tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8886051703636512652012-02-15T12:31:04.028ZOr How to collect pretty papers and occasionally use them!Wrightboysmumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09468963499429366227noreply@blogger.comBlogger3331100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-888605170363651265.post-13446923856346052002012-02-14T10:28:00.004Z2012-02-14T10:36:02.254Z

I have actually made a few cards this year for various things as I haven't been able to find ones I really like in the shops. I made this card for my DHs valentines as he was actually here this year which is a novelty and I hadn't seen one that I liked. We've been together for nearly twenty five years so sometimes it's the same old cards in the shops. We have lots of jokes about No1 Husbands and

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It's half term here so I'm off work and feeling more motivated to scrap and create.This LO is using my January Studio Calico kit that I'm trying to finish completely this month. It's also the Sunday Sketch challenge 5/2/12 over on the Calico blog.I found this photo recently when I was tidying and realised it need to be scrapped otherwise it was going to end up back in the drawer getting bashed

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I have been taking part in the UKS Art Journey class. This is the week two prompt about consumerism.When I looked around the house I focused on my love of fashion magazines. I love Elle and Vogue and it's for the pictures and images. Originally I wanted to go to art school and study fashion but my backup plan was the sciences. Somewhere along the road the backup plan became the main plan and I'm

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I have been taking a class over at Studio Calico by Amy Tan about using your kits and getting the most out of them. I admit to being a bit of a paper hoarder and keeping some papers for that special project that you never get to. The problem with that is that some times they just sit unloved forever. So far I have made two LOs with my January Studio Calico kit and I'm trying to get into the habit

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I completed this LO a little while ago but blogging time is low at the moment and I'm feeling a bit unmotivated as well. It is the last LO to complete my Document 2011 album which is also covered as well. I just need to do the title tag for the cover and it will be totally totally finished. I have to say I am really pleased with this project including the fact that I actually finished it lol and

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The thing I love about art journaling is that there are no rules. I go through phases of journaling and I do it for different reasons. There is stuff that I would never share as it's too personal and other stuff that is literally disengaging my logical work brain and is pure play.This falls into the play category as I just went with the colour first (see here)and then umbrella girl who I always

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One of the challenges that is happening on UKScrappers is a monthly challenge from Shimelle called "& Now For Something Completely Different". She gives you a list of materials on the 10th of the month and then on the 20th posts a tutorial using the supplies and various techniques.I was pleased this month when I saw the papers were October Afternoon Rocket Age as I had some scraps of them and a

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January is always a month of new resolutions and starts and this year there are plenty to choose from. Over on UKScrappers there are lots of new challenges from photography right through to Art Journaling.I have done a LO that was inspired by the Simple Recipes challenge. It is a monthly challenge where you get a colour family and a sketch as well as a PDF with some ideas to get you creating. The

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Happy New Year and Best Wishes for the coming year. One of my new challenges this year is to improve my photography skills. So I thought a daily photo challenge might help. I decided to create a new blog as I didn't want my crafty one being swamped with photos and I also wanted to play with the blog design itself during the year without worrying that I have lost everything if I hit the wrong

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Well 2011 is at an end and boy has it flown by. I have decided to undertake some new projects this coming year as being creative makes me happy and keeps me sane lol.I definitely noticed a difference the last month when I was restricted to what I could do so I want to get back into the flow of creating more regularly.First up is the Make a Month 2012 challenge at The Felt Fairy with the

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I haven't scrapped for the last month so it felt good to do a couple of LOs yesterday while the boys gamed. These both fit the December challenge on the Sarah's Cards blog this month which is to use two manufacturers papers. I enjoyed this challenge as it also allowed me to use up my stash from my Studio Calico kits as well as some older stuffThe first one is using Crate paper Farmhouse Farmers

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Merry Christmas and long time no see. I have had a rubbish time with a frozen shoulder that has left me frustrated and miserable for most of December. I'm touch wood on the mend now. So there has not been a lot of anything this month but I did make a few cards. There is only a photo of this one as I forgot to take photos of the other ones because they were my usual last posting dash lol.The kraft

