Sunday, March 8, 2009

Recent stuff

Now for the recent stuff and wohoo it let me add it all at once this time lol.

Its Mums boyfriends birthday tomorrow and hes pretty into golf so I thought I would attempt to design my own card as I couldnt find any examples on golf cards online. I made the flag by putting together some different coloured cardstock. Found a picture of a golf club online and printed that out, then put it onto card to make it stronger. For the grass I snipped some cardstock so it hopefully looks like blades of grass. Added a button for a golf ball and a tag with eyelets to say Happy Birthday.


One of the design team challenges at stampin scrap is to do a page every month with pictures of what happend that month. In January my brother came to stay with us for three weeks so of course the page got to be about him. I found it a challenge to do a boy page as I hadnt really used browns before but am quite happy how it turned out. As you can see I am also starting to journel more :)



And to follow from January of course is february which was Chloe's first bithday. I have been friends with Chloe's mum Niki since intermediate school so she is like a neice to us, shes growing so quick that I really enjoyed doing a page about her.


This months ABC letters are S and G. My S page is a picture of Daniella smiling, isn't she cute? My little cousin is growing so quick as well. She is due to have a wee sibling any day now (well anyday last week actually lol) so I imagine I shall have lots of baby/kiddie pages comming up. I can't remember where I got the sketch for this one, think it was online but it was good to make use of my scollop punch, and mums smaller one that is still on loan lol



And this page is for our Girls Night in Challenge - March. I thought since this layout had so many flowers on it, why not use photos of my wedding flowers. Also another excuse to use my border punch. And of course with flowers goes bling, well with anything goes bling lol. The little pink blings are ones that I got from Vicki for my RAK for wining the Queens challenge at stampin scrap, THANKS Vicki!!!

I went to a class at Tanyas place where we did a together forever page. This was for valentines day. I used two of my wedding photos, both to do with our rings. This class was great as we did lots of different things, inking, paper tearing, hand stitching with beads glued on top (the hearts) and it made me start journelling, which to be honest I hadnt really done much of.



I didnt have any challenges to do one day but still felt like a scrappy day so I chose a sketch out of my little shop of sketches folder and chose a photo of Buddy again. The title is Peanut because thats his nickname. I also did some hand stitching on this as Nana gave me a Bazzil stitches pack for my birthday 08 and she kept asking have I used it yet, well yes Nana I have lol.



Little Shop Of Sketches

This is my layout from the Little Shop of Sketches #30. My photos of hubby. He hates photos and it can sometimes be very hard to get him to smile but he looks great when he does. I was quite happy with how this page turned out as it was one of my first layouts using paper tearing.


Intelligent

This is my I page for the ABC challenge. I is for Intelligent. This is a photo of Buddy sitting on hubbys knee. Buddy has got his overalls and his jersey on and looks like he is reading the paper - what an intelligent little boy lmao.


Girls Night In Challenge

This is my layout for the girls night in challenge - february. This challenge is also run over at stampin scrap. My picture is of our little Angel as a puppy (not that she is much bigger than that now).


Dashing and Daring

Februarys letter challenge for the ABC album was D and I. For hubbys christmas party 08 the theme was dashing and daring so I thought this would be a good D page. He dressed up as a lion and I dressed up as a madam. Apparantly in the old days the madams ran the bars or saloons or whatever they called them lol anyway here is the layout

Update of layouts

So I have just been going through pictures of my layouts and have realised that there are quite a few that I havent uploaded to here, mainly my Janurary ones. For some reason this is playing up and doesnt seem to want to let me upload more than one at a time so I will try doing them in different posts. This is the first challenge I did for Stampin Scrap. We are doing an ABC album and we get set certain letters every month. January's letter was A and of course A is for Angel. I made the tag myself with different paper/cardstock, a paw punch and an eyelet.