January Month in Review 2016

Here is my first ever Month in Review page. I have used the template from Two Tiny Turtles and the Digital kit from Digital Scrapbook Ingredients all from Sweet Shoppe Designs. (Including a few little bits from various kits I already had). I love the ease of Digital Project Life. I think I changed my mind at least 10 times on this one. 

Find your Happy Place

This week over at stamping royalty we have a picture inspiration for you to play with. I love the mint and gold together. I created another Project Life page using the colours in the inspiring picture below. Go check out the site and see what the others have come up with using the same picture.

Cover page Project Life 2016

Finally, here is my cover page for my new year of Project Life 2016.

Such a great way to document the year.

Masculine Album

Well, I must confess, it has been a while since I have blogged. Mainly due to password and log in issues, but they seem to have sorted themselves out now. No excuses...

Here is the project I made for Stamping Royalty this week. The subject was entitled Masculine Cards.

Have I told you that I am super hooked on Kathy Orta albums at the moment. I'm sure I have. So, I have made this little album (one of many) and used it to highlight my son's photos for 2015.

I have used (mostly) Stamping Up papers for the cover and inserts.

The inserts pull out from each page giving a load of room for pictures.

Here is the middle of the card insert, with room for 6x4 photo, journaling and a pull out tag inserted into the pocket.

Here is the outside of the insert with another photo and a Project life Journaling card.

The album cover is not quite finished yet, but when it is, I will upload all the photos.

Interactive Scrapbooks

Yes, you heard me right! I have been on a little crazy spell at the moment. I found this book last week. if you like creating albums, it's an amazing book.

 This is the front cover of the book I brought. It's written by the Queen of Interactive Scrapbooks, Kathy Orta, hopefully this link will work for you.
Paper Phenomenon.

I will try and blog a few pages to show you what I have been making.

Beginning to look a lot like Christmas

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. The weather is HOT! The shorts are on and jumpers packed away. Getting close now.

Stampin Royalty

Over at Stampin Royalty this week, we have a colour challenge for you to play along with. Loving the colours, and they seemed to fit perfectly with the  layout I was working on this week. If you click on the link above, you will find some amazing cards made by the design team.

Perfect Memories

I just love this image from Little Miss Muffet Stamps. She is a digital from the Polka Dot series.

I made this card with these two challenges in mind. The first one being a colour challenge from Color Throwdown and the second one being the sketch challenge from Freshly Made Sketches

Picture Inspiration time

This week over at Stampin Royalty we have a picture to inspire you creativity. I did, however struggle with this one, so I went with the colours. It looked a little plain, so I added a star under the penguin.

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I'm baaack

Over at Stampin Royalty there is a colour challenge happening. All you need to do, is use the colours in the picture above, (or close to) and create something. Simples. Here is the card I have made and the supplies I used.

Stampin Royalty

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Picture Inspiration

Over at Stampin Royalty this week, we have a picture to inspire you. Here is my take on what inspired me. Well, I stuck with the colours and the vase of flowers on the night stand. Head on over to  stamping royalty and see what the very talented design team have come up with.

Colour Challenge Time

This week over at Stampin Royalty we have a colour challenge for you to play with. The colours are listed below, but don't stress on the exact colour. Close enough is just fine.

Anything but a card

This week at Stampin Royalty, the theme was anything but a card. I purchased this kit from Stampin Up a little while ago, so I thought it would be perfect for this challenge. Seriously, I had a ball doing this project. It was so much fun to build all the elements and stick them onto the wire frame. Oh, I must confess. I found the Pom Poms extremely not my thing, so I changed to the punched flowers.

Head on over to Stampin Royalty to see what the other girls have made.

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Week 2 2015

Here is another week, hot off the press. We had large fires this week, broken down cars, yard clean ups and birthday parties. Another really busy week.

Week 1 2015

Yeah me! I have finally completed week 1 of Project Life for 2015. 

Hopefully there will be more to come. This week was all about getting my craft room up and running in a practical and stream lined way. I decided (as I do) to move the entire room into our spare room. Lots of work to move everything and set it all up again. I'm wondering how long it will last.

