Easter crop-a-thon @ SFS Saturday entries...

So first up the colour challenge was aqua, black and white plus add a colour of your choice and my choice was yellow (which is quite popular atm)...on this LO I have used a charms creations page runner and handmade flower....from D-lish I have used washi tape, resin roses and 2 x flair buttons but I altered the chevron one from being white/aqua to aqua/black/yellow using a lil washi tape to cover the aqua up and alternate the other ink colours so it would suit my LO, I love it...

The quote challenge for today was to use the quote "the most important thing is to enjoy your life, to be happy, it's all that matters"...and I love this LO as I've wanted to do the sprays of colour for So long and I think it looks fantastic!!
TFL cheers Em ;)

Sooooooooooooooooooooooo its been a realllllllllllllllllllllllly long time since I blogged and it has taken me all afternoon to be able to sign back into my account lol....... Oh the joys.....

Anyhoo, hello there if anybody is reading this can you please leave me a comment...

I have decided that it is time that I got my MOJO back for scrappin'.....

I really hope to meet a few of my cyber friends at the next Flutterby Retreat being held at Lake Keepit, the Retreat is called "Create by the Lake".... Who else is going??  I'm very excited to be finally meeting Neet (Anita Rodway) as I just love her style of scrapping and I think she is A-mazing!!!  Lots of other talented ladies will be there too and I'm excited to be able to spend a few days with all of them too...;)

OMG.... I'm a little shocked with how long its been since I blogged on here, time really flies when you're having FUN!!  Hopefully my next post will be of a layout..

Love Em xo

Scrapapple BAP

Hey hey..
So I am really liking the 'Build-a-page' LO's that I've been creating with my local group of ladies...
Our very first BAP LO had 8 steps that needed to be done and each of us that wanted to play along took it in turns to add a step that each of us had to follow before we started the next step, so below I have listed the steps and my end result for the challenge...

1. Use a stencil, template or stamps on the background of your LO covering the entire space. Also add a border.
2. Add your own embellies, no brought ones. Also add some chipboard.
3. Add your pic but layer it 5-6 times with different papers from your scrap stash.
4. Add a sticker.
5. Add a title but only use numerals for eg. 7.7.13 or 10...
6. Make a tag embellishment for your journalling.
7. Use the colour yellow.
8. Use a technique you haven't used for a long time, for eg. heat embossing, flocking, stamping, gold leaf whatever tickles your fancy. (my step)
My LO is of my precious lil girl posing for a series of pics but I absolutely loved this one...such spark she really does light up my life!!! Love her to the moon and back...
TFL Em x;)
P.s I'll be back in a few days with my challenge entry for SUYS ;)

Aug colour chall at SFS...

Now these are my types of colours!! BRIGHTS!!! This challenge you had to use the colours: yellow, orange, red, blue and green...black and white in small portions too..
I started with a cream piece of cardstock and smeared on some gesso then dried it with the heat gun and pulled out my dylusions ink sprays and realized I hadn't received the lemon zest one I had ordered so I made my own yellow mist by mixing some yellow acrylic paint and water together in a spritzer and BAM, nailed it!!! Was the perfect colour that I wanted and on went all the others pretty randomly and enough for them to each pool a little in which I let dry a little then I stood the paper up and tapped it on my table a few times to get the drips happening down my page and then I left it over night to dry completely... Using my mesh/graph stamp and some black staton ink I then randomly stamped the background here and there for extra dimension...
Fussy cutting around my photos and making my own arrows and Polaroid allowed me to add extra colour but I didn't want to cover up to much of my inked background so I rummaged through my scraps and found this piece of acetate and it was perfect as you can still see the colours popping through and I loved that!!
From "D-Lish Scraps" I have used some washi tape, 2x flair buttons and some freckled fawn enamel dots... I've also added a "Charms creations" lollipop and denim tie....love them goodies!! I hope you like my LO and please leave me a comment...

TFL happy scrapping Em ;) xo

Aug sketch & quote chall at SFS...

So this sketch is right up my alley and as I had just gotten some photos developed from pixie photos I had two that I really wanted to scrap and to kick it off I scrapped my boy in charms sketch using some bits and pieces I've collected and kept in safe keeping such as the ribbon with a knot in it that I got off a paper bag at a fundraiser I went to a few years back and the brown paper bag with the chevron print on it I got as a gift bag from a recent SU launch party I attended...I loved it and couldn't bring myself yo throw it away and the added bonus of it being somewhere to put my hidden journalling....Winning I think sooooo!! The wooden frame is from freckled fawn which I purchased from "D-Lish Scraps" along with the tiny resin rose...I love that store...I've added a "charms creations" page runner that I had planned to use on another LO but I liked it here so fingers crossed I get another one of them it's pretty cool....

The quote definitely fits the picture on my next LO of my beautiful princess and the other picture I had picked out to use from our pixie photo shoot... The quote being "A smile is the prettiest thing you can wear" and isn't it ever!!! Such a beauty inside and out!!! Very basic LO but I have used a template "cherry blossom" from TCW and texture paste in which I heat set a pink polka dot doily & 2 pins from "D-Lish scraps"...a "Charms creations" lush lollipop and lots of scrap pieces of paper that seems never ending, I'm sure it multiplies overnight lol.....
TFL. happy scrapping Em ;) xo

ScrapApple BAP...CRAFT class LO mixed media

So I frequent a lil craft group on every second Friday and they asked me if I would like to do a mixed media type class and well of course I said YES!! Only being new to it all myself I was a lil anxious about trying to show a bunch of lovelies how to "get messy"...so a couple of days leading up to the class I spent choosing my colours then spritzing, spraying and giving my LO some texture...using dylusions ink spray and glimmer mist on the base and leaving it to dry overnight then adding some jo sonjas texture paste using my studio calico chevron template I then heat set it dry so I could move things along quickly... I stamped a couple of graph images onto my background for further dimension some washi tape and added the title (which are stickers I brought from kaisercraft a few years back and have decided I need to use them up but I traced around them with my black pen to give it a bit of a boost as they seemed to be blending into the background a bit too much)...the next step was to do a stitched border so I trimmed my white card stock down and stitched a bling bit of card stock to it to keep the shimmer thing happening...my step was to add some bling a brad or some sequins in which I used a long strip of aqua rhinestones from kaisercraft that I cut into intervals and gave a chevron effect with them, which I love!!! Other steps included layering the photo and using some material in which I have used some of "charms creations" gorgeous embellishments such as a super star a page runner and a lollipop...finally I stuck it all down and wallah!!!
I LOVE IT!! TFL
Happy scrapping Em ;) xo

July colour chall at SFS....

Charms colour challenge this month over at SFS was: aqua blue, teal, robins egg blue and white - black and brown could also be used...again I think I went a bit off course here using grey here and there but I absolutely love this LO, I have scrapped this picture in my earlier years of scrapbooking and I was disappointed with it as a stamp I used on the back ground didn't stamp properly and I just wasn't happy with it but I did do it in similar colours so I'm happy that I can now replace the one in my old album with new LO and be happy with it...love this lil guy to bits!!!