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Birthday Card with Stampin Up Crazy for Cupcakes Stamp

Materials Used:
Papers ~ Scenic Route, Loveland
Stamps ~ Stampin Up, Crazy For Cupcakes
Coloured with Promarkers
Martha Stewart doily punch
Ribbon, lace, gems

The inspiration for this card was in Card Trends Magazine and was by Lilybean

Baby Girl's 1st Birthday Card

Materials:
Papers used ~ Basic Grey, Sugared
Stamp ~ Downloadable calendar stamp from The Cutting Cafe
Sentiment cut using The Storybook Cricut cartridge
Wooden Heart, charm, ribbon

Birthday Card with Sweet and Sassy Sugar Nellie Stamp

Materials Used:
Papers ~ Magenta
Stamp ~ Sweet and Sassy by Sugar Nellie
Coloured with Prismacolors
Sentiment stamp from Stampin Up
Wooden Heart, charm, ribbon and gems

Birthday Card with Russian Doll

Materials Used:
Paper ~ Creative Imaginations
Stamp ~ Hero Arts
Coloured with Promarkers
Ribbon, gems

Cool Dude

Finally got round to taking part in the Cat Amongst the Pigeons UKS cybercrop class which I loved. I made this layout whilst at the weekend retreat recently.



I used papers by Rouge de Garance
Rubons by Basic Grey
Chipboard by Rusty Pickle
Bling by Glitz
Foam letters cut using Sizzlets
Letter stickers by Making Memories

My Sweet Boy

I recently came across the amazing work by Ingvild from Norway and immediately fell in love with her style of scrapping.

I scraplifted elements from the LO on her blog(www.spinvild.com - Jan 15th, 2009) for the inspiration to create this LO.

My LO shows a picture of my son Peter taken last Autumn. I made this layout whilst away to the weekend retreat.



Papers used are a selection. Base is Colour Co-ordinations CS in Vanilla Cream
Plain pale brown paper is the wrong side of a Scenic Route Metropolis page.
Green Foliage paper is from Scenic Route Laurel range.
The blue graph paper I got from a friend at a crop - I think it may be October Afternoon.
Music paper is vintage.
The bird and foliage is cut from a paper from the Scenic ROute Laurel range.

All papers were distressed, inked, ripped, rolled etc

The title was cut on the Cricut using the Storybook cartridge. I welded the butterfly on to the word BOY and also cut again in blue and layered.

Butter Wouldn't Melt

A favourite scrapper of mine is Jakey - I love her style.

I have scraplifted her LO here.

My LO uses a photo of my son Andrew taken last Autumn. As soon as I saw the photo the words "Butter wouldn't melt" sprung to mind! hence the title and journalling.

Papers used are Rouge de Garance (background) and Scenic Route (Metropolis range)
The journalling page is from Making Memories.
All the embellishment shapes were cut using the Cricut and the Accent Essentials cartridge.

Title is a mix of white stickers and cricut letters. The word PHOTO is stamped with a Creative Cafe stamp.

This is one of the layouts I made when away to my recent craft weekend.

Food, Drink, Laughter and a little bit of crafting!

Finally got a chance to put up some pictures with a write up following the fab weekend we had two weeks ago at Elgin.

The House

What is worse than a girl packing for a weekend away?
THREE girls packing for a CRAFTING weekend away!

Here are some of us on Friday
Sarah, Angela (or me - in red), Frances, Fiona, Christine, Sarah and baby Bronte

Setting up the "craft room"

In the kitchen

Preparing for our meal on Friday evening - Pizza, garlic bread and salad washed down with wine of course!

The Corry fans (not me!) didn't want to miss the wedding so we took a short break.
I played with Bronte.

The Saturday gang.
Angela, Jo, Sarah, Jane, Christine, me, Sharon, Frances, Erika, Fiona, Sarah.

Sarah, Jo, Fiona and Frances peeping out of the "craft room"

Angela and I went outside to pose LOL

Happy Crafters!

Three Glitter Gossips
It was great to meet Sharon from Inverness for the first time. Erika, Sharon and I are all in the same UKScrappers team.

Bronte was our youngest guest, she was a wee angel the whole weekend.

Delicious Chinese meal for Saturday evening.

Fun, games and laughter on Saturday evening.

Sarah and Angela going head to head in the Embellishment game.

The anagram game provided lots of hilarity and it also brought out a lot of the competitive sides! Fiona was desperately waiting for the extremely difficult IGNX to come round!! Can't believe GIN X proved so hard!
Frances kept getting Steve (AKA Autumn Leaves) and Sarah couldn't see Heidi Swapp, as she kept seeing Dishwasher LOL

Sadly we said goodbye to Sharon, Jo and Erika on Saturday but Janice and Gillian joined us on Sunday.

Some pictures of us crafting on Sunday

Messiest desk award goes to ANGELA!
She was working on an area 2" by 6" !! Can you tell she's a florist! LOL!
(she can also claim prize for the loudest snorer but shhh! I won't tell)

I can't believe how quickly the weekend passed. Everyone had a great time.
We shall definitely have to do it again.

Thank you everyone for all the laughs and companionship over the weekend. It was great to make new friends and bond with everyone. I personally took a lot more away from the weekend than just crafting.
xxx

30th Birthday card with Gorjuss Stamp

Here is a card I made yesterday for one of my sisters who will be 30 in April.
Click on the picture for a larger image.



Materials used:

Gorjuss stamp by Sugar Nellie
Promarker Pens - Rose Pink and Cool Aqua for the dress, Ivory and blush for her face and Burnt Umber for her hair. Cat coloured in Turquoise with stickles added.
Paper by Blonde Moments, Maisie Moo Collection
Cardstock by Co-Ordinations
Doily Border Punch by Martha Stewart
Embossing Folder by Cuttlebug
Sentiment from The Cutting Cafe
Stickles, gemstones, charm and ribbon

Thanks for looking
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