Creative Scrappers #105

Morning all! Hope you're having a great weekend so far. I'm feeling a bit tired today. I went to see Alicia Keys in concert last night and that woman is seriously amazing! I was really suprised by the 'show'. There wasn't much balady piano playing as I'd imagined. A really great night! Only downer was even though I had clear view of her, I could not get one decent photo... but that gave me more time to actually watch the show. What have you been up to? Last week I played along with creative scrappers again for this sketch. I came up with this layout. But I'm really not happy with it. The photo is of DD having her first 'cocktail'... well more.. orange and Pineapple juice in a fancy glass. I wanted the layout to look a bit zesty, but I'm not sure on the paper I used. Maybe thats why I've had in an age! Its DCWV pocket full of posies stack by the way. With some scraps of Nook and pantry from BG. The letters are Doodlebug sugar coated. Supposedly self adhesive but they really lack the adhesive, so now my layout reads 'Ocktail' because the C fell off and I can't find it anywhere. The boy has probably buried in the coals of my fire or something completely boyish like that.. It's looking like we might get some sun today, so might get to go somewhere. Enjoy whats left! :)

What's new with you?

Happy Friday! Another week gone, so that means another fab challenge at Scrapwhispers. This weeks theme is "New". That's it! So what is new for you? Scrap stash? Home? Shoes? Baby?... The list could go on and on!! So much scope with this one. This week I chose to do a card, which is actually for one of my cousins who are getting married later this year. So in celebrating their "new2 life together I created a card using a "new" technique of rolled paper roses. Well, its new to me anyways. I've used a card blank that was already embossed from DCWV, then I printed a quote from the bible onto some Pink Paislee '365' cream paper, then with some scraps of blue Pink Paislee paper I made these roses, added some feathers and voila! These roses are really therapeutic, so if you haven't already then you really should give them a shot! There are lots of techniques all over the WWW. Jump on over to see what the talented design team have done with this challenge.

Mission Create

Mission create is one of those blogs where I have been wanting to join in but then the time just flies by and I never get anything in on time... but I have managed to do it!! I've had a few crafty nights so i've been able to get quite abit of scrapping done. Yay!! I made a card and a layout for this mission (#17). The elements to use are: Beads, use the colour brown, distressing, decorative edge paper and vintage item... Phew! So here is my card. The beads are on the pin, the brown is obvious, I've distressed the lollipop flower and I also rubbed an emery board over the papers, and on the cream I rubbed some tea dye ink over it. I made my own decorative edge by using Fiskars Apron Lace border punch and vintage item is the lace! Using exactly the same elements, this is the layout I created. I found this one a bit difficult for some reason. I used pins again with beads on, distressed the paper, added vintage lace (and a vintage photo :) ), a decorative edged journalling spot and one the flower I rubbed some tea dye ink over it to make it pop out a bit. Heres a close up of the flower. I cut circles from an old dress of DD's and frayed the edges a bit. So there we have it! I'm quite pleased with these and whats the best thing? I got to use up more scraps and things I've had stashed away for ... well... forever!! :) Let me know what you think xx

colour create- soft green and aqua.

I've had alot of Thank you's to make for the Boy's birthday presents, and this fortnight's colour create challenge gave me the perfect starting point. using little 4x4 notecards, some Pink Paislee - 365, a free stamp from a craft magazine and a button, this is what I got. As usual I coloured the image (isn't he a darling?) in with my inkpads but lesson learned, its best to not do it outside in the scorching hot sun! The colour went all patchy, so I'm not best pleased with the result, but will anyone notice?? Probably not! Thanks for looking x

New York, New York?

Morning all! I just want to share a "just because" layout. I've wanted to scrap this photo for a while now, but I had to get it scanned first. Finally got it done yesterday and couldn't wait to get started on it. I wanted to keep it simple so just some pretty punchy paper from October afternoon was just the ticket.

This statue was standing outside Christiania in Copenhagen and I was just mesmerised by it. Its made up of just sticks!!! How incredible is that? I have no idea if it is still there. I took this photo in 2001. Heres a close up.

It looks almost ghostly doesnt it? I wasn't really into taking photos then, so just as luck had it, it turned out to be a fab photo and a firm favourite.

Lets go to the Movies!

We have a fabulous challenge this week at Scrapwhispers and its an easy one! Everyone has a favourite film don't they... well, this weeks challenge is movie themed. It could be the title, the theme, genre, quotes, even the costume that inspires you! My layout is based on when I met the "Pink Panther" at Port Aventura Theme Park in Spain. I also did a Halloween themed layout as this Pink panther was also a werewolf! LOL Looking forward to lots of oohing, ahhing and "I remember that" to your favourite films!

Don't forget

there is still time to play along with us at scrapwhispers! You must have a place where you scrap or make cards, and so we want to see them! There is also time to show us your waterfall cards and to join in on the blog hop, so show us what you can do!!