I had me a happy birthday!!

With being hectic both at work and with family issues, crafting and Blogging seem to have taken a back seat lately, but I am trying to keep up with project life in between times. 

So pleased that I got to share another birthday card from my Barney. Also delighted he felt well enough to join in the festivities with his usual wrapping paper shredding!

Saved my Studio Calico monthly kit to open, as it contained my first Project life kit- watch out for more of that coming in layouts on my blog.

 Although we went out as a family last Saturday night as DS2 was home from London, it was still nice to have tea out at the pub after work to celebrate the actual day.

I have to say, standing on the playground in the rain on my birthday was not something I had anticipated, but there you go, duty day is duty day!! 

I felt spoiled. The boys had bought me a manicure and pedicure which I took without delay....

hubby also treated me to two bunches of roses! TFLx

Final 2 {Inter} National Scrapbooking Day layouts

Use a mask other than for mist, that was the challenge for this layout! I created my  own embellishment cluster on vellum using enamel dots and brads.

 Then added it to this layout called 'Think Geek' about my sons drama assessment.

The final layout I did was a scraplift challenge of Jen Jockish for the Pop Off The Page 2 class I am taking over at SC to add layers and dimension.

Hope you had a productive time too. TFLx

{Inter}national scrapbooking day layouts

 More layouts from International scrapbooking day last Saturday  including this one, based on a sketch from Studio Calico. This one below was a challenge to use transparent material on a layout. I trapped some padded stars under the chicken wire acetate sheet and stitch around the edges. I also decided to go ahead and add some Washi tape to cover some blank Thickers and it worked really well!

 I also added a digital element to the photograph.

Most productive I have been in ages on 12 x 12 layouts! TFLx

{Inter} National Scrapbooking day

Yesterday was National scrapbooking day in the US and there were lots of great challenges. I managed to join in with 2 over at Studio Calico.
1. Challenge to use watercolours on a layout

I broke out my sons old watercolour paint box and used a mask to create the background for this page. I also combined it with layering techniques from the Pop Off The Page 2 class by Jen Jockish. I used some of the printables from the class and die cut them with my Cameo. The lace cut from vellum down the right hand edge of the photo strip was cut using my Cameo too. I also added machine stitching and hand stitching with scrappers floss.
2. This challenge was to use buttons on a layout;

The punched circles were supposed to echo the roof tiles we saw from the top of the Campanile. I used a POTP2 die cut as a mask for the gold mister huey here too. The chipboard buttons were machine stitched to ribbon. TFLx Going to play more today too!

Project Life Week 16 takeover

With DS2 home from dance school in London, he decided to help me in the craft room and took over the Week 16 double page spread. I had already printed off the photo's for the week, but he decided how it went from there.

 He broke out the Cameo and my POW glitter paper and I showed him how to do a title

He had the idea for the coffee cup cut out from some clipart into the Studio software too. We added a couple of snaps from Instagram to show how we had enjoyed it!

It's great because I now have his journaling and handwriting in Project Life. TFLx

Project Life Week 15

Still a bit behind but here are my two pages for week 15, documenting the week after Barney's stroke. Used some of my new Amy Tan papers for my 12 x 12 layout and then the KI memories paper for the right hand page of journaling. The Blinks of Life tags were from an SC kit.

Loved that "today is a gift" card, very appropriate. As you can see Barney is doing very well. Thanks for all the good wishes x

Week 14 Project life

Week 14 was all about our silver wedding trip to Venice, so I had to include an extra page protector for some extra photo's. 

I decided to leave the last two sections empty and fill them with some of the celebration confetti out of one of our cards along with some punched hearts and wood veneer arrows.

The final page is a 12 x 12 of the heartbreak we faced when we got home, of our old dog having had a stroke.

This page was based on a Kelly Purkey sketch from the Sketchbook 2 class over at Studio Calico. I used some of the April digital stamps and printed them on vellum. TFLx