'Aunty'

OK so time to 'fess up!!

You may note that there is no longer a x/100 in the title.....I tried, I really did, but that pesky Create and Craft went and had a birthday with free p&p and all the Heidi Swapp and American Crafts stuff in the sale.....what's a girl to do?????

Soooo.....I will at the very least continue with my CKC kits and TRY not to spend too much!! On a positive note I have been a lucky little crafter and won some beeeuoootiful stamps from Skissedilla and found out this morning that I have won a prize at CCW :0)

This time I am back to play with Lets Get Sketchy I am loving their sketches this month :0)

Another lo for DGS' scrapbook, this time with his adoring aunt and when I say adoring, I mean totally besotted.....as in head over heels in love:0) 

using more bits from my lovely CKC April Kit

circles are misted with Tattered Angels and Color Shine. You can just about see LOVE using one of my new embossing folders

ombred Heidi Swapp letters with ProMarkers....love this!!

PLS card, SC heart and a leaf die from Marianne (I think)

Here is the lovely sketch if you want to have a play too :0)

 

Thanks so much for popping in today,

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 

'Woodentops' on a passing whim!

Does this sound familiar? I was on my way to get dressed and as I passed my craft room I noticed a washi tape on the floor. In I went to pick it up and before I put it in the jar, I pulled out a piece of paper and started messing about with it. I had just been flicking through the blogs I follow and had seen the Skissedilla sketch and had also spotted the chevron paper from Crate Fourteen collection....an idea was born!

2 hours later I am still in my pyjamas, having created my page for the challenge, photographed it and am now posting it!! Have just had a phone call from DH as I am supposed to be walking the dog round to DD#1's to help out with taking stuff to the dump! Needless to say I lied through my teeth and said I had been busy with the hoover and was on my way......so without delay, here is my take ;0)

washi tape 'chevronned' up

Weathered Wood and Pumice Stone distress inks, Tattered Angels Glam in Heffalump

me and my baby bruvs a long time ago! 

Stash Panache button and October Afternoon stickers

yummy sketch!


Not brilliant photos, but I'm in a rush!!

Happy weekend, thanks for popping in,

Ali x

'Interested in You'

Hello all :0)

I am always on the look out for Scrapbooking sites in the UK and was delighted to find a blog affiliated to one of the  shops I use Sarah's Cards Ltd and even better they had a sketch challenge!!

So using my new kit from Scraptastic Kit Club that has a lot of Pink Paislee's Portfolio line I disappeared for a bit to have a play.

It's another layout for my Welsh album of DH taking a photo of me.... taking a photo of him :0)

papers are mostly PP with a little Crate and Glitz thrown in for good measure

Cosmo Cricket sticker, Crate Paper chippie heart and my bargain find in The Range...wooden numbers! painted and glimmer glammed :0)

glorious Studio Calico stars

totally forged PP tag :0)

my most favourite Ali Edwards stamp ....love the wording

here is the sketch that kicked off my inspiration:

 you can see that I used the elements but just layered them up!

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x 

A new discovery...yippee!!

So, I have finally succumbed to the principle of a kit club!! It makes economic sense, right?, she says, justifying the break in her promise to buy NO MORE!! OK so this is my thinking, I see things, I want things, I find a way to justify buying a whole collection just because I love one element of it and then it sits in my craft room and I don't (I mean, can't) use it......ridiculous!!

All of that is in the past as I have discovered Scraptastic Club, a brilliant place full of challenges, inspiration and wonderful kits. The postage is what swayed it for me...so many kit clubs charge the earth to ship to the UK :0(....but then I looked closely at the kit and thought hang on a minute, they are offering all that I love and instead of waiting for it to come here and buying the whole lot, I can have it now and use it!!

So whilst waiting for said new kits (yes that is plural...some things never change!) I decided to play along with a couple of the challenges...skin of my teeth, as they end tomorrow!!

First one:

Subway Art....hmmm, I have just re-read the rules and I haven't actually adhered to the challenge. More haste, less speed methinks, LOL!

Oh well, here is my take:

I saw this wedding subway art in the Silhouette shop for 50 cents and thought it would be cool to cut it and use it as a mask. The mist is Tattered Angels Chalk 'Apricot'

Papers are MME Sweet Caroline, the journal stamp is a really old one, the little heart was still stuck on my block from a recent layout (random!) from Basic Grey

Number stamp is Pink Paislee Daily Junque as is the arrow. The canvas letters are Prima

I inked the edges with a chalk ink, the word stamp is from MME Indie Chic

So onto the next one...fingers crossed this one is ok!!

A sketch and colour challenge:




and here is my take:

More MME, this time Follow Your Heart

A little bit of Glitz transparency, a Maya Road heart ribbon slider and a Basic Grey super old brad!!

Cut this on the good old Silhouette and then battered up the edges with my Crop A Dile. Tim Holtz butterfly and a Basic Grey brad

Prima resin flower and some tape ribbon that I got from Etsy

I love this photo - think it's my all time fave. My Mum had it in one of those old yucky albums with the lines of glue so I 'rescued' it!! She doesn't mind (or at least what the eye doesn't see......) I'm joking, I have asked, truly!!

