OMG I Can Not Believe It!!

Guess what?????

I am now an official member of the Scrap365 Magazine DT :0)

I keep pinching myself and can truly not believe how lucky I am.

Excited is not the word!! LOL

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

This Girl is NOT Camera Shy

Another beauty this month at Sketchbook365!

The DT were lucky enough to be given a collection of Basic Grey to play with. I got Knee Highs :0)

I love the colour mix, really bright and cheerful and perfect for a photo of my Goddaughter posing for her school photo (it makes me chuckle every time I see it) check out the carefully positioned hair ;0)

waste not want not...the green semi circles are the waste from a border sticker!

Everything is from the collection with the exception of the MME 'Smile' stamp and the thread.

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

Winner

Curse the bloomin' weather we are having....hot and overcast and completely rubbish for taking photos of white layouts!! Wish I liked colour, life would be so much easier!!

Enough of that, I have found two lovely challenges today that I have incorporated into one layout, using my gorgeous CKC kit :0)

1. About a Girl have a June challenge to use doilies on your layout.

2. The Studio Challenges are doing a Lift Chain Blog Hop...which is genius in itself. I chose to lift Amanda's layout.....a real beaut :0)

Here is my take:

Our local zoo is 50 years old and held a competition to colour in a giraffe.The winning entries were painted on a lifesize model. DGD's Nursery were one of the winners and their giraffe is in the entryway to a large supermarket.

title cut on the Silhouette. I used watered down acrylic paints to splatter as I didn't have the right colour mists.

I have been having a massive clearout in my craft room....pictures soon....and have discovered so many things that I have never used....like this little die :0)

lovely ring stain stamp from a set I won from Skissedilla ...yay!

sorry for the hideous photos...such a shame as this layout is so pretty in real life!! Perhaps I should have waited to share it ;0)

Thanks for popping in today,

Ali x 

I am doing a happy, happy dance!!

Just wanted to share my joy at being asked to join the DT at Merly Impressions!!

I am over the moon and super excited to be a part of this wonderful group of smashing crafty ladies :0)

Merly Impressions specialise in Kaisercraft goodies and I can not wait to share the things I have been working on....but wait I must!

Pop on over to see what the other girlies have been up to. There is a brilliant challenge on the go at the moment, with a £25 gift voucher to spend in the shop up for grabs!!

Thanks for popping in today, have a happy one.

Ali x 

Happy Day My Darling Dad

Thought I would pop in and share the card and present I made for my Dad. By the time this schedules I will be with him, celebrating his special day, along with DH and his girls and now SIL and his son :0) Happy, happy Father's Day to you all.

Heidi Swapp 'No Limits' and Studio Calico 'Classic Calico' 6 x 6 papers and lots of Silhouette action!

my Dad's a gardener, so I thought this tin would come in handy....then an idea was born!

I made a seed packet

wrote instructions on the back using seed packet lingo

the 'seeds' spell out his present.

When the seeds are put into the right order they tell him that he and I are going out to Beth Chatto's garden for lunch, a stroll around the gardens and then on to their nursery where a particularly unusual plant he has been hankering after will be waiting for him to collect :0)

Hope all the men in your lives have a special day today.

Thanks for popping in,

Ali x