Sam's Scrapbook Process : Day of the Dead

So today hasn't been the best as we said final farewells to my Nan who passed away last Friday and between then and today has been the longest week waiting for the funeral!

The day went as well as expected but when I came home I just wanted to distract myself so sat in craftroom and with fresh photos of my Nieces from Halloween sitting on desk I thought I would scrap them.

The first layout is Amelia dressed as a Corpse Bride dragging her groom to the alter which will be me and Adam if he doesn't get his finger out and let me book our wedding only been waiting 11 years :-) Her face painting is very Day of the Dead so that's where initial inspiration came from. If I was very brave and not a chicken I'd get a sugar skull tattoo ... shhh don't tell mam lol! 31 year old and not allowed a tattoo!

Inspiration for page 

The digital kit I used was the Day of the Dead doodles by Kate Hadfield

The sugar skull is just from google and glitter and gem letter stickers from the poundshop.

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

"Digi Images" December 2014 YTLH©

Hey all

Hope everyone is well and had a great Christmas. Sorry I have been missing in action on my blog for a while.

If you go over to You tube you can follow along with the YouTube Layout Hop for December our last one for 2014.

Here is the page I have made:

Theme for this month is "using Digi Images from Ditzie DigiDesign" It Doesnt have to be traditional layout if you dont want to, it can be December daily, Project Life or Smash Book Page.

Hope you guys like each and every video and please leave a comment on every video to be eligible to WIN a prize from our Sponsors.

Sponsors for December:

Ditzie DigiDesign  

https://www.etsy.com/shop/ThatCraftPlaceLtd

&

Mari K

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&

Mulberry Crafts UK

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Participant Prize

Sam Wright www.wrightcreations.blogspot.com

December Line up:

1. Sam - www.youtube.com/samwri1984

2. Christine - www.youtube.com/serenityinhim

3. Nicole - www.youtube.com/swtlady1

4. Tiffany Westbrook - www.youtube.com/trwestkd

5. Becca Buckley - https://www.youtube.com/user/TheBeccajb

Thanks for taking the time to look and any comments left xx
Its much appreciated.
Sam xx

Reindeer Food

Evening all/ or should I say morning it is 3am here - Just realised the time!!

Some of the girls at work today were talking about Santa's letters and his magic key you can get and it got me thinking about the reindeer food I had seen people making last year.

So tonight I made some:

I have had these snowflake bags for about 2 maybe 3 years in my cake decorating box! I think I got them from DollarTree.

I found this cute Free Printable Reindeer Food Label by Anders-Ruff

The hanging tag I cut from original in paint - hope this isn't copyright infringement - I'm not selling them tho so hopefully I wont get wrong.

The Reindeer food is just Porridge Oats and blue glitter.

I think I should of put more glitter in but I didn't have any silver and ran out of blue.

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : Halloween Cookies

Hi All

Hope everyone is well.

Another A4 Hybrid layout for you.

I used:
Blue paper from My Minds Eye - Magnolia Collection
Digital Papers from shabbyprincess.com - Holliday Sampler
Digital Font from shabbyprincess.com - Moody Blues
Mason Jar, Halloween logo I am not sure had them for a while.

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

Sam's Scrapbook Process : Infants School

Hi All

Hope everyone is well.

2 days in a row in my craft room and I defo have my mojo back which I am happy about!!

I have had the school photos for Darcy for ages and wanted to make her a page today. This is a hybrid page today some digital papers and some normal.
I am totally loving the A4 size layouts at the minute I am finding them so much easier than 8x8 or 12x12.

