Sometimes....

...my heart just melts.

Baby in a Box....

...complete with sky remote, cardboard tube, packet of wipes and dodie. Priceless...

This one's for you, Mum!

You said you check every day, just in case I post something! Big kisses to you from Jamie!

It feels like ages since I scrapbooked - so when Shimelle invited me to be part of this weekends inspiration party I was more than happy to take part. I really enjoyed it too, no saving papers for best, I just went for it!I used papers from Prima and Cherry Arte (and I had so been saving that green CherryArte paper for a special occasion!), some Thickers (who doesn't love Thickers?) and my printer of course!

Shimelle sent me a lovely sheet of printables for my layout - they are available exclusively as part of her new online class Go To Press which starts tomorrow. Get over there and sign up if you haven't already!

I wanted to use these papers because I thought they went so well with the picture of Jamie in his jumparoo, but the stripes were just a bit too much against the picture. Fortunately the paper was double sided and the dark red on the other side made a much better base. I then just used a strip of the striped side of the paper as an accent at the bottom, finishing it off with my scalloped edge punch.


The rectangular "love" and "smile" were from the printables too. I like titles with mixed up fonts and lettering and these went so well with what I wanted to say.

I didn't want a masive amount of journaling - I felt that the title said it all! So I just used the journalling spot from Shimelles printables to record the date and Jamies age and slipped it under the scalloped border.

Well, feel free to have a good nosey around the blog archives while you are here, and I would love you to leave me a comment to say hello! Make sure you head back to shimelle.com for the rest of the party though, there's more inspiration to come!

There's a party this weekend....

....and you're invited! All the details are here - looking forward to it! Come back on Sunday to see what I came up with for the party after Shimelle brought me out of semi retirement, lol...be there or be square!

Er, what happened to May?

Yikes! Rather a long time since I blogged!

Well, here's a few layouts and cards to start off with.....

As you can see, they are all about Jamie! These are mainly ones I have done for Banana Frog, but I have unfortunately had to stand down from the Design Team as I am back to work after maternity leave in a couple of weeks, and I just don't think I will have the time to keep up!

And here's a recent picture of my little pickle....

Update!

Oh, I am such a bad blogger! Although in my defense I am looking after a tiny iccle baby which does take up most of my time.

I thought I would share a couple of layouts that have featured over on the Banana Frog blog, plus some up to date pictures of Jamie.

The layouts all have a variety of Banana Frog stamps used on them - Christening Cupcakes used Teen, That Takes the Cake, Take Note and Paperchains along with K&Co papers and a little die cut done with my Slice, Home At Last used Budmo Jiggler (my fave!), All About Hearts and All About Documenting, and last but not least on Chubby Cheeks I used Teen, Budmo Jiggler, All About Hearts, Take Note and the fake stiching around the edges was done with the flower stem stamp from Build a Bloom!

Here's some Jamie pics....

Awww, so cute (yes, I know I am biased!).

Introducing Jamie!

I do have an excuse for the lack of posts - as you can see from the pictures above I have been a little bit busy! Baby Jamie was born at 11.57pm on 23/1/09, weighing in at 10lb1oz (I know, I know, brings tears to your eyes doesn't it! Think how I felt ;-)). He is of course the most beautiful baby in the world ever, and quite possibly one of the most photographed too! He is just over 3 weeks old now and getting cuter everyday...expect to see lots of Jamie layouts soon (that is if I ever get chance to scrapbook again, of course!)

In other news, there is lots going on over at Banana Frog. Bev posted details of the new stamps being released here and I have to say I love all of them! I have got a couple of the new sets to play with, can't wait to start creating with them. We also have the challenge for February here and what else could it be but Love! Get using those Banana Frog stamps to create a layout, card, anything with a love theme and you could win TWO sets of BF stamps. Post your images on your blog and leave a comment on the BF blog, or post your pics to our Flickr or Facebook groups and Bev will pick a winner at the end of the month...

Lots of inspiration over at the BF blog from the new design team too...what are you waiting for!

Banana Frog Update!

Have just uploaded a new project to the Banana Frog blog. Go and have a look - there are a few new things on there from the Design Team, lots of inspiration heading your way!

The Studios

I was having a look through some layouts that I completed over the last 12 months (it didn't take that long - there weren't very many of them!) and realised that I hadn't blogged this one.

I was asked to take part in the Sketch Collection for issue 44 of Scrapbook Inspirations, and this is what I came up with. I used all patterned paper as my inspiration point and was quite pleased with how it turned out! Papers were from Basic Grey, Crate Paper, Scenic Route and Pink Paislee, Heidi Swapp chipboard letters for the title and Banana Frog Take Note stamps for the journalling.

Journal Your Christmas Days 15-22

Journal Your Christmas Days 8 - 14

More details here... (and yes, Day 11 is missing! We only put the tree up yesterday and I haven't taken any piccys yet!)

Journal Your Christmas Days 6-7

More details here ...

Winter Wonderland - Banana Frog

It's been ages since I uploaded anything to the Banana Frog blog (shame on me!), I seem to have been completely without inspiration for months now. I managed this one with one of my lovely snowy pics from earlier in the week though! More details here ...