More march crafting...

Well I have managed a few more layouts this week so I thought I would share them with you - not such a long post this time!
This first lo is using the new MLS papers (MLS being my new love since having Emily) This photo was taken today and fits well with these papers. Its one of the first photos in the garden other than the snow so needed scrapping!
The second lo was a challenge by Mel - to scraplift this I have excelled myself here using pp's that only arrived yesterday! They are the new bo bunny.

This 3rd lo is the March week 3 challenge - there was a sketch, man in your life, green and bird or something like that. Again I have used bo bunny papers.

This final lo is using the new BG pp's (again I haven't had these that long) I love this photo of Emily she always manages to get herself from my lap to this position on the laptop which i think is quite funny esp as she was less than 4 months when this piccie was taken!

I hope you like my lo's and that you are impressed that I am using some of my new stash rather than just stroking it!

As always thanks for reading xx

My crafting so far in March...

Well a busy month so far here are the lo's I have completed, although I do have another 2 to photograph and upload when I get a minute!
This does have a title up the side which is pale and say so natural i didn't want anything too deep for the title.
This next lo is Emily when she was a few hours old.

This is the week 2 challenge for March - old stash, birds, fabic, handmade embellie. One of my fav photos of Emily at 5 days old.

This is the March Week 1 challenge, 2 photos, colours pink&blue and black i think thats right, bling and something else! I love these bo bunny pp's and i have finally put them to good use!

This next one was made using the new crate papers that i received last week - i am being good to use the stash straight away!

This next one is Emily & her friend - appropriately titled as we both call our girls beautiful. My friend took this photo and i think its fab.

This next lo is a page kit i put together before i had Emily and finally got around to doing it its just about my hobbies.

These photos were a pre-wedding photoshoot my sister hd and i loved them they fitted well with this pp so i had to scrap them.

Then here is Maddie and Emily - there is 5 months between them!

This next one was a challenge for the scrap weekly in 2010 but i cannot remember what the theme was i have used some old stash from fancy pants and i loved this paper forgot i had it so pleased i have used it for a lo again.

All the girls at the crop were scrapping with Metal so i did this lo with some metal bits!

Well thats all this time will upload the others soon

Thanks for reading all about it! x

Photoshoot and Feb scrapping

Well this will be the 2nd time I have done this I did a really long post and now I cannot be bothered to type it all out again - blogger lost my post!

We had some photos taken a couple of weeks ago a family photoshoot by my friend Sarah - www.itakeyourphoto.co.uk Here are a couple of my favs.
This one of all of us turned out well its quite natural looking - only ended up like this cos Emily was bored of being held!

This is possibly my favourite - and it was the first photo Sarah took!

Well Feb wasn't the busiest month for scrapbooking but managed 7 lo's. I was hoping to share the stories behind them with you but since blogger ate the stories I am not sure I have the energy to type them all out again!

These photos were taken when Emily was 3 days old - me very keen to go out with the pram and Iain pleased to finally be able to use the parent/child spaces at Tesco. It was a bit of a laugh!

This is when Emily met her great nan and second cousins.

The royal i-mac - my mums most prize possession that my brother conveniently named!

Cuddles with James & Becky on 1st Dec

This is when Emily and Katie met for the first time, Emily 6 weeks and Katie 5 - it was sweet watching them touch each other!

Finally a lo with a photo of me in May when I was around 20 weeks pregnant.

Again sorry that I have not typed more but if I loose it again I will cry!

Thanks for looking x

New camera

Hello,
I bought a new camera this week and have had a play around with it. I am very pleased with the camera and here are a few fav shots...
Emily & her jumperoo

Eating the bunny!

Gorgeous smile

Thanks for looking x

Using up old kits..

