to that. The large flowers are the singular stamp 'Flower Accent' (£6.95) which is in the Mini Catalogue and I've used the Rock 'n' Roll technique with Pale Plum and Rich Razzleberry to give it the two tone effect. The centres are from the Flower Brads, San Serif Alphabet was used for the title in Rich Razzleberry and the bird and leaves punched from the fabulous XL Bird Punch which is also in the Mini Catalogue. I few frames stamped from the 'Framed with Love' set and Bob's your Uncle, it's done!
A very simple page and easily achievable.
Hope you like the project and for more inspiration I'll now send you onto Pat's blog. Have fun on the tour!
p.s. just noticed I made a boo boo on the date on the Layout...oops!

25 comments:

Elaine said...

Love your page - of course pinks etc can be used for boys. It goes so wekk with the flowers in the background of your piccie.

Sharon said...

Gorgeous scrapbook page!...x

debbi taylor said...

great project Jo love the scrapbook page!

Teri said...

Jo .... this page is absolutely stunning! xxx

Vicki said...

Love this Jo, it's beautiful, great layout ;)

Hugs
Vicki x

Dawn said...

Ooh Stunning JO, your scrapbook pages are awesome!!!

Unknown said...

Jo this is totally stunning - I LOVE it, just beautiful and flowers were definitely called for.

Thansk for sharing

Bx

Jan Jones said...

Gorgeous scrapbook page Jo!
Jan
X

Vannessa said...

Stunning page Jo!

Kathy Simpson said...

Stunning use of the DSP

Sara said...

What a pretty page. He looks so sweet and cheerful here. Love the colours.

Sara xx

Pegcraftalot.blogspot.com said...

The scrapbook page is stunning Jo

Anonymous said...

This is a great LO- boys and flowers are great together- love the scalloped edge too!The photos' colours are so perfect with Rich Razzleberry.

Jamie said...

Beautiful layout x

Unknown said...

Gorgeous idea, love it :-)))
Alexandra xxx

Shaz said...

What a stunning page.

Shaz xxx

Erika said...

Stunning LO and great photos....love how everything is put together.

Brenda said...

Adorable scrapbook page. TFS

Sandra Roberts (Sarnie) said...

Love your projects, especially the flowers. I've just got that single flower stamp so I could do the 'kissing' technique but hey, you've just shown how the rock 'n' roll works on plain solid stamps too. Thanks for sharing.

Becki said...

Beautiful page. We went to The Eden Project twice on our honeymoon - isn't it just the most gorgeous place?!

Hugs,

Becki
xx

Victoria said...

Jo this is just beautiful, I love your punched border and the flowers with the brads are perfect
hugs
Victoria
x

Saxo Stamper said...

Just lovely Jo, really love the way you have Jake's feet on the crate.

k x

simplyfairies said...

What a beautiful layout Jo, I love it!! And how cute is your little fella!!

britcanadagal said...

Lovely Page Jo! I'm jealous.. I love that flower stamp..but we can't get it here in Canada... :{ Keep up the good work my one and only UK fan ;}

StampinBecksCraft said...

Beautiful scrapbook page!