Dream Big

I have spent the last couple of evenings fiddling about with Project Life (not PL proper....some additional pages for DGS' album) and really needed to do a 12 x 12 lo!!

Paper Stories have another super sketch this month....albeit getting towards the closing date!! Better late than never :)))

I started this lo with nothing like the final result in mind .....but do you know what??? I love it!! :))))

*sigh* Heidi Swapp on the Silhouette :)))

Papers are American Crafts 'Little Boy Blue' and I was going to go all cutesy.....???? Check out the heart....details below!!

YUM YUM YUM!!! This stuff is called Sparkle Medium by Imagination Crafts.......glittered texture paste!!!! I scraped mine through a chevron stencil onto acetate........it looks good here....but in real life it is amazing!

Here is the sketch....it's a beaut :)

 
yes I know....one day I will do multiple photos!!!

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Christmas Mini Album 2012

****be warned .... photo heavy post****

I rarely scrap Christmas. I think it's because the photos are usually dark and whilst I love Christmas colours when I get them out to scrap they don't inspire me.

I had bought an old Teresa Collins collection in the sale and decided that if I used it as white + one then it could work for me.....and I am so glad that I did :0)

Here is my rather large mini and a selection of some of the pages!! Once again I have to apologise for the dodgy photos!! I have either got to start using colour or get some proper lighting ;0) !!

I used my Zutter to bind it. The front cover is acetate with a doily and a 3D star that I made and some of the chipboard that came with the colelction

more chipboard

Ali Edwards SVG file, American Crafts arrow stamp

another Ali Edwards cut file that I have attached with washi so it lifts to reveal my journalling.  Hard to see but on the other page is a white heart with a chipboard attached to it

I cut the heart out and attached it to a stick, stamp is my fave MME, opposite page is Ali Edwards stamp and Cosmo Cricket Tiny Alphas

Ali Edwards Stamp and more acetate from the collection

Ali Edwards stamp and arrow cut on Silhouette, American Crafts thank you stamp

MME stamp, Studio Calico veneer heart

Heidi Swapp stamp

another Heidi Swapp stamp from the same set!

Teresa Collins journal stamp tucked behind photo

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x 

Fun Times at Monkey Puzzle :0)

Woohoo!! Two in two days and I've nearly finished a Christmas mini.......loving all this crafty time :0)

Today's effort is using the fantastic ScrapFriends sketch....love 'em!!

The photos (more bad but fun photos from my phone!!) were taken at the soft play place near us with DGD. In fact the one of us was taken by her :0)

Sorry for the weird colour again......roll on Summer!!!

I started with the ink splats: Cosmic Shimmer Chalk Inks and worked with my Scraptastic Kit Club kit for January :0)

American Crafts Thicker brackets, monkey cut on Cricut ....yeah I know NOT Silhouette!...but the arrow is ;) Stickers from Echo Park stamp is American Crafts

stamp is American Crafts, papes are Glitz Design and Echo Park

painted chipboard Vs, Echo Park letters and tab

and here is the sketch:

    delicious eh?


Thanks for popping in, off to finish my mini now :0)

Ali x

'You Can Do It'

It's time for another sketch over at Sketchbook365, this time it's a multiple photo one, not my usual thing, but I did use my phone and the photo booth app to record the momentous first 'big girl' bike ride :0) Not the the best photos I grant you (I really need to brush up on using my phone!) but it was an important day in the life of DGD!!

not very much pp but what I did use was some American Crafts Dear Lizzy Enchanted (????) in my stash!

 Ali Edwards stamp, SC stars (will I ever tire of them?!) TA Glam in Grand Tetons and Rocking on Sunshine

Tears because she hated her helmet and couldn't possibly concentrate whilst in soooo much pain! Letters are Prima, SC bike and everything else cut on the Silhouette

journaling has been written on both sides of tag, it was only die to the threat of me going inside that we finally got going!!

here is the sketch, based on Yvonne Yam's layout:

 not exactly the same but you can see where I was coming from! I quite like that you could chop my page in half and have 2 stand alone layouts. I think that represents the sad and the happy sides to big girl bike riding :0)

On another note ScrapFriends have thrown down the gauntlet to share your first scrapbook page. Do you remember the first time????

I share this with you on the understanding that you accept I knew no better!!!LOL oh how my style has changed :0)

I can remember 'creating' this on my dining room table and being delighted with the result!! Although it wouldn't be my choice of style today I can look at it and smile....plus I have used the original photos so there's no throwing it away!!! Do you know what else? I have glued this page to the one that sits behind it in the album....what's all that about??? LOL

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

'Scary Cat'

Hello,

I am still finding time to play and thought I would have a little go with the starry challenge over at ScrapFit.

I have had these two photos knocking around for a while but was waiting for some Halloween inspiration...then magically I found a pad of papers by WRMK tucked away on a shelf....YAY!

So here is my scary cat, no not scaredy!!

me: what are you dressing up as for Halloween?

