Baby to 1st Birthday - Scrapbook Album

Welcome back to a finally chilly day here in my local town.. Winter has hit!
We basically went from having fans on during the night, to the next night having to warm up the room with the heater. lol..

 

Anyway, today I'm here to share with you this scrapbook album that I have put together for Hunter's teacher from last year. She is expecting her first baby and the entire school is very excited!

 

We designed 20 somewhat basic layouts to fit into the 10page album.

 

Welcome cover page

 

New Born page.
On the opposite side of this one, I have slid in a pattern paper from Karen Fosters Design. I haven't altered it in any way, just left it as is for the Mummy to Be to write info about her pregnancy.

 

 Grandma & Pa layouts.

Great page for Mummy & Me photos.

 

Bath Time & Feeding Time layouts

 

This one is just a play double layout. I don't like it very much so will probably replace it with a better double layout when the baby is born and we know if it's a boy or girl.. lol..

 

Fun Cousins and a Friends page..

 

Aunty & Uncle layouts

 

Baptism layout

Beach layout (we live in a coastal town, so a beach visit is for sure!)

Fun in the Sun. Great for play in the backyard or park.

 

Finally the last page is the 1st Birthday layout.

 

Steampunk Canvas

Good evening fellow crafters, I'm here tonight to bring you my latest DT creation for Memory Maze. I wanted to do something a bit different yet again and chose to go wild with this SteamPunk themed canvas.

 

Steam Punk Canvas

 

 

So I started off by preparing this 8"x8" canvas with white Gesso, then before it dried I quickly sprinkled over some Silver Opal embossing powder. When it was heated up, it gave a great melted metal look.

 

Next I used a MM Brick stencil and Modelling Paste with Gold embossing powder coating it. I loved the look of it bubbling when it was being heat dried. Added that extra special Steampunk feel.

 

I added a little bit of colour to the base with some Distress Inks. And topped it off with a few dashes of Barn Door ink to compliment the chipboard piece that will be featured in the middle of the canvas.

 

Now it was onto colouring the chipboard pieces. Again, I covered some Cogs in the Silver Opal powder and the centre Steampunk piece with Distress Powder.

 

Special mention to my awesome VersaMark watermark ink pad.. It has lasted me at least 6 years so far and I have only just re-inked it tonight. I probably didn't need to be just yet, but when I was going through some draws finding Steampunk goodie ideas, I found the re-inker bottle. So while still fresh in my mind... lol..

 

So the final touches were to hot glue everything down! I added some extra cogs to the other corners. I have used the Silver Opal powder again and two distress inks to softly colour them.

Embellished with plenty of Steampunk themed goodies like; train, key, clock, pins etc..  

 

 

Memory Maze products used;

 

SteamPunk

 

 A lot of Cogs

 

Cogs 

 

Brick stencil

 

Bling