Little Star

Last week over at The Studio we had the challenge to use stars in your layout. You may of noticed from following this blog that I use stars quite a lot as they are my favourite shape, so this was easy!!

I could this very cute photo of my nephew a few weeks ago and had to scrap it. He is a little star as he's always so happy!

I went for a bit of a mixed media background with red paint, stamps and doodling.

I'm quite pleased with how it turned out.

This month at The Studio we are sponsored by Fabscraps so if you join in with us you could win a great prize from them.

Thanks for looking! Back soon! xx

Christmas journal 2013

As its now December it means one thing and thats its Christmas journal time! I'm a bit late posting this! Here are some of my foundation pages of my Christmas journal 2013. This will be my fifth year, can't believe I've done it for so long.

I've gone for more of an art journal feel this year and I've been enjoying creating them, getting messy!

I've used lots of paint, stamps and paper bits! I've also done some good old fashioned drawing and painting!

Sorry about the poor photos!

These pages are slowing getting filled so I'll be back with some of those soon!

Thanks for looking xx

TicTacToe

Over at The Studio today we have a tic tac toe challenge for you! 

The design team each picked one thing to go in the grid. Pop over to The Studio to see the grid and all the other DT creations, all the layouts are so different, so much inspiration!

 I went for the middle line of the gird which was twine, buttons and triangles so I thought bunting was a must with triangles and twine and I love buttons so they are easy! I raised the bunting and the heart up to make them stand out.

The photo is of one of my two lovely nephews that was born in the spring. This is the title page of his scrapbook album, there will be many more baby boy layouts to come with two albums in the making! I feel a bit overwhelmed with the amount of photos I have to scrap of them both already!!!

Hope you're having a good weekend.
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Best Basket

Yesterdays challenge at The Studio was a Pinterest challenge. I found a lovely pin to inspire everyone. To see it pop over to The Studio! It was amazing how different all the DT layouts are by getting inspiration from the same photo! 

I was inspired by lots of things from the photo, the colours, sequins, gold swirls and the feathers. Heres my layout;

I started by using purple watercolour for my background and then spraying shimmer mist over it in places, I created gold swirls from gems, made my own feathers from paper and dotted sequins about!

The photo is of my best hanging basket from this year as it had my favourite colours in it and it looks good too!

Our sponsor at The Studio this month is Teresa Collins Stampmaker,

One lucky winner will get one set of stamps (size A6) of their own design. You could make one single size A6 stamp or several smaller that fits in that size.

The Studio is on Pinteres now too you can see all the DT layouts and sketches there!

Thanks for stopping by.

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Going Green

I don't know where the time has gone, can't seem to blog at the moment! Anyway thought I'd better update you with The Studio Challenges, two to catch up on!

I'll start with the most recent on, 13th October was to create a Monochromatic layout, we the DT, all tried to pick different colours, to show how each colour worked, I went with green! I really enjoyed making this one, I liked to fact I just had to pick out green papers and embellishments and couldn't get tempted by all the other colours!!! The greens worked perfectly with this photo I took on holiday in Spain of a lovely view.

This month's sponsor at The Studio Challenges is Teresa Collins Stampmaker.

Manufactured by Photocentrics whom also manufactures clear stamps.

The Stampmaker is the perfect tool if you like to design your own stamps.

One lucky winner will get one set of stamps (size A6) of their own design. You could make one single size A6 stamp or several smaller that fits in that size.

The Stampmaker tool is available all over the world. You can find it at Hobby Craft.

You can also order your own clear stamps at Photocentrics.

So its worth going to look at all the DT's takes on this challenge as theres extra inspiration with the new DT members and also joining in with the challenge so you could be in with a chance of winning this prize! I hope the see your enteries!

The next one that I didn't show you was 29th September we had to create a grid layout. This one also happens to be green!

I find grids are great for layouts with lots of photos so I used photos from a day out as I had quite a few nice shots to use, other than that I kept it quite simple. It has got a white border around too it but it doesn't show up on here!

I made my own journaling spot and fabric embellishment for it!

That's those caught up on, hopefully I'll be back with this Sunday's challenge a bit sooner!

Thanks for looking! Xx

Superhero Cakes

Not one but two superhero cakes that I've made recently! The first one was for my nephew's 5th Birthday in August was an Avengers cake. He told me which characters he wanted on it!

The second one I made yesterday for my nephew little friend's 4th Birthday, he wanted Spiderman and Batman cake so that's what I did for him!

Both were a lot of hard work just to be eaten!! I do love making them though and it was great to see my nephews face, he loved his!

Thanks for looking
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Wings

I know you really expecting to see my nephews cake but as usual of late I haven't got around to it as I'm really busy with work at the moment but I will upload it soon!

Anyway why I'm here today, it was time for another challenge as The Studio yesterday! This time we had a word to inspire us, the word was Wings. I went with the most beautiful wings there is a butterfly's! 

I love this photo I took of a Peacock butterfly in the garden a couple of weeks ago. I let the photo do most of the talking! A give it a black ground back so it would really stand out.

The title Peacock is also a bird, you see what I did there??!!

We are holding a DT call at The Studio at the moment, we are looking for more talented designer to add to the team. If you are interested see here, I would love to see you enter, you have until Sunday!

Thanks for looking.

Back soon!xx