WOYWW 163 - the current mess!

WOYWW again and I thought I would share my current workspace - the dining room. My office/craftroom is being decorated and I can't wait for it to be ready and to start putting all my things back up there, and creating a relaxing working and crafting space, but in the meantime my crafting is a bit reduced as I can't find much to craft with!!

Anything Goes Challenge - Lavender and Lace

Here I am again. The novelty will wear off again soon I'm sure. It's easier at the moment as I'm camping downstairs while we decorate the attic/office so I can take photos in my 'photo place' in the kitchen quite easily and quickly. Taking photos is usually the thing I never get around to.

Anyway, Anything Goes have a new challenge this fortnight - Lavender and Lace. Here is my entry, a simple little card, which I think I'll save for my MIL as she loves flowers.

Bye for now K x

New Baby Card

I know, here again. Just having a quick break from my lunch hour spent scraping old paint from door frames!
My cousin Jilly had a lovely little girl a couple of weeks ago, called Betsy Willow. I didn't have chance to make a card before we went to see her, so I got a shop bought card in the meantime...... Now I've had a chance to make one, which makes me much happier :-)  Hope you like. Back to the doors and then back to work. K x

Scrap our Stash Challenge - Stars and Stripes

I have finally made an entry for the Scrap our Stash Challenge this month. I'm a very bad DT member :-( Groovy Deb has taken over the helm and has come up with this fun challenge.

My Stars and Stripes layout is of, Emma, on a pony ride at a fair last summer. The photo is not brilliant, it was taken on my phone, but it’s a lovely memory to share. Dan was leading her up and down, an experience for him as well as he’s not used to horses!


The papers are Bo-Bunny and I’ve raised the stars and the banners on pinflair glue to create a bit of depth around the photo. You can just make out feint stripes I think under the picture in a starburst pattern. My first layout in a long time with no flowers or butterflies on it! See, two posts in two days. A flood after the drought!
Right off to paint. Not the fun kind on paper, but on walls. Doing up the attic/spare bedroom/craft room/computer room and in a right old mess!
K xx

Hello everyone again!!

Well, after my first 'hello again' in January, I disappeared again for 7 months!! Oops!
Busy, busy, busy - there are never enough hours in the day, but I have missed visting my blogging friends and so here I am again.

Just a quickie (best not overdo it!)

I am sharing a card I made this week for my father in law's birthday. I am not good at men's cards, but I saw this in a recent magazine and thought it would be good for a chap's card. My advice here - don't attempt it! LOL! Cutting and sticking those tiny little strips of paper for the beach huts drove me round the twist!! The comments I had back were worth it though!

See you soon I hope and not in another 7 months! :-)

Happy New Year!!!

Happy New Year to all!!!! It's been a long time!!!, I hope you all had a lovely time with your friends and families and best wishes for a lovely 2012!

Well, it's been 3 months since I last blogged. Work has been very busy as I've changed my job and I don't know what I'm doing, lol. Home is always busy and I found I wasn't doing much me crafting, so I decided to have a wee break from blogging.

So I thought I would share my first project of 2012, a card for my Dad, whose birthday is this month. He's an old rocker (he got an air guitar for Christmas. Yes you can buy them, that's not a joke, I know they are supposed to be invisible, lol) so I thought these old stickers I have had lying around for a while would suit him perfectly!

The papers are K & Co, Sera, Sera, bling and sequin waste from stash.
It's also my lovely Mother in Law's (Wendy) 70th Birthday this month as well and I have made a Tilda card for her. I can't remember what this Tilda is called, but she's doing a lovely 'hurrah' in the air, so she's lovely for birthdays. We are off down to 'Naarfek' (Norfork to normal northerners) this weekend for some lovely celebrations. That's me back off the diet, Wendy feeds us too well! Short one today, don't want to overdo it straight away! Have a lovely week K xx

Anything Goes Challenge #51 - Die cuts and Punches

Here we are again, these challenges come round so quickly don't they?! This time our theme over at Anything Goes Challenge Blog is

Die cuts and/or Punches

I do believe I have one or two of these, LOL and I am betting that most of you do as well!


I have made this card for my daughter, Emma who is 5 on Friday - wuh?! where did that time go? I only had her last saturday! Well she has asked for enough toys on her list to fill the past five years of birthdays anyway, I groan everytime the toy adverts come on, she wants everything!

