Summer Days

Right this is the last post I promise and won't be on here for atleast a week so you'll get a break from me then lol, just thought would get everything on while I've got time and got things to post. Something to do while I watch the Olympics.

Anyways this is the scrapbook page I completed today, from start to finish I might add!!! I can't claim all the credit though I had a fab sketch to follow (see below) the pictures are from a week away in Llangollen we went down to the river nearly every day so we could keep cool cos it was a scorcher of a summer and got a bit warm in the caravan lol.

I added the mist just to the main paper to break up the pattern a bit, the finer bits of the mist haven't shown up on the photo very well but it's not as patchy in real life lol.

I love the little mini alpha stickers I've used them as part of the title as I didn't have much space and to add the place and date too. The flowers and words came in the pack of paper and the scalloped border was hand-drawn and hand-cut.

Supplies: 'Punch of Colour' Papers by CG Essentials (free with Scrapbook Magazine), Thickers by American Crafts (from Scrapagogo Kit), Mini Alpha Stickers by My Little Shoebox, Black Ink Pad, 'Meadow Lush' Cosmic Shimmer Mist

 I would like to enter this layout in the following challenges...

Sketches with a Twist August - Twist use mist or paint

Moving Along with the Times Challenge 157 - Summer

Anything Goes Challenge 73 - Summer Days

Right thank you for bareing with me through all those posts I will leave you in peace now XOX

Down on the Farm

I was made up when I saw the title of the challenge on the 2 Sisters Challenge Blog...

ON THE FARM

We used to go away in our caravan for lots of weekends away when I was younger and one of my friends from uni also lived on a farm so I've got albums full of farm pictures, but I had to use these pictures of triplet lambs that needed to be bottle fed, they were named Miss Piggy, Kermit and Gonzo - AKA the Muppets. I had rather a lot of close up pictures of them so had to find a way of getting lots of them on a layout without having pages and pages to do, then I noticed my square punch - not used that in a while but i will def be coming out again soon to do a similar layout.

Supplies: Cardstock by Doodlebug, Pink Glitter Cardstock from The Paper Shop, Rub-ons by Doodlebug

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge

2 Sisters Challenge Blog 104 - On the Farm

Sorry but that's not the last of me for today...XOX

Birthdays 2

And layout #2 before I get distracted lol. my 25th Birthday this time - going backwards (if only lol) this time with a home made white chocolate cheesecake covered and I mean COVERED in chocolate curls. Been trying to get more up to date with my scrapbooking but everytime I get a recent picture scrapbooked I seem to find an envelope or box full of old pictures that I 'need' to do lol. BTW sorry the pictures aren't much good had to use my old camera - should have photoshopped them but wanted to get them on before decide need to do something else instead.

Supplies: 'Anna Sophia' Papers by Bo Bunny, Bronze Ink Pad, Foam Letter Stamps, Ribbon, Brads, Brown Pen

I would like to enter this in the following challenge...

The Happy Scrappers Challenge 3- Birthday Celebrations

Right off to decide whether to attempts another layout or do something else... XOX

Birthdays

Hello, sorry been a long time since I've posted, been meaning to update for ages and something just seems to come up each time... Anyways the theme for this month at the Happy Scrappers is Birthday celebrations - so I've got 2 layouts - they've been half finished for a while and the other one needed reworking a little bit but they're all stuck together now...this is me celebrating my 26th birthday a few years ago (I really need to get up to date with my scrapbooking)

Supplies: 'Blush' Papers by Basic Grey, Ribbons by KI Memories, Black Ink Pad, Black Paint Marker

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge...

The Happy Scrappers - Challenge 3 - Birthday celebrations

Sorry this is just a short post - thought I should make the effort to get something on here while had a bit of spare time, cos I've been VERY naughty about updating my blog lately. Got another layout to put on too so gonna do 2 in one day cos otherwise I'll end up putting it off and won't get round to posting again for ages... XOX

Just like Narnia

Me again, this is the scrapbook page I finished today. 

The picture is from November 2010 when we got the first proper snow of the year and me and Ian took a spare of the moment trip down to Loggerheads to go for a walk in it (we hardly get any snow where I live so I am a big kid when it comes to snow (well if I'm honest I'm worse than a kid)) we went round one bit and it was like walking from one season to another as there was an area with no snow and all the autumn leaves and then it changed to snow again and no sign of Autumn and for some reason this just reminded me of Narnia.

