12 Days, Project 1

Magnetic countdown calendar!

The first '12 days' project was to make a magnetic calendar. I used an old magnet that I cut into strips and covered in paper! It was a great first challenge so bring on the others. Enjoy

Loved using all my American Crafts thickers on one project. Can you tell how much I love them yet?

Colour Throwdown no:117

This is my first colour challenge, prompted by the colour throwdown blog. I love using Kraft right now so this was perfect.

I stamped a border along the bottom in an orange and layered up some K&Co and Prima flowers.

These were the colours to use.

And here is my take in the colours, I needed to make a Birthday card for a lady who loved flowers so I am happy that I could make a card from the project.

11.4 Sketchy Thursday

This weeks sketch was great, I used pictures taken from a recent birthday party that Taye went to for one of his friends. Luckily it didn't rain so the kids were able to play outside on a wooden play ship. They all dressed up as Pirates and hunted the chocolate treasure under the supervision of Captain Longjohn! Taye had so much fun, although he didn't like wearing his eye patch much.

Again I used my beloved thickers by American Crafts, I wasn't to sure of the sideways title, but it works on the page I think.

The cute little 3D stickers are from paperchase they have a great collection of little stickers and badges that can brighten up a page.

Pencil Lines 211

This is my first entry for the Pencil Lines sketch. I rarely use bright pink as I have a little boy and don't often scrap about myself, so I ravished at the opportunity to use this Bo Bunny cardstock! the design itself I found quite a challenge as it was different to the LO's that I would normally go for but was really happy with the result.

The letters are Chit Chat and Foam Thickers by American Crafts, which I absolutely love! I usually just look at them but have started to use them on my LO's! I recently found some in

TK MAXX and they were soooo cheap that I bought all I could find! Would never have looked in there!

Please enjoy and leave a comment if you like!

Sketchy Thursday 10.28

Here is this weeks layout for the sketchy thursday project 10.28. It's my first go at an online project and have really enjoyed it, so absolutely be doing it again soon.

The pictures are of a little port in Gran Canaria called Puerto de Morgan! It is nicknamed Little Venice, as it is a little piece of Italy on the island. The property prices there, were some of the highest of the whole Island. There were lots of great pictures to be taken, so i snapped away and was pleased with the results.

My Fashion Fix

OMG, I have just found these amazing heels on etsy and I think that they are absolutely fab! They would look great with a LBD or a pair of bright coloured tights and simple styling! I am 5ft 7 so these would make me so high but I am loving it. I love suede right now, and the platform keeps it from becoming a stiletto. Fab Fab Fab.

Buy them here and wear them to the Christmas party!

Tiger Taye!

This photo was taken on a trip to West Quay in the summer, They had a summer carnival event taking place and Taye tried on a giant tiger costume which was extremely heavy but so fun to see. He could barely hold it up so we had to help.

I love his little face peeking through the front, he looks sooooo cute. x

I'm Rubbish

I'ts true, i am truly rubbish at this blogging thing, but i am now going to start posting more often and take a lot more pictures! That also means that i will need to do some more crafting, but seeing as its Christmas soon (yay!) that won't be too hard. Just took a few pics of some cards i made or a friend ages ago but better late then never.



Hope you like.

75% complete

I have almost finished the mini book that I started at Shimelle's workshop at the S&C show. So thought that I would share some pictures with you. I wonder if Shimelle would want to see any of the books? I really enjoyed her class and hope that I am able to do more workshop's with amazing people.

My desk has been smothered with small butterfly punches that just seem to stick to everything. Even when I take off my socks, I find small butterflies on them!

Anyways hope you enjoy, I am grateful to any comments that any of you have.


love this one.

Minibook Marvel!

After being so excited about meeting Shimelle, the day had finally come. The minibook class at the Stitch & Craft show was AMAZING! i was quite nervous about what to expect but really shouldn't have been. Shimelle was a teaching pro and allowed us to use all of her amazing martha stewart punches! Which are fab by the way.
When the class had finished, i was literally shaking! it was my first ever class and it was held by THE Shimelle Laine, double wammy!
I have nearly finished the mini book which i have created to be all about the relationship between myself and Taye. (pics coming soon)
I cant wait to take more classes and meet all my fave scrappers!

Butterfly magic

I just want to share a few pics with you from a recent project I set myself. I wanted to create a paper version of the old Victorian butterfly collages. I cut out 9x large and 9x small butterflies and made the body's by threading beads on top.




Now i just need to figure out where to put it!

Shimelle's request

So Shimelle has asked for layouts for an exciting new project (that can't be revealed just yet) to her website here.

I am going to submit (when her email is working again) 2 layouts that i have recently made, both of Taye i may add!

Here is a little peek

After importing 565 images to iphoto, i have eventually discovered how to resize them with the help from picnik online. So easy and so FREE! love it.

Anyway i must now indulge in my guilty pleasure of Glee. x