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! :)

Bo Bunny Sketch

Well I am really behind with uploading this one as it was last months Bo Bunny sketch challenge that went up two weeks ago!!    I am a bit behind with everything at the moment as I managed to come down with a cracker bug on New years and have been totally out of it for the last week!

Anyway better late than never!  This is the fantastic sketch done by Debbie Sherman.

 

And this is my layout using the Garden Girl line.

Supplies Used :
Patterned Paper : Stripe, Magical, Garden Girl, Dot, Wisteria/Garden Girl
Cardstock : Coordinating Double Dot Coffee
Noteworthy : Garden Girl
Chipboard : Garden Girl 12x12 Chipboard
Jewels : Garden Girl

My last kiddiewinkle goes back to school tomorrow (the other one went back on Wednesday) and that will officially be Christmas season over for me!  I am always so sad when the kids holidays end!  Well that's it for today and if all goes to plan I will be back with an off the page project in a few days. :)  

I hope everyone has had a good start to the year so far and thanks for visiting! :)

Scrapology and Happy New Year!

I hope everyone had a fantastic Christmas!  Ours was wonderful and we had the biggest family gathering for Christmas we have had for years. :)

I was really happy to be asked to be a guest designer for the Scrapology challenge blog this month where my lovely friend Alison is on the design team.  This was the layout by Stacey Hansen that we had to scraplift.

And this is my take on it, I used Basic Grey Picadilly

 I totally love these corner stamps from the Bo Bunny Gabrielle collection!!

You can see the design teams wonderful layouts on the Scrapology blog here as well as the details for the challenge, they have a fantastic prize up for grabs!  Anyway that is it for today, Happy New Year to everyone, wishing you all a fantastic, happy year ahead! :)

Snow and a Snowfall Layout!

Well although it has snowed a few times in the last week none of it has settled but we had our first thickish snow on Friday night and then again on Saturday night much to the childrens delight!  I on the other hand wasn't quite so delighted as although Kieran broke up on Friday, Christopher still has a few days of school left and I hate driving in the snow!!!  Luckily it rained on Sunday and melted the snow enough to make the roads driveable :)

Of course the kids (ok and the adults) had lots of fun in the snow while it was there!  So this is a very photo heavy post! First Kieran throwing snowballs in the backyard!

This is Christopher with his Snowbean which is an 'Epic Snowbean' that you plant when it snows and then it gives you snow in July!

 

And he even built a fort for the snowbean....

Then of course we had to go sledding!

Then the kids used thier father as a cart horse before pummeling us both with snowballs!

Christopher also made some snow angels :)

And I even let Paul take a photo of me with the kids!

So after all that snow I have a quick and easy snowy layout using the beautiful Snowfall range!

Supplies Used : 

Patterned Paper : Snowfall Wintertime, Snowfall Cut-outs/Snowfall ; Enchanted Rose, Enchanted Fairytales/Enchanted
Cardstock : Aquamarine Co-ordinating Double Dot
Stickers : Snowfall Combo Stickers
Trinkets : Snowfall Trinkets
Jewels : Snowfall Jewels ; Enchanted Jewels
Ribbon : 5/8" Aquamarine Double Dot Ribbon

Well it is less than a week till Christmas and I am sooo disorganised, I haven't even started wrapping presents, although I have pretty much bought everthing and the food is organised.  We have at least put the tree up although that is the only decorations up really except for the Christmas beanies that the kids love so much :) 

Although I have a couple of other things to upload, just incase I don't make it back on before Christmas as often happens these days, I hope everyone that celebrates it has a wonderful, happy Christmas with all your loved ones! :)

Life and a Winter Layout

I am going to start with a few photos of little bits from the last few weeks as I have not really done many for ages! 

So first up, Kieran went to his first football match!  The poor child, neither of his parents are football watchers so we have never taken him to any sort of games but his school got some tickets to a Manchester United game and offered them at a fantastic price to the kids who play football.  I think it was 32 kids and 8 teachers that went, of course Kieran was totally thrilled because Man U is his team and he really enjoyed himself, especially as it was on a school night so he got to stay up late!  So here he is all ready to leave, wearing his Man U shirt of course :)

More football!  Christopher had his first school match recently.  Although he played a bit of football at school last year he has only started taking it seriously this year and has been trying really hard so he can play as a goalkeeper on the school team.  So here he is in the school goalkeeper jersey, very pleased with himself :)

Next is a photo of Kieran and his experiment for school for a safe landing device!  They were given the assignment to design and make a vehicle for landing safely with an egg as a passenger and the egg had to survive the fall!  So this is what Kieran made (ahem late the night before as he designed it and then forgot to make it...) and it was a success!  The little pod which was a flower pot and a plastic tub is very well lined with cotton pads and paper towels!  I would have thought the whole parachute thing would have been pretty standard but apparently not according to Kieran and his was the only egg that survived the landing so they then had to go and launch it off the top of the 3 story school building!  So needless to say he was very pleased with himself too :)

We went to Ikea a couple of weeks ago and while we were there we picked up a couple of their gingerbread houses because I knew the kids would love to decorate one.  Paul's parents came to stay with us for a few days to look after the kids while we went to our concert and while they were there the kids asked Grandma to do the gingerbread house with them.  I must say I was soooo glad that Grandma was there to do it with them because it looked like such hard work and of course the kids went just a tiny bit overboard with the sweets (the ones that went onto the house and the ones that went into their stomachs)  ;)

Trust me every inch of that roof is covered in sweets!  The silly looks on the faces is probably from a severe sugar high!

Then I have a layout to share that went on the Bo Bunny blog last week using one of the older collections, Midnight Frost, still one of my favourites!  This is actually a photo that I have scrapped before on a double layout.  I don't often use photos twice but I do love this photo as I don't have many nice ones of me and the kids as I have a tendency to hide when a camera is pulled out.

I don't know if you can see it in these pics but the swirls and snowflakes were done with silver embossing powder and I do love the effect! :)

Products Used :

Patterned Papers : Powder, Crystals, Stripe / Midnight Frost
Cardstock : Powder Blue Dot
Chipboard : Glitter Midnight Frost Layered Chipboard
Noteworthy : Midnight Frost
Stamps : Midnight Frost Stamps
Brads : Midnight Frost
Rub-ons : Midnight Frost 

Well that is it for today and I really should go to bed to catch up on some lost sleep, I hope everyone is having a great week! :)