Productive day/evening at a crop

I went to a crop at Auntie Em's Scrapbooking in Cornwall yesterday and got productive with 7 layouts completed. 

This is me as a kid riding a tricycle, I used  the Carta Bella collection called Fall Blessings. And Prima flowers. 

This is me and my Grandfather on my Dad's side. Again using the Crta Bella Fall Blessings collection and Prima flowers.  

These are my kiddos on their way back to school in 2014! I used the Echo Park collecrion School Days. I hand folded a paper airplane. 

Very little patterned paper used here. I used watercolouring through a doily and Prima flowers, glitter and microbeeds. 

The is me and my hubby back when we first started dating! And used the Authentique paper line caked Durable. Prima flowers and a Kaisercraft wood embellishment for the title with Prima glitter. 

This is me taking a selfie after getting a 'new do'! The papers are a mixture of Bo Bunny, Prima and Echo Park. Flowers are Prima and so are the letters, and embellishments. 

Gone, gone, gone, I've been gone too long

Has it really been over six months since my last post? Wow, where has the time gone? 

I was chatting with one of my crafty friends recently, who advised me she missed reading my blog posts. So, here you go; this is what I've been up to recently.

I was watching an episode of Live With Prima, and Cari made a beautiful frame similar to this. So here's my version ... Is it still considered scraplifting if it's off the page?

I made this small canvas with capital Wood Icons from Prima. I had a whole package of them not being used, and while I love them I did not know what to do with them, so I made NEWFOUNDLAND!! 

Here is a close-up shot of the butterfly. I used a Prima stamp to stamp the image onto Velum and coloured with my Copic markers on the reverse. Added a Wilton flower stamon for the antenna and there you go!!

I hope to be blogging again more often again. 

Thanks for looking. 

Siblings too far away - featuring Indian Summer

We had professional photos done last year when the kids half-brother came to visit from Germany.  I haven't yet scrapbooked them.... until today! This was the first time that I've been scrapbooking since summer, I've been spending so much time outside on my deck enjoying the summer I haven't wanted to be down stairs when it was so nice outside.  Well Fall is in full swing now, and this is the result!

I loves the colours in the Indian Summer collection from We R Memory Keepers, combined with a page from Lemonade Stand from Bo Bunny (Block Party) its a herringbone wood grain sheet that I used on the background of the second page.  I also used Prima flowers and alphas, gems from Queen & Co. and an overlay from Jillibean Soup

The kids miss their brother, and only get to see him once a year, and on Skype.

 

Let me know what you think!

July ... its still July isn't it?

Wow - summer is just flying past me this year.  I can count on one hand the number of hours I have spent scrapbooking or crafting!  Aside from a couple of birthday cards I haven't done any crafting.  I did manage to squeeze out this one layout while at an all day crop at Auntie Em's in Cornwall.  I did this from the Build-A-Page sketch challenge at Prima for July.

 

 

Smile for the Mama-razi

Sharing a layout I did using Prima products including the new wire! 

I apologize about not having blogged much recently, but I haven't been crafting either :/

Traveling in Time with Prima ....

Have you seen the Time Traveler collection from Prima?  It is fantastic, rusty browns, mustard yellows, and black.  What an amazing colour combination.  The embellishments for this collection are just as spectacular. I do believe that I bought the whole collection .... parts of it in triplicate!

I've been busy making layouts and a mini album with the collection.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

falling in love ....

I'm falling in love with the Seashore collection from Prima ... the colours are perfect for boy projects or girl!  Which is convenient because I have one of each, LOL.

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

For the embellishments on the tag and the shadow box I used Prima chalk inks to colour.  I also used the chalk inks to colour the mermaids hair and shadow/shade her tail. You can see the shimmer from the metallic chalk inks - stunning in person.

 

Guess what the shadow box is from?  Give up?  The packaging that the Prima Resins come in!  Talk about up-cycling!

 

Are you in love with the Sea Shore collection yet? 

 



I am a Pinterest FREAK ...

I love Pinterest as a source of inspiration.  I see a project that I think to myself; hey, I can duplicate that ... I can make that!  And then I call my friend Amber over, and we try and do it ... sometimes better than others.

This time we were re-creating a Pin that a friend of mine sent of some rolled paper flowers.  They looked simple enough, and sure enough they were.  I used plain Bazzil cardstock and for the stems and leaves I used computer paper and sprayed it with some Prima Color Bloom spray (Lime Wedge) and then used the Prima Arbor Sizzix die to cut out the leaves.  In a matter of 2 hours we had made a half dozen blossoms, stems and leaves.  They turned out better than the originals if you ask me!

 

If you want to check out the original website please follow this link: http://www.instructables.com/id/Swirly-Paper-Flowers/?ALLSTEPS

 

 

The Inspiration

 

My creation