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

A Little Card For Linda.

Just a very quick fly through tonight....just wanted to share a little round easel card. I made this and sent to my friend Linda.
I used the largest round scalloped nestie in the set I have and the next size down to cut the inner circle.

The butterflies were punched from some old Scenic Route scraps that I had squirrelled away and after glittering the blossoms and poppinf brads in the centre and adding some pearls to the card I sprayed the whole thing with some Spray and Sparkle Iridescent glitter spray.

Good luck in your new adventure Linda :), I hope its perfect for you..xx

Cousins, conkers and layouts!

Good evening :). i hope you are having a lovely weekend so far? We have been out shoe shopping for both of the girls today, they both needed new school shoes........already!!! Gosh, we have only just gone back to schhol it seems and they have both worn through their shoes....kids eh!!!!
Anyway, I have a couple of layouts to share.
The first one is using some older Scenic Route papers( yummy!) a little bit of Basic Grey, lots of brads, some AC thickers, a blossom, buttons and a butterfly cut and embossed with my sidekick. I punched some holes and threaded raffia around the edge of the layout and drybrushed cream acrylic paint all around the edge of the layout.

A couple of close ups to show the layers and all the brads and bits and bobs.

This layout uses papers from My Little Shoebox and is all about a 2 storey house we bought for Lauren when she was small and it lives at the end of our garden( I just love the little bay window!)

A little close up....love that cheeky grin lauren!!

A couple of weekends ago I took Lauren, Chloe and 2 of their cousins out for a couple or so hours. We went to a couple of playgrounds and the pond. At the first playground there were some Horse Chestnut trees and the kids all went round cracking open the conker shells and built up a little stash pile.

Oliver was fascinated by the teeny, tiny, little brown conker case that was growing out the top of the other one.



Proud of their haul of conkers ( even though some were still on the creamy side so not really ready yet.)



Just *TYRED* of hanging around......( yeah...I know...pitiful joke lol)


Ooooh yummy mini muffins! Can you spot who didn't get one....he!he!he! ( no children were hurt or intentioanlly upset in the making of this blog post!)


Right, just off to get ready to go and see the town fireworks and procession....enjoy your evening whatever you are up to.
Warmest wishes Anita..xxxxx

Flutterby Wishes...

Hello there :)....I hope you are having a great weekend so far? Well, better than I have been having anyway LOL. It started last night....after spending the whole day sorting out stuff for a garden sale and totally shifting all the furniture round in the lounge( and hurting my blinking back!!) I then went on to accidently flood a fair portion of our kitchen :(. I started to run the water in the sink for the washing up and popped in the lounge....then I got side tracked.......ooooops!

A little while later I walked back into the kitchen......to see water and bubbles streaming out from the cupboards under the sink...all across the worktops and dripping down through each set of drawers....and all across the carpet :( :(....!"!??!*!!

....and so BEGAN THE MASS EXODUS OF ALL ITEMS FROM SAID CUPBOARDS!!!!!!
Today the carpet is still sodden....BUT the cupboards are nice and shiny inside....NOT impressed and very angry with myself....Ho!Hum!!!! And it was wet and horrid this morning so no garden sale either.....and now the nicely shifted round lounge is full of boxes and bags of *stuff*....so maybe we will try tomorrow....weather permitting.

Anyway, enough of soggy things....I thought I would share a card I made the other day with some left overs from a layout. Its bits and scraps of Scenic Route, some bazzill, a prima blossom, some bling and some lush lime lace from my lovely blogging friend Sarah ( thanks Hun :) )

The flutterbys are double layed and punched from cardstock and a layer of vellum, their bodies are made from wire and beads and the left over wire is twirled to make the antennae.

DON'T FORGET YOU STILL HAVE TIME TO GET YOUR ENTRY IN FOR THIS MONTHS CHALLENGE OVER AT SCRAPOLOGY......AND THERE IS A FABULOUS PRIZE KINDLY DONATED BY JILL AT CARDINAL COLOURS......GO ON...YOU KNOW YOU WANT TOO!!!!

Summer Sunshine.....

Hello there..... due to the lack of proper summer sunshine over the last few days here I thought I should post this layout that I made a few weeks ago. The photo was taken on a family holiday a few years ago at Tenby, what a beautiful place that is, one day we would love to return there.

