Blog Archive - April 2010
Grab It Information - 1st May
Grab It Day is here tomorrow, below are the lovely products we have to offer!!
Raindrops Keep Falling - Mini Kit
Fun patterns, pretty embellishments and vibrant alphas make May's Mini Kit a must have purchase. Helen's Step by Step instructions will feature on the GoGo Blog during May.
Kits contains: Prima Umbrella Raincoat, Prima Umbrella Splash, Prima Umbrella Pebbles, Prima Umbrella Letters, Bazzill White Cardstock.
Just £4.99 posted free with your subscription.
May Bespoke Design Cards
Grab yourself a set of these printed Bespoke Design Cards. This super sweet set has been designed by the very talented Sam Ball. Sam has been playing with paint and collage - yes real mediums! and has designed this set to coordinate perfectly with our '..... Read More
Written by Lisa Bond - 30th April 2010
'Live, Love, Laugh..'
Live, Love, Laugh (April Project Kit)
designed by Sheena Rowlands
Made using April's Project Kit, Create Kit, Hybrids & G2P
Step by Instructions for April's Project Kit
1) Cut 2 pieces of patterned paper for middle two compartments of tray
and ink edges. Cut chosen title from hybrid sheet, ink and mount on
cardstock using foam pads.
2) Arrange title over the 2 pieces leaving enough space at the bottom of
second piece for mini canvas to fit. Fix title in position using foam
pads.
3) Decorate mini canvas using embroidery floss, Thickers and a computer generated sentence inked and glued into place
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4) Cut 4 pieces from textured cardstock for remaining compartments and
ink edges. Cut 4 pieces of patterned paper, ..... Read More
Written by Lisa Bond - 24th April 2010
'Material Girl Model'
Material Girl Model
designed by Sam Ball
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P & Stamp
This photo is of Caitlin, modeling her elder sisters' multi-media
project, which was to create a fairy tale dress. They went off on their
photo shoot and came back with some stunning images.
I used the border stamp to create the scalloped edge and inked the
chipboard tailors dummy's to tonally work with the layout, adding a bit
of floss to look like little scarves.
I also inked the alpha, as it's a fabric one it's so easy to re-colour to co-ordinate with your layout.
Written by Lisa Bond - 23rd April 2010
'Spring Greens'
Spring Greens
designed by Sheena Rowlands
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create & Hybrids
I tend to scrap people & forget to scrap things so when I saw
the colour of the Material Girl snip snip paper was the same colour as my new coat, I just had to scrap it.
I inked the maya road chipboard shapes with 2 shades of orange to give
them more dimension and to team them with the hybrids used.
Written by Lisa Bond - 23rd April 2010
'Shoe Love'
Shoe Love
designed by Eileen Webdale
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P & Hybrids
From an early age Hannah had a love of shoes.
If this photo is anything to go by it would seem that she was as happy
eating them as wear them and of course wearing grown up shoes was the
best.
The Jenni Bowlin buttons, Prima Blossom and 'Say it in Pearls'
compliment the Scribble Scrabble Nana’s Trunk No.352 patterned paper.
Written by Lisa Bond - 23rd April 2010
'Mini Canvas'
Mini Canvas
designed by Helen Miles
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create & G2P
How super cute are these mini canvases?!? I
printed a mini pic off and cut a border with a stamp edge decorative
scissors. I mixed it up with some patterned papers and some goodness
from the kits, including a lush jenni bowlin pin!
Written by Lisa Bond - 23rd April 2010
Tailor Made
Tailor Made
designed by Nicola Kerridge
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P and Hybrids
Why 'Tailor Made' ????, well ...the giant letters spelling California
outside the theme park of the same name in Disneyland CA. were a
perfect photo opportunity for a shot with the letter of your initial.
I was lucky enough that there was every letter of my name so I got the whole deal !!!
Spot the Jenni Bowlin packaging , it was so cute and vintagey that I couldn't resist popping it on my LO
Written by Lisa Bond - 16th April 2010
Reel Love
Reel Love
designed by Lisa Bond
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P, Stamp and Hybrids
I couldn't wait to ink up this month's stamp
and get stamping, I adore the little cotton reel and created a border
of the reels, and then using the floss in the G2P's I sewed a few lines
on the body of the reels to make it appear that they were full.
I love this photo of Mia taken last year, you will notice she is
missing her front teeth, sometimes this time doesn't last long so you
need to capture the moment then and there!!
Written by Lisa Bond - 15th April 2010
Harry
Harry
designed by Lorraine Ablett
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P and Hybrids
April Kit is perfect for baby photos, so much
so that I have really got stuck in to emptying my old baby album for
Harry and finalling making some LOs! This picture of Harry was in his
first week of being born and I still remember this little green striped
suit as if it were yesterday.
