Layout 5/100 '& baby makes 3'

This layout is using my CKC kit...yay, for the second time this month!! and also the sketch over at Sketchbook365.

This is the first layout for my new DGS' album :0) and is also one of the first photos taken of his arrival :0)))

journal tag is tucked away into the glassine bag

circle cut on Silhouette, the house stamp is super old

I punched all the hearts to make the 'tiles', the stamp is my fave MME

Studio Calico wood veneers and Pink Paislee really old chipboard number

It was such a fun idea to 'build' a house around this new little family :0)

Here is the sketch:

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Magical

I am so in the scrapping groove right now! I am making the most of every second as next week life gets busy again and I don't think I will have much time for me....never mind I am enjoying it while it lasts :0)

Today's lo is inspired by Challenge #31 at Color Me Scrappy. It'as a colour and layer challenge and you won't believe that I have chosen to go with this one!!  It has PURPLE in it!! When you see the photo you will see why this colour palette was perfect for my layout :0)

I have had a tub of Gesso in my cupboard waiting to played with and this was the perfect time to get it out....mainly to disguise most of the purple!!!

Not only did I layer up the papers but I layered up the hearts too!! The 'fireworks' are a TPC stamp in Cloud White Momento (the best white ink I have found) and a WRMK stamp glue stamped and glittered. Ali Edwards phrase stamp

Papers are MME Collectable Memorable collection, Websters Pages

This gorgeous overlay is a freebie from A Vegas Girl at Heart :) I converted the PNG file to an SVG file and cut it on the Silhouette. The calendar is part of a Studio Calico paper. The arrow stamp is my fave from a Heidi Swapp collection (you know the one Lizzy!)

and here is the colour palette:

 I know my background colour is wrong but all of the colours are in my papers and embellies :0) I could just about cope with a purple that was verging on blue!!

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x 

'You Can Do It'

It's time for another sketch over at Sketchbook365, this time it's a multiple photo one, not my usual thing, but I did use my phone and the photo booth app to record the momentous first 'big girl' bike ride :0) Not the the best photos I grant you (I really need to brush up on using my phone!) but it was an important day in the life of DGD!!

not very much pp but what I did use was some American Crafts Dear Lizzy Enchanted (????) in my stash!

 Ali Edwards stamp, SC stars (will I ever tire of them?!) TA Glam in Grand Tetons and Rocking on Sunshine

Tears because she hated her helmet and couldn't possibly concentrate whilst in soooo much pain! Letters are Prima, SC bike and everything else cut on the Silhouette

journaling has been written on both sides of tag, it was only die to the threat of me going inside that we finally got going!!

here is the sketch, based on Yvonne Yam's layout:

 not exactly the same but you can see where I was coming from! I quite like that you could chop my page in half and have 2 stand alone layouts. I think that represents the sad and the happy sides to big girl bike riding :0)

On another note ScrapFriends have thrown down the gauntlet to share your first scrapbook page. Do you remember the first time????

I share this with you on the understanding that you accept I knew no better!!!LOL oh how my style has changed :0)

I can remember 'creating' this on my dining room table and being delighted with the result!! Although it wouldn't be my choice of style today I can look at it and smile....plus I have used the original photos so there's no throwing it away!!! Do you know what else? I have glued this page to the one that sits behind it in the album....what's all that about??? LOL

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Today is Your Day

Another FAB-U-LOUS challenge over at ScrapFriends :0)

This time I am playing along with their colour challenge.......and it's a good 'un!!

I have had this old photo of me, DH and DD#2 hanging around since I brought it down from the loft to repurpose the frame...I know it was taken on one of my birthdays...I think around 1993...hence the hair...both DH and me!!!

Papers are scraps :0) Background stamp is Kaisercraft

Check out the fabulous texture rub ons from Christy Tomlinson...yummy!

Lovely flair badge from Stash Panache :0)

So the challenge is:




and I used this week's sketch from Let's Get Sketchy



go and have a play here

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

A real 'scrap' mini!!

Some of you will have read that I organised all my scraps into individual acrylic folders, one for each colour plus neutrals...well I have also done the same for my embellishments, one drawer per colour..... patterned paper and ......cardstock!! Told ya...OCD Queen (and I wonder why I have so little time to myself!!) Ribbons, flowers and buttons were done a long time ago...and as for stickles....

 need I say more? LOL

Anyway I am on a mission to use all these bits and pieces I lovingly spare from the bin :0) I saw a mini recently on the Pink Paislee blog, super simple, fold 6 x 12 papers in half and attach!! Great huh?

I have a lot of 6 x 12 pieces as I only have a mini cricut and that's the size of my cutting mat. Armed with a selection of randomness I folded and punched holes and tied with seam binding.

I also have a little box that contains anything I have cut on the Silhouette or Cuttlebug and didn't use.....at last, a use for these little bits and bobs!

And here we have a mini documenting our day at the Discovery Centre with DD#1 and DGD :0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x

'The Beauty of Everyday Life'

Hello, hello!!

Still going strong with my giving up, which means lots more time in my craft room :0)

A little mini to share with you today. I rarely take photos with my camera but the few I have taken just sit there...I don't upload them, I don't print them, I mostly forget that they are even there!!

So today I decided that I would do something with these not particularly brilliant photos. They do represent funny and special little moments in a normal day, so should be used!!

I took out a Flash Card Album from October Afternoon from the box that really has far too many blank chipboard albums in....how did they get there?? Et...voila!!

OA and SC papers, OA camera sticker and Ali Edwards stamp

and without the string so that you can see it properly!

Every page has a tag with the details of what, when, where

I am really pleased with the result and will start using my phone more often just so that I can fill this little beauty :0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

...better late than never :0)

I know that life has been eating into my blogging time but have only just realised that I forgot to share my calendar for 2013 with you!

I like to make a calendar every year and when I say the Heidi Swapp free printables click here I knew that this was going to be the one for this year :0) It is only 7 x 5 and DH made a wise point...how are you going to fit everything into those tiny squares? Hmm...with mini journaling cards and a sparkly peg of course!!! Happy accidents :0)

OK...as there are 12 months in a year there are going to be a lot of photos....you have been warned!!

I have put my Silhouette to good use on this project! The cake stamp is Hero Arts and everything else is from My Minds Eye, Ali Edwards, Studio Calico and Maya Road :0)

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x