Saturday, 13 March 2010

Metal Mania scrapbook page

Shimelle's first prompt was to dig out your metal.I knew I had lots of brads and eyelets.....brads I use regularly.....eyelets hardly ever......so a good opportunity to get them out.Surprisingly I didn't find much more metal.......an alphabet [which probably hadn't been used as there's only one of each letter] and some bottle caps.
I used a b + w photo of DS with his favourite childhood toy........found the perfect paper which I also cut matching circles out of..........I've put eyelets all round the page.......quite like the effect.....but too time consuming to do very often!!
The metal letters say 'TRACTOR'.......and I also covered a bottle top with a circle of the decorative paper.
Thought I'd enter this into Double Dutch 'boys only' and Crafty Catz 'something for the boys' as well.
Many thanks to all who sent best wishes for OH's recovery.

23 comments:

Debs said...

this is fab Jacky..love B&W photo's... the eyelets look amazing..ive never used them but love the affect...Debs x

debs14 said...

Lovely layout. I bought a cropodile which arrived today so I suspect that eyelets may show in a few of my layouts in the next few weeks!

Sarpreet said...

so beautiful

Elizabeth said...

Great layout and what a great idea for using up a lot of eyelets!

Sian said...

I love this layout Jacky! That photograph is wonderful and the blue you've chosen really does show it off so well. Nice one!

JO SOWERBY said...

awww how cute is he? I love this page. All the metal goes really well with a tractors cos they usually are made of it and it's a g8 way to design a male page. i have used mmine to make a picture frame
Jo xxx

furrypig said...

Loving your boyish blue page and the scalloped pic is great. Not been on your blog for ages so missed you! Off to catch up with yr other posts xxx

CRAZYCRAFTSHED said...

Hi Jacky
A fabulous layout.thankyou for joining us at CraftyCatz for this week's challenge,
hugs Dianne xx

Denise said...

Really nice layout, and I love the card you made on your last blog, beautiful :-)

Jane said...

I have those metal letters too, love the page.

Clare Lloyd said...

great project, sounds like you are enjoying your online course then?
ClareX

Katie Berberich Handmade said...

This is so lovely Jacky, great idea to use metal and what a fantasctic picture xxx

Maria Ontiveros said...

Fantastic! I love the patterned circles, too. It feels so good to pull out the metal and get it used.
Rinda
p.s. thanks, thanks, thanks for the victory message. I love winning things!

pinky said...

This is a real boy layout Jacky! Love your papers, perfect with the b/w image of your son. I have some of those alphabets lying around too and I love what you did with the bottle cap.
pinky

humel said...

It's fab :-) And hey, those punched circles fit prompt 2 too! x

Lynne in NI said...

Fab page Jacky, I love the whole tractor theme and what a wonderful photo!
Sending get well wishes to your OH, hope he's doin OK
:o)

Kathyk said...

Another lovely page from you Jacky, great colours and embellishments.
Kathyk

Amy said...

Fantastic Jacky - you have combined the two prompts and this looks great! Lovely photo of your ds as well :-)

Diamond Doll said...

What a fab layout Jacky, love those metal letters.
Thanx for joining us at Crafty Catz this week.
(hugs)
Trish (-:

Unknown said...

What a nice layout this is and love the metal combination. Hugs xxx

Sarpreet said...

beautiful page and layout

carol said...

Hi it's a fab page, thanks for playing along with CC x carol

Kirsty said...

lovely scrap page! thanks for playing along at crafty catz this week xx