Back from holiday...

and of course just had to see Eli.  Here he is having a cuddle with Auntie Laura.  We are all absolutely besotted by him.

My scrapbook page is yet another created using Serif Craft Artist and I used the latest sketch at Stuck on Sketches as a starting point.  I have a 'real' traditional scrapbook page on the go that also uses this sketch, but it will be another few days before that one is finished.

I haven't got a printer caperble of printing 12" x !2"so I'm saving these pages and intending to have them printed professionally when I have enough to make paying the postage worthwhile.  When they are printed I'll probably add some gems or something a little 3D to perk them up.  We'll see.

Hope everyone is enjoying the summer even if it is a little cold here in England.

Ann xxx

Popping by again...

That's two days in a row, but I did think that as I was around I really ought to show my card for this week's challenge of lace at Bah! Humbug!.

I used my new lacé die to create a centre piece.  The double sided card I used is some I have had for some time and is a stunning peacock blue on one side and silver on the other just perfect for lacé work.  Don't know about anyone else but I still have the brass templates for doing this technique by hand.  I was never quite good enough with the craft knife and mine always looked a bit tatty, but these dies make it so easy.  Having said that I don't think I would want to pay the full price for one and am so glad that my local craft store always has some good bargains.

It's a shame that there isn't much space left in the middle of the die cut.  I found it hard to find an image small enough to go in the centre so in the end I just added a small snowflake and left the card very simple.  I don't think it needed masses of embellishments.  I will add a Christmas verse to the inner sometime soon.

Gonna disappear again for a while now.

Do pop over to Bah! Humbug! to take a look at what the rest of the team have created.

Love and smiles.

Ann xxx

Just popped by to say...

Eli is six weeks old now and spent a whole day with his doting Grandma last Saturday.  I'm totally besotted - I think I love him more than I love rubber stamps!  Eeeeeeeeeeeek that is a lot!
Maybe even more than I love scrap booking with the amazing Craft Artist programme by Serif.  That programme is totally addictive and is the explanation of why I am still on the computer at one in the morning.

To create my page I used the brilliant sketch at Stuck on Sketches.  I found their blog on Feline Playful and I'm so glad I did as the work on show by the DT is fabulous and the sketch was just so brilliant in giving me a starting point for a Craft Artist page.

At the moment my page is waiting to be printed, but when it is I intend adding some bling to the flower centres and maybe other spots too.
This is the matching page.  I have to come clean and admit that this one was created using one of the predone pages on Craft Artist as a starting point, but a girl has to learn somehow and they are sooooooooooo useful and quick to do.

Hope everyone is having as brilliant a time this summer as I am.  Don't seem to be getting much done, but busy all the time.  How is that possible?

Take care.

Love and smiles.

Ann xxx