Rolling Recipe Week 3

Week Three and the ingredients were buttons, a stamped flower image and text. I was going to use real buttons for the whole BG but it was way too much, so instead I cut some out of my scraps of pink paper using a sissix die I have had for ages! The tag was painted with sparkly pink water colours (from the £ shop) before I stuck the buttons all on.

The flower was a free one from Craft Stamper that I stamped onto some book pages and coloured with pink Brilliance and a reddish ink pad. Finally I added a little puffy sticker to the middle! Liked this one even tho' it is rather a profusion of pinkness!

LTDO Challenge...Backgrounds

It has been a very busy week, hence the no blogging. What with Guides, Katy had a History presentation in Eastbourne, then her parents evening, then she and Jasper had a cabaret/concert last night and I am back on soap wrapping so the week has whizzed by with no crafting being done. Yesterday I popped to the Stitches Exhibition in Brighton. Not bad but very little scrapbooking bits. I did finally manage to buy some cosmic shimmers which I have been trying to get my mitts on for over a year and a couple of books that I couldn't find on amazon so it was worth the bus fare!
Anyway onto my LTDO piece which this week is "Backgrounds" Well it HAD to involve my new misters! I decided to make a page for my Snow Book. So i ripped up some pages from an old book (the Snow Queen), inked the edges and stuck them down. Then I covered them with spritzed distress inks and sprayed on a white shimmer mist (think it's called baby's breath!)

Once that lot had dried I stamped over with a circles stamp and a snowflake in silver Brilliance. I wanted a subtle effect as there will be a photo covering most of the page. It does look better IRL...these shimmery things are tricky to photograph aren't they!

More Scrapbooking!

Another DLO from my scrapbook of 2009. I am up to August now and this was a Survival Camp that we took a group of girls on. Now I am up for sleeping in a tent but this was a whole new kettle of fish! We built shelters from plastic sheets and rope and then laid bracken on the floor. We also did "backwoods cooking" which is cooking with no pots and pans. Each group planned their own menu and we ate like kings. We cooked plaice with potatoes, tomatoes, cheese and courgettes and then a kind of christmas pudding with bread, apples, orange and raisins, served with custard! Now I know why us Leaders are on the large side!


I found this rather cute paper with owls on; doubly significant as Leaders are different varieties of owl (well they are in Brownies. At Guides I am Robin and the Leader is Kestrel) and not only that, I think I got about 2 hours sleep as the owls in the wood were screeching all night long! A very scary sound when you are on the hard forest floor with only a plastic sheet for protection! I also added this little stamped owl!
Did I enjoy the experience? Hmmmm not too sure, the setting up and building and cooking bit was great but I think I prefer a proper tent as a minimum requirement!

LTDO Challenge

Now I have done one of these challenges I think I might be hooked! This week the challenge was "...a different shaped tag...".
I have this die called "tipsy heart" that comes in 3 sizes so I cut out the big one and the smallest one and painted them with red acrylic paint. I put a small piece of text on, added the small heart on pop dots along with a red rose sticker from Paperchase! I added a few beads in glossy accents and then some of that gold foil stuff that sticks to glue pen, not sure of it's proper name (and it looks black in the photo)! Finally added an eyelet and some red ribbon and there is my tag...

Imperial War Museum LO

During the summer hols I went to the Imperial War Museum with 2 of my children. There was a Horrible History exhibition there about WW1 and the children are "doing" the war at school this year. The exhibition was quite fun but what really held their interest the most was the section of the museum all about the trenches. There were cases containing letters and artifacts that had been sent back from the front and they spent several hours reading the letters and seeing what the young men went through. I think the fact that their Dad was in the Army made it more personal too.

Just a few hours at the museum seemed to teach them far more about what these heroes did for our life and freedom today, then any number of hours studying at school. A very moving day out and well worth a second visit to see the bits we didn't manage to get to!

Rolling Recipe Challenge Week 2

In week 2 we lost lace (phew) and got buttons to go with stamped image and glitter. I do use glitter lots and lots in "stuff" but somehow it was dead tricky last week to get it to go with lace and today with buttons! I guess it is because lace and buttons shout "vintage" to me and glitter just really doesn't! Despite all that I am quite pleased with this one.....scraps of leftover paper for the stamped flowers with multi-coloured button middles and then I glittered two of the flowers! Not quite sure about the very top flower...think the colour is not right but hey-ho 'tis done now!

Now let me just tell you about a teeny challengette I am doing with 3 friends. We all scrap together and are feeling we need to be stretched a bit so we have decided to swap 4 photos of the snow each, making 16 in total. Then we are each going to do with them whatever we like...hence my "Snow" book cover. I can't wait to see what we all come up with when we are each given the same pics to work with. I think mine might be a hybrid of scrapping and a bit altered-y....

LTDO Challenge

Now those of you that know me I hope you were sitting down when you saw this picture! If you know me a bit, you have probably noticed that I like to use lots of colour in my craft. If you know me lots and have been to my house and seen my bright orange dining room or my cerise pink bedroom, you will know that neutral just doesn't feature in my life! But whilst I was moochibng about the blogs the other day I came across the LTDO Challenge which this week is WHITE!!!!.
Well I was so inspired by what I had seen that I decided to bite the bullet and give it a go myself!
So this is the cover for a mini album of snow pictures that I am doing...(more about that another day cos it's a kind of challenge)

I have put both these pics in so you can see the details a bit better. I made some fabric paper that I covered the mountboard in and then added various chipboard letters, recovered and painted with glitter. The snowflakes are sissix die cut ones cut from various papers and then I just blinged it up a bit!
I quite enjoyed my first adventure into "non-colour"!