~ Dream Big ~

So this morning I went to the post office to collect the July Like For Ever called 'Dream Big'. It is full of lovely Pinkfresh 'Happy Things' collection papers. This is definitely a collection I wouldn't normally buy as I'm usually more in to florals than geometric designs. The quality of the paper is fantastic.

                

I used Heidi Swapp Colour Shine Mist 'Teal' on the background then layered with patterned paper and acetate patterned triangles. I'm really pleased with the outcome of this layout. The photo is one from when I went to the House of Lords for my official Girlguiding UK Queens Guide Award celebration.

I've had a productive afternoon and made another layout which I will share later in the week. I'm just sat watching TV after cooking dinner for my parents. 

Happy Crafting!

Terri

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~ Quackers! ~

Well I'm back in full swing so expect more posts from me over the next few weeks. I must say I'm getting absolutely fed up of the delightful British summertime but at least it means i have had time to sort my craft room.

I have finally managed to crack open my Scrapagogo June kit, which is full of lovely Amy Tangerine patterned paper! I love the Amy Tangerine Thickers.

(Apologies for the photo quality!)

The photo is from Girlguiding UK's Centenary Event called Fusion which was held @ Harewood House near Leeds in 2010. Whilst walking round I came across these Policemen posing with Centenary Ducks on their heads?! It just had to be scrapped.

Happy Crafting!

~ Happy National Scrapbooking Day! ~

Happy National Scrapbooking Day!

Today I have tried to spend all my time crafting but it just doesn't seem to have happened. I have spent a lot of time over at Two Peas in a Bucket looking at their NSD event, taking part in a couple of challenges and perusing their gorgeous gallery.

I have managed to create one layout though:

This layout is for NSD Challenge #4 over at Two Peas. The challenge was to continue the Morph. A few of the Design Team had used each others layouts as kind of a chain scraplift highlighting each persons interpretation of the previous scrapper. My layout is based on this one by Wendy Sue. I used Scrapagogo March 2011 kit.

The layout documents my first international trip with Girlguiding UK. I can't believe it was 10 years ago now. I went as art of a County trip to Solas Camp in Ireland.

Hopefully I might get a bit more done tonight inbetween watching The Voice.

Happy Crafting!

~ Nothing is Impossible ~

Good Morning ...

... This layout was meant to be shared last night but by the time I thought about it there wasn't enough light to get good photos. This is my second layout from Scrapagogo's April kit and after first being a little reserved at its apparent 'love' theme I have found it very versatile.

I added a few extras to the kit, just a few alpha stickers and some Tim Holtz Tissue tape. I cut the patterned paper a little to allow my photo to slide under the banner.

Over the next few weeks/months I'm sure you are going to get sick of seeing photos from this event but I have loads I want to scrap and I was very proud to have achieved my Queen's Guide Award. These are photos of my Mentor presenting me with my badge at our local presentation. I'm off to the House of Lords in June to have it presented officially.

I absolutely love what Nicola Kerridge did with this months Scrapagogo kit so I used her inspiration to create my very own 'Jar of Treats'. I always have some kind of sweets on my desk to keep me going whilst crafting so I decided it was about time to put them in their own jar. 

I will be back later today and tomorrow to share some more layouts, well hopefully if inspiration strikes!

Happy Crafting!

~ Gogogetaway March 2012 - Class no.5 ~

As promised yesterday here is the final class from Gogogetaway no.8:

Class no. 5

'Cotton and Calico Chronicles'

By Sheena Rowlands

This is an absolutely gorgeous little book. Sheena made the canvas books herself. We created our own masks using a template and a sheet of acetate.

We placed the masks on the canvas and then sprayed mists over the top. We had to leave the books overnight to dry. In the meantime we created mini layouts which could then be stuck directly on to the pages when dry.

I cut out 16 leaves from patterned paper and then created a vein by sewing along the centre with brown embroidery thread.

I added some star embellishments from the thickers set. All items were glued on using Bostik.

