Playing in my craft room...

I don't often make things because I want to - it's usually because I have to so today I thought I'd play a bit.  I've seen lots of Halloweeny things on Pinterest and wanted to make a small box to hold some treats for any callers we get at the end of the month.  This is a mish mash of several boxes I've seen.

I also made a cover for a shopping list jotter

this is the inside

and here is another - using a smaller book

I popped a little pocket on the left.

Here are a couple of things I made in the last week or so - Adam's birthday card

a card in a box for my team mate on UKs Linds.  This is the box

the card closed

and here it is open

and this is the back.

Apologies for the long post!

Comfy?

Alfie is a poorly doggie and keeps falling over and we have to be careful if he gets on the furniture that we watch him.  For whatever reason, his back arches and he topples over backwards and could hurt himself.  Having said that, he does like to be comfortable and when we were in our camper recently, he enjoyed laying on the back of the settee, looking out of the window.  When he was up there we'd pack loads of cushions around him just in case...

He's slipped down behind the cushions a bit ...

Anyway, this week the challenge on UKs was to:-

Firstly, we'd like you to use this sketch chosen by the team - 10 points

Secondly, please use yellow and black on your LO. Long story behind it, but our team logo includes yellow and black stripey legs! - 10 points

Thirdly, we love altered art so please alter something - change the colour of chipboard letters, add buttons to flowers, that kind of thing - 5 points

Finally, we are the Secret Swappers so please include something secret - maybe a hidden journalling tag or photo - 5 points

This is what I came up with

these are the alphas before I altered them

and the hidden journalling.

Beat the Christmas Rush for October

Another 5 Christmas cards ticked off  the list - I have used some of my new SU stamps which I am loving.  The embossing folder is one I already had and can't remember who makes it.

Very simple but quite effective I think and shamelessly cased from Pinterest Lol!

Miss you already

I thought I'd better catch up on some scrapbook pages after being away on holiday for two weeks so I have started with the weekly challenge on UKs which was to:-



Good morning and welcome to my first solo challenge !! Hope you like it.

A few important dates for this week are :

September 28th 1924 - The 1st round the world flight completed - Please use EITHER 1, 9, 2 or 4 circles on your LO – this can be the pattern in your paper, embellishments that you use such as buttons, you can cut your photos into circles etc ... you choose 

September 29th World Heart Day - scrap about something/someone you love and use some red on your LO

September 30th 1955 - James Dean died, he was in 3 movies. - Please scrap 3 photos (B&W would be good but not a requirement)

Recap 
Use 1,9,2 or 4 circles ... 10 points
World Heart Day - Something/someone you love ... 5 points, use red ... 5 points
Use 3 photos ... 10 points


I chose to use 9 circles, I scrapped a picture of my son and granddaughter who I love dearly, used red and finally scrapped 3 photos but not in black and white.

The photos were taken the day we went on holiday - we met up with Adam, Lucy and Erin-Rose for breakfast at our local garden centre.

This is the journalling but I am a bit cross that I smudged it a bit - the ink takes ages to dry on the shiny surface of the stickers.

Christmas mini envelope album

I was tempted by a book of 6" x 6" Christmas papers in a local store the other day and thought I'd use them to make an envelope mini album - I haven't made one for ages and they are really easy and very enjoyable to make.  The papers are called Vintage Noel.


This is the front

and the first page 

showing a couple of the pull out tags for photos or journalling.

and this is the back.

Perfect

in every way...  The weekly challenge on Uks is all about grandparents - a subject close to my heart as my husband and I became very proud grandparents for the first time, five weeks ago today :)

This is the challenge.

Earlier this year I became a grandma to a beautiful little girl. so in recognition of this wonderful event I would like you to have 'GRANDPARENTS' as your subject for 10 points - could be you as a grandparent, your children with their grandparents, a heritage LO showing great great grandparents, .....

I have SO much stash, and tools that I need to use 
so please use stickers or ribbon on your LO - 10 points
and use punches or your die cutter - 10 points


To summarise..
Grandparents - 10 points
Stickers / Ribbon - 10 points
punches / dies - 10 points

Here is my take on it.

and this is the journalling.

Hello beautiful

When I saw Sue's super sketch I thought, lovely, a nice simple page, I'll have it done in 15 minutes, 30 minutes tops.   When I started to do all the hand sewing I realised it was going to take me a tad longer but I am pleased with the result.  I'm not good at white space (or in this case, pink space) and tend to keep adding things, but I have on this occasion, kept it simple and, yes, sometimes, less is more!

Today Erin-Rose is one month old and now weighs in at 9lb 14oz so she is gaining weight nicely:)