What I used:

• Yellow paper is a textured paper which I got a pack from Paper Mill shop for £1
• Dark Red is from a plain paper pad I got from Lidel for a £1 and it has lots of different colours.
• Apple paper is digi free download from MissTina
• Pattern Red, Yellow and Green, "A is for" and apple is free download from Peppermintcreative
• Black chalk board paper I am not sure was scrap in my tub but it looks like a printable so I will try and find link for that one for you.
• Hopscotch sticker is from October Afternoon Hometown collection I only got sticker sheet.
• Learning ABC sticker is from Kindergarten School - Karen Foster Designs.
• Green polka dot chip frame is from DoveCraft
• Colorbök Classic Black Sticky Alpha Stax
• American Crafts Remarks Chickadee alpha stickers.

The page took me a while to put together which you will see if you watch my video below!
It just would not come together for me I was trying to stack the papers and it just didnt want to work!
I am happy with finished page but it doesnt look how I invisioned it!

** I must appologise in advance also I think I have the mic too close to my mouth sorry xxx

Thanks so much to taking the time to view and comment its much appreciated
Sam xxx

Cowboy Fathers Day Card

Just wanted to share a Cowboy theme Fathers Day card I have just made.

I used digital papers from Peppermint Creative website.
These are the same papers I used in my cowboy hybrid layout I made ages ago I found the left over paper in my scrap box. I wasn't very happy with the Beatles card I made a few weeks ago so thought I'd re-do dads card for Sunday.

Stamp used from Fiskars - Sentiments
Jewelry Box Thickers by American Crafts.

This is the original post with:

Saturday Scrabooking with Sam - 6

I hope everyone has a great weekend and don't forget to get to love and honor your dad's tomorrow .

Love Sam x

Sam's Scrapbook Process : Baby

My good friend Vicki on Youtube was having a Scrapbook Challenge with a prize giveaway.

1. Must be a layout - you can do single or double page layout
2. Must use at least 3 photographs - they can be any size
3. Use a stamp - can be any kind of stamp and you can use as many as you like
4. Make video telling the story of the photos.

The due date is Monday June 18th, 2012 

This is the page I have made.

Thanks so much for stopping by.
Sam

"1 Year Anniversary" May YTLH©

Hey all
Hope everyone is well.
If you go over to You tube you can follow along with the YouTube Layout Hop.

Here is the page I have made:

Theme for this month is "The 1 Year Anniversary of the YTLH". Any as I have only been doing the hop for 1 month I did my page on who got me started in the YTLH - which was the lovely Vicki! Her video is next in line.

Hope you guys like each and every video and please leave a comment on every video to be eligible to WIN a prize from our Sponsors.

Next person in line-
Vicki - www.youtube.com/melovebono


There is a FAN page on Facebook please try to promote and post the fan page link on your Facebook to help spread the word. Ask people to "like" the page. Here is the link.
http://www.facebook.com/YTLH2011


Sponsors for May:

Isabel Arroyo
www.etsy.com/shop/isabelb3

Emma Aguilar
http://www.creativetimeforme.com/

Elizabeth (Beady Bom Bom Ceations)
http://www.zibbet.com/beadybombom

Tanner Bell (Mr.Cricutcrazy)
www.MrCricutCrazy.com

Kiwi lane Designs
www.kiwilane.com


May Line-up:
1-Zoe- www.youtube.com/AF0093
2-Sam - www.youtube.com/samwri1984
3- Vicki - www.youtube.com/melovebono
4-Nancy - www.youtube.com/Scrapping601
5 - Jessica - www.youtube.com/mzjezzb
6- Alina - www.youtube.com/SuperMamaof3
7- Kimberly - www.youtube.com/berlykim37
8- Laura - http://www.youtube.com/luyandol

Sam's Scrapbook Process : First Tooth & Roll Over

2 Quick baby scrapbook process videos. I didn't do any commentary over these.

Paper is by DCWV - Nanna's Kids

Digital font (free) from Canon website

Girl image - Crazy for Monograms bye bye tooth

Paper on this one is from the Basic Grey Blush collection.
Pain White paper
Teal H2O Pearled water paint.
Digital Font free from Shabby Princess - Promise kit

Thanks so much 

Sam xx

Saturday Scrapbooking with Sam - 9

Hi All

Hope everyone had a fab 4th July!!
Living in the UK we dont celebrate the Independance day but this year our local council decided to hold a festival to celebrate the close links between UK and US. Well for me personally US is my home from home as I have family over there and we visit every year so I wanted to join in and celebrate :-)

This a 12x12 layout which I have started for myself.

