Non-stop crafting

This describes my Saturday and Sunday. I've created 3 She Art girls and 3 cards!!

First off, my cards. I originally just created one for the LIM challenge this week, which is a recipe to choose a section of a card and keep the majority of your design in this square. So here was my first card.

I was really pleased with it, it took a few attempts to get it to a card I liked, but I got there. I printed the sentiment on the front, and inside the card it reads  '... to say   Happy Birthday' in the same font. As I was just finishing, Mum shouted to me and told me that someone had just uploaded a card almost exactly the same for LIM.
Never mind, I then decided to make another. Well, actually I made two more as I came across a few quickutz dies that inspired me. So here are my other two entries.

 I really love the white on white layering that everyone is doing at the moment, so I thought I'd use it on this very simple congrats card, which could be used as either an engagement or wedding card.

Then this one, I really like this, lots of glitter, pretty girlie colours, I think this really suits it's 16 year old audience. Kraft again, it just looks lovely with pink and white on it :)

We had to choose one of the squares from this sketch to focus our image in.

I hope you like them. I'll be around to comment on other entries later :)

Now onto my She Art girls. I'll share them with you another day, but for now I thought I'd show you this close up of one of them :)



Thanks for visiting, bye for now, 

Thanks

Ahhhhh, I am so relieved, I have just had my Biology exam, my worst subject of them all.
I was so nervous this morning, the most I have ever been for an exam, but it was fine :) lol 
It always is isn't it, those you are most nervous about tend to be the one's that exceed your expectations, I guess it's because they're set so low you can't really do worse!!
So anyway, I thought I'd quickly come and say that I feel my Biology exam went ok and my psychology research methods yesterday was not too bad either. They were really mean in the psychology one and put 1/3 of the entire marks into 2 questions, so I just really hope I got those marks.
THANK YOU ever so much for the good luck wishes, they really helped. And wow, 32 comments on my card, that's the most I've ever had on a post, so thanks so much :) Oh and I got picked as a fave again over at Sketchy Thursday's, really can't believe it.

Right, I still have revising to do over the half term hol next week for exams the week after but for the time being, I think a bit of She Art is in order for tonight :)

Bye for now,

Card Challenge

Hi everyone,

Just a quick post from me this morning to share a card.

Mum (Jenny) really loves LIM and Cas-ual Friday's, so I decided to give it a go this week and play along. Both LIM and CAS-ual Friday's challenges this week go together so well, so I have, like many others, combined the two. LIM asks for butterflies, and CAS-ual Friday's asks for bling, so here is my contribution to both.

Yes, I've used Kraft again, for those who read my post yesterday you'll know just how much I love Kraft cardstock.
For this card I have used the MFT dynamics butterfly die, and then stamped the flowers onto the wings and added some stickles (although this doesn't show up brilliantly on this photo). At first I drew the line so it ran under the greeting and stopped at the butterfly, but decided to carry it on to the right edge and am really pleased I did.

I just want to say to those of you who have also played along, I am sorry if I don't get around to commenting on your cards, I shall nip around and comment on a few but am currently studying for AS exams tomorrow and Thursday, so I am short of time. :)

Thanks for stopping by to take a look :)

Kraft again

I don't know about you, but I am loving Kraft cardstock at the moment, it is so great as a background piece for scrapbook layouts :) And on that note, here is my next layout.

This layout is for this weeks Sketchy Thursday's sketch, which was a really fantastic sketch. Here it is.

It was such a good sketch as it was challenging, it struck me as quite a difficult sketch at first as there isn't much to it, and I enjoyed the challenge.

One of the first things that I noticed was the long journaling space. I have recently found Miss Smith via ukscrappers Scrap Factor contest and absolutely love her scrapbooking, especially the brilliant journaling she does. I wanted to try it, I wanted to tell a story in my own handwriting directly onto the layout, so I did. I found a photo that had a story to tell and gave it a go. I am really pleased with how it looks,  I planned the writing beforehand so I didn't make any mistakes when copying it up onto the layout. Thanks Miss Smith, your journaling and gorgeous layouts gave me a lot of inspiration.

I ripped circles from paper and have stitched circles slightly off line to include the circle elements of the sketch.

Here are a couple of close ups of the layout. :)

This layout tells the story of an amazing weekend last December when all of my cousins gathered to celebrate our Grannie's 80th birthday. I've titled it 'For one weekend only' as it was only the second time we have all been together at once, due to two of my cousins living in Australia :)

I hope you like it :)

I am just going to take this opportunity to thank the Sketchy Thursday's team for picking me as a fave 4 times now, I cannot believe it and feel very proud to have been selected from all of the talent that is entered into their challenge. Thanks :)

Bye for now,

A colour challenge and prize

Hi everyone,

This week, not only has Emilie posted an interesting colour challenge, but there is also a prize up for grabs. Head over to her blog to see the lovely prize, and take part if you have time, we'd love to see your entries.

This week I have used Emilie's colour combination for a digi page. I am not overly pleased with it for some reason, I don't know why. I have used the sketch and theme over at the Creative Craft World blog as inspiration.

Here's the LO.