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This LO is my final Document 2011 for October. I'm still not doing much scrapping or computer work as my elbow is still bothering me. This LO is a real hodge podge of supplies. There is a grey paper from the remains of the stash diving kit. The houndstooth pattern is from a Studio Calico kit earlier this year. The comic book paper is from my travels at some point but where I'm not sure. There is

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Another LO using the stash diving kit this is the one that has been on the go for a couple of weeks due to the elbow. I have to admit to being a bit sick of the sight of these papers now so it may be time to retire it under the desk and start with some new papers, we'll see. It's unusual for me to use such a brightly coloured background and it was a bit of an accident as it was only when I saw

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Hello!. I kinda fell off the radar these last few weeks as I have hurt my elbow and am banned from the computer and most things to be honest. Hence the lack of blogging and commenting on blogs. Hopefully I'm on the mend. Also Picasa is being a pain and won't upload directly so I have had to work around that as well. it gets better as I have had to use Google Chrome to get this post published as

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I'm really enjoying this class and finding it really inspiring for the mojo. This is my first double LO that I was inspired to try after watching the True Scrap video. I also decided to dig out some paper I have been saving for that special beach photo which of course has been lurking in a box. It is in fact one of my very first stash purchases from three years ago by a company that are no longer

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Another LO for Pretty Paper Party. This was the day two topic which was to use patterned backgrounds. I have to admit that this was a bit of a challenge as I like cardstock and whitespace and would rarely use a whole sheet of patterned paper as a background. Shimelle also gave us access to a video she made for True Scrap and one of the points covered was about keeping paper for good and then

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I decided to sign up for this new class from Shimelle as I'm really enjoying scrapping at the moment and I wanted to get some inspiration for using up papers and older photos. I have to say I'm impressed with the content so far and there is lots of material for me to work on long after class finishes in four weeks time. As usual though it will be fits and starts as life and work get in the way

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This frame has been slowly evolving on my desk for the last month. I bought it about a month ago from Simply Create and I knew then I was going to do a frame about the boys. I've slowly added things over the month as I wanted a blue theme. The gingham red fabric heart and the chipboard cloud are from a Quirky Kit as is the blue paper for the base which is from 4heures37 and was left over from

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I have to thank my crafty friend Amanda for the inspiration for this LO. She recently did a LO about a favourite pair of shoes here and it gave me the idea to scrap some of my shoe photos from the last year. She has also reopened her online shop and there is free postage for some lovely goodies so have a browse here.She has been taking part in the challenges on the Sketchy Thursday blog here

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I'm still stash busting and keeping up with my Document 2011. This LO is for October and the base is kraft cardstock stamped with a Kaisercraft grunge stamp and Walnut Ink Distress Ink. It is a real mix of products from my stash. I used some Pebbles brown spotty paper I got in a Studio Calico grab bag as the base paper. There is a stripey paper from an old Quirky kit I have by a french company

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It's been a hectic week but I did manage to fit in a crafty class taught by Kirsti at Simply Create. We were doing another canvas and I got to use some of my fav Crate paper for the dress. It's a mixed media class full of techniques and I'm not giving too much away as you can book the class again I think as it was sold out this time. Read all about here and here.  I really enjoyed my class and I

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While my LSNED is behind my Document 2011 is coming together well. I have finally got the hang of choosing photos through the month and then ordering them from Photobox and doing my two LOs as well. This month in the stash busting theme I dug out some Glitz Love Nest papers I have been hoarding and used them. I also used some of the Love Nest paper layers , some WhatNot pieces, Peekaboos which

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I managed to have a bit of crafty time today as Mr Wright has returned and picked up some of the boy duties lol. This is one of my Document 2011 pages and is about Chewie's first haircut. He has been getting very waxy ears and they are very hot so the vet recommended a haircut to see if that helped. He went to a local doggy beauty spot and I said to take him down to Labrador length and they did!

