A sea view

I just have to post this.

I've done a digi scrapbook page this evening and am so pleased with it that it just has to go on here straight away :D

I bought a few new kits this weekend from Sweet Shoppe Designs and whilst downloading and sorting through my new stash I just had the urge to use it. So tonight, seen as I've spent my entire school day hard at work, I thought I'd let myself have the afternoon to scrap. I've used a few bits from my new stash on this page with a mixture of my existing stash collection, and I've used bits from too many people to name them all :D If you want to know any of the details of products I've used pop your question as a comment and I'll answer.

This page was one of the rare ones, it just fell together exactly how I'd imagined and hoped it to, which is always great. I have used the pencil lines sketch 227 with this page, I decided I needed to do a sketch challenge again. I'm just sooo pleased with it. This will definitely be a digi page I attempt to print out, and if that fails, I think I'll have to do a paper version of it.

I think that's all from me tonight, thanks for looking.

Bye :)

Word-A-Week photo challenge #2

The word for this week is......

Calm. This should be a great word and a great challenge as it is open to a wide interpretation. Things that make you calm, something that is calm, there are a few different things you could do. Have fun coming up with your ideas and taking your photos if you wish to join in, I'll post my photos next week.

Thanks to those of you who took part last week, anyone can still join in, I'd love to see your interpretations.

Bye for now.
Hannah :)

Word-A-Week photography challenge # 1

Hi everyone.

Wow, what a lovely day today's been, I hope you've all had your fair share of the gorgeous springtime sun.

The week is nearly up for the Word-A-Week challenge.

So, here are my photos this week for hot.



It was a good challenge, and as there is no really obvious subjects you could photograph for this it really made me think. I am really pleased with the chilli photo, I've been up at my Aunt and Uncle's house today and they have a lovely high gloss table. It made a lovely contrasting backdrop for the chillies and they even had a reflection!! I enjoyed playing around and making it a high key image as it's an effect I haven't really tried before.

So, how have those of you who have also participated got on?

Here is a list of links to your photos:-

Janys   (Sorry, I couldn't link this to the exact post)

(post a comment below telling me you've completed the challenge and I'll add a link on here for you, thanks :) )

Thanks to everyone who's joined in the challenge, it's good to see others interpretation of the word. I've begun to get so absorbed and passionate about photography that everything I look at is a photo. I'm thinking about photos all the time, which isn't necessarily a good thing as I should be thinking about school work!!!

I'll be back tomorrow evening with next weeks word.

Until then, bye :)

Hannah  :)

Pretty Paper and Chipboard stories

Wow, I've just been directed to this blog by someone advertising the gorgeous blog candy she has on offer. Take a look ....

.... doesn't it look lovely. :D
Her blog is great, and for your chance to win these goodies, take a look here. 
Hannah :)

Masculine Page

Hi Everyone,

Today I have a page I'm incredibly pleased to show you. I'm so proud of this page, I don't do many masculine pages, but thoroughly enjoyed making this one and am very proud of the result.

This is the first page I've done where I've taken the photo one day and scrapped it the next. I took this photo Saturday evening when we were at Nan's and James was being amazingly obliging for photos. He normally shoves me away as soon as I approach him with a camera, I suppose that's normal for a lad his age. I've wanted a photo of his beautiful eyes for a long time, and finally I've got one.

I hope you like the page too. When I showed it to James, he read the title, smiled at me and said "Thank You". Ahhh :)

Nan loved her Birthday card and cake, she thought it was a bought one at first when I took it out of it's box :D

That's it from me at the moment, I'll be back later this week with my Word-A-Week challenge photo(s).

Hannah :)

Word-A-Week photography challenge

The word for this week is ....

OK then, considering the time of year and the weather at the minute, this may be really quite a challenge. :)

If anyone is interested in taking the challenge this week as well, it'd be great to see what you do. If you could share the link to your photo in a comment below when you're done that would be brilliant. I'll post my photo either Thursday or Friday of next week. Thanks and I hope you enjoy the challenge.

