Scrap Your Day

I started Shimelle's and UK Scrappers - Scrap Your Day - challenge in July, so I am a few months behind everyone else as most started in April. I have however finally finished my album cover using January's Bad Girls kit, lots of paint, bling and glue!

The letters are Tim Holtz grunge board and they have been painted using Blonde Moments paint - Sugar Lilac and Adirondack Dabber - Pearl. I have painted the butterfly using the same and stuck some papermania and cloud 9 gems.
Close up of the butterfly

The crown and ribbon was in the kit

Butterfly stickers are from Accessorize (not in the kit!)

Close up of the painted chipboard letters

Close up of the Daisy d's metal index tab (in the kit)

I will try and post some pages and the back cover over the next couple of days but now the light is too poor for photos!

Thanks for looking as always

Love Sarah xx

Fabric CJ

My most recent addition to the Fabric CJ I have joined on UKS

I have used a pocket from an old pair of jeans that used to belong to Sam (therefore small pockets:)) - I have sewn the pocket to the page and I added the beads and the flower embellishment. Inside the pocket is a little blue bird that I made.

The blue bird is cut of of some blue cotton (I traced around an acetate bird shape I had) I have sewn round using red cotton and filled the bird with quilt wadding, red buttons for eyes and the bird is attached to the pocket with some red ribbon.

I really enjoyed doing this months entry - I hope the recipient likes it too!

Thanks as always for looking Love Sarah xxx

70th birthday card

I have used Edwin with Football and he has been coloured in with Pro-Markers, the cardstock has been embossed using one of the cuttlebug birthday embossing folders. MM Glitter alphabet and ribbon and pins are from my stash.

Thanks for looking:)

SLYMI week 4 - follow the sketch!

This week we were challenged to use the below sketch.

Seeing as Toby and I had a bit of a pre-birthday photo shoot I decided to scrap the photos I had taken of Toby when I was looking after him last Thursday (Toby doesn't belong to me, he belongs to my friend Rachel). He was a little sweetie and I got lots of fab pictures of him!

I have used Bazzill cardstock, font was cut out on the Cricut Expression using the Opposites Attract cartridge and AC Thickers, Carolee's Creations mini alpha and WRMK Grommets.

Thanks as always for looking - Love Sarah xx

Scrap Like You Mean It!!

I have started the SLYMI challenge set by Shimelle on UKS and I quickly did week one but got behind on wk 2 and 3 - but here they are! Wk 2 we had to use stars or hearts on our LO - if you look carefully there are stars on this LO!! I have doen this LO using the December Bad Girls kit - which I have to say I have really struggled with as it really isn't my sort of thing - but I wouldn't let it beat me!! - I have also use Pencil Lines sketch 118.

Wk 3 SLYMI challenge was use chipboard - I have used a chipbaord B and the diecuts are stuck on chipboard to get the LO some depth. I have used My Minds Eye - 29th Street Market - Brothers papers and diecuts - I love this LO - photo of my boys playing together (a rarity!) on the Wii - New Years Day. The green is a bit brighter IRL!!

Thanks as always for looking! Love Sarahxxx

Its Finished!!!

My 365 Challenge Album that is!

LO52 is finally finished and my album is complete!

I have decorated the front cover of my American Crafts 12 x 12 D-ring album using American Craft Glitter thickers and K&Co Pink Glitter Alphabet stickers and glitter butterflies!

A view of the inside - 52 LO's!
LO 52 - I did it my way!

Self-portrait taken on NYE in my new pink PJ's!

PP - Fancy Pants Designs - Splendid, American Craft Thickers, Prima Painterly Petals, buttons from stash, Melissa Francis Glitter Chipboard Hearts, Technique Tuesday Ali Edwards stamps, Heart stickers from Accessorise.

I would again like to thanks Anna for starting this challenge and I have made lots of new friends along my journey, shared photos and pages and shared my story.

Thank you as always for looking

Love Sarah xx

ps - New project to start soon - again with Anna - look here :)

LO 51 - Perfect!

LO 51 of my 365 project - Perfect! This was a photo I took of Jack and Sam for my yearly christmas letter and I love it - it is one of the best christmas photos I've ever got!