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I have finally finished my Create 10 album that I have been working on for the last few weeks. I am going to add the journaling after and I was really pleased as it made a really nice album with not a lot left over from the kit. The papers are an old Pink Paislee range called Fetching that I got in a kit from Sarah's Cards. The only additions to the kit were the Jenni Bowlin memo blocks,

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Welcome and Hello to the blog hop hosted by Miss Smith. So it's been a busy week but I have still managed a bit of crafty time. Kirsty made these lovely little embellishments here and I was lucky enough to get chosen to take part. We had to use them in any way that inspired us to make a project and they are just the cutest. When I saw the embellishment originally I kinda of knew it was going for

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I'm still up to date with LSNED although of course that will now fall apart lol. I have to say I only caught up last night. This page uses a glassine envelope that I stamped with a Glitz script stamp. I then used a butterfly mask and some Butterscotch Adirondack Colorwash as the page is about my crafty day using the same techniques. The burlap and lace are from the kit. The rest of the pages are

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I'm still working on my LSNED pages and I'm actually really enjoying it this way. It fits in with my Document 2011 pages and lets me use photos that wouldn't always be scrapped but are still memory worthy in their own right.  The kit from Handmade Hannah is working well and I've only added odds and ends from my stash. I'm really liking the mustard colourway at the moment and it works with the

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I had the pleasure of a crafty escape this week to a class at Simply Create taught by Kirsti. It was her first class and she taught a fab canvas using lots of techniques and my favourite getting messy activities. She did really well with no nerves you would think she had done loads of classes. She is doing another two classes so I would get your place booked as it was a lot of fun. Contact Simply

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More pages from my Create 10 album and it's beginning to really look like an album. I also like the fact that there is a variety of sizes and techniques on the pages as well. It's giving me lots of ideas for future albums and hopefully actually be more productive lol.This page has the photo tag which is really useful for those photos where the field of interest is narrow and there is alot of

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Yesterday we had a brief glimpse of sunshine and I even broke out the suntan cream for heading to the local park. I had a lot of choice for my day 4 entry photo wise but this one won out as although it's maybe not worthy of a LO of it's own it's made me smile and I wanted to save the memory. It has been awhile since we have been to Haddo due to the weather and to celebrate we had ice cream before

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As well as LSNED 2011 I'm also doing the Create 10 Mini album class as well. I made the book last week but then I had to wait for my photos to arrive so I had fallen behind a bit. These pages are from the first classes where we work on the base pages we have already created.   They make use of the Hambly transparency page and the die cuts as well. I'm really enjoying the techniques in this

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Here is my LSNED 2011 for yesterday and today. They are more upbeat than Day 1 you'll be glad to know. I'm also finding that I really like these papers and it makes it really easy to put my pages together unlike 2009 which is still a work in progress. Yesterday I learnt.... "that small boys have so much fun with a viking hat"   Today I learnt.... "that Thor hammers are a boys favourite toy

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It's September already and that means it's the start of Learn Something New Everyday 2011 a class by Shimelle. I gave last year a miss but I wanted to do this year as this is an important year and I wanted a record for us. I decided to use a mini book kit from Handmade Hannah as my base with covers from Glitz. In the name of stash busting I also used a transparency I have had for ages from a

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August has been a terrible month for pictures as we have not been anywhere due to the rubbish weather. I therefore decided to do these photos as a reminder when we look back of just how bad it has been. This LO is one of my Document 2011 LOs. The amount of BBQ's this year is in single figures and this one ended up under the umbrella although it didn't start that way. It's a fairly good example

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The Create 10 class started today and as it was a really windy rainy horrible day here I managed to get it done. Today was all about making the base book ready for decorating in the next nine days. This class is principally a stash buster exercise in that I found almost everything I need in my stash. I used Pink Paislee Fetching papers and some My Minds Eye Fine and Dandy as well as they were

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It's scary to realise that September is almost upon us as this year is just flying by. I have always loved this time of year as it used to be "getting ready for school" and the purchase of the new stationary was the best bit of it all. Unfortunately my school days are long gone but it's still nice to get ready and organise new supplies in this case scrappy stuff. First up is a kit from Handmade

