Sketchy Sunday!

This weeks challenge over at The Studio was a lovely sketch. The sketch had lots of possibilities on the way to use it but for this I stuck quite close to it, the main difference being my photos are the other way found and a added some stars!

I love these colours together, these Thickers don't photograph very well as their metallic, they look a lot better in real life, the blue of them matches well!
The photos are of my nephew when we took him to a animal zoo, he had to have a go on the dodgems/ bumpers cars he loved it! I love the bottom photo has he's sticking his tongue out in concentration!

There's loads of inspiration over on the blog and if you join in you can win some scrapping goodies from You Do.

We have loads of snow here so I went out on Friday and made a snowman and a snowdog!! They are still there, they haven't flown off yet but then they could of where I saw asleep!!! I'll have to upload a photo of them! Hope you enjoying the snow where you are, stay warm! xx

Christmas Journal 2012- Part 1

It's about time I got around to sharing my Christmas journal with you! I don't want to bore you too much so here's the start of it, pages 1 to 14! Enjoy!

My Phoenix Trading advent calender which I sell, I did a craft fair too but it didn't go very well!

I did some Dog sitting, forgot to take my camera!

My Christmas makes!

Sending out lots of parcels, for a new job

First bits of shopping

Making the annual batch of mince pies!

Bath Christmas market and mulled wine and mince pies in the Pump rooms, it was really lovely!

I took my sister out for the day shopping

The car cake I made for my Sister-in-law's Dad!

Babysitting my cousin

Frost

 12.12.12 and I picked my nephew up from school

 Shopping, my camera battery died so no photos!!

More shopping in Wells!

A few pages without photos but that doesn't really bother me as what I did is still documented!

That's it for now, I'll be back with the rest of it soon!

Thanks for getting to the end!! xx

12 of 2012

I've always want to do my favourite layouts of the year post at the beginning of the new year but I never get around to it but I have now!! Most people do a  top 10 but I've done 12 for 2012! Here they are:

Hope you enjoyed looking at them! Which one's your favourite? xx

New Beginnings

Happy New Year!!  Hope you all had a lovely Christmas and 2013 is a great year for you! I know I've been a bad blogger, there's lots I've got to catch up on! 

I will start with the first Challenge of the year that is now up at The Studio. Today we were challenged to make a layout about new beginnings. I used a photo I took on New Years Day and the challenge is about being excited about the year to come as I have got, not one but two nieces/nephews on the way within weeks of each other! I can't wait!

If you enter this month challenges at The studio you can win some great goodies from You Do a Swedish scrapbook company.

I will be back with my Christmas journal, I'm so bad I haven't even photographed it yet but I will! And I might do my favourite 10 layouts of the year as I've always wanted to do that so come back soon!!
Thanks for stopping by! xx

The Start of Christmas!

Today at The Studio we had another great sketch to create from. To see the sketch and the rest of the DT creations go here. Here's my page:

I thought it looked just like a big present so I used a photo of my nephew opening his presents last Christmas. I stayed quite close to the sketch.

I was meant to be back with my Christmas journal prep earlier than this but I don't know where the time is going to be honest! 

Anyway here are a few of the foundation pages, I've made it the same size (8'' x  5'') as last years as I loved last years so much and it seemed to work for me. If you would like to see my last years album it's here. Here is this years:

I have used the lovely papers from Carta Bella, I really love them! Sorry but it hasn't got a front cover yet!!! I have started filling it but I'll be back with that in another post!

Thanks for looking!

Back soon! xx

Layers

This weeks challenge at the Studio was to use layers on your layout. It wasn't hard as I like using layers! First of all I printed rings with paint using none other than an empty toilet roll!! I then layered some stamping on the top and added my layers of papers and shapes on top of that! 

The photo is of my nephew with his face printed as a scary monster at his birthday party! I took the colours from it to use in my layout.

I'm quite behind with my Christmas journal as I've been so busy but I will catch up now it's a bit quieter and be back with it soon, promise!!

Thanks for looking! xx

Pass the Parcel

Ooo it's been a bit quiet in here! I haven't had a printer to print photos lately so there hasn't been much scrapping happening and I've been super busy! I got my new printer up and running on Friday so I just managed to join in with Sunday's The Studio's sketch challenge! 

Valerie created a great sketch again (see it here), so it wasn't hard to make this layout the only real difference I made was to change the tags for parcels to go with my photo of my nephew's Birthday party and a game of Pass the parcel!

I really enjoyed making this, I've missed creating! I love my new printer, prints great photos so hopefully more scrapping to come! I've also been creating lots of other stuff so I'll be back to show you some of that soon!

Also been thinking about my Christmas journal, I will be making one again this year I loved last years so it will be difficult to bet it, but I'll try! I need to get on with!!

Thanks for stopping by! xx