It's Christmas!

 Merry Christmas to all my wonderful Family and Friends!

I hope you have a wonderful festive season spent with your loved ones :)

I know I have two munchkins who are battling to sleep because they are just too excited! :)

Publications - Scrapbook Magazine Issue 64

Aaack it has been ages since my last post!  I have just been too busy creating and dealing with my usual chaotic life to keep up with my blog!   Nothing I can share yet but as it has been a while since I shared any publications I decided to do that for today.  These layouts were done for Issue 64 of Scrapbook Magazine for an article I did on making your own leaves and stems for your layouts.

This first layout was using patterned paper, florist tape and wire to make the leaves, stems and curlicues and I used Bo Bunny Alora which is definitely a favourite of mine as it is so bright and gorgeous!  This is my beautiful best freind and her family.

This next layout is of my parents in law and I used primed Canvas from an artists book and mists to create the leaves and I used Bo Bunny Country Garden for the layout.  I don't normally do such bulky layouts as otherwise they can't fit into page protectors but I am doing a few like this of the family that are going to go in a few 12x12 frames and up on the wall :)

For this layout of my Mom when she was young I used rolled tissue paper, fabric and embroidery thread for my leaves and Bo Bunny Serenity for the layout.

I had to do a sheet of leaf and vine templates too so for this last layout of my little sister I just used the vine template to draw onto cardstock and paint with Tim Holtz Distress Inks. 

That is it for today and we have a busy day ahead of us again today so I had better crack on with that.  I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Snowday and a card

I have two projects to share today, first up is a layout using Snowday!  For this layout we had to do a non winter themed layout using Snowfall to show how versatile all those gorgeous papers are.  I love the papers in this range and they can definitely be used for all sorts of layouts.

 Supplies Used :

Patterned Paper : Flurries, Pajamas, Stripe, Mittens/Snow Day
6x6 Paper Pad : Snow Day
Noteworthy : Snow Day
Stickers : Snow Day Combo Stickers

I also did a sketch to go with my layout...

This card was done using a sketch by the lovely Jolanda Meurs using the Rejoice collection.  I think this might be the quickest card I have ever made as I had to do it in a big rush!

 

I went to see the latest Breaking Dawn on Saturday and I totally loved it and then I hated it and almost walked out the cinema (anyone who has seen it will know exactly which part I am talking about!) and then I totally loved it again!  I was trying to convince the hubby that he should take the kids to the movies on Sunday and then I would have an excuse to go and see BD again but alas he said we had finish painting the kids rooms.  So that is what we did and then I spent a few hours having a clear out in said kids rooms, the worst part is I am not even finished the clear out so I will still be doing it this weekend!  That is how you know you have the messiest hoarders for kids EVER! :)

Thankful For and a Winner

One of my latest assignments was to do a layout on what I am thankful for.  There are so many things in my life that I am thankful for but of course one of the things I am most thankful for is my two beautiful boys.  I just adore these photos of my boys together, every time I see the happiness and smiles on their faces it just brings a big smile to mine!  This is actually only a small sampling of the photos that I took that day and I loved so many of them I had to have a load of them printed really small so that I could fit loads on my layout! :)  I used the Apple Cider range.

Now it is time to announce the winner of my little giveaway.  Sorry that this is so late, my life is anything but uneventful!  Anyway I used Random org to pick the winner and it gave me.....

Which means that Louise is the winner!  Well done Louise, I will email you tomorrow morning to get your address :)

Canvas and a Giveaway!

I just wanted to share a double canvas I recently made using some of the new Bo Bunny Blossoms.  I had a quote I found on Pinterest that I wanted to use which I thought would be perfect to have up on the wall as a reminder for me to take to heart especially with how my life very often is!

I had lots of fun with these two canvases, I painted them, used mists, masks and distress inks.  I also used tissue paper and Gesso to create texture, torn book pages and some texture paste through a brick mask.

 I used some of the Bo Bunny Welcome Home papers to cut out those beautiful swirls.

The beautiful butterflies were done with the Bo Bunny Ambrosia stamp set, definitely one of my most favourite Bo Bunny stamp sets!

This leaf punch is one of my new favourite tools and it is an Xcut leaf Embossing Punch, just love it!

 I just adore all the new blossoms and I think the ones with the big jewelled ball from the Zinnia packs are my favourites followed very closely by the Pansy's (the two toned yellow one with the matt ball in the photo below and the two toned purple one)

As the festive season is drawing nearer I have put together a little Christmas kit to giveaway using the beautiful vintage style Bo Bunny Rejoice!  It includes one each of all twelve patterned papers, the stamp set, some Petals, a few Noteworthy, Trinkets, brads and then a couple of other bits and bobs.  Sorry for the not very brilliant picture and some of the colours are a bit wrong but that is due to the wonderful weather we have had over the last few days!  Winter has definitely come early in the UK ;)

If you would like to win the kit just add your name to the link below and I will draw a winner in two weeks time.  There is no need to post the giveaway on your blogs or anywhere else but If you would like to that would be much appreciated :)

(I know the link is showing up as having to add a URL but I unchecked it on the Inlinkz setup so you shouldn't have to add one )

Buttons, brads, trinkets and Nickelback!

Let me start off by saying this is going to be a very picture heavy post!

Today's layout was done for a focus on buttons, brads and trinkets and I chose to use the new Powder Mountain range which is is just gorgeous!  I love all the wood textures and silhouettes in this line which make it work perfectly for older kids winter layouts.  I can't wait to use it for some more updated photos of the kids sledding!

I love stitching on layouts and I have done loads of stitching on this one, around the edges, the photos, on the 'snow' and to hang my snowflake. 

To make my 'snow' I wet some white cardstock, scrunched it up then straightened it out and dried it with a heat gun.  I then used my sewing machine to stitch wavy lines all over it and stitch it to the page.

I used an Ek Success bubbles edge punch around the edge of the page and then used some of the punched out circles to scatter around the page for some random snow flakes.

 Supply List :
Patterned Paper: Words, Scarf/Powder Mountain
Cardstock : Buttercup Vintage Paper
Stickers : Combo Sticker; Dimensional Stickers/Powder Mountain
Brads : Powder Mountain
Buttons : Powder Mountain
Jewels : Powder Mountain
Chipboard : Powder Mountain Layered Chipboard
Trinket : Enchanted Trinkets

Punches : Ek Success Bubbles edge punch; Martha Stewart Iron Gate edge punch

We went to our Nickelback concert recently and can I just say WOW, WOW, WOW!  I have been to quite a few concerts at this stage and this was the best one yet, even Paul said it was brilliant and he isn't a huge Nickelback fan and mostly only went for my sake.  The sound was amazing, crystal clear and let me tell you Chad's voice is as good live as it is on cd and there are not that many bands that can say that!  The opening act was Daughtry who I also really like and they were really good too.  Here are a couple of Daughtry photos :)

 

 These are a few of the Nickelback photos.  This first close up one I took from one of the big screens.

 

 The lighting was fantastic too!

 This is the drummer doing his solo, he was amazing!

 One of the things that also made the concert so amazing was the crowd.  The stadium was packed they even had all the very top tiers open (I don't think they even had those open for Guns 'n Roses) and the crowd was just sooo responsive and clapped and sang and screamed the whole way through.  In fact when Chad asked them to sing he could have probably not bothered singing the song at all because the crowd sang the whole way through!  I always feel so bad when the band asks the crowd to sing parts and the crowd doesn't know the words or not enough of them sing and you can barely hear them so it was brilliant to have everyone singing along so enthusiastically!

 Now I just can't wait for them to come over again because I will definitely be going again next time! :)

Layout Challenge

This months layout challenge on the Bo Bunny blog is to use at least 2 photos, at least one tag and to use one of the following photos for inspiration....

I chose the second one because I just love that glass leaf design, I want to do it in my house somewhere!!!

It was so fun making the mosaic effect with the diamond shapes, I was quite sorry I had to cover some of them up with photos lol.  I used two different sized diamonds to do the mosaic and I decided not to ink etc them because I wanted a crisp contrast and really clean look.  The 'frame' was just embossed with a ruler and a stylus and then sanded to show the paper core.

That's it for today just a quick one, I have quite a few things I want to post at the moment but just never seem to have the time to post them anymore!  Hopefully it won't be too long before my next post and then I will also be having another giveaway soon.  I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend! :)

Use Your Scraps and a Winner!

I did this layout for a use your scraps assignment for Bo Bunny.  I find I generally end up with quite a lot of long thin strips of patterned paper so I decided to use them like this.  I used a few different paper ranges for this one Zoology, On The Go and Freedom.  The layout is about my youngest  son and all the strange things I would find him wearing when I would go and check on him before I went to bed!  Of course then I would always end up waking him up by taking photos, removing said strange items and of course having to squish him because he was so cute ;)

Supplies:

Patterned Paper : Word/Zoology; Freedom, Old Glory/Liberty; Roads/On The Go

Stickers : On The Go Combo Sticker; Zoology Combo Sticker; Garden Girl Combo Sticker

Stamps : Blast Off

I also supplied a sketch to go with it. :)

Now for the winner of the Bo Bunny Mistletoe card set.  I used Random.org and this is the number it gave me......

So Valerie that means you are the winner!  Email me your address at carin(at)corporad.com and I will get the card kit sent out to you.

Thanks everyone for taking part in the Bo Bunny WCMD blog hop and don't forget that Bo Bunny is giving away a beautiful pink Bo Bunny purse every week this month for Breast Cancer Awareness Month!