Anything Goes Challenge #3 - Sugar and Spice

Here is my entry for Anything Goes Challenge #3.

Hola from sunny Mallorca! My post has not been published, even though I set it to go on Tuesday,so I am being sad and sitting at an internet station in the hotel to send it! I am having a break from the sun.

This week the theme is 'Buttons and Bows' and the colour is 'Monochrome' so I have gone for shades of blue on my design, which this week is a tag.

I inked up a tag with DIs: Faded Jeans, Broken China and Tumbled Glass, then stamped the crackle background and the little girl CI stamp in faded jeans. Sorry I can't remember at all what the crackle stamp is.
I have added buttons and an organza ribbon bow and finished off with some small alphas and lace, both of which I tinted with broken china DI.

Everything but the buttons and the letters from Craft Den, of course!

Please take a moment to visit the challenge and have a go yourself!

Class SB layouts

I got so carried away with the new Anything Goes challenge blog and getting organised with father's day and anniversary card making, I have forgotten to post last week's Craft Den class SB page. Here it is, with the LO from last night's class as well. I had a really lovely time as usual, I never want to leave, and nearly didn't last night. We were all still sitting there at 5 to 9 until we realised what time it was! These light nights really are lovely!

The page last week was a choice of Blonde Moments papers. I chose the green/yellow/orange ones to use with a picture of Emma (who else?) on a hobby horse in Granny and Grandpa's garden last summer. Note the dummy is still in last year! We have managed to get it down to bedtime only, need to lose it soon, any ideas welcome! The design was one of Chanelle's and I just love the huge flower spray idea. I have added some lovely epoxy letters for the title at home and some lovely Zva bling and some citrusey buttons. I think the buttons were going round class, but I missed them so have added my own. Everything except the letters from Craft Den.



This week, Lynne has designed a really lovely page using the 7Gypsies Victoria range of papers. I have had these already once in 12 x 12 and decorated a circular greyboard book, seen in a previous post, and also in the 8 x 8 book to make cards. They are very elegant. For this layout, we cut out, distressed and inked the central portion to create a frame and used either coordinating blue or pink paper underneath. I chose the blue as it went well with the wellies that Emma is wearing in these photos. I found a CD the other week and discovered these photos on it. I have no idea at all now why she was wearing wellies with her sleepsuit, lol! How lucky we are nowadays to have digital cameras to capture all these lovely moments.
The swirls are a sizzix die and we embossed with ranger distressed embossing powder. I have never used this before and it gives a lovely sandpaper effect. I feel another collection of stash coming on lol! All the punches are Martha Stewart. The lovely concertina butterfly we have used before. It's a very simple template and really effective. Everything from Craft Den, of course!





Right, off to do some work and pack for the weekend. Hope everyone has a good one!

Brand new challenge blog!!!!

I am delighted to show you my first DT design for the exciting, brand new challenge blog 'Anything Goes', launched today by Lynne at 'Craft Den'. It's called anything goes, because, well, anything goes! your entries can be a scrapbook layout, an ATC, a card, a piece of altered art, a tag, well anything really!

This first week the theme is 'Wings' and the colours 'Yellow', 'Blue', and 'Brown'.

Visit the blog here and join in the fun! We are really looking forward to your entries!

I have made a SB layout of a trip we made to the butterfly house in Warwick in the years BE (Before Emma, lol). The papers are Basic Grey 'Origins' which I love and have used lots, and the really luxury Artsy-Licious foiled and flocked papers. I used my MS monarch and classic butterfly punches and added some detail with die cut branches and letters. I also added some bling of course! I also used Versa Magic, Jumbo Java chalk ink for all my edges.










All papers, punches, scalloped template and ink from Craft Den. Die cuts and bling from stash.

