More Snap challenge photos

I've managed a few more photos over the last couple of days and here they are:

9.  Bubbles - Ivy enjoying her bath :)

11.  Summer sunrise or sunset - in my case it's the sunset.  The chance of me being up and about to catch a sunrise is highly unlikely!

12.  Eating al fresco.  We had the family round for a meal  this afternoon and it was nice enough to sit out in the garden.

14.  Flags or bunting.

15.  Summer shoes - my flip flops next to Erin-Rose's pretty pink shoes.

17.  Water - Erin-Rose and Chris enjoying the paddling pool and Adam pouring some water over his Dad.

Hopefully I'll be back soon with the final 6 photos I need to get yet which are:

2.  a horse drawn vehicle

5.  something typifying your holiday destination, or your home town if you are planning a staycation.

8.  kites or balloons

13.  somewhere you would only visit when the sun shines

18.  umbrellas

19. glasses

Summer Snap challenge

 UK Scrappers are hosting a Summer snap challenge - the idea is to take a photo of the items listed below:

There are points up for grabs if you are in a team over on UKs and also prizes.


1 vapour trails or clouds
2 a horse drawn vehicle
3 flowers in bloom
4 a summer job in the garden
5 something typifying your holiday destination, 
or your home town if you are planning a staycation
6 hats
7 ice cream
8 kites or balloons
9 bubbles
10 ducks, swans or seabirds
11 summer sunrise or sunset
12 eating al fresco
13 somewhere you would only visit when the sun shines
14 flags or bunting
15 summer shoes
16 fruit growing, in the garden, on a tree, or in the hedgerow
17 water
18 umbrellas
19 glasses
20 fete, fair or festival

And your A-E Substitutes list
A Play
B Anything in your favourite colour
C Something that made you smile
D Friends
E Just girls or Just boys

And don’t forget the photo of you.

I've made a start:

  1.  Vapour trails or clouds

3.  Flowers in bloom.

4.  A summer job in the garden.

6.  A hat

7.  Ice cream

10.  A duck

16.  Fruit growing in the garden.

20.  A fete, fair or festival

Well that's a few to tick off the list :)

Father's Day

Due to various family commitments we had Father's Day a day early.  Everyone came to our house and we had a BBQ which turned out just lovely because the weather was kind :)

I was going to make a mini photo album for the children to give to Chris but neither of them gave me any photos to use so in the end I made a little folio and gave it to him from the dogs.

This is the front cover

and the top bit has two pockets which I have filled with tags with photos on both sides, an envelope with more pics in and a couple of photo mats.

The bottom bit is a waterfall which has room for 9 pictures.

I also made him this little crate and filled it with his favourite sweets.  Although by the time I took this photo he had eaten half of them!

So cute - baby Ivy

As some of you might be aware, I'm not doing so much scrapping at the moment but due to the encouragement of my friends I have been trying a bit harder :)

This is a page I did last night and I used this fab sketch from stucksketches

Here is what I came up with - some pictures of baby Ivy who will be 12 weeks old tomorrow :)

I'm sorry I haven't cropped it very well have I?

This has also been done for my Bijoux Belle teamie Karen - who is setting a challenge later in the month and we had to use 3 or more stripes and 3 or more stars, red white and blue and finally, scrap something which makes you happy.

Yum

I loved these pictures of Erin-Rose and knew I wanted to scrap them at some point.  She looks so cute with her little hat and chubby fingers chomping on her sandwich - a far cry from her Daddy who didn't eat 'normal' food until he went to university!

I took my colour inspiration from this picture

 which I found on Pixels and Paper challenge blog and have entered it in their challenge this month.

Birthday cards

For some reason I am completely forgetting about my blog and another month has passed with no entries even though I am making cards, mini albums and doing the odd scrapbook layout in between clearing my craft room of unwanted and unloved papers and other bits and bobs.

This card is a great way of using odd scraps of paper and I've made quite a few to use over the coming months.  I got the idea from that fabulous site, Pinterest.

It's ever so easy to make and fits in to a C6 envelope although mine will need a large letter stamp.
The basic instructions are below.

Take a sheet of cardstock - I used white because it complimented the papers I wanted to use.  Trim 2.5" off the 8.25" side.

Score at 1.5", 3", 5.25" and 8" and fold like this:

Burnish the creases.

Now choose your patterned papers.

Stick them to your card as shown below and add a greeting.  On this card I only decorated three panels but on the first card I did all five - it's up to you.

Now decorate - I used punches and dies and made some pretty matching flowers for mine.

A simple but effective card.  I also made some cutting the A4 card in half lengthwise so I could get two cards out of one sheet - the scoring is the same but you will need to adjust the length of the patterned papers.  I haven't taken a photo of them but I will do and post later.

And here they are:

with matching envelopes.

For Gracie ...

I haven't really felt like doing any scrapbooking for awhile but I have enjoyed making mini photo albums and today I'm showing you one that is just about finished.  It started out as a way to use up some old papers and as I was making this album, I knew I had to give it to Gracie.

Now most of you won't know who Gracie is - she is my daughter's girlfriend.  They have been together over two years and at the beginning of January, moved into their first home together.  Six weeks later, Gracie was playing rugby as she normally did on a Sunday when she had an accident.  A freak accident which ended up in her having her right leg amputated above the knee.  You can imagine the shock and horror for her and all the family but Gracie is just getting on with things.  She came out of hospital on Friday and is just so positive about her new life - not the life she imagined but one that will hopefully be as equally fulfilling.  If you want to read more about Gracie she has started her own blog and here is the link:  https://grapeygrapes.wordpress.com/

The papers just beg for Gracie to tell her story and I want her to write down her thoughts and feelings as the weeks progress so that she has something physical to look at when she is having a down day and she can see how far she has come.

This is the front cover and it conveniently says on it "My story"!

This is the inside

the left side has lots of photo mats and journalling tags

and the right side is a waterfall effect with places again for lots of photos and journalling.

I thought this sticker went well on the spine :)

It's not quite finished - I want to decorate the front a bit and do a closure/fastener of some sort on it and I have ordered some but they haven't arrived yet.

I got the idea of this book (which measures 8.5" x 4.5" x 1") from My Sisters Scrapper and there are lots of her videos out there on YouTube.