Cardmaking

Got a bit of a cardmaking bug this week.  It's been a while since I made any cards.  I've just been doing my own birthdays at the last minute - often handing them to their recipient whilst still wet!

Anyway, here's one of the first batch.  Have a great weekend x

Scrapbooking Bliss

I seem to have found my mojo with 12 x 12 layouts which is a joy.  It's so great to be able to sit at my desk and know that I can produce something that I love.  My confidence really seems to be peeking with scrapbooking 12 x 12 layous and even crafting as a whole.  I am enjoying myself so much.

A new layout I finished last night:

Loving it, loving it, loving it xx



I'm Back

Well here I am at last!  We are, finally, good and proper married once and for all - literally! 

We had the most amazing and beautiful wedding and the whole day was just extraordinary but I have to say, now that it's all done, it's so lovely not to have to think wedding like all the time.  Also, now that I don't have loads of wedding things to complete, I can finally spend some much needed chill out time on scrapping! 

I have really enjoyed the last week - being able to sit quietly at my desk in my little corner of the study happily playing with my things.  Here is the first wedding layout that I've created so far:

We are still waiting for our wedding photos to arrive so this is one of the few photos that I have which was taken with an iPhone by one of our guests.  My printer is printing very bad quality photos at the moment, for some reason which it hasn't let me in on yet, but actually this print gave the photo a kind of antique quality that I liked so I used it anyway.  Hopefully the printer will have a quiet word with me any day soon and let me in on its secret. 

Another layout I completed at our local crop last night was using some gorgeous photographs of a weekend spent in a family member's caravan in Newquay.  I've been waiting to do a layout using these photos for a while and I used Shimelle's Sketch of the Week from 7 September which was so useful.  I hadn't followed a sketch up until this point and, I have to say, it was really helpful to have somewhere to start, although, I do think that at some point whilst following a sketch, you have to allow yourself to move off in your own artistic direction.  

I'm hoping (seriously!) to be able to add lots a lovely layouts much more often and hope to learn lots of lovely new techniques now that I have the time. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Take care, Sherrie x

Teacher's Thanks - Check!

Another job on the list completed.  I found these gorgeous Moleskine Cahier books online and they are such lovely quality that I thought once decorated they would make a great teacher's thank you gift for the end of the school year. So here you go ....

I love these so much that I couldn't bear not to have one for myself.  The inside of the book is really lovely - they are lined on cream coloured soft paper.  Really great to write on.  I don't think I mentioned that I am a huge stationery fantatic!

So anyway, that's those off the list.  Also this weekend my partner cut out 110 tags for our wedding favours so next on the list is to decorate those!  I finished the last page of my sister's wedding book so now all I've got to do is the back cover and I can tick that off the list too!  Getting there, although there are still the kids packs to complete for the wedding and the table plan!  Arrrgghhh

Sherrie xx

Time Machine Anyone?

Why is it that everything seems to happen all at once?  Not only have I still got lots of things to make for our wedding but now the school has decided it must have another holiday and, better still, I need to make teacher's gifts from the children. 

My son is starting 'big school' (although we're not allowed to call it that apparently) in September and there are so many things to organise for his new school but I also want to make sure we thank his teachers from his present school enough for giving him such a good start in his education. 

So this is the plan: buy kraft notebooks - as cheaply as possible - and decorate in a teachery kind of way! Hmmm.  Also make cards with the kids which means lots of mess whilst trying to keep my tools safe!  I love watching the kids crafting, especially as they love it so much, but I do have that little tingly worry that they'll break some of my lovely stash.  Bit selfish!

Hopefully - seeing as they break up next Tuesday - the books will have arrived soon so that I can start decorating them.  I'll post some pictures once they're looking lovely, I hope.

Sherrie xx

Isabel's Frame

Here is my newest project, although I have to say the photos don't really do justice to it.  I absolutely loved doing this frame, especially as it was as a christening gift to our friend's daughter, Isabel. 

I loved the instantness of it.  There was no inking, cutting (apart from cardstock) or sewing.  Just adhesive and imagination.  It was unbelievably speedy to produce and the outcome is truly beautiful.

I used My Mind's Eye Lime Twist which I have to say is fabulous.  The products coordinate so well together with such a brilliant end product.   I am happy to say that Isabel's parents loved the frame and it will fit into her room perfectly. 

I have been trying to sit down to do another layout, however, what with wedding favours, kids packs and table plans to complete and my son soon to be attending secondary school there is not much time left over at the moment for eating chocolate!

Watch this space!

Sherrie xx

New Project

I was blog hopping a couple of weeks ago and found a really beautiful scrapbooked multi aperture frame.  I thought what a great gift this would be and, as we have a christening coming up, it would make a lovely christening present. 

So, after searching and searching on the internet for the right kind of frame (which took forever!) and waiting for delivery of said frame, I was finally able to begin.  I was amazed and surprised at how super quick the process was.  It's not quite finished but once it is I will put some photos up.  It already looks absolutely gorgeous and I can't wait til Sunday to see what the parents of baby Isabel think of it when they open it.  It's going to suit her bedroom perfectly. 

I'm going to do another one for my sister's wedding as it's right up her street and I think it will look beautiful with her wedding pictures in it. 

Til next time,

Sherrie xx