She Loves to Skate.

I have been meaning to scrap these photo's of my niece for a while and as usual the perfect challenge came up at Scrap The Girls blog this month of Teal, Orange and White.
My Niece has been ice skating for quite a few years and she is still only nine years old! These photo's were taken in 2009 during a competition, doesn't she look amazing?

As usual due to the British weather yesterday the photo's of my pages aren't as bright as I would like but try clicking on the images for a better view.
All the elements on the page are from different manufacturers and I won't go through them all as life is too short.

I did get some new black and teal washi tape last week and I was so pleased when they went perfectly with my page, so much fun to use.

As you can see the glitter card came out AGAIN for my title and for the butterflies on the page.

This Scrap the Girls challenge is on until 30th November, so still a few days to get you scissors and glue out to have a go!

Another Holiday Page.

I am really enjoying scrapping my holiday photo's from our trip to Ibiza this summer. Maybe because the photo's are so different to the ones I would normally scrap as we have not done a beach holiday for many years.
The page was done using a bingo challenge that I set Bradfield Craft Club last week and the combination I chose was blue, paint and buttons.

Most of the page is made up of digital elements that I found free on the internet, it's amazing how much free stuff there is out there no matter what your scrapping style is.

Yes that is me in the photo for a change and I even entrusted my DSLR to my youngest daughter whilst in the middle of a bay on a pedalo! (the sun must have got to my head).

I can't seem to make my title from anything but glitter card at the moment, it calls to me from my stash whenever I am about to cut my letters out.

 



My buttons are some felt beauty's that I got from Sarah's cards a couple of weeks ago and they look so cute I really should take the time to make some of my own but I not patient with a needle.

 

I have a couple of pages finished for challenges so will be back soon to show them to you.

Hope you had a great weekend. 

Cozy Cat.

Our cats have it really rough as do most loved pets, they are fed, combed and generally pampered, not to mention they usually get to sleep when and where they please.
Molly is completely spoilt as she can be so adorable and has the cutest face and the softest fur. She is not so keen on having her photo taken though and either looks away or gives me the evil stare as if to say 'Do Not Disturb'.

I have made this page for the DT Call at the Sketch~N~Scrap blog  using the sketch below.

Bird houses seem to be finding their way onto my pages and cards a lot lately!

We all love tags, don't we?

 



These cute owls are cut from paper by American Crafts (you know I heart AC).

 

The design team call at Sketch~N~Scrap is open until 17th November so you still have a little time to apply.



123 Challenge.

This month over at the 123 Challenge blog the recipe is PASTELS, the word SWEET and to use WIRE and as I very rarely use pastels and have never used wire on my pages that I can remember I thought 'now there is a challenge for me'.
Of course first I had to actually find some pastel papers in my stash but I scraped together enough for a page!

Here is my page for the challenge and I think I managed to tick all the boxes. Click on the image for a better view as the weather here in UK is a bit dull to say the least and is not good for getting decent photo's.

For the wire I managed to get two different techniques this first one I wired the bunting with little tags which were stamped with a word or image.

 



I also strung some beads and sequins onto some thin silver wire and placed them across the heart border.

 



 

Lastly a little close up of the left corner cluster where I put a little birdhouse stamp (so cute).

 

Thanks for popping by and hope you are enjoying your week so far.

It's Mostly Red!

Hi there crafty friends, I have a page to show you today that I made for a design team application where you had to use white, red and stamping.
I love red but stamping is one thing that scares me, as once you have stamped your image that's it you can't take it off again!!!!
But I put my big girl pants on and went for it.

Please click for larger image.

I started off using my home made hexagon mask to draw directly onto the cardstock and then cut some of them out and backed the holes with pattern paper taken from my most recent purchase a stack called 'Paper Hearts' by Crate Paper. There are some random stamping images all over and also the flowers and leaves are stamped. The scary part was the word 'sweet' as it was double stamped straight onto the cardstock to give it a 3D effect.

A few of my usual close ups.

 

 

I will know if I made the team by the end of the month and will be so excited you will be the first to know. Until then I am off to start a page for my craft club bingo challenge, till then have a great week.

Sketch Time.

Over at Scrap, Paper, Scissors blog a couple of weeks ago their new DT member Tracee used a sketch from Pagedrafts .com that I instantly fell in love with and decided to do a page based on it.
I am a great lover of sketches anyway but this is a sketch blog that I didn't know about but will be visiting again.

Here is the page I made with the use of Tracee's sketch choice. It shows some photo's from a Scissor Sisters concert that I went to last year at Newmarket Race course.

This is the fab sketch from Pagedrafts.

When I looked through my papers I couldn't find any papers with the right shade of blue, but luckily I had some mists that were perfect. So using a star mask that I made myself out of  Nestabilities and some acetate I sprayed some white Bazzil with blue and black ink, moving the mask around to get some layers. 

I also really wanted some scissors on the page and as I didn't have any dies or embellishments in the shape of scissors I went onto the internet and got a clipart picture. After playing around in Word I managed to make two strips of scissors to run down both sides of my patterned paper.

 

One last close up.

 

Tracee has put up another Pagedrafts sketch up on the Papermaze blog this week so I may have to have a go at that one too as it's another doozie.

 

Thanks for stopping by and have a great week. 

This Makes Me Happy.

I am really enjoying having the time to scrap at the moment and have managed to get quite a few pages done this week compared to my usual amount. Last night was another opportunity to get some scrappy time in, so I thought I would sneak in a page for Sarah's Cards October challenge at the last moment.
Please excuse the quality of the pictures today as the Uk is really overcast at the moment so I tried to position my layout under a lamp to take the photo! (saying no more).

 

Now if you can't tell what the photo is of  (I took it whilst hanging out of my bathroom window) it is a House Martin swooping in to feed it's chick, who you can just see poking it's head out of the nest.
The estate I live on used to be a prime nesting site for Martins until about 10 years ago when they just stopped using our houses to build their mud homes on.
This year though we had a pair of these elusive birds nest on our house again and we were so pleased to have them, whether it is because we built a pond in our garden or just pure chance I don't know but hopefully they will be back next year.

Here is the sketch for the October challenge over at Sarah's Cards that I used.

I know this little bird house doesn't resemble a House Martins nest at all but it goes with the theme of the page so I put in on anyway and because it's cute!

Another couple of close ups of the page and this one shows the fabric I used instead of paper as it was the perfect shade to match the nest and it has great texture too.

There is only a couple of days left to get your entry in to Sarah's cards if you want to have a go at their sketch challenge and there is a voucher for the shop up for grabs!

Back soon hopefully.