The Studio - Lift Chain Blog Hop

Welcome to the next step of The Studio, Lift Chain blog hop! You should  have come here from The Studio's blog! 
Here's my lift of Amanda's layout:

I love Amanda's layout so I found it really inspiring. I didn't go too far off it, there is lots of great details in her layout that I had to include in mine, like the doodling and stitching. I really love the finished result! The feel to the layout went perfectly with a photo from my cousins wedding. 

We would love you to lift any of the layouts along the way, please link up your creations at the side bar of The Studio blog for a chance to win a great prize from chipboard company Tando 

Please hop on to Chantelle's blog for her lift of my layout.
Happy hopping!

Baby Blanket and Canvas

There has been two new additions to our family recently, two little boys within 3 1/2 weeks of each other, making me an aunty to 3 boys now!!

So as you can imagine it's been a bit busy with the babies and creating for them too! 

Thought it was about time I showed you some of the creations so I will start with a couple of things I made for my sisters baby.

First up is the crocheted baby buggy blanket I made for my sisters baby, we didn't know if it was a boy or girl so went with either colours!

My sister chose the colours and pattern, I loved this stitch, it was quick and easy and looks great!

I started it in February and just finished it a few days before my nephew arrived in the second week of April.

 Secondly my sister bought some fun material with dogs all over it for the nursery so I decided to copy it to make a canvas to go on the wall, as the walls are all white so this is what I came up with!

I drew the dogs on card as they are quite big on the material and I needed to fit more on and then I painted their coats on!

Back soon with more! xx

Giant Chair

Sunday's challenge at The Studio was all about stitching, use either hand or machine stitching on your layout. I like hand stitching on my layouts, but it can be a bit time consuming so I don't do it that often. For this layout I hand stitched two big circles in two different coloured threads and them built my layout on top of them.

The photo is of my nephew stood on a giant chair we found!

This month's sponsor is the chipboard company Tando, if you enter either of the the challenges by the end of the month, you could win a lovely prize from them!

Back soon! Xx

Magnificent

Today over on The Studio we have a great challenge that really gets you thinking, create a layout with only 5 things! One of the items has to be chipboard as we are sponsored by the lovely chipboard company Memory Maze. A sheet of patterned paper counts as one so does washi tape etc but you can have your cardstock, pen and stitching for free!

Some of the DT found it really hard but I found this quite easy as I'm more than happy with some patterned paper and a pair of scissors! Here's the layout I came up with:

In the end I only used 4!! Some white paint, a sheet of patterned paper, a chipboard frame and lovely glittery Thickers. I chose some patterned paper that I could cut out some flower designs from to form the embellishments on the page. It's also a nice way to used both sides of a sheet of PP on a layout.

I've been lacking on the blogging front lately as I've had 2 brand new nephews with weeks of each other so they are keeping me busy!

Thanks for looking! xx

Sunday Service

The title of my layout is very apt for today as it's Sunday and there's another challenge up on The Studio challenge blog! We had another sketch to play with today, I found this one a bit of a challenge as it was not my style but it's good to be pushed to do something different so this is what I came up with:

The layout is about when I was staying at my uncles holiday cottage in Devon, the cottage looks out on to a village green and one morning lots of people started gathering, we had no idea why so kept watching and then the vicar and a keyboard player turned up and they had a full church service on the green with hymns too!!

This months sponsor at The Studio is the chipboard company Memory Maze, they are offering a $20 voucher for the winner of the challenges. So if that sounds good to you make sure to join in for a chance to win!

Back soon! xx

Masks

Sunday's challenge at The Studio was about masks and stencils. I used a stencil for the background of my layout, I used green and blue paint on a sponge and it mixed itself a bit so it turned out quite a nice seaside colour which was nice as my layout is about something that happened on the beach! I also used another stencil to make the chevron shapes along the washi tape.

When we went on our family break away in February, we went to a great beach, it had lots of these balls of empty fish eggs. My sister also found a plank of wood so decided to play what she called 'fish brain cricket' with them!! It had to documented!

We have a great sponsor at The Studio this month which is the online shop Bellaboo so make sure you play along for a chance of winning a voucher!

Got more to show you so I'll be back shortly! 

Thanks for looking! xx

Whats in your pocket?

There's a new challenge up at The Studio today! This time we had a lovely colour pallet for inspiration. I've so busy creating lately that I am feeling a little bit uninspired, but luckily it came easy with this! I enjoyed making it and I'm even pleased with the results!!

When I went to my printer to print a photo to use, I found one of the cartridges was empty and it had to be the only one I didn't have! I did a quick order and waited! While waiting though I found this photo that I tried to scrap ages ago and never finished it, which is not like me! The colours in the photo worked great for the challenge though so it was meant to be!

The photo is of my nephew from a couple of years ago with his hand in his pocket, I had to scrap about when he used to love having things in his pocket and you never knew what's he was going to pull out! It could of been string, stones, elastic bands or anything!

It feels good to of scrapped it and it's now not laying around on my desk anymore!

We are lucky to have Bellaboo, the online scrapbooking store sponsoring us this month at The Studio, if you enter the challenges you could win a £15 voucher to spend there! Go and take a look at the challenge!

Back soon! xx