I love all the colours in the photo, I've kept the autumn colours from the front of the photo for the layout, so nice warm oranges, browns and creams - some of my current favourites. The papers, card and Thickers were from May's Scrapagogo Kit, the jar was cut from a sheet of paper from the April Kit. I get my last kit this month, sob, but we're hopefully going to be moving later in the year so it makes sense to try and reduce the size of my stash rather than adding to it.

Supplies: Card by Bazzill, '9 to 5' Papers by October Afternoon, 'Neapolitan' Paper by Dear Lizzie - American Crafts, 'Sugar Maple' Glimmer Mist by Tattered Angels, Thickers by American Crafts, Rub-ons by Flair Designs, Brown Ink Pad

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge....

The Happy Scrappers Challenge 2 - The Great Outdoors

Hope you like it, off to get some tea now - been naughty and having a chippy tea - sshhhhhh don't tell anyone XOX

The sun has got his hat on...

hip hip hip horray, the sun has been out all day :) and it has been gorgeous, sat out and read for a little bit this morning and got some washing done too, then once the sun had gone off my room I managed to get a couple of pages done including this one...

I got the photos printed in 5x5 inch format for a change - really like it will definitely be getting more like this. I wanted to keep the focus of the page on the photos so picked some plain-ish papers and just added the title without any extra embellishments, this thinkers help give the page some 3D-ed-ness (hopefully you understand Helen-ish lol) without cluttering up the page. The photos were taken on Mid-Summers Day 2010, at Crosby Beach where we had this gorgeous sunset to end a really lovely summer's day.

Supplies: 'Phoebe' & 'Acid Washed' Papers by Basic Grey, Thickers, Rub-ons by Doodlebug, Yellow and Orange Ink Pads

I would like to enter this page in the following challenges...

PaperPlay Challenge 12 Week 21 - Summer Lovin'

The Happy Scrappers Challenge 1 - Anything Goes 

(hoping I read it right that I'm allowed to enter more than once - apologies if not)

Anyways that's it for me now, am off to do some project life research - thinking of starting an album but not sure cos love doing the 12x12 layouts XOX   

Iron Men

Just realised that I haven't posted in a while - silly exams and revision getting in the way lol - so thought it was about time to get another post on - another scrapbook page this time cos the pictures of the cards that I've done are still on the camera. This page shows the photos from the first time I took Ian to Crosby Beach to meet the Iron Men. I love the way the rusty colour of the statues goes with the colour of the card :)

Supplies: Scrapagogo April 2012 Kit, Brown Ink Pad, White Ink Pad, Thickers

And here's a couple of pictures from the beach yesterday, as you can see it was very windy (and freezing cold), but still got some pretty pictures.

Right that's it from me for now, a load of photos have just arrived so got to sort them and pick out the ones for the wedding mini-album for our friends XOX

More Scrapping

Been busy this week, made a start on another couple of Decopatch animals, hopefully will be able to get them all finished soon then can show how they've turned out - really pleased so par but not sure where I'm going to put them once they're done though lol. And yay managed to get some more scrapbooking yay, this time have used a bit of my new April Scrapagogo Kit as well as some other bits and pieces from old kits and my stash. Really pleased how this one has turned out :) It shows Ian in his usual position hiding behind the camera so I can't take his picture.

Supplies: April and March 2012 Scrapagogo Kits, Thickers, Paint Markers

Right teatime now then gonna sort some of the craft stuff out ready for a big move around eeek - any volunteers to do it all for me??? Please? XOX

Step away from the Paint

Wow been busy again, been down to Chichester for a wedding, lots of driving but was a really really lovely day, definitely worth it, pictures will be coming up soon, got to edit them and get them ready for printing for a mini album to give to the bride and groom - wish me luck - still trying to track down some sage green ribbon lol.

Anyways back onto my scrapbooking still at the moment - funny how keep switching between cardmaking and scrapbooking, I like that cards on the whole are quicker to do and you can colour the image to suit the papers, but love that you get to keep most of your scrapbooking and get to play with lots of photos - I love photos I have boxes full, albums full all waiting for me to scrapbook them.