DGD: hmm I think I will be a cat witch

me: a cat witch? I've never heard of a cat witch

DGD: well, I've got a witches costume but I don't want to wear a hat and I've got a cat mask but I don't want to be a cat, so I think I'll be a cat witch and Basil can dress up with me.

So, lo and behold allow me to present the cat witch and her dog!!

Stamp Tim |Holtz, Circle Mask misted with black ink and then stamped the excess

I didn't have enough letters so added in the 'a's from the WRMK collection, the black glitter ones are American Crafts

Look at Basil's eyes....freaky!! I cut a BOO frame on the Silhouette and backed it with orange paper and outlined it with a black pen. The edge punch is from Martha Stewart

Here is my little star!! Love that hairdo :0)

If you feel like playing along with ScrapFit's Workout #83 you've got until the end of January :0)

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x

'Pod'

I am a huge fan of Lileth Eckels and she recently hosted a challenge at Scraptastic Kit Club (actually it's because of her that I looked into joining their kit club).

The challenge is

1. Use as many embellishments/die cuts/ letters stickers/mists/stamps/washi ... as you like.
2. You can only use ONE patterned paper
3. and ONE sheet of cardstock. 

So off I went to play and created a lo for my Welsh album.

the patterned paper is an old piece of PP Mistables that I inked and flicked with paint

kaisercraft paint, Ali Edwards stamp, recycled (removed from a mini album I started and never finished and is now in the bin!) Anna Griffin bee

Silhouette shapes, Crate Paper chipbard

Silhouette shapes ....again! Basic Grey letters

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

'Funny Faces' ;0)

I am loving that there is more and more happening in the UK blogging scrap world....and about blinkin' time, if you ask me!!!

Another lovely sketch over at Sketchbook365, it's running till 20th December so pop along and give it a go!!

My lo is of my DD#2 and DGD one evening whilst getting DGD ready for bed (she'll be wearing pink pyjamas when she comes!)

frame and heart were cut on my beloved Silhouette!! Stamp is Elle's Studio. |Letter stickers are Glitz Design

handmade paper clip bow on the photo of my little honey. leaves and star bubble cut on the Silhouette. Stamps are American Crafts 'Dear Lizzy' .....never noticed them before!

leaves misted with Cosmic Shimmer spray. Hearts are Martha Stewart

all the papers are from my pink scraps file....it's great to have them in order...in theory it is saving me a fortune!!! hahaha who am I kidding?????

Here is the sketch that inspired me:



I suppose they were hoping for a Christmas theme, but I just don't scrap Christmas.....no reason, just don't!! Maybe this year will be different as Father Christmas is featuring heavily in conversations with DGD at the moment :0)

One of the magic moments of this week was DGD being asked what she would like Father Christmas to bring her and she replied 'presents would be lovely, but most of all I would like him to bring some new slippers for my Mamma (me) as she hasn't got any and if he brought them to my house I could give them to her on Christmas morning and she would be really happy and have warm feet' ...... little treasure :0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

'Hello, Hello?'

I loved this month's kit from Scraptastic Kit Club. I got Hall Pass and there is nothing in it that I don't love...trouble is I love it so much I am struggling to use it, LOL. When will I learn???

I did this layout for Project Italy and am submitting it for one of the challenges they host on their blog. I am supposed to be doing a double pager or 3 photos on a page but as I didn't have a 2 page spread left to do or 3 photos left to scrap I chose to ignore that part of the 'rules', he he he ;0)

The photo is from our day in Salo and after walking along a wonderful boardwalk for awhile I popped of fto buy some water......this is what I found on my return :0)

papers are all Studio Calico....be still my heart :0)

SC die cut frame, Panache Stash button, Elle studio cut out tags, Thickers question mark and MME brad. The stamp in the flag is also MME.

Ali Edwards stamp, the rubber xoxo thing is ancient!! I have no idea who made it.

splats and an inked lid that I salvaged from the bin

nearly there with Italy now :0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x

'If the Cap Fits'

I have made the deadline for Sketchbook 365's October sketch my the skin of my teeth! ** ha ha just went to upload this to their blog and it's closed!!! Thought I had until 11 tonight????!!**

I couldn't not do it as it's a beauty :0) I have just seen that November's has been posted today so I will aim to complete that before the last hours!!

My prize for last month's came today...stunning trims on the most adorable vintage spools...I am going to play once this has been posted.



Photos are of DGD on one a sunny beach day we had in September. R is wearing DH's hat and none of the photos are posed I love that she appears to be giving a cheeky wink in one of them....she was, in fact, squinting into the sun!

papers are all from the Happy Days collection.....I love it!

OA letter stickers, American Crafts fabric brad

die cuts are Spellbinders and MS butterfly, Ali Edwards stamp, American Crafts rub ons, OA sticker

More American Crafts rub ons, acrylic sticker thing and Ali Edwards stamp

Here is the beautiful sketch that inspired it all:



Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x