The Stockings Were Hung........

Another Christmas layout....this time using Fancy Pants 'Saint Nick' papers.
I really liked the soft, almost distressed colours in this collection and scrapped an old photo of Lauren....taken at Christmas 1999. She was wearing a favourite dress that I loved her in, made from navy blue velvet dress with a lovely lace collar....she looked adorable.

I added a few buttons to the trees for decorations...which I bought from Cardinal Colours....an absolute bargain as a bag full is only 99p!!

Thanks for looking xx

First walk of the year...(photo heavy!!)

After having lots of illness in our house over Christmas holidays and all the bad weather too we hadn't had chance to go out for a nice stroll anywhere....so on Sunday we drove down to Hampden Park and walked around the lake, feeding the ducks, geese....and pesky seagulls!

 Check out this knarly seagull, he really thought he should have that bit of bread!

It was so nice to see the signs of new life emerging from underneath the crispy, dead leaves.

                                 Hmmm.......I wonder if this fella takes any notice of the signs???

These bull rushes reminded me of the one attempt I made at cooking on a barbeque....the sausages looked VERY much like that LOL!!!!

As it was Sunday I was planning a roast for dinner.......he!he!he! Roast potatoes anyone?? ;)

I found this tiny little fella down inside a rotting fence post....so delicate...yet strong at the same time.

                                                                         Muddy Toes!

Some Daddy Daughter time xx

                                                              Hmmmmmmm.........

                                                  One thing there was plenty of.....MUD!

In various places around the lake we came across trees that were decorated with all sorts of Christmas decs....some only had tinsel, some just ribbons and some with baubles too. One was even covered with cuddly toy santa's, Christmas bears, tinsel, baubles and angels.....each tree was remembering someone special who is no longer here....so sad and poignant...but pretty and special.

So that was our first little walk of 2013...hopefully there will be lots more....and I promise to try to not bore you with too many photos lol. xxx

You Are One Of A Kind - my canvas class at Cardinal Colours Autumn Retreat.

This is the large canvas class I taught back in the autumn at the Cardinal ColoursWeekend Crop. I used papers by My Minds Eye from their beautiful Sweetest Thing -Honey- Collection

( IT LOOKS REALLY MIS-SHAPEN ....BUT I PROMISE ITS ABSOLUTELY SQUARE!....lol)

I also added some large flat backed gems and some alpha stickers onto the kit. The canvas was a nice large one, 16 inches square!

I think the ladies that took the class enjoyed making it......hope so anyway :) xx

Completely inspired.....

by a layout I saw and saved sometime ago ( beautifully created by the awesome scrapper Delaina Burns).....I made these 2 layouts a while ago using Echo Park papers.
I completely fell in love the the double sewn frame. The first layout is of Dale and Lauren, taken on holiday in 2011 and on a day out to Cliveden, a National Trust property in Buckinghamshire.

This layout is also using Echo Park and the photo is of my Mum,
myself and my little Sister, several years ago LOL and taken on the side of the River Thames, probably whilst staying at my Auntie's on holiday. ( check out my pvc coat lol)

And this is the absolutely beautiful original layout that totally inspired me...gorgeous isn't it!

Santa Baby.....2009

I made this layout using Echo Park's 'Seasons Greetings' papers. And then I die cut some swirls and findings using some Sizzix Bigz dies by Tim Holtz.

I used some silver mirri board to cut the shapes and then dabbed with alcohol inks, using terracotta and the mettallic gold.
I then punched 3 large circles and 3 large squares, stuck the squares in the centre of the circles and folded the excess of the circles back over the edges of the squares.
I then repeated and punched  6 small of each. I finished them off by popping crystals in the centres.
The photo is a few years old and is of Chloe ( posing for a Christmas card photo lol) I used some gold glitter AC Thickers for the title. xx

Blog Candy over on Scrapology

Blog Candy over on Scrapology

Over on Scrapologyhttp://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/new-year-candy.html Lynn and Linda thought it was time to share a box of blog candy. As the weather outside is cold and miserable they thought they would select some warm colourful goodies for you.

The pizza box contains:
5 sheets Bazzill 12" x 12"
4 sheets Bo Bunny Beach Babe double sided 12" x 12" papers
5 different sized and shaped doilies
Pack of 2 canvases 5" x 7"
1 pack E Line Flowers mixed Vintage (30 blossoms)
1 pack Three Bugs in a Rug rub-ons - Girl
Hero Arts Sparkle Clear Stamps and Gems - Home
K & Company Rub -On Magic, Adhesive rub-ons with glitter
3 lengths Bakers Twine
10 paper roses
Selection of buttons
8 x 1m lengths of ribbon

Pop over to Scrapologyhttp://scrapology-adventuresinscrapbooking.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/new-year-candy.html to see how to take part.

We will draw the winner at Random if a few weeks time.

Good Luck!

Someone to love...is family. January Scrapology Challenge

Yay.....I have had a little visit from my vacant mojo fairy( she cleared off months ago :( ). So I made this layout for our January challenge over at Scrapology
The theme is T is for tags and we have lifted a fabby layout by Elaine Rolf.
I used up scrips and scraps of paper left overs from other layouts....some Bo Bunny Timepeice and some Simple Stories Generations, based on a sheet of Kraft Bazill.

I inked, spritzed, distress stickled, shimmer sprayed and stamped and made some fabric flowers. I used my SU doily stamps ( had them for some time and not yet used them!!) and I made the tags from some un-used Christmas gift tags and used the reverse of them

This month we are using tags on our layouts and following a sketch ( shown below) . We have been lucky enough to lift this lovely layout by Elaine Rolf , you can see more of her super work by clicking on her name and visiting her blog.

 

So why not pop over to Scrapology and see all the super layouts from the lovely DT girls and our guest member for this month.

We hope you will join in the fun and enter the challenge by creating a layout using the sketch and some Tags.

The challenge closes at midnight on 5th February 2013

Please create a new layout for this challenge - no back links will be accepted.

Prize available to UK residents only.

Looking forward to seeing what you all make - good luck.

 

Warmest Wishes

Anita xxx