I have used Scenic Route papers from the Grafton collection from Papermaze and based it onto a sheet of bazill. Then all I had to do was a little tearing, inking, scrunching and rolling.

And finish the page off with a few buttons, Junkitz photo anchorz ( Cardinal Colours ) crystals, Prima blossoms, paper cherry blossom, punched butterflies and a decorative pin that I added beads too

....oh yes...and some Doodlebug alpha stickers that I had left over on a sheet.

Ahhhhh.....to be back in Tenby now....I wish!

Have a lovely day...

Warmest Wishes Anita..xxxx

And we are off!.......

Today sees the launch of the Scrapology blog and we hope you will pop along and see what we are about...and hopefully decide to join in :)
I am thrilled to say that Lynn chose one of my layouts for the first months inspiration, which is 'A is for Aperture.' This is the original layout I created here



and this is my scraplift version of it. It did feel a little odd lifting my own page and I decided to put a different spin on it by using semi-circles instead of starbust points and also by using one oversized photo and interlinking it with a second smaller one.....


I used some older stash which was quite good fun and it got me rummaging through my boxes and discovering some good old favourites( scenic route) that I think will be appearing over the coming months ( I am sure we are guilty of having a small stash mountain, you know the kind...filled with papers that we just HAD to have at the time and then didn't use!)
I coloured some clear crystal swirls using my Promarkers to achieve the colour I wanted and also added some Prima blooms and E-line Pearls.

The Starburts are so easy to make and can be made in ANY size, to start with all you need to do is choose your photo and find something to either draw round, or if you have a compass use that.... and then decide what portion of the photo you want to see through the aperture. Its best if you use double sided paper or you can use cardstock ( otherwise when you peel back the points you will get plain white showing if you use just single sided paper
)
Once the size aperture is chosen you need to decide where on your layout you want them to appear, remembering that once you cut and peel back you need to have allowed space for the turnovers.

Take your circle and divide it into a pie shape with 8 sections....

then simply slice the lines and peel back the sections....









and pop your photo behind.


And that's it! We would simply LOVE to see your take on this theme.You can link to your blog, or email us with your LO.
Details on the blog --- Scrapology --- come and check us out.

thanks for taking the time to look

warmest wishes Anita.xx

A Good Luck Wish

We are very proud of both our girls and always will be and at the moment Lauren (14) is working extra hard at school and is in a group called Pathway One. This means she is taking her GCSE's a whole year early. Just over a week ago now she sat her first exam ( isn't the first one always the worst!)




Anyway, I thought I would make her a good luck card using one of the fairly new Magnolia images. Luaren likes vintagey colours and style quite a bit so I tried to replicate that in the card. The paper is Scenic Route and the narrow cream lace is authentic vintage lace
I have to admit I so enjoyed making this card for her and was pleased with the result....and more to the point she loved it too.
Good Luck with the rest of your exams Sweetheart.xxx

A little Lovin'

hello anyone who reads this lol...sorry not been about for a few days
( although I am sure no one missed me lol). i thought I would share this layout that I have recently made, its sort of a half pressie and half comp entry :)
Jill at Cardinal Colours
has been running a competition on the theme of luuuurve! It could be a love for anything you like and I just knew what my obvious choice was ( also I didn't have a photo handy of Creme eggs so couldn't do that option anyway....mwahahahahaaaaaa!!!)I based the whole page on a 12 x 12 transparency which I stamped swirls onto with white and black Staz-on. I then used a mix of papers inc Scenic Route, Making Memories and KI Memories. The lasercut panel at the top is the white backside of a turqouise sheet and I inked it red and then dragged an orange ink over it. I then just used a mix of various alphas for the title.

I stamped the black flowers with some white stazon then punched a retro daisy and punched the edges of each petal with my doily lace punch.

The wording is....The Greatest Love Of All....is The One I Share With You......


says it all really eh :)

Flipping Frosty....and a scraplift!

Evening all :). Hope you have all had a lovely, if not chilly day? This morning I eventually got home from work a fair bit later than normal, this being down to the ice that had reformed on the car just in the time I had been at work...oh yes and some berk thought it would be funny to pour water over the windscreens of the cars parked in the car park that early. Obviously this meant that not only was there really heavy frost, but thick skin of ice too! I just hope that the fleas of a thousand camels come along and infest his armpits!

