Relaxing weekend!

Hope everyone has had a lovely weekend. I have been doing over time all this week and I think I work 53 hours in total normally only do 37.5 so I have been very tired and ratty and mostly taking it out on Adam - opps!
So was defo glad when the weekend was here and boo its Sunday night I am back at work at 7.30 tomorrow. So wish I could win the lottery then never work again and sit and craft all day :-) How totally awesome would that be!!! Never gonna happen but I can dream!!

Last night I was up till the early hours of the morning scrapbooking. I duno why I do it do nothing all day then it comes to 7/8 pm then I get a sudden burst of inspiration and I am there crafting till easily 2.30am! Anyone else a night owl when it comes to crafting?

I made 4 8x8 scrapbook pages and some yummie cookies

All the pages were for Amelia's scrapbook as I am trying to finish this one off so I can start her new one.

Red Polka Dot and a Ledger Paper from a DCWV paper stack not sure of the name but my friend Andrea across the road gave me them - Thanks Hun :-) its great having a fellow crafter in my street not only do I pinch sugar, her cake mixer (when mine died) she also lets me raid her craft stash when I babysit for her - Best Friend eva!!

No idea what the photo sizes are they were 4 x 6" photos and cut into a square (I think they may have been 10 x 10 cms). The "Girl" Chipboard is the Audrey collection by Mia Road and coloured Black.
Chipboard arrow and lips are from a huge chipboard can I got from WallMart like 4/5 years ago. I did alot of hand writing on this page but wasnt sure it really made sence as it was late and I couldnt really think straight.

My brother build Amelia a big sandbox and a play area in their backgarden for her birthday and these are of her sitting in it! Shame with UK Weather its never really warm and her birthday was in March so she had to have her coat on hehe!

I was soo pleased with this embelishment I made it was a sandcastle using actual sand paper.

Template for this and the inspiration is here only difference I gave my castle two towers - only the best castle for my baby niece :-) There are lots of different templates if you google sandcastle template. I just thought this would be the easiest to cut out of the sandpaper - it was alot easier than I thought sharpened my scissors too but wasnt very good for my rotorary trimmer.
Couldnt find a decent template for the bucket and spade so they are printed from clip art and cut out.

This Easter page was inspired by a page Kristina Werner did on the Basic Inspiration Class No. 1

Papers used are First Edition - Hideaway 6x6 which I got a sample pack from Ebay for only £1.99 I think I might start and do this get the 6x6 sample pack from ebay as some are only £1 and if I like them I can buy the big pads. Chipard letters are Basic Grey not sure of the name of this pack as I lost the insert to box.

This is patterned paper which I printed from google as I wanted it to look like paint splats.
Used plain coloured paper to double mount the photo up.

Absoultley loved this sentiment "I am not messy, I am creative" I just added the last line as it is true :-)

Finally... sorry ive bored you but look at how yummie these cookies are!!

Cornflake cookies recipe.
INGREDIENTS

• 125g butter, chopped, at room temperature
• ½ cup caster sugar
• 1 egg
• ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 cup self-raising flour, sifted
• 2 cups cornflakes, Crushed (I used crunchy Nut)

METHOD

• Preheat oven to moderate, 180°C. Lightly grease and line 2 large oven trays.
• In a bowl, cream butter and sugar together until light and fluffy. Beat in egg and vanilla, then fold flour in.
• Roll tablespoonfuls of mixture into balls and roll into crushed cornflakes. Arrange on trays about 4cm apart.
• Bake for 15-20 minutes until golden. Cool on tray for 5 minutes. Transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.

Love to all
Hope you have a great week x

Engagement Card

Two of my friends are getting engaged so I made them both the same card

I got the idea from a card Kristina Werners MACM – Congrats she made in August 24, 2009

Materials used:

Cuttlebug die - man and woman sign

Kraft Card Stock

White Card Stock

Pink Card Stock

White Gel Pen

Congratulations Stamp

White Embossing Powder

Quick and simple card

Pumpkin Patch 8x8 Layout

OMG I am almost a year behind with my niece Amelia's scrapbook, so this weekend I decided to try and catch up.

This is a gorgeous picture of my brother and Amelia when we were at Bush Garden's in Florida at the end of last year and they had a Pumpkin Patch with hay and scarecrows set up and it was adorable.

Papers used:

DCWV - The Doodlin' Around All Year Stack

Brown plain cardstock - No name

Again I used the pumpkin template which i got from "A Year in cards - September 2009 Halloween Cards by Kristina Werner. I also free hand cut some leaves in different scraps and crumpled and inked them to look like old dried leaves.

I cut paper strips and inked the edges for my journalling. I don't really like my hand writing but never mind, its done and they stuck down haha!

Thanks for Looking
Take Care Sam x

Christmas Cards

I have left it very late this year for making Christmas cards!!!

I only started about a week or two ago.

Thought if share a few of them that i have made. All inspired by Kristina Werner I totally love her work she is mega tallented.

I used some of equipment I got from my Haul while I was in Florida about 2 weeks ago doesnt feel like I've had a holiday now Im back at work :-(

This was my first Circle card I used my cricut. For some reason it has never really liked it and I stopped using it but I needed a perfect circle so i got it and and hey presto it cut without any arguments. I also used my cricut for the "HOHOHO" this was just from george and basics cartridge.

This adorable Santa was out a little embelishment pack I got from walmart for $1.50 I really wish I'd picked more than one packet up, hadnt realised how cute he was till i made this card!!

Used plain no name red card stock, not sure about the backing paper it is something i printed off last year and I found it in my box of scraps. I used my Friskars tredding water boarder punch on the gold cardstock.

My Second card I used a template of the top note die as I dont actually have the die for my cuttlebug.

I used plain no name red and white card stock and brown ribbed texture card stock from The Papermill Shop, the red glitter polkadot paper from My Minds Eye Sweet Dreams Holiday Avenue.

I stamped Rudolf and the sentiment in black stazon and used my water markers to colour Rudolf I have never been very good at getting the shading right but I think I did an ok job on him. (Used Seasonal Baeuty clear stamps from HamptonArt stamp set)

As Kristina Werner always finishes with white faux stitch I thought I would too. Also had to use a scrap of red ribbon to tie the pattern paper with the white as it looked to sharp and unfishished. Used a selection of odd buttons to fill in the white open space.

I made 2 other versions of this card as below:

Anyway I have to go do the house work :-(

I think you all know what I would rather be doing.

Take Care

Halloween Scrapbook Page

Since it was Halloween yesterday there are alot of Halloween pictures which will need to be scrapped.

My parents are currently looking after a baby girl who absolutely adorable she is like a little porcelain doll. I am in the middle of making her a scrapbook so when she gets adopted she can take it with her to her new family.

I have made a LO for the photo of her in her little pumpkin outfit but we got a few more good photos so I will have to put a few more photomats down and re-arrange slightly but that wont be too hard.

I used the template which i got from "A Year in cards - September 2009 Halloween Cards by Kristina Werner my favourite designer from two peas in a bucket. http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/cg_display.asp?cmd=display&seed_id=30424
I simply changed the PDF size when i printed and made the paper size A5 (148 x 210mm) and followed the instructions on how to assemble together and used as embellishments for my scrapbook page.
Items used:
Autumn Forst: Pumpkin Parade 12x 12, The Halloween Collection:Esmerelda 12x12, Old Olive and Elegant Eggplant (Stampin' Up Card Stock), 3d Black Felt Letters, Plain White and Black Cardstock.
Thanks for looking and hope you all had a great Halloween :-)