Blogtober Day 15 - Gorgeous Grunge Birthday

Last year for Beat the Christmas Rush I made these cards and at the same time I made some Birthday cards on the same theme.

The stamped background is made using stamps from Stampin' Up 'Gorgeous Grunge' and the flowers are punched using SU flower punches.

Colours used are Blushing Bride, Smoky Slate and Melon Mambo

The sentiment is from SU 'Sassy Salutations'

The butterfly punch is by Martha Stewart

The other colour combo was Pool Party, Smoky Slate, Daffodil Delight and Bermuda Bay

Blogtober Day 14 - Play

Another blast from my scrapping past - I did this class for last year's ATDML Disney inspired cybercrop.   There was a little bit of messiness involved as it was a Katherine Sutton class and the page was inspired by Peter Pan and not growing up.

You needed to use a silly photograph for the class so I chose this one from the end of last year's UK Marillion convention.

The papers used are MME Miss Caroline 'Fiddlesticks' and Simple Stories Homespun.

I used Pumice Stone Distress Paint and I coloured cream Thickers with a Mustard Promarker.

If you want to check out the other participants of Blogtober 2016 you can find them all here on Sy's blog

Blogtober Day 13 - a 50th Birthday minibook

Whoops I went away and forgot to schedule some blog posts - never mind I still have time to do four blog posts this week and not fail with my Blogtober challenge!!

This is the mini book that I made for my sister's 50th birthday, using clear CD wallets as the page protectors.

I raided my Mum's photo albums for lots of school and holiday photographs

I used lots of papers that were kit leftovers and not large enough to use on 12x12 pages.

I used a mixture of die cut and punched butterflies to embellish the pages

The pages were joined together with eyelets set using the cropadile.

A big thank you to Anita aka the inky blossom for teaching this book many years ago at her monthly class, I have made quite a few albums since then.

If you would like to check out the other participants of Blogtober 2016 check out Sy's blog here

Blogtober Day 8 - Antony

Another blast from the past and a layout made sometime last year - I know that I did it for a sketch challenge in the Sketchy Scrappers group but I just cannot find the sketch in my files so I am sorry I can't share that with you.

I am gradually scrapping the photographs of my 9 nieces and nephews Christening photographs.  This is our eldest nephew Antony and I notice now looking at the photograph that it is waiting to have the date added - I need to do that before I put it into an album!!

The papers are very old and are from a K&Co pad which I got as a free gift when I first subscribed to Scrapbook Inspirations magazine - sadly the cover has gone but I have a feeling the range was called Neapolitan.

The butterfly is a Cheery Lynn die cut and the title is Sizzix Naturally Serif alphabet.

If you would like to join in with Blogtober or check out what others are blogging about then take a look at Sy's blog

Blogtober Day 6 - Happy 50th Birthday

This is the birthday card that I made for my sister's 50th birthday.  A big thank you to my friend Wendy who cut out all the shaped elements for me on her die-cutting machine.  I embossed some of the shaped numbers and then decorated with various stamped Penny Black images.

The patterned paper behind the 0 is from Craft Creations.  I coloured all the images in with Promarkers and highlighted parts with Stickles glitter.  The balloon was coated in glossy accents to make it lovely and shiny.

I further embellished it with organza ribbon and small stars punched with an EKSuccess border punch.

If you want to join in with Blogtober then check out how to on Sy's blog

Blogtober Day 5 - When You Wish Upon a Star

A blast from the past today - a layout that I did for the 2015 ATDML cybercrop which was Disney themed.  One of the challenges was to use Disney lyrics as inspiration.  I straight away knew what I was going to do as I had this photograph to scrap for dear niece's album from her last trip to Florida.

The shaped paper is a really old piece of stash 'Blackbird in the Pink' (Autumn Leaves, Creativity Inc) mounted onto black bazill cardstock.

The blossoms are from various manufacturers and I used a photocopy of a gem swirl as a pricking template to make my own bling swirls with gemstones from Major Crafts.

The title was cut using a Sizzlet alphabet 'Naturally Serif'.

Blogtober Day 3 - Memorandum Monday

A quick dash in to join in with Sian's Memorandum Monday.

It was a weekend of pricing, packing, wrapping, finishing off, printing, float counting and general last minute prep for my fundraiser today.  There wasn't even any time to get a photograph of how dreadful our lounge looked with boxes everywhere and bags of display stuff.  And all of this was done with the Ryder Cup going on in the background, sadly we were defeated by a great American team but it was three days of great viewing.

But now I can sit here thoroughly worn out and report that it was a great success.  We raised £187 for
Children with Cancer Fund and I was given a further £225 in donations for the charity.  We had a lovely lunch out afterwards and the afternoon has been spent counting money, recounting it and recounting again just to make sure that I have got my figures right LOL!!  Some stuff has been put away but as I have another fundraiser at home in about 5 weeks time, it seems best to leave it in the boxes.  Tomorrow or Wednesday I will do a stock-take and see what I need to make - I definitely need more Christmas cards - they were selling like hot cakes today!!

A big thank you to Mr P, my parents and my friend Carol - they give me so much help and support and my fundraising is only possible with their help.

If you want to join in with Memorandum Monday, please go and give Sian a wave over at From High in the Sky