Make Do and Mend It Girl

Hello Bloggers,


Mend It Girl here.  Ok, so scrapbooking is my passion!  I've made a good few books now, but sometimes I like to make single pages and just hang them as one-off pieces of art!  It's really hard to find gorgeous 12 x 12" frames though, right? I've yet to try it myself, but my boyfriend suggested frames for vinyl records!  Looking forward to get my hands on some, and get my pages on the wall!!


Anyway, I thought I'd share my recent project with you:  A Summertime of Posie!  I've done about a dozen pages, so my book is about half full!  I dunno about anyone else but I love making my pages as raised up and as 3D as possible, so my books are always in need of a few post extensions for the extra room!  I've resorted to using some old frames my boyfriend had generic prints in and putting a couple pages up in the living room!  They are bright, unique and mean something to us.  The one below is of Posie sitting in Rowie's toybox.  Posie loves a nearby dog called Rowie, but she loves the poor dog's toybox even more!  So we sat her in it with a headscarf tied round her head! She looks totally unamused!

I made the background white so that the colours would pop.  Then I tried
to capture the colour and fun that's so visible in the  way Posie plays!

I've splattered bright paints on the background and inked the
edges of the paper mats!

I love to make my pages textured, so I often stitch on
pattens (brown squiggles) using my mini sewing  machine.
I've raised the butterflies up using foam pads!

Here are a few other pages from the book:

I've torn and distressed my edges with files and chalked them.
I also made my own fonts in the brads.  I love making
ribbon flags and stapling them on with bright coloured staples!

The best bits of Posie! I wrote all the around the edges of each
photo and used letter stickers to emphasise the body part!

I'm very pleased with the fluffiness and whimsicalness of this one,
with the butterflies and clouds.  I also did a higgledy piggledy
stitching around the outside! 

I like to group together embellishments for effect, including
buttons and butterflies in the two contrasting colours.

Posie and Rowie.  I've used a lot of chunky hand-stiching on
this one, as well as penned on stitches and glossy accents
to finish off.

Well, I think that's possibly enough scrapbooking for one day! But, I hope you enjoyed looking at my work and please feel free to leave me a comment, I'd love to hear from you!


Bye for now,


Mend It Girl x