Basic Grey Sketch Competition (Clare)

My sister is having problems loading her new page onto her blog so has kindly asked me to help her. Well what more are sisters for!!

Last weekend we enjoyed a craft day with my sister and sister-in-law.
They both managed to complete pages for the competition while I caught up with my Project Life.

Here is my sister's blog........

Thank you to pagemaps for providing me with another competition that has inspired me to produce another layout which I am pleased with.

I got the idea to scrap about moving house thanks to the sketch which included keys.

I didn't have any paper with keys on but I did have some paper with houses which my sister gave to me a few months ago. I chose four pages from the range and a tag which I bought separately. I wanted the tag to come out from behind the card as there was an extra picture in the layout. It also allowed me to write the date. The key at the end of the tag has simply been tied on.

 

We have been in our first house for 12 years and can't believe how quickly it has gone. Looking back at the pictures brought back lots of memories including a laugh about how young we look. Hoping for many more happy years :)

 

Clare x

Page Maps Competition: Top Trumps Game

My sister-in-law sent me a link to a competition on the website Page Maps. I'm always up for a challenge!!!

I love the sketches and ideas in Page Maps and often save them for future inspiration.
Today Liz, Clare and myself met up to scrap our pictures based on the sketch below:

I thought I would scrap something we have done during this year (2013)........

Back in February we spent a day in London at the Natural History Museum with our friend Nigel. After a few hours looking around we left and walked through the Knightsbridge area on our way to a restaurant for tea. The boys spotted some fab super cars on the road. Tom decided we could all play real life Top Trumps. We passed Mercedes, Ferrari's, Aston Martin's to name a few.  When the boys spotted the Yellow Lamborghini, well i'm not sure who was more excited?!? He he - we had a fun day.

This is my take on the design, and I have to admit i'm pleased! I decided to turn the sketch 90 degrees around.

Some of the supplies I have used are:

• Echo Park Paper - Dots and Stripes
• Core Color - Stormy Gray
• Bo Bunny - Back to Basis
• Top Trumps Card - Cool Cars
• Tyre Marks - made with black ink and Tom's toy car wheels.
• Tesco - Craft Foam Stickers
• Stickers - various own stock
• Photos - printed at home

I loved this challenge - thanks for the inspiration Page Maps and enjoy your anniversary.


My sister Clare's page can be found here.
My sister-in-law's Liz's page can be found here.

Please feel free to leave a comment. Thanks for looking. x

Blackpool: 1986

More snow!!!

Such a pain as I was meant to be visiting the NEC for the Hobbycraft show. Oh well ..... I was lucky enough to finish another scrapbook page today. I am trying to finish a different page for my lifetime. What do you think?

1986 - I have really fond memories of visiting Blackpool each year with my parents and sister.

Supplies:

• Brazzill Basics - London Fog - I love all Brazzill
• The Patterened Paper - Me and My Big Ideas - Value Pack
• Letters: Orange - Basic Grey Gypsy Letters
• Letters: Brown - Best Creation inc - Travel Forever
• Picmonkey for the collage of pictures.
• Lovely Memory Card - Downloaded off the internet. (I will try and find the link).

Thanks for looking.

Ponderosa: 1985

I haven't completed a 12x12 page in months!!! Although I've had this page ready i've been too tied up with December Daily and Project Life - but that's no excuse.

Today my sister-in-law and sister came around for a scrapbook day. We had loads and loads of fun and giggles too.

I managed to finish this page which brings back some lovely memories. Every year when I was a child me and my grandmother Lily would take a trip to visit my aunty and uncles house over the summer holidays. In 1985 after visiting the garden (I was 11) I went back to my Aunty's house and drew the garden on some paper. Last year when going through some of her old photos she gave me the picture. Such lovely memories as the garden was soooo beautiful. The photos were taken in 1987 I think by my dad or Aunty and shows my little sister, cousin, aunty and grandmother lily in them

I hand stitched the sewing

To save the picture I scanned it in.