Emma's Easter Eggs

I had a lovely time as usual at Craft Den scrapbooking crop last night. We had free reign a bit last night and it will be good to see all the different pages we all created on the blogs. I had just printed some photos I took of the boiled eggs which Emma decorated for nursery and the easter basket she made, and Lynne produced the perfect harlequin patterned paper to match! I think it is a sandylion paper??

We used some 6 x 6 Crafter's Workshop templates to add detail. I used them round the edge of my circle with Victorian Velvet DI. I also used them on the green die cut flourishes, using Broken China DI. I backed my layout onto a piece of Bo Bunny dotty cardstock. I think it is one of the new colours, Lynne has a lot of lovely new ones in, which I have managed not to but yet, lol. Emma 'won' some mini eggs for her lovely creations! They all did, bless, they are only 3!



I have also done 3 more 8x8 layouts for my album of Emma as a baby. All the photos are in order up to 12 weeks old at New Year 2007. I think I am up to the 10 weeks pictures for this album. It's sad how quickly you forget. At one stage I could have told you how old she was to the day! I just checked, she's 3 years, 7 months and 14 days old today, lol!







Lynne has a lovely range of Prima E range flowers in, from £1.50. They are a lovely bargain. I have used some on my last layout here. Love the dotty ones.

I just found a memory card in my drawer and found a lot of lovely photos of Emma at her 2nd birthday I didn't know we had. What a lovely surprise, fresh scrapbook photos! Lovely one of her in her sleepsuit and wellies! I can't for the life of me remember why, but it will make a lovely page!

More layouts

Sorry I am still in catch up as I have been away this week and no crafting has been done. However I did do two scrapbook layouts last week, using up the last of my Bo Bunny papers from the Craft Den (well almost, I am sure you will see some cards soon with the leftovers, lol). Emma as usual is the star sitting and posing for a photo at bedtime when she was at Grandma and Grandads and Poppy, my other little girl, being sooo tiny as usual!





BTW, on Sunday my mum, my sister Liz and me are doing the Race for Life in Burnley. I will be running (ha, ha, walking) for my lovely Grandma, Elsie Jackson who died in 1989 from leukaemia and Dan's auntie Jill Lowe who died of breast cancer in 2009. My mum also lost her cousin Gillian a few years ago and my auntie lost a good friend Karen last year to cancer as well. I think we all could run or walk for someone, it's such a horrible disease. That said I am looking forward to it as I hear the atmosphere is great. Also it will be interesting to see my mum finish 5 K, LOL!

Sorry I have not had chance to surf tonight on everyone's blogs, I will catch up, I promise next week!

Latest layouts

Hi there, not been able to craft as much as I would like lately and just realised I never posted any of the layouts I did find time to do! Oops, I really do need to retire from work, it really does get in the way..

Last week we did a lovely layout at Craft Den using threaded ribbon and some gorjuss new Bo Bunny papers. We also did some stamping and embossed a huge swirled border and journaling tag. I printed a black and white photo of Emma when I got home and added the prima tiara! Princess Emma!


I managed another layout last week of Emma's first ever Christmas tree decorating. She was more interested in the bubble wrap than the baubles. I think the tree will be decorated more to Emma's style this year. These are really lovely Christmas papers from Bo Bunny 'Tis the Season' range. So much so I have found that I already had two more copies of each paper I used!! Whoops, I must really have liked them!! All from the Craft Den except ribbon and letters from stash.



I've pulled out the hidden journaling tags from behind the photos.

Beautiful Bo Bunny

Lynne at Craft Den has some lovely Bo Bunny papers just arrived. Last week I picked up 'Kitchen Spice, Cinnamon'. I thought this was perfect for autumn cards and made this card with an owl stamp from my stash. Branch stamp from an oriental stamp collection, Bo Bunny flowers, craft work card sentiments, blue and brown bazzill cardstock, and glossy accents all from Craft Den.

I just picked up the Bo Bunny Boo Crew range tonight, ready to scrap some photos of upcoming trick or treat with Emma, this coming Halloween!