Annemie - Sketchy Scrappers February sketch

I am still managing to get layouts from the kit that I chopped up for Prompt 3 of Pretty Paper Party.  This is layout number 9 and there are still enough scraps to get a 10th layout from the kit!!

I did this layout for February's Sketchy Scrappers challenge which was to use this sketch from Pagemaps

And this is my take on the sketch -

I stamped a MME border stamp around the edge of the page using SU crumb cake ink and the stitched lines have been done by hand.

A Lovely Weekend - a mini book

I have made a mini book to give to my Dutch friends as a souvenir of the lovely weekend we spent with them last April.  We had taken my parents over to visit them and their parents and it coincided with Queen's Day which is a national holiday in the Netherlands.

Apologies as this post is very picture heavy

I used a pack of patterned papers from Stampin' Up which were a Salebration gift last year - I have no idea what they are called as I have lost those details.  I embellished all the pages with a mixture of an EK Success butterfly punch, SU butterfly embosslits and the new pinwheel die from SU.

On some of the pages I have added stamped journalling blocks so that Annemie can add her own journalling to the album.

Happy Mother's Day

When I first wrote this post I wasn't going to be at home this weekend - we should have been in Port Zeland, The Netherlands at the Marillion convention.  Sadly due to both of us being laid up with flu' we are stuck at home in our sick beds.  I'm hoping a family member will offer to take my card and gift over to my Mum as I really don't want to be passing this nasty bug onto her.

This is the card that I have made for Mum = I used a lovely digi stamp from Digistamp Boutique - the Louie Love set and coloured it with my Promarkers.

 

The patterned paper is some really old stash, possibly part of a pack that Lakeland use to sell.  The punched butterflies are EK Success and the sentiment is Stampin' Up.

Hope Mum has a really lovely day and my siblings are spoiling her!!  We will do something nice for her once we are fit and well again xx

Happiness is the Road

Another layout for my Marillion album, this time a photograph and tickets from the Happiness is the Road tour at the end of 2008.

The patterned papers are Bella Boulevard 'Too Cute To Spook' and the border punch used is Martha Stewart.  I cut the large star using a Framelit and the smaller stars are from an EK Success border punch.  The title is Doodlebug alphabet stickers.

Marillion - Cardiff 2012

This is the sketch for this month's challenge on the My Creative Sketches blog.

And this is my layout using photographs from the last Marillion gig that I went to in September last year (thanks to Stefan Schulz for letting me use his lovely photographs).

The papers are all from DCWV Rock Star stack and the stars were made using a cuttlebug embossing folder and cutting the individual stars out.  The title is AC Thickers.

There is still time to take part in the challenge as it doesn't close until 14th March.

Paper Pad Birthday

And this is the other card that I made for Week 4 of the 52 Cards Challenge which was to use a paper pad.

The paper pad used was a freebie one that I got with a card magazine, MME Quite Contrary.

 

The stamped greeting is Hero Arts and the flowers were punched with an EK Success retro flower punch.  The leaves are a Leonne Em Fern punch.

My Month in Numbers - February

The beginning of the month always means it is time to join in with Julie Kirk's My Month in Numbers

February has been a busy month in the kitchen as I get ready for 2 weekends away.  I have rustled up 76 mince pies, 30 cookies, 1 coffee cake, 1 lemon overload cake, 3 Dundee cakes, 9 baby Dundee cakes and 12 Vampire cupcakes.

Of course the most important number for the month is 7 days to the Marillion Weekend at the Centre Parcs in Port Zelande, Netherlands.

To say that I am excited is a slight understatement - I am positively bouncing off the walls now LOL!!  3 whole days spent with 3,000 other fans, 3 gigs of my favouritest band ever - what is there not to like!!

Other notable numbers for the month are 1 trip to the cinema to see Les Miserables and 1 trip to the theatre to see a school's edition version of Miss Saigon.

Despite all the time spent on baking I have found time to do a bit of crafting too -

8 Memory wire bracelets
1 mini book
7 layouts
3 cards
12 sweet cartons

You can check out everyone else's numbers here