Back to School

Well almost... tomorrow brings the first day of Shimelle's Learn Something New Everyday class. This is the first year that I have done this class. I had originally intended to complete a 6x6 album however I have decided to set myself a more doable (or so I hope!) target so I am going to blog my entries everyday. I'm looking forward to all the inspiration that comes with taking one of Shimelle's classes, to completing this class (positive thinking right!) and to scrapping a little along the way. I'd love for you to join me?! Here's to the last day of the 'school holidays' ;) Thanks for stopping by Kx

Happily Ever After...

I feel like I have been waffling on about my DCWV Once Upon a Time mini album for so long and I'm only now getting around to uploading the photos of the finished album. Thank you for sticking around for so long and without further ado...

Thanks for stopping by, Kxx

A.C. Winner!!

Omgosh!!! I won the DCWV A.C. Moore competition!! omgosh!! I'm so excited, pleased, delighted to have won a DCWV prize!! I've just done a happy dance around the livingroom :)

How cute is this?!? I love how Erin Madsen announces winners :)

I'm off to happy dance around the livingroom some more :) I'll post piccies of my Once Upon a Time mini book tomorrow once I've come down off the ceiling ;) Thanks for stopping by Kxx

I {heart} DCWV

I finally finished my Once Upon a Time album!! Woop woop. I'll post some more photos as soon as I upload them on to my PC. I have had a ball working on this project. I found it quite challenging to work with supplies that I wouldn't normally work with - I'm looking forward to getting back into my comfort zone of traditional red, black and yellow Disney supplies :) I'm really pleased with the end result but have found myself placing my finished album in my bottom drawer for safety - now that's not really the point is it?! Ahh Maybe I should stick to albums with page protectors...?


I managed to squeeze in some time at the weekend to take part in the online crop at shimelle.com and even broke into another DCWV stack - Rockstar!! This is my little neice rocking out with her new guitar :)

If you love DCWV as much as me then pop over to Erin Masden's blog to be in with a chance of winning some gorgeous DCWV goodies.

Thanks for stopping by. Kxx

Once upon a time... it rained and rained and rained

and rained. So much so we abandoned our trip to the safari park this weekend. Fingers crossed for some better weather next weekend as I was really looking forward to meeting the meerkats - simples. All was not lost though, I completed another page for my honeymoon mini book and the front cover too!

Ever since taking part in Shimelle's Something from Almost Nothing class I have adopted a more is more approach to my scrapping (as opposed to my usual 'I couldnt possibly use more than one 'good' embellishment on one page!' approach). I am really enjoying the results and seeing my supply pile shrink while my albums expand full of gorgeous supplies is really quite rewarding.

With this in mind I went to town with the front cover for my honeymoon album. Supplies include; DCWV Once Upon a Time, Prima Marketing blooms (3 of them, count them not 1, not 2 but 3!), Maya Road chipboard Mr & Mrs, gems, ribbon and a sparkly heart ribbon slider.

For this page I had intended to include lots of sayings from the Haunted Mansion ride in the Magic Kingdom but the page just didn't work out that way but I have lots of ideas for other Haunted Mansion pages including; Your ghost host, 999 Happy Haunts, Grinning Ghosts, hurry back ... don't forget to bring your death certificate!, We're dying to meet you! thanks to the girls on UKScrappers.

Supplies for Foolish Mortals (thanks to Sarah for the title) include DCWV, Prima Marketing, and Adornit. I've inked the edges of the papers, alphas and the flower to age it a little. Look out for hidden Mickey's too.

Thanks for stopping by. Kxx

Once upon a time

I bought three DCWV Once Upon a Time stacks in 2007 (the mat stack, the 8x8 and the 12x12) and until a couple of weeks ago all three stacks had remained unused in the paper mountain that I call my craft room. I couldn't let these gorgeous papers go unseen any longer so I decided to set them free. As they are so pretty I didn't want to hide them away behind a page protector so I opted for a 8x8 chipboard album by 7 Gypsies. Now each page can be stroked and oggled :)

This is what I have done so far...

This week has seen the start of Shimelle's new class Love your Pictures, Love your Pages. We are already on prompt 2 and I haven't even started. I have lots of ideas but haven't had a chance to take a photos yet. Maybe tomorrow... I'll wanna settle down, until tomorrow I'll just keep moving on - you gotta love that little Hobo ;p Thanks for stopping by. Kx

There is no such thing as too much pink

My inner princess has been let loose as I've been working on a few pages for my neices' scrapbooks. I don't think it is ever possible to have too much pink for theses beautiful girlies. I used lots of old K&Co Brenda Walton Small Wonders Girl from a stack I bought in the USA and added some K&Co Ka-Zoo embellies, hand stitching, blooms and gems and put my Martha Stewart punch to good use for It Must be Love. I added a big and little version of the butterflies and flowers to mirror a big sister and a wee sister.

And I used similar supplies for Girls just wanna have fun but added some soft jelly like embellies that I bought in Tesco and some chipboard stickers from ?? (I can't remember). I added a hand stitched circle to frame the photo.

I used even more K&Co Brenda Walton Small Wonders Girl with lots of matching embellies too for this page. How cute is the little washing line? Thanks for stopping by :o) xx