Lili of the Valley challenge - Red, white and Green

After admiring the LOTV stamps for an age, I fonally bought some from the new christmas release in the hope that I would find my card making mojo again. And I am happy to say that I did find it! This stamp is called "oh Christmas Tree". It's just so cute! Instead of stamping on card, I had a pair of linen trousers, which I should have taken back to the shop, as they didn't fit me right, but I did what any other decent minded crafter would have done and stamped on them! I sewed around the edge of the image and then frayed it slightly. I've coloured in the image using my Pro Markers and a white gel pen, just to highlight certain parts. I've used a variety of scraps of paper on this card to make the roses and other decoration. A simple card but I do like the overall effect. This one is being entered into the LOTV challenge. Thanks for popping in.

A gentle reminder

That Scrapwhispers is back and we have a brand new challenge. Its a fab colour challenge where we are asking you to show off your layouts using Pink, Green and Brown. Link us up to your projects so we can see and you'll be in the running for a very yummy prize!! :)

Cake

I was asked by my neighbour if I could make an army themed cake. She wanted soldiers running up a hill but her daughter absolutely knackered at the top. At first I had such a simple idea in my head and thought... easy enough. Ha! Ha! Anyone who knows me, knows I do not and cannot do easy and simple. I always manage to make hard work for myself. So I baked 5 cakes, 1 square, 4 round, and I was just going to cut small bits out. But then I started hacking away and layering it so it looked more like a mountain than a hill! Then I had to ice it. The only way was to piece the icing on in small manageable pieces. I purposely left a gap on the second from top layer to make a little stream, with a little walkway going across it, and had it coming out at the bottom... as i think they do.? And here is the finished product. My neighbour was absolutely thrilled. And I have to say I am rather proud of this one. Being only my 6th cake and my first ever sculpted cake, I think it came out rather well. I think I like making cakes. :) Have a great weekend!

Scrapwhispers, we are back with a Colour challenge!!

Happy Weekend!!! Scrapwhispers is back and we have bought back our weekly challenges, yay!!! We are mixing things up a little and to start off we have a delectable colour challenge for you. Brown, Pink and green. All we want to see is a scrapbook layout in any size at all, with these colours. Too easy!

Here's my layout of my loopy cat, who likes nothing more than curling up in a flower pot. No matter what the weather, we will always find him there. On my layout I've used a number of scrap pieces I had laying around and in doing so I've kept the photo and all of the simple elements central. Not only do we have this fab challenge, we also have a very awesome prize on offer for the month of September, but you have to be in it to win it! And remember, this challenge is open Worldwide, so come and get involved! We also have a new forum, so come and join in if you haven't already, join in the chat and fun! :)

Scrap It With A Song DT CALL!!!!!!

Scrap it with a song is looking for some new faces to join our playlist. Click here for more details. Sing out loud!!

Scrapwhispers Blog Hop

Hello there! This months blog hop comes courtesy of our lovely Nilsa who has a simple but very useful tutorial for us. Its back to school time for all of us so why not decorate and personalise some composition notebooks for the little ones in your life? Or indeed for yourself or as a gift for someone else? I started out with this A6 sized notebooks. A pack of 6 for just 80p :). I used some scraps I had to cover them up. The papers are a mix of Echo park and MME. I did a personal one for DD and the others I thought I could use myself for little scrapbooking ideas and notes/ quotes. So there you have it. So easy but so fun too! To find the full tutorial go on over to the Scrapwhispers blog for details! And don't forget to send some love as you go, leaving a link so we can come and visit you too! Have fun :)

Finally... some scrapbooking!

I know, I know. I say I'm back, then I'm gone again, I'm back, I've gone. Well this time I am here for now but then will probably be gone again for a few weeks more. But while I am here I have been getting my scrap groove on. Shimelle has had some fabby challenges on this weekend and I have sat down, last night and some of today (although I should have been cleaning... but we won't mention that) and had a create-fest. I've put all the layouts into this one post because I don't have the time to make seperate ones.. Sorry!! The first layout it did was to use "RED, WHITE AND AQUA". As soon as I saw this challenge I ran to get these photos of my wonderful son covered in red jelly! And believe me, these photos only tell half the story. He was covered head to toe in red jelly! It was funny and yet cringy at the same time. I mean, did you fancy picking the Boy out from his highchair while you were wearing a brand new white top... No me neither. Still, gotta give him some creative credit. Next I got onto the "STARTING POINT" challenge. This was the starting point of layout. And this was the finish. All of these papers are from the very lucious Echo park - Splash. My 3rd layout (excuse the very wonky photo) is for the "I LOVE/I HEART...." in the title challenge. Well, after starting The Boy's birthday cake (fighting to get the icing away from my mum so I could do it) I was addicted. So I absolutely {heart} cake decorating. I just want everyone to want a cake so I can make one and I am looking out for absolutely any occassion where I can make one. My last layout was for the "LET'S GO RETRO"challenge. To use a photo before 2011. I think I was around 6 in this photo. And as my journalling says, I could have been dressed up as anything but my mother decided that "bunny girl" was the way forward. What on earth was she thinking? She says "cute", I say "hmmmm". Anyway, there I am outside my Grandmas house, complete with bunny girl pose. Thats going to be my last bit of crafting for the next few weeks but I have to say I really enjoyed it, getting back into the swing of things.