Not quite dozens...

...but I did get my scrap on at our mini crop on Sunday. All the girls were there for the fist time in ages. Sarah, Lianne, Lou, Helen, Vanessa and me. There was plenty of chatting and eating but we actually did scrap too.

This first LO was actually done before Sunday but I haven't shared it yet. It is for Sam's album as I've already done a Christmas Day LO for the big two, but the photos of him on Christmas Day just aren't as nice. So he gets Christmas Eve.
This was my first page on Sunday. The photos were taken by James on Christmas Eve at my Mum's house. The papers are Crate Paper Peppermint Collection.

This one is Sammy's first Nativity bless him. He was a donkey and he looked so proud of himself from beginning to end. The papers are American Craft Chap. I even used Lou's donkey stamp which usually I hate but it actually fits the theme!

This LO is hopefully the last of my Christmas pages (at last!) ... unless I do one for Rowen...

Josh was "Sidney the Shepherd" in his Nativity. I've used the Echo Park "Times and Seasons" papers (even though no one has a moustache in the photos! haha)

I had a fab day as usual when we get together and to top it off Sarah asked me to join the Blog Design Team :) So I am super happy... but a little bit scared lol!

Thanks for reading and don't forget to say hi.

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It's A Wonderful Life

I thought I had better post these pages before I create dozens more tomorrow. Dozens? Yes - I'll be scrapping all day tomorrow with my girls. Not gossiping, eating, faffing, giggling.... nope scrapping - all day....

Anyway, the current challenge at Sarahscards is to be inspired by the movies. This year I have scrapped my usual amount of Christmas layouts (i.e. too many!) Each of the boys have a Christmas Day LO, a visit to Santa layout and a Nativity layout (some of which are still W.I.P's). To speed the process up a little I decided to do 3 almost identical LO's with the Santa picture. It is the same picture each time, but as the boys each have their own album I feel they each need their own Santa LO. The strips of patterned paper are all the same (Green: WRMK Show and Tell; Blue: Pebbles Fresh Goods; Red: Jillybean Sweet and Sour Soup). The journalling for each is then specific to each boy with appropriate titles. Hopefully if you click on them they will enlarge. The first here is Sam's page with the title "It's a Wonderful Life" which is my current favourite Christmas movie after finally seeing it for the first time last year, then again this year.

          

Then Josh's:

 Finally, James's:

 This is also for James's album- his Christmas Day LO.



Thanks for looking and I'll be back soon with the dozens of pages I'll make tomorrow.....

Catch up

Just a quickie to share the pages I did for Sarahs January kit.

Look Behind You

Day 1

Funny

(Sam channelling Freddie Mercury)

Sleeping Sam

Take Nothing But Photos

 I've still enough of the kit to do a couple more too.

This is a LO using a 6x6 pad of MME Blink of an Eye. I used a couple of those twist ties that were all the rage a few years ago. I chopped some up and just used single words; and the "xoxoxoxoxoxox" across the bottom is another one stapled on.

 I'm really dissappointed with this scan - even though I scanned it twice it looks no where near as good as it does IRL. The papers are from a 6x6 pad of MME Kraft Funday with some Elle's Studio bits and bobs too.

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Hijacked by a 7 year old.

I was happily scrapping away last week using American Crafts Nightfall when my nosey James asked what I was going to call it. I said "I don't know yet" so he asked me to call it "Looking at a monkey" ...

so I did.

I usually try to scrap equal numbers of pages for each boy, but I hadn't scrapped many pages for James's album recently so the next one is also of him. The photo was taken for his karate license in November so it is a very plain face shot. As I was looking at it I was trying to see if his chicken pox scars were visable - that gave me the idea for the LO. YOu should be able to read the journalling if you click on it . The papers are American Crafts Chap.

I'll be able to blog my Sarahscards pages soon I think, as the kits should have been delivered.

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M.I.A

Happy New Year! I didn't realise I had been MIA for so long. Christmas does that doesn't it - steals a whole month of your life away! I've been scrapping as much as usual but can't share 5 of my pages until I know which ones Sarah chose for the Sarahscards January Kit booklet. The kit was lovely and I still have enough of it to scrap a few more pages! Value for ££ :)

I scrapped this page way before Christmas but forgot to blog it. It's my fabulous in-laws with the boys when we were in Scotland in August. We really are lucky to have them. They look after the boys when I am at work and are on hand to babysit the odd time The Husband and I actually go out together. The papers are old MME ones called "Bloom and Grow" and the bird stamp was from a Scarlett Lime kit I got eons ago and have never used. Can you spot my favourite alpha trick? Using a substitute for a letter when I have run out? Answers on a postcard...

 This is the start of my New Year Scrapping Resolution. I used to take part in "12 of 12" that was a free to join in scrapping challenge. It seems to have been taken over and commercialised (sp?) so I'm just making my own version up. I am going to take photos of all the mundane "stuff" we do on or around the first of each month then scrap the photos. This is (obviously) 1.1.12. I love, love, love these papers - American Craft Amy Tangerine from Sarahscards.

 Lastly, this is a page I had thought about and started but then put aside to focus on Sarahs January kit. I thought the papers were Fancy Pants but they say "Scrap Within Reach" on them "Paper Boy" range. Anyway, it is Josh and his class mascot on a bike ride. There are a few Elle's Studio bits on there too.

So, that's me officially caught up on here until I can blogg the kit LO's.

TTFN
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Christmas crafting

Christmas crafting with my boys.

Idea from Pinterest - chocolate bars wrapped as Christmas characters.

 Pom pom fun!

 Christmas colouring.

 Pinteresting again! Strawberry Shortcake Santa Hats <3

 Plus printing out this amazing man who has been in my life for 20 years! About time he featured on my wall of things to inspire me around my craft desk <3

Christmas is coming.

Christmas is coming..... and coming fast! Which means life has been busier than usual. I've done  some scrapping but not got around to scanning the pages yet. I've also been busy Christmas crafting with the boys. A couple of weeks ago we had a snowflake making session. We have covered the back window with them and they look great. Then just yesterday I saw this on pinterest:  

So I decided to have a go at making one just like it.

Fail #1

                                                                             Fail #2

Then I wimped out and tried an easier version:

Successful enough...

I've also been making some Christmas bunting. I used two different paper manufacturers for this project, which is the current challenge on Sarahscards. I used Crate "Peppermint Collection" and 3 Bugs "Snow Much Fun" as well as some random papers from TKMaxx. Not a layout I know, call it artistic license haha.

I'm also busy stressing over layouts as I've been asked to guest design for Sarahscards January kit. Woo Hoo and Yikes all rolled into one!!!

Have a great Christmas everyone.

TTFN

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