Easter Card

Easter Card, a fun card made for the grandchildren, with pp's and cotton wool, googly eyes all from my own stash

Vintage style page

This is a vintage style Layout of my mum when she was about my age. this is a passport photo of her when she and my dad went off to visit my brother in Australia in the early 80's.
I used Vintage pp's and all the rest was from my stash, I'm trying to use up all of my odd pieces, I have so much and so many tiny bits.

March 2012

Two Layouts, both using my new Vintage paperstack. All the embellishments are my own stash.The top Layout is of our local park the morning after it snowed. Enchanting!
The bottom Layout is Just me! (and some of the things that make up me!)

Growing up

 

Two Layouts of my grandchildren. the top one is Eloise growing up so fast,the pp is a new batch I purchased from the Range, The Antique collection. all embellishments were from my own stash.
The bottom one is of my two grandsons, Harvey and Zachary. this was also done on the antique collection pp, with stars cut from The cricut - george.   I can't believe they're all getting so grown up now, 3yrs 2m, 2yrs 2m, ad 1 yr 3m, soon I'll be scrapping their teenage years :(

Gift Bags

Thanks to Pinterest for these tutorials for giftbags. I used 12 x 12 double sided pp. cost to me - nothing, cost overall.... pennies. and so personal and Love the little 'house' style one, have all sorts of ideas for that one for babies birthdays etc.

Easter Baskets

Three Easter Baskets, all ready to fill for the grandchildren. I made these from ordinary double-sided scrapbook printed paper, 9" x 9" divided into 3" squares, rounded off 8 corners and fixed the sides with a brad and flower, 1" handle, and hey presto! a basket. made for next to nothing, I'm going to fill with shredded tissue paper and easter goodies.

A Linen fabric covered frame. paper flowers just highlight the stone polka dots on this fabric.  Made with tips and tutorial from Heather Luke's book on Cartonnage.

Chair Bag Tutorial

Chair Bag Tutorial

Double fabric covered frame.

Cartonnage frames

Two more kiddy frames, a floral padded frame and a double-pic book style frame, Loving this new hobby of mine, Not given up on any of the others just added to them!!   I need more hours in my days

Cartonnage projects

made with ideas and templates from the 'Catonnage kit' by Heather Luke.

Trust

This is my granddaughter Eloise, at her Nanny Towell's house with their little Jack Russell Pippa. It just shows you what good natured little dogs these are. Little Eloise had a nasty cold, bless her.

This Layout was done with MS deep edge punches on 'Me to you' pp Spring Chic. 12 x 12 double sided. the flower border and floral ribbon were purchased from a street market in Market Harborough, and the flowers came from Thailand. the font is 'kids' printed from the PC. buttons and gems from Hobbycraft.

Cartonnage

My latest craft endeavor, Cartonnage, the Book that inspired me is 'The Cartonnage Kit' by Heather Luke.  This is the Jewellery Tray.

LIttle Miss Sunshine

Eloise, my dear little 2yr old granddaughter, I did this layout using tea and coffee dyed lace, metal letters distressed wording printed from the PC , flowers are from Thailand.

Wall plaques

Christmas 2011

My little granddaughter opening her presents when she came up to us on Boxing day, she opened her boots which I bought her, the look of disappointment on her face says it all, she had her little phone in her hand, it looked like she was texting, "would you believe these adults? Boots indeed!) the bottom photo was her after she'd opened her little keyboard, smiles with that!! lol

The Cake

I thought I'd try to make cake for my granddaughter's 2nd birthday. She absolutely loves Waybuloo on TV, so I thought I'd have a go. It was the first time in my lfe I'd ever used roll-on icing and made models. It was a bit hit and miss, but the cake was nice to eat anyway. She recognised the little characters so it couldn't have been that bad!
For this Layout I used inspiration from Becky Fleck's Page Maps book. used Martha Stewart's Edge punch, some papermania flowers and some ribbon from my stash.

Amy

My Daughter Amy, done with some lovely paper flowers by papermania, My Mind's Eye printed paper from the 'La Paperie' collection, the Letters were from the childrens art supplies at y local Range store.

The Holidays

The Grandchildren over the Halloween and Christmas Holidays, the top pic is Eloise and her Mummy Amy and myself on Boxing day 2011, we were having so much fun playing with the beads on the bed, then bouncing on the bed. it seems the old faithful playthings are still the best!,
underneath are my two Grandsons, Harvey aged3, and Zachary just 1yr old. on Halloween.
The lower picture is Zachary age yr.

My Girls

Amy & Eloise, November 2011. The papers I used for this Layout were free with my monthly magazine 'simply cards and papercraft' It is from the 'nitwits' collection. I love their papers. I just adred a few embellishments and left it fairly plain as I love this photo, I wanted it to be the main focal point.

The King's Folly

A double page LO of some sculptures which are relative to a story written for the children and folk who walk in East Carlton Park. Market Harborough. Leics.  The story is about a King and his land, woodland spirits, dragons and witches. It's a super story and has a moral to the tale, look after your land, be yourself and appreciate all things that are around you.

Going cheep!

This Parrot Sanctuary/Zoo is situated about 5miles from my Mum's house in Lincolnshire. we have visited a couple of times to see and support the poorly parrots and the many birds and animals that these people care for. The little bird on the top of the picture, devoid of his feathers, is in a quarantine cage. I hope he gets better soon! Underneath are pictures of myself with some of the little birds and parrots that fly freely in an 'open' walk-through aviary. They are quite tame and it's a real pleasure to be 'at one' with these beautiful little birds. If you're ever in Lincolnshire on the A52 towards Skegness, drop in and pay them a visit, you'll be contributing a a very worthwhile cause, and you'll have a super day out in the bargain!

Thank Nature

I thank nature for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and for the blue dream of sky.

A typical day walking for me and my little dog Jaz. This is our favourite place to walk, lots of places to sit and gaze, and for jaz to sniff! lots of nice people to chat to and little dogs for jaz to sniff! (You might get the idea that Jaz likes to sniff) There in the bottom two pics she is waiting at the benches for us to sit.

Such Joy

Eloise, my dear grandaughter on her new bike. The face says it all!! she looks tickled pink!
She does bring us so much joy just looking at her enjoying herself.

Eloise

No earthly joy could bring more pleasure than a little grand-daughter to love and treasure!

Dream Big !

My Grandson Harvey, Age just 2. 1/2 driving the little motorbikes at Wicksteed Park, Kettering, all by himself for the very first time! He made no mistakes, kept his foot on the pedal and steered perfectly! We were so proud of him ! After that he had a super chocolate ice cream cone to make the day !!

The Layout was inspired by Trudy Sigurdson's book 'Tantalizing Textures' .

Man's Best Friend

This is our little dog Jaz, she's now 2 years old and the most loving and faithful little dog ever, I take her out 3 times a day (weather permitting) mostly in the local park, she loves to sniffle through the woodland and trees, rolling in anything she finds 'doggily' attractive! While we are walking, we pass several benches, she always stops and stands up, like in the picture, as if to say 'shall we sit a while?' I sit down and she immediately jumps on my lap and sits there until I ask her " shall we go now?" I love her to bits and love our little walks. She makes my heart smile!

Favorite photos

Just some of my favoite photo's of my family, I am going to have to make another as there are many more I couldn't fit onto this page.

Girly Stuff

My Grandaughter and me at my Mum's 90th birthday party in June 2011. we were discussing necklaces, girly stuff!