Sunday crafting - week 3

So it was the third sunday since I decided to make a concerted effort to do more crafting yesterday. The plan was to sit with my hubby and do some stitching whilst watching footie but the scrapping bug was calling my name :) SO I took the big 3 kids in the dining room with me to give hubby some peace and they got on with their crafty projects whilst I dragged out the 8x8 album I am doing for a friend. It was supposed to be a first anniversary present (paper) but Alex came along and the album got abandoned after page 1.

Page 1 was done already but I completed three more of the pages;

My new favourite LO

I competed this as part of a weekly challenge on the UKScrappers forum. I was going for something very different with a different picture initially but I decided that the picture I was going to use orginally would not go with purple (one of the challenge requirements was to use purple) and then it all escalated from there :)

Cardstock is all Bazzil, Papers are DCWV and I also used purple vellum. I cut out the words and then with help from Alex (read he insisted on helping lol) I glitterised the treasure. I used Kreinik thread to sew the lazy daisies in the top right corner and used a mix of flowers and brads in the bottom left. I used clear gems to make a little sparkly trail from the butterfly leaving a blossom and taking to the sky. Finally I used a large brad which reads My Family and some lace trim with fabric roses under the Moments cut out.

I hope you like it I love it :)

Another Alex page

So in the first of tonight's posts is another page for the Scrapology challenge. I am not sure I will be in time but it is fun to have a go anyhow. This is done to a sketch and I love these photo's even though the second one is a little blurry I had to include it purely because of the soppy smiley grin on Alex's face :)

Alex pages and exciting news

So the little man's turn is finally here :) I am posting again a LO I did this week as it is only the second one of him poor boy but then it is his fault I have had so little time to craft the past couple of years lol. Just for info Joel is currently 11, Dylan is 8, Kari is 6 and Alex just turned 2 :)

As for the exciting news Phil (DH) has gone to the gym but on the way there he is collecting my new camera :) Yippee no poor quality iPhone pics

Joel pages

So it is the biggest boy's turn :) Sorry for the terrible picture quality on the DLO I will have to get a new camera but we need a washing machine first lol. This DLO was one of my first scrapping foray's after a wedding page and the first DLO of Kari.

This page was done at a scrapping party using a supplied kit. I added the round ribbon brads from my stash to try and make balloons and decoupaged the candle paper as the LO felt too flat.

All my kids are incredibly crafty I can't imagine why lol and Joel designed and made this page himself (with a little help) he has also done some 6 by 6 LO's which I will share at a later date :)

Dylan Pages

I only have this one double layout of Dylan by himself so I really have to get some more of him done. I do have a 6x6 of him as well that he did himself (with a titchy bit of help) so when I upload my 6x6 pages you will see more of him. I seem to do most of my pages about all of the kids together or Kari I need to get some more boy friendly papers.

Can't stop scrapping

Now I am fairly confident that by now you know I don't mean that I am fighting a lot :) I have definately got my scrapping bug back and have on my search for inspiration and ideas completed a page as a challenge on the Scrapology blog Here. I was already planning to scrap this photo and I love using decoupage on my pages so I thought this would meld with the Dimension challenge.

The papers are from Basic Grey Infuse range using the pink as the base, the stripped paper to cover the chipboard and I cut a section from the corner of the floral paper to make an explosion of flowers :) The Circular chipboard was covered and then I had to cut out a section to fit the photo into the circle so I used the cut out part to help raise the floral corner. I ended up having to use 3D sticky pads on top of the swirls that went under the decoupage as they were less raised. I used Bazzil flowers a few brads and some cream paper flowers with a beige ribbon to make the flowers at the torn sections.

Anyhow I am in love with the page even though it has a photo of me and not one of the kids lol so I hope you like it too :)

(p.s. the yellowy colour around the edges is my dining table not part of the LO maybe I should paint it so it goes better with my LO's when I photograph them lol)