Sam's Scrapbook Process : Stars & Stripes #pawgustart‬

This is my final contribution to the August Creative Arts Collaboration hashtag #pawgustart.

The loves of my life my Beagle Boys - Barney and Buster!

Pretty obsessed with taking photos of them, and apparently with layering on my layouts lately lol! I think the last 5 layouts I have done have tissue paper and lots of layers!

Used:

Forever Friends Best of British 6x6 Paper

Recycled tissue paper

Red Card

Blue Foil Card

Thickers - Poolside

Thickers - Tinsel

American Crafts Remarks - Chickadee

Blue and Red gems

Paper Doily

Wooden Star (may take off)

Remember search google, twitter and Youtube for #pawgustart and all content from Aug 20th through to 22nd will come up from everyone involved in the virtual animal art festival.

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

Keepsake : Paw Print Frames #pawgustart‬

Project for today is a keepsake to go on the wall. It got rather messy and was a stressful day trying to do this!

Inspiration/Scraplift from Edyta Diseño which I saw on a Doggie DIY Projects post:

My frames turned out a little differently as I wanted a picture of my boys with their paw print. As you can tell the paw print looks nothing like the above one. We tried with paint and it just made a splodgie unrecognizable blob! We did have footage but I accidentally deleted it. Lets just say myself and the dogs got a little messy and stressed.

So I cleaned their paws of the paint and also now have 2 black marks on my carpet from where Barney got away from me before I could wash his paw! 
I went and had a cup of tea and looked around my desk at what else I could use as I have been thinking of making this project for a few weeks now and had already painted the frames and mounted the photos so was pretty deflated!

I googled to check if ink pads were toxic to dogs and it said as long as water-based and non-toxic and paws cleaned thoroughly after it was ok.

As you can see the paw prints are very different and they look very different even through they are the same breed of dog (Beagles). I am glad I persisted with this project as I love how they turned out. 

I used letter stickers for the names instead of writing it as I could not get it as fancy as original. 

I am going to make a big photo gallery up the stairs with different pictures/frames after we have decorated.

Remember search google, twitter and Youtube for #pawgustart and all content from Aug 20th through to 22nd will come up from everyone involved in the virtual animal art festival.

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx

Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : Hoochie #pawgustart‬

I will be joining in the Creative Arts Collaboration again this month and the hashtag is #pawgustart‬ so anyone who loves animals and art is going to need to tune in for this months virtual art festival!

As most of you know I am a mother of 4 fur babies so this is definitely up my street!

So my first project is a scrapbook process video which unfortunately got cut short I was trying out a new camera and it ran out of memory before I realized I finished my page! I am not sure on the camera angle either so let me know what you think!?

Inspiration/Scraplift from Nina Ostermann:

So this was my cat Hooch who had to sadly be put to sleep Nov 2014 and I still get up sad looking at his pictures as he was my favorite and I think he thought I was his mother! My mams friend found him in 1996 an extremely small and frighted kitten in a back alley. As my family had a few cats she brought him to us and he never left my side for 18 years.

I realized I had never scrapped a picture of him! I came across this photo from a few years back of him sitting with his tongue out. It was cute as when he would groom himself his tongue sometimes would get dry and not go back into his mouth so I would have to push it back in for him!

He was called "Hooch" and not after Turner and Hooch as most of you will think! If your from the UK there is an alcoholic drink called Hooch. No I am not a recovering Alcoholic all our cats have always been named after drinks - Pepsi, Cola, Whiskey, Hooch, Becks, Brandy and Coke. 

I used to call him "Hoochie Poochie" (I know he is not a dog but it rhymed, ok?)

Used:
Paper - 4heures37 - 6 Impasse Des Chenes


Grace Taylor Modern Cabin Stickers
American Crafts Remarks - Chickadee
Cat Die cuts (free with magazine ages ago)
Paper Doily
Webster Pages Alison Kraft Photo Corners

OMG I am waffling on tonight! Stay tuned for tomorrow's project which involves the dogs!

Remember search google, twitter and Youtube for #pawgustart Aug 20th through to 22nd.

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

Creative Arts Collaboration Animal Theme Promo | Aug 20-22

Good evening you lovely people ♥

Quick post with a promo video for the August Creative Arts Collaboration 

Animal Theme - My Fav!

20 - 21 - 22 August

Hashtag still to be agreed

So if you are looking for some animal inspiration this weekend please keep an eye on my posts/videos for the hashtag to search YouTube, google, twitter and where ever else you can search a hashtag.

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx