Girly layout!

I don't often get to do a very girly layout so I had lots of fun playing yesterday with some of the gorgeous Bo Bunny papers Debbie sent me!  I used the following challenge from the ATDML blog where you choose one line off  the grid. I used the 3rd line across.

The fab photo is of my mom as a little girl. :)  Oh and although I love purple it is not a colour I use very often so that was fun too!

Yes, I did hand cut all those flowers, it has been a while since I did that much hand cutting!

I used my new Cuttlebug butterfly die again (just loving those!) as you can never have too many butterflies...I am planning on cutting a whole lot out and sticking them up our wall in the bedroom, I wonder what Paul will think about that!  Oh and I just had to include a little bit of glitter ;)

I have a few more photos of my mom when she was younger as well as some old ones of me from my teens and childhood years so I will have to scrap some of those to get some more of my girly fix!

Tfl!

Pencil Lines and fun in the park!

This is my layout for this weeks Pencil Lines sketch below

I had loads of fun doing this layout with all the distressing!  Generally I think most of my layouts are quite clean but I do enjoy doing the more grungy distressed types sometimes.  I enjoyed playing around with this one so much I think I will do some more soon!  I used Cosmo Cricket Get Happy.

It was the last official school holiday today and the sun actually came out a couple of times today so me an the kids went down to the park for a couple of hours of and took advantage of it actually being dry today!

Of course I took hundreds of photos as usual and got some really nice ones, especially of Kieran playing football (this was while I had to rest after playing football with him for a while because I am getting old!).  That child is always happiest when he has any form of ball to play with. :)

This is for Lisa, because she wanted to see them!  Flowers that were delivered today from my husband. :)

Gerberas are one of my favourites as is pink!  That nesty thing underneath the flowers is actually all attached to a wire rig thing so once the flowers are finished I will have to see what I can make with it! :)

 Thanks for looking! :)

Sketchy Thursdays

This is the layout I did for this weeks Sketchy Thursdays Sketch below...

(sorry about the bad photo but we have had 3 days of miserable weather here, just in time for our half term :()

I was very cheeky and combined it with this weeks challenge on UKS which was...

Use really bold /bright colours or only black/white/grey  - I do love my bright colours so of course went that way
Use the title or lyrics from an Elvis song - Never heard of this one but it was on the list
Use something silvery and/or include a crown shape- I used the silver heart and had lots of fun playing with my newest favourite toy liquid pearls!

Then I just had to share the prize I received from Debbie over at Country Heart and Home (that's the one I was telling you about Lisa!) which is my favourite blog to visit!  It always has such variety and interesting things to see from all of Debbie's gorgeous work featuring her adorable children to yummy well photographed recipes, and all the lovely things she finds for her home and herself.  Definitely a blog I try and visit everyday :)  This is the prize I recently won on her blog and it is amazing!  I couldn't even fit it in one picture...

5 different ranges of Bo-Bunny including stickers and embellishments!  I can't decide which one I love the most although the Mama-razzi is probably winning :)
So not only is she amazingly talented and a superwoman with 5 kids who cooks yummy food and looks gorgeous she is also wonderfully generous and very sweet!  So you should definitely go and have a look at her blog and I am sure you will join the ranks of loyal followers.

Blog Candy Winner!

Yay, finally time to give away my first blog candy!   I did a drawing using Random Org and here are the results....

That means the winner is Scrappingmabel! :) Email me your address and I will get it sent off to you in the next couple of days. :):)  Thanks for playing along and I hope you enjoy your prize! :)

Twilight Addicts Challenge

This months challenge in my Twilight Addicts social group on UKS was as follows :

use a number in the title
Use Hidden - or no - journalling
One main colour (there can be others too.. but one main)
a LO from one of your faves.. 

I chose a layout from Taniwha that can be seen here which I just adore, well I love all of her work!

Yeah I know it is a Christmas layout in June but I only recently had the photos printed and they were calling out to be scrapped! ;)

Apparently I don't have many red papers so I had to make some of my own!

 I also made a card out of the paper when I was done using my new flower punch that arrived yesterday and my new Cuttlebug butterfly die and embossing set (which I have had on my list of things I want for months now!).  I really enjoyed making the roses and can't wait for the other flower punch I ordered from another shop to arrive so I can make some bigger ones too! :D  I also plan on making loads of different butterflies to do something (haven't quite worked that one out yet) with. ;)

We have been having such lovely weather and on Wednesday when Paul had taken Kieran down to the cricket field to practice his bowling me and Christopher went to the field behind our house to go and fly his helicopter.  It was scorching hot but Christopher still insisted on wearing long sleeves...of course I took advantage and took loads of photos!

 I just love this time of year!

P.S.  Don't forget my blog candy ending tomorrow, I will draw a winner tomorrow evening so if you haven't entered and you want a chance to win it you had better do it quickly! ;)

UKS Challenge

This weeks challenge for on UKScrappers was to do a shaped layout, not 12x12, use bright colours and something big!  This was my interpretation of the challenge..

I had a lot of fun playing around with this one and used paint, inked most of the edges, distressed, made my own little photo mat and did loads of fake stitches!  I do think that the coloured stitching takes almost as much time as my usual hand stitching which I generally do in front of the television so I think although I love it I will probably still mostly do hand or machine stitching. :)

I found the most brilliant idea on Heather Ruwe's Scrapbook Bakery Blog the other day.  She did 30 days of inspiration and I just love what she has done with those butterflies on day 16 to decorate her scrap room!  I think I will definitely be trying that some time because how relaxing and inspiring would it be to have gorgeous butterflies flying up your wall :)

Setchy Thursdays!

 I did the following layout for the sketch on the Sketchy Thursdays blog, unfortunately with all the time I had to waste in the hospital this week (so glad that s over!) and feeling sick I only finished it off late last night so did not have it done in time!  They had a sketch for a double layout this week, which makes a change so I enjoyed trying it.  I do prefer to do single layouts but I take so many photos that I do end up doing all sorts of doubles with loads of photos!

This is my layout for the sketch, I just love these photos of my youngest DS, he is watching TV so he can not take his eyes of the television as he is always so fixated on it, which is what the layout is about. 



I used My Minds Eye Star Bright papers and had lots of fun making some Little pins for the page after seeing it on the My ordinary life blog, I will definitely be making some more of them so I am going to have to find some interesting bead shapes to go on them! :)

I also just had to show you the totally fantastic prize I received from Nikki Sivils!  For National Scrapbooking Day they had the most amazing blog hop and I left a comment on Anna Bowkis' blog Scrapping Tonight and was lucky enough to get picked for the prize!   I was asked which paper line I would like and chose Victoria's Street as I love that one but don't own it and was expecting to just receive the papers.  Well this is what arrived yesterday...

The 12x12 papers as well as a 6x6 pad of all the papers and a gorgeous chipboard house mini album, sticker, bread(less) tags, little craft flags and two packs of very yummy buttons.  One set are corduroy buttons and the others are the burlap buttons which are just gorgeous!  Is that not a totally amazing giveaway!  I must say I was just dancing around the house after that was delivered :)  My fingers are just itching to get started with it :D

My first Blog Candy!

Well I have been a bit off colour recently so alas have not done much scrapbooking or crafting!

I did however have the energy to make a quick card using Nikki Sivils Willow Bee.  I absolutely adore this paper collection, it is just so bright and happy and perfect for the lovely weather we are currently having ;)

And speaking of lovely weather, the kids are really enjoying it and spending loads of time outdoors (bliss!).  Having said that we are still doing loads of running them around!  The current list of weekly activities is
Monday - free yay! (unless there is a cricket match)
Tuesday - Beavers
Wednesday - science club
Thursday - cricket
Friday - Dodge ball and swimming
Saturday - orienteering
Sunday - free yay again!
So that is the set routine and then there are the cricket matches which can be any day of the week, the school discos, the Beavers parades and the parties!  But you don't mind the running around so much when the sun is shining :)

Kieran is so proud of his cricket kit as he has just moved up to the under 11s team so they now need the full kit as they use the proper balls and you often find him out in the garden playing cricket in his kit.  I just love how huge the leg pads are on him and I have no idea why he is wearing his school shoes!

One more quick one of Christopher playing with his new bubble tube, isn't it amazing how bubbles can fascinate kids for so long!   If you look carefully he has a big scrape down the side of his face where he just 'fell' on his face!

Anyway as I have had such good luck recently with winning things I have decided to share a little bit of the wonderful RAK I received from Tracie Hudson.  It was a really amazing RAK and there were double papers so I am giving away some of the papers as well as some of the chipboard pieces and elements.

 So if your would like to win it then you need to:

1. Either be a follower or become a follower of my blog
2. Leave a comment
3. Post on your blog about the giveaway and link it back here

I will draw a winner on Sunday the 6th June.  Good luck! :D