Musings from Tenerife

2012-02-23T16:44:00.002+00:00

I have moved my blog over to Wordpress.

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18th Birthday Scrapbook

2012-02-22T08:00:00.000+00:00

Hi there

For my DD's 18th birthday I decided to do a scrapbook. Now believe it or not, I've actually had this scrapbook and the paper for about 8 years now (eek), as back then, I thought this would be a swell project to do slowly, over a long period of time.

Which it would have been if I had actually thought to do it. But I didn't. Which resulted in me throwing this one together in about a week. The. most. stressful. week. of. my. life.. Let me tell you..

Then of course, I didn't have time to photograph it properly, which means the only photos I have of it, were taken on my DD's bed the morning of the day she came home from Uni for her birthday. With my iPhone. Worst pictures ever. Ever!!

BUT. Despite that, I am still going to post them here, because, well it was my first attempt at scrapbooking, and although it didn't turn out the way I would have liked it to. It doesn't matter. Because, when I presented it to my daughter, she welled up and burst out crying like a banshee. She thought it was wonderful, and that's all that matters. That when you are doing a project for someone, that they think it is something special, They don't see all the errors or faults that you or I will see. They (hopefully) will see that you put your heart and soul into it's production, and that whatever it is you've made was made with love and TLC. And thankfully, that's exactly what my DD saw, and so it doesn't matter that it's not perfect and that the photos I'm going to show you aren't professional. Because at the end of the day the person I gave it to loved it.

The fact that she took it back to Uni and dismantled the whole thing to display the individual pages on her dorm room wall is enough confirmation for me.

So this is the first page. It's a photo of her when she was about 2 years old, dressed as a little chicken. And I (obviously) thought she was just the cutest little chickie out there.

A friend on the Papertrey Ink forum Leigh advised me to try and follow some sort of theme if I had never done this sort of thing before, so I decided to make all of the photos black and white, and tried to stay with an ice-cream colour background palette of mauve's, pinks, greens and yellows. So this is the theme(ish) that I stuck with. The only exception to this was the first page, as it was the paper that came with the album, and is the same as the front of the album. I believe it is by K&Co, but can't be sure.

Be sure to stop by for the remaining pages of the album..
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder?

2012-01-25T18:10:00.001+00:00

I hope so..

I hope to be back in the swing of things on here shortly...
Funny how life just gets in the way sometimes..

Be back soon..

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The Gift of an Ordinary Day..

2010-06-07T12:00:00.000+01:00

A must see on You Tube - check it out you won't regret it..
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2010-04-06T19:34:00.000+01:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 Basic Grey Lime Rickey paper pad.

Buttons are all Vintage Buttons from PTI sewn onto card using embroidery thread. Ribbon is from my stash.

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Digital Boat Card

2010-04-02T16:16:00.000+01:00

Image is from a digital download site (Kate Hadfield I think???), Mounted onto corrugated board.

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Tim Coffey Birthday paper pad.

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI tied with rustic jute twine also from Papertrey Ink.

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Orange Sparkly Shoes

2010-03-30T19:30:00.000+01:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Sparkly Sweet paper pad.

Button is a Vintage Buttons from PTI sewn onto card using embroidery thread ontop of a crotcheted flower. I got the pattern from Nichole at Papertrey Ink. Ribbon is from my stash.

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Have a Tweet Day

2010-03-26T19:28:00.001+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Sparkly Sweet paper pad.

Button is Vintage Buttons from PTI attached to ribbon using embroidery thread. Ribbon is from my stash.

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What's Up Tweetie?

2010-03-23T19:25:00.002+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Amy Butler Belle paper pad.

Buttons are all Vintage Buttons from PTI sewn onto card using Rustic Twine thread also from Papertrey Ink. Ribbon is from my stash.

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Hello Tweetie

2010-03-19T15:47:00.000+00:00

Image is by Pink Petticoat. I coloured it using Prismacolour pencils and blended using a stump and Odourless White Spirit (OMS for US readers).

The button is Vintage buttons from PTI. Paper is from a 6x6 paper pad (source and make unknown sorry!)

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You're so sweet

2010-03-16T15:56:00.000+00:00

This is another outing for my Everyday Button Bits stamps from Papertrey Ink Image was cut out using my Nesties, then sponged around the edges with Distress Ink

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from Papertrey Ink.

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Cased Sympathy

2010-03-12T16:13:00.002+00:00

I cased this card from Faith Hofrichter of Stamping with Markie's Mom fame. I thought this would make a nice layout for a sympathy card. I used paper from one of the Artylicious CD's available from Graphicus. I think it is the Butterly Bliss CD (which isn't all about Butterflies) but I could be wrong!

Flower is from Prina and brad is from my stash.

