Autumn card

Here is a card I did last night using copics, a lovely Gorjuss Sugar Nellie 'foxy' stamp and Bo Bunny Delilah and Swiss Dot Burnt Orange papers, all from Craft Den. Ribbon, flowers and mulberry paper from stash.
Copics: Coat and hat: RV42, R22, RV42; Trim and Flower: R46; Hair: E33, E37; Fox: E33, E37, R22; Tights: Y08, Y15, R22

Poppy and George

I decided I have not scrapbooked my really beloved cats very much. I started scrapbooking after Emma was born, so they have never really taken centre stage, but they were well and truly my babies before Emma came along and are still my babies now, so here are Poppy: 'Popstar', 'Princess' and George:'The Honsome', 'Big Man'.

They are only about 1 year old on this photo. George is now about 16-17 pounds, hence 'Big Man', which Emma now calls him sometimes, which is amusing. He loves his food, sleeping and his mum, I think in that order. Poppy is very, very small, and loves being outside and hunting (unfortunately), her mum and sleeping, in that order. When Emma was born, George really didn't seem to notice and got on my lap anyway, but we did not see Poppy in the same room as Emma for 2 years as she hated the 'screamy thing' as we came to call Emma to the cats! Both of them will let Emma stroke them now, and she is adamant that they are her cats, not mummy's!!!!

Scrapbooking night

Hi all, it was the, as usual, great fun scrapbooking night at Craft Den. I had a brilliant time as usual, even though my little one is poorly and Dan had to kick me out of the door. She told me today 'I'm very brave'. A tearjerker from a not yet 3 year old who has been really poorly since Monday....

This was the lovely layout we did tonight using the new Bo Bunny Delilah 'Stripe' papers. Many lovely new ranges of Bo Bunny and also the new Blonde Moments 'All I want for Christmas' papers have arrived at Craft Den this week.



I also just finished my 'September' page. If you recall I got a lovely set of journal tags with months on them. I have now done August and September in my quest to do a page per month to chart 2009 in Emma's life. (along with completing Jan to July 2009, the 8x 8 album of her first 3 months, the 7gypsy envelope book and all my other ongoing projects, lol! The trouble is I am distracted by each new project very easily!)

I love this photo. On the photo before this she was pretending to stangle Dan, lmao, she's just almost 3! Lovely sense of humour, lol!!



I also just did a quick card using my new Crafty individuals stamp, and the Bo Bunny St. Nick papers, inked with Ranger Adirondack earthtone 'cranberry' and Ranger Distressed ink 'scattered straw' as a background. All from Craft Den. Ribbon and flower from stash.

A couple of Christmas cards and an ATC

Here are a couple of Christmas cards I made with some lovely papers from the Craft Den. As a member of the Craft Den design team, I really want to try to find time to work on more new things. Life would be much easier if I didn't work, LOL.

First is using the really vibrant Blonde Moments Minasie Moo papers in turquoise, pinks and purple with Bazzill Swiss Dot cardstock as a mat on the white card. Nesties, Craftwork cards sentiment tablets and copics are all also from Craft Den. Stamp, ribbon and flower from stash.
Copics used are: Skin E00; Hair: Y11, Y08, Y15; Dress: V12, V15, V17; Wand: Y15



The second is using Bo Bunny, Tis the Season range of papers. Nesties, copics, card candy, sentiment tablet and Ice Stickles from Craft Den. Stamp, ribbon, and flower from stash.
Copics used are: Santa Suit: R05, R27, R46 (this combination needs a darker base coat, I ended up covering most of the R05 with the R27 in the end as it's too salmony); Boots and Belt: E33, E37; Skin: E00, Buckle: Y15



I also had a go at some resist techniques, which I saw in the latest edition of the Craft Stamper Magazine. I usually stare longingly at the lovely things I could never hope to make, and decided I should just have a go. I used Ranger acrylic dabber paints, a lovely vintage script stamp, a Paper Artsy Birds on a wire stamp and a lovely scroll detail background stamp. I also used Debbie Moore clear embossing powder. Everything from Craft Den, except possibly the vintage script, but I could be wrong, Lynne has so many lurvely stamps!!

After applying my stripes of acrylic paint, I masked the area where the main stamp would be, by first stamping onto a post it note and loosely cutting round it and sticking that to the ATC. I then stamped the script background in black stazon and then the scroll background in versamark, which I embossed with clear embossing powder. After that a contrasting colour can be dry brushed over the embossed areas and ironed with brown paper to create a resist effect. Well, I need to work on it!! lmao!! For some reason the over painting distorted the original purple and green, however you can see the effect quite well on the middle yellow strip.

Here is also a version that I didn't over paint so you can see what the original colours were! I think perhaps they were not quite dry enough. Well I enjoyed myself and will try, try again!!

Indian Dreams

Here is my ATC for the September Craft Den swap, this month the theme being travel. I have seen some of entrants at the studio already and they are all really great! I think it's such a fun idea as you can try loads of techniques not used very often in scrapbooking due to the scale. I first inked up my background and overstamped with scattered straw distress ink, gilded the ATC edge and painted shimmer mica powders on the main embossed image with a waterbrush. This was my third attempt, lol!

Gilding flakes, embossing powders, shimmer mica powders, ranger distress inks all available from Craft Den. Stamps from stash.

August ATC swap

I wanted to catch up and post the lovely ATC swap I got for the August ATC challenge at the Craft Den. The theme was Signs of the Zodiac and I got this lovely Pieces design by Pat. Love it, my first ATC swap!! Pride if place in pocket number #1 in the ATC folder I am going to have to buy, lol!!
September theme is travel and I am trying to finish mine to hand in this week. I am on the third attempt, having ruined 2 already!

It's been a mad, mad month...

I know, I haven't blogged since August. It's been all work and no play for weeks so it was wonderful to scrapbook at Craft Den this Thursday and have some time to craft afterwards as well when I got home, bliss.

Here is the lovely layout we did in class, a really great 3D effect which it's hard to see in my photos. I had a small crisis last night when I realised I didn't have the bling I had in mind to complete the last detail and had a rushed visit to Craft Den today to buy another one, phew!

I just love this photo of Emma, she looks so all knowing and wise!!





I did another page afterwards, which started out well, turned really bad and I had to do some rescue work and some cover ups, and I'm finally happy with it, LOL. I bought a lovely book of calendar tags at Harrogate show the other week, with an idea to do a year in the life album (of Emma of course, who else?..). Here is August on Sheringham beach in Norfolk with Granny, building sandcastles. The journaling is on the other side of the tag.