Dare I post this...

Okay I will! 

For ages and ages I've wanted to scrapbook my photos.  I must admit to doing one or two pages a year or maybe more ago, but never seemed to get round to doing more.  Bought the albums and papers and was at the ready, but just never got going.

Well all that has changed!  I've made a start and had a lovely time scrapping with my daughter the other day.  It was just great to play alongside each other and it brought back so many happy memories too.  

So here is my first page of a scrapbook celebrating a very special holiday quite a few years back now.  It's a plain page up to the wonderful embellished pages I've seen around, but I'm happy with it and that's what really matters.  Only another 100 or so photos to go now!  

Sheesh better get busy!

Materials used...

• Papermania 12" x 12" beige card from Earth tones pack
• gold border peel offs
• palm tree punch
• Plantain Schoolbook cartridge to cut lettering for title
• computer generated journalling
• gold paper and stardust white

Thanks for looking everyone (if you have!) and if you know any good Scrapbooking Challenge Blogs please let me know as it feels so weird not to be adding a challenge.  Not that I'm obcessed with challenges or anything.  LOL!

As always enjoy your day whatever you're doing.

Update - thanks for the lovely comments everyone.  I will certainly check out those sites and as Ann suggested I'm entering this for her 'anything goes' challenge at Crafty Ann's.  Think I may have already entered this challenge, but hey it will keep her DT on their toes!!

Ann xxx

Friday fun at Bah! Humbug! ...

Yeah this week at Bah! Humbug! our theme is 'border punches' which means everyone will have the chance to bring out their favourite punches and show some stunning borders on their cards.  I'm guessing we'll see a lot of Martha Stewart this week, but on my card I've dug out my old (very old) back of the deepest drawer Fiskars snowflake border punch.

I deserve a medal for using this as each time I punched I had to give it a thump to get it back into action for the next one. Sheesh wonder if this means treating myself to one of the new 'punch through anything' models you can get now?  Any excuse!

To create my card I used the fabulous sketch from the Pollycraft Monday challenge and of course the super cute image is one of the Pollycraft Christmas Pixies that are on sale at the moment.  The scrummy 'Winter Wonderland' DP was in my stash and I'm not sure of the maker. 

  Other challenges...

• Creative Inspirations - Fairies (hope Pixies count!)
• The ABC challenge - Unused stash (my snowflake punch and after this it's going to the back of the drawer again)
• Winter Wonderland - See amid the winter's snow (what a great title and seeing as my DP actually has Winter Wonderland written on it I just had to enter)

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to see the samples by the rest of the team and hopefully join in too.  Irene, Max and I love to see everyone's amazing work.  At the moment I'm busy scrapbooking - not too sure whether my efforts are worthy of blog land, but we'll see.

Have a great day everyone no matter what you are doing.

ooooooooops...

Completely forgot to put this on my blog last week and I do know Irene wanted to see the flowers as she very kindly stepped in and ordered the die for me and then posted it on.

Why did she have to do that?  

Well, some companies insist on making you register to buy in their online store.  Hmmm, okay in theory, but dipsticks like me create a password and weeks later can't get order anything cause they can't remember their password!

The 'forgot password' button gives no response and even a message on their contact button got me nowhere so much as I like their products I'll order elsewhere in future.
Anyway less moaning.  I love the die used to create the flower on my box.  It's one of the Marianne Ribbon Flower Sets and cuts beautifully.  Two flowers and the swirl in the set.  Just gorgeous.  When I used the flower I didn't even realise that you could put ribbon through it.  Silly me!  I will be doing that next time.  The gem brad in the middle is one of a set I bought at the NEC - yikes only four left now.  Hmmmmmm, will anyone else get one on a card/box?  They will have to be very special to qualify.  Think I like these brads more than tassels!
The box was made to hold the set of cards I made here and was a present for a non card making friend.  She was really over the moon with the gift.
Have a fab day everyone and hope to see you back for the new Bah! Humbug! challenge which starts tomorrow.

Happy Nurse's Day...

to nurses and carers everywhere. 

Just a short post as I'm off to Leeds today shopping with my daughters.  After making the Christmas tag card last week I decided to use the same idea for a card for Laura to celebrate Nurse's day.  The concertina tag made it a great working space to add quotes and I do know that Laura loves some of the ones I've added, especially the one about nurses being angels in comfy shoes.

The stamp is a digi by C.C. Designs and is called Nurse Nora - hmmmmmm reminds of Nitty Nora, the bug explorer, who used to visit schools when I was little.

Here's the other side of the tag... 

Challenge...

• My Time to Craft - Too Cute - C.C. Design stamps are always 'too cute'

Have fun everyone, especially nurses and carers on your special day.

Ann xxx

Grrrrrrrrrrrrr...

I really wanted to support friends on the DT at CD Sunday, but oh my goodness I'm really not so keen on using CDs anymore and this card is sadly a 'bugging me' one.  It nearly hit the bin several times and may do yet!

The theme this week at CD Sunday is 'Country Charm' so I chose this image from Joanna Sheen's Card Makers Year CD.  I didn't feel in the mood for a country cottage and thought the dog taking a stroll and finding a new friend was a fun take on the theme.

Sadly fun it was not as I could not get the sketch from Stamptacular quite as it should be and of course now I've realised that I can't enter it for their challenge anyway as there is nothing 'stamptacular' about my card.  Ho hum don't think the brain was working yesterday.  Putting it down to the lack of brain cells after the meal out I had with Laura.   She's a very bad influence!!

Rainy Monday Mornings...

are a bit sad, but never mind surely soon we will have some spring sunshine and Penny Black hedgie stamps always give me a large dose of the feel good factor.  So cute!  This particular stamp and the sentiment 'a teeny, tiny wish' are from one of the clear stamp sets available.  Love these sets as you get such a lot for your money and they are great to store.

I made my card using this brilliant sketch from the Penny Black Saturday Challenge.  One of my all time favourite challenges and this week sees them celebrating Week 100 so there is plenty of fun going on over there.   Do check it out.

The papers I've used are from a Making Memories 6"x6" pad and all the other items are from my stash.  

Additional challenges...

• Pile it on - Cute and Cuddly (hmm maybe not so cuddly in real life but on paper yeah super cute)
• Crafty Calender Challenges - The Great Outdoors
• Flutter By Wednesday - open theme
• Lilly of the Valley - Summer

Hope the sun is shining where you are any you're having a great day.  I'm going to get busy on some more challenges and cards I need and maybe some house work, but maybe not!

Happy Birthday Irene...

Have a brilliant day and thank you for being such a wonderful friend.

Materials used...

• papers from pad included in Create n Craft goodie bought at NEC
• Cream pearlescent card and gold mirri from stash
• Label die by Go Create 
• friendship sentiment stamp (part of a set bought  from an American company some time ago and I can't remember the name)
• organza ribbon and gold eyelets also from stash

Challenges...

• Stamp Something - Happy Birthday

Mother's Day...

Well it's not actually Mother's Day here in England, but my daughter came back from a short break holiday in London last night and just look what she bought me.  I love it!  It's a little book full of the most wonderful quotes about Mums and Motherhood.  Both of us love quotes and so she knew how perfect this would be for me. 

These are some of my favourites from inside the book...

'You can fool all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool Mum.'

Anonymous.

'No matter how old a mother is, she watches her middle aged children for signs of improvement'.

Florida Scott Maxwell.

'The quickest way for a mother to get her children's attention is to sit down and look comfortable'.

On that note Happy Mother's Day to everyone celebrating today and hoping everyone has a fantastic day.