Hand Crafted Memories

The colder weather is  making me feel like I should be making my Christmas cards, so for these colder evenings I've stamped out a few images and I'm having some big girl colouring sessions. I've promised myself that I will not buy any more Christmas papers, I have enough to make cards and pages for the next 5 years. I must Not give in! I went through my scrap box and there is enough in there to make at least a dozen cards. It is all going to be used before I cut into a new piece of paper. Come back later this week to see what I make. As September grows nearer I have completed my August page for Project 12 over on the Scrapbook & Cards Today Blo g. The weather is definitely growing colder but I refuse to put the heating on in the house just yet, I've just pulled out a cardigan for the time being. The sketch for August was a little bit different with only three photos on it. I wanted to record a lovely day I had recently with my friend in Tropical World, but it was...

I'm just completing this page in the nick of time, actually its been finished a week I just haven't got around to posting it. The June sketch for Project 12 over on Scrapbook and Cards Today looked like this   I love these sketches and some of them I've used a couple of time, I know I am going to use all of them a number of times. They are helping me work my way through the holiday photos I have accumulated over the last 20 years. Also they have been a great help to the dilemma of my brothers scrap book where he likes a lot of photos to look at. I recently took part in the Scrap Whispers blog hop challenge and made a kit from my existing stash, this sketch gave me the ideal opportunity to use the kit and here is my page I have plenty left from the kit so I think a few cards will finish the supplies. I think making kits is also the method I'm going to use to do something with my stash mountain. I often craft better with limited supplies, so if I pack up my own kits I s...

Another fantastic sketch for Project 12 over on Scrapbook and Cards Today , I know its the 1st June, I'm only a day late posting it. Here was the sketch for May this time I've gone a bit off course and instead of using my travel photos I've used pictures of the dogs my brother has owned. I love how the sketch lent itself to these pictures Why the cream square on the left? It's for Robin to do the journalling, I wonder how long it will take him? I went to the Craft Box to try and get some doggy papers but there was only the blue background one here. When you get good customer service it deserves a round of applause, and a mention. I asked Gill if there was and dog themed papers when I arrived, even though she was busy tidying, organising and serving she still combed the whole shop looking for something for me. I mean she went through EVERYTHING, as you can see the blue worked fine. I still have some more photos that I need to scrap and my last words to her were if you fi...

Wow what a weekend, all started by the wedding, I know its been discussed and done to death so I'll just say two words, classy and beautiful. I think that covers everything. My scrapbooking buddy Julia has been here for the weekend and we have had another of our kitchen retreats, I can't believe how many pages we have almost finished. We usually buy one of Sarah's Cards kits and then make as many pages as we can from the kit. Back in January we bought the Fancy Pants - Happy Together kit, sorry its sold out. These papers were so delicious. We also had made a kit up using the Dovecraft - Tea House papers. I have managed five single page layouts and two doubles. I've also got the bones of a book. I still need to get the photos onto most of them and the final little touches but they are mostly done and I'm very chuffed with myself. The one that is completely finished isn't using any of the papers I've mentioned but I wanted to make it while it was all stil...