Summer Strawberries

We’ve picked a bumper crop of strawberries from our garden this summer.  There were lots of little ones and some huge ones too – I don’t think that I’ve ever grown any so big before!  Some of the biggest weighed over 1oz each!

I was inspired to add some more strawberry themed printables to my shop; like this birthday bunting banner…

It comes as 5 sheets, each with 3 pennants on, which can be printed and strung up to spell out ‘Happy Birthday’.

I’ve also designed these printable journal cards for scrapbooking projects…

The sheet contains 6 designs – 4 different 3x4 inch cards, a 4x6 inch card and a 4x1.6 inch card.  Printable journal cards are a new addition to my shop and I’ll be working on adding more themes soon.  As I’ve just got back into making scrapbook pages for my own album I’ll be using them for my own craft projects too (and will post photos of my layouts here)!

Another new product I’m working on is cupcake wrappers – this strawberry wrapper with a scalloped top is one of my first prototypes…

The finished printable cupcake wrappers should be appearing in my shop very soon!

Scrapbook layout inspiration - Basil my Guinea Pig

I have had a scrapbook album for many years now but have only made a few pages to go in it.  I recently came across Jot Magazine via Pinterest – it’s a new free online magazine on paper crafting and scrapbooking, and it inspired me to get my scrapbook out again!

My album is A3, a bit of an unusual shape with A3, A4 and B4 sized sleeves.  I think if I was to buy an album again I would use a more standard 12 inch or 8 inch square one, but I need to finish this one before I start thinking of doing another!

I made this page on my guinea pig, called Basil – I have so many cute photos of him and wanted to create a memory page of all the things he does :)

These are the materials I used (several of them are available from my craft supplies shop):

• 12x12 inch spotty scrapbook paper from a DCWV stack
• Coloured card and paper
• Photos printed on glossy photo paper
• Journal card from this printable Woodland set
• Leaf motifs from this printable collage sheet
• Baker’s twine
• Paper punches; daisy flowers, scalloped circle, round corner
• Mini brad
• Mini spotty button
• Alphabet rubber stamps
• Small amount of green thread

I used the round corner punch on the three main photos before mounting them on cream card.  The letters for Basil’s name were all cut by hand.

Before I glued anything down I carefully laid everything out to see how it would look.  I drew a faint pencil line for where I wanted the baker’s twine to be, which I then went over with PVA glue to stick the twine down.

I love these tiny spotty buttons!  They’re the perfect size for putting in the centre of a punched paper daisy.

I really enjoyed doing this page and won’t be leaving it so long before doing another.  I think the hardest part for me is trying to decide exactly what to do – there are so many choices!  Do you do scrapbooking?  If you’ve blogged about your own layouts I would love to see them – please leave a link in the comments below! :)