Serenity, Bling and Meadow Barn

Oh dear, two weeks since my last post!  Things have been a bit hectic around here but then that is nothing unusual!  But the good part of all that was going for a fantastic scrappy weekend away to Meadow Barn in Herefordshire with some of the UKScrappers Twilight Addicts social group plus a few extra friends!  This was us posing for the group shot on the Saturday, how gorgeous is that view and the accomodation was gorgeous too.

 

 This was one last group shot before people started leaving for home.  Can you believe that I left my camera at home in my mad dash packing!  Seriously I normally take my camera everywhere.....bad, bad scrapper!  Luckily for me it was a weekend spent with scrappers so most other people had bought thiers!

I had a really fantastic time and the girls are all so wonderful and friendly!  I could use that as the excuse for only doing 2 layouts the whole weekend...too much chatting and eating  yummy food but I just wasn't feeling very scrappy (perfect timing for my 'scrappy' weekend)  This is one of the layouts I did manage to do though using the gorgeous new Serenity range and lots of bling with the Serenity Jewels!  It is documenting my.....ahem 'love' of all things Twilight and all the bits I have ended up with including fleece blankets, calendars and puzzles that were bought for me as presents :)

 

 Bo Bunny Supplies:
Patterned Paper : Fans, Damask, Serenity, Love, Cut Outs/Serenity
Chipboard : Serenity 12x12 Chipboard
Jewels : Serenity
Stickers: Serenity Combo Sticker
Noteworthy : Serenity
Trinkets : Serenity

I am so glad it is Friday as this week has just been totally crazy with a hundred things happening at once!  I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! :)

Alora Banners Layout and Digital Quickpage

My latest Bo Bunny assignment was to use banners!  As there were two of us for this assignment I decided to do my banners on a layout and do two different types of banners.  I decided straight away that I wanted to string a thin banner back and forth across the page and immediately knew I wanted to use the gorgeous new Alora range.  OMGoodness do I love this range it was such fun to work with it is so bright and cheerful and the images are just toooo cute!

I used the Alora Doodle paper and cut out loads of little flowers and then punched lots of little butterflies from my 6x6 paper pad with a Martha Stewart butterfly punch and then made banners across my page with some bakers twine and lots of foam dots to give it dimension. :)

 I overlapped my ribbon banners and added foam dots to give them dimension although you can't really see that in the photo!

I am also sharing a digital Quickpage done for the CU for a PU Freebie challenge on Coolscraps Digital. They give you a commercial use kit to use and you have to make a personal use freebie of a kit, cluster or quickpage. I have just recently started to dabble into the digital scrapbooking world.  My Mom does digital scrapbooking and she is busy teaching me how to do it!  (long distance over the phone lol!).  So far I have  done two layouts and this is my second Quickpage :)

This is the download link for it http://www.4shared.com/photo/sg_ETXzk/AddieFebPUFreebie2.html

Thanks for visiting! :)

Favourites!

This layout was for a challenge on the Bo Bunny blog, the challenge was to use journaling on your layout (and that is good amount of journaling not just the name, place and date type of journaling!) and to use stitching on your layout.

I decided to do a 'Favourites' layout.  I am supposed to do one of these for each of the kids every year as I love the idea of keeping a record of thier favourites and how they change over the years, but....I have not been very good at keeping up with it!  I think the last ones I did were at 5 and 7 years!  So I will do one for Christopher soon and then make sure I keep it up for thier next birthdays, maybe if I write it in my diary I will remember! :)

Supplies Used:
Patterned Paper : One Nation, Old Glory, United, Sparkler/ Liberty
Cardstock : Coordinating Double Dot Wild Berry Dot
Rub ons : Liberty
Brads : Liberty 

American Crafts Thickers and Remarks stickers

EKSuccess Bracket Edge punch

Martha Stewart Iron Gate Edge Punch

Embroidery Thread

I hope everyone is having a lovely romantic valentines!  I am just off to go and cuddle whilst watching a movie ;)

Cards and Winter Gloves!

