US... The early years

This is the title of a double layout created for my "Book of Me" scrapbook.  I wanted to record our journey together, what happened and when, this was going to be a mainly text based page, with just a couple of small photos.

It took me a long while to get the dates together, at the time (back in 1997 & 1998) DH was using Lotus 123 and not Microsoft Office, so all of the calendar info I knew we kept was in a format we could no long read.  However we found a way to view the Text version of the calendar entries... I then had to look at each text entry, I then decided to transfer them all to our Google Calendar.

This done I could then start to decide which dates/events I wanted to use.  My last job was to find a few photos of us taken in 1997/8.

Here are the finished pages...

A few of my highlights include:

• Our first kiss
• Our first official date
• Meeting DH's Mum
• When DH asked me to marry him
• Our first Christmas together
• Getting Married

In total this page includes 22 dates & events between March 1997 & July 1998.

Happy Scrapping :)

Another new Layout

Last week at our local crop I was able to completed 1 layout and make a start on another one. Both are for my Book of Me.

The first takes me back to when I was 12/13 years old and features a computer game... you know you are getting old when you find computer games you played as a kid in a Museum!!

Does anyone else remember "Chuckie Egg"?

Once I have finished the 2nd layout I will post that too.

Happy Crafting.

WOYWW 24 October 2012

I can't believe it is Wednesday so soon, & that I missed last WOYWW last week... where is the time going to.

This week has been a bit mad and not enough hours in the day, but I have managed to do a bit of crafting, however you will just have to wait for some pictures as I don't want to show my nephew's card just yet.

So onto my workdesk, not that you can really see the desk this week!  On Sunday I visited the Simply Yours fair at Lincoln Showground, and although I did not get everything I had on my shopping list, I did find several bits that I just HAD to have (if you know what I mean)!

Of the bits on the desk here are my highlights...

A stamp & die set from Sizzix, I saw this over on the Hero Arts blog a while ago, but I loved the snowman & tree so much I just had to buy the set - after all I really do need to get cracking on making Christmas Cards!

I just HAD to buy both of these stamps - the Woodware Pirate set is mainly for my Nephew, he loves anything to do with Pirates (or Spiderman) and DH & I are planning a birthday treasure hunt using these images.

The Imagination Crafts stamp has the two super cute owls (complete with Christmas Hats) and they jumped into my hand and refused to go back on the shelf... I therefore HAD to bring them home with me!!!

I just hope I get time soon to have a play with my new goodies.  I also have plans to create another couple of photo tutorials, so keep an eye out for them in the near future.

BTW - I'm sorry if there are any daft spelling mistakes in this post... our keyboard died and we brought a new one, but I am sure the some of the keys are in the wrong places!!!  At least I know that the backspace key works ok LOL!

Happy Crafting.

WOYWW - 10 November 2012

It has been a while since I have joined Whats On Your Workdesk Wednesday, but this week I decided to make an effort.

Sitting on my desk this week are 3 layouts waiting to be put away in my scrapbook albums.  They were all created last week at a local Crop.


8x8 Layout, this is another page for my Florida 2010 album.



This 12x12 layout is for my Book of Me & features my first ever Computer!

This double 12x12 layout was created using photos taken in Lincoln Cathedral last year.

Wishing everyone a Happy Wednesday :)

Non Challenge Cards - September 2012

This month has been a bit crazy, so I have not really had the chance to sit and do any crafting.  But I have been able to snatch a few spare moments occasionally.  Rather than concentrating on cards for Challenges this month, I have been creating cards with anything that is to hand. So here they are...

I had these flowers on my desk from a previous card & decided to use them up, rather than adding them to my stash.  I even used a piece of Boarder created using the Woodware Edging System which was lying around.

This card was created using a left over piece of patterned paper & a topper I found in my stash

Using a Stampin' Up Owl & one of Delta's feathers I created this simple card.

Cards using the Cheetah Photo

For my Less is More challenge this week I created a card using a photo taken by DH during our African Adventure a few weeks ago.  I printed the image out 3 times at different sizes as I did not know which would be best, this left me with 2 copies to play with...

I used dies to cut each of the photos into shape and then started to think about what type of cards I wanted to create. I decided to use the Less is More idea and create cards that the focal point was the photo. So here they are...

I was pleased with the way in which both cards turned out and I think I will be printing more photos out to use in a similar way.

Happy Anniversary Cards

A work colleague asked me to create a Wedding Anniversary card, she though it was for a Golden Anniversary (but was not sure).  She is now on holiday and will need the card for next week when she returns to work.

I created 2 cards that featured Gold, just in case it was a golden anniversary, but if it was not it would not matter too much.  Both cards were created using bits from my stash & odd bits of paper/card stock.

The question now, is which will she choose? I think my favourite is the bottom one (with the green ribbon) :)

Hunkydory topper & peel-off sentiment

Image from one of my CDs (I can't remember which), sentiment from Stampin' Up (Teeny Tiny Wishes)