My Biology exam went fine today, the two experiments weren't too difficult, the first was almost easy, and the second a bit more complicated. Thanks for all of the lovely comments everyone's left on my last few posts, they are really appreciated. Thanks :)

Bye for now,
Hannah :)

Very crafty :)

I've been doing all sorts of crafty things over the past few days. My last mock exam is tomorrow, I've got my Biology practical experiments which should be ok. We need to know very little for the experiment, we just use previous knowledge, so for my past few free days I've been being creative. I've been cake decorating, digi scrapping and making cards, so this shall be quite a big post with something for everyone I hope. Hope you enjoy :)

Digi Scrapping

Dawn Inskip has made a lovely digi template which is available to download on UKscrappers. Here's the page I've made using the template.

I've changed some of the elements on the template and added papers and other items to make it a christmas layout. I really like the page, it's the first time I've really used a template and it was good fun, and a lot quicker with the basic layout displayed for me. I hope you like it too.

Card

It's my Nan's birthday at the weekend and as, for once, I've had time, I've made her a card. Since Mum's had her blog she's been searching many other blogs and I've spotted lots of cards that have been inspiring me. So this card is a mixture of a lot of different cards and inspiration.

I really like this card, I love these colours and I had to use my Stampin Up bird punch again.

Cake decorating

I haven't done any cake decorating since my birthday cake last summer, so as I knew I'd have a bit of time this week, I decided to decorate a birthday cake for Nan. I haven't had time to bake or cover a cake, so we bought a plain ready iced cake from the supermarket that is designed to have a photo transferred onto the top. Nan loves snowdrops and as they're perfect for this time of year I've done some for the cake.

I'm really pleased with how they've turned out, I've never tried snowdrops before and have made these without a specific cutter, adapting a different cutter for one part of the flower and hand cutting the leaves and the rest of the flowers.

I've dusted the flowers to make the inner layers look slightly more realistic.

The cake wasn't iced very well and unfortunately we didn't get any choice in the shop, this was the only one. To cover up the very wobbly and weirdly shaped sides I've created a rope, which I think just finishes it off nicely.

I'm really pleased with it and it's been great to get all of my equipment out again and have a play. Hopefully Nan will love it, it's a surprise, she hasn't a clue I've done a birthday cake. :)

A new Photography Challenge

I've been trying to find a photography blog recently with a weekly challenge, but I haven't found quite the thing I've been looking for.
I've decided to set a challenge up for myself, like I used to do for card making before I moved into scrapbooking. Me and Mum have written a whole long list of one-word prompts, that we've then cut out and are ready to be picked at random.
I'm planning to draw a prompt word ever Friday evening, so I have the weekend to get a good start with the word.
I've designed this challenge predominantly to challenge myself and get myself using the camera more, but if anyone else would like to join in and do the weekly challenge too, you'd be very welcome. It'd be quite nice to see how everyone else interprets the word. If you'd like to join in I shall be posting my first prompt word tomorrow evening, so please come over and see what it is.

Here's the words ready to be selected :)

From me, that's all today, have a good evening and I'll be back tomorrow with my photo prompt


Bye, Hannah :)

Mum

It's been lovely being at home today, working hard but in my own environment and spending the day with mum. We both went out for a dog walk this afternoon before James came in, unfortunately the sun went in as soon as we got out on the walk, but it was still a lovely walk. We took the camera and I actually had the camera in my hands for the entire walk!! There was a reason though, Mum has started her own blog and wanted a nice photo of her to put as her profile image. I love taking portrait shots so really enjoyed taking them.

Mum really loves both of these and I feel very proud to have taken them as she normally doesn't like photos of herself. I'm so happy with how they've come out.

Mum and Rolo in our lovely local woods, it really is starting to feel a bit warmer and almost like spring :)

Mum has wanted to start her blog for a long while and has finally decided too. Please head over and take a look. (click on her blog header to take you there)

P.S. I hope you like the blog background and header I designed for her :D

Bye for now, I hope you've had a great Valentine's day
Hannah

Prom scrapbook

I've managed another page of my Prom scrapbook.

I really like this page, I love the colours. Just a little warning, the majority of my book will be these colours as I love them and they seem to be the colour most of my friends chose to wear to the prom. I'm really looking forward to my book being finished, it's really coming together nicely.

Yesterday we went to a local abbey where they have many snowdrops out. The place was so busy, the overflow car park was already nearly full when the abbey had only been open a short while. Because it was so busy it was very hard to get any decent wide angle shots of them, so I just stuck to macro shots. Here are my favourite few.

The dew drops still on the petals looked great and I was very determined to capture them. I've had a little play around on Photoshop and really like this vintage version of the photo.