I am just sharing a couple of cards today.  The first one is one I did for my guest designer spot with Scrapology in January.  I was sure I had put this up on my blog but I am obviously going crazy because I hadn't!!  We had a love is... theme and the sponsor was Crafty Ribbons so we used some ribbons from there.
I kept my card quite clean and simple and had some fun with my edge punches :)

My second card was done for the Bo Bunny blog for a focus on the stunning Enchanted range!  I chose to do a birthday card for my hubby :)

Totally random but we had lots of snow on Saturday and the kids were out playing in it the whole day today so they had each gone through 2 pairs of very wet gloves so I went to go and find them another pair in their drawers and this is what I found... 

 Now seriously there was not one matching set of gloves in their drawers!  What happens to all the other gloves, are they all off  living in some invisible land with all the lost socks of the world?  My kids end up going through at least 4 sets each through winter, although if I think about it that is probably all my youngest as my eldest son does not really tend to wear gloves except in the snow so my youngest son nicks all of his when he can't find his own.  So I do know who the main culprit is :)

My box full of all the new amazingly gorgeous Bo Bunny products arrived this week and my oh my is it all just totally beautiful, I can't wait to get stuck into it all!  I just have a couple of commissions to finish and then I can play with all the new goodies! :) :) :)

Garden Girl Mini Album

Just sharing a mini album I have up today on the Bo Bunny blog using the gorgeous Garden Girl mini album!  This is actually going to be a gift for my parents and is mostly full of pictures of loved ones that are no longer with us and I thought it would be nice to have a little album where there are various photos of all of them in one place for my parents to look at whenever they want. :)

Unfortunately the colours in the photos are not perfect, all part and parcel of living in the UK I suppose, especially in Winter!  Of course I have been waiting for some decent light for days and eventually gave up yesterday and just photographed the mini album and of course within half an hour of putting my post up today the sun came out lol.  Go figure :)

 I added a couple of extra pocket pages in matching paper where some extra photos and journaling tags can be included.

 

 

I also have 3 more of the new releases to show you but as this is already quite a heavy picture post I will narrow the pictures down to 2 each!  First up is Country Garden which is so beautiful and shabby chic!

Next up is On The Go which is such a cute range and will work for younger and older kiddies!

Last but certainly not least is Serenity which is just Stunning!

Bo Bunny has also released a whole range of their Coordinating Double Dot cardstock in Vintage colours!!  They are just gorgeous and you can see them on the blog here.

Thanks for visiting! :)

Bo Bunny Reveals!

Don't you just LOVE reveal time!  I love seeing all the reveals !  Bo Bunny has six new releases this time and they are all gorgeous!!! :)  The first 3 are up and can be seen on the Bo Bunny blog here.  Here are a couple of pics from the three reveals so far...  First up is Ambrosia which is so beautiful and I just adore the colours in this one!

 

Next up is Weekend Market, perfect for all those men or heritage layouts!

Then we have Alora which is so quirky and cute I just love, love, love it!

 If you would like a chance to win one of these gorgeous collections just pop over to the Bo Bunny blog and leave a comment for each post.  Don't forget to keep checking back to see the next 3 new collections! :)

Welcome Home, Home Decor!

Today I wanted to share a home decor project I did for the Scrapbook Magazine using Bo Bunny's Welcome Home and a really cute little house from Boxylady

Materials:

Box Lady Wooden House

Bo Bunny Welcome Home patterned papers

Craft Creations Patterned paper

Bo Bunny Olivia flower

Bo Bunny Gabrielle 12x12 chipboard; layered chipboard and Dimensional stickers

Bo Bunny Timepiece stamps

Bo Bunny Vicki B Wraps and Jewels

Bo Bunny Barefoot & Bliss Trinkets

Banana Frog Swirls and Butterflies stamps

Sarah's Cards Butterflies

American Crafts By the Yard Leaf Fabric Thickers

Anita's Glitterations Alphabet stickers

Bakers Twine (Ribbon girl.co.uk)

Mulberry roses (flowers 4 crafts)

Tim Holtz Distress Ink in Broken China and Peeled Paint

Tattered Angels Glimmer Mist in Clear Patina

Beads

Floral tape

Wire

Pins

Tools:

EK Success Bracket Edger Punch and Double Embossed Dotted Lace Edger Punch

Martha Stewart Deep Edger Punch Doily Lace Trim

Woodware Super and large flower punches and scalloped circle

Wire cutters

Thin nosed pliers

Paper piercer

This was such a fun project, I really enjoyed decorating each little square and I love the finished item! :)