Family

This is the beautiful layout from Courtney Sawyer for SLS week 4!




Hi friends! I'm on the blog today, sharing my version of the Scraplift Sunday week 4 challenge. 
I loved everything about making this page. I used the Pebbles, Heart of Home collection. I did a lot of fussy cutting for this layout. I absolutely love fussy cutting. I was too lazy to get my silhouette out so I just wrote the word family on some white cardstock, cut it out and backed it with a selection of some of the pattern papers. I also fussy cut the branches with the bird nests out of one of the pattern papers. The gold accents are from the rub on sheets, I have to say, I have never used rub on's on a layout before, and I just loved them! They went on so smoothly, and the warm glow the gold gives to the layout is heartwarming. I also used some of the stickers from the American Crafts sticker book from Jen Hadfield. 

Hope you are inspired by the layout for SLS week 4, it is beautiful!!

Forever Sweet


Hi friends!

Today I'm sharing a layout with you that I made for the 'Put it on an angle' challenge on the Paper Issues friends and family Facebook group. This layout came together very quickly, and I loved making it. I used the Simple Stories Romance Collection. I've been using this collection almost exclusively to make layouts with photo's of my baby girl. It is such a soft, girly, whimsical collection. 

I built up a horizontal mat for my photo with the paper with the music score on and added some lace strips I fussy cut from another page. I also machine stitched on the horizontal mat. I used a doily to back my photo. 

Now, this wouldn't be one of my pages if it didn't have some fussy cutting in it, and boy, does this page have fussy cutting! I fussy cut all the flowers from one of the 12x12 papers. I added those little black butterflies from the 6x12 sticker sheet to bring in a pop of black. 

Lastly I added some very little iridescent sequins and some splatters with my Heidi Swapp black colour shine.

Hope you enjoyed this one! 
OH! and before I forget, please go ahead and take a look at my new YouTube channel, Leslie Berner. I have a few process videos and a layout share waiting there for you! And then while you are at it, why don't you like and Subscribe to my channel? 

Thank you for stopping by today!     

Hey! Hey! Hey!





Hi Friends! It has been a while! We moved house so I have been out of action for about a week or two, but today I made a layout, and I hope that you will like this one!

I played along with the Paper Issues Challenge, Tell me a Story. I love this challenge, it gives you the excuse to go for it with the journaling! 

I used the beautiful Dear Lizzy collection, Lovely Day. I was really struggling to find inspiration. I had this photo of my daughter from about a week ago that I really wanted to scrap, but I was struggling to find a collection that would suit the whimsical, playful nature of my daughter. That is until I opened my (well used) Dear Lizzy Lovely Day collection. All the colours, the little houses, scooters and flowers was exactly just what I was looking for. 

So I decided to create a scene to tell my story, yes, I did do some journaling, you will see that on a tag that I hide in a pocket behind the layout. This layout tells a story of an adventurous girl going down a road with her suitcase, she is surrounded by flowers and a friendly bird, she is happy and confident. Even though she is walking away from home, home is never far away. she must just follow her feet, they will lead her home! 

The actual story is of my daughter's very first sleepover. I have always said that my children will never go on sleepovers. Mainly because of my own issues ( a part of the many I have). But I realised that sleepovers are a part of growing up, it teaches your child independence, it gives them confidence that you trust them, and it makes them feel a special kind of responsibility. So I gave in. She went on a sleepover, and she loved it. She is growing up too fast. 

Okay, now for the technical stuff! I paper pieced the suitcase and added the black stitching with a chain stitch, to mimic the zipper. You will not be able to see it, but the suitcase I made is placed directly over the suitcase she had in the photo. So it looks like she is standing directly behind the paper pieced suitcase, I absolutely love the effect it gives. I used some green with small white dots paper from my stash to create the hills in the background, to pop them up a bit I stitched them with a plain back stitch and popped the edges up with some adhesive foam dots. I also did lots of fussy cutting for this layout. I cut the big red roses out of one of the papers in the collection ( my favourite paper, and yes, I did buy like 5 of them!). I also fussy cut the little houses out of another paper from the collection. I cut the little roads out of a yellow pattern paper from the 6x6 paper pad. I also used some of the 6x12 sticker sheet, the tiny puffy stickers and the layered dimensional stickers. 

Enjoy.     


Oh, the places you will go!



Hello! Its my turn today to share a layout with you that I made as part of the Partners Up Challenge. 

Here is the sketch we had to work with.



As you can see I interpreted this sketch quite loosely. However I did take this opportunity to go and dig out my sewing machine! I love sewing on my layouts, however, I always hand stitch. This time I did do some hand stitching on the clouds, but the big challenge for me was to machine stitch the large circles around the page. I'm not quite sure how many circles I stitched, but I think it turned out well.

For this challenge I used the Shimelle 'Starshine' collection and the Pick Paislee 'Pick me up' collection. I used the constellation page from the Shimelle collection for the background. I cut around the circle printed on the page and stuck it on a piece of white cardstock. I whitened out the dark edge with some Gesso and white acrylic paint. Then I blended the paint so that it would create a sort of haze. Next I did the circle machine stitching. I placed my black and white photo in the center and embellished around it. I paper pieced a little sail boat together, inspired by the little sail boat in the 'Pick me up' collection. 

I hope you take part in this challenge! It really pushed my boundaries. I  used my sewing machine on a layout! Yay!

Pop over to the Paper Issues shop. All of the collections I used are in the shop! Remember to check out using my name, 'Leslie'.



Just the way you are




Hi friendies! Today I'm sharing this layout with you that I made for the Paper Issues 'Frame it up' challenge for this month. I loved making this layout. I hand stitch on almost all my layouts, but with this one I went stitching crazy! I basically only did stitching, with little other embellishments. The paper I chose to use is from the Pink Paislee 'Take me away' collection and the speech bubbles are from the 'Turn the page' collection. There is not much more to say about this page really. Enjoy!