Thanks for the lovely memories Aunty Jen!!!

The idea came off the internet - printed in draft - i'm afraid I've got no link.

Thanks for a fab day Clare and Liz x x

New Layout - I am 39: 2013

When following my favourite blogs - I loved the layout on This Kalil Life.
As it is my birthday in a months time (I will be 39) what a good opportunity to scrap a page about me. I'm not very good at writing about myself either - so lets give it a go.

This was the page designed by Kimberly

Today I met up with my sister-in-law and sister and we decided to all take on the challenge. After laughing and giggling about each others lists - we set out designing our own, and I was really pleased with my result.

Here are a couple of close-ups

Phil took the photo last year at Sherwood Pines on his Samsung phone.

Here is my complete list .....

1. I was born in Warwickshire
2. My Favourite subject at School was Maths
3. I met my husband through BTCC motor racing
4. I loved the London Olympics and was lucky to go.
5. I preferred college to School
6. I love it when Tom giggles, his laugh always makes me smile
7. I am a campanologist
8. I have lived in 5 houses, and owned 2 of them.
9. I was a prefect at School 
10. I try hard but I am far from being a perfectionist
11. I love walking and walked up Snowdon for Charity
12. I miss my mum every day
13. I love taking photos
14. My favourite colour is red
15. I am hopeless at general knowledge
16. I am a big Formula 1 fan and have met David Coulthard, Damon Hill and Jenson Button
17. I am a morning person and love sunrises and sunsets
18. I hate going to the hair dressers
19. My favourite food is scampi and chips and profiteroles for desert.
20. I am currently completing Project Life
21. I was in Brownies but hated Guides
22. My mums chocolate fridge cake is the best - yum yum.
23. I love my bed
24. My favourite film is 'The Rock'
25. I wrote the website Harwoodonline.com the long way by html
26. I have never broken a bone in my body
27. Winnie the Pooh is one of my favourite Disney characters
28. One of my best holiday places to visit is North Cornwall, it is very beautiful
29. 29 I don't like spiders and I can't pick up the big and hairy ones
30. I would love to run a half marathon, maybe I need to jog first.
31. I don't like nuts, apart from peanuts
32. My nick name is woody.
33. As a child we went to Butlins on holiday every year
34. I passed my driving test at 17 years old the first time
35. My favourite author is Lee Childs who writes the Jack Reacher novels
36. When I was a child I loved making my own Sindy doll clothes
37. I played the recorder at school, I would have loved to learn the drums
38. I love the sound of people sledging and laughing
39. Jefferson Starship - 'Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now' is my all-time favourite song.

Thanks to both my sister-in-law and sister in joining me in this and I know they will be posting their fantastic pages soon too. I've had a really good fun day. x x x

When loading my pictures onto my blog I noticed that one of my list had been duplicated. I was gutted. But luckily I had kept my information, so I've charged it, re-printed it, and thank goodness it's ok now, phew!!

Thanks to Tom for entertaining himself and taking the photo.

Memories of 1979

I found this lovely sketch from pagemaps from their January 2012 archives.

I am trying to document my childhood, so when I get spare days like this it is great looking back at old photos. These photos from 1979 makes me smile. I think it is the innocent smiles on our faces. I certainly look very proud in my Nurses outfit.

Fab memories. x

Page Maps - Bella Blvd Sketch Contest

I love reading the blog and the design sketches on Page Maps. For some unknown reason I got excited when I saw this competition http://www.pagemaps.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/bella-blvd-sketch-contest.html

.............so I thought I would give it a go. I am trying to scrap a load of childhood photos, and I knew straight away what pictures I would use. Some from a very hot sunny Crete family holiday.

My only real nightmare was after drawing pencil lines for my hand writing and carefully writing, I went to rub out the lines and the pen smudged everywhere. I was lucky and it allowed me to rub everything out and start again. Next time, test on a small piece of paper first, and use perm ink!


