Butterfly Award!

The beautiful and talented Andrea from Scrapality sent me this fun award - thank you Andrea!! Please go check out Andrea's amazing talent and get inspired!!

Below are the questions that I am required to answer to accept the award (helps you get to know me a little too:))

Q1) Name your favorite color?
A) PINK

Q2) Name your favorite song?
A )Not just one! have many. Love PINK!

Q3) Name your favorite dessert?
A) Cheese cake

Q4) What annoys you at the moment?
A) People who lie!

Q5) Your favorite pet?
A) I have many, my horses, dogs and cats!!

Q6) Black or White?
A) White

Q7) Your biggest fear?
A) Not being there to see my babies grow up

Q8) Best Feature?
A)Eyes

Q9) Everyday attitude?
A) Live one day at a time!

Q10) What is perfection?
A) babies - gods miracles :)

Q11) Guilty Pleasure?
A) Alcohol!

Q12) When you're upset you?
A) Find a quiet spot and reflect

Now its my turn! I am passing this award on to the following inspirational bloggers who I love to visit so hope you too will visit and leave some love :

1.) Michelle - All things Bling!
2.) Heather - Miracles Momma Designs
3.) Danielle - Piperloo
4.) Elizabeth - Posh Paper Creations
5.) Jackie - Rockwell Designs

Please be sure to check out these talented ladies' blogs, as well as Becky's blog! I know you will find wonderful inspiration!

Time flies....

so true is this... and then you realise the importance of each and every second that you live, you can never get them back! Below is a layout I did sometime ago of my cheeky little monkey who is now four! Wow just doesn't seem that long ago I was holding a tiny baby in my arms, hard to believe she is in kindy and will be full time school in just a few months :( The photos were taken in a park way back in January.

BoBunny Jazmyne, Bazill, Prima flowers, Butterfly, Pearls and tiny alpha stickers.

Thanks so much for dropping by, hope you have a chance to be creative sometime soon!

Double Pager

As usual I seem to be neglecting my blog! Been busy lately, sick children still but now the weather has changed and is so much warmer, the flowers are blooming and things are looking wonderful I hope to be able to put more effect into spending time scrapping and crafting, including updating my blog :)

I did mange to finish a double layout, I don't normally do a two page spread but I really loved this sketch from Let's Scrap so thought i would give it a go.

For this sketch I used a selection of photos of Alyssa, my youngest dd riding on her Shetland pony. She adores Shawnee and loves to ride leadline whenever she can convince someone to lead her. On this day my my niece rode for the very first time my mare, her very good friend Gemma who was riding my eldest dd Welsh pony offered to take Alyssa for a ride, throughout the entire exercise all you heard was 'faster Gemma, make her trot' lol

Kaiser - cafe culture, Paper Pizazz, Graphic 45, Prima blossoms, Kaiser pearls. DMC thread, MS punch & cricut. TFL!

Have a wonderful scrappy day! Hope you find time for a little creativeness :)

Sisters

Love these photos! Love how my girls can actually sit, talk and cuddle each other, doesn't happen very often but I know deep down they both love each other and will grow into the best of friends! Below is a layout I created hoping to capture their closeness. I am truly blessed to have two very different but gorgeous daughters, so very proud of them both.

Prima papers are from Annalee Collection & Madeline Collection, Assorted blossoms, Twiddleybits chipboard swirls, DA corner and Prima swirls. Scrapworks rubon letters. TFL!

Have a scrappy day, let loose your imagination and create!

It's Official

Only just got the word a day or two ago and I am sooooo very excited and over the moon, was SOOOO hard to keep it quiet so am relieved that its now official. Along with three other wonderful scrappers I was selected to be on the Design Team at Scrapbooks From The Heart how awesome is that!!



Please visit SFTH blog for all the lastest news!!





Have a fabulous weekend, sun is shining and its a wonderful day here - off outdoors to enjoy!

Try as I might..

there just never seems to be enough hours in the day! Haven't had much time for scrapping these last few days what with sick kids, sick horses needing attention and just your usual day to day happenings, housework, cleaning, running children here and there, all the usual things we must do and attend to. So I thought I would update with a couple of layouts I did some time back and never got around to putting up. First one is of my gorgeous boy and his beautiful girl before the ASHS year 12 ball, second is of my cute little princess.

First layout

Sorry not a good shot, is on a tilt but you get the idea.

Kaiser papers, DA frame, Petaloo color me crazy flowers with assorted blossoms made into a vine with leaves, Thickers playroom alpha coloured with Tattered Angels glimmermist & Ranger dabbers.

close up of the vines, had fun making this!

and the second layout below...

Bazzill, Prima papers, Prima floral vine, DA chipboard birdies, Scrapware chipboard name plate, kaiser bling swirls, beaded trim and assorted blossoms.

Close up of the flower cluster, vines and beaded trim.

Have said it before lol but I seriously need to clean my scrapping space, especially my desk and hopefully I will find some mojo and don't they say start with a clean desk and clean up afterwards you tend to get more done, hmm shall we give it a go and see if they are right? Will let you know :)

Have a fabulous weekend and hopefully you too will get loads of scrappy stuff done :) thanks so much for stopping on by...

 

Cards

before I began scrapping I liked to make cards, nothing to flash but I enjoyed fiddling with papers, stamping and colouring the images etc. These days I don't usually find time to make many cards, usually just for family and friends on occassions then a friend suggested to start making them from the scraps that get left from doing a LO, great idea and one I plan to start doing, well when I eventually get organised lol. Then I will have a stash of cards to choose from when a birthday or special event comes along! Below are two cards I made recently, somewhat plain, they were quick and easy but just a little different. Hope you like them :)

First is a trifold angle card embellished with Prima flower and stick pins and a delicate butterfly!

Close up of the cover.

Second card is very basic. I machine stitched the layers together, placed a few hand stitches using DMC floss and then added ribbon and a bow with a small metal flower and pearl.

Thanks for taking the time to drop by, hope you have managed to get lots of scrapping done over the last few days, my aim is to finish off some projects over the next day or two!