My first attempts at stamping on cards!

A couple of my 10 goals I'd set myself in my 10 things on the 10th post last month was to make more cards and to learn to stamp. Well last night I actually did both of these woohoo! It is MIL's birthday in a few days and as she hinted that it would have been nice to have had a handmade card at Christmas I thought I'd better make her a card! I recently brought a cute stamp from Crafty Sellers on FB and so bit the bullet, inked it and stamped it a couple of times and made this card.



It's Vern!! I called Vern with pro markers and cut out using Spellbinders Labels 1. The paper came free with an old issue of Scrapbook magazine and I had to sneak a doily in there lol! Of course it's also Valentines day tomorrow so I quickly made this card for Ian



I finally got around to using both a Stamping Up ink spot from a set I brought from my friend Fiona, and a Visible Images stamp my friend Lisa kindly brought for me. I LOVE using old book papers on cards and have an old dictionary on my desk with pages missing from it which I use. The spotty paper is MME and came from my scraps bag and the little Love embellishment came from a RAK.

So that's 2 of my year goals started as for the other 8... We'll see!

Love & hugs
Jess
Xx

Challenge Layouts

Its the first of the month again which means another reveal for Sketchy Scrappers. This months sketch was set by Jo

I liked this sketch as it as a relatively simple one, which is good as I had to quickly do my layout this week before the deadline. I decided to rotate the sketch and came up with this layout

I decided to use a funny photo of Vern and Rodger playing with a Yorkie Easter egg box. The dotty and flower paper are from the last Quirky Lite Kit and are from Kesi Art, the other papers are from my scrap bag. I used American Crafts ribbon for the horizontal strips as I felt paper would probably be too heavy, and  if I'm honest I wasnt too sure which papers to use!

I also did a second layout this week, my first weekly challenge on UKS for AGES!! For this weeks challenge we were asked to scrap a place, to use circles & to use either gold, silver or bronze. This is the layout I made

 The photos are of a waterfall at a disused goldmine during our walk at Tyddyn Gwladys. I used some Bo Bunny double dot cardstock and some MME Miss Caroline paper as my base. The circles are scraps from my scrap bag punched with a Martha Stewart punch with small heart buttons on top. For the gold I used a strip of gold ribbon. Hopefully I can get back into the swing of doing more challenges. x

Summertime photo scavenger hunt 2012

A couple of my scrappy friends are taking part in a summer photo scavenger hunt. Intrigued I headed over to gallorganico to see what it was all about. Sounds fun doesnt it, so now I have something to keep me busy over the summer especially as I'm playing catch up now as this started in June!

Luckily last weekend we decided to go camping to a nearby campsite as our house was too hot to sleep in. Of course we had a couple of stowaways who had fun climbing in a nearby tree which leads me onto

#20 A swing hanging from a tree

Vern & Roger found a tire swing to play on! 1 photo down only 20 to go! Must remember to write down the list and keep it with me!

Same concept different name

Its that time of the month again...but now its called Sketchy Scrappers. The concept is the same, a sketch is set and we have a month to complete a layout based on it, but the name has changed. This months sketch was set by yours truly. I found this sketch by Beggahuna on Pinterest. Thank god for Pinterest I had a choice of 3 sketches and ended up going ip, dip, dog... well you get the idea :-) 

This is the layout I created 

The photo is of Vern & Roger during their recent trip with the Twilight Addicts to Meadow Barn. Even though the sketch shows smaller photos under the main I knew I wouldnt do that as I'm not a fan of multiphoto layouts, so instead I used 3 American Crafts Flair badges adhered to squares punched using my brand new SU postage stamp punch which I love! Thanks Tara xx

The papers are American Crafts (isnt the furry animal paper great! Thanks Gemma xx), K & Company and My Minds Eye. I cant wait to see what the other Sketchy Scrappers come up with xx

A catch up and another page for Leah

Blimey time has flown since my last post! Lets see whats happened... Last week was my 30th birthday which I have to say wasnt was bad as I thought it would be despite being forced to wear a flashing 30 badge all day at work! We decided to have a weekend on Shell Island last weekend, it stayed mainly dry but very windy which drove us mad and battered our poor tent! We managed to get the same pitch as last year with this amazing view

We were lucky enough to see dolphins one morning but they were slightly too far out to get a decent photo with our camera. The best bit about being right on the beach is being able to have a fire two nights, we built the best fire pit which got called the volcano

Not one to miss out on the action was Vern and his friends

I also managed to get 2 more pages for Leah's album finished before we went away. One is for Sketch & Scrap so stay tuned for that one, the other was this

This layout is of my cousins (Leah's mummy's) Christening. I love how Emma is smiling at our Nanny Grey in this photo

Weekend at Dalby Forest

Last weekend saw us travelling back to Pickering for the MTB Cross Country World Cup. I'm not a biker at all but love going to the racing cheering on the riders.

Friday night was the Pro Sprint Eliminator around the centre of Pickering. The riders race in groups of four around the town, down tight alleys and even through someones garden!

Saturday was the first day of Cross Country racing. Last year one of Ian's heros, Thomas Frischknecht, was racing. He was there again this year but this time to cheer on his son who was taking part in the juniors.

 Of course no trip is complete without our fury friend Vern! Not to be left out he came along and even wore a British Cycling sticker to cheer on our riders.

He even tried to have some of Ian's cake!

We also found we were famous! We made it into the programme (I'm the one with the Shram Bam Bam's!)