The sentiment is computer generated and was taken from Amy Westerman's blog 'Heartfelt Greetings'. It is a poem that she used when a dear family member passed away after a brave battle with cancer. I follow her blog regularly and it broke me up to hear of his passing. When she posted the poem I thought it was just wonderful. Whilst I don't like making sympathy cards, I like to have a couple to hand, as I don't like to rush them when they are needed and I think they require alot of thought to say 'just the right thing', they do for me at least. I hope Amy will not mind me posing the poem here:

His Journey's Just Begun by Ellen Brenneman

Don't think of him as gone away-
his journey's just begun.
Life holds so many facets
this earth is only one.

Just think of him as resting
from the sorrys and the tears
in a place of warmth and comfort
where there are no days and years.

Think how he must be wishing
that we could know today,
how nothing but our sadness
can really pass away.

And think of him as living
in the hearts of those he touched...
for nothing loved is ever lost--
and he was loved so much

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Hey there Chickadee

2010-03-09T16:02:00.000+00:00

My first use of the Papertrey Ink Everyday Button Bits Stamps. Cut out using my Nesties and sponged around the edges with Distress Inks.

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI.

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Green Heartfelt Thanks

2010-03-05T16:13:00.001+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from my stash (source unknown sorry!).

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI sewn onto card using embroidery thread. Ribbon is from my stash.

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Thank You Tweetie

2010-03-02T16:14:00.000+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Sparkly Sweet paper pad.

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI sewn onto card using embroidery thread. Ribbon is from my stash.

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My favourite Cased Layout

2010-02-27T16:14:00.001+00:00

This card is my favourite layout ever.

I originally got the idea from Amy Westerman on her great blog Heartfelt Greetings.

I change up the sentiment and the scraps and I'm away! Hands down from favourite layout for using up scraps. It lets me use any sentiment and any size of card. I love it (have I mentioned how much I love this layout?)

The sentiment is computer generated as I still can't find any Spanish language stamps (any help would be much appreciated!) I chalked the colour onto the sentiment and then added stickles around the edge for sparkle.

Fowers are from Prima, and Brads are frm my stash.

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Warm Socks

2010-02-24T16:14:00.001+00:00

Image is from Karen Lockhart - Warm Socks, cut out using my Nesties. Background is coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. I paper pieced the socks and the sentiment is from Anna Wight's set Simply Bloom. I had to do a 'repair job' on this card. Originally the sentiment was stamped directly onto the card, but my DD spilt something on the card the dripped and had to be hidden, and so I ended up stamping the sentiment again and attaching it to the card with foam tape. Just in case, I have now put my cards in poly bags until I use them, to avoid future 'mishaps'..

Paper is from a 12x12 piece from my stash (sorry!).Ribbon is from my stash.

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Daisy with a Stella on Top

2010-02-20T16:15:00.000+00:00

Image is from Stamping Bella, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle.

Paper is from K&Co 12x12 from my stash.

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI and ribbon is from my stash.

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Spanish Pink Cake!

2010-02-17T18:12:00.001+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Sentiment was added using my computer! Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Stickles added for sparkle

Paper is from a 12x12 K&Co Kit (can't remember which one sorry!).

Button is Vintage Buttons from PTI. Ribbon is from my stash.

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Surfafella

2010-02-13T16:15:00.000+00:00

Image is from Stamping Bella, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS.

Paper is from a 6x6 paper pad but I don't know which one (sorry) !

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI and ribbon is from my stash

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Pink Tweet Wishes

2010-02-10T18:12:00.001+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Amy Butler Belle paper pad and Papermania.

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI sewn onto card using Rustic Twine thread, also from Papertrey Ink.

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Cased Card!

2010-02-06T18:12:00.001+00:00

This card is cased from Betsy Veldman of Paper, Scissors and Superheroes. I didn´t do a very good job of casing it, but considering I didn´t have ANY of the supplies, it turned out OK(ish). After all it's inspiration I'm seeking to be able to do my own thing right? Putting it that way, it turned out OK.. LOL!

Paper is from an Artylicous CD "Butterfly Bliss" available from Graphicus.Buttons are from my stash and twine is Rustic Twine from PTI Ribbon is from my stash.

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Pretty Blue Flowers

2010-02-03T18:12:00.000+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Hopscotch paper pad.

Button is Vintage Buttons from PTI attached to card using gardening twine from my stash.

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Fixafella

2010-01-30T16:15:00.000+00:00

Image is from Stamping Bella, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS.

Paper is from a 6x6 K&Co Hopscotch Boy paper pad.

Buttons are Vintage Buttons from PTI and ribbon is from my stash.

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Have a Tweet Day in Yellow

2010-01-27T18:12:00.001+00:00

Image is from Pink Petticoat, cut out using my Nesties. Coloured using Prismacolour Pencils and blended with OMS. Glamour dust added for sparkle

Paper is from a 8.5x8.5 K&Co Brenda Walton Brookfield paper pad.

Ribbon is from my stash.

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