Catching up with the WCC challenge

I feel like it's bee ages since I had a good scrapping session at home, It's probably only been a week or two but I feel like it's been ages! I completed this Layout for last weeks challenge over on the WCC blog. The challenge was Day's gone by. I chose to use an awful photo :) taken many moons ago and Yes that's me with the homemade mixing bowl haircut wearing the quilted waistcoat. Child cruelty I call it!!!!!!! what was my mother thinking????The photo is of Me (about ten) My mum, My Nanna, (who was my whole world, possibly why my mother dressed me like she did) and my Grt-Grandma. This was the last time we were all together my Nanna died just before the following Christmas, Her mother lasted another ten years (she was 103 when she died). I used October afternoon Journal cards , stickers and papers. cutting the title with my Cricut (Donjuan). the flowers are punched with an EK success punch.

This morning I completed this layout for this Weeks challenge which is " Cherry On Top". Trav had some water melon the other day and not really thinking she would like it I gave Bella a husk. she went totally batty for it. chomping into the flesh, getting herself covered in all the juices. I just had to scrap the photos even though she had manged to eat most of it before I found my camera and took the photos. Again I have used October Afternoon papers and dyecuts, and the same cartridge as above for my title.

They're breeding and blooming.........

The paper balls that is :) I seem to be obsessed with them. I made three on Thursday evening, for my friend Zoe's new craft room and then when I got home from work on Friday evening I made another one for my craft space this time it's a whooper!!! each circle is 5 3/4" of October after loveliness, the finished globe is about the size of a football. I have run out of room in this corner now so I must stop making them!!! I have also punched out some flowers using up all the scraps and then decorated the larger two globes with them. They look so pretty hanging the corner of my room, and when the back door is open they spin in the breeze....... very pleasing!  

Edited to add; if you do make these to hang from the ceiling. Just using glue won't be enough to keep them from falling apart after a while. I have added a staple (or two to the larger ball) to ever glued fold. Once they are hanging you won't notice the staples.

 Yesterday I thought as I had the whole weekend free, I would make a little desk decoration to grace the lovely card easel Mr Dunnit made for all us WOYWWer's. Growing up in the house of a carpenter, I adore bare wood so all I have done is added a good coating of bee's wax to the easel itself, and left it as is. I then just starting sticking bits of my favourite Cosmo range together, punched a few flowers added some Glossy accents and presto! one desk pretty completed.

I borrowed the Cricut cart "create a Critter" from Sam last weekend and have fallen in love with it! How I love these little beings! I have a few adorning my desk area now, and have made about thirty more little cards to add to my Craft fair makings.

Talking about craft fair makings. I have finally stopped! i have five RUB's filled with different shapes and styles of cards all packaged and ready to sell. I could quite easily continue making them and fill the final RUB, but what if I don't sell a single card at this craft fair??????? I'll have enough cards to last me two life times! I think I have made about 300 in total, although some are in sets of four.

here's hoping you had a wonderfully relaxing weekend just like I did. the sun shone for you and someone offered to cook your tea on Sunday night (well OK that last one is a big ask..... but it might happen?)

Oh BALLS!!!

I tidied away before I remembered I was planning to do my WOYWW (Tuesday night) post. I found this great Idea on Heather Bailey's blog the other day and though it was a fun way to keep some of my favourite papers, also I'm always looking for preety things to make for my craft space.

The largest Ball is made with 20 4" circles I cut them on my Cricut and scored them at 1". For the two middle balls I used my largest circle punch which is 3" each shape was scored at 3/4" and for the smallest ball I used a 1 3/8" punch I think these were scored at 1/4". this one is having problems staying together. possibly due to the crystal heart hanging from it. I originally used my glue roller, then I double sided it. If it comes down again I think it's time for the glossy accents to come out. The largest ball has cut quite deeply into a new pile of OA papers. and the middle balls took half a mini stack of Cosmocricket. but I'm really happy with them and am thinking about making another trio of them, to hang in the downstairs WC as a corner piece.

