Woopsie!!!

it is now 22.50 and I have just realised the lovely pan of lentil bacon and cabbage soup I made has been on number 1 on the hob since 18.oo!!!! woopsie!! LOL oh well, no use crying over burnt soup - at least my Circulon pans are easy to clean LOL!!!

Its week 41 of Scrap Like You Mean it and its Shimelles birthday today ( Happy birthday Shimelle:D ) in honour of this, this weeks challenge is.... scrap a birthday :D
So I scrapped a really cute pic I found last night of my Great Niece Emmas first birthday (shes 14 now BTW LOL)I used my Sassafras Me likey papers (available at Happy Daze) some ribbon and buttons from my stash Brenda Pinnick chipboard letters and a cute little Doodlebug cupcake brad :D











Thinking of making Chrimbo prezzies this year??? Check out these Cookies in a jar - yum, yum, yum :D I'm quite tempted to have a go at these, they are really cute :D
And according to Tigs on UKS Asda sells appropriate jars for £1 each ;)

For fans of Kwai check out Parasol - a free downloadable mag from A print a day - don't be put off by the scarey cover!!!
There's a lovely tutorial for fabric flowers on page 50 which I really want to have a go at :D

I have finished two LO's tonight from my next DT mission page kit - yes that's Two LO's from one page kit!!! and I still have some paper left over :D - I did add an extra piece of cardstock though :)
I'll take photos tomorrow and share them with you ;)

Hugs'n'uber busy scrapping snogs :D
J xx

P.S. don't forget to keep sending balloons for Milly ;)

SLYMI

Week 40's challenge is to scrap in Autumnul colours, I was a bit worried because I have a serious lack of anything Autmnul!!
Then I remembered this amazing pic taken at Solfest by Paul White of Silloth who kindly gave me permission to use his photos :D

I used
K & Co Que Serasera paper
Prima Belle Fleur, Essentials fancies and tape
part of a broken watch strap (DKNY no less :lol:)
Various buttons and eyelets
Fibres - OMG I got the fibres out :lol:
A chandelier earring finding
Don't know who the chipboard shape is by sorry as it was in a kit I bought secondhand.

OMG OMG OMG!!!!!!

Take a looksie under my profile for some exciting news!!!!!! >>>>>>>>>>




Yes, Moira from Happy Daze contacted me today and asked me to be part of her new design team :D I'm so proud :D this really cheered me up considering I have had an awful week bogged down with a horrible snotty cold fluey type icky thing :(

SLYMI challenge this week was to scrap using your handwriting - not my fave thing at all, which I suppose is what made it a good challenge LOL - plus I'm terrible at journalling!!

This is a LO of Rolo, our rescued retriever who was very troubled when we
got him. Nearly two years on and he is a totally different, utterly
gorgeous dog!!
When he arrived he was incredibly naughty and very protective of his tail and anything that belonged to him, and he was a mare to get in the kitchen where his bed is LOL!!!

For this LO I used K& Co que sera sera paper sprayed with copper cosmic shimmer
over Tim Holtz masks
Tim Holtz word key, ornate frame and sprockets,
Prima Homespun Bittles, Essentials and say it with stud centres
Skin tones promarker for the journalling

All of the above are available to buy from Happy Daze :D

I also used Making Memories brads and cork letters, Bazzil cardstock and MLS letter stickers.

Hugs'n'happy snogs :D
J xx

Should have gone to specsavers!!!

This is my week 38 SLYMI LO - scrap a lesson learned LOL :D

I was struggling with this weeks until I was browsing my FB pics and came across this one I was tagged in with the caption - should have gone to specsavers :D
This was at Solfest when I was messing with glowsticks - hmmm that was a bit obvious LOL
Although they did come in very handy as I hung rings on my backpack to stop people walking in to it and hurting my back (which had happened all weekend!!! GRRRR!) it worked a treat - just wish I had thought of it sooner LOL
As soon as I put my homemade specs on the cameras jumped in to action and the next step was to make Caitlin some :D
This was an amazingly cheap LO as all the papers, epoxy stickers and chipboard were in a kit I bought from Poundland (which I thought I would never use LOL) The gems were also from there and I altered the colour with Sharpies which I bought from Home Bargains a while ago - 12 for £1.99!!!

