Marillion Eve

Another Facebook challenge on National Scrapbooking Day was a scraplift challenge on Amanda's blog.

This is my layout based on hers -

I used a mixture of papers from WRMK 'Maple Grove' and Jillibean Soup 'Apple Cheddar Soup'.  The title was cut using Tim Holtz Sizzlet alphabet 'Wanted'.  The border stickers are Crate Paper 'Farmhouse' and the butterflies are a mixture of Martha Stewart and EK Success punches.

The photographs are from last December and a meet up with friends the night before seeing Marillion in Leamington.  Big thank you to Sy who came up with the title for me and loaned me her Sizzlet flower card edge die.

Thanks Amanda for setting a great scraplift challenge!

The Little Chapel

For National Scrapbooking Day, the Facebook Group 'For the Love of Pretty Paper' had a cybercrop and set various challenges.

One of the challenges was this sketch set by Jennifer Grace

 I used Basic Grey Serenade 'Half Penny' for the main background and overstamped it with Stampin' Up 'Swallowtail'  in Certainly Celery. 

The patterned paper for the bunting is Pebbles 'Family Ties', the butterflies are an EKSuccess punch.  The heart (SU) is punched from Bazill cardstock and covered in Seafoam Stickles.  The title is done with AC foam thickers.  The photographs are from a lovely holiday on Guernsey, there is a beautiful chapel that is decorated in glass, shells and broken china.

Thanks for the great sketch Jennifer, I am sure I will use it again.

Me on Monday

Whoo hoo I'm back in the land of the living (well virtually, still cough cough coughing and struggling to talk) but at least I feel like crafting again and going out.

It's Monday so it is time to go and give Sian a wave at From High in the Sky.

The weekend saw me going out for the first time in over two weeks - a lovely evening spent with my parents on Saturday watching the third part of The Hobbit and then an all day crop on Sunday with lovely friends at Cardinal Colours.  Saturday was National Scrapbooking Day so I had plenty of layouts to do as there have been lots of online challenges to take part in.

Today has been a bank holiday here, so I have continued working on layouts that I started yesterday

And we've also done our civic duty and filled in our postal voting papers.

If you want to join in, then drop by Sian's blog and give her a wave.

Beat the Christmas Rush Part 2 - Holly Day Critters

When I cut out the mats for my Beat the Christmas Rush cards I die cut a smaller mat from the middle so that I wasn't wasting so much cardstock.  I then die cut the next size down from whisper white cardstock and found a small stamp that would fit nicely.

I used this cute dog from Penny Black 'T for Transparent' set called Holly Day Critters and coloured him with Promarkers before adding Crystal Stickles to his hat for a bit of sparkle.  The sentiment is also by Penny Black.

 

I then added some snowflakes die cut using All Occasion dies from glitter cardstock and some crystals from Majorcrafts.

If you would like to take part in Beat the Christmas Rush, then take a look at Sue's blog

Everything Beautiful Has It's Moment

This was the beautiful class page that we did with Anita this month using Kaisercraft Blue Bay collection papers.

I used a lovely photograph of my parents taken at a recent family wedding.  The flowers were die cut using the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals Sizzlet die.  The sayings are printed onto acetate so that they could be placed over the patterned papers.

Thank you Anita for another lovely class - this is definitely in my top 5 of all time favourite class pages xx

Beat the Christmas Rush Part 1 - Snowman Holly

OMG where did all the tumbleweed and cobwebs come from???  You would have thought that someone could have put a duster around here whilst I've been laid up!!  Oh well before I do any cleaning I will share some cards made for this month's Beat the Christmas Rush

I used a new stamp bought in the sales by Stampendous called 'Snowman Holly'. 

I coloured the images with Promarkers and then glazed the holly berries with a red glaze pen.

I stamped the holly portion of the stamp again, cut it out and layered it over the top to create some dimension to the card.

When die cutting the mats out for the stamped image, I diecut a smaller rectangle mat from the card so that I wasn't wasting too much cardstock - I then quickly rustled up a set of smaller cards using those mats - I will share those in a couple of days time.

You can find out all about Beat the Christmas Rush on Sue's blog

Convention Chocolates

It has become a tradition now for me to make these themed packs of chocolates to give out to friends at the Marillion conventions.  I originally got the idea for them from the It's All Fiddle Fart blog.

This year the albums for the convention were Anoraknophobia and Marbles and I used images produced by Marjo Klingenberg, Carla Barros and Mark Kennedy to decorate them.

I didn't get a chance to photograph the packs that I took to the UK convention in Wolverhampton last weekend as I was still packaging them up the night before we left.  I did however get a quick snap of the chocolates waiting to be packaged.

The only difference apart from saying Wolves 2015 on the back was the Barry image against a Union Jack instead of the Dutch flag.  I enjoy making these as I can set up a production line approach to do them plus they are a great laptray craft so I can watch TV at the same time!!