Another Week Raced By

I don't know where the time has gone this week.  I do recall a couple of trips to the pub, snuggling on the sofa with Maddie, meeting up with family and a crop so it was a good week.

I thought it was about time I showed you the two other layouts I did last week at Paul's.  The first one was using more of my lovely stash from S J Crafts:

I really love this picture of Maddie, she really got the giggles that day.  I used lots of the Crate Paper Random Collection chipboard, layered the co-ordinating papers and even cut one of the flowers from the Vintage paper.

The second layout is of my lovely boy, Alfie:

I used the gorgeous Crate Paper Farmhouse collection, I really love these papers.

 I am loving my Nestabilities at the moment and I can't imagine that I'll ever stop hand cutting things out of patterned paper :)

I have managed three layouts so far this weekend and I'm hoping to get some more done this afternoon.  Tomorrow I am looking forward to the start of the party over at Shimelle's, the Pretty Paper Party :)

I hope you're all enjoying the weekend and the winter sunshine :)

Thanks for stopping by
Jo xx

I Love Crate

I really do so I was delighted when Sarah at S J Crafts included it in my design team kit :)

I knew straight away what photo I was going to use for my first layout and couldn't wait to get stuck in.  I took a bad photo really of my niece Bella but her smile was so adorable I didn't care.  Because she was had lots of light behind her there's not much colour in the picture so I knew the bright colours in the Random Collection were perfect:

I used lots of the Random Collection Chipboard Accents there are tons of shapes on the sheet and I even managed to get a couple of titles from it so great value for money.

And how cute it that cupcake :)

I inked all of the edges of the paper and chipboard with Vintage Photo Distress Ink because I love how it gives the layers definition.

And I finished it off with some Jenni Bowlin Tiny Alpha stickers.

My second layout also featured Bella and I used the leftovers from the first layout to make a matt for the photo:

These are the papers on the flip side.

This time I added lots of Crate Stickers and just a few bits of chipboard.

The paper is lovely to work with, it's great for tearing, distressing and inking. Sarah has her Thursday offer up so get your skates on to get some buy one get one half price Stickles.
I would now like to ask you all to keep your fingers crossed that Paul won't have much work on this weekend so I can get down and see him :)

I hope your week is going well.
Jo xx

Racing The Sunset

That's what I had to do tonight!  I knew I had to take some pictures of layouts and I was hoping the sun would keep his hat on long enough for me to get the shots I needed.  It sort of did:

My gorgeous nephew George.  I did this layout for a sketch team that I'm in.  The sketch was covered in flowers and I didn't know how I would make it work for me, I replaced the flowers with stars and voila!

I had two lovely weekends with Paul, wow weren't we lucky with the weather?!?  Paul went to Paris without me :( but won mega bucks at the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe :) His first time at a race meeting, his first ever bet and he hit the jackpot!  No he hasn't turned into a gambler and yes he did get me a present.

I helped to run a mini cyber crop for the mighty, mighty Red Ribbons on UKScrappers and stayed up late into the night doing some layouts for S J Crafts, I will share them soon.

I'm sorry I haven't been around, I had a bad week that made me want to hibernate for a while but I'm feeling much better now. I know I have a million blog posts to comment on, the figures on my Google Reader scare me!  I will get round to seeing all the posts I missed though :)

Thank you for stopping by
Jo xx

It's Been a Busy One

I have been a very busy bee this weekend and now I feel exhausted, but happy.

I've been co-hosting a mini cyber crop weekend for the mighty, mighty Red Ribbons team  over on UKScrappers.  It has been so much fun and I think a lot of people have enjoyed it, which is what it's all about.

I have also been down to see Paul, which was lovely.  While I was down that neck of the woods I went to see Sarah at S J Crafts open day.  It was great to be able to stroke some papers and even better when Paul bought me some of the My Mind's Eye 12 Days of Christmas papers and some gorgeous Jenny Bowlin Chalkboard alphas :)  To make up for me dragging him to look at stash he then dragged me round the county looking for cars!

I did manage a couple of layouts while I was with Paul.  For the special Red Ribbons weekend, Shimelle very kind designed us out own special Starting Point. She has hidden it on her blog so I'm not going to link it from here because it's a special thing for our fun weekend, here's my layout though:

I used the Pink Paislee, Hometown Summer papers and the embellishments from the August Sarah's Cards Kit.

I'll save the other layout for another time because now I'm just about to hope back over to UKScrappers and upload another challenge.

Thanks for stopping by, I hope you've had a great weekend.
Jo x

I'm So Excited.....

Because I can finally let you know that I am now on the Design Team for:

S J Crafts

I am really looking forward to getting stuck in to the lovely stash that Sarah sells and, hopefully, coming up with some inspiring things for you to try.

The other Design Team Members are:

Lisa-Jane, Jenny, Louise and Jennifer, all amazing crafters.

S J Crafts is an online shop based in Bournemouth, how handy is that for when I go to visit Paul?!?! And Sarah arranges regular open days, which I will be dragging Paul, and his wallet, along to :)

So keep checking out the S J Crafts blog for inspiration and lots of creativeness :)

This week has been so busy and it's only Tuesday!  But never mind because tonight I am going to practice at being creative......first with dinner :)

Thank you for stopping by
Jo xx