Blooming

This weeks challenge at The Studio was a Pinterest challenge! Don't we all love Pinterest?! Valerie Picked a lovely pin for us to be inspired by. This is my layout:

I loved the colours and shape of the flowers in the picture so I tried to recreate them! Here's how I did it!

I cut out 6 flowers shapes (yes they were handcut!) and laid them on my cardstock and misted over them. If they do curl out I stuck then down with a little bit of repositionable glue.

 Then when it was dry I removed the flower shapes.

Then I hand stitched around the flowers and then painted in the flowers and added buttons to the centres. It was time consuming but I'm quite pleased with how it looks! 

Go and check out the photo that I was inspired by and see what the design team created, it's amazing all the different interpretations from one photo!

My Nan is still poorly so things are still a bit difficult but she is improving so that's great news!
Hope you have a great weekend.
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Cheeky Monkeys

The other day I had a bit of time and needed to create so I whipped up this quick layout!

It is of the cheeky Monkeys of Longleat Safari Park, that you can drive through, they climb all over the cars. My sister didn't really want to go through as she doesn't like Monkeys much but we did in the end!! They were all over our car and wouldn't move so we started to move off and one of the monkeys fell off and all you could see was his little monkey fingers gripping on to the back wind wiper!!!

I sprayed the background with my copper Shimmer mist with is lovely as it really catches the light and shines and it also looks a bit like mud!

It been a bit of a week of it here as my Nan is really poorly with chest Infection, at 91 everything become serious so she needs a lot of looking after. Hopefully she will start feeling better soon, it's not nice watching someone fighting to breathe.
Hope you're having a good week!
Thanks so stopping by! xx

Up and Down

Today's challenge at The Studio is as it's all the trend at the moment is to use chevrons on your layout in anyway you can think of!

This is my layout:

 This is one of those layouts that does not want to photograph well at all I've tried loads of times but this was the best I could do, it does look better than this is real life, promise! I've made it giant so you can see it!

I wanted to scrap these photos of my nephew, Rowan and I on my birthday last year for a while now so it was good to get it done! I made my own chevrons and then hand stitched in between them.

I've been really poorly this week with a nasty cough and cold so haven't been doing much but resting, coughing really wears you out!!

I did have something nice happen though, I heard Wendy talking about double page layouts on the 'Papermaze' blog the other day so I sent her one of mine and she has put up on the shops blog!
It was this one:

Anyway hopefully I'll be back soon! xx

Teacups and Cupcakes

I personalised this guest book for family friends wedding. It was a vintage theme and I given photos of the the ribbon and tea cups they were using for afternoon tea so I was inspired by the photos.

Inside the front cover- I made two little teacups and then copied the design of them so they matched the photo!

 I made this card that matched too!

 I had an order of cupcakes on Friday, I was asked to make 30 for a 70th Birthday, I was given free reign too so I could do anything on them! I made half plain and half chocolate and did lots of different decoration on them and made little flowers for them too!

 I did them in mixed cake cases and some of them were great dotty ones, which you can't see that well here so you'll just have to trust me!

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Dotty

Just popped in to show you this Sunday's challenge at The Studio! I designed a sketch for this challenge here it is:

And this is my layout from it! I thought with all those circles, there was only one thing I could scrap, the dotty cake I made for my sister-in-laws 30th Birthday last year! I punched and cut out lots of circles in the colours from the cake and raised some of them up and overlapped them.

I then added some sequins and gems to 'bling' it up a bit!!
We have some new design team members at The Studio now so please go and check out what they did with the sketch there is so much inspiration!

Thanks for stopping by.
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Granny Love

I thought I would cheer up this grey day with some lovely colourful photos of my nephews Granny square blanket I'm making! I started making lots of squares in the summer and I haven't been doing it all that time but I keep dipping back into it and making more squares!

I have made so many squares and it's still not enough!! It's lucky I love crocheting so much! It's certainly not the quickest blanket to make but it does look so lovely even if I do say so myself!

I started sewing up the first couple of rows on new years eve (yeah I know how to live!!!) and it has now grown quite a lot since then. I've now sewn up 132 squares which makes almost a square blanket!! I've been really trying the get it done lately so hopefully it shouldn't take too much longer but we will see!!

I've been creating today but can't show you what I've made yet but hopefully I will have something scrappy to share soon!
Anyway better pick up my hook and get back to it!
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CJ- 19 to End

I have finally finished my Christmas Journal, I'm really pleased I managed to finish it! So here are the last pages, be warned this post is a bit photo heavy!!

Day 19- Singing carols around the triangle at our outdoor village carol service! 

 Day 20- I made these tree top cupcakes!

 Day 21 New Tunes, our new festive CD for this year! You've got to love a bit of Michael Buble!

 Day 22- Baby Jack, my cousins baby came to visit!

 Day 23- I decorated the our Christmas cake, you can't really see it in the photo but it looked very pretty with white, sparkly snowflakes!

 Day 24- I finally got my hands on my new camera. I ordered it in plenty of time but I found out it was a dodgy website, luckily I got my money back and another lovely company managed to deliver it in time!

 Day 25- Christmas day! We spent it at my Brother's for the first time, we had a lovely day!

Day 26- Boxing Day, had a lovely dinner with family at my aunties and played some games!

 Day 27- We had our close family Christmas day!

 Day 28- A special Gift, my sister knitted me a lovely hat!

 Day 29- Invites, I got back to work on the wedding invitations and set up a production line!

 Day 30- My Brother's Birthday went to see him, baked him a cake then we had Fish and Chips on the sea front, sat in the car in the rain, lol!

 New years eve- went to my sister's had a look around the shops and then spent the evening in front of the telly!!

 Last sum up page!

I'm really pleased with this album I think it's my favourite out of the three I've made, it's a great size and shape too so might do it the same next year!
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