Crafting Heaven

I totally forgot to share photos of my new crafting space. I moved out of my old craft room at the start of our Easter holidays. It took loads and loads of trips moving papers, tools and God-knows-what across to our summer house. I'm now complete with lovely new shelves and it's just fabulous.

The summer house is at the bottom of the garden - we used it as an office when we both worked from home.

It's is so nice to work up here on a sunny day - the light is brilliant.  I haven't been up here when it's pouring with rain yet - that might be a different story.

I have finally got the scrap space I've always dreamed of.  BUT, we have decided to move now as we have seen our perfect house.  I just hope that there is someone scrappy who would love a sparkly scrap room.

Have a good weekend.

I Love Spring

It's my favourite time of year. We've been so lucky with our weather here - it's been absolutely gorgeous.  It was overcast for Easter Sunday but we headed out on an Easter egg hunt and the light was fantastic.  I got a ton of great photos in the bluebells and in the woods.  Woo hoo!  Love new photos to scrap.

These were of my favourites straight out of the camera:

Can't wait to scrap them.  Been scrapping like mad these past few weeks and I'm hoping that my mojo carries on a little longer.



DD had several 'parties' for her birthday this year.  This was one after school at home.

Had a go at making my own flowers - Prima stylee.  They're pretty easy to make as long as you have the right material (mine was chiffon).

Well thanks for popping in.  Back to normal this week until the Royal Wedding on Friday.

Solihull Crop

Gosh, the weather here is amazing at the moment.  Spring truly sprang early this year.  We've been treated to beautiful bluebells almost a month early.

Hopefully the weather continues into the Easter weekend and stays fine until the royal wedding. Woo Hoo!

Onto my layout for our craft club. I've used the lovely Stella & Rose papers from My Mind's Eye. They are just gorgeous.

Hopefully the girls will enjoy this class - not too fiddly.

I'll be showing the girls how to 'rust' the bird cage using acrylic paints - bit less time consuming than distress powders.

Enjoy your Easter weekend.  Thanks for stopping by.

Triple Tiarra Tuesday

Welcome to Triple Tiarra Tuesday challenge. Here's this week's inspiration:

I created my card using the Cheshire Cat. I did colour him in using 'squash' as my inspiration, but I was pushed for squash coloured card, so I've pushed the boundry and used something more pumpkin colour.

If you would like to join in with this week's Triple Tiara Tuesday, jump over to the QKD blog for all the details and visit Jeanie and Holley for more inspiration. (Leave us some love and a link to your project so we can return the favor. *wink*)

The best news is that QKD will offer up a $25 stamp gift certificate for the players to compete for each month. So if you enter each week, you will have 4 chances to win the monthly prize of $25.

Good luck!

Craft Stamper Ezine

Now you know how much we all love Craft Stamper Magazine in the UK.  I think most of agree that it is the best craft publication here.  I'm not sure how available it is elsewhere but here is some great news.  They have published a mini-ezine which will be great for anyone, anywhere.  Obviously not as big as the real thing, but there are some great projects in it from past magazines.  To find out more and how - visit Craft Stamper's Blog for more info.

Quick share on another layout I did last month featuring my  lovely Martha Stewart punches that I bought while on holiday.  Lauren and her friend had a sleepover for Lauren's birthday - a whole lot calmer than when Jacob had his sleepover!

Love those long titles - this one is KI Memories.

For no particular reason at all, I fancied hanging clothes on a line (stamped images from Hero Arts, papers Echo Park).

One last thing to share (nothing like packing it all in one post), is that I'll be teaching a class at Bubblyfunk in Worcester, on Saturday, 4th June.  We'll be making a fab mini-album with a difference using sumptious papers and embellies.  If you've not visited before - be sure to pop in.  The shop is the prettiest craft shop I have ever been too.  I can't wait to teach there.

Well that's it.  Thanks for popping in.

Catch Up

I have started my Spring Clean this week and have decided to move my craft room out into our summer house.  It was converted into an office a long time ago, but we stopped using it when I left work.  So I have emptied my rather small craft room but I'm truly SHOCKED as to how much stuff I have. Who knew you could get so much stuff into a small room?  I'm waiting on some new shelving to store it all away and I'll take some photos so you can see my new space.

I did discover many projects which haven't made it onto my blog and many which need finishing!  So here is one I did last month from our Disney travels.

Stitch is definitely our favourite Disney Character (well mine at least).  We met him and Lilo at Animal Kingdom. 

I am having a little travel stamp obsession of late and these are a selection from Martha Stewart and Studio Calico.

The travel labels are downloaded from the Internet.  I started browsing for some when I made this layout and 2 hours later I was still playing!  There are loads of lovely vintage travel themed items out there.

I'm off to go pack away my stuff....
Thanks for popping in.

Finding Inspiration

Sketch 232:

Some times it's hard to find some fresh inspiration when you have scrapper's block. My problem has been lack of time for the most part. I need to scrap often to get into the flow of things. Once source of inspiration for me this week was listening to my favourite song from our holiday recently.


Check out this fabulous song....


 
So I didn't have rockets, but I did think about flying...
 

I made my own sun-ray mask by cutting out some 12x12 cardstock.  I wish I had positioned it differently though now.  Ho hum.  I have used Distress inks to colour the rays (Victorian Velvet & Dried Marigold).

Some felt flowers that I've been hoarding forever!  Added some homespun stitching.

 Love the balloon stamp from Studio Calico.  I've stamped, cut out and coloured with Copic Markers.

 My usual title issues meant that I came up with a random title.

Thanks for popping in.  Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hugs Bunny

I don't know about you, but I can never come up with good titles for layouts.  They generally end up being one random word.   I did this layout based on a Got Sketches? sketch for our birthday crop.  The photos are from Disney (again).  DD met Thumper and Miss bunny.

I was truly stuck for a title when I came up with this one.  Not bad for me!

 Papers are from Studio Calico kit.

I have loads of layouts to post so hopefully get a few more posts up this week - I've been a bit slow.

Thanks for popping in.