New Scrapbook Layout

Done to complement the layout of my Nan & myself (blogged Nov 08), this layout is my Maternal Grandparents & myself.




Again I used very simple hand journalling. I used one of my new stamps & white ink to subtly pattern the darker plainer paper.



Still wanting to add 'something' .............................. will live with it & decide at a later date what that 'something' is :-) Suggestions welcome :-)

Susan came to play.....

Susan came to play today - we had fun - once we managed to get into my craft room!

I used my new alcohol ink to do another tin. I used brown Stazon to stamp the images. Love the vibrant colour :-)






We also made the tag using emossing powders & inks. Then we decided to join in with the Crafts by Carolyn challenge Pocket full of Posies. I used the Swiss dots cuttlebug folder & some square brads along with some of my new ribbon.






We had a lovely time & will have more fun later :-)

A bit of a play ...................

I've managed to have a play with some of my new stash :-) I used the MS circle cutter & the MS branch punch. I also used my new sentiment stamp.









I cut the circle out of double sided paper & filled in the space with the circle cutout which I turned over, then stamped the image on the 'back' which is now on the front :-)

More stash

Just unpacked some more of my stash & found the camera - there seems to be a theme here! I seem to have brought back a few stamps :-) As well as a lot of gorgeous ribbon :-) Well it would have been rude not to!

Now I have to reorganise my craft room to fit everything in!

And of course have a play! :-)

Stash shopping

Managed a quick crafty shop in Michaels yesterday :-) The boys dropped MIL & I off & went off to play with expensive cars so we had a couple of hours to mooch round & a few bits fell into the trolley :-) Later a few more bits joined them from Walmart as we ended up in the Arts & Crafts section whilst the boys did the grocery shop :-)

Handmade presents

Well presents have now been opened so I won't spoil surprises and I can now show you some of the handmade presents I made for Xmas. This garden book was sent over to Melbourne Australia for my Mum. Sorry the colours are bleached out on the main pic. The book can be used in a few different ways, either to put in pics of your garden throughout the year or to record plantings month by month, a combination of the two or do whatever you like .......................................

I used my bind it all to bind the book & made the covers from mountboard which I then covered. The stamp I decoupaged & coloured with Whisper pens & chalks.

More Handmade presents

This was the variation garden book that my MIL was given - same as before but a different stamp used - this one was a lot more fiddly to cut out!!







This was Aunties book - simple stamp to use but cute to look at :-)





A post it note holder - did a couple of these but only took a photo of this one for some reason!