I've altered the sketch quite a bit, but the basis of the sketch is still there, the 4 photos (I've changed into 1 photo, a journalling block and 2 rectangle frame elements), the ribbons and the curved title. I loved the colours in the colour challenge, I found it quite challenging but I really love them. Head over to Emilie's blog, look at the challenge and get creating for your chance to win the prize :)

Bye for now,

Bold and layered

I've created another LO (not sure if scrapping was the best use of some of my study leave today but never mind, I've studied a fair bit too!!)

I really wanted to do this weeks Sketchy Thursday's sketch, it's a double but there are so many possibilities with it.
I also spotted that this weeks 'The Studio' scrap challenge is

'Add lots of dimension to your page.

Layers, chunky embellishments, you name it, build up those pages!'

So, a combination of the two gave me the inspiration for this layout :)

I am really pleased with it. I love all of the layers I managed to achieve, and I am glad I'm becoming a bit more adventurous as I am pleased with the paint and ripped, curled edges :)

Here's a close up, showing all of the layering

I used the right hand side of the Sketchy Thursday's sketch, swapping the position of the title but keeping everything else pretty much the same :)


Here's another close up

I hope you like it.

This is my 100th post :D Yipee. Thanks very much for your continued support and the amazing comments you leave me. It's very much appreciated :D

Bye for now,

What's the time Mr Wolf?

Hi everyone,

I have managed to do a digital LO for this weeks Sketchy Thursday's sketch. As it was National Scrapbooking Day over the weekend, many shops had sales and freebies, so I took advantage of it and bought some more digi stash. I then had some inspiration, so set to doing a digi layout using the sketch (although, as typically happens I didn't use much from the new kits!!)

(Click on the LO for a closer look :) )

I am really pleased with it, I loved the sketch but was struggling for ideas at first. I really wanted to use it though, so after a little thinking and looking for inspiration, this is the product. I have shrunk the main body of the sketch down into the bottom right corner so I could use the large photo in the background. Here's the sketch.

Those of you that are familiar with my blog know how much I LOVE dandelions, and I have finally scrapped these photos I took of them last Autumn. I love these photos so I will have to do a paper scrapbook page with them at some time as well :)

I have 3 days left at school until I have study leave !!! Arhhh!!! I'm doing ok though, I have been doing a few practise papers and tasks and feel I'm progressing, so that's great. Thanks very much for the good luck wishes from my last post :) It's very much appreciated :)

Bye for now,

Word-A-Week photography challenge #10 and a scrapbook page

So first off today, my photo for last week's word-a-week challenge. The theme was 'letters'.

This shows, many, many letters and sums up life for me at the moment.
Revision, revision, revision. I am spending most of my weekends making revision sheets like this one, particularly for Biology which is the subject I am struggling with most. I used the prime lens to get a really shallow DofF, which I love :)

The large amount of revision explains why I haven't been scrapping much recently, I've missed 2 sketchy Thursday's sketches and Emilie's colour challenge for a few weeks, and it looks like I'll probably miss this weeks too!! However, on Friday night, after a full day of lessons and lots of work, I decided to sit down and scrap. I noticed a page from my Prom book that I'd started and didn't like, so I decided to sort it out. Here is how it finished up.

I quite like it now, it feels good to have rescued it, and I'm very glad I stopped and walked away before sticking it down when I first tried it as I much prefer this attempt. I am very pleased with the flower. I finally plucked up the courage to try the technique where you melt the edges of the fabric, making it ruffle slightly and stop fraying. It looked awful before, so flat and lifeless, but as soon as you heat it it gives it a great form and a bit of life. I shall definitely be doing more of these sort of flowers :)

I hope you've all had a great weekend, it's been nice weather here again, although we still haven't had much rain!!!

Bye for now, I'll be back with next weeks word-a-week in a mo.

Versatile Blogger

Last Saturday, the very lovely Karen over at Karen's World, gave me a blog award. Karen is a good friend, please take a look over at her blog, she's a stamping up demonstrator, a fantastic mum, and is always posting fabulous things on both of her blogs.

So, as a recipient of the award, I have to tell you 7 things about myself. Ummm, this may be tricky, but here we go ....

1) My favourite colour is blue (you had probably guessed, everything seems to be blue on this blog!!)
2) I've had a LO published in a magazine
3) I used to horse ride
4) I'm now the shortest in our household, my 15 year old brother James has overtaken me by a lot!!
5) I was the first recipient of a special award at the end of my middle school
6) I'm a Friday's child (I didn't know this when I did my Friday's child canvas a few weeks ago, what a coincidence!!!)
7) I'm currently buried under revision books

Now it comes to passing it on. I am aware that many people don't accept and blog their award as they don't have time, so please don't worry if I pass it onto you and you choose not to blog it. I just want to use this as an opportunity to tell you that I love your blogs and for you to explore some of the people I love, maybe you'll even want to follow some.

So, my 15 people ...
1) Lou
2) Kathleen
3) Sutty
4) Karen (I wanted to pass this back to Karen as I love looking at her blog and wanted her to be recognised as one of my favourites, obviously I'm not expecting you to blog it again Karen :) )
5) Anthea
6) Em
7) Lisa
8) Leeann
9) Winnie
10) Ulrika
11) Georgia
12) Janys
13) Tracie
14) Alexa
15) Claireliz

Thanks for all of your amazing blogs and inspiration, I just wish I could scrap more often and spend more time looking at all of your brilliant posts :)