All the Marrianne Design dies are from Craft Den, together with the 8x8 card, bo bunny cardstock, bling, paper roses, stickles, and a great selection of Martha Stewart punches, with some lovely snowflakes just in. The image and the lace are from my stash. At this stage I am still making Emma's cards to please myself, she hardly notices cards when she is opening presents! When she asks for a Hannah Montana card I will give in and buy one, lol. Although she is more likely to ask for Batman..

Please come along and join us at Anything Goes Challenge Blog. We had an amazing amount of entries last time, over 580!! Apologies if not everyone recieved a comment, we were overwhelmed, and very chuffed!! Thanks for all your amazing entries!

I realised I didn't post any of my recent scrapbook pages either for a while, so here goes :-)

This was my September entry as DT member for Scrap Our Stash Challenge Blog, our theme in September was Grids. I don't really do straight lines in my scrapbooking very often, so I softened the background grid pattern with bunting and flowers and curved edges to my photos.

The theme for October is 'Using a favourite Quote'. Come along and join in!

Here are my last few Craft Den scrapbooking class layouts.

This layout was free reign so we all chose our own papers and went in our own directions. I used the Prima Springtime collection papers for a photo of Emma when she was just about 9-10 months old in a huge dining chair at Granny and Grandpas. The lovely flower border along the bottom is a Martha Stewart border punch, which we have worked out how to double punch to make this border. I cut flowers and fairies from coordinating papers and added Tim Holtz grunge board letters coloured with versa magic ink and glossy accents. This layout is using more lovely Prima papers and a corrugated card and ribbon heart and frame design designed by Lynne. I have had these Disneyland Paris photos for a couple of years just waiting to be used and I thought these papers were perfect for the fairyland atmosphere of Disney. Yes, that is me wearing Piglet ears. I love Piglet...

The last was another free reign with an option to copy Lynne and use these lovely Bo Bunny papers. I completely copied Lynne, as I loved her layout with the trees and birds! Emma is running around my mum's garden with string for my mum's cat Millie to chase. She absolutely loves Millie and thankfully Millie is one of those lovely compliant and well natured (and quite stupid) cats who put up with an lot!!
Thanks for looking, see you again soon! K xx

Anything Goes at Anything Goes Challenge!

Here we are again and I am late! Over at Anything Goes the theme this fortnight is, well 'Anything Goes'!
I bit off more than I could chew with my project and have burnt the candle at both ends to get it done! It all took much longer than I thought, and just kept growing and growing, I couldn't stop adding things! But I am very happy with it. It's a little house scene on the theme of sewing. I've always looked longingly at things like this on blogs and in magazines. I am much more of 'pretty' crafter and although I love looking at it, find the whole altered thing quite hard, but like pringles, once I popped I couldn't stop!
Emma has her beedy eye on it as well and is a bit upset that it's all stuck down, so I promised her I'll get another house and decorate it with her and she can put in moveable things that she would like to play with.

List of ingredients:

Stash: wooden house, wooden reels, charms, old sewing pattern, old thimble, chippie shapes, buttons, tacks from B&Q to hang the coathanger and the type charms!

Craft Den:

Cranberry and butterscotch adirondack paints, crackle medium, gilding flakes, ribbon, glossy accents, Tim bottles, Prima canvas dress dummy and butterfly with resist patterns on them, Tim Lost and Found papers (tape measure) Tim fragments, Tim Type charms, MD button die, little coat hanger and beads, hemp flower, lace trim, cranberry and butterscotch adirindack inks, cranberry and sunset orange adirondack colour wash sprays, various DI inks, bo bunny double dot papers, Inka Gold - 'Lava Red and Antique Gold.

Anyway, we'd love to see you over at Anything Goes and pop over to the Craft Den website, it's growing all the time with lovely ranges!

Ta ta for now! K x

Anything Goes # 49 - Vintage/Shabby Chic

Wow, major morning here in the Adamson household: Emma had her first morning at School today. It took 10 minutes to drop her off and leave her and I heard another parent saying, '4 hours sleep, tossing and turning for that!'. LOL, I was the same, had a really funny nights sleep, probably stressing about this morning and she was so calm and 'OK, bye mummy! She's not back until Thursday monring now, so we have another day and a half together. Off to collect the pots today that we painted last Tuesday so will take some photos of her masterpieces to share with you! Mummy even painted a pot as well, I might not share that one! Photos of school to follow in several scrapbook layouts very soon!

