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!

SNOW DAY!! More pictures here

Yes, it's that time of year again! I am going to be joining in with Shimelles online class to Journal Your Christmas again this year. I dug out last years Christmas Journal a few days ago and was amazed to see that I got up to the 29th December! I have taken pictures of the whole thing so will try to upload those to show you soon.
I thought I would set up a new blog just for Christmas Journal stuff (plus I had a cute new digi kit that I wanted to use!) which you can find here.
Hopefully I will be able to keep up to date via the blog and then catch up with the scrapping if I don't manage to do it on the day. Come over and say hello!

All the cards I made last week have reached their intended recipients now so I can share them! I used K&Co papers and butterfly and a Cuttlebug borders embossing folder for this birthday card for my sister. I also used one of my new Inkadinkado stamps on the envelope which you might just be able to see under the card...

Happy Birthday Me! A bit late though - it was last week, but I am now the owner of a Cuttlebug so I have been trying my hand at making some cards this week. I can only show you one so far as I gave it to my Mum and Dad last night so I won't be spoiling the surprise, LOL! It's just a little thank you card for my birthday present, I have used some K&Co papers, the D'Vine and Swiss Dots embossing folders, Cuttlebug scalloped square die, and the "Thanks" stamp from Banana Frogs Flowery Thoughts set.

Wow, get me - two posts in one week! I actually managed another layout, this one features my lovely neice Georgina enjoying herself on the slide in her back garden back in August. Please note the lovely sunglasses that she kept on pretty much ALL day!

I have used some K&Co Berry Sweet papers, Prima flowers, AC Remarks stickers, MM Tiny Alphas, buttons and a liberal amount of glitter from my new glitter pen on the flowers and the little acrylic journalling spot!

I had a weeks holiday from work last week so I actually managed to get some scrapping done. (which was not that easy I can tell you - we are in the middle of a loft conversion here and the place is like a building site! Should be finished soon, fingers crossed!)


This was Daniel on his first day home from the hospital, have used Crate Paper (Cowboy?), Heidi Swapp chipboard alpha's, MM journalling pad, and Mindys Zoo stamps.

Here's Daniel having learnt a new trick - pulling his tongue out! So cute!And last but not least, we had a bit of a photo shoot last week but silly Auntie Tricia didn't check what ISO the camera was set on (this is what happens when I try to be clever and shoot in aperture priority mode) so consequently the pictures were all a bit noisy. Still, at 2x2 inch and black and white they look OK!

Not my best work, but it's just nice to be doing some scrapping again after so long!

Well, I said I would share so here it is! Scuse the crappy pictures, it is pretty cloudy here at the moment so trying to get a decent shot was hard work!
Pictures are of my niece Georgina racing her Uncle Steve to the end of the drive (although I'm not sure that Uncle Steve was really taking the race very seriously, LOL!). Georgina was detemined to win and was pedalling away like her life depended on it....
I used Prima Dude papers, I'm loving all the bright colours at the moment! American Crafts Thickers in Jewellery Box and Queen and Co Felt Fusion to finish it off.
And just in case you couldn't see it properly on the layout - here is a picture of Georgina's "determined" face! Oooh, can't wait to show that to her first boyfriend!

Inspiration seems to be a bit thin on the ground for me at the moment, but I managed to make these cards with some of my new Banana Frog stamps.... I used That Takes The Cake, Teen Tiny Full Set, and Paperchains stamps.
A little bit of Stickles for some of the icing!
I also tried out my new watercolour pencils - £6.00 from Tesco! I thought I had better try some out first and see if I used them before I splashed out on some expensive ones!

OK, so I started off with a layout instead! Picture is from inside the Reflections of China exhibition at Epcot - we wanted to watch the 3D film but unfortunately they were having technical difficulties!
Papers are from Basic Grey and Making Memories. Alpha's are Scenic Route and Heidi Swapp, and I used a Prima crystal swirl (I cut it in half to make it go a bit further!). I also used some of my new stamps from Banana Frog - the dotty circle is from Concentric.

I know, I know, I'm a bad blogger! Sometimes life gets in the way of scrapbooking, LOL! I've nothing to share with you today but I have just had a lovely delivery from Banana Frog with some new stamps for me to play with, so fingers crossed I will get something done this weekend! Maybe I will start out small....a few cards? Work my way up to a layout? Watch this space!

...down by the sea! Well, not really the sea, more of a lake, but it was close enough for me! Pictures are from our January trip to Orlando back in 2006, it was soooo nice to get away from the horrible british weather (although there were a couple of days when we had to get bundled up in fleeces and woolly hats, it was still better than being at home!)
I have used some more of the lovely Jenni Bowlin papers from Banana Frog, along with Budmo Jiggler and Teen Tiny Full Set stamps for the title and the journalling. I managed to squeeze a bit of bling on there too, I used my Bejeweller to stick the crystals onto the chipboard swirls!
Free P&P at Banana Frog this weekend too - finishes tonight!