So yep managed to get another page finished using my scrapagogo kit - think going to have to keep doing this - challenging myself to do 3 or 4 layouts using the kit before the next one arrives lol. Had a change from doing my Australia photos, and scrapped a couple of pictures of Ian playing with a rock on the beach at Laxey. I love the way the blue pops of the page :) and used the acrylic paint to matt the photos onto instead of card - someone really does need to make me step away from the paint - think am slightly addicted to this lol

Supplies: March 2012 Scrapagogo Kit, White Acrylic Paint, Black Paint Marker, Various Ink Pads

I would like to enter this in the following challenge...

For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Right I'm off to try and get another layout finished - before the next kit comes.

Finally Back Crafting

Been a busy few weeks, then been poorly with a bug and then a cold - but all better now :) and have finally managed to get some scrapbooking done and have uploaded the pictures of my Nanna and Grandad's canvas - I made for their Diamond Wedding Anniversary as they didn't have a family picture on the wall. So here is the canvas.

I started painting the canvas cream, then free-handed the branches using brown paint - I mixed a bit of pearl paint in to give it a bit more texture and painted it quite thick. I then used my die to make lots of rolled flowers and cut some leaves by hand

Supplies: 'Rolled Flower' Die-namics Die, Papers from Stash, Cream Acrylic Paint, Brown Acrylic Paint, Pearl Acrylic Paint, Gems, Corner Punch

I would like to enter this in the following challenge...

Anything Goes Challenge Blog - Challenge 64 Anything Goes

Right best go get my bag packed, away for a few days XOX

PS I LOVE YOU

Back again, trying not to neglect my blog - but have just got a new scrapbooking magazine that want to have a quick look at :)

Anyways this is this week's creation, my first ever scrapbook page on acetate, and finally got to use up some of my Bo Bunny Diecut sheets and Sticker Sheets :) love Bo Bunny one of my favourites, and have managed to mix up two ranges by them in my favourite colours :) nice and girly, pink and brown. Really pleased with this one... hoping to get some more layouts done tomorrow - can't wait till we get longer days and have more time to get projects done.

Hoping to get a canvas done for my Nanna and Grandad's Anniversary, not sure on the picture though, but we've found one with them and their 3 kids on sat in the garden so thought it would be nice in cream with lots of flowers on it. Anyways here is todays page...

And a little piccie of it to show the acetate :)

Supplies: Acetate by Papermania, 'Crush' Heart Die-Cut by Bo Bunny, 'Crazy Love' Stickers and Paper by Bo Bunny, White Acrylic Paint, Black Ink Pad

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge...

The Pink Elephant Challenge 131 - Favourite Colour(S) (Pink and Brown)

Anything Goes Challenge 58 - Anything Goes

Hope you like it, know it's a photo that you've seen before - I have scrapped it on a canvas previously (posted here) but I wanted a copy in the scrapbook too cos it's one of my favourites.

Right I'm off to read my new magazine :) XOX

Genuine Fakes

Back with one of my favourite layouts this time - I love it - the papers came free with Scrapbook Magazine and I couldn't wait to use them. I love the bright colours on the white background, I only added the lettering - some felt letters that I'd had for years and years and some thickers left over from another project and a couple of gems. The other embellishments were cut from the elements page that came in the paper pack, I added glossy accents to the buttons and to the flashes and lenses of the cameras and voila...

And a close-up, was trying to show the glossy accents on the lenses and flashes of the cameras but of course it won't show up lol

Supplies: Papers by Nikki Sivils (free with Scrapbook Magazine), 'Jewellery Box' Chipboard Thickers, Felt Letters by Papermania, Gems by Doodlebug, White Card, Black Paint Marker, Glossy Accents

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge...

For Fun Challenges - Anything Goes

Right I'll be back in a mo with one of my cards, then I'm off to try and decide what to do with the mess I've made of one of today's layouts lol XOX

Showing Off Now lol

Back again, good to get back doing challenges - definitely helps get past that rubbishy Scrap-block. Anyways Scrapbook Sisters have a Challenge to Scrap Christmas - I have loads and loads of pictures of Christmas's through the years but they're all packed away in boxes and I'm not allowed near them till I finish my Australia Album (I've set myself the challenge of only being allowed to scrapbook recent photos or Australia photos before I start tackling all the photos from when I was little). 