I'm really pleased with how this class turned out. It is a bit different to what I would usually do but I thoroughly enjoyed it.

It's been a sad few days as I have been packing my craft room up ready to move house. On the positive side, I will still have my essentials to hand whilst I'm in limbo staying at my parents house.

Happy Crafting!

~Gogo Getaway Saturday Evening Round up ~

Well it's another late night here ath Gogogetaway no.8, there has been lots of fun and scrapping throughout the day. Here is what I have been up to this afternoon:

Class no. 4

'Come Dine With ...'

By Nicola Kerridge

For this class we learnt how to use masks and mists. We used knives and forks to create the element seen above. This was quite a simple page but very effective and enjoyable to make. The photo is of me eating some Japanese food in London before we went to see a show.

This layout is a sketch/ manufacturer challenge which I have done using Pink Paislee 'London Market' collection. The papers are just stunning! I decided to use the papers to scrap the photo that was in the local paper of my friend and I receiving our Queen's Guide Awards.

Class no. 5

'Cotton and Calico Chronicles'
by Sheena Rowlands

Unfortunately this minibook is unfinished at the moment as it required lots of mists and masking. I will show this next week once I have been able to stick the elements on to it using Bostik. This was a fabulous messy class.

Group Photo Challenge

We had a group photo taken this morning @ 11.30am and were given a copy to then use for this challenge. The challenge was to use a white and kraft 12x12 cardstock and any items left over from your classes.

I'm really pleased with how mine has come out and I cannot believe how different everyone's layouts look even though it is the same photo.

Night night....zzzzzzzzzzzzzz!

Happy Crafting!

~ Getting back to it ... ~

Good evening... today I'm sharing a page I made last week about the Girlguiding UK Big gig I went to in 2008.

These photos have been sat in my box for ages... finally I have got round to scrapping them and I was so pleased to use up some of my older papers.

The last week has been rather busy and the week ahead is also looking full. On Wednesday it is my birthday so we are off to a spa for the day.

Happy Crafting!

~ Time for tea ~

Well this card was meant to be posted during last week but unfortunately life got in the way as is often the case. So here it is a little later than planned ...

My friend and I completed our Queen's Guide Award in September and held an Afternoon Tea for our local presentation. The Queen's Guide Award is the highest award in Girlguiding UK which you can choose to work towards. There are others for which you must be nominated for your service to guiding. The award takes approximately 3 years and consisits of 5 sections. The trick is the organisation and ensuring that you push yourself.

The above card was made as a Thank you to the person who mentored me throughout the course of the award.

I used a free stamp from Craft Stamper magazine and used one of their samples as inspiration for the card. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I used scraps of patterned paper so unsure of the manufacturers.

Happy Crafting!

~ Vintage card - tutorial ~

Here is an invitation I have made to invite people to mine and my friend's Queen's Guide Award presentation. I'm making approx 20 of these invitations and although they are simple I thought I would do a quick tutorial. This is my first tutorial so any constructive comments are appreciated.

1. Stamp a script background stamp on to kraft cardstock using Versamark dazzle inkpad. I bought this today from Hobbycraft and love the effect it gives to the watermark image. The stamp I used is one from Prima.

2. Stamp the large image and the verse from the Stampin Up Friendship's Journey stamp set (2003) on to cream card using Vintage Sepia Versafine ink. I love this stamp set, just a shame it was retired in 2005. This design would work with a number of other stamp designs.

3. Trim all the images so that the image fills the card and trim the verse to approx 2cm x 8cm.

4. Stamp the postage mark in Versamark Burgundy ink at either corner of the cardstock with the script stamped on it.

5. Ink the edges of all 3 images using a brown Distress Ink, I used Walnut Stain.

6. Mount the female image on to dark red/burgundy cardstock.

7. Mount the script and the female image on to a standard size cream card.

8.  Using double sided tape adhere a piece of lace measuring the width of the card just covering the bottom of the female image.

