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

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

Sorry to be cryptic

Evening

I am not often upset or angry or disappointed by people but at the moment I am all three at one person who is seriously letting us down - just had to put this thought down on paper to see if it made me feel any better, hhmmmm - will let you know. Some people surprise the b—–y hell out of me sometimes…

We went to our lovely crop at West Moors last night where I finished one scrapbook page and then stamped a whole load of characters (Penny Black mostly) for my cards and had a great chat with all the girlies - Helen, Jo, Ellen, Anna and Fleur mostly!  We are looking at having a scrapbook retreat in October and are all very excited about the prospect and Jo and Ellen are having a great time finding properties for a long weekend.

I am stuck on what to do photo wise for prompt 3 of the 52 in 10 - I know what to do for my ‘What I know now that I wish I had thought about consquences later!’ so may have to raid my mothers photo albums and scan a photo so hopefully will find something before our crop on Saturday in Moordown with Linda.

Nothing to show today - just wanted to talk.

Julie

Nearly there…

Evening

Well, we had a lovely day as usual at our local crop in West Moors today and I picked up my Stampers 8 parcel from Jo with my new stamps - this time the Whimsical Butterflies and the little houses which I can’t wait to  use on my cards - if you have never seen Stampin Up, go to Jo’s blog on my sidebar to see all their lovely stuff.

I  am nearly there with this week’s 52 in 10 with Scrapdolly (I know, another propt tomorrow!!) but I forgot my photos for the page so may get a chance to finish that tomorrow.

Got home and Mike had cooked dinner - can’t get a better day than that, a full day crop then a meal waiting for me - bliss. Now a glass of wine and that will be the end to a great day…

Julie

5210 - First Page!

Well afternoon!

I have joined Karen Leahy’s (Dollysdreamings!) 5210 class and as I haven’t been scrapbooking for months after making card after card, this is going to be quite a challenge for me - but one I really need.  I felt I had lost my mojo for scrapping and am hoping this ‘page a week’ project will get me back into the swing of things.

She has wonderful prompts, very though provoking and this project is going to be mostly about ’self’, something I have never really put down on paper before.  So looking forward to this with some trepidation!

The paper is DCWV with a few of their flower embellishments too and I just realised that the 1999 must have fallen off before I took the photo…  The rub ons I have had in my stash for ever and I am naughty and have typed the journaling for this week - I will hand write some of them honestly Karen!

The second prompt is about goals and aims for this year, have just downloaded and printed it off as there is a lot on it to read.  If anyone wants a challenge go to my sidebar and look at Karen’s site - she is a great blogger as well as scrapbooker so enjoy!

Thanks for looking

Julie

Shutter Card Album

Well, as promised  I have taken some photos of the gorgeous Shutter Card Album we did for Christmas with Jo - I kept it for myself!  I did make another one for my friend Lucy in the States as I know she appreciates a handmade gift and hope she will copy it to get her started on her crafting too.

It is all made from Stampin Up card, paper, brads and embellishments - see Jo on her site on my links - isn’t she so clever!!

Thanks for looking.

Julie

Happy New Year

Morning

Bright and crispy here today so will be spending time indoors as it is so cold everywhere - maybe get to do some card making eh!

It was very busy for me before Xmas hence no blog, made and gave 79 individual cards to family and friends and that kinda wiped me out.  We did some lovely classes with Jo Dumbleton at Stampin Up during December too and will take photos of the things we did, just such lovely ideas with great paper and embellishments.

Then I was on holiday with my family for a week from Boxing Day skiing near Verbier in a little place called Siviez in the Four Valleys - to say we had snow was an understatement but it was great fun, managed to get some good skiing in and apres with our family and friends - superb.

So, I am ready to start again for the new year - in fact I have started my first class with Karen Leahy’s 5210 free download class, just finished all the journaling and now trying to find the right photos for the first page! Karen is a great blogger and scrapbooker, www.dollysdreamings.typepad.com if you want to be truly inspired.  With such a busy job and lifestyle, I really don’t know how she makes the time to do all the work she does.  We are at our local crop tomorrow night at Scrapfrenzy in Ferndown so hope I will get it all ready to scrap.

OK, will try and get Jo’s wonderful projects down on camera, if not go to Jo’s blog on my sidebar as I think she has photos on her site of the projects we did.

Thanks for looking!

Julie

Nearly December!

Afternoon

Well, Christmas is nearly here and I have just about made all my cards - as I make a card for everyone I send to (62)  and no one is the same - all originals! - they take a long time and I have not really posted any and all my other cards have gone on hold for the moment.

We did a wonderful class with Jo from STampin Up last Thursday (go to her blog on my side bar and you will see the gorgeous box and cards she designed for our class).  I know you can buy the class from her too - such fun to do with our great crowd of friends.

We are doing another one with Jo on Thursday too for a Shutter Album with the Stampin Up gear so can’t wait to do that one - think we will have 8 round my table for that one.

So sorry no cards today, tried to do some Christmas shopping after visiting with my Mum, sister and great niece and did get a few things for my grown up boys. There just doesn’t seem to be enough hours in the day at this time of year, this afternoon after all that horrid rain!

Julie