Anniversary Cards

Just as July is a busy month for me in terms of birthday cards, August is my month for anniversaries with my brother & Sister in laws anniversary four days before mum & dads! 

First up the card I made for my brother and sister in law. I have to thank Pinterest for this card as while looking through my card board I found a card using a mason jar stamp and remembered I had some jar embellishments I had brought at Hobbycraft. 

I used papers from Fancy Pants Beloved and a stamp also from Hobbycraft. 

Next up mum & dads card. For this I actually used a stamp from a Stampin Up set I recently brought and some distress inks I'd had for a while but *cough* never opened. 

This time I used a sheet of 6x6 paper from Crate Paper along with hearts cut from papers in my scraps pile. The inks I used were Mermaid Lagoon, Peacock Feathers & Picked Raspberry. 

Let's go back to the beginning

It always amazes me when I look through my albums how my scrapping style has evolved, especially as I don't see myself as the greatest scrapper in the world! I've been embarrassed to show them in the past, but then last week my friend Julia shared her first layouts and inspired me to share mine with you.

I started scrapping back in 2009 as a way to document our holiday to Wales when we climbed Snowdon for Ian's 30th birthday. Sadly these are the only photos I have of the climb as the digital copies were lost on our laptop after I had them printed, but somehow these have disappeared into a black hole somewhere lost forever! Trust me I've looked everywhere! Anyway this was the first layout I ever scrapped 

I remember the first products I ever brought was a Laura Ashley paper pad and some American Crafts flair and a box  of chipboard letters from QVC! The arrow and little journaling spot were from some free papers which can from a Scrapbook magazine.

This was the second layout I ever made featuring Ruby as a baby, back in the day when we insisted on cutting our photos into shapes! Another sheet of Laura Ashley paper, more free papers and another appearance of those chipboard letters!

I'd obviously been stash shopping by this point! I either used a sketch or scrap lifted this from a magazine.

Even more stash shopping plus some papers and chipboard "borrowed" from mum!

Keep Calm & Be Silly: Challenge YOUrself #21

Welcome to another Challenge YOUrself challenge. This month we are asking you to use the saying Keep Calm &... For my layout I decided to scrap a silly photo of me after a few "fizzy pops" at my Sister in Laws hen party 3 years ago. 

I decided to use a sheet of Fancy Pants paper for my background as I liked the idea of it framing my layout. As my photo is fairly dark with a pop of pink with my fairy wings I decided this would be my colour scheme. I found a sheet of Bella Boulevard paper with strips of different patterns including the peace strip with went great with my photo. The same paper has the saying on which I cut into parts and added to the bottom of my page. 

For my title I used Crate Paper Craft Market & Dear Lizzy Serendipity Thickers. 

Pop over to the Challenge YOUrself blog to check out the DT's layouts and enter your layout for a chance to win a prize. 

Hearts Desire: Sketchy Scrappers

I'm playing catch up, not just in my scrapping but my blogging too! A couple of weeks ago I managed to catch up (briefly) with the Sketchy Scrappers challenges by making a layout for June's sketch. This sketch was set by Julia.

I was still on a roll with my Harry Potter photos and scrapped this photo of the Mirror of Erised. 

I used papers from Heidi Swapp. Being Harry Potter I felt like it needed a pop of gold so I added a gold doily and used some gold Thickers. 

I'm still very much still obsessed with the phrase stickers from Crate Paper and managed to find some to fit the layout. 

Fireside Bliss

The For the Love of Pretty Paper Facebook group have started a series of challenges to use up some of our stash. For me this is great as I'm on my spending freeze at the moment! One challenge was to use our wood grain stash, patterned paper, wood veneer etc. I went through my stash and pulled out anything wood related I could find and. When I think of wood I think of the great outdoors and campin, so I pulled a photo from our camping trip in April and scrapped this layout. 

The orange paper framing the page is the B-side of a Websters Pages paper which was a wood grain pattern with a lovely orange and blue lace pattern on it. As lovely as it was I found it to over powering to use as a background so I flipped it over and used the reverse! The wood background is Amy Tangerine, the turquoise paper Simple Stories. I used a wood veneer wordl, wood grain washi & wood grain stars. 

I finished off by using die cut shapes from Fancy Pants, a Flair badge, some word stickers from Crate Paper (my fave at the moment) and some sprinkles of Heidi Swapp Gold colour shine. 

Card Share

The last couple of weeks has seen me making some cards for birthdays and an anniversary. The beginning of July is busy for me card wise with three birthdays and an anniversary. 

I ended up only make two birthday cards as I started a third but then misplaced it somewhere. I still haven't found where I put it, no doubt I'll find in around Christmas time! 

For these two cards I used paper from Amy Tangerine Plus One with some We R Memory Keepers acetate and a Kraft tag from American Crafts 

Next up was an anniversary card for Ian's sister and brother-in-law. 

For this I used papers and project life cards from Dear Lizzy Daydreamer. I stamped the sentiment with a 99p stamp from Hobbycraft. The sentiment reads all together so I inked up the beginning to stamp above the heart then stamped the end below, however when I did this there was still some ink on the stamp so I had to colour in the heart to disguise it a little bit! 

One photo & Twenty words

It's that time of the month again to join Abifor One Photo & Twenty words.

Cooling down on a hot summer evening. Windows rolled down, the radio on as we drive through the countryside.