1st Birthday

Just popping in to share a 8.5" x 11" layout for you today. Quite a simple one but I think it works with the brights colours. 

I got a sheet of Simple Stories, Let's Party paper, which I loved but found the elements were a bit on the large side to use as it was so I cut out the banner, bunting and balloons from it to use and raised them to make them stand out. 

The photos are of my nephew's first Birthday party, I love how the colours from the paper match the colours in the photos. 

Thanks for looking.

Back soon! xx

A little Ray of Sunshine

At The Studio this week we have a great mood board that Lydia from my design team made, it has a lovely summery feel to it. I decided to join in with the design team this time, make sure you go and check out all their layouts too, they did a great job with it and there's lots of inspiration.

For this layout I had fun making a mixed media background with water colours, stamps and a bit of acrylic paint.

I stamped the flowers and used watercolours to colour them, I raised them up to give a bit of height and so they stand out a bit more. The photo is of my gorgeous little niece, she really is a little ray of sunshine and I really love this photo I took of her so it was an easy choice for this mood board.

You got to love a bit of gold sparkle with these lovely glittery Thickers! 

No patterned paper was harmed in the making of this layout!

I'm really pleased with how this layout came out and this is only the second layout featuring my niece so it was good to get another done for her album too. 

There are more layouts to come, back soon xx

New Niece

Hello Blogland! I'm back! I have still been creating I just fell out of blogging about it! Thought it was about time I added something though and I found these photos in my drafts that I never posted. They are now quite old (apologies) as they are things I made for when my niece was born a year ago now! There does time go?!

I thought you may like to see them though. 

First up is the cake I decorated to celebrate the birth of my neice, the cake was my sister's top tier of her wedding cake that has been in the freezer never since so that made it extra special.

I loved decorating it as it was girly and usually I have to do boy cakes for my nephews!

I had great fun piping that grass and making flowers, butterflies and baby clothes etc.

Next up was the blanket I crocheted for her this is not the best photo to show it off, but difficult t get the full thing is a photo!

Here's a close up of all the different stitches. I didn't have a pattern I just made it up as I went along. Love these colours, when I started it I didnt know if it was going to be a girl or boy so the colours were good for both. I only just managed to get it finished in time luckily it was only a pram or cot size blanket!

And here is the bobble edgeing that I did around it to finish it off.

Really pleased with how it turned out and my niece has got a lot of use from it which is good!

I will be back soon with my niece's 1st Birthday cake and something I made for her which will be a bit more up to date!

Thanks for looking! xx

A Girl!

The first layout of my gorgeous little niece! It's great that after 3 nephew's I can finally get all girly!

I started using some pink paint and a sponge to create the background, I then added some stamping and some green drops of paint around it. I added a doily and matted the photos, added a stripe of pretty paper which I cut with decorative scissors and then highlighted the edge with paint. I then clustered shapes under the edges of the photos.

I also used one of my handmade yoyo's as the colours matched really well

I look forward to creating a lot more girly pages!

Thanks for looking! xx

On the Beach

I think I kind of needed some time out from scrapping which I had but I really missed it so I started creating again but I think I'm enjoying it more for having a break. There is so much I want and need to scrap so I really do need to get my scrap on again!

Here is a layout I made for my nephew's scrapbook, it is of him having a lovely time on the beach and yes, the sand did end up going in his mouth, nice and crunchy!

Quite simple but I think I got away with it! I will be back with another layout that is currently on my table and just needs finishing off soon.

Hope all is good with you, if you visited here please leave a comment and I will try give you on back.

Thanks for stopping by! xx

Avengers Cake

Sunday's challenge at The Studio was about food, a nice easy one to create a layout about food especially as I make lots of cakes so it had to be about one of those!

I chose the Avengers cake I mad my nephew for his 5th Birthday, he wanted all the Super Heros on it which was a challenge but with the way his face lit up when he saw it, it was definately worth it!

Back on to my best white cardstock as I have finally stocked up with it again!

You can check out all the design team's makes for the challenge here. You can also see a sketch I made for the previous challenge, I'm hoping to make a layout with it soon as I didnt manage to make it for the challenge so I will be back to show you it.

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Party Hair

About time I shared something again on here! A quick layout I made a few weeks ago of my nephew with gel in his hair.

I have a craze of making layouts on white cardstock ALL the time at the moment as I like how bright colours look on white, so I was pushing myself to use other colours as I'm running low on white! So what other colour to go to? Black!

I started by using a stencil of small crosses with white paint to make it really stand out, I was pleased with how it turned out as it added pattern with being patterned paper. Then I cut some triangles out in contrasting yellow and created a small cluster and then added some ribbon and Thickers is the same colour of my nephew t-shirt. And you cant go wrong with a few paint drops!

Quick and easy but quite effective!

I'm just back from a nice relaxing holiday in Croatia, it was great to get away from it all and stare at the beautiful sea!

Bliss! Wish I was there for longer!

Thanks for looking

Back soon! xx