Thanks for popping in, can't wait to show off my kit.

Ali x 

CSI Case File 33 'Inspire'

Another super challenge over at CSI today :0)

This colour palette (or at least the brick red) was so far removed from my comfort zone that I very nearly didn't do this one!

Glad I did, as I very rarely scrap our random days out, so it was good to do something other than the kids ;0) This photo was taken at the Hampton court Flower Show last month. DH and I went up for the day to get inspiration for our garden and had a really fun day with live music, good food and the most wonderful flowers and plants you ever did see!! One of the highlights was catching a boat to cross the Thames and seeing the palace as the Tudors would have done all those years ago.

Evidence: colour palette, document a landmark place you have visited, triangles, metal, something shiny, wet medium, something sand like, bricks, clouds and shadows.

tucked behind the photo is brick paper from the Co-Ordinates - I have journaled on this (like the idea of graffiti on a wall) I misted with 3 different mists and a 'mask' that I cut on the Silhouette and smudged embossing paste with red mica dropped onto it. The triangle is an old one I found..getting good at using up old stash ;0)

title cut on Silhouette and then I used a ProMarker to create a shadow - the pen did bleed into the word but I don't mind that. Stars are Studio Calico (yes I relented and bought them!)

Misted through a chevron mask and pushed some gilding flakes into the embossing paste whilst it was wet.

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x

Frosted Designs #47 'Eggs'

Random title I know!!

It refers to the numbered egg people we play with in the bath, from lining them up, playing Mums and Dads, to filling them with bath water and squirting them....not Mamma's favourite game as I always get drenched!!

This is my penultimate layout for the Frosted Designs DT. There are going to be lots of exciting changes over there in the near future so keep your eyes peeled :0)

I really enjoyed creating this layout - it doesn't actually look like one of mine! I spent a lot of time on the background and I think because I used a large photo it didn't give me the white space I usually go for......still, nice to ring the changes :0)

BP is MME. I have inked through a dotty mask (fast becoming my fave) and then stamped with a Kaisercraft background stamp. Cut some large numbers on the Silhouette and misted over them with Tattered Angels. Then randomly stamped with an Ali Edwards word stamp.

The banner was cut on the Silhouette using MME paper. Homemade washi as I didn't have the right colours!

American Crafts Thickers - super old!!

The same number border but a smaller version

A little bit of a PP transparency, a cardstock thingy from Glitz and a MME brad

We had yet another lovely sketch from Karin......I love it because there are so many parts to it for inspiration :0)

 why not give it a go?

Thanks so much for popping in,

Ali x

p.s thanks to scheduling I am actually in Tunisia when this posts, so will pop in and say hi on my return x 

Frosted Designs #45 'Hugs and Kisses'

Hello,

got another of Karin's wonderful sketches over at Frosted Designs to play with today :0)

I had a great time messing about with paste, inks, mists and paint!! The overall effect is a lot 'busier' than I would normally go for, but as the sketch took up most of the page I tried to stay true to it, whilst sticking to my style (ish)

The photo is of my youngest cousin and me in 1983. I didn't have as close a bond with this little dot as I did with her brothers and sisters, a. because I was in my late teens when she was born and was out and about all the time and b. I had DD#1 when she was only 4.....hard to believe 2 years after this photo I was a Mummy...I am but a child myself!!!!

As the years have gone by she and I have become really close and having just returned from a 6 month trip around the world I can not wait to give her lots of hugs and kisses :0)

Papers are American Crafts - the old Dear Lizzy line.

The yellow circle is a Prima mask painted, misted and flicked with ink. American Crafts brad

A wooden flower inked, another of my punched tags and a super old Basic Grey chipboard heart and button! More paint flicking and messing about :0)

Pearl embossing paste and acrylic paint through a mask and then I inked through a dotty mask.

Title was cut on the Silhouette....don't know about you but I can't stop using mine these days...they have such brilliant weekly bargains!!! Final little flourish was the blue pearls.

Thanks so much to Karin for providing us with this little beauty to play with:



and thanks to you for popping in today :0)

Ali x 

CSI #26 'The Jewels'

Once again I am going to tell you how much I love the challenge at CSI this week......I know I bang on about this place every week, but seriously, you have to go and see what the DT come up with! It truly is, in my opinion, the most inspirational place as the styles are so diverse :0)

Anyhow, this week is the last of the royal challenges and once again Debbi has created the most beautiful colour palette.

I have used a photo of my DD's who are very much my jewels in this crown of life :0)

Lots of playing around with masks this week! A TH crown mask misted with black, the grid using white gloss embossing paste and the circle (my take on scallops and icing) using pearl paste. Tattered Angels Chalkboard mist in Firefly and the white mist I had made but has gone really thick but I like the look!

Felt flower is an old Heidi Swapp one, the letters are super old stickers, the crown accent from TH, washi tape and a stamp from Prima and a wordy one from Fiskars

You can just about see that I stencilled an A and an E (it shows up more in real life) The journaling tag is a PLS Chalkboard tag and pulls out to reveal my thoughts

I had lots of fun with this layout - although I did get bored waiting for stuff to dry!!

Here is the challenge if you would like to give it a go:



Thanks so much for popping in,

Ali x