TCR – No 66

Good afternoon

My hubby treated me to a wonderful weekend away in Paris with our friends, boat cruise down the Seine, walking forever! to see all the great sights of Paris, and a wonderful evening at the Moulin Rouge with VIP tickets with Mumm champagne courtesy of our friend Steve – what a wonderful show, fantastic costumes, dancing and sets – how romantic our men were this weekend, feel very blessed and the evening made my weekend away …xxx

Anyway, we had another family surprise, our youngest son Benjamin asked his girlfriend Jessica to marry him while on holiday last week and she said ‘Yes’!! Woo Hoo – so this layout I have done is of her ring and seconds after his proposal in the Dordogne, high on a hilltop overlooking vineyards, picnic and champagne – aaaah…

So this is my layout for The Color Room challenge no 66, very colourful especially for me (though I do seem to be heading that way with my layouts recently).

Take care everyone…

Friends

Good morning

And what a lovely weekend we are having, wall to wall blue skies with a gentle breeze, perfect!  Not good for crafting though, want to be outside sunning myself but until the sun comes round to my room in about an hour, I am OK!

I did this layout for Jo at the Stampin’ n Stuff Scrapbooking Club where she has asked me to make some layouts with the Stampin’ Up kits we have every month – how cool is that!  She is a very, very busy lady as you can imagine and I am thrilled she has asked me…

So here was my first effort using the DSP Botanical Gazette papers from the mini catalogue…

There are some really lovely papers in this set but I wanted one of the darker papers for this layout- I used Chocolate Chip, Olive Green, Cherry Cobbler and So Saffron for my main colours, cut and embossed (vintage wallpaper and lattice folders) some 2×2 in papers and card from the set to create a border for the photo, used one of SU’s scallop border punches, the lovely Pear Pizzazz green sheer ribbon, and using the Big Shot flower and butterfly dies for the embellishments. I then used the alphabet soup chipboard letters from a previous kit which I inked with the same colours, added a few pearls and it was done.

Hope you like it, have a great weekend and take care out there…

Little Owls

Evening

I do love these light evenings, so nice to sit in my room and craft away with no lights on.  I do have problems with lights in here, I expect I need to invest in a daylight lamp…

A friend asked me for some small cards so I started with these little owls, jsut love that Stampin’ Up punch.  Very plain as she asked for, mainly using Whisper White, Olive Green, Crumb Cake and Soft Suede, then just added a few Rhinestones.

One of the waistcoats I used the Clearly for you set, and used the sentiment from Party This Way.  She also wants some Bird Punch ones too so had better get a wiggle on…

Sketch 13

Good morning…

This is my card for the Simply Stampin’ Challenge Sketch 13.  I bought this stamp set a few weeks back and haven’t used it, so thought I would give it a go.  The set is Sew Lovely and seems quite popular, but I am not sure yet, but then I have said that about lots of sets I now love…

The colours are mainly Tangerine Tango and Tempting Turquoise, such great names, and using the sketch quite loosely with just a few embellishments.

I am in scrapbooking mode at the moment though and have a few more ready for Jo for her Scrapbooking Club.

Have a lovely day and take care…

So Proud…

Good Morning,

Very hot and humid here this morning, have done all my housework, yeah! so thought I would finish a layout I started at our crop on Saturday.

This is using one of the papers from the Nursery Suite by SU, together with Real Red, Bashful Blue, So Saffron and Blushing Bride (a colour combination from this week’s The Color Room challenge 64) with embossed flowers using the textured plates, SU punches and craft board for the title, another easy page to put together for me…

My handsome sons, make me so proud, and one of their gorgeous girlfriends… have a great day everyone!

Another Day in Paradise

Evening

We were at DAvid and Brendas Crop yesterday and they had some luverly new Bo Bunny papers, perfect for the photos I wanted to do of my sister Helen and her granddaughter Phoebe…

It was from our day on Brownsea and the papers are such lovely colours, very simple as I didn’t want to ruin the paper!  Used SU’s So Saffron for the matting and a few of their Rhinestones.

Wasn’t it a glorious day, got quite a bit of gardening done in the front garden which I haven’t touched in over a year, so was pleased to weed and cut back out there.

Have a lovely evening everyone…

You’ve Got Male

Good Morning

I had a look at the Simply Challenged site this morning and this is the card I have come up with…

The base is Bashful Blue with Marina Mist for the matting with the testured  Sqaure Lattice.  I actually brayered Bashful Blue (need to practice lots for that – Jo D would tell you how naff I am at that technique!!) then stamped over with Basic Gray, and I coloured in the Whisper White the sails and at the top for ‘clouds’ but it doesn’t show very well in the photo.  I used the pokey tool for some interest in the corners and used one of the lovely frames for the sentiment.  I like simple mens cards, no flowers or froofroo…

Hope it doesn’t rain today and they can get some tennis matches on!!

Because…

Good afternoon

Watching Wimbledon?  The Nadal match has been good so far…

Made a card for a friend who is not well and at the moment, and I must admit, I am liking layering some of  SU’s stamps.  They lend themselves very easily to doing just that.

I used Bashful Blue, Marina Mist, Wild Wasabi and touch of Riding Hood Red with the En Francais large stamp for the background, sentiment from Because I care, the stamp set then is Clearly for you with the frame from the Baby Blossoms set.

Take care everyone…

TCR – 63

Morning

This is my layout for The Colour Room challenge No 63.  I used Stampin’ Up’s Cherry Cobbler, So Saffron, Sahara Sand and Crumb Cake and some SU designer papers, used the Big Shot dies for the flowers and butterflies, Top Note die embossed with the Manhattan Flowers, grunge board letters  and some rhinestones and I actually crocheted a flower! I also inked in cherry cobbler with one of the  Vintage Vogue stamps.

The Colour Room is a great site if you want some help with your scrapbooking, gives you a weekly layout and colours for it.  I am a card maker first and am now enjoying more scrapbooking.

Hoping it doesn’t rain too badly for the first day at Wimbledon…

Nursery Suite

Afternoon

It has been one of those weeks I don’t wish to have again after having to be admitted to hospital on Wednesday by my GP after suffering from atrial fibrulation! Racing heart and palpatations were quite scary, a very new thing for me and 26 hours in hospital… I am now on beta blockers and very tired, and exceptionally glad to be home!

With the Nursery Suite papers from Stampin’ Up from our last months club from Jo, I hadn’t done very much with it, but at least now I have two layouts under my belt with it, but both of them very simple. 

My sister and I took her granddaughter to Brownsea Island for the day a few days before Helen went back to New Zealand. We took quite a few photos of her on the beach but she was fascinated with the large shells in the seaweed and didn’t realise that something was alive inside!  I like the colour combination of So Saffron and Regal Rose and the lovely shaped round papers in the kit. 

Still heavy showers out there but will be nice when the lawn goes back to green again!  Take care everyone…  I am trying!!