I'm off school this week as it's mock exam week and we get study leave between each exam. I only have 2 exams, and one doesn't require any revision, so hopefully I'll get a bit of time to relax and revise at my own pace, plus a bit of free time in between.

Bye for now,
Hannah :)

Christmas page at last :)

Finally, for the first time ever, I have done a Christmas layout. This year, after finally managing to get some nice Christmas photo's, I'm looking forward to scrapping them. So far this is my first page, a montage with a photo from each day of my photography course.

 I like the page. I wanted to go for a more contemporary Christmas page and not stick to the traditional green and red, I think I succeeded it that!!

 I've made it quite a dimensional page, it needed it as the photo montage was arranged on the computer and printed, so it was all flat. I've been trying to develop my style recently, I see so many layouts on fabulous blogs that I really wish I could do. I've noticed a common theme, busy and very dimensional, I've tried to copy this style but can't. So I've decided, as I know many other scrappers do, your own style is the best and most comfortable way to scrap. :)

 Do you like my Christmas tree? I was looking through my digi elements trying to see if there were any elements I could use as hybrids and saw this. Instead of printing it out, I decided to make my own Christmas tree in this style, and it's definitely something I'll make again. My lettering each has the title of a module of my Christmas photography course. Very conveniently there were 12 letters/digits in my title and 12 days/modules of the course.

The modules are in the correct order as you read through the title, and each title corresponds to the number on the photo I took that day.
It was great fun scrapping all of my Christmas photos. We bought a lovely Christmas paper pad at the weekend as we really lacked in any Christmas papers, so hopefully I'll manage some more Christmas layouts, some more traditional maybe.

Bye for now, and thanks for looking :)
Hannah

Karen's World

If you've never visited Karen's World, the blog is well worth a visit. Click here and I'll take you there. Karen is a good friend that makes some fabulous things. She's a Stampin Up Demonstrator and makes their products look so yummy and amazing. Take a look at her Stampin Up blog here for all the inspiration you need, plus her contact details for when you can no longer resist the temptation of their products!! :D
Over at her other blog, she has been so popular that she has had over 10,000 hits. To celebrate and thank everyone, she has some blog candy on offer.

Does it look tempting?

To take a look, visit her blog and you'll spot the link on the right hand side.

Bye for now,

Hannah :)

Welcome to my world

Hi everyone,
As I said in my last post I have been re-arranging my bedroom and giving it a bit of an organise/spring clean. We moved into our house over a year ago but because there have been many other more important things to do around the house my furniture was just chucked into my room and left. I have finally had time to re-arrange it and make it feel more like my room, my world.
I love it and the final addition was added this weekend. I thought I'd share my little world with you.

Here's my new addition this weekend, my photo ledge. Ikea, isn't it a great shop :D I love to make my bedroom really me, and so I put many of scrapbook pages and photos on display. As you can see, most of my photos are of family, I'm a very family orientated person :)

Ah, my necklaces. I love jewellery, I still cannot have enough, I'm always seeing new bits I love. It's quite a jewellery collection, and once again, thanks Ikea, your multi-use hanger is great for my necklaces :)

Here's my room as a whole, OK, I'm quite an Ikea based person, that is an expedit unit, in fact a lot of the things in this photo is from Ikea

My Christmas present from my Aunt and Uncle, this incredibly cool photo frame is great to display lots of little pics. My smiley earring holder, that's also new, I had too many earrings for my other holder. :)

So that's my little world, and I love it. The lights along my shelf are great, originally I just wanted them for really pretty decoration, but last night I realised how amazing they are when I want to lay in bed and read, the light is so bright I no longer have to worry whether I'm straining my eyes or not. :D

On to other things, I didn't get chance to do any scrapbooking over the weekend. We did do the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch though.

As you can see, I did more than just watch the birds!!
We have done the birdwatch for quite a few years now, but it's the first year we've done it at our new, more rural house. It was great, sitting in our sitting room, watching the wildlife which is so close to our patio doors. It's so close that I couldn't resist fetching Mum's camera and taking those shots. I sat taking photos for a few minutes whilst Mum finished off the count, but as soon as we'd finished the count, the camera magically swapped from my hands to Mum's and I never saw it again :(

Anyway I was pretty happy with these shots. I hope you like them.

Bye for now,
Hannah :)