Home again!

Well, after nearly four weeks away in New Zealand I am back and ready to roll.

We had the most fantastic holiday me and my hubby Mike, we went with my sister Helen and her husband Derek and the four of us ate and drank our way round the South Island, very impressed with the northern part which we had never been to before.  I took 1345 photos and my sis took 16oo!!!  Well, we are in for some scrapbooking in a major way I think, good to know we have four crops a month to go to…

Have to sort my photos out now, take care everyone..

xx

Step Cards

While I had some time I put some more cards together.  At our extravaganza the other weekend, Jenny Moors showed us how to make step cards so I used our  stamp set from Jo and  Jenny for birthdays for one and the lovely frog set that Stampin Up did two years ago and haven’t used for ages for the other one.  Cute huh!  Might have to take these again though as it was getting dark and my flash came on… 

HOpe you are having a good week.

Julie

52in10 - prompt 6

Aternoon

I am now caught up with the prompt 6 - don’t know how Scrapdolly does it with her full time job and all the other things she does - it takes me all week to do one page!!  But I am loving the challenges she sets each week and sure she has had fun putting them all together, and it is nice to get old photos out.   The only trouble is I spend ages looking through them all again!

You could do one or both of her suggestions this week and I chose Two Peas in a Pod as that is what my twin sister and I are, very appropriate for us this week.  So many of our friends are doing these classes (all free by the way) and it is nice to get together every few weeks and see what we have all accomplished.  The paper for this is Pashmina Bubblebath, something I bought ages ago and have not found a use for it until now.  I am getting very bright, don’t know what is up with me!!  The photos of me and Helen when we were 5 then 14 and also with our Mum and Dad when we were a year old.  We miss our Dad dreadfully as we lost him to cancer three years ago and it is so cathartic to see him in photos on our pages…

Hope you like it.

52 in 10 - No 5

My page for the fifth 52 in 10 prompt finished, I must admit to loving only to have to do one a week but it is taking my til the end of the week to finish them - I am such a slow scrapbooker…

This is quite bright for me too but wanted it to feel a happy page.  All the paper and card are from old stash that I am trying to use, including loads of prima flowers and buttons, and the silver butterfly charms - the photo of Mike and me and our two grown up sons I have scrapped quite a few times but wanted something to go with the bright paper. Orange is a colour I don’t use very often and I like the quotes -

‘This is the ideal life’ - Mark Twain and ‘Where there is great love there are always wishes’  - Willa Cather.

Thanks for looking

Julie

Umbrella Anya

Afternoon

Cloudy out now so thought I would get a chance to do a few cards, then my Mum reminded me that while we are away, we have seven family birthdays!! So I have been busy doing some of them, four mens though, sooo hard but love the new stamps set we got at our Extravaganza last weekend with the birthday cake and stand set, can be used for boys or girls, so will come in very handy as I do them this afternoon!

I love this Anya set (beach girl and snow togged girl in the same set) and tried to do it in different colours for me so chose bright red and lime green and I liked it.  I love the umbrella embellishments, everything else is from my stash.

Hope you like it.

Julie

busy busy busy

Well, I have been a busy girl today.  These are a set of cards I have made for my friends Sue and Jayne at school who are covering for me whilst my hubby and I are away in New Zealand soon.  Just got to think of a way now to box them for the gift.  I hope they like them! 

They are all Stampin Up - such fantastic stamps - coloured in with copic and promarker pens, glitter from stampin up and the papers are Minds Eye from the springtime set.

Julie

52 in 1- no 4

Morning

Well this is the fourth prompt scrap page which I really enjoyed doing.  The 7o’s music scene really inspired my music of choice through the years and it was good to put it to paper.  I don’t seem to be able to do a page without a photo so cheated with this image of the lovely John Travolta! You can’t see the writing very well but it says my fave singers and groups, Michael Jackson, David Cassidy, The Osmonds, Pink Floyd, Deep Purple - yeah I know a bit diverse, but loved them all in my teens…

Hope you like it.

Julie

Anya - hearts

This is one of my favourite Anya stamps that I wanted to do in paler colours but ended up with a retro paper from my stash.  I have added flowers and the lovely umbrella charm with hearts on it to, ribbon from Craft Obsessions and the ‘fabulous friend’ stamp is Stampin Up along with the oval and scalloped punch.

Hope you like it.

Julie

Thank You

This is just a quick thank you to Jo and Jenny for giving us all a great day out yesterday at our Stamp Extravaganza - the tables were laden with personal gifts for everyone so beautifully decorated, a lovely homemade lunch and our three projects we made during the day.  For their first big day they did us proud and I can’t wait for the next one.

Many thanks for Jo Dumbleton and Jenny Moors!!!

Julie

52 in 10 prompt 3

Morning

This is the third prompt from Scrapdolly which I finished at our lovely crop yesterday in Moordown - we had such a nice day as always, just chatting away with my sister Helen, Jo, Ellen and Fleur and all the other girls at the crop - it is amazing any of us gets anything done really!

This is all about ‘what I would say now to my younger self’ - the photo is of me and Helen when we were four.  The paper is from Stampin Up - they have such lovely coordinating  double sided papers - and embossed white card.  The brads and ribbon are from David at Craft Obsessions.  I layered these and made myself a ‘note to self’ book which is stitched, love that look, but haven’t shown it open as it is quite personal, maybe show it later, tied down with ribbon.   I really loved putting this one together, whether it is using pinks, what with having boys, I rarely use such girlie colours. Next prompt today!!

Hope you like it, it is back to card making today as I have quite a few birthdays coming up and of course Valentines Day.

Julie