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My last challenge for the Shimelle challenge weekend is the Half Page challenge which is very much my style of scrapping. I love whitespace and cardstock on my LOs so I was right at home. I used grey cardstock as the base which I then misted with Studio Calico White Mr Huey. I used papers from one of this month's Studio calico kits which were My Minds Eye Lime Twist and Cosmo Cricket Odds and

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I have been watching the Studio Calico DT work of Laura Kurz for a little while and liking the large picture format. I then saw a post by Jen Naulls on the Sarah's Cards blog using large pictures as well and that was the push I needed. I realised reading it that I could get the large prints from Photobox which I have only just discovered a couple of months ago ( I know where have I been )when I

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My second LO for Shimelle's challenge weekend is for the "Going Retro" challenge. You had to scrap a photo from before 2011 and so I continued in the Halloween theme and scrapped this photo of DS2 from Halloween 2010. I used more Cosmo Cricket Haunted papers including some stickers and Basic Gray Eerie papers. The corrugated card was distressed with Walnut Stain Distress Ink. The title is another

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Shimelle was having a weekend of challenges last weekend and I decided to join in. This one was the sketch challenge and I continued the stash busting mission by finally cutting into the Halloween paper collections I have been hoarding. In fact on looking through the stash it became apparent that I have a small addiction to Halloween papers. That's not a problem if you have a lot of photos but I

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This is my LO for the August challenge over on the Sarah's Cards blog here. The challenge was to use 5 pieces of patterned paper on one LO. Continuing on the stash busting mission I had bought an add-on from Studio Calico that contained the October Afternoon Rocket Age papers. I knew what photo/story I wanted to scrap in my head but as usual I had stuffed the kit under the desk so I dragged it

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This LO is using my latest Quirky kit and it documents another story. I used kraft cardstock as the base and then a Melody Ross paper that I like which is from the GCD Soul Food range. The other papers are Sassafrass Lass Sunshine Broadcast and the only additions to the kit were the buttons from my stash, the alpha which is old and from Prima (more stash busting), the artisan tape from Pink

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I received happy mail today from a good friend who knows I'm having a scrapping frenzy and my poor Kindle is rattling around unprotected lol. Luckily for me Amanda is having a sewing frenzy with hexies and other fab goodies and she sent me this fab cover. I love it it has all her sewing goodies I have been coveting. The hexies, the fab fabric name tag she has printed, spots, super large buttons

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This is my other July Document 2011 LO for this month. I wanted to use this shot from our recent day out as we are all together for a change instead of me behind the camera as usual. I turned the photo black and white as we are all mismatched clothes wise and it made the colours a bit scary TBH lol.I used my new Quirky Kit and some of a Studio Calico kit again. The background papers are

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This photo of Chewie was just begging to be scrapped as it has caught him in mid flight which is so him. He loves to run and jump when we walk him and we're lucky we live in a quiet part of the country so he can get off his lead at times. When he does he loves to run rings around us at high speed and it's so comical. This is the back of the golf course at Newburgh on our one rare day of sunshine

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Following on from the Crocs LO I wanted to scrap this top as it no longer fits and is going to the keepsake box as well. This Scotland top was originally my brother's and then both the boys have worn it as well. It's so cute and it has worn really well especially with boys. Normally the second wear is the killer and the clothes finally head to the bin instead. I used my new Quirky kits from

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On the stash busting theme this LO uses Fancy Pants papers from The Daily Grind collection. It was a Sarah's Cards kit from November 2008 that I had used slightly but then never returned to it. At the time I thought the kit was a bit busy but of course I now love the black graph paper. I'm loving this style of paper as the bases for my LOs at the moment. I even managed to use the clear glittery

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I can post these pictures as I delivered them to their owner Kirsti yesterday a bit late as the weather conspired against us meeting this week. It was all good though as we then managed a child free lunch including cocktails, shopping and cinema fun after the hubbies returned from offshore. I used a kraft cardstock blank from Crafty Templates and the Cosmo Cricket Material Girl papers I used for

