Happy Birthday our beautiful girl xx

Well Monday saw our youngest girly Chloe, celebrate her 14th Birthday.....where DID that time go??? Anyway whilst I was on a fabulous crafting long weekend away with some super talented and lovely friends I made my little lady an 8" x 8" birthday card.....and I am glad to say she loves it :)

Lots of sparkles and glitter and bling..... a Hobby house topper in an adorable design...

......and blossoms and beautiful die cuts ( Thanks Linda)

Happy Birthday Gorgeous Girly....please PLEASE don't grow up too fast! Love you baby girl xxx

U.....Use up your stash....March at Scrapology.

We were lucky enough this month over at Scrapology to lift a wonderful page by our gorgeous DT Member Sandra Dry We were challenged to Use up our stash, so i broke out some really REALLY old stash from my boxes, it's Scenic Route 'Sonoma' and its a good few years old now LOL!It was one of my very favourites of theirs and I still feel sad that they shut down as a company....a sad loss to the scrapping world to be sure!

The photo of my lovely little family was taken whilst on holiday in Buckinghamshire back in 2011, when we visited Clivedon National Trust , its a really lovely place to visit if you are in the area.

I just cut out and layered lots of the flowers and popped on a a few half pearls and crystals, folded some edges back and added lace to finish the page.

Here is Sandra's beautiful, original page that totally inspired us....

and here is the sketch we followed and would like you to also if you choose to play along.

If you pop over to the Scrapology Blog you can see the rest of the DT's beautiful work and also the fabby prize up for offer....we would love to have you play along with us......so go get your stash out and get sticking!!
                 Warmest wishes....Anita xxx

X is for (e)Xplosion.....Feb challenge at Scrapology

My goodness.....February already!!! So here we are with another super challenge from the DT over at Scrapology! This month we have lifted a fabulous and fun layout by Corrie Jones, whose blog you can visit here!
So....the challenge is to create an explosion of embellishments.....it can be any kind of embellishments you like .....I chose sequins, crystals, glitter domes and wood veneer hearts.
I scrapped 3 pics of my eldest gorgeous girly at her prom ( I shall still add some journalling at some point)

I inked and painted through a mask to create the background behind the photos and coloured in a beautiful stamped image by Saturated Canary using Promarkers and added Stickles and Liquid Pearls and then just added a splattering of embellies and finished with a title od AC Thickers ( in my fave colour lol)

Here is Corrie's original and inspiring layout that we lifted...

and here is the sketch that our lovely Lynn created for following .

So....there you go....a fun new challenge to join in with and if you visit the Scrapology blog you can see all the beautiful and varied DT examples....plus see the lovely prize up for offer this month.....what are you waiting for????? Go *explode* everywhere :D

You've been Framed!....Curiosity from Kaisercraft

I thought I would post some pics of a couple of frames that I made late last year. I took some fairly plain, white frames( they were house/beach hut shaped) and used papers from the stunning Kaisercraft range called 'Curiosity'....they really ARE gorgeous!

I really did enjoy creating these frames and love that they are both really different but that they compliment each other nicely where they are now on display at home here..

Have a lovely day....Warmest wishes Anita xxx

a little sneak for Feb......if there is anybody there.......

Helllooooooo *echoes*....is there anybody there????? here is a little sneak for the Feb challenge over at Scrapology....the full reveal of all the DT work will be on Feb 1st....and we would love to have you visit the team blog and join in the challenge :)

is there anyone out there floating by my little blog at all these days? I often think I am just talking to myself lol xxx

Two Hearts.......Scrapology January Challenge.

Happy New Year to you :) And what a fab way to kick off the new year...... with a super new challenge from Scrapology This month the DT have been challenged to create layouts using Badges ( button badges) after being totally inspired by a fab layout by Michelle, you can find her blog here http://momma-paparazzi.blogspot.com/
Here is my DT offering....in my favourite colours of course LOL!

I used various papers, texture paste and a mask, acrylic paint, wooden hearts, bling, blossoms, stickers....and of course a couple of button badges.

I really REALLY enjoyed making this page and hope you would like to enter the challenge. If you pop over to Scrapology you can see my fellow teamies DT stunning creations.....such talent and such lovely ladies xx
This is Michelle's original layout that inspired us.

And here is our lovely Lynn's sketch for you to go by.

So....there you go. If you would like to play along and be in the running for a wonderful prize, then pop over to the blog and please use the sketch as inspiration....good luck everyone xxx