For the Girls

With far too many boys in my life, every now and then I feel the need to scrap a girlie page or two and that's when my friends come in handy as most of them have girls!

Sweet Life

To create this page of my friend Anna's daughter, I hand cut the floral design from a sheet of Vintage Blue patterned paper before attaching it to the page with 3d foam pads.

I used one of the Peek a Boo transparencies to create the frame around the photograph and layered journal and page title stickers together to create a platform for the title to sit up on. The page was finished off by adding a length of twisted Tulle from Glitz Designs.

Supplies - Glitz Designs Vintage Blue Patterned Paper Rose & Floral; Vintage Blue Cardstock Titles, Trim, PeekaBoo and Epoxy Words; Dance in Sunshine Journaling Stickers; Teeny Alphas.

Beautiful Dreamer

For my take on this months Glitz Designs Challenge, I spritzed a sheet of cream cardstock using a coloured mist. I cut one of the Beautiful Dreamer PeekaBoo's in half and used it to create a frame around the focal point of the page. Epoxy Words and Cardstock Stickers were clustered together with Teeny Alphas to create the page title, with a strip of Glitz Frosting giving that finishing touch.

Supplies - Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer Patterned Paper Stripe & Polka; Beautiful Dreamer PeekaBoo, Epoxy Words, Cardstock Stickers; Teeny Alpha.

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Have fun.

T.x.

Sweet as Candy

To create a quick gift for a friend of mine I covered and decorated a box, which was then filled with sugar coated almonds - which I know are her favourite treats.

To create the tag which nestles amongst the roses, I used a stamp from the Beautiful Dreamer clear stamp set from Glitz Designs - the Epoxy accent sit inside the decorative border perfectly.

Product used - Glitz Designs Beautiful Dreamer Damask BD3548, Houndstooth BD3562, Trim TR3395, Epoxy Words ES3364 and Clear Stamps ST3265.

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T.x.

Beautiful Dreamer

Its that time of the month when I get to share a couple of projects created using the wonderful Glitz Designs.

To create this page I hand cut and layered up the floral designs to sit beneath my photograph. I cut one of the Peek a Boo printed transparent embellishments down to create the frame around the photograph and used a combination of Cardstock Stickers and Epoxy Words to create the title.

Product used - Dance in Sunshine Birds DS3463, Floral DS3418, Damask DS3425, Whatnot WN3159; Beautiful Dreamer Polka BD3579, Toile BD3555, PeekaBoo PAB3173, Epoxy Words ES3364, Titles TS3081.

Using a large photograph on this lettersized page meant that the photograph remained the main focus, with the addition of a small cluster of accents to embellish.

Product used - Beautiful Dreamer Damask BD3548, Houndstooth BD3562, Polka BD3579 Cardstock Stickers JS3050, paper laters PL3111, PeekaBoo PAB3173, Titles TS3081, Trim TR3395, Rhinestones GR3326, Epoxy Words ES3364, Teeny Alphas TA3227.

Thanks for dropping by.
T.x.

Two Turtle Doves

They say old friends are always the best and over the past few days Ive reacquainted myself with one of my old familiar pals - Mr Big Shot!
He'd sat lonely and unloved, gathering dust on the bottom shelf of my craft cupboard - well not anymore!
Mr Big Shot and I are friends again - long may this new found love last :)

Two Turtle Doves
1. Cut an 8 inch circle with a 6 inch aperture from a piece of chipboard.
2. Using Festive Greenery die, cut enough pieces to completely cover the 8inch circle. I used 3 sheets if coordinating Bazzil cardstock.
3. Arrange and layer Festive Greenery die cuts around the circle and adhere in place.
4. Add clusters of Holly with berry centres punched from red cardstock. I used my CropaDile to punch out the berries and the Holly leaves were gently bent to add dimension.

5. Using the Sizzix Snowflake #21 die, I die cut three snowflakes from white Bazzil and adhered these in to place. The remaining star centres from the die cuts were dotted around the wreath.
6. Using the Caged Bird die, I die cut the cage from black foam board and attached it to the centre of the wreath using red thread. Thread red cotton through a bead and then thread through the hole at the top of the cage. Stitch the thread through the wreath to keep the cage in place and for it to be nice and secure.

7. The two turtle doves were die cut from white Bazzil, using the Bird #5 die.
I cut 2 dies per bird and layered them up using 3d foam pads before attaching them to the cage.
8. Finally to finish of the wreath, I added a red voile bow and additional beads were adhered to the bottom of the cage.

We are going for the "brown paper packages tied up with string" look for our Christmas presents this year - for the little ones in the family we are using red bakers twine with candy canes to decorate - for the adults I'm thinking red hessian bows with fir cones and cinnamon sticks - the above wreath I plan to use to decorate the front of a Kraft coloured gift bag, which will be for my Mom's gifts to sit inside  - because Mom's are special and need that extra little something to show them just how much you love them :)

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T.x.

Fancy That!

"Its the little things" from Fancy Pants has to be one of my favourite's from 2011.

Pencil Lines sketch 259

Pencil Lines sketch 255

Pencil Lines sketch 253

Pencil Lines sketch 250 - and finally one from my all time fav manufacturer - Sassafras - sad that the Sassafras brand will be no more but Ive had a complete blast being on there DT for the past few years.

A photo of my guys taken in 1998 - I cant believe my Bobs will be 18 in just a few weeks time - where have all the years gone????

I just wanted to post a little shout out to welcome the new members of the Pencil Lines DT - Camilla Eckman, Solange Marques, Kerryn Lawson, Carole Maurin and Sam Ball - Im looking forward to working alongside these talented ladies - go check out there blogs for plenty of eye candy.

Thanks for popping by,
T.x.

So Tweet

After watching Kirtsie's Handmade Britain last week I couldnt help myself - I had to have a go at making a bird for myself.

Hubs thinks Ive got a problem because Im now hooked to squishing paper and tearing tape!!!

Thanks for dropping by.
T.x.

Boo!

This year has certainly flown by and I can hardly believe that Halloween is already upon us.....next it'll be Christmas! YAY! My favourite time of the year :D

Decorating the house for Halloween is becoming more and more popular in the UK and whilst we have the mandatory Pumpkins sitting outside our home, I wanted to create a banner to greet the "Trick or Treaters" who will no doubt be making their way to our door.

Triangles of card were cut from empty cereal packets (I love to recycle) and then covered in papers from Glitz Designs. To pretty up the edges, I simply cut strips of patterned paper and then punch the edges using a Martha Stewart punch. The punched strips were then attached to the reverse of the triangles before I covered the reverse sides with co-ordinating paper.

Paper roses are one of my favourite quick fix embellishments to make - they are so quick and easy and a great way to use up scraps of patterned paper. Chipboard alphas added my greeting "Boo!" and to add a little sparkle to my banner I added crystal swirls.

Product used - Glitz Designs Patterned Papers - Distressed Couture DC2310, Scarlett S2075and S2051; Scenic Route alphas; Prima Say it in Crystals; May Arts Ribbon.

Thanks for dropping by and I hope you have a very Happy Halloween.

T.x.