Before, After, Then and Now!

Hello fellow scrappers and welcome to the start of the weekend and I have had a wonderful start by spending the day with my dear friend Helen.
Those of you that have been following my little blog a while know that Helen and I get together to scrap, chat and challenge!
This time the challenge we gave each other was to scrap some 'before and after' photo's as Helen has recently had a new bathroom fitted.

 

Here is my page and it shows my home before our extension in 2004 when it was a little two up, two down semi. Then in the after pictures which were taken last year it shows our larger home and our new solar panels.

 

Lots of faux stitching and some flowers from my old stash that I added some Card Candi to.

 

 

Here is Helen's page showing her old and new bathroom. It was finished last month and Helen is still wearing a big smile. She told me she had difficulty matching the two different coloured photo's with some papers so she just went with the colours from her new bathroom and what a lovely job she has made of her page!

 

I especially like where Helen has made her title out of wood and lilac felt to show the two different aspects of her bathrooms.

 

We have been coming up with some great challenges for each other but the next one will be using some really cute cloud and heart washi tape that Helen had managed to order two of by mistake (I like Helen's mistakes!!) But you will have to wait until next month to see them as we won't be getting together for a few weeks.

 

Thank you so much for dropping by my little space and hope you have a fabulous weekend.

 

 

 



Keeping it in the Family.

Do you remember the post earlier in May when my cousin Jan and I challenged each other to scrap the same photo? You can find it HERE.
Well this month my mum joined in the fun and so the three of us scrapped not only the same photo but the same papers too! Not content with that Jan suggested stitching and more than one button as well (she is a slave driver!).
Jan had provided the papers (three doubled sided sheets) which she admits are way out of her comfort zone as they are quite bright! But mum and I thought they were perfect.

 

Here is my page and the photo we all used is of my mum and her three sisters one of which is Jan's mum. Don't you just love these papers they are so bright and girly?

I thought I would play with my stitching templates as I don't use them enough so the word sisters is hand stitched and also the heart at the top of my page.

 

As for the buttons I managed to get four on my page (for some reason it wasn't a struggle!) and I threaded them with some black embroidery thread.

 

 

This one is Jan's page and she has used her sewing machine to do the hard work, I love the zigzag stitching and all the bakers twine.

Check out all the banners on Jan page - super sweet.

 



There were four buttons used on Jan's page as well and did you spot this cute heart bead?

You can see her page in more detail on her blog Jan's Arty Junk.

 

 

Mum has enlarged the photo for her layout and her sewing machine was used to stitch the banners in place under the title as well as around the outside of the page.

 

 

 Only three buttons were used on mums page but they were placed in the centre of these gorgeous flowers that she made from pulling apart artificial flowers that were on stems!

 

I hoped you enjoyed looking at our pages and there are still three sheets of papers still to play with so we will be back with another family challenge soon!

 

Hey There!

I am still making cards for this month of many birthdays! So I have made one using this weeks Retro Sketches.

Here is the sketch that I worked with.

 

 

Here is my card.

It was made for a young boy who has a pet dog so I thought he would like this cute dog stamp that I used on the card.

Instead of having twine around the bottom of the card as the sketch suggests, I used it to make the string on my bunting.

 

Thank you for dropping in and hopefully I will be back tomorrow with a layout!



 

Time for Tea?

Hi all and I hope you are having a great weekend, I was very lucky to have a whole day yesterday scrapping with some of my wonderful crafty friends and I was pleased with how much I managed to achieve.
Amongst the pages I got finished was one for the current challenge over at Scrap Our Stash which is to create a layout about a guy in your life. Plus..

Stash: use 5+ brads on your layout.

 

 

I had to scrap this photo of my nephew dressed up as a teapot at a recent party, he should not have been in the costume as it was in the foyer of the hotel we were in. (I think they use it to promote their afternoon tea events!) Unfortunately after he paraded around in it all the other little children in the family wanted to have a go and I had to try and convince them that it wasn't a good idea as the hotel would not appreciate it getting damaged.

 

My brads (six of them) were placed in the centres of some of the patterns on the cut out shapes placed around the photo. Not only are the brads quite a few years old but the pattern paper is too so I was quite pleased with my old stash use with this page.

About Our Guys challenge at Scrap Our Stash is open until 29th June so plenty of time to have a go yourself and reduce that growing stash!

Thanks so much for stopping by and hope your weekend continues to be crafty! xx

 

 

Tweet, tweet!

Hello and welcome, sorry I have been AWOL these last few days, I have been trying to make arrangements for a Saturday crop this week and trying but mostly failing to get some kits ready to take with me.
June is also a busy month for birthdays with our family/friends and I am attempting to get ahead of myself before I have surgery near the end of the month.
So as I was having to make a card today I thought I would encompass a challenge, so I searched blogland and found this sketch from Retro Sketches.

 

Here is my card that I made and as it has to go in the post I tried to make it fairly flat.

I embossed the edges and added the pearly spots instead of the chevrons.

 

The background paper had some glitter on it so I added some stickles glue to the flowers.
The image was free from a link on Pinterest, I did try and go back and find the link but too many days has passed!
There is one day left of the Retro Sketches challenge #66 and all the details can be found HERE.

Hope you have found time to craft this week and are enjoying the summer sun, we are finally getting some in the UK!
Thanks for stopping by.

 

Winner!

Today I have the winner of my Sketch N Scrap Birthday Bash Tic Tac Toe Challenge (that was a mouthful)!

Here is a reminder of the prize on offer.

 

Here is the list of the participants cut up ready to be folded.

 

Everyone in the pot!

 

And the winner is .........Lori.

 

Well done Lori and please contact me at kerry.bruce@btinternet.com with your postal address and I will send your prize out to you.

 

I would like to thank everyone who participated in my challenge and hopefully there will be another opportunity soon to have more fun, crafting and prizes. 

 

 

 

Sketch N Scrap June 1st Challenge.

Welcome to June! Well here in the UK it looks like summer has finally decided to join us as the sun is shining at last!
The page I have to show you today is for Sketch N Scraps first sketch challenge of June and the sketch was designed by co-owner Lisa.

Here is the sketch which I turned on it's head.

 

 

The papers I used were all SEI from the Desert Springs collection, lovely papers with foil touches.

My family had a few days in the Easter holidays to visit Norfolk and we discovered a bird sanctuary that was beautiful if VERY COLD!

 

Some of my favourite things to put on my pages at the moment - sequins, a little washi tape and this cute wooden bird.

I hope you are going to join us this month with our layout sketches and don't forget we now have card sketches too. For this sketch and the design team examples visit the Sketch n Scrap blog HERE.