So anyway instead of scrapbooking Christmas Day or the decorations I've chosen to use these pictures of my and my boyfriend enjoying the food at the Christmas Markets in Manchester. Ian had cherry Strudel and Custard and I had a crepe filled with nutella mmmmmmmmmmm now I want pancakes lol.

I sanded the dotty Co-ordinations cardstock and then used the fabric 'paper' so there's different textures, and then used the rub-ons with the thickers to mix up the textures again there.

Supplies : 'Noel' Fabric Paper by Love Elsie, Card Stock by Co-ordinations, Jewellery Box Thickers by American Crafts, 'Magic' Rub-ons by October Afternoon, Snowflake Stickers by K & Ko, White Paint Marker

I would like to enter this card in the following challenge...

Scrapbook Sisters Christmas Scrapbook Challenge

Hope you like it XOX

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

Holidays

Finally got round to posting - still having computer problems have reinstalled everything and have switched and reinstalled browser and it still seems to be very hit and miss when it comes to blogger grrrrrrr. Anyways not really had much time to get on here the last few weeks anyway, as I've started my college course - doing my AAT at night school so that keeps me busy 2 nights a week. Also been away to Turkey for a week - it was lovely so nice to get away and relax in the sun.

 

It was so lovely, had a view of the mountains from our room.

I want a pool at home (well a pool and nice sunny weather lol)

And a picture of us :)

Anyways I've managed to get a few projects done, still loads to do but finally feel like I'm getting somewhere with it all. Anyways this is one of my first projects, it's a mini album for my friend for her wedding, it's been finished for weeks but I've still not remembered to get it in the post doh - brain like a seive at the moment.

I kept the colours and embellishments the same all the way through so it didn't get too busy, just lots and lots of gems, red daisies and red ribbon. Here are a couple of the pages

 

I would like to enter this project in the ABC Challenge - A for Anything Goes

Right well that's me for now, really hoping that this will post and I'll be able to catch up on some of the posts - fingers crossed lol XOX

Jubilee Day

Another scrapbook page, I've been on a bit of a roll with them and makes a nice change swapping between cards and scrapbooking and it means I'm finally getting some boxes of photos sorted. So anyway this will just be a quick post cos I think my hair dye has only got another 10 mins to go and I need to suss out what is wrong with Blogger that it won't let me do my design team comments :S fingers crossed can get it working again.

So anyway this is me last July at the fair after the Jubilee in Buckley by Ian's (as you can see from the umbrellas in the background it was a lovely typical July Summer's Day). I'm really pleased with the layout cos it's the first I've done in a long while with no plan at all I just decided on things a bit at a time and stuck it down before moving on to the next bit. Only thing I wish I did was stick the bunting a bit higher up but hey-ho lol. Atleast there's lots of sparkle :)

And a close up of the flowers, love the pink background showing through - reminds me of a field full of flowers

Some of the fab felt from Kerry - sooooooo easy to cut even by hand :)

And of course it wouldn't be a proper scrapbook page without a bit of sparkle

Supplies: Letter Stickers by Studio Calico, Rolled Flower Die by Die-namics, Card by Papermania, 'Hey Birdie!' Papers by Kaisercraft, Double Dot Ribbon by Bo Bunny, Flowers by Prima & Petaloo, Felt by Ladybug Crafts Ink, Epoxy Dot by Ladybug Crafts Ink
Extras: Gems, Black Ink Pad, Black Paint Marker

Phew think that's everything lol.

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge...

Scrapbook Sisters Challenge 3 - Flags and Banners

Right off to see if the dye has done it's job - fingers crossed cos I'm off to a wedding down in Norwich on Friday lol XOX

Alphabet Challenge Blog DT - X for Xmas

Well the weather seems to be heading back to the winter so this weeks challenge over at Alphabet Design Blog is probably quite in keeping lol. This week's challenge is X for Xmas - so you've got a chance to make a headstart on your Christmas cards. Or like me you could try and catch up with scrapbooking some old Christmas pictures, but remember anything goes it doesn't just have to be cards and scrapbooking.

