CJ - Pages 13-23

Here's an update on my Christmas Journal. I'm quite pleased I've managed to get quite a lot of pages done so I don't have that much more to do now! 

The missing page - Day 5- Bath Christmas Market.

 Day 13 - 115 Cards - the amount of Christmas cards I made and sold this year! Handmade embellishment from my shop.

 Day 14 - Our new decoration for our tree this year was this lovely painted bauble.

 Day 15 - I hung up the first 2 rows of Christmas Cards that we had been given. Embellishment from my shop.

 Day 16- Our Christmas tree I gold embossed a chipboard tree for this page which worked quite well!

 Day 17 - Our decorations the same ones that come out every year but it wouldn't be the same without them!

 Day 18 - Snow day, we had about 3 inches of snow over night, we had friend over for the day. This page is on one of my snowflake transparencies.

 Day 19 - Visiting, went to see my Nan and put up her decorations and then went to my auntie's for lunch.

 Day 20 - Singing carols around our village triangle, very christmassy with all the snow around I did wear about 5 layers of clothes though!

 Day 21 - How much? Went out for a meal with my Mum and Dad. Dad ended up having one of the most expensive meals he's ever had, it wasn't even that nice so complained and got the desserts for free. We won't be going there again!

 Day 22 - Spotty, spent the day looking after my nephew Rowan who had Chicken Pox! He was is quite good spirit though so he had a PJ day and we had lots of cuddles! This is his cheesy camera face!!

 Day 23 - Baking spent most of the day baking, we ran out of mince pies already! And I had my hair cut!

So that's where I'm up to at the moment I'll be back soon with the last installment!

I've got a busy couple of days, going to help in school this afternoon and then going to the Panto with the whole school tomorrow so wish me luck!!! xxx

Cupcake Mad

My package of new stash finally arrived after me waiting impatiently for it! I didn't waste any time when it arrived and started cutting into it straight away! I was really pleased with what I got in the sale it seemed a lot of the money! I got some of the new Little Boy range from Echo Park, a few of their Every one loves Christmas range too to finish off my Christmas journal, some October Afternoon (of course!) Modern Homemaker, some cardstock some small OA letter stickers (they are so useful!) and a sheet of their journal stickers and two packets of Thickers, not bad eh?!

 So I made my layout for Sunday's challenge at The Studio with it. This weeks challenge was to scrap your Passions, I wasn't sure what to do as I have quite a few but in the end I went which my love of anything to do with cupcakes!! I collected up some of my cupcake decorated items I have and could a photo of them.

 I went with the layered look for this one.

 I even stamped cupcakes on the spotty paper! Don't you just love those lovely pink glittery Thickers?!

I also made this get well card I wanted it to be bright and cheery so I used bright colours quite simple but I quite like it!

In other news I'm running a Guest Designer call for February for my shop, The Make and Create Shop, you can see all the details on the blog. All you have to do is sent me your favourite layout a link to your blog and a bit about yourself and you could get February's kit free to play with! It's open to anybody anywhere so I would love to see your entries!

I've been trying quite hard to get my Christmas Journal finished it's getting there so I'll be back soon with more from that.
Hope you all had a good weekend. Thanks for looking! xx

A couple of projects

I hope you're all enjoying the start of the new year and are ready for all the exciting things that might happen to you this year!

I have a couple of projects to show you that I didn't get around to showing you before Christmas.

I made this present for my Mum and Dad for Christmas morning. I made the shortbread myself and then decorated them with melted chocolate and chocolate stars! I put them in a big clear card bag I had, I'm luckily enough to own lots of this big bags as they were kindly given to me a while ago and they are so useful!

 I then made this quick and easy tag for the top and stapled it on. Mum and Dad loved then and I must say they tasted pretty yummy too! It was very busy before Christmas but I'm glad I took a bit of time to make this for them as it's a bit more special than something you buy in the shops!

 The other thing I had to do was decorate a wedding guest book and a memory box. A family friend asked me to make them for a wedding she's going to. This is the cover of this guest book...

 And this is the inside. If you haven;t guested already the wedding colour scheme was red and white!!

 I kept it all quite simple to match their wedding invitation. And this is the top of the box. I embossed some hearts and covered them with red chalk to make the embossed bit stand out.

 I also added more hearts to the corners of the base of the box.

I haven't been doing much lately as I haven't been feeling very well but I did put in a nice order of scrapping stuff with some Christmas money so I'm really looking forward to that as I haven't had much new stuff for a bit, I will have to cut into that when it gets here!

Thanks for popping by, hope you've having a nice day. xx

Last Post of 2010!

Hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and are getting ready for a night of celebration!! I had a lovely Christmas here are a few photos of it! **Warning long post!!** This is all the presents under the tree waiting to be opened, there were loads!

 Jack had a lovely time with all the paper from them again!

 Yummy Christmas dinner, Terence the Turkey was very tasty!!

 Here's the Christmas cake I made and decorated. I must say it's tastes nice too!

 There was still snow about on Christmas day, yay!

 This little chap had a lovely time on Boxing day opening all his pressies, he love them all! He's still a bit spotty though as he had Chicken Pox just before Christmas so he still wasn't very well.

I got some great present too! I got lots of bits and pieces including this I am determined to tackle crochet in 2011! My mum has already taught me the basics as she was a great at it so with the help of this book too I should be well away!

