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 thought to day I would get loads of crafting done, not at all. I seem to be on a go slow, everything I'm doing is taking ages. I have manageda couple of cards, I just can't leave Warren alone. These images are so gorgeous, I can't leave them in the box. I think Warren is going to be featuring on all my friends mantlepieces at Christmas, these are my favourite cards so far.

As promised, here are more cards I made using the Warren Christmas project of the month from Craftwork Cards , With a Bank holiday to enjoy, I feel a full day of crafting coming on.       Don't forget to order your tickets for the Papaercraft show in Harrogate, only a couple of weeks to get them. As always it promises lots of crafting goodness under on roof and you could pick up your own Warren stock. Go here to get your ticket.

I know it looks like following my scrapbooking frenzy I have burnt out for the last week. That is not so I have been working on the current Craftwork Cards project of the month. I love this kit, I love Warren. The colours are beautiful and this kit has so much in it. I don't think I'd be sticking my neck out too far when I say you could get more than 25 cards out of it. So without further ado let me introduce Christmas Warren       Come back for some more Warren tomorrow.

I am getting very excited about attending the forthcoming Scrapstars retreat . I was at the last one in April and had such a great time, we made some beautiful projects and I finished every one of them. The next one is the weekend of 23rd September at the Ramada Jarvis hotel , not far from the Leeds/Bradford airport. The teachers at the retreat are Rachael Elliott , Kirsty Wiseman , Lida de Witte and Emma Trout . With a line up like that it can't fail to be a brilliant weekend. Bellaboo is going to be on site for the weekend just in case I forget anything, shopping may be on my agenda as well. I've already started to pack my bag. If you are interested in booking a place go here to check out the details.

Yesterday I had a busy day making sure everything was ready for my return to work and I went to a wedding reception. It was really beautiful and each guest was given their own cake to take home. I ended up with three as people put them in my bag and forgot to collect them before they went home. Luckily I work with them so I can deliver them on Monday, just look how beautiful they are: this one is mine,its going to be my afternoon treat with a nice cup of coffee.Did you notice the buterflies? Yum! I didn't abandon my scrapbooking, I did make a page but I had to wait for the glossy accents to dry on the raised dots. It didn't get photographed until this morning. This page just came together, it popped out of my head onto the page Poof! just like that.It fits perfectly with the half page challenge on Shimelle's blog, Create a layout that only uses half the page. It can be whatever half you would like, but somewhere around half the page space needs to be breathing room!

I have so enjoyed the challenges that Shimelle set for us last week at the cybercrop. The timing was great as I have this week off work, I have managed to make a page every day. Usually I manage a couple at the weekend so I have been falling behind with the challenges I like to take part in. This week I'm catching up. The Scrapbook and Cards Today Project 12 sketch for July was perfect to use for Shimelle's Grid it Up challenge. The challenge was Create a project with a grid as a design element! You can interpret that any way you wish! Get creative! I pulled out these pictures from 2008 when the cooling towers in Sheffield were demolished. They were not the best photos, as usual they were taken on my brothers phone, I so wish he'd take his camera out with him rather than relying on his flipping phone. Anyway they are just about good enough to see the story. I'm afraid you can't see them so well in the photo. Here is the sketch I used and here is my page