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This is my last entry for The Altered Colour CJ I'm in on UKS. It has fallen behind a bit and when it finally arrived with me this morning I decided to have a go at it tonight and send it on it's way again. I was lucky as I'm not a pink person and I did think I would struggle. However once I found the quote from Elizabeth Taylor I pulled it together. I used various items from my Studio Calico

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Here is a UFO that has been languishing under my desk for nearly two years. I took part in an altered jigsaw swap on UKS and we all had to chose a theme and then each member of the group would produce a piece. It was a massive undertaking for the host as she had to organise and align all the pieces to make sure they would all go back together. So why has it been hiding under the desk? Well

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As a reward for doing the dreaded housework today I decided to scrap tonight. When I was looking for inspiration I came across this challenge from Ashley that she had posted about on the Studio Calico boards. Her challenge was to use old stash up and as I'm on a stash busting mission I decided to have a go. I went looking for my Studio Calico Home Front papers that I have lovingly hoarded for two

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I'm halfway through Game of Thrones Book 5 so there has not been a lot of crafting going on lately. I have done a couple of cards and this one I can show you as it should have arrived with it's intended recipient by now. I used kraft cardstock card blanks from Crafty Templates which I really like. I may order some more although I'm not a huge card maker TBH. I find them a lot more difficult than

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This LO is one of my Document 2011 for July and also my entry for a sketch challenge over on the Sarah's Cards Blog. When I went to do the LO I couldn't remember where I had seen the sketch I just had it in my head along with the LO idea. I finally found it but not before I had trawled through a fair few blogs looking for it. I have now saved them into a sketch folder with a tag telling me where

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The downside of having been ill is that I was swamped with work when I went back this week so I have done very little crafting. I have had this LO sitting for most of the week waiting for a title and odds and ends. It is the last Document 2011 for June and I'm back up to date. I also got my photos from Photobox as well so the pockets are filled they just need a bit of journaling etc added. I was

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Another LO for Document 2011. This is a missing one from April. I only have to do another June LO and that's me up to date with the LOs. The base paper is a Cosmo Cricket exclusive for Studio Calico appropriately from the April kit although I never realised that till now. I love the ledger effect and will be using this paper type more in the future I think instead of cardstock. I inked the edges

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Kirsti and I are having a stash busting/class completing pact this year and this LO is part of that effort. I have mostly kept up with Document 2011 but March was a month when it just fell apart. I have really struggled with the photo pockets aspect as well and I really need to get a plan organised to sort that bit out. I have ordered all the photos from Photobox this weekend so I'm hoping to get

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Sometimes I use sketches and other times I don't. When I do I tend to have envisioned the LO in head with the papers when I first see the sketch. That's what happened with this sketch although a little thing called illness got in the way first. This is Shimelles Wednesday sketch from the week before. I used Sassafrass Lass Monstrosity papers that I had as they were partly used and I'm on a stash

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In the future if my children look at the photo record in Picasa this month they will notice a whole week with not one photo taken which is highly unusual for me. The reason? I have had the lurgy again and been in bed for most of the week. Luckily daddy came home to watch the fort as they say. I did this LO before I was ill but never blogged it. It started out in a totally different concept and

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This LO is about Fathers Day last week and is one of my Document 2011 LOs. Daddy was away but Grandad came and had lunch. The boys capered around and of course Chewie had someone new to love up. Dad was amazed at how big he is now as he's not seen him for a little while and also the mad trampoline skills he has developed playing with the boys. The papers are My Minds Eye So Sophie, Basic Gray

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I'm feeling a lot better this week and I have decided to tackle some of the UFO's and untouched projects under my desk. This is a clock kit from Cleo's Undomesticated Scrapbook Kits which unfortunately has stopped producing kits now. That's a real shame as Cleo Jarvis always made great quirky kits and TBH I haven't seen anything replacing them at all. So it has been half done awaiting that

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I have had a rubbish week with colds and frozen shoulders that have made it hard to do anything much. This is the last class from Scrap-a-mia this year by Michelle Jackson Mogford. It was lucky in one way that I never finished this in class as we had a giggle at me trying to take it home on an aircraft undamaged. As it is in came home partly done and I finished it here at home. I made a few

