Found my mojo.... I think

I've had a major case of crafters block today. I have a child free weekend and had loads of plans on how I was going to spend it. Unfortunately everything I made has only been fit for the bin.

Finally, I have made one thing that worked. Kinda :-S

It's not quite what I planned, but it has worked better than anything else I made today.

I think I was trying too hard.

Oh well.... tomorrow is another day.

Early work

I was going through my album and remembered how much I love scrapbooking. These are some of my early favourites.

The first two are of my youngest son (14 hours old) and his when we came home from the hospital. I did the journaling on the back of the jumbo tag that I put in the vellum pocket.

This one is a lay out I did of my eldest son.

This is a layout I did of my daughter between the ages of a few hours old and four years old.

It all seems so long ago.

Sweet sixteen

My daughter turns 16 in september so I have started making a 12"x12" gift album for her. These are the first two pages that I have put together.

It has been a long time since I last did a layout and I am very pleased with the citrus on black LO. Pity my camera and photography skills are not up to scratch.

Sneaky makes

What' sneaky? I made these with my youngest running around and normally I don't craft until after he has gone to sleep.

The first was made using K & Co. Glitter stickers and the second was made using my newest stamp (keep buying them now and I haven't used most of them (woops).

I haven't made an acetate card in years, so I enjoyed making this one.

Me time

Four days with no work.... YAY. Woo hoo. I celebrated by making more cards.

I have finally had to admit that I have to spend money on a new camera instead of crafting stuff. This one doesn't take very sharp images, so a lot of detail is being lost.

Speaking of spending money. I have always wanted to try embossing, so today I bought a heat gun and a tub of embossing powder. No doubt I will be showing off my efforts later. (Crosses fingers and hopes she wont burn anything useful by accident.) I started stamping last month and after a bit of messing around, I think I am starting to get the hang of it.

This is turning into a bit of a ramble.... been a week since my last blogg and the old cogs have been turning on what I should put in my next one. Came up with loads lol.

Any way.... here are yesterdays cards. There would have been more, but I have to wait till my three year old is in bed to do any crafting.

Hope you like them.

I love a bargain

I love to shop and nothing is better than getting a bargain. I went to poundland today and they had some gorgeous purple blooms. I wouldn't put them in a vase but they are great for card making.

There are nearly a dozen on the "twig" for just a pound. They are quite large and usually I would have to pay quite a bit to buy similar sized ones from a craft shop.



Once you have pulled the blooms a part you end up with something like this. The colour isn't as vibrant in these pictures, but I think that they work really well for the price.









And this is the first card I made using the blooms in response to a challenge on the crafts by carolyn forum http://craftsbycarolyn.co.uk/

Frustrated

I bought the latest copy of Simply cards and paper craft today. You get some gorgeous free papers with it. Why am I frustrated? I can't work out who designed the papers and I need more. I have loads of ideas for what to do with what I have, but as it is all double sided, I will only be able to make half of the ideas that I have.

Does any one out there in crafting land know who might of designed them??

I need more......