Demon Dog

Good morning all.

Well yesterday started dank, wet and miserable...the sort of day to stay at home and curl up in front of the fire....by mid afternoon it had dried up and the sun was out, by which time it was too late to go anywhere!

Another layout to share today using more new goodies from Template Dreams. "October Breeze" papers and elements are part of the October BYO and currently cost $1 each. 

Created in Craft Artist using another photo of Lora when she was about 9 or 10 at a Cub Halloween party.

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Crafts4eternity - happy Halloween

Happy Campers - Halloween

Scrap it with a Song - Halloween with a movie cover art

Scrapper's Delights - Halloween

Carol x

Little Pumpkin

Good morning all. 

We've had a couple of nice days here but it looks like rain today!

I had intended going to the SECC yesterday but after a long day on Wednesday I was too tired to make the trip...besides which the goods I bought at the last show haven't been used yet!! I did treat myself to  a couple of magazines when out grocery shopping which had some nice Christmas freebies.

Template Dreams has a new kit out ready for all those cute Halloween pictures next week, it's called "Little Pumpkin". I've used it to scrap some photos of Lora when she was little.

Created in Craft Artist using "Little Pumpkin" from Template Dreams.

Challenges entered:

Crafty Creations - Halloween

City Crafter - pumpkin patch

Cupcake Inspirations - photo inspired

Pumpkin Spice - dress up

Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Carol x

Spooky

Good morning all. Kids back to school here today, hubby out for the day so I need to get my head down and make some inroads into the evening invites.

Another spooky layout to share today featuring my eldest in slightly more recent years.

Created in Craft Artist using 2Cute2Spook from Template Dreams. Trish is offering the torn papers as a freebie on Facebook at the moment so pop over and grab them while you can.

Challenges entered:

A Gem of a Challenge - spooky

Pumpkin Spice - dress up

Bloggers - Halloween

Craftitude - anything goes/spooky

Digitally Sweet - halloween

Simply Create Too - Halloween

Carol x

Happy Haunting

Good morning all.

A layout to share today showcasing 2Cute2Spook from Template Dreams.

Created in Craft Artist using a photo of my two boys taken several years ago! I love the vibrant colours of this kit and all the cute embellishments.

Challenges entered:

StuckOnUSketches - sketch

Digitally Sweet - halloween/scary

Carol x

Crafting for all Seasons #63 Too Cute to Spook

Good morning all.
Still in wedding mode although I'm off out today to meet my niece and sisters....to re-plan my niece's wedding as she's decided to go for a very simple ceremony with an afternoon tea to follow for about 30 people. If this goes ahead I'll be able to plan a holiday to New Zealand straight after as her wedding date will come forward by over two weeks!

Today it's time for a new challenge at CFAS and this time the theme is "Too Cute to Spook". We're  looking forward to seeing all your makes. We're being sponsored by Joanna Sheen Ltd.  I've chosen to do a layout for this challenge.

Created in Craft Artist using 2Cute2Spook from Template Dreams....I love this kit with it's fabulous Halloween colour palette. The photo is of my eldest when he was four and got dressed up for playgroup, where have the years gone??

Do pop over to the challenge blog to see the rest of the girls inspiration, you won't be disappointed.

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - favourite colours (love Halloween colours)

Lasting Memories - black background

The Pink Elephant - photo inspired

Carol x

Lunch with a View

Good morning all.

Beavering away quietly in the background with the wedding stationery, I'll hopefully finish the daytime invites today - they'll just need the inserts added, a menu printed and the RSVP's made after that - none of which is onerous.

Sharing another double layout from Venice today. I have moved LUNCH since I wrote this post but as I was battling a migraine at the time I haven't exported the new image yet.

Created in Craft Artist using papers and elements from Template Dreams "Celebrate September" and a photo mask template from Indigo Designs. 

Challenges entered:

Lasting Memories - one colour

Carol x

On the Wings of Love....

Good morning all.

A quiet afternoon was planned yesterday since all the children were out. First hiccup in the works was having to get a photo of daughter's passport to her for ID so she could get into the pictures, then I ended up having to cook a roast dinner as after Tesco had delivered the fridge was overflowing! Can't remember the last time I cooked a Sunday roast...it turned out a tad rare but at least the leftovers won't be overcooked today! Then I remembered I had a DT card to make so it turned out more peaceful than quiet.

Another double page layout to share today from our Venice trip, these were some of the first pictures I took with my new camera and I was quite surprised how well they turned out.