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So more scrapping as my youngest cherub hid a set of stamps I was using for another project last night. I did eventually find them by accident but it was too late to start it again. As I said I have been circle mad around here with the nesties and when I saw the sketch for Week 7 of Scrapfactor on UKS I knew I could work with it for the Play Along category. I also knew what papers I wanted as my

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Last week I borrowed a set of Nesties from Kirsti to see how they were with my bug. It turns out they are great and I've been cutting circles out of loads of things. So Studio Calico must have got my circle frenzy vibe then as they posted a challenge using circles and I had plenty of those lol. The photo is the furry one holding court in his favourite place in the garden at the moment, the

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My crafty mojo is around at the moment and this LO came together in about an hour. I'm trying to use up my stash (so I can order more lol) and these papers are a kit from Sarah's Cards from last March. The papers are the only Prima I own actually (they are a bit floral for my taste usually) and I liked the funky feel they have. In fact I'm not sure Prima have made any lines in this style since.

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This is my second last CJ entry for the Altered Colour CJ on UKScrappers. It's been a bit delayed and TBH I'm not going to do anymore for a while as I'm a bit fed up with stuff arriving late and then playing catchup. This CJ was Black which had me a bit worried at first as to how to do a page with black as the predominant colour. I went for a bit of texture by using felt and I also clear embossed

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Third class finished from Scrap-A-Mia is the mini-book class from Celine Navarro. We had to make 6 x mosaic pictures with 6 pictures and then make each one 6x4 portrait size beforehand and 6 5x5 pictures as well. It was a great way to get lots of pictures of a trip away into a book even if some of them are memory worthy but not so technically perfect as sometimes happens with holiday photos. I

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I loved the Maya Road canvas book we sprayed and decorated in Dina Wakley's class. I'm going to get some calico and make some more in different shapes as it was so lovely to work with. The inks worked really well and gave some great effects with the various templates and masks. The original colour way was pink and orange but I changed to teal and it has worked really well with the photos I chose.

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The last class my group did was Emma Trout's using Webster's Pages paper. I saw the papers we used in the shop beforehand but I wouldn't buy them as although they were lovely I really didn't think they were my thing. Emma's class however taught me to look at this type of paper in a different way and I really enjoyed it. Her work is stunning and even better in real life as she had an album with

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It's hard to believe it's a week since I was here... and here........ with these ladies...... doing this.... I had a great time. It was so warm I never needed a jacket the whole weekend but being Scottish I had one with me lol. I met Amanda and Michelle my crafty bloggy buddies and had a laugh. We met four fab teachers and learnt so much. The classes were all varied which was good and I really

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I'm lucky that I am attending Scrap-a-mia 2011 this weekend. I'm flying down to meet my crafty buddy Amanda and then we're both meeting our partener in crime Michelle who is teaching at the event. In our welcome pack there were different bases to make a name badge and I was lucky to get a calico material one. I sprayed it with Dylusions spray inks in Granite, Hot Pink and Jade Green with a Crafty

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I'm back with my second LO from this DT kit from Simply Create using the Crate Paper Neighbourhood collection. I don't normally do pink or girly but that's as I rarely scrap me or my interests. This is another Document 2011 LO and is for February. When I went to London in February my must do was to visit Liberty and have a look. It's a long time since I was there last minus boys and husbands and

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I hope you're having a Happy National Scrapbooking Day wherever you are and are doing something creative and messy that makes you smile.This LO is from my latest Simply Create DT kit and it was full of yummy Crate Neighbourhood papers. This is also a May LO for Document 2011. I'm managing the LOs fine but the pockets are another problem that I need to catch up with.We had a fabulous weekend last

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CJs can be a bit like buses at times running on time and then a famine then a feast. This is Blue for the Altered Colour CJ and at the moment I'm caught up again after the late deliveries for these two. So this one has a blue quote as the starting point and it was by Gypsy Rose Lee who said " I wasn't naked, I was completely covered by a blue spotlight" it made me laugh and so I chose it. I

