Friday 26 September 2008

Fly Fairy Fly!

 



Katie took and manipulated this photo of herself and I loved the way it looks like she is flying. I've had a great messy morning with glimmer mists and distress inks making this canvas for her. The inspiration came from the latest challenge on the fab Creative Type blog . I wanted to try hand writing the text as I have never done anything like this before. I did mean to have the text in the various sizes but am not sure it works although I love the end result.
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Monday 22 September 2008

I'm a good girl I am!

 



Well I didn't make the cut in the Bad Girls competition this week, I was hoping to at least make it through a couple more weeks but I just wasn't Bad enough LOL. Still I'm happy with the layout for my album and that's all that should matter. There were some stunning layouts in the gallery this week and I'm pleased that all my buddies from the Scrapitude forum are still in.
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Monday 15 September 2008

I'm still a Bad Girl!

I checked this morning and I am through to round two of the Bad Girls Top Designer Competition along with most of the other entrants! There were some stunning layouts and I am totally in awe of some of the other scrappers especially the ones from the European and Scandinavian countries. Looking forward to finding out what's next.

I'm at home today, so if I get the oven cleaned and the washing done and some soup made I might reward myself with some scrapping time. Better get off the computer then!

Saturday 13 September 2008

Been a Bad Girl!

Well this was my first full week back at school. As I've gone part time not sure that I can claim that but I feel like I've done a full week. Seven year olds are great fun but soooo tiring!

Anyway that's my excuse for not blogging and crafting. But last night I had to do some, having entered the Bad Girls Top Designer competition again this year I needed to get a move on and get my layout started and finished! The class required layering so I thought I'd have a go at something that I had seen but not tried before, layering the same photo with different colours effects. That was my first Bad Girl moment I didn't realise that it would totally change the way I put the layout together and it took three attempts to get a layout that I felt worked and that I was happy with. I'm left with a pile of lovely papers with various cuts, folds and curls that I now need to use on other layouts. still I love the finished article so I guess that's all that matters.

I have no expectation of making it to the last week but I love how this competition makes me think outside my usual safe zone. My target is to stay in at least as long as last year.

 
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Sunday 7 September 2008

Great Day

I've had a lovely day, from 10.30 till 5pm I was at a monthly crop run by the ever so slightly bonkas Maddy in Staines. I travelled light because just for once I knew exactly what I wanted to do. This is one of the layouts that I managed to finish. It is my take on this weeks pencilines sketch.


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Thursday 4 September 2008

Happy Smiley Day

I loved making this acetate 8x8 album of Lucy's Prom. The Daisy Bucket In the Meadow papers were great to work with and I used their butterfly stamps to stamp little acetate buterflies using stazon ink and then decorated them with paper and stickles. Loads of bling and ribbon to finish the project off. The gold butterfly on the cover was taken from a necklace that I bought in Matalan's sale. Lucy's prom jewellery had flowers and butterflies on and the papers went so well with that and Lucy's dress. The other people in the photos are Lucy's sisters and God Parents.

I'm doing a happy dance because I entered the book in a competition at The Craft Emporium website and was lucky enough to win a full set of fabby Dasiy Bucket Wonderous World papers and stamps.










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Wednesday 3 September 2008

A little peak of something I loved making

Well still don't know how I've done with the competition so I thought that I'd post a little taste of what I entered. This is some of the detail.

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