My Guys

Good afternoon! Here's a layout I created using a Sketchy Thursday sketch. I'm really happy with how it turned out, especially when I did it (sewing and all!) in under an hour for the 1 hour challenge on Club CK last night.

I can actually take out and use the sewing machine when pushed! All pp is Papermania from the Persimmon collection and the letter stickers are from BasicGrey. The flower was made with the Papermania pp too and I added a large half pearl to finish it off.

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Sketches in thyme

Good afternoon! I made a layout today using this weeks sketches in thyme's sketch #7.  I have had this patterned paper for ages so it's nice to finally use it. The blue letter stickers are Papermania and the small letter stickers are Making Memories. The sticky ribbon is Anita's, the stars were made with a star punch and the button is Karen foster. My friend Adele posted a challenge on Club CK to use a tool that we haven't used in a long time and it's been a few months since I got my sewing machine out, so I decided to stitch around the edge in my usual "totally not straight and messy" way!

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The Scrappiest sketch 72

I'm back with another scrapbook page. It's great getting so many done lately and it's nice taking a break from cards! For this one I used this weeks Scrappiest sketch (I hope you can see enough of the sketch in this), some DCWV and Papermania paper. I have had the check paper so long I have no idea who makes it. The flowers are Papermania too, letters are BasicGrey (the darker one's were orange and I inked over them to make them work here) and the large pearl is from Bunny Zoe's. The photo's are from our recent trip to Barcelona :)

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In honour of ....

yesterday being Arthur Guinness day, I wanted to share this layout of a trip, hubby and I took to the Guinness store house a few years ago. If you want to find out more about Arthur Guinness day and the history of Guinness you can check it out here .

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Mime Artist

One of my eldest son's favourite things to do on a rainy day, is to put on some face paints and become a mime for a few hours! He keeps us just as much entertained as he does himself. I wanted to keep this LO nice and simple and keep the focus on the photos, so just went with a black, white and grey colour scheme. I used the CB Sript embossing folder to give the cardstock some texture and then dressed it up a bit with some scalloped card and some Making Memories epoxy buttons. The title is Papermania foam letter stickers.

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Some new layouts

My first new LO is of Blarney castle in Cork. We went to Cork for our anniversary in April. Although it rained for the whole weekend, we had a perfect holiday and Blarney castle was definately one of the highlights. For this LO I used a sketch from my August '09 Creating Keepsakes magazine, Doodlebug pp, Making memories journaling stamp, Prima flowers (thank you Vicky!), Karen Foster Blarney sticker and some gems and ribbon.


My second LO is of this years Easter egg hunt. We always have an egg hunt for the boys, but this year it rained so we hid clues and eggs around the house for them. I don't get to use much pink on my layouts as I mainly do LO's of my husband, 2 boys or holidays, so I thought if there was a LO that I could use pink on it was Easter and I think I pulled it off without making it too girly! I really liked Becky's sketch from the CK September '09 issue so I used one side of the sketch, Doodlebug pp, Papermania ribbon, letter stickers, buttons and flowers, the Easter bunny is from Paper bliss that I got a few years ago when we went to Chicago.




Dianne is giving away some blog candy on her Paper hugs blog so please stop by and leave her a comment


Also check out Nicki's blog candy too!




Hope you all have a lovely weekend and thanks for visiting :)