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This is an entry for the Altered Colour CJ on UKS. The colour was Turquoise. I used a turquoise base paper that I then misted with Studio Calico Mr Huey in White and a Tattered Angel compass template. The theme was based on the Green Tara which is a Buddha of Compassion. When I was looking for inspiration I discovered that the prayer beads you should use when doing this mantra are turquoise and

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This is the last entry in the Take Ten CJ I have been in on UKScrappers. It is based on the poem The Highwayman which I had never came across before now. It was actually the one I was most worried about as I was going to be left with the the one verse left after everyone else had chosen. As it turned out it was fine I got verse 4 which is: Dark in the dark old inn-yard a stable-wicket creaked

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If you're participating in She's Grunge book swap here and you don't want to see your pages STOP READING otherwise hopefully you'll like what you find. I have been a busy beaver these last two weeks as the deadline for this swap slipped back a few times and therefore so did my motivation. I'm a deadline girl. So having finished the wedding invites I then realised that I was actually needing to

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I have been doing a little scrapping this week just for me. This is one of my Document 2011 LOs for the album. I am behind as usual so I'm hoping to get back on track for the end of the month. I used my March Studio Calico kit. The papers are My Minds Eye and Making Memories. The stamp is from the kit and the embossing powder is Ranger Verdigris. We had a very wet holiday earlier this month and

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It's been rather quiet around here as we were away for a weeks holiday last week and Picasa is playing up. I have been doing a bit of scrapping but nothing completed so far and made a card but overall a lack of paper crafting and more cross stitching when we were away. However this rather cool little book arrived yesterday from Smash. I entered a giveaway although I never thought they would ship

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I've been catching up on my blog reading and doing a bit of scrapping tonight and I came across this fab giveaway. It's from The Ribbon Girl's and it's to celebrate the royal wedding this month. So pop over here and join the fun.

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I have been having problems with Blogger uploading photos since last night and it's been a real pain but so far so good and hopefully you'll see them now.Someone asked the other day about our Chewie boy and how he was doing and I realised I hadn't blogged pictures of him for a while. So you remember the small furry ball that joined us last year here?Well as you can see he got a whole lot bigger!

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Hi it's been a busy week but I have my second DT project for Simply Create with my Hero Arts stamp sets done. I wanted a change from a card and I originally thought about a set of blocks with the word Autumn on them but when I started work on them you really couldn't see the stamp images for the alpha so I had to go back to the drawing board. I painted the edges with Distress Crackle Paint in

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I have been bogged down making wedding invites for my SIL so I finally had a play with the Hero Arts stamps last night that I got for my DT work from Simply Create. I actually used the same cardstock the invites are using as it has a subtle golden sheen to it and I wondered how it would look as a non wedding card base. I used an EK Success border punch I got last week when I visited the shop for

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My CJs I'm currently in are beginning to draw to a close with only a couple of months left. This one is the Take Ten CJ where there are ten different things to choose but as you get closer to completion the choice dwindles and it gets a bit harder. This CJ is Shakespeare plays and at first I was a bit stumped for an idea with the three remaining plays. I did my usual and mulled it over and

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No not a Queen theme but rather another fab Simply Create challenge for the month of March. So here's Jacqui:"So for a long time I haven't had time to play but tonight's the night, I am in the mood for a challenge so I thought maybe you would be too, so you've guessed it another £100 of goodies up for grabs and maybe some little prizes thrown in too....make something using the colours from the

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This month the Altered Colour CJ I'm in was the colour red. Your entry had to reflect how you felt about red. I find red a colour I associate with war and fighting and anger rather than the more traditional association of love. I started with two soldiers as my images and I had the quote from Robert Brandt that I liked. Haven't we all done and said something we have come to regret afterwards and

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So more progress in unfinished work as I finally washed my shabby raggy cushion to get the chenille effect and then I got an insert and stuffed it.This is how it has sat for a while. This cushion was a class I did last year at Simply Create Pink Ladies day at the hall in Alford. It was taught by Anne she of all things stitchy and designer of the bag in the previous post. It has been languishing