A bit different from my usual style wouldn't you say???? LOL :D
That's the beauty of challenges, you take a step out of your comfort zone :D

Hugs'n' bargain basement snogs :D
J xx

I'm so upset by this :(

This is the heartbreaking story of baby P
It's horrific and quite detailed so if you are of a delicate disposition I would not watch it.

http://media.causes.com/564357?p_id=54133762

I have just sat and cried all the way through this, please let this not happen again :(

J xx

Scrap with metal...

was this weeks challenge, and I know I have a sheet of embossing metal somewhere.Can Ifind it? Nooooooo!!!
So I used metal embellies instead :)




I quite like how it turned out though - although I did have big plans to make pretty embossed metal flowers :(

I used the printable canvas and I love it :D I can see me using that quite a lot :D

And I used the Prima say it in studs centres as embellies :D

Oooo I finally got round to trying my grungeboard shapes and inked them with my alcohol inks and the metal ink. You would think my hands would be purple and silver wouldn't you??? but no! I have three big turquoise splodges from the cosmic shimmer..... grrrrrrr!!!!

Hugs'n'inky snogs
J xx

Solfest '09

SLYMI challenge for week 35 was to scrap a bank holiday weekend so I had to use a Soli pic :D

I was inspired by a beautiful LO by Ingvild which features a torn opening in the paper - although hers is wayyyyyyy prettier than mine LOL
All items were handcut from MME Bloom and Grow and I added a bit of sparkle with Sakura glitter pens and K&Co bling :D

Julie xx

Welcome to Reece Owen

My nieces baby :D

Well I'm afraid I'm back to vintage grunge, but I do love it so :D
I used prima paintable paper, coredinations cardstock, lots of prima flowers and say it in crystals
basic grey brads and rub ons.
Isn't he a cutie pie :D
I altered the photo first on www.scrapblog.com by turning it Black and white , hazing the edges and adding the white lace frame :D

I watched finding Nemo again this morning - I absolutely love that film :D DH was getting a bit fed up of me saying the lines as they were said though I think... awesome dude LOL :D

Hugs'n' little squishy snogs,
J xx

edited to add Heuston we have a problem!!!
I posted this LO on my FB page and his mum wants me to make her one too -do I make another? or do I attach this to a canvas and say goodbye to it?
I love it though :(
But it will be pretty hard to get the materials again coz I'm not going to buy another set of BG rubons for 3 teeny little ones and a whole tube of primas because I have used all the blue ones - what do I do???
Answers on a postcard please???
or a comment will do LOL
J xxxxxx

Scrap like I meant it again :D

My baby niece Jess, for the SLYMI challenge on UKS :D
I bought the cutest little Matthew Williamson baby t-shirt from work for £3 and cut out all the cutie felt and embroidered embellies :D
What a cutie patootie eh :D

Oh and my good deed paid off :D I won a Clarins facial in the raffle at work :D I was going to put it back in but was persuaded that I deserved it after all my hard work :D


Hard to believe that the subjects of my latest LO's are sisters isn't it LOL
Hugs'n'pwitty snogs,
Julie xx

Scrapped like I meant it :D

Just done Shimelles week 32's challenge on UKS (ok a bit of a cheat as I was thinking of doing this anyway LOL)
This is my beautiful niece who is acting up a bit at the mo and has just dyed her hair purple - is it wrong that I love it ???? LOL

J xx

Rudolf has got nothing on me!!!!

OMG my nose is sore!!!
hope this burger of a cold doesn't linger too long!!!
Did you watch Dancing on Ice?? what on earth was Jessica doing in the skate off?? The British public should stop treating these shows as popularity contests and look at the amazing talents instead! Why is Ruthie a judge? and how can she get away with personal comments like that :o bang out of order! BUT at least we got to see Jessicas routine in full :D

I did some crafting today - part of Shimelles Scrap like you mean it challenges :D
I might go back and do the other 7 as I quite enjoyed todays work :D
The challenge was to cut a photo, so I took photos of my fave showergel from Lush which unfortunatley only appears for Chrimbo :(
It took some thinking about but I'm quite pleased with the end result :D
If you would like a better look it's in the gallery on UKS :D

snotty hugs 'n' stuff
Julie xx
edited to add isn't There's something about Mary the funniest film ever LOL :D