Saturday, 31 January 2009

And the luck keeps coming ....

... just found out that I won the Jan Challenge on Butterfly Crafts and I get to be their Guest Designer for February - so thrilled! Watch this space for more news.

Now if I can just win tonights lottery .......!

Monday, 26 January 2009

Lucky Sunday ...

.. yesterday I went to the CraftyStash Exhall crop and did a class by Tracie Oakes. The kit was all Basic Grey Ambrosia and here are the LOs I did. Not my usual style of scrapping and I don't usually spend so long on just 1 LO, but I really enjoyed taking some time to do something a bit different. All the butterflies are hand cut from pp - I did 17 in total!


Whilst there I won a raffle prize! Then when I logged on last night I found out that I had also won the wekitunot challenge - so I had a lucky day!
In other news I have officially rejoined the workforce! I have been working for easyfundraising.org.uk for over a year now on an ad hoc basis, but today I started on a 15 hour week contract. How am I going to fit that in with my scrapping??!!

Saturday, 24 January 2009

A-Z update ...

... I got quite behind with the girl's A-Z albums last year. I thought doing 2 x 2 entries per month would be manageable. And it was when I had an idea straight away as what to do for an entry, but then I started to struggle with ideas and lost momentum. So with a renewed determination last weekend I did 5 LOs (2 duplicates). That leaves me with about 8 LOs to do for each of them!

P - for Places S - for Sisters
Y - Year 1

Friday, 16 January 2009

Some new stash ...

had a few new goodies to playwith this week. Firstly, I picked up some Halloween paper at the crop last weekend, so have done this LO of the girls. We don't go for Halloween in a big way, but the girls did go out Trick or Treating. Secondly, January's Scarlet Lime kit arrived yesterday and I wanted to play straight away! So I've done this LO for wekitunot's January New Beginnings challenge.
Also, the lovely Leanne and given me this award:

I'm going to pass it onto Lisa, Sally, Claire, Stephand Paige.

Monday, 12 January 2009

Scrap Your Day ...

.. I had my second visit to the Nuneaton Paper Dolls crop yesterday and was determined to get up to date with Scrap Your Day, so I was really pleased that I got 3 months worth of entries done!

October November
December
I also did this LO for Shimelle's Week 2 Scrap Like You Mean It challenge, which was to include hearts or stars. I've used a January PageMaps sketch.

Thursday, 8 January 2009

Broken already ...

... for the second time aswell. My craft resolution that is. I've found another challenge to play along with, and it made me want to start creating straight away, so that's a good thing right? It's called 52Q and is being host by Emily Falconbridge. She's going to post a question each week to be answered through a mini art journal. Mine's 4 by just over 2" - question one side, answer on the other. So that's completely doable each week. Week 1 is what are your wishes for 2009.

I've made a cover for the journal and will just use the book ring to bind them together.

Am looking forward to the next question!

Wednesday, 7 January 2009

Taking a break ...

.. from the Xmas Journal that is to do my 1st LO of 2009, which is also the weekly challege on UKS. Had to do a celebration LO and include buttons and something relating to 12 (which is on the ruler sticker I've used).

Have used the December Scarlet Lime kit. I really need to start using more of my kits, I think I've done a total of 4 LOs from the last 3 kits - eek!