Title Page make over 2015

So, another year of Project Life, and already I have changed my title page. When will this end. lol

I wasn't entirely happy with the first attempt, so here is my second try. I like this one so much more now. Nothing like a bit of colour to make the world go around.

Here is the kit I used for this page:

http://scrapstacks.com/shop/Documenting-Everyday-2015-Bundle-by-Dunia-Designs.html

http://pixelsandcompany.com/shop/Pocket-Pages-Outside-the-Box-v1.html

Masculine Cards

This week over at Stampin Royalty we have a masculine theme going on. All you need to do, is create a masculine card and upload it to our challenge site. It really is that simple.

Head on over to the site for some inspiration from the girls. I know, I will casing a few.

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Take it Easel -y Challenge

I made this card, an Easel, card, for the tiddlywinks challenge. It has been so long since I have made ANY shaped card, it was great to get one finished. I have used the image from Tiddlyinks called Annabelle Puppy Love. The papers are Red, Stampin Up and Pattern Paper from a pad from Echo Park called Fine and Dandy. I'm off now, to post this on Tiddlyinks blog.

Butterfly Birthday

I was playing with this stamp set (Butterfly Basics) the other day, and was having trouble trying to get the layout right. Well, that was until I found the challenge over at Freshly Made Sketches. Total life saver, as far as I am concerned. Everything just fell into place. Thank you.

What is Old, is New Again

Over at Stampin Royalty this week, there is a bit of a special challenge. It's kind of like a second chance at fixing a card you were not all that happy with at the time. Well, I can certainly say, that this card of mine below, is one that I am not too happy with. So here is is....

Firstly, here is the original challenge.

Here is the card I created for the challenge. (It was good at the time) lol. I think the more I look at it, the worse it is becoming....

And, here is my new card. I had to change the colours slightly, as Not quite Navy has been discontinued. So, I used Night of Navy instead. I just love this stamp set with the cats. They are so cute.

So, if you have a card you would like to re do. Pop over to Stampin Royalty and let us all have a look. There are some great cards over there. Full of inspiration.

Update...Coffee, Coffee, Coffee.

Well it seems that my coffee card is a winner, over at pals paper arts. Thank you all so very much.
It was an amazing sketch, and loads of fun. I'm sure I will be using this sketch for many cards to come. See you next week, hopefully.

Voila - love life

Well, here is a blast from the past. I was sorting out my older wooden stamps the other day, and I came across this little fellow. Although he is retired now, he is still pretty amazing. I'm quite sure that this card will be entered into the Freshly made sketches challenge this week, although I am cutting it a bit fine. Oh, yes. I rotated the sketch so my image would fit in properly.

This card would be perfect for an apprentice chef or someone who really loves cooking.

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Coffee, coffee, coffee

I finally had some time to play in my craft room this week. I found this sketch challenge over at http://www.palspaperarts.com so I thought I would play along. I can assure you, it has been a while since I made a card for a challenge.

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Beyoutiful Butterflies

This week over at Stampin Royalty, we have an amazing colour challenge for you to play with. Simply create a project using the above colours, post onto the stamping royalty blog and you never know. You may be crowned as royalty.

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Picture inspiration time.

This week over at Stampin Royalty we have a picture inspiration challenge for you to try. I bet you can not guess which picture inspired my card. It's a little tricky. And, I must say, I think I nailed it.

Pop on over to stampin Royalty and have a look at what the other girls came up. They are a very talented bunch.

Argh! My blogger not working...

So, I guess it is better late than ever, as they say. I have been having a few issues with my blog lately, but, I think I have rectified the problem. I hope, I have rectified the problem. Here is the card I made for last weeks challenge at Stampin Royalty. Although the challenge is done and dusted, I thought I would add my card anyway.

I had fun with the MDS program from Stampin Up to create the image for my card. The colours are Real Red, Basic Black and Basic Grey. That is pretty much it for this one. Quite simple.