Using chipboard on Scrapbook pages

I had this photo of my youngest daughter and I from a few years ago sitting on my desk and found a few minutes to sit and 'play' for a while. I love the title wording on this page and think anyone with daughters could find a photo to apply it too.

Materials used: RW Laser Cut title, Prima Reflections A4 paper pad papers, Martha Stewart punch, Bella notelet, Stickles, Flourish with a Bling pearl accent. The flowers are handmade using various floral components pinned together with a pearl brad and applying some Stickles around some of the petals. The Chipboard has simply been inked with a chalk ink and some more Stickles or Glitter Glue applied to highlight parts of it.

The next page is a very sentimental one. The photo is of my grandmother with her first great-grandchild, my daughter. This was the only great-grandchild she saw, although she knew there was a second on the way when she passed away just prior to that great-grandchild's birth.

Materials used: Dusty Attic chipboards (frame, clock and title), Bella brads, handmade flowers, Bella notelet and machine stitching. The chipboards have been inked with chalk ink and highlighted with a metallic rub.

Dusty Attic chipboards are our product of the month for July with a huge 20% off the RRP. These frames make great page embellishment and are also great for using as a template for designer shape papers as they come in a range of sizes and shapes. Check them out online at An Invitation To Scrap

Great news

After receiving notification that all our website data had been lost in the damage caused to our server host by hackers over a week ago things were looking rather ordinary. All automatic backups were lost and absolutely nothing is retrievable. We were looking at a huge amount of work to sort it all out, re-establish our website, all the costs involved again and worst of all, the time it takes to set sites up. I can tell you my head was spinning. This could not have hit at a worse time, end of financial year, sale time and the launch of our magazine advertising campaign in Scrapbook Creations. What the heck were we going to do?

Thankfully I had used a great local IT person to develop the site and he has a backup on file, albeit somewhat behind where we were as I had been busy with the site in recent weeks and a huge amount of stock had been uploaded since the last backup. He is working frantically to get all our domain name etc released from the original host, has already organized a new host site and hopefully it will be back up by tonight. The main thing is that the website is still there, the updating of stock and components I had been 'tweaking' can all be replaced, all that involves is time - lots of time but I will be spending every waking moment on it in order to get back to where we were.

Most of our client list has gone so please, log back in and enter your details again to receive the updates and info that is emailed to our client base. We also lost all the records of sales which will make for some interesting accounting for the tax man. On the upside, while I have to actually go through every bit of stock to redo all the quantities on site it does at least address stocktake! I dread that/those day/days.

To thank all our loyal customers and those who choose to use our site during the relaunch or the website and advertising campaign, there will be huge discounts on stock which will be applied as I reload it all. What is already still online will have discounts applied too, so keep checking in regularly as you will find more each day.

I thank you for your patience, this has been a somewhat stressful time for us but this little black duck or should I say this little paper doll let this stand in the way of our dream. We are your One Stop Chipboard Shop!!!

Got the mojo happening and did a spot of scrapbooking

While the website server was down :( I did spend some time scrapping. I finished off a couple of layouts from the retreat a few weeks ago and then worked on some photos, both new and older ones. Going through photos and reminiscing over the older ones took me back years.

Always Bonnie is photos of one of my daughter's friends, a bubbly delightful girl, full of energy and effervescence. The girls were at the pool with the waterproof camera, mucking around taking pics pc each other just for fun.

Materials used -  textured card, A2Z Scraplets chipboard banner

Always Bonnie

Grandmas Girls is a photo of my beautiful grand-daughters, taken quite a few months ago. They are a busy little pair who keep us entertained non-stop.

Materials used - textured card, Prima paper, Dusty Attic chipboard doily, RW Laser Cut chipboard butterfly, A2Z Scraplets chipboard words, Bella brads and hand made crocheted flowers. The chipboard has all been inked and misted with Glimmermist pearl and the title is a combination of two A2Z words. I needed the word girls for this particular title, so simply snipped the 's' off another Scraplet of the same size, ensuring it was still a usable word - sweethearts became sweetheart. The flowers I crocheted using a wonderfully soft and fine bamboo yarn. The colors of the yarn are beautiful and they are so easy to make and simply fixed to the page with a rhinestone brad.

Grandmas Girls

Having finished the above pages, I went in search of more photos to scrap. The ones I worked on where close to the heart. Working on those sort of photos is quite therapeutic and I have, at times found this a great release of emotion and a way to sift through feelings.


Happy 3rd Birthday is my first grand-daughter's birthday. We spent the day with her and her mum celebrating it. She was so excited about having a birthday and I'd made a piggy cake for her. My husband, daughter, stepson and I had a great day with them.

Materials used - textured card, handmade flowers and Flourish with a Bling embellishment.The flowers are simply a combination of 'cheapy' flowers dissected and re-created to suit and held together with a large pearl brad. The 'Flourish with a Bling' leafy vine was cut into pieces to fit around the photo and flowers.

Happy 3rd Birthday

Mothers Day is a very special page. The photo is very ordinary (and even harder to see here) but it is the memory of the day that is important. My daughter's school celebrates Mother's Day with a lunch and this year is the last year of primary school for all of my children. It'll be the last celebration of its kind and although I'm happy to see my daughter go off to High School, I'll miss the Primary School family days. I've been attending these days since my first child started Pre-School 24 years ago. That sounds such a long time ago and while it is, it is also still fresh in my mind. At the same time, my stepson and grand-daughter are in early Primary School and Pre-School respectively, so chances are these days will still be part of my life for a long time yet.

Materials used -  textured card, MME paper kit, Bella brads, handmade flowers and WOW chipboard title. The chipboard is inked and embossed with an iridescent powder for a subtle addition of bling. I love the look of this chippie, it's elegant and the 'dropped' style work so well.

Always consider when looking at chipboard words that they can be cut and arranged to suit your layout. Many other designs can be cut to create an individual look for your own use.

Mothers Day

The last one - I Love Poppy -is a very sentimental one. This is the last photo taken of Poppy with his grand-daughter before she and her family moved towns. We will miss seeing them as much as we did but they are always in our hearts, especially the kids as they grow and change so much, so quickly.

Materials used -  textured card, A2Z Scraplet chipboards, Dusty Attic chipboard frame, Bella notelet.

I Love Poppy