Anything Goes Challenge time again and this time our theme is Vintage/Shabby Chic. I love shabby chic style, although I think that my entry for this challenge is more shabby than chic! The papers are Prima, Summertime range I think. They have lovely muted colours. This is Emma on the beach this last May in Scotland. See how warm she looks, lol!
Dies used are spellbinders border, Marrianne Design swirls and Sizzix Tattered Florals. The heart is a MS punch. Everything is from Craft Den.


Here is the layout we did last week at Craft Den. I turned Lynne's design upside down and added flowers and bling and a title with Tim Holtz grungeboard letters. The papers are Bo Bunny.
Come along and join in! Look forward to seeing you there!

Anything Goes #48 - Inspired by TV

Just a quickie, just back from sunny Reading tonight. 5 hour drive home, I am pooped! My stupid 3G card was not working last night so I couldn't post and catch up on blogs as I planned to so this post is late, sorry!
It's a new challenge over at Anything Goes. This time the theme is 'Inspired by TV'. This is actually easier then it sounds! My project is inspired by 'Escape to the Country'. I just love these kind of programmes, I am so sad - anything housey or antiques I am there!

I decorated a lovely house key holder from Craft Den. It's not going to be used for keys, of course, ribbons are top choice at the moment! I used Prime Madelaine papers again, LOVE them. For the roofs I used copper craft metal, stamped with the little circle design from the Claudia Helmuth housey/foam stamps set. I then traced around the circles with a small embossing tool, turned the metal over and then embossed from the other side with a large embossing tool, then lightly sanded them down to give the burnished look and swept over with brown stazon. The door numbers are made from Tim Lost and Found papers and fragments. The background is willow dabber paint and gold inka gold.

Everything from Craft Den of course!
Come on in and join the fun!!
K x

Latest layouts

Hi everyone, thanks for your lovely comments about my thank you book for nursery, I can't believe it myself that this is her last week. Emma by contrast is delirous now she has realised what I am saying about it being her last week. I have told the nursery staff not to take it personally!!
I'm off down to my head office tomorrow, back Weds, which I could do without, but it always makes the week go much faster! My AG DT piece is all ready, I have been a good girl this week and got myself organised!

Here are my last two layouts, one from Craft Den class last week and another I did at home. BTW, is anyone having the same problem as I am having, where blogger is putting great big gaps between may paragraphs? It takes me ages to delete them all out and even then sometimes it puts them back in when I have posted! So annoying, grr.


Emma and Granny down in Norwich a few Christmases ago. I thought the photo was so sweet with these Bo Bunny papers. I have added a Tim tattered die cut flower, which is alternative layers of pale blue fabric and blue card, edged with versa magic Pumpkin Spice ink. I have kept the detail simple with some bling, cherry blossom flowers and ribbon. The butterfly punch is Martha Stewart and everything from Craft Den, except the cherry blossoms from stash.


The next one is a continuing attempt to use up old stash! I've had these K&Co papers forever and never found the right photo. Although I love them, the papers are almost too bright to do anything with, but I thought these piccies looked well. I have hidden a journal tag behind the scalloped just detailing what she is doing and when the photos were taken. I am being shamed into putting more journaling in my layouts by Lynne! She's right of course, Emma will want to know about the photos when she is older and see my handwriting when I have left her all these scrapbooks one day!! The glitter flower is Prima, an impulse buy from QVC and this is the first thing I have found that they go on so far! I have chopped up some lace border for leaves and added some bling branches. The dragonfly I have made out of metal using a Woodware stamp and embossing tools. I coloured it with copics, which didn't work so well, but it's for my album so who cares!

Remember, the next Anything Goes Challenge is launched tomorrow. Click here to join in with us! Don't forget its our last week of the DT member call as well!
K x

The last week....

Emma has her very last week at nursery next week before she starts school on 6th September. I can't believe it. Four and a half years almost she has been going, full time, bless her, since she was 6 months old. I will bawl like a baby next week! Those lovely nursery staff have been such a big part of hers and our lives - oh, why do they have to grow up?!
I have made a mini book thank you card to give to them next week. You see us crafters don't just buy a thank you card, or even make one, no we make a mini book!!! How's that for showing off, lol!
Lots of piccies I am afraid, particularly since I don't really want to give it away! I might have to make another one just for me.

The whole book

First Page - just look at that face!!
First Day
Little Ladybirds - baby class

Busy Bees - toddlers class

Having fun and playing

Careful Caterpillars - pre-school class, and Good-Bye, sniff!

Hope you like and have a lovely weekend, K x