The Hybrids this month really have helped my Kit go far, infact all but
two of the strips that feature within this design are from the Hybrid
download. The three buttons from the Hybrids were a great base for
three little pins - don't these just remind ..... Read More
Written by Lisa Bond - 13th April 2010
The Blanket
The Blanket
designed by Claire Salisbury
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create & Hybrids
Last year I started to learn to knit & one
of my ongoing projects is to knit a blanket to snuggle under, however
so far, I've only done 4 squares, so I have quite a way to go yet.
I created a pocket for some journaling behind the photo, and used
the advertising strips from the Cosmo Cricket papers for embellishments.
Written by Lisa Bond - 12th April 2010
'I Love Sewing'
'I Love Sewing"
designed by Sam Ball
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P and Bespoke Design Cards
Although this photo is nothing to do with
sewing, I really like it of me and so decided to use it as a base to
scrap my love of dressmaking.
The design card says it all "sew much fabric, sew little time" and I
think we can all share that sentiment! Since discovering scrapbooking,
my sewing time has been neglected.
I used acrylic paint to colour the chipboard pieces, as I wanted a
denser colour than ink would give me and arranged them to form a border
of ..... Read More
Written by Lisa Bond - 12th April 2010
'Sew Much Fabric' Canvas
'Sew Much Fabric' Canvas
designed by Lisa Bond
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P, Stamp and Bespoke Design Cards
A little bit of fun here, I cut up one of the
Bespoke design cards, stamped one of the cotton reels (April Stamp) and added a few little
embellishments to this canvas. For a really bumpy page you could add this to a layout
Written by Lisa Bond - 12th April 2010
Member's Gallery
Today we are sharing some member's designs with March T'urn It Up!' Kit, it isn't long now before April Kit is with everyone so in the mean time we are sharing these stunning designs!
The first one is by Cal,we love the ways she has captured a fun and daring ride with the Kit.
Sharon has created this beautiful master piece with lots of laying that we just adore!
Do you have anything to share, if so please do let us know - we would love to show the world!
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 12th April 2010
GoGo Spring Clean
We are really looking forward to our Day Event tomorrow...
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 9th April 2010
Window Couture
Window Couture
designed by Helen Miles
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create and G2P.
There's so much in this kit to get inspired by, for instance, I've had these photos for years but never had the right combo of stash to go with them, enter 'Fabrication'!
The retro ladies matched the Bloomingdales exterior perfectly, with the whole fifties kinda feel. The little Maya Road chipboard pieces were also great for adding little features the the images, inked in green, one is hung from a coat ..... Read More
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 9th April 2010
Sweet As An Angel
Sweet As An Angel
designed by Angie Woolfall
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P, and Bespoke Design Cards.
The "Donna Salazar Artistic Paper, Lacey Goodness" inspired me to create a very vintagey feel layout. On the bottom strip there are allsorts of ideas of things you could do with the paper, with paints or mists etc, but most were way too messy for me to consider!
So I just lightly inked the lacy printed areas, and just used it as a lovely textured base for the rest of the LO.
I couldn't resist adding lots of stitching, and the threaded ribbon around the circular paper too.
And as for those Jenni Bowlin stickpins- I LOVE them!
This ..... Read MoreWritten by Lorraine Ablett - 8th April 2010
Handmade
Handmade
designed by Sheena Rowlands
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create, G2P, Stamps, Hybrids, Bespoke Cards
The Cosmo Cricket material girl- in stitches paper reminded me of this photo of my Gran wearing a blouse she had embroidered herself. I have printed the photo on canvas paper as it was poor quality and felt this gives it a better look.
I got carried away with embellishments which is so easy to do with this fabulous kit, but I'm happy with the finished result
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 6th April 2010
First Stitch
First Stitch
designed by Nicola Kerridge
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit Create & Go 2 Pieces
I wanted to combine all the soft neutrals from the kit for this LO as the photo's of Lucinda's first sewing machine lesson were quite dark as they were taken indoors one rainy Sunday afternoon.
A little distress ink on the Donna Salazar paper tones it perfectly to combine with the Hambly Couture and gave me just the look I was after.
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 4th April 2010
Lady Bug
Lady Bug
designed by Lisa Bond
Made Using 'Fabrication' April Kit - Create & Hybrid
The hybrid buttons are crying out to have that beautiful ribbon tied in the centre of them, a crop a dile punch out the circles just right. For an different approach to adding journaling I added my words around the edge of the patterned paper.
This photo shows Mia's obsession with all things creepy crawly. Mia even has a little countryside encyclopedia in which she checks off any little bugs she finds.
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 3rd April 2010
Day One
'Day One'
designed by Lorraine Ablett
Made using 'Fabrication' April Kit - Create/G2P
These are my three most favourite photos from the first moment that Zoe and Kirsty met Harry, Simon had been with me all night but went home for a quick nap and then straight back to see us both with the girls - I love their smiling faces!
This Bazzill cardstock is my most favourite shade of blue at the moment, it doesn't really remind me of rain but that is what it is called! However it was the perfect colour as a backdrop to my design as I wanted to feature blue, pink and yellow which ..... Read More
Written by Lorraine Ablett - 2nd April 2010
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