Hi again,

The New Year began with sadness for our family, as my husbands dear Gran passed away on the 2nd. We farewelled her on Monday with a beautiful memorial service at the church she regularly attended. My sister-inlaw had asked me to help her put together a collage of photo’s of Gran’s life to display at the entrance of the church for her funeral.

We spent two days putting together this collage as we wanted to preserve the original photo’s I had to scan them all and change alot of them to black & white, get them printed and ready to assemble.

Here is the collage:

We are going to miss our sweet little Gran dearly, as she was such a kind, loving and generous lady who never complained about anything and was always so encourging.

Now after spending the time on the collage, it has given me some inspiration to get into some papercrafting again, just need to find some time now to fits some in.

Till next time

Cindy xx

Hi There,

When I saw this weeks Inkspirations colour challenge  made me start thinking of a scrap page I had completed in these very colours:

Here is my scrapbook page:

I changed this colour photo of my niece into black & white and I have used chalks to colour the strawberry and the strap of her top. I had never tried this technique before so I was happy with the way it came out.

Scrapbook Supplies:

Cardstock: Stampin’ Up! - 12×12 Real Red, Whisper White and Old Olive. Pattern Paper: DSP – Summer Picnic. Stamp Set: Tart & Tangy. Ink: Stampin’ Write Markers: Real Red  and Old Olive. Other: Scallop Punch, 1¼ Circle Punch, Stampin’ Pastels and Chipboard Letters.

Thanks for looking!

Cindy

Hi there,

I decided after all the card making I have been doing it was time to do some scrapping. My husband is kind of a “Kombi” fanatic and he is the proud owner of two. So the page I have scrapped is of him in the first Kombi he purchased. 

I often scrapbook in my head more so than I actually do physically so I sketched this page out first so I could remember what I wanted to do.

Heres the sketch:

Here is the finished page:

I have used a bunch of different stamps and pattern papers and the sizzix die Frame to embelish. I ended up framing the page for him to hang on the wall in his office, he loved it!

Thanks for looking!

Till next time

Cindy

This weeks challenge for the Southern Belles is a Red & Black theme, so I have kept on with the Valentines theme to make this card and Layout.

I have stamped the red cardstock on the card with Polka dot Background in Real Red ink, but it hasn’t shown up very well in the photo Sorry!

Card Recipe: Stamp sets: A Happy Heart, Polka Dot Background Stamp. Cardstock: Real Red, Black. Ink: Real Red, Basic Black. Designer Series Paper: Dashing. Ribbon: Grosgrain Striped Real Red and Silver Split Pins.

Layout Recipe: Stamp sets: Polka Dot Punches, Floral Background Stamp & A Happy Heart. Cardstock: Real Red, Black. Ink: Real Red. Designer Series Paper: Dashing. Ribbon: Grosgrain Striped Real Red.  

Design Cindy Banks – Images 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

Yes another challenge, I think I have managed just to be on time with this one. Here is the page map and completed scrapbooking Page for Roz’s monthly layout challenge.

Recipe:

Stamp Set: Embrace Life, Big Bold Birthday. Cardstock: Ruby Red, River Rock, Cameo Coral. Ink: River Rock, Close to Cocoa. Designer Series Paper from Ginger Blossom and Scallop Punch.

Design Cindy Banks – Images 1990-2009 Stampin’ Up!®

I got these photo’s of my son printed the other day and they have been staring at me all week to scrap. So here are two layouts I completed today. This first layout, I have used a New Stamp set from the Summer Mini Catalogue from Stampin’ Up! called “Friendly Flowers” I love this stamp set as it is so versitle to use on any layout or card. 

Design Cindy Banks-Images © 1990-2008 Stampin' Up!

This second layout, I had this great robot pattern paper and thought these photo’s would look great with it.

Design-Cindy Banks ©

I was really excited this week to receive some new stamp sets from the new Stampin’ Up! Summer Mini Catalogue, soon to be released on December 1st. This stamp I have used on this layout is from a set called “For Father” which is a great set to make male cards. Also new is the patterned paper I have used and is from the Designer Series called Ginger Blossom.

I took this photo about a year ago when our apple tree was blooming and often thought about how I would scrap it, so when I got this stamp I thought staight away of scrapping this photo.

Recipe: Cardstock: Ruby Red, Whisper White, Old Olive and Chocolate Chip. Stamp Sets: Back ground – Canvas and For Father. Inks: Stazon Black, Versa Mark, Sahara Sand, Real Red, Chocolate Chip, Old Olive, Close to Cocoa and Mellow Moss ( I have used the blender pen with these inks to colour the image) Designer Series Paper – Ginger Blossom. Signo White Gel Pen – Faux Stitching. Note: I have printed the wording from a font on my computer onto Old Olive cardstock.

Design Cindy Banks – Images© 1990-2008 Stampin’ Up!

I saw a Mini Album, which is put together using 2 x 12×12 sheets of cardstock to make a fold out album. So I decided to have a go at making one. I have themed this album on Christmas using the Season of Joy stamp set and Designer Series Paper – Dashing.

Front Cover : I have Embossed Resist the stamped tree in Old Olive ink.

Inside Cover

View of the first page turned over

View of the third page flipped up

Folded completely out

This would make a great gift for any occasion.

Recipe: Stamp Sets-Season of Joy, Polka Dot,Big Deal Alphabet. Cardstock-Real Red, Old Olive, River Rock. Pattern Paper-Dashing. Ink-Real Red, Old Olive, Versa Mark. 1 3/8 Circle Punch. Ribbon-1.6cm Gros-grain Old Olive. Clear Embossing Powder and Heat tool.

Artwork Cindy Banks – Images©1990-2008 Stampin’ Up!

I was fortunate to have a day to myself yesterday as my boys spent a day with there cousins, so I went off to a local scrapbooking store for a browse. There is so much nice stuff out there and very hard to resist not buying the whole shop. I did come away with two sheets of the new Basic Grey paper from the collection Offbeat and the sticker sheet that matches and here is what I created with them:

Artwork – Cindy Banks © 2008

This week has been a little bit crazy and I actually haven’t been very creative, so I haven’t had time to post this week. I am happy to say that I had some time today to complete a scrapbook page. I am currently working on my eldest son’s baby album so here is the page I completed.

Design Cindy Banks – Images © 1990 – 2008 Stampin’ Up!