These photos are at Haworth Train station, in December 1996 and 1997 When we were little we used to go up with our neighbours and their friends for the Santa Special train ride on the steam train - all the kids used to get presents and the parents would get a mince pie. Then we'd walk up the street (it was the one used in a bread advert with the kid pushing the bike up the hill - think it might have been Hovis) and all the shop keepers would be dressed up in Victorian dress. Proper start to Christmas for us. 

I used a sketch from the first Page Maps book (I've just bought the second book so have been flicking through that, can't wait to get some more photos out at the weekend and get going on some of the new sketches) anyways I think I've used the sketch a couple of times before but I love how the pages look so different. Instead of the adding journalling on the strips of paper I added the list of everyones names as there were so many lol, so will add the journalling to a second page 

Supplies: 'Good Cheer' Papers by Cosmo Cricket, Scalloped Green Card by Papermania
Extras: Glitter, Alpha Stickers, Fineliner, Red Card, Red Ink Pad

Right I'm going to finish now cos I've got an episode of 'Better with You' to watch - really liking it, hope it keeps going, hate when they cancel shows when you just get into them lol. Don't forget to head on over to the challenge blog to check out what the rest of the design team have been up to XOX

PS thank you everyone my head is feeling much better, hate the way migraines like to hang around for days lol XOX

Blush

Another scrapbook page for you today, that's my challenge this year to try and catch up on my scrapbooking, I've still got masses and masses of my australia pics let alone all the rest and it's been very neglected in favour of making cards this last year - how naughty lol.

Anyways this is for the challenge over at By the Cute and Girly where the challenge is Bling It On - I think with all the gems I stuck on this that it definitely qualifies (and I think I deserve a medal for not chucking it across the room when the gems kept sticking to my fingers instead of the paper lol.  

Supplies: 'Blush' Papers and Die-cuts by Basic Grey, Rub-ons by Flair Designs, Gems, Black Ink Pad

I would like to enter this page in the following challenges...

By The Cute & Girly - Bling It On

Craft Your Passion Challenge 39 - Anything Goes

Right well I'd best get on - am in the process of sorting photos to back up onto disks - yawn but atleast once it's done it's done. Also got some to print off for fames. XOX

Step Back In Time

How was everyone's Christmas and New Year? Good I hope. Had a lovely Christmas and New Year was really nice too, my cousin Lucy made her traditional gingerbread house and brought some lanterns to set off. It was so cool there were loads and loads of them flying over.

I was going to put some cards on but thought that there had been more than enough of them the last few weeks so here's a scrapbook page for a change, this is one for the album I'm doing up of all my old baby and holiday pictures. These are of me at about 9 months down by the marina near where we lived. I love this layout with all the brads and buttons and a blue layout - not got many of them lol.

Supplies: Cardstock and rub-ons by Doodlebug, (paper, buttons, brads, flowers, die-cuts, charms from stash)

I would like to enter this layout in the following challenge...

Alphabet Challenge Blog - I for Infants

Right and now a couple of Christmas photos....

This is me trying to use magic to keep the star on the top of the tree.

One of the decorations off the tree downstairs, I complain to my mum every year that mine is for 1983 and my first Christmas was 1982 lol

 And one of my new decorations for this year - really pretty glass snowflake that I got at the Christmas Market in Manchester, just realised the baubles were new too - miniature ones from Paperchase.

Onto New Year - here is the Gingerbread House as made by Lucy

And them trying to light one of the lanterns lol

Right I'm off, need to get something to eat and need to get some boxes up into the loft. XOX

Anything But A Card

Thought a break was needed from the Christmas cards - do still have a couple more to post looking forward to making some other cards in the new year lol, but must make a mental note to stock up on christmas papers have struggled a bit this year - which is why most of them have come from the same pad.

Another swirly-faced one I'm afraid, this is another christmas present for one of my friends. Think that was the last of the mini canvases to get made - really pleased with them - they're just soooooooooooooo cute, even if they are a bit fiddly to put together lol. This one was painted cream, I then added a piece of some chocolate-coloured ribbon and some gems followed by a felt flower with another gem to finish it off

Supplies: Gem by Doodlebug, Ribbon by KI Memories
Extras: Cream Acrylic Paint, Felt Flower, Little Gems

I would like to enter this project in the following challenge...

Paper Play Challenge 50 - Anything But A Card

Right had best get moving need to go out soon eeek XOX