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In my mission to actually do stuff and not hoard stuff I decided I wanted to make the bag kit I bought from Simply Create last year. It is designed by the resident stitchy queen Anne and I would recommend getting yourself a kit. Anne's class was in a very Cath Kidston like fabric lovely but being my usual self I wanted something else. I loved this paper range and as soon as I spotted it as fabric

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This is one of my Document 2011 LOs for this month and it details my youngest sons love of a song on Youtube about Narwahls. It turns out he loves animal videos on Youtube such as Boogie Woogie Hedgehog and he runs around singing this little tune a lot at the moment. I'm trying to make an effort to use my supplies up and as they come into the house rather than letting them lurk under the desk as

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The lurgy has passed and I'm back to work so less free time for everything really. Therefore my apologies to these two ladies who both gave me blog awards last week for my delay in posting and passing them on.First up is one from Handmade Hannah who makes some great LOs that I drool over as they are all girly a style I never do with my house of boys. So I have to tell you 8 interesting facts

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The lurgy is going but it has left me with a really hacking cough and not a lot of energy. So it's been time for some quiet crafting and not a lot else really. I have started subbing to Studio Calico and I have to say the kits are really inspiring. Normally my kits arrive and lurk under the desk for a long while including some that have never been touched but these ones as soon as I saw the

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I am feeling a bit better and the lurgy is receding so I have got a bit of crafty motivation back. I knew when I saw the moodboard for Simply Create challenge here I was going to scrap a picture of DS2 at nursery as the colours fitted his uniform. Time is passing so quickly and my baby is now starting nursery and not a baby any more but a lovely little boy.I was originally going to use a Studio

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I have finally finished my December page for the Art journal challenge on Kate's blog here. I had a lot of fun doing it and I'm pleased I completed it as it's a nice record of our year especially of all the little things that seem unimportant but are actually the basis of our life. I'm taking a break from it for a while but I'm going to do it again later on towards the end of the year for my

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One thing I never realised when I started blogging and using UKScrappers was the friendships I would make with like minded people who understand the thrill of new paper and making things. Amanda is one of those friends and we have discovered we are spookily similar in many ways. So she is celebrating her one year blogversary and has a fab giveaway with lots of cool things to use in any way you

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I have to say at the moment my favourite paper brand is Glitz. I loved it in my Simply Create DT kit with the Scarlett collection. I have got Hoopla and Love Nest collections here waiting to be scrapped and I have ideas for them just a lack of time lol, a little thing called work and life keeps getting in the way. So have a look at these new papers mmm loving them . There is a giveaway on the

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Today I have mostly.... spent time with crafty friends and looked at pretty things. Jacqui at Simply Create has a new challenge on the blog at the moment and it's a beauty. Even better the design team can enter so I'm thinking about something but it's still at the stuck in my head stage.So here's the blurb from the lady herself."So the arrival of more white stuff today, has made me seek out some

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I treated myself at Christmas to a couple of Studio Calico kits as I have been lurking looking at them lovingly for a while and I decided to test the water. The kits arrived super speedy from the States and have lots of fab things in them including my favourite manufacturers Basic Gray, October Afternoon and Studio Calico themselves.I was in paper heaven it was an effort to actually cut into them

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This is an entry for the Altered Colour CJ I'm in and this time it was manila or coffee and cream is it's other name. Now I was a bit stumped at first as all I thought of was office envelopes and then the saying Thriller in Manila not really helpful TBH. So I started slowly and added things here and there and eventually after about a week of fiddling with it every so often it came together. The

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I have been looking at paper art dolls in various places for a little while and admiring them wondering about doing one myself. I was pleased then when I got the chance to do one for a CJ entry I'm in at the moment. The CJ has a postal theme with stamps being chosen to inspire you anyway you like. The journal itself is really cool as it's made up of little brown wages envelopes. You decorate the

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This months design team kit for Simply Create was based on the Glitz Scarlett papers. I knew what I wanted to scrap when it arrived but the snow, oh more snow and a little thing called Christmas got in the way so there was a delay in getting it together. All the papers and materials like the lush bird stamp can be picked up at Simply Create.So LO one is about our epic walking day when we started

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