Created in Craft Artist using papers and elements from Template Dreams "Celebrate September" and a photo mask template from Indigo Designs. 

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - anything goes with wings

Carol x

Camera Shy

Good morning all. 

Another lovely day yesterday and the forecast looks good for today too. We're off to Galashiels with the cars today, hubby's needs a service and mine has a recall on it so that will take up most of the day!

Sharing another scrap page today using a recent photo of our dog Freya.

Created in Craft Artist using  Nuts for You from Template Dreams, combined with one of the Circle Fun revised templates.

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Carol x

One Moment

Good morning all. 

Well yesterday turned out just as forecast and we had a glorious day of sunshine here, I wonder what today will bring! Hubby managed to get some stain onto our decking and I had a play with my camera in the garden....it does take some fabulous pictures and I'm really pleased I bought it.

I'm sharing another double page layout of Venice today. Two of the smaller photos are the views out of the windows from inside the bridge itself.

Created in Craft Artist using papers and elements from Template Dreams "Celebrate September" and a photo mask template from Indigo Designs. Word art is from Word Art by Jennifer. These double page templates have been brilliant for this album.

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Lasting Memories - odd# embellishments (5), even# photos (4)

Carol x

Preserve the Moment

Good morning all.

Another layout to share today using photos taken on my recent trip to Venice.

Created in Craft Artist using "Celebrate September" from Template Dreams and a photo mask template from Indigo Designs. Sentiment is from Word Art by Jennifer.

Challenges entered:

Lasting Memories - vacation time

Carol x

Nuts for You

Good morning all.

Sorry I'm not being a very good blogger at the moment...been trying to get organised with life in general so I can concentrate on wedding stationery for a week or two, so I hope you'll forgive my lack of posts and visits to your blogs.

Template Dreams have a new kit coming out today called Nuts for You, there's also an add on pack too. Of course I couldn't resist having a play when Trish gave us access earlier this week.

I've combined the kit with one of the Circle Fun revised templates to create my layout in Craft Artist. The photos were taken on Monday....all three of our rose bushes are flowering at the moment. The top two were presents for our Silver Wedding and we bought the third one locally. Hubby still needs to dig out a rose bed in the front garden to plant them out along with the lavender plants we also bought to keep the aphids down!

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Carol x

Fun to Explore

Good morning all.
A quick trip to the dentist this morning for my 6 month check up, hopefully all will be well!

Another layout to share this morning.

Created in Craft Artist using papers from Template Dreams "Celebrate September" and a photo mask template from Indigo Designs.

Challenges entered:

 Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Carol x

Celebrate September

Good morning all.

Sorry I've not been to visit you all yet, been struggling with a migraine for the past few days (thank goodness it didn't strike last week!) which along with my lack of land legs wasn't good...we went grocery shopping on Saturday and if I hadn't had the trolley to hold onto I think I'd have been flat out!!

Template Dreams has new papers and elements called "Celebrate September" which co-ordinate with all the other BYO packs available this month at Scrap Takeout. All packs are priced at $1.00 until the end of the month. The kit was perfect to scrap some of my holiday photos.

Created in Craft Artist using a photo mask from Indigo Designs.

Challenges entered:

Digitally Sweet - anything goes

Get Creative - anything goes

Red Carpet Studios - Kindergarten Cop (use letters and numbers)

Carol x

Relaxing at Sea

Good morning all.
Off out today to see my second nephew and his intended to finalise the wedding stationery, hopefully I'll then manage to get a start made before I go away next month! I've spent the last few days getting ahead with some DT work and birthday cards.

Finally managed some digi scrapping over the weekend. Trish at Template Dreams brought out a new kit called "Relaxing at Sea" just as I went on holiday so managed to put it to good use using a photo of me and Mark from a cruise in 1995!!

I love seeing faded background images on other peoples layouts so decided to try it out myself....I usually end up with the main part of the picture under the rest of the design but hit lucky this time!

Challenges entered:

Lasting Memories - try something new

Digitally Sweet - summertime colours

The Pink Elephant - anything but a card

Carol x

Start your Engines

Good morning all. 

A quick post from me today after I managed a little digi scrapping last night using photos taken of Mark at his birthday treat.

Created in Craft Artist using "Let's go Racing" from Template Dreams and basing the layout on template 1 from "Clusterfun Templates" also by Template Dreams.

