Sarahs Cards December Sketch Challenge

Life has been very hectic over the last few weeks so haven't had much time for scrapping sadly. I have done a layout for Sarahs December Sketch challenge, Vanessa designed this sketch and I just love it. There is another prize up for grabs this month, a £10 e-voucher and a chance to design an example layout for the February challenge along with the design team. Check out Sarahs blog for details.

These papers area from Bo Bunny, not a paper manufacturer that I would usually choose but these papers are just gorgeous. The photo was taken in Turkey on our honeymoon, young love!!!
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Scruffy Santa

I am taking part it Cheryl Johnsons on line photography course at the moment, our first task was to take a festive self portrait. When I was Christmas shopping on Monday I found a little canine Santa Suit, I thought I could take a photo of myself with Archie dressed as Father Christmas.
When I got home and tried the suit on Archie all he wanted to do was eat it and wasn't very obliging at all!! The girls jokingly said about putting it on the cat, Scruffy (who is the most soppy feline I have ever known). I decided it was worth a try and he made a very good model!
I wanted to edit the photo to black and white except for Scruffy but our editing software trial has come to an end so I had to leave it as it was.

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Using Pens.

For the latest edition of The Scrapbook Magazine I was asked to look at using American Crafts pens on scrapbook pages, I really enjoyed the challenge as pens weren't something that I would regularly use on a page unless it was for journaling or possibly a bit of doodling.
I found the pens were really good for adding that extra something, on this page I used a pen to colour around the dots on the ribbon, I also drew a border around each of the photos. Pens are great for colouring in chipboard and much less messy than paint, I have coloured in the photo corners on this page.

I really enjoyed doing this one, I chose my photo and then a mixture of about 5 co-ordinating pens. I used a crafters workshop template to create the circles and then just coloured them in. I stamped the butterfly onto a seperate piece of paper, coloured it in, cut it out and fixed it onto the page. To finish the layout I added the title and journaling block, a very simple page!

Blog Awards

Over the past few weeks my little blog has been given two awards!!

The first one came from Ann

I have to answer a series of questions with one word answers so here goes!!

1. Where is your cell phone? Here

2. Your hair? Short

3. Your mother? Lovely

4. Your father? Wise

5. Your favorite food? Chocolate

6. Your dream last night? Didn't

7. Your favorite drink? Coke

8. Your dream/goal? Travel

9. What room are you in? Lounge

10. Your hobby? Scrapping

11. Your fear? Cancer

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Here

13. Where were you last night? Here

14. Something that you aren't? Confident

15. Muffins? Yummy!!

16. Wish list item? Lens

17. Where did you grow up? Dorset

18. Last thing you did? Cooked

19. What are you wearing? Clothes

20. Your TV? Flat

21. Your Pets? Smelly!!

22. Friends? Important

23. Your life? Busy

24. Your mood? variable

25. Missing Someone? No

26. Vehicle? Toyota

27. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes

28. Your favorite store? Macrows

29. Your favorite colour? Turquoise

30. When was the last time you laughed? Today

31. Last time you cried? Today (watched The Boy in Striped PJs)

32. Your best friend? Husband

33. One place that I go to over and over? Bed

34. Facebook? Sometimes

35. Favorite place to eat? Home

That was quite hard to answer with one word answers!! I am going to pass this award onto a few scrapping friends and see what answers they come up with.

The second award came from Anna, I have to tell you five random facts about myself!! I have passed this award onto 4 of people whose blogs I love.

Rachel - Angie - Paige - Sarah

1. I am going to be 40 in 2011!!

2. I am going Christmas shopping tomorrow.

3. I am proud of my job and love it even thought I often threaten to leave and go and work in a local supermarket!!

4. I love scrapping and find it very theraputic.

5. My darling husband has just bought me a new camera, a DSLR which I don't have a clue how to use.....yet!!

Thank you for the awards girls they are lovely.

The Crafty Cuttings of Wiccababe: Super Duper Candy Time

The Crafty Cuttings of Wiccababe: Super Duper Candy Time

If you like making cards check out this fab blog candy which is up for grabs! There is a lot more to see over on the blog.

Sarahs Cards November Kit

Thought I would show you what I did with Sarahs Cards kit this month, it was full of gorgeous Crate Paper - season collection, scrummy thickers and a great 12x12 sheet of chipboard shapes plus lots of other goodies. I really enjoyed using this kit, the colours are just lovely and I especially liked the die cut paper!!

My brother and I in the summer of 1976 don't we look cute!!


I covered some of the chipboard toadstools with patterned paper and then put a layer of glossy accents on the spots.

I love this photo of Emily, it was taken in our hotel room at Saunton Sands. She looked so deep in thought.

Another photo taken at Saunton Sands, I have added some journaling onto the circle since I took this photo. We had a similar photo taken there last year so I think it is going to be an annual photo shoot!!

This photo was taken on our holiday in Hong Kong in July, on our last day there we had a wander around Kowloon and we came across this sculpture. I have no idea what it was depicting or why it was there but I really loved it.

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Lets get back to scrapping!

Thought it was about time I posted some of my scrapping, after all the excitement of the retreats I haven't acutally posted any pages.
I created this layout at the Sarahs Cards weekend, we set ourselves a little challange, scrap a layout in an hour and with papers chosen by someone else. I let Lou choose my photo and papers, she picked a photo of my husband which I have been wanting to scrap for ages. I loved her choice of papers, they were just perfect. She was so generous she added a sheet of cowboy paper from her own stash that she had been saving because she loved it. Thanks Lou :) Anyway here is what I created in an hour, I was quite pleased with it especially as a page usually takes me a whole day or more!!
I fell in love with these thickers and used them alot over the weekend, they are a new range called salutations and come in green, pink, brown and black. They are seriously yummy!

The new monthly challenge has just gone up over on Sarahs Cards blog, it now has a prize attached to it! The winner will get a £10 e-voucher and be able to create an example layout for the Januray sketch challenge. This is my example of the sketch, I did it in electric light and didn't realise quite how lime the green was until the next day!

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