Sister Selfie

I'm back after a break from blogging, no excuses as I have got things to share!

 Todays challenge over at The Studio is all about Selfies as there seems to be quite a craze about them at the moment. 

The challenge fits perfectly with a photo from my trip to Spain a few weeks ago, I was getting my sister into taking selfies of us and this was my attempt to show her how its was done! We had a great time trying to take them and I think I've got her hooked!

I went with lovely bright tropical colours to go with the sunny photo, I used some sequin waste as a mask for the pink paint and some yellow mist for the drops around.

Make sure you check out The Studio blog for the rest of the DTs takes as there's lots of inspiration from them.

I'm sure this is the first of any layouts from our brilliant trip to Spain and I'm thinking about making some kind of travel journal from it too, Ill have to have a look and see what I come up with!

Back soon!xx

Numbers

I'm struggling to find the time to blog at the moment its not that I haven't got things to show you! 

Anyway must show you this, a week last Sunday at The Studio it was all about numbers as its a year of big Birthdays in my family and three of have fallen in this month, including mine! The challenge happened to fall on my nephews first Birthday so my layout is about the day he was born a year ago. 

I used my numbers for his date of birth and weight, its a great challenge for using up those number Thickers that seem to hang around! I love how this layout turned out, it will make a great first page of my nephew scrapbook.

I'm late adding this layout as I was really poorly with such a nasty cold and didn't have a voice for a whole week but thankfully it finally seems to be better now!

As we are talking about numbers, this is the Birthday card I made my nephew on a similar theme to my layout!

 And this is the card I made my brother in law, I went a bit paint and ink crazy with a mixed media background!

Got to got now as I'm off to sunny Seville in Spain for 4 days with my sister as a Birthday treat later today, which is very exciting, I must finish packing!!

xx 

Snug as a Bug

I'm a bit late posting this one, but its been a busy time as it was my Birthday and I had a lot of celebrating to do!! Anyway there lots to tell so more on that another time!

We went all sketchy again over at The Studio on Sunday as it was time for another sketch challenge! Valerie created another lovely sketch, pop over to The Studio to take a look. I kept quite close to the sketch as the design went well with this photo of my nephew all wrapped up!

I punched out lots of different circle and distressed and inked them to make them stand out. I also distressed and inked the edge of the white background too.

I then added some ink drops and wooden stars to add a bit more interest.
There is lots of inspiration from my design team as always and if you join in with one of our 3 March challenges by 13th April you could be our guest designer!

Thanks for stopping by! xx

Little Mouse

There's a new challenge and a new look over at The Studio today! I thought it was time for a fresh look over there so I've been busy designing graphics! Today challenge was M for March so you can scrap anything starting with M. It just so happened I was starting to scrap this layout and thought hang up it starts with an M so it had to be for this challenge!

This little mouse was a visitor to our garden in the autumn and he didn't mind me getting quote close to him to take a nice photo of him, he was very cute and so tiny!
I went with a messy look layout for the background I used lots of paint, ink and stamps and then I layered bits and pieces around the photo.

If you join in with us at The Studio this month you can be in with a chance to be our guest designer for a month. There are 3 challenges in March so you have extra time, until 13th April to join in.

Back Soon xx

Up Lifting!

Todays challenge at The Studio Challenges was to scraplift yourself. The layout has to be one you made at least a year ago. 

I had a hard time deciding which one of my layouts to lift! I went with this one from 2011 in the end.

And this is my scraplift of it!

I went with completely different colours so it would look different to the original and my photos were the other way round too but you can still really see the design from it.
The photos were taken in our local park a couple of weeks ago, it was covered with crocuses and under every tree where was a carpet of them and they were all in full bloom, so pretty!
Go and check all the DTs lifts they are really good to see and you get two layouts for the price of one for inspiration!!

Thanks for looking! Xx

Christmas Journal 2013 - Part 2

Heres the second and final part of my Christmas journal!

I loved making this page, I didn't have a photo of the carols we went to as I forgot my camera so I had to come up with something clever! I drew the people or carol singers and then painted them.

Power cut

The Christmas lights were out and I was looking after !my nephew so I couldn't resist wrapping them around him!

My Christmas makes, I ended up making about 20 of these personalised Santa decorations.

One very proud nephew with his first swimming certificate!

Another Christmas make, I was asked to make Duck from Sarah and Duck the cartoon with no pattern or everything to go by j,ust photos from the internet!

Sunday lunch with family

We went to Bristol cathedral for their carol concert it was amazing so Christmassy with some wonderful singing!

I got to spend Christmas eve and Christmas day with 2 of my nephews which was great! Here's Rowan getting ready for Father Christmas!

Christmas day!

Boxing day or christmas day mark 2 with the other part my family!

I put together quite a few pages here as I came down with a really nasty bug, I was SO ill, I even fainted with it so I didn't move for about 2 weeks, I can't tell you how many films I watched!!

So as you can imagine, my new years eve was spent sat in front of the telly with a glass of water, it was rocking!!!

Sum up page

 Back cover

That's it all finished! Hope you got to the end and enjoyed seeing it! Xx

Blossom

There's a new challenge over at The Studio Challenges today. Its a colour challenge that Stephanie picked for us and the colours just so happen to be some of my favourites! As a little twist we had to create a love layout with them.

Ever since we took my nephew hunting for painted Gromit figures in Bristol I loved them and wanted  to own a little one! I decided I must have this lovely colourful called Blossom, they are quite hard to get hold and I had been waiting to get this one! I found out at the being of December when they were going on sale on the website so I waited for the exact minute they went on to grab myself one as an early Christmas present to myself and I got it! I can't tell how much I love it!
 So when I saw this challenge, it had to be a page about Blossom, the colours matched perfectly!

We are sponsored this month at The Studio by AbsoluteSCRAP which is a UK based scrapbooking shop and they have kindly  offered a £12.50 voucher to use in their shop to one lucky winner! Go and check out the challenge and get scrapping!

Back soon, thanks for looking! xx