I used..... 
Background - Basic Grey Motifica Jade Paper
                     Tim Holk, Kraft Core Nostalgic Collection. 
(I'm not very good on the sewing machine, so I hand stitched around the page).
Smash Tape - K&Company
Page Title Stickers - Daisy Dandelion Velour
Footprints - EK success Classic Stickers
Small Title & Date - Simple Stories Year-o-graph Expressions Cardstock 


Thanks loads for giving me the inspiration Page Maps!!

Project 12 - March 2012

I can't believe I have managed to finish my March page of Project 12 on time. Phew!! I am really enjoying the challenge of using my 365 photos that I have taken every day. I'm still finding it difficult to write about the month, and I'm certainly learning along the way.

The original sketch for March 2010 was:

This month I am proud to use a couple of stamps which I hadn't used before and which I already had in my stash. I also used the happy birthday embellishment from one of my birthday cards. Hope you don't mind Aunty Jen, it was too cute to throw away. I also enjoyed sewing onto the page.

Another month over and already I'm looking forward to the next. April will cover Easter and BTCC at Donington, so there will be lots of fun and action. I can't wait.  x

General Scrapbook Pages

Over the last couple of months I have managed to catch up with some scrapbook pages that I have had planned for a while.... I hope you like them.....

Tom age 1 - September 2006 at home

Tom age 3 - Model Making 2008 

Do we decide to live in Nottingham or Leamington Spa - 2002

Beautiful sunny/summer weather in March allows me to work outside - 2012



Project 12 - February 2012

I'm a little behind, but still pleased to have completed my second Project 12 double page.
It was action packed this month, with a heavy snowfall at the start, with a holiday to Disneyland Paris, and the month ended with very foggy days.

The original sketch was from February 2012

I lived the number of photos and small squares and circules in this original sketch.
Here is my finished page:

Was pleased with the final page, although I may add a few more emblishments at the months go on. I've also tried to add more journalling this month.

Not sure why the pictures have turned around (will try and sort this out).
Thanks to Liz for the mickey die-cuts and spotty paper!

I'm looking forward to the March page already.

Project 12 - January 2012

Project 12 has finally arrived, and I can't believe that I have managed to scrap my first pages already.

This is the first year for me trying the challenge, and I didn't want to get behind. Last year I successfully completed project 365, but my photos are only stored neatly on my PC. I will get around to creating a photobook at some stage. This year i'm going to be creative and combine the photos on a monthly scrapbook page along with some journalling. I'm not very good at putting my words onto paper, but thought I would give it a go.

What do you think?

The original sketch was from January 2010.
It's a pretty simple and a clean design but I love it all the same.

I was lucky as my sister was placing a scrapbook order, so I ordered some of the fab Bo Bunny AD LIB pages. They were just perfect for January.

I used white and grey Brazil basics for the background. The patterned paper was Bo Bunny AD LIB, Scribbles, Hoopla & Vertigo. The document sticker was also from AD LIB. The 2012 numbers were from a papermania docrafts. Everything else was from my stash, including using punches for the individual photo numbers.

I really enjoyed this month, and i've been extremely lucky with how easy everything has come together. I'm not expecting February to be as straight forward, but I'm looking forward to the challenge all the same.

Find Project 12 on website Scrapbook and Cards Today.

I can't leave the month, without says thanks to Liz for the idea and my wonderful hubby who gave me time yesterday to scrap! x

12x12 Sketch Challenge

My sister-in-law send me a link to the Jillibean Sketch Contest for December 2011.
jillibean-soup-sketch-contest
I'm new to creating ideas for sketches, but have loved thinking about this and creating my page.

I had recently purchased some Bo Bunny Crazy Love12x12 paper. I used Crazy Love & Fudge & Flowers along with White and Pink Brazil Card Stock. The Buttons were from my mums sewing collection. I used my own embroidery thread.

This was the original sketch

And a picture of me scrapping.

Thanks for sending me the original link Liz, I'm looking forward to a fun year of scrapping and sharing ideas. x