Zoo Scrapbook Pages

I have literally hundreds of photographs from our visits to the zoo, both here, interstate and overseas - we totally love visiting zoos! Recently I made up some scrap pages to showcase just 5 photos from these visits featuring our child of course. They didn't turn out like the pages I had sketched out mentally in my head, but I wanted to use the photographs full size rather than cropping them down or doing a series of small prints.

I went a bit overboard with the leaves - but a wonderful part of our zoo visits are exploring all of the different plants, trees and shrubs that make up the animals habitat. They range from exotic to almost weed varieties, but they are all part of the zoo experience. 

The monkey punch art is from a Kim S. tutorial (the valentines one here) and virtually everything else was cut with the Big Shot - I am so living that machine, no more running out of letters when you are making your titles!

I haven't added journalling to these pages yet (I need to check the date on one of the photographs first), but I was envisaging writing around the photographs and also inside the 'fun' tag - I am loving the new Two Tags die, so versatile.

If you would like to come and make these pages, they are the ones that we will be making on Tuesday (details here , so let me know ASAP if you want to come along and join in the fun.

Stamps: D is for Dog & Woodgrain

Card Stock: Neutrals patterns pack DSP, More Mustard, Cajun Craze, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive & Always Artichoke.

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Junior Timeless Type alphabet, Leaves #2 dies, Big Shot, Simple Letters Alphabet, stamping sponge, Hemp Twine, Two Tags die, Crop-a-dile, 1/2" circle punch, Dimensionals, (monkey punches as per Kim's tutorial). 

Dog Thanks

This is the thank you card that I made for the wonderfully generous donors and people who placed orders at the RSPCA fundraising afternoon in April. I love how fast roller wheels make gorgeous custom backgrounds and how the paper piercer and mat pack really add extra dimension to a card without any bulk!

Stamps: D is for Dog, Afterthoughts, P is for Paw (roller)
Ink: More Mustard & Early Expresso.
Card stock: More Mustard, Whisper White & Early Expresso.
Accessories: 1" circle punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, stamping sponges, mat pack & paper piercer, roller wheel handle, Dimensionals.

Dog Scrapbook Page

Two scrapbook pages in two days - what's going on! This page was done for a class that will be taught next week (so if you are interested in attending the class - you can see my website for details or email me). Anyway back to my page - it was done using the lovely D is for Dog stamp set and I decided to use photographs from our lovely farm dog Dinny, who sadly after +14 years of being a cattle dog died in July this year. These photographs were taken in January 2010 when we visited the farm, our son loved sitting on the dog bed patting and chatting to him, not realising that Dinny was completely deaf!

I wanted to give the effect of having a dog collar on the page, so used the circle scissors plus to cut a 5" circle an then used a sponge to age it and a chocolate chip marker to draw on faux stitching. The dog tag was made using the stamps from the set and held on using a loop of card stock and hemp twine.

There is journaling room on a pull out sheet behind the main photograph - I used the same dog stamp image on the journaling area as in the centre of the dog collar. I also thought of adding a few bone stamps on the page, but as Dinny has an "i" in it - I used it on the title instead along with letters cut from the Junior Timeless Type alphabet.

I sponged all of the edges of the 12"x12" page with chocolate chip ink as well. The random paw prints going across the page were originally just going to be a tidy border, but as Dinny had a mind and personality all of his own, I figured he wouldn't have just staying walking in one straight line! The punch art puppy dog is not my design, it is from Valita's blog, isn't he cute?

Stamps: D is for Dog, Just Believe

Card Stock: Very Vanilla, Chocolate Chip, Crumb Cake, Basic Black

Ink: Chocolate Chip

Accessories: Scallop square punch, 1 1/4" circle punch, 1 3/8" circle punch, 3/4" circle punch, small oval punch, large oval punch, 1/16" handheld punch, hemp twine, Dimensionals, SNAIL, Chocolate Chip marker pen, white gel pen, stamping sponge, paper snips, round tab punch, Junior Timeless Type Alphabet, circle scissors plus

Non SU: single hole punch