I have used pencil lines sketch 113 along with Bazzill cardstock, Little Yellow Bicycle Medallion, Little Yellow Bicycle Snowflakes, ribbon from stash, Prima flowes and glitter buttons and MM Glitter Alphabet.



Thanks as always for looking

Love Sarah xx

LO 50 - Christmas Tree - 365 Challenge

LO 50 - CHRISTMAS TREE

Another quick LO for my album - only 2 more to go now and its finished! This one is all small photos of decorations on my christmas tree and the journalling is about how they are all so different, some are homemade by my boys, I have personalised ones and date ones and lots of Disney ones! I even have a Thomas the Tank Engine and a Bob the Builder one!!!

I have used pencil lines sketch 115 and everything is Basic Grey Fruitcake, a few star stickers and the journalling circles are from Elles Studio

Thank you as always for looking
Love Sarah xx

New Year Luck!

NEW YEAR LUCK!

This photo was taken on Sunday 11th and scrapped the same day! I have scrapped it as part of the UKS/Shimelle challenge - Scrap Like You Mean It! We had to scrap in out favourite colour and pink is probably mine! The photo is of our fingers getting ready to snap the turkey wishbone from our christmas turkey which has been drying by the cooker! Daddy decided the whole family needed to snap the bone and make a wish but not tell each other the wish....and of course Mummy just had to catch the moment on camera!!

I have used DCWV Blossoms and Butterflies Paper, Heidi Grace strips of PP, DCWV chipboard butterflies, Cloud 9 pink raindrops, K&Co Pink Sparkle Glitter alphabet, Technique Tuesday Ali Edwards Stamps, Prima Pebble.

Close up of the Prima Pebble (Which is rather large!!) and of the cloud 9 pink raindrops

Close up of the DCWV chipboard butterfly.

Thank you as always for looking
Love Sarah xxx

LO 49 - Magic - 365 challenge

LO 49 of my 365 Challenge - Magic

This photo is of Jack and Sam, December 2008. Jack was showing Sam the musical snowglobes that come out every year at christmas, it was a perfect magical moment which makes my Christmas perfect!

Sketch was taken from Page 103 Becki Fleck - Scrapbook Page maps. The quote of the day was "These are the magic years....and therefore magic days....and therefore magic moments" - Anon

Stash used - Little Yellow Bicycle - Chrismas magic collection, Making Memories - Fa La La snowflake, Basic Grey scraps for the circles, velvet ric rac, American Craft Thickers, Prima flowers with doodlebug velvet brads.

Thank you as always for looking...............Love Sarah xxx

Journal Your Christmas 2008

As promised my Journal Your Christmas album - a project by Shimelle that ran from December 1st until Jan 6th (12th Night) - I really enjoyed this class and I took the advice from some fellow scrappers and prepared my album before the class started and I found this a lot easier! I have used a MM chipboard album but I removed the posts and held it together using book rings as as I knew the album was going to become very bulky!

Front Cover and full album!

A selection of days - I've not posted all 37 days - you would be here forever and find it very boring!

Day 9 and Day 10

Day 12 and Day 14

Day 16 and Day 17

Day 23 and Day 24

Day 28 and Day 29

Day 30 and Day 33

As always thanks for looking

Love Sarah xxx

LO 48 - Success - 365 Challenge

Hi - and sorry I've not blogged for ages...........but Christmas is such a manic time of year and the the new year saw out PC out of action for nearly a week and no photos were uploaded. I have been taking part in Shimelles - Journal Your Christmas - which is now complete and I will update my blog with some photos soon! However the end of 2008 saw the end of my 365 Challenge with Anna Bowkiss - this LO 48 (only another 4 more to catch up on!!)

LO 48 - SUCCESS!!

Used - Crate papers, Fancy Pants - Splendid, Prima Flower, AC Thickers, Ali Edwards - Technique Tuesday stamps. I used the quote from this week - "If cold December gave your birth, the month of snow, ice and mirth, place on your hand a turquoise blue, success will bless whatever you do. - Anon" I just had to scrap this photo of Sam with his letter from WSCC - who's logo happens to be a turquoise blue colour - we have finally had confirmation in writing Sam will move change schools and start at St Anthony's Special Needs School in September 2009 - the best christmas present we could have ever asked for!!