Challenges entered:

613 Avenue Create - anything goes (optional special male)

Anything but a Card - masculine

Challenges 4 Everybody - anything goes

Dream Valley Challenges - male

Lasting Memories - tell me a story

A Gem of a Challenge - male

Scribbles Designs Challenge - manly men

Simply Create Too - for a male

Carol x

Crafting for all Seasons #54 One for the Guys

Good morning all.

Sorry for the lack of blogging, the lure of the sunshine proved greater than that of the craft room and now I'm chasing my tail trying to get all the wedding stuff finished, a pile of birthday cards made along with getting ahead with my DT work before we go on holiday next month!

Hubby was supposed to organise the holiday as he wanted to do Land's End to John O Groats or vice versa...guess who ended up doing it! I decided we'd only do Land's End this time so we're spending a few days in Wales at a lovely converted water mill before heading down to St Ives for a week. On the way home we're having a weekend in Devon and a few days south of Manchester. We'll probably have a night in the Lakes each way too. I've also ended up organising a few days away for our Silver Wedding in September...gave up waiting for hubby to do anything so we're going to Venice for a Monday to Friday break the week of our anniversary. 

So it hasn't all been sitting in the garden doing nothing!!

Today it's time for a new challenge at CFAS and this time the theme is "One for the Guys". We're  looking forward to seeing all your makes. We're being sponsored by Bugaboo who gave the DT images to work with.

Today is my younger son's 21st birthday so this is the card I made him......can't believe how quickly the years have flown! We off out for a meal tonight to celebrate at our local Chez Roux restaurant.

My image is Monster Birthday Sign which has been part digitally paper pieced and part coloured with promarkers. The papers are from Template Dreams "Hey There" kit. I've printed everything several times and layered up the image. Border punch is from Martha Stewart.

Do pop over to the challenge blog to see the rest of the girls inspiration, you won't be disappointed.

Challenges entered:

City Crafter Challenge - all about him

Crafty Sentiments - male

LEJ Designs - something for the boys

Our Daily Bread - masculine

Papertake Weekly - hello boys

Top Tip Tuesday - masculine

Ladybug Crafts - for the men in your life

The Crafter's Cafe - for a male

The Crafting Cafe - here come the boys

Cards for Men - boys will be boys

Craft your Passion - masculine

Get Inky - for boys/men

Kaboodle Doodles - favourite guy

Lexi's Creations - special male birthday

Carol x

Start your Engines

Good morning all.

We had a lovely day yesterday but there's heavy rain forecast for today...typical when I'm going to Edinburgh.

Another layout to share today to cover a few of the current challenges.

Created in Craft Artist using "Let's go Racing" from Template Dreams and "Ruffles and Frills" from Daisy Trail.

Challenges entered:

The Memory Nest - the fab sketch

Digitally Sweet - leather and lace

Bird is the Word - he/she/him/her

Carol x

Stache Me

Good morning all.

Trish from Template Dreams has a new kit which hit the shop yesterday called "Stache Me". I couldn't resist doing this double page layout for the Mongol Rally album using it.

Created in Craft Artist using "Stache Me" from Template Dreams.

One of the teams the boys ended up convoying with called themselves "Taches Sans Frontieres" so this was perfect to do a page dedicated to them.

Challenges entered:

Challenges 4 Everybody - anything goes

Scrappy Frogs - anything goes

Carol x

Let's Go Racing

Good morning all.
We had a very successful day shopping yesterday if a little tiring. It's a long time since I was last shopping in Newcastle...I should do it more often!!

Today's share is my second layout as a Guest Designer at Sketches in Thyme. It showcases one of the latest kits available from Template Dreams.

Created in Craft Artist using "Let's Go Racing" from Template Dreams.

Challenges entered:

The Pink Elephant - male birthday

Carol x

Celebrate

Good morning all. We had a quiet day yesterday, hubby wasn't feeling too great so I had a day catching up on jobs and got a pile of parcels away to the post office. Hoping to get to Edinburgh today as I've a parcel to go back to M&S and a pile of vouchers to spend!

Recently I was lucky enough to be asked to guest design for the month of May over at Sketches in Thyme....I didn't need asked twice!!

Today I'm sharing the first of three layouts I've created.

Created in Craft Artist using "Telling Stories" from Template Dreams. This is another page of pictures taken at the lunch for Mum's 80th birthday.

Challenges entered:

The Pink Elephant - Mother's Day

Love to Scrap - anything goes

Pumpkin Spice - Mother's theme

Carol x