Helen here - Lovely to Meet You {and Look what I made!}

Hi there everyone!  Helen here.  I am so pleased to be

designing for Purple Pumpkin now & thought you may

be interested in finding out a little more about me.

Hi there,  my name is Helen Tilbury and I live in Durban,

South Africa, with my hubby, 4 kids and 3 kitties & I’ve 

been papercrafting for 9 years now.  I consider myself a 

scrapbooker first and foremost although I do dabble in 

cards, tags, mini-albums and canvases from time to time!

I have a teeny studio {we converted our entrance hall}

 & you can find me in it a LOT of the time, surrounded by 

floor to ceiling stash! {my heaven on earth!!}

I’ve been blogging at http://helentilbury.blogspot.com

for over 4 years now & worked at many different challenge 

sites, sketch blogs & kit clubs.

Currently I’m designing for Les Papiers de Pandore 

in France, Berry71Bleu on Etsy, Creative Scrappers 

& My Creative Scrapbook Kit Club as a Mixed Media 

Educator & of course here at Purple Pumpkin too!

My style is detailed, clustered and layered up without

 being overly busy – Modern Shabby is the term I’ve 

coined for it and I see that others are using that

 terminology now too which is really cool!

I love strong, saturated colour and pale backgrounds 

& enjoy techniques such as misting, masking, painting 

& stamping to add depth and detail to my pages. I don’t

 like flat, clean and simple pages – for me the whole process

 needs to  be tactile and fun to be therapeutic and satisfying.

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Well I think that's enough reading for one day don't you?!
Now for another Purple Pumpkin layout!

On this layout, which you can read more about on my

blog HERE - I've used Purple Pumpkin fabric & wooden buttons.

You can find these patterned buttons in sets from the

Purple Pumpkin shop HERE.

The heart buttons you see here are also from Purple 

Pumpkin & they are printed, but I turned mine over

& inked them up instead.  You can view all the wooden

buttons in stock HERE.

If you love layers, like I do, then Purple Pumpkin buttons

are for you!  They are perfect for tucking under flowers

& creating interesting clusters when mixed with other

embellishments too.  Have a great Sunday!