Scrapwhispers

Its friday so that means Scrapwhispers, except today there is no weekly challenge because its the 15th and it's blog hop day! Today's tutorial comes from the lovely Rosey - and you should have come here from Rosey's blog. If you havent then go on back to the scrapwhispers blog and follow the hopping order. The tutorial that Rosey has put together for us is a dust cover for a book. You'll see by my photo that I've left mine really plain. The reason behind it is that the book I bought is for my Gran who is very sick and I want to put a very personal message on.. I've added a piece of ribbon to be used as a book mark. It can be just tucked round From here your next stop is Helen... jump on over to see her take on the project. Have fun and if you have ago (I hope you do) then don't forget to link us to your project!! Enjoy your weekend

Quick cards

Hello. I've got a couple of cards to show you today. It seems like ages ago i did a random crafty post. I've been making some cards to give to the school fete at christmas time. Its my donation to the school and seeing as it went very well last year I'm doing it again. This year I've been looking at different things to do and seeing as every wednesday I stalk the Splitcoast stampers website to see what I create. I found a tutorial for a drawer box. On the tutorial it shows just the box, but to be a bit extra I've stuck a card to the top. I've decorated this one with Basic grey kioshi papers and some ribbon. The image is also Basic Grey. The little drawer slides in and out pretty easy and makes a great gift/card all in one. Sticking with the gift card theme, I saw a lovely little tutorial on the Whiff of Joy inspirations blog for a Tea light gift card. Et Voila!! Sorry about the angle of the card. It looks quite odd, doesn't it. But its basically a box folded onto the bottom of a base card and an easel card fitted on top. The box holds up to 4 tea lights (these ones are vanilla scented and are just divine!) But I'm sure you could use the box to hold sweets or jewellery, a watch even... (because its thin) And even though they both look complicated, seriously, the hardest part is choosing what paper to decorate with!!! I'm off to make a few more before I get DD from school. Have a great day!

Strike a pose

Time for another sin along with Scrap it with a song! This week we are singing along to Madonna's "Vogue". Love this song! I love Madonna, full stop! But seeing as my DD isn't one to start striking poses, she's much more a tomboy, I settled on the imagination part of the lyrics. And, boy, does she have one of those! At the moment she has 2 imaginary horses, a dog, She is very creative in her writing and story telling, so I had to focus on her imagination. In this photo we were at an indoor play area and out off all the princessy clothes she pulls out a builders costume and proceeded to "build" a shed. She stayed like this most of the day. I also did some recycling on my layout but using a clementine bag to mimic the builders material from the photo. So come on over and get Vogueing!

Scrapwhispers BIG REVEAL!!!

So this weekend we had the big reveal of the team layouts for the main whisper game. The way the layouts change over time from the original always amazes me! You can see how its all unfolded on the main Scrapwhispers blog and see the winning team and hopefully it might inspire you to sign up for the next round?!?! Go on over and check it out!

Scrap it with a song - Feels like home

Time for another sing along with Scrap it with a song. This weeks song choice is bought to you by Chantal Kreviazuk and the beautiful song and lyrics of "Feels like home". For my layout I chose to use the line "What this moment means to me" This was the boy's first christmas and DD was so happy to have him with us and of course helping him to unwrap his presents. So this moment was where they really began to bond. Click here to see the lyrics and click on the youtube link to hear this gorgeous song.

STP - A rock, a river, a tree

Me again! I am so late in posting this! Scrap that Poetry's challenge this fortnight is in the form of the poem of "A rock, a river, a tree".A very beautiful poem with lots and lots of scrapability. My layout for this challenge is a very simple one. The photo speaks enough I thought. This is the view I had from my bedroom at my mum and dads house. I would love to wake up to this, the day breaking. This layout was also a reminder to NOT use rub-ons direct onto a layout that was almost completed. I love to hate rub on's. They either work too well or in this case, not well enough. Some of them just would not budge!! Go over and check out the blog for the poem. Happy scrapping!

SW - If you're happy and you know it.

Hi all, Sorry I've been MIA again. I've just had so much on and I've been unwell for a while, but I'm back on track now so it should be normal practice resumed! This weekend we were going to show the big reveal to the Scrapwhispers main Whisper game, but we've had to hold back for a bit while a couple of teams catch up. So in the meantime we have another fun challenge for you and a simple one at that. We want to see things that make you happy! Easy! I LOVE this photo of the Boy. His happy face just makes me laugh with him. No matter how cross I get I can't help but smile when he starts laughing. For this photo I hid behind a chair and jumped out on him. I then snapped him in full blown chuckle. I just wish you could hear it too. So there you go... If you're happy and you know it, clap your hands! :)