Anyway, when I got home I shot in the kitchen to warmup with a cuppa and looked out the kitchen window towards Pevensey and the coast( which is a few miles away) and this was the view, it was very pretty.

I took Chloe to school and when I came back popped into the garden to look at the frost covering. I thought this leaf was rather fascinating, just look at the long strands of frost on it, they were quite amazing in their perfect formation, just like little sticks of frost.

I also liked this peice of log we have with ivy on in the back garden.

I also finished a 'lift' of the page I made the other day on the transparency. This one is basically identical, except for the colours and the fact that I made the flowers( lollipop style) instead of having ones to cut out from the patterned paper. See I did the tombola border Sy ;) lol.x

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A card for Holly...........and

another layout!






Yep, I have been busy again today lol. I made this card for my niece Holly, she will be 6 tomorrow, I used some of my christmas pressies from my best friend, Sue :). Yep, I christened my Ice Stickles AND opened a pack of Thickers....how extravagent is that!!! LOL. Hope Holly likes her card.





I also used up the scraps from the layout I made yesterday and made another layout today. I used the large die cut shape that I cut from the original paper yesterday before fixing it to the acetate, so that was perfect for the base of todays layout. I also used the little word strip that was left and cut out a few more flowers from the other paper sheet. So basically all I needed to add was a sheet of bazzill bling, some lace, some prima blossoms and crystal swirls and a tag....oh yes and some thickers and some MLSB alpha stickers. I just love these papers soooo much. The photo was taken when Chloe was only about 45 mins old, having her first cuddle with her Nanna.

































Tomorrow is Holly's birthday party so I am not sure if I will be crafting or not, still at least we have taken down all the decorations today so I won't have that job( or the foil chains!!!) hanging over me.

And on the 1st day.....she created......

a card!!! AND and layout!!! Yes, I have actually scrapped! I can't believe it, its been ages since I created a layout..... and I have done nearly 2! There must be something in the air lol.

This is a card I made out of a few scraps I had in a bag ( please excuse the fact that one of the butterfly's antennnae is tucked inside the card...ooops!) Its a Thank You card that we are going to send to a friend of mine who kindly sent the girls some money for Christmas.

This layout ( and the one I still need to finish) were made using 3 sheets of Scenic Route paper, I LOVE Scenic Route and am totally and utterly gutted that they are no more, such a shame and a real loss to the scrapping world. Its based on a 12 x 12 sheet of acetate and with the papers being double sided too it seems to go further.

I love this photo of my 2 girlies when they were younger, sooo cheeky and cute. Those were the days when they were happy to have a hug and be nice to each other lol, those were the days eh!

Hopefully I will get chance to use the left overs and finish the other layout....watch this space!

I hope you have all had a lovely New Years Day....have you done anything special?..xxx

Sunday catch up.........

I didn't get chance to upload my photos yesterday, so thought i would today.

The first one is of a card I made on friday and just needed to finish by adding a pearl pin and a silver charm

Yesterday we had our monthly crop at Jills ( Cardinal Colours) and as always it was a fabulous day out with some very lovely company. Most of us were cardmaking yesterday and I was lucky enough to have a chance to try out some Promarkers and some Copics ( thank you so much Lynn and Linda, you are gems.) I have to say I got on better with the Promarkers, although the stunning array of colours that Linda had in her huuuuuge set of Copics had me feeling like a kid in a candy shop!

Here is a card I made yesterday using Lynn's Promarkers and a lovely Tilda image that Karen very kindly gave me in a huge envelope filled with stamped images ( thank you so much Karen, you are so kind).

I thoroughly enjoyed making this card and am looking forwards to finding some time this week to make some more.

We were celebrating Linda's birthday this month and Lynn bought along a beautiful display of yummy cupcakes that she had made and put on display in a gorgeous cake stand.

I made a Raspberryoffee Pie, its the exact same recipe as a Bannoffee but you substitute with Raspberries instead.

One tip I would give, if you decide to try it yourself, is to use frozen rasps, its so much harder trying to spread caramel and then the cream over them if they are fresh and soggy, the frozen ones are still full of flavour and sit nicely behaving themselves whilst you do the rest of the pie. I also use the Nestle ready to pour Caramel, its soooo much easier than faffing about boiling a tin of condensed milk for goodness knows how long. T o finish the pie off after topping it with whipped up double cream, I crumble up a Cadburys Flake and crumble across the top. Yummy!