1929 Hat

Good Morning! 

 I hope the sun is shining where you are, as it has lost it's way to Scotland again! 

 Never mind, it is not too cold and that makes a difference.

  

Now, it is time to show you my Facebook Elite Design Team 

inspiration on the Rick St Dennis Facebook page.

This is 1929 Hat by Rick, and she can be found here  1929 Hat

I would love to be able to wear hats, but I just look ridiculous in them.  I just don't have the face for it! LOL!! This lady, however, is beautiful.    I coloured her hat in my favourite colour, blue, and added a couple of purple feathers, along with the blue.  I tried a wee bit of sponging with pan pastels for the purple/pink background as a contrast.  I added the flowers, but they are not an exact match unfortunately. I added the little pearls to her hat and stole to finish.

I hope you like my bit of inspiration, and you hop on over

 to Zibbett, or Etsy to see some more of Rick's lovely images.

I would like to put this card in the following challenges.

Crafting from the heart challenge blog #106 Anything Goes
Creative Inspirations blogspot #248 Anything goes
 Create and Inspire Challenge Blog #43 Anything Goes

That's all for now, hope to see you again soon. xxx

Friends

Hello Everyone!  Happy April Fools' Day! Did anyone catch you out?  My husband manages to trick me every year, but this year I was ready for him!!  Poor thing looked quite sad when I rumbled his trick!  Bless him. 

It's a horrible day here, what we call 'Dreich'  in Scotland.  The word sums the day up perfectly.  Cold, grey and wet.

Never mind, it means more crafting can get done.  

Here is the sketch from Let's Scrap for 1st April

 

I just used the right hand side of the sketch for this one, and this is what I came up with.

I used more photos which were taken by Ruth Trotter, on the day we took Jackson to the bluebell woods.  Of course, Mum Ted had to come too.  I adore these photos of Jackson and his very best pal in the whole wide world!  I suppose we can tease him with these photos when he is older. LOL!!

I used the following craft supplies:-

Cardstock - Bazzill Basics

Papers - My Little Yellow Bicycle

Borders - K & Co.

Title - K & Co.

That's all for now, I am going to make some cards before my babysitting duties start again.

Take care and hope you can leave some love, it would make my day xxx

The lovely Lavish

Hello everyone!  It is a lovely sunny day here, 2 loads of washing out, house cleaned, Eric has been weeding garden, and I lost another 2lbs in weight!  All in all it is a pretty good day.  My  total weight loss is 8lbs now, so I am really chuffed with that.  

Anyhoo, time  to get on to the important stuff.  

This is the latest card I have made for the Rick St Dennis Elite Design Team

This lovely lady is Lavish and you can find her on Zibbett on that link.  

She does have sparkly bits all over her dress, 

but they don't show up very well in the photo.

I want to enter her in the following challenges:-

Crafting From the Heart Blogspot #105 - Anything Goes

Sparkles Monthly Challenge #78 Make it Girlie

Inspiration Destination #78 - Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage #60 - Anything Goes 

Wander

Hello again!  It's a very gloomy day here, so it is perfect for shutting myself in my craft room and doing some crafting!  I need to show you my DT layout for Let's Scrap.  Here is the sketch you need to use.

 I must confess, the diamonds had me stumped, I wasn't sure what to use for that part of the sketch.  I then found a sheet of green card,which had diamonds all over it.  It is Bazzill card, and I can't even remember buying it! oops!! Confession time lol!

I used very recent  photographs showing the twins on holiday in January of this year.  They all went for a camping trip up to Hot Water Beach in New Zealand.  Corinne took the most amazing photos, and I just had to scrap them.  Look out for more layouts using some of the rest! 

I used Blue Bazzill for the background.

Papers- Complete Boy My Mind's Eye 

Green Diamond Card - Bazzill

Chipboard embellishments - Bo Bunny

Title - K & Co

Buttons from stash

Before I go, I just have to show you this one.  Harrison thought

 the best part of his holiday was eating Smores beside the camp fire!   Yum!

Just look at his face!  Bliss! LOL!

I'll leave you on that happy note, lovely to see you here, and please 

leave me a wee message, it really makes my day. xx

With Love

This will be a short post today.  I needed to get up in the middle of the night to go to the loo, and I 

could hardly get out of bed as my back was so sore.   It has happened several times before, 

something to do with squashed discs at the bottom of my spine. 

So I am sitting here with hot water bottle at my lower back.  

Still in my jammies, as i can't move around to get my clothes on or off. 

So here we go

  This is my inspiration card on the  Rick St Dennis digi fans and friends facebook page

 Here is a wee close up for you.

This lovely image is called The Snow Queen.  You can find her on this Link here

I decided to steer away from Icy, Snowy colours, and I made her in green shades to welcome the Spring.

I used a die from tonic which I think is really beautiful and I think I will use it a lot.

I would like to emter this card in the following challenges:

Allsorts Challenge Blog #353 All Feminine

Crafting from the Heart Challenge Blog   #102 Anything Goes

Creative Craft Cottage   #59 Let's get Sentimental

That's all for now, off to get more painkillers.

Let's Scrap 1st March 2016

Hello again.  Woke up this morning to see snow on the ground.  It was a bit of a surprise!  Interesting though, as I am taking a photograph of my garden on the first of every month, with the intention of doing something "scrappy" with them. Forgot to do it yesterday, but remembered today.

Anyway, I digress--  It is time to show the layout for Let's Scrap Sketches  for 1st March.  

(or the 2nd in my case lol!!)

First the good news, I am still on the Design Team of Let's Scrap for a further 6 months - yee ha!!

Now to show you the sketch and the layout I made.

I only used the left hand side of the sketch.  I used some old photos form when Corinne was 5 and Marie was about 6 months.  This was when Marie was in plaster for her dislocated hips.  The photos are not good quality at all, but that's what happened in the good old days, you took a photo, and it was hit or miss if it was a good one!

I love Marie's chubby cheeks, but she hates them!  Poor Corinne, 

Marie had obviously had enough and was trying to get away!

If you lift the heart on the bottom photo, it lifts up and I am going to put some

personal journalling in there. 

I used papers from Little Yellow Bicycle called Love Letters

The title and wooden birds were from The Works (bargain at £1)

I used a tonic die to cut the square shapes.

That's all for now, thank you for stopping by!

See you soon !

Steampunk Sally

Hello again!   It is a cold miserable day here in my little corner of the world.  However, we have, up until today,  had 4 glorious days, when the sun shone all day.  It was so uplifting to see beautiful blue skies for a change.

Today I am showing my Elite Design Team inspiration piece for Rick St Dennis on Facebook

 

This is Steampunk Sally and you can find her here on Zibbett

I love Rick's Steampunk images, and she is a very striking lady I think. 

I tried to explain Steampunk to my friend Jane, and she just looked at me blankly

 and said "right" very slowly.  She just didn't understand! 

Never mind, I know my 'arty' friends know what it is. LOL! 

I  have started a diet to lose weight.  I have signed up with Scottish Slimmers, and I have lost 5lbs over 2 weeks.  I am really pleased with that, as I am eating normal things and I do not feel deprived in the slightest.  My target is to lost 2 stone, so wish me luck.  I'll keep you updated.

Okay, time for more colouring I think.

Please leave a little message if you have been for a visit, it really makes my day xx