Edited to add; if you do make these to hang from the ceiling. Just using glue won't be enough to keep them from falling apart after a while. I have added a staple (or two to the larger ball) to ever glued fold. Once they are hanging you won't notice the staples.

 
Also a quick photo of Boo ( at 21 weeks old) so you can all see just how much she is growing. She's got a real thing for watermelon, just like Trav. But thankfully she prefers the husk and he prefers the flesh. If you are playing along with Julia's WOYWW don't forget to pop by her blog and leave a comment. I'm at work for most of Wednesday but will be doing the rounds on Blogland when I return home (once the dogs are fed and watered.

Wight Craft Circle Crop

I'm just back from our monthly crop. We were a small group this month, but that just meant we had more room to spread out :) I managed a grand total of four Layouts. three of which I'm really pleased with one not so much. but it was the last LO of the day and I think the heat was starting to get to me :) My first Layout was for last weeks SWU challenge "Cream of the Crop" I chose to use the last of my photos from our retreat in Feb 2010.

"Postcard from Totland Bay".

Then I used some of my Glastonbury photos. I had the idea for this Layout last week while reading a new set of books (The House of Night), they talk alot about the elements (Earth, Air, Fire & Water) and I thought our spiritual trip to Glasto was a perfect for this layout. I chose a photo that I thought represented each of the elements.

"Elements of Glastonbury".

The third layout is for this weeks SWU challenge "Home is where the Soul is". I adore living on the isle of Wight and can honestly say I'm happier here than I have ever been. My favourite place of all has got to be Hanover Point. We often pack the car up late on a Sunday morning with BBQ and chairs and spend the day and most of the evening just relaxing and chilling out by the sea.

"Palm Trees Not Needed"Here's my fourth (and tired) LO. It didn't turn out quite as I planned but I'm not too worried about it as I love the colours and it's tucked away now in my album.

"Water Dog"

A Midnight trip to the Cinema

Last night (or was it early this morning?????) Sam and I went to see this!

It seemed that everything was on our side. A parking space appeared right by the cinema entrance as we drove into the packed car park. Our tickets were delivered at amazing speed from the little red box on the wall I didn't even need order number I'd made sure (four times) I had safely recorded on my phone. The amount of people at the cinema worried me slightly we were an hour early for the showing but there were group of people there with camping chairs who (I overheard) had been there since 8pm!!!!!!! Not being the kind of girl to queue without reason I walked straight up to the doors and asked "Is there just one queue?" the guy asked our screen "11" i replied "we have just opened 11, go on in" was his response. Sam and I got fantastic seats! and the film was BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!

Now I'm sure there will be some out there that will complain. Yes they cut a fair bit out from the books (both Eclipse and The Short Second life of Bree Tanner were used). But they stayed true to the story as much as I could see (and I've read the books enough times) and there is only so much that can be fitted in a 2 hour film. I loved, LOVED!!!!! it and will be going back to the cinema again soon! very soon :)

Scrap with Us Challenge week 19

I haven't even looked at my travel journal since returning from Glastonbury, it's taken me until tonight to get the house straight after the weekend away (not that Trav didn't hover...........but!). I managed to sit down this evening after work and make a start on this weeks Wight Craft challenge, which is "the Hands of Time" I knew I wanted to do something about how short my dogs live's are compared to mine and I thought this puppy photo of Bells was perfect. She was about 7 weeks old when it was taken and already she has changed so much. She's a big girl now at almost 20 weeks old and I always know when she is doing something she shouldn't be doing.... she's too quiet :)

So here's my Layout.
Cherish every moment of her short life

The papers I have used are all MME, I slapped a brush full of Gesso across a sheet of Bazzill (London Fog I think) and then stitched on some strips of patterned paper. I used a MME journal block and a selection of alphabet stickers, the flowers are EK success punches.