9. Add the sentiment just below the lace using 3D form squares. 

10. Adhere 3 mosaic squares/rhinestones to the top right handside of the card. 

11. Finally punch out a flower from matching cardstock, add a rhinestone to the centre and adhere it to the card just above the sentiment.

There you go one complete card!

Happy Crafting!

~ Passing on my creativity... well trying! ~

The Rangers are more like big brownies and especially at Christmas time. So the decided they wanted to do a craft. I chose to show them how to make holly leaves from just 2 circle punches. A technique which I think has recently been in the craft stamper magazine.

I was amazed at the creativity of some of the girls. Even those who struggled gave it a real go. I think its great how even though they had the same materials to choose from the cards all look so unique.

The girls and leaders enjoyed a Christmas outing to Nandos which we all seemed to enjoy! I'm looking forward to seeing what challenges the face me in the next year!

Happy Crafting!

~ My final DT layout! ~

Well todays a sad day for me as this is my final piece of DT work for Sketches:Creatively Yours. The las 7 months have been fantastic and I have loved every minute of being a member of such a fab team.

I would like to thank all those who have taken the time to make the challenge blog what it is. You have given me some great inspiration.

This layout has again been made using Echo Park 'Walk in the park' papers. I had a photo collage made by an online photo company and I'm really pleased with the effect it has created.

Fusion was such a fantastic event for girlguiding UK, thousands of girls visited Harewood House in Leeds for a spectacular of street performers, live music shows and a circus. I think they all had a fab time.

Well I'm having a relaxing night tonight, might even play with my new stamps from Little Claire Designs. I have subscribed for 6 months to their stamp club and I must say I am very impressed.

Happy Crafting!

~ A bit of bunting! ~

Good Afternoon!

Well today has been quite uneventful and unproductive to be honest. The day seems to have flown (doesn't help when you don't get up until 9am!).
  
This layout has been rumbling around in my head for a while, then Alix posted a sketch on her blog so I decided to give it a go.

Alix was concerned at the number of brads she used but I think this layout is a little 'blingy' to be honest. I've never made bunting before so was really pleased with the outcome. I originally had white letters for the title but they didn't stand out enough.

The papers were from this month's Cleocrafts kit they are Echo Park 'Walk in the Park'. I really wasn't sure what I was going to use them for but decided that they would be perfect for my guiding centenary layouts.

The story behind the pictures - well on camp I was part of the brownie sleepover subcamp which meant that we had over 600 people arriving on the tuesday pitching tents and then striking their tents and leaving the next morning. We had the tents delivered to the sub camp and then carried (more like dragged because they were so heavy!) the tents in to their allotted pitches. 

I also then realised that I can use this layout for the Craft Garden's monthly challenge which is 'Bunting'.

Well I'm off to brownies now, might make some christmas cards this afternoon.

Happy Crafting!

~ A warm welcome ~

Well I must admit that although this layout was quite simple to put together using the sketch over on Sketches: Creatively Yours I have really stretched myself by actually doodling straight on to the page! Argh! However, I am really pleased with how it turned out.

The photos show the Welcome ceremony @ the guiding world centre Sangam, India. Each participant of the event is welcomed in a traditional Indian ceremony which includes have rice thrown over your head, being blessed with a nut and lighting a wick on the lamp seen in the bottom photos.

As an extra little touch I have used some gemstone bindis that I bought on a shopping spree in India.

Happy Scrapping Everyone!

~ A quick post to tell you why I'm not around this week! ~

Well since Friday I have been at girlguidng UK's Centenary Camp at Harewood house along with 5,000 others!

There is a fab article in todays Yorkshire Post hop over to see what the girls have been up to.

My task starts on Tuesday when over 600 Brownies descend on camp for their Brownie Sleepover before Fusion. Am a little worried they may struggle to put the tents up but am sure they will have great fun!

There will be lots of photographs perfect for scrapping when I come back - I really must start doing my Centenary Scrapbook, I have so much to put in it.

Hope everyone has a great week, I'll be home friday with an update.