Then everyone went home after Boxing day so spend a few days not really doing very much, it was nice not to have to do anything and have a good rest!

Yesterday was my brother, Mark's Birthday so I spent the day in Weston-Super-Mare, we had a nice walk along the beach and then had coffee and cake.

 Then in the afternoon we lit the candles on the cake I made him and it would have been rude not to taste a bit!!!

 I thought I would finish my post with a couple of layouts. This one was Sunday's challenge at The Studio to use a sketch.

It was a great sketch to use, I don't use circle all the much on my layouts but I always like using then when I do! I got my paint out too on this to make paint rings under the stars I cut out of PP.

I'm very excited to have be let back on the team at The Studio from February so you can't get rid of me that easily!! I would have really missed it if I didn't have the challenges to do. Things will be changing slightly at The Studio from February, I'm excited to have a new role as I'm team coordinator for the Layout Team which will be good. There will also be a new Card Team and Project Team too!

This layout I completely forgot to show you, I made it with my Festive Frost kit from my shop. I used the doily from the kit as a mask for behind the photo. Everything else apart from the spotty pp is from the kit. (By the way the layout in straight in real life but it was difficult to photo with the border around it!!)

I stitched around the photo in silver thread from the kit too and tied little bow every now and then, I love how it looks.

Well that's all for now I will see you all again in 2011 doesn't that sound scary it doesn't seem like the millennium was that long ago!! I haven't got any plans for tonight just a quiet night in front of the TV!!

I plan to keep on creating in 2011 so I hope you will stick around to see what I create next, I'm quite exciting to see what the new year will bring to my scrapping!

Happy New Year everyone, hope enjoy your evening whatever you get up too! Back soon with more, thanks for getting to the end of this very long post!! xxx

A Very Festive Post

Just thought I would update you with my festive things! I made these place cards for my Quick and Easy Christmas project for The Studio, you see can my instructions for them on the blog here. They will be brightening up our festive dinner table tomorrow!

 Here pages 6 to 12 of my Christmas journal, page 5 is missing as I haven't finished it yet!! I will show you it again when it's done!
Day 6 - The festive lights in the new shopping area in Bath, very nice twinkling snowflakes!

 Day 7 - I spend to afternoon in helping the children at school learn about electricity, not very christmassy!

 Day 8- A wriggly nativity, I went to watch the children's nativity at school. I was asked to make some donkey masks for 4 little boys to wear. That's the photo of them, they did look a bit funny but they looked better on stage! The play was brilliant, they did really well. I used one of my handmade embellishments for my shop on this page

 Day 9 - I had another singing lesson. It was a year ago that my sister and brother-in-law gave me the money to have the lessons so I thought it would be nice to include it. My singing teacher had my singing in Italian!! Not as bad as it's sounds when you get your head around it! Another embellishment form my shop!

 Day 10 - I made some more Christmas cards, this was my card for the challenge at The studio.

 Day11- I baby sat my little nephew, he was a little angel for me, no trouble at all and went fast a asleep after a read him a story. The blue circle, snowflake is another handmade embellishment from my shop!

 Day 12 - Picking our tree we went to a local place where they grow them and you can pick which one you want and they cut it down for you!

 I haven't done much more of my journal as I been busy decoration a wedding guest book and memory box for someone who asked me to make it for them, it had to be finished now as they have just booked a holiday and won't be back before the wedding! I will show you it soon. So I need a big catch up on my journal I know what I putting in it so it's just finding the time to do it, hopefully after Christmas I can catch up with it, I will be going up to New Year with it like last year.

I forgot to show you my sister's Christmas Cards, she decided she just wanted a black stamp on a white card, not very festive but they were quick and easy and they did look effective. I had to make 50 of them in 6 different designs the stamps are by Papermania, would you believe!!

The big tree had a little gold star on the top!

Right better go and ice the Christmas cake!!

I wish you a very Merry Christmas, hope you have a lovely time and I'll be back with more after the big day! xxx

Designer Friday

I've got lots of projects to share with you today that I made for Precocious Paper as it was mine and Amanda's turn for Designer Friday on Tessa's blog.

First up is a layout I made with Tessa's lovely rolled satin flowers. They went brilliantly with this wedding photo I wanted to scrap. I used Cosmo's Delovely papers which matched them well.

 I added some gems and pearls to the centre of the flowers and did a bit of hand stitching and cut a few flowers from the papers.

 Next up I decorated this photo frame with some of Tessa's fabric yoyo's, I love these flowers they are one of my favourites! It just a cheap Papermania Frame which you can get for a couple of pounds, they are great for decorated in whatever way you want! I sprayed a bit of pink mist in two of the corners and made some more leaves to go with the ones that came with the flowers. I just cut out some leaves shapes from green paper and stitched down the middle of them and I then added some ribbon loops to bring out the pink of the flowers.

 I love the end result, it would make a great gift for someone but this one won't be going anywhere as I love it too much!

 I also made this wreath, I got the plain wreath in a supermarket for £1!! I added some of Tessa's lovely Christmas flowers, some gingham bows and some felt snowflakes to brighten it up a bit.

That's all for now, I will be back with the next installment of my Christmas journal soon, I've been really busy lately so I haven't spent much time on it lately!

We have a lovely lot of snow here that we woke up to this morning, I would say there's at least 3 inches, everywhere looks so pretty and there not much traffic on the road which is nice! Hope you've got lot's where you are and are enjoying it!!

Thanks for looking xx