Well what a productive weekend - 10 layouts! Thats got to be a record even by my standards. To be honest this was quite easy. I was on a mission to use up old kits so everything was in one place for me although i added a few non kit bits here and there. Before the weekend, my wheeled tote was busting with kits and now they fit in there more than comfortably and about 4 kits are totally finished.
These first 4 lo's are a mix of kits. These are all recent photos. I think it helped having a new scrapbooking subject (Emily) when using these old papers.
This lo is for my mums album - them mucking around at the park xmas eve!

This next two lo's are my brother and his wife.

Both used the same kit but different pp's

Not so sure about this next lo - its more the alphas that bother me but its a lovely photo so i thought I would leaveit!

This lo uses a fancy pants overlay. I think it worked quite well.

This final lo is a photo shoot that my sister did it was quite good fun.

Thanks for reading. Thats it for this month! x

Using up old stash....

Over the last week or so i have been trying to clear out my craft room and re-home any "unloved stash" I have a big box of paper and bag full of stickers and embellies for re-homing. I was pretty ruthless (for me) and actually cleared out stuff that I have kept previously.
It was acutally really motivating, It was an opportunity to look through what i had and some of it I had forgotten about of course and then re-pack it all into some sort of order. I went from having about 6 papermania totes (hand ones that hold like 100-200pp each), 1 box, and 2 wheeled totes to having, 1 wheeled tote with my kits in, 1 box of organised pp by supplier, a cropper hopper with card in and then lots of other stuff packed into the other tote thus making the room more tidy - and most of the smaller totes put away.
Next my mission was to actually use some of the older stuff, with all the new CHA releases shortly I figured that if I didn't use some of the older stuff I may as well bin it!!! Anyway, I thought I would dig out an old gogo kit - so I did, I started my sub in August 2007 so i pulled out the left overs from the sept 07 kit. There were about 4 sheets of pp, some card and other bits. I ended up making 4 lo's and used all bar one piece of pp which is earmarked for a project and a few bits of card.
Here are my efforts.
This is my last "bump pic" as I am waiting to go through to theatre to have her and then one of hte first photos of Emily.

This is a lo of my brothers wedding in vegas back in April.

These next 2 lo's are for my mums album.

Again this is a wedding one to go in my mums album.

I did use quite a bit of this kit at the time but I think sometimes you get bored using something over and over, whereas, I now have a couple of different albums on the go and my new scrapbooking subject, Emily so its not like all the pages are next to each other in one album and I think this works better for me.

So thats now one kit used up and a little space made in that tote.....I am working on the Oct 2007 kit now and hoping to use that up so I will let you know what I make soon...

Interpreting a sketch - sarahs cards challenge

I do like a sketch to work from. I find sketches quite inspiring and think they can be quite flexible if you get a good one. Quite often I will start a piece by looking at a sketch and then go off and do my own thing.
This sketch below is the sketch challenge for sarahscards this month. Once I got started I decided I quite liked the sketch so i wondered if I could use it a few different times to see what i came up with. In the end, I made 5 lo's. These are for a couple of different albums but to be honest I do not think they look too "samey" and if they all ended up in one album it would probably be ok.
So thanks for the sketch and below are my lo's.
This was my first lo's which is also liked to one of the other challenges - The theme was a fav season so i chose spring. I have used the MME bloom and grow pp's for this lo. I always think of spring as the growing of me life, lambs, flowers etc. This photo is quite appropriate as I am pregnant here and have my own bump growing.

This second lo was made using the gogokit this month. I have used two photos but you can see that it is loosley based on the sketch which was the main inspiration. Its a photo taken in Dec with my sister and my daughter.

This lo is for an album I am doing for my mum. The pic was taken last June outside their new home in Spain. I have used bella bvd papers.

I adore this photo - mainly as I love her dress! I have used little shoebox pp's and Emily is on her daddys shawl in this photo - 35 years after it was made and as good as new.

For this last lo I have used the new honey & (something i can't remember) papers. I was not quite so pleased with this one but it still follows the sketch.

So this was my scrapping last week 5 lo's one sketch. Thanks to Sarahs cards for a great sketch and for posting up the challenge.