Birthday card for Dawn

You may recall if you have been reading my blog a while Dawn is my mum's best friend and is Mummy 2 and Nana Dawn to us. She is the most wonderful caring lady and part of our family. I made my first t riple easel card for her using Poppy and Valentines Night digi stamps from Crafts and Me. I love how it looks but have had trouble with an envelope and ended up using two lol.

I am going to enter it into the Scrapology Challenge for this month which is anything but square :)

Teacher's cards

I sat down last night and made cards for the kids four teachers (Dylan has two part time job share teachers). I used the images from one of the papers in the Gottacraft kit this month, as soon as I saw it I thought oooh Teacher's cards. I also used some 6x6 pp's from my Echo Park For the Record pad and thickers and few other bits. I hope you like them I am happy with how they turned out :)

Crazy in love

As I mentioned in my last post Sheleen is a very inspiring lady, one of the LO's on UKScrappers that I saved as a favourite very early on was this one by Sheleen. I have waited a while to lift it but I wanted to be sure I had the right photo and last night after umming and ahhing for a while I went for it with this layout;

I used the gorgeous Glitz Laced with Grace papers, some thickers, bling, marianne dies, and a journalling card which is tucked under the photo. The journalling is about how I posed for this photo as a present for Phil. We had only just met in Ibiza but while I was on a fortnight holiday he was only there a week so I had a few days after he left on my own and was missing him madly. A year on from this photo we were married and expecting our first child :)

Thanks for popping by who inspires you?

Inspired by blogs

I follow quite a few blogs. I am planning on cutting down a little on which ones I follow as I have found some of the Cricut blogs are not really relevant unless you have every cart under the sun! The blogs I find most inspiring at the moment are Sheleen's, Anita's, and Rachel's. I decided using the beautiful work of these three ladies as inspiration I would try and do a very pretty pretty page and this is what I came up with;

I used Websters Pages lullaby lane pp's which I cut up into lots of little sections starting by removing the central panel of the diecut paper to make a frame. In some area's there are 6 layers of pp's and it is dimensional irl. I think I have made it a little too busy but I still like what I have done and am very pleased to have done something so different for me. The only additions to the pp's are the crystal swirl, journalling ticket, thickers for the title and a little stickles on the fairies wings.

The journalling records how I was 18 weeks pregnant with our eldest in this photo (I am holding my cousin's son not one of mine) and had been feeling the first fluttery kicks for a few days.

Challenge setting

This week on UKScrappers I volunteered to set the weekly challenge here is what I came up with;

Hello and welcome to my first challenge I hope you will enjoy it
July is in full swing and as it is traditionally a month of sunshine, flowers and weddings I thought I would incorporate the well known wedding tradition of - "Something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue" into my challenge.

I would like you to use one of your (old) tried and tested techniques or embellishments for 5 points. For clarification if you chose an embellishment it does not need to be one you have had in your stash for ages but rather one you have used often so using it is "old" to you.
For new I would like you to use a technique you have learnt within the past 6 months or to use new papers for 10 points.
To borrow I would like you to either scraplift or use a sketch designed by someone else for 10 points.
Finally I would like you to use some blue in your layout.

To re-cap;

Old technique or embellishment - 5 points
New technique or patterned papers - 10 points
Scraplift or use a sketch - 10 points
Use blue - 5 points

I look forward to seeing what you all come up with and have included some links of sample pages.

Have fun, Michelle x

Here are my two sample pages- Our Trio using the June creative craftworld kit;

Old- hidden journalling

New- pp's

Borrowed- scraplifted from a LO on UKS with permission

Splish Splash using Echo Park pp's

Old- cutting elements from the pp's to make embellishments

New- pp's

Borrowed- used a sketch from Sketch Inspirations

I also managed to get last weeks challenge done before time ran out. It was set by Jo aka Wonky;

Welcome to my third weekly challenge, I hope you enjoy it.

As it's Independence Day, in honour of our American friends I would like you to scrap one photo of one thing....animal, mineral, vegetable or person!

Children are getting ready for the long summer holidays, everyone seems to be planning days out and it's such a busy month I feel like I'm going round in circles so I would like to see some circles on your layout.

I sit at my desks all day drawing sketches and patterns when I should really be working so I would like you do include some doodling on your layout.

Finally I love a bit of stash busting so let's see some eyelets or brads on your layout.

So to recap:

One photo of one thing - 10 points
Circles - 10 points
Doodling - 5 points
Eyelets/brads - 5 points.

I hope you like my challenge and look forward to seeing your creations.

I did the LO all about my second boy Dylan with facts about him from 3 years ago and the same questions but with very different answers this year. I am going to do the same for his siblings later this week.

Thanks for popping by if you are a UKS member please give my challenge a go :)

Glitz Giveaway

Glitz are offering their blog readers a chance to win their brand new CHA summer releases. These are truly beautiful ranges and I cannot decide which of the three is my favourite I may have to save up and get all of them :)

The giveaway can be found here for "Dance in Sunshine" here for "Vintage Blue" and here for "Beautiful Dreamer" why don't you give it a go?

Been AWOL

Sorry I have not been around just needed a break from the computer so that included blogger. I have also been having some time off crafting I did this LO at the weekend for the weekly challenge on UKScrappers for last week;

and then today I spent a little time in the afternoon doing two LO's one for the House Challenge here;

and one for the Scrapfactor playalong week 12;

Yesterday I completed my latest Circle Journal entry which I am not too sure about but it is done now so hopefully the owner will like it. The CJ theme was favourite books and as my favourite - The Lord of the Rings- had already been done I chose Harry Potter;

Thanks for popping by hopefully I will be my normal chatty self again soon have a good evening x