Sunday, 1 January 2012

Oh my goodness it's 2012...


Happy New Year to everyone.  Let's hope it's a good one for us all.  One of my many New Year resolutions is to use more of my stash especially new stuff as sometimes I buy things and find a space somewhere in the craft room and simply never get round to using them even though I love the stamps to pieces.  Really silly to buy and never ink up so to start the year I've made a card using a really cute Molly Bloom stamp that Santa brought me.  I really love this stamp as it has so many possibilities.  I think it would fab paper pieced and would decoupage quite well too.

I used the sketch from Papertake Weekly as a basis for my design and papers that have been in my stash for a long, long time.  I like to use vellum over highy patterned paper as I love the way you can still see the design on the paper through the layer.  In this case I found a matching blue vellum to use.  The image was coloured using Promarkers and die cut snowflakes and gems complete the card.
Additional Challenges...
Think I may start my other resolutions (less red wine and more healthy food) next week.  LOL! Have a great day whatever you have planned for the day. 
Love and smiles,
Ann xxx

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Wonderful Christmas...

Just popped in to say that I hope everyone has had a Christmas as wonderful as I have.  Didn't start celebrating till Boxing Day when we were all free from work, but it was worth the wait as it was just so special to have everyone together.
Took masses of photos of you know who!  Well he's just so much cuter than us groan ups and far more fun to scrap book.  To create my latest page I used Serif Craft Artist software and a sketch from Stuck on U Sketches.
My page is also for the challenge at Simon Says Challenge where the theme is Anything Goes!
Just in case I don't log in again before the New Year starts I'd like to wish everyone a very very Happy New Year.
Love and laughter.
Ann xxx

Wednesday, 21 December 2011

Happy Christmas to all...

Oh had such an awful few days after being struck down by one the nasty flu viruses going around at the moment.  I was even feeling too ill to go online - that is bad!  However, started to feel a bit brighter yesterday and made a start on scrapping some photos of Eli's last visit.  Not too convinced about the results, but I faffed around for ages with this page and this was the best it got.
Luckily while in bed suffering I managed to watch some Serif Craft Artist programmes on Create and Craft so I now know how to use shadows, scissors to create material frayed edges and how to do phrased a much faster and neater way so maybe there is a good side to being confined to bed.

I used the fab sketch at Creative Scrappers for my initial inspiration and incorporated the word 'WONDER' from the theme at the Bird is the Word Challenge blog.  I must admit that at first my interpretation of 'wonder' was meant to be the way Eli was completely mesmerised by the tree and baubles, but as I started journalling it sort of changed into a 'I wonder what I can get away with' thing.
Other challenges include...
Think this may be my last posting before the big day, especially seeing as I haven't been able to get anything done for the last few days I need to catch up fast, so I would like to wish everyone visiting my blog a very happy Christmas and let's hope that the New Year brings better things for all of us.

Whoops just sneaked back to show page two of Eli exploring the Christmas tree.  This time I used a sketch from Sketches in Thyme as a basis for my design.  It was really fun to have the star as a matt to layer the photo on. 

Love and laughter and wishing everyone absolutely the best Christmas ever.
Ann xxx

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