My Year - 14th February - Valentines

Today my lovely husband totally surprised me with 4 more Troll Beads:

Black Mosaic Flower, Spring Drop Bead, Buttons and Valentines. My bracelet is full now. He really is the best husband in the world!!!

365 Album

After making so many fantastic friends doing Anna Bowkis' 365 challenge last year and then getting to meet them all in November, I decided to use a Papermania album kit to make a 8x8 album about them.

The front page journalling reads:

In January 2008, I found a new challenge on UK Scrappers by Anna Bowkis. It was a photography challenge with daily prompts and then doing a scrapbook layout a week. I joined the forum created for the challenge. Lots of people signed up to do the project and there was lots of chit chat and excitement about the challenge ahead of us.
Slowly people started to drop out and soon there were just a few of us left. We fast became friends and we would all chat on a daily basis and post up our photos according to Anna’s prompts. We would share our problems, our good news and our sad news or troubles. We never judged each other and we were always there for one another
Some of us got the chance to meet up during the year at various craft fairs and I met up with Kay and Lynne down in Poole in the Summer. It is the strangest feeling to meet up with someone that you feel you know really well but have never actually met.
In November we organised a retreat in Oxford for the weekend. This was the chance for all of us to finally meet up – rather than a few of us at a time. We all had such a great time – lots of crafting, scrapping and chat. Anna came along and taught us a class - I even got her to sign my scrapbooking magazine that she was featured in that month.
All the photos in this album have been taken by Anna herself – hence them being so good and professional looking.
The only person who couldn’t make it to our retreat was Karen due to ill health and hence there is no page for her. But I hope to rectify that...
I am organising another retreat in June 2009 and we are all hoping that Karen will be able to come to this one. This time we are having a cottage in the New Forest for 3 days. There will be 16 of us – for more craft, scrapping and chat! And it is Shirley’s birthday, so maybe the odd glass of wine or two!!

Alli:

Anna:

Barbara:

Claire (Me):

Kath:

Kay:
Lynne:
Mary:

Paula:

Sal:

Sarah:

Shirley:

Steph:

A Spoon Full of Sugar Challenge #38 Doodle Doo

This week's challenge is to do doodling on your card. The doodles can be hand drawn or stamped.

I have used a digital download from The Greeting Farm called 50s Sweetheart DS. I have used Word Art for the greeting and then coloured it all in using Pro Markers.

The papers are from the Papermania's Love paper pack. I have doodled around the image and stamped swirls on each corner of the different papers. Then I have added some red grosgrain ribbon and some Prima flowers with love hearts in the middle.

This is the card that I will give to my husband tomorrow for Valentines Day.

My Year - 13th February - What is Zoe playing with today?

This is a Play Mobil doll's house that Zoe got for her birthday. She spends hours putting it all together but then doesn't actually play with it. Once it is put together she puts it away.

Sketch Saturday # 37 Amended

I made this card for Sketch Saturday, but I wasn't very happy with it so had a bit more of a play with it:

Before:
After:

Scrap Like You Mean It 2009 - Week 7

This week Shimelle has challenged us to scrap an old photo. I don't seem to have many old photos but this popped to mind as soon as I saw the challenge.

This picture was taken in approximately in 1984. This is me and my oldest friend Tina dressed as clowns for the village carnival. I think I was about 10 or 11 and Tina would have been 9 or 10. We had great big shoes on and had to walk about 1 or 2 miles in the parade - it was really hard.

The washing up bottle was to squirt the crowds.

The papers are all from the lovely Steph from her unwanted stash.

Whiff of Joy Challenge #18 Recipe

I just lurve Whiff of Joy stamps and am patiently waiting for the Spring Kit to arrive and hence the post below this one about the new stamps due out on Saturday.

This week's challenge was to use three different pieces of patterned papers, two flowers and one button or brad.

I have used papers from My Mind's Eye Magnolia paperstack, 2 Prima Paintables flowers - one with a brad in and one with the sentiment stampl placed in the middle.