Top 5 Scrapbook Pages of 2011

And now for my favourite 5 Scrapbook Pages of last year....

 

I love this page, I used the same layout as for the card in the last post - this time featuring my valentines flowers from this year :) I love the clean colourful layout

Canvas this time - love been able to get my scrapbooking up on the wall and on show - very messy layout with lots of paint :)

Another of my favourites - one of my favourite photos and some fab red dotty paper - love the way the colours work with the kraft coloured card

Some nice bright colours this time - taken from the colours on the postcard and accented with wooden stars and mini license plates

And finally a nice Christmas layout with photos from when we were little and used to go on the Santa Special in Haworth - love the colours of the October Afternoon paper and the sketch used.

Right on to plan some more pages to get a kickstart on this year's scrapbooking so can have more to choose from at the end of 2012 XOX

Top 5 Cards of 2011

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!!

Thought I'd start with a quick post of my favourites from last year, first up cards...

 

Birthday card, love the My Minds Eye paper and the gems, glitter and gloss

Anniversary card for my boyfriend - love this card and layout (so much that I also used it on a scrapbook page) I used pretty forever friends papers, gems of course and then a duplicate photo of the flowers my boyfriend had got me for Valentine's Day last year :)

Valentine's card, featuring cute little Magnum and some black and white papers that I love

 New baby card for Ian's cousin's to celebrate the arrival of their little girl, Evie, lots of embossing using my new Cuttlebug

 

And lastly a 30th Birthday card for one of our friends - love all the shimmer and glossy accents

Hope you like these, what are your favourites? XOX

Favourite Five Cards of 2010

Just a little post to say Happy New Year to everyone, and to thank you for all the visits and lovely comments you have made during the year.

I've got a couple of cards to post but I think I'll leave them till the weekend when I have a bit of spare time so for now Debby has now got a post to link your Favourite Five Cards of the Year 2010, now this was tough (mainly cos I couldn't find the pictures of 3 cards I wanted to put on so here are 5 from my top 8 lol.

Card one had to be there cos of the red and white dotty paper lol, and this is one of my favourite images.

I love how this card turned out, this photo doesn't really show it up but the frogs are covered in glossy accents so they look all slimey, love how the paper reminds me of pond weed too so it all fits

A not-a-square card (have to say these were few and far between lol), but really like how this turned out.

This is one of my favourite stamps, I love Buttercup, she's sooooooo cute. This was made for Kerry (who's why I started blogging) who lent me a stamp, I think this was only my second attempt at a gate-fold card too, and I love that paper.

This one had to go on, I love how it turned out even though it's quite busy compared to my usual style lol, I love the papersm the buttons, the flowers and the sentiment. Really must try and make some more 'busier' cards next year rather than my usual keep it simple style lol.

So they're my favourites (sort of - ask me again later today and I'd probably pick a completely different 5 lol). So I'm going to post this now quick before I change my mind lol

Right off to get in the shower and get my stuff sorted to head back home later this afternoon

Happy New Year Everyone XOX

Favourite Five

I'd seen on Lisa and Kerry's blogs to pick your Favourite Five Christmas Cards and put a link on Debby's Blog so here are mine...

This is my first card, I love the blues and I love the way the snowman has come out on the Kraft CS - will definitely be trying that again

My second card is this, I love it, the image, the papers and the gems just all work together so well

My 3rd card is my brother's christmas card, I really like the way it came out, especially using the border on the paper as part of the design well with a few gems added...

This one had to go in, love the red and blue combo but it had to go in just on the image (from bugaboo) I love it definitely one of my favourites

And this is my 5th and favourite card, this was Ian's Christmas Card (I haven't posted this one yet it will be coming soon) I love the really cute image and the little metal embellishments

Right I'd best move, had a lovely Christmas was spoilt rotten - and I'm now the proud owner of a Cuttlebug (yay) and some embossing folders - can't wait to have a go with it, and then been to the sales this morning (was actually quite quiet :) plus had already ordered a few bits and pieces off the internet) so I've just put everything away and sat down now with some choccies in my new pj's under my new blanket to watch some telly, well need to get tea now really, but looking forward to an early night. Hope you've all have a fab Christmas XOX