My First Create and Play Lay-Out

I'm back from holidays and finally have my computer fixed, so I can start posting again! Our holiday was wonderful. I took over 900 photos and now I have to upload and edit them all, so I won't be running out of pictures to scrapbook in a long time!

I have lots of old photos to scrapbook too, and this is one of the older ones, taken on our 3rd anniversary on New Year's Eve, 1986.

I've used the items in the Doodlebug Essentials Classic Collection kit (DB3163, p.14 of the catalogue) and yellow and green cardstock from the Super Assortment cardstock pad (p.52, CDSAE). I sanded  the green piece of card with my sanding block (CO723060, p.58). The edges of all the frames were inked in black.

A piece of striped paper from the kit was added to the left side of the page and edged with white crocheted lace (ACR58208, p.17). A couple of the Adalyn flowers were inked using a yellow ink pad. Brads and stickers from the kit and flower motifs cut from one of the papers completed the lay-out.

This is how I made the picture frame:

I traced the die cut (which is on the right side of the frame) onto the lined paper in the kit, and used another piece of patterned paper from the kit to join both pieces to make the frame big enough for the photo. To make the scrolled edges on the top and bottom piece, I traced and cut around part of one of the smaller  frames in the die-cut sheet.

Today I received another order from Create and Play Club, which included some patterned paper pads. The designs are beautiful! I'll be creating some items with them soon.

Happy creating,

Helen.