*Kirsty's Wednesday night crop challenge*

Hi you lovely lot, I know you are all probably huge Kirsty Wiseman fans like me, but have you ever taken part in one of her 'Wednesday night live scrap and chat crop night things? well I hadn't until last night and let me tell you it was intense! more intense than the Masterchef final (in a good way that is)

Once a fortnight on a wednesday, at 8pm, Kirsty goes live on Ustream (find the link through the Facebook group page here) where she creates a layout based on the chosen sketch! Those watching can have a little chat before we start our pages and upload them before 10pm! It was close I can tell you!

Anyway here is my page based on the lovely sketch which you can find on Kirsty's amazing blog

So much fun I can tell you so will absolutely completely be doing it again!

Are you all getting excited about the Royal Wedding tomorrow? I cant wait, I have made mini bunting and will be making smoked salmon and cream cheese sandwiches and drinking yummy Bucks Fizz! Have a great day xxx

*The Easter Sketch*

I hope that you all had a fab Easter and received some wonderful chocolate eggs! We certainly did and I am sure that they will last all of a week! I love chocolate.

Every Easter sunday, we go over to my Grandmas for lunch and an egg hunt for the kids! Grandad hid 18 small eggs this year (2 up from last year I think) and its always a great time, especially when Grandad can't remember where he hid some of the difficult ones. But all were found in the end.

Here are the pics to prove it, and the LO is based from Shimelle's SOTW which also has an easter theme to it this week!

I'm totally loving clusters of embellies right now...
I used small rectangle photos instead of Shimelle's square ones...
Enjoy eating all the yummy chocolate eggs x

*Another day another layout*

Hi guy's this is just a quickie post to share with you my page for Shimelle's SOTW which you can find here

I turned the sketch around so that I could use this cute landscape photo that I have been saving up for ages!A little lace trim and some punched stars...
BTW: Ellie is Taye's fav soft elephant toy

February Documented!

So this is a little of what my February looked like for my Document 2011 album! I made this LO for a Pencil Lines weekly sketch (find my full post here) but thought that it would also work for Feb's focus page too! So here it is...

I just love a grey/pink combo x
This is one side of the divided page, I have used some landscape ones from American Crafts and have found them a little bit easier than using the portrait ones like I did for Jan! but still much prefer the classic 12x12 size x
And this is the other side

This is my collected page, which holds various bits and pieces saved up over the month x
Thanks for looking, now I must catch up and finish my March pages x

*Finally some scrapping to share*

Yes I am still here, and actually have a few LO's to share with you all which is always a bonus! So here is my first page, based on this sketch for Shimelle's 4x6 Photo Love March Challenge! I think that 4x6 is my favourite size to scrap with, although I am very excited to get some of my Hipstamatic photos printed from Photobox! (using this fab tutorial)

This months challenge is to use 3 photos and 3 borders! I have kept my photo's portrait but may use this sketch again using landscape ones!
So this next layout, is another Shimelle inspired page (SOTW) based on this sketch x I have kept this page quite simple and I actually like it how it is, I also really love with the natural tone colours on this page, using some American Crafts and Echo Park papers, classic Bazzill cardstock and Prima flowers!
Used a few more Lullaby Thickers from AC of course...
note: I promise to share with you my February pages for my Document 2011 next week!!!

*Riding the Bumper Cars*

Happy weekend scrapping everyone, I have been trying to finish of some projects this weekend (one being Feb's Document 2011), but I will hopefully share them with you later in the week!

I was totally inspired by Shimelle's landscape sketch this week so created this page. I love landscape sized photos but rarely would put two together on a page, so this sketch was just perfect!

We all went to the fair last weekend, and Taye completely loved going on the bumper cars with my dad! He didn't even mind when he bumped his head, he just wanted the car to go faster!
Happy Sunday x

*My little Birthday boy*

Hi my lovelies, sorry about the irregularity of my posting! I'll work on that I promise. So this Lo was based on the fab sketch for Sarah's Cards March challenge which you can find here

I think that this is my first layout that I have done using one of their sketches but the chance for a £10 e-voucher to spend in the shop is amazing, as I have my eye on quite a lot of the new products from CHA x

These pictures were taken in the morning of Taye's birthday.

Martha Stewart butterfly punch, of course, with a 7Gypsies journaling tag

Thanks for stopping by x

Shimelle's Sketch

Hi my lovelies. Just wanted to share this LO with you, based on this sketch from Shimelle. I was really inspired by these My Minds Eye 'Quite Contrary' papers and thought that I would use them with these pictures of Taye playing with my dads old scalectric set (have I spelled that right?)

Used a cute grand adhesion sticker from K&Co

Sorry, this picture isn't very clear, but didn't have much time to take photos with my proper camera. The little owl was cut from some cute wrapping paper and the letter stickers are.. um.. Thickers of course...
Also wanted to show you this card that I made for a commission. It was for a man who has just got a job in a big computer company! Quite like how it turned out actually x
anyway, see you soon

*Taye is 4*

Wow, what a busy weekend! Taye turned 4 yesterday! Really don't know where that time has gone. He had his party at an indoor play centre with his friends from Pre-School yesterday and had another friend party that he went to on Saturday.

He had so many wonderful presents that he was still opening them this morning. Now I just have to work out where to put everything. x

Mum made 2 Octonauts cakes, one for the party and another for home x
And on another note, here are a few cards I made before the weekend. I really want to start making more cards again.

Sketch 227

This baby photo of Taye has been sitting on my desk, waiting to be scrapped for ages, so when I saw this sketch over at Pencil Lines, I knew it would be perfect!

I love how pink and podgey he looked at only 2 days old (I think.)

One of the night nurses in the hospital looked after him so that I could rest, when I woke up I noticed that she had given him this little hat, and I thought that he looked like a little smurf! Cute x

*A sketch to share*

Hello my lovelies, just a quickie to share with you my LO for Shimelle's SOTW which you can see here. I took these pics on my iPhone so please excuse the focus and pretend that the cardstock is a bright sunshine yellow (which it is I promise) This is a really fun layout, that I have been lovingly working on it for a few nights.

These (Bright Red) Mickey Mouse sequins were found in some packaging from the Disney store x cute x
Used a mix of Black foam and glitter Thickers! Don't think I have ever used so many on one page before! It hurt a little if I'm honest! lol
Thanks for looking x

Taye's new school

Taye's pre-school has recently had a bit of a refurbishment so I took this pic when I picked him up earlier x



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