SBS 16

After much deliberating I have finally joined the Sisterhood of Blogging stampers group 16! It is a group of like minded women who love stamping, cardmaking scrapbooking and generally being creative. All the members have great blogs which I love to visit, they are all listed in the sidebar on the left.
I have always been interested in various types of crafting but it really took off for me about 3 years ago when I bought an Annie Lang cardmaking kit from QVC, that was me hooked! I now have so much stash that we rarely eat round our dining table!!
I have a big birthday coming up soon and in preparation for that I have recently got into scrapbooking in a big way as the posts on my blog will testify.

I'm really looking forward to getting to know all my "sisters" and gaining a bit of inspiration from you all :o)

House Mouse Pages

I joined in with one of the latests lists on Craftswap forum to make 4x4 pages with a House Mouse theme. These are the first couple of pages. The papers are a mixture of SEI Jolie Chocolat paper stack and DCWV Pocket full of Posies and Glitter Mat stacks. The images are stamped with a timber brown staz-on pad onto white hammered card backed with silver mirri card and the flower embellishments are by Paper mania attached with metallic coloured brads. I need to make 20 pages altogether so I'll try and get on with them tomorrow :O)

Climb Every Mountain

Here I am climbing Mount Snowdon in North Wales. It was a gorgeous day but a long climb, I was so tired when we got to the top that I nabbed the last seat in the train going down !! David had to walk. The funniest thing though was listening to a group of older ladies who had come up in the train. One of them began the short walk to the very tip of the mountain ( all of about 6 feet higher) and her mate said to her " You're not going all the way up there are you?" I laughted but thought to myself "all the way up there? you should have from from all the way down there!" A great day and great memories. The papers came in a Docrafts goody bag, the tag and lettering is from Flavia.

This page is a bit of a mish mash of photos. The top left was taken very early in the morning on a day trip to the beach, we decided to beat the bank holiday traffic by travelling the night before and ended up sleeping in our cars on the beach!! The other pictures are taken at Battle in Sussex and the other at the top of Box Hill.

Another one for the album

More Scouting pictures! The top one shows Jayne and I with the Tank we made for the Beaver Scouts one week. They played with it for ages and at the end of the meeting we let them tear it apart so we could get it all in the recycling box. Strange to think that the boys who played in it probably now have children of their own.

Camping

Here it is, at last, the latest page for my album. I followed the scrapbook challenge set on CSF by Lesley this time, it's called 1,2,3. One word title, two photos and three embellishments in a row.
Papers are from We R memory keepers. The pictures are of a venture scout camp at Gilwell Park in about 1987 ish where we had been taking part in the annual Sedan Chair Rally.

Just trying out my new signature :o)

Christening card

I made this card for a friends baby who was christened today. The bear is a dufex image decoupaged and I added a peel off greeting and his name which you can't see very well in this picture. A lovely service :o)

The Simple Things

Another page for the album, the second album now! The papers and embellishments are from We r Memory Keepers. The picture is of me in my second home at a Venture Scout camp at Kempton Park Race course where we helped out at a caravanning show organising the car parking.

Tunisia

Shopping at a market in Tunisia. This was a holiday that David had won by being top salesman in a particular week. 5 * luxury for a few days - lovely. Papers are from Flavia and K&Co. Titling is from Lisa Bearnson.

Sparkly Bling!

This card fulfills two challenges this week! The My Time to Craft challenge is Sparkly and Funky Fairys is Bling.
I attacked this Papernation decoupaged fairy with the glitter glue and mounted her on some holographic card and added some pink glittery ribbon just in case it wasn't already shiny enough :o)

All dressed up...

...and nowhere to go. The challenge on My Time to Craft this week is "Quotes and Sayings". I used my new "Maggie" stamp onto white card and watercoloured the image. Sorry the photo isnt very good :(

Little Lady

This is a bad photograph but this ATC is for the Sunday Stampers Challenge which this week is called "I'm a Laydee". The stamp is called "mother nature", the background is inked with a brilliance inkpad in lilac and finished off with a piece fo lacy ribbon.

Birthday Bowling

Alice turned 14 today!!! Can't quite believe it myself! We went bowling this morning with a couple of friends to celebrate. Here is the birthday girl on her way to her first strike, the second picture shows what happened when "Bowling went COSMIC"!! Lots of ultra violet and flashing lights, made bowling difficult ( that's my excuse for coming last anyway) but lots of fun had by all.
Happy Birthday Alice :)

Earlier this week I went to a Jack Petchey awards ceremony to see my husband and niece receive their awards. Amy's was a young persons achievement award and she used her award money to help her go the Centenary World Scout Jamboree last summer. David has won an "Outstanding Leader" award "presented only to those who have encouraged and motivated young people in an exceptional way". He was presented with a cheque for £1000 which he can spend on the scout troop. To say I was a very proud wife and aunty sitting in the audience is an understatement, I am so very proud of them both. :)

Sweet Sixteen

The man I married makes his first appearance on this page. I was sixteen when we first met, such a long time ago now. The lighthouse is at Dungeness on the south coast. All papers and embellishments are from the Flavia papers.

College days

This page has a few pictures of me during the years I was studying at college. I really don't remember it being that sunny though lol!

and even more!

Here we are outside our chalet in the middle of the game reserve. It was our home for 3 nights, right in the middle of nowhere! The bottom picture is me standing beside the sign that was warning us to beware of the Hippos that were in the river behind that hedge. Apparently you mustn't be fooled by their lazy appearance, they are really quite vicious and are responsible for an awful lot of tourist deaths every year. Now I look back on it I wonder at my parents letting us wander about like that, shouldnt we have stayed in the van?

More Safari

This is us in Tsavo national Game Reserve in Kenya. We got so close to the animals it was amazing. All papers and embellishments are from Brenda Pinnick again!

Safari...so goody!!

Another page for the album! Here are my sister and I standing outside Kilimanjaro Safari Lodge in Kenya in 1984. We were on a 4 day safari across the Tsavo and Ambolseli National Game Reserves. It is wonderful seeing the animals in their natural environment, I'd recommend it to anyone. The papers and embellishments are all from the Brenda Pinnick kit as before.

For Alice

Here is the card I have made for my daughter's birthday, she is going to be 14 on Saturday!! The stamp is one I bought at the NEC last weekend coloured with watercolours ( my new favourite technique!) and mounted on a tag and the papers are from Flavia. I hope she likes it.

Flowers Inc.

Whose bright idea was it to wear a white t-shirttoday and then get the inks out????? I had a great time though, I bought some new alcohol inks at the weekend so I had to have a play didn't I. The stamps are new too. I'm quite pleased with results, both stamped onto glossy card these ATC's have a lovely shine, I say ATC's but I think I may turn them into toppers for cards :)

Another Easter ATC

Today I made another ATC for Lesley's Easter swap. I was worried that the elephant didnt really fit in properly so having found a suitable stamp at the NEC on saturday I got the watercolour pencils out again and this is the result :)

Hobbycrafts Show - NEC

NO crafty creations for me to show you today, I am off to the Hobbycrafts show at the NEC in Birmingham with Iffi. Going to top up the stash and pick up some inspiration hopefully:)

Amsterdam

Back to the album today. This shows our family holiday to Amsterdam and our tour of the canals. Papers and embellishments are from the Flavia range of papers. I say paper but its much more like card.