Papers:
Free download from ShabbyPrincess - Celebrating

Free download from 4shared.com

Blue,white and red card from stack I got from Lidel.

I dont think it needs a title as the word paper pretty much says it all!

Thanks for stopping by.
Sam xx

Saturday Scrapbooking with Sam - 8

Hi Everyone!
Hope your well.
Another 8.5 x 11 Scrapbook page.

The pink polka dot paper is a free download from Jennifer Pebbles from the Pink October Free Kit by 2 Peas in a Bucket.

The font is from Betsy Tuma's Cupid collection on 2 Peas in a Bucket.

I used the pink trim which was sent to me in a RAK quite a while ago. The flowers are from the Prima E Line.

Thanks for taking the time to view this post xx

Sam x

Saturday Scrabooking with Sam - 7

Hi All

Sorry I wasnt able to make a video on Saturday so here is a belated tutorial.

8.5 x 11 Hybrid layout again for you.

 Papers are from the Epson America website and are Free all good :-) there are alot of different theme downloads on this site so check it out.

 Embelishments are from Paperbilities.

Was a quick and easy layout any questions let me known :-)
Hope everyone is well.

Saturday Scrabooking with Sam - 6

I was feeling very creative today so I decided to do another tutorial.

Again I used another digital kit from PeppermintCreative - 'Little Buckaroo' Even tho I don't have kids I wanted to use this kit and I remember we had some pics where me and Adam got some photos done back in 2008 dressed in Western Theme so I thought this kit was ideal!!

This is an 8.5 x 11 page which I mega distressed I even went to the extremes of using a cold wet tea bag to get the colour I wanted as the Tim Holtz Old Paper was dark enough. I crumbled, and burnt the edges with a lighter - CAUTION be careful if you do this as I burnt my fingers a few times doing this!!

 I cut a stencil out to make the title look like a Wanted poster and It worked pretty good I was mega chuffed with this! I have kept the stencil incase I need to do another similar page.

 I cut all the elements out again all papers/elements back the backing paper is photo paper.

Hehe I loved these photos and it was great fun getting dressed up. I think we will have to do it again. If anyone is in the Florida near Old Town that's where we got them done. I think next year when we go we will get the Gangster Theme done as we have already had the Western and Victorian!!

I have another Hybrid page in mind but I need to get the right photo then I will make another hybrid layout.

Thanks so much for looking. Ive been busy today.

Sam xx

Saturday Scrabooking with Sam - 5

Today I have made a 8.5 x 11 hybrid scrapbook page using New 'Do' digital kit from PeppermintCreative this is a temporary free download the link to the site is to the right of this page.

There are some gorgeous kits on the site and can be used for digital or hybrid kits. I am not very good at digital but its just as easy to print and cut out. Yes I will admit some of the elements on this page were very very tricky to cut out but I got there in the end.

I didn't do any journaling on this page but it is pretty self explanatory. Darcy getting her hair cut by our family hairdresser who is a friend my mam child-minds for. Its so easier than going to the hairdressers :-)

 The scissors and the comb were a nightmare to cut out but I was persistent and eventually got them cut out.

On this little mirror for a little added interest and to make it a tat more realistic I cut out the printed glass and put a piece of mirror card behind and it looks cute!!

Absolutely love the colour pallet used to create this paper kit and there are some cute title spots and cute saying!
Pop over and check out PeppermintCreative site its free to register and there are some great kits for a great price!! There is also a gallery/forum there to share your ideas with other people and I've had some great feedback from some lovely people!

Thanks all
Sam