Are You a Carefree Scrapbooker????

Today I'm on the Cocoa Daisy blog here.
I tend to just get on with creating. I'm generally not one to procrastinate and take hours.
I have a mission and I get on with it.

 

Over at Cocoa Daisy I chat and share tips in how this page took me minutes. 

How long does an average page take you to create?

Have a fab Friday!!!

Lisa x

Fancy a Beverage???

 

 

I never realised just how typically English we are as a family until I chat with lots of you from other places all over the world on our fab Cocoa Daisy message board. We LOVE our tea. We have a cup of tea in the afternoon, followed by another cup of tea after dinner with something sweet like homemade cake or a cookie. When we go on holiday we have to take our teabags with us. I like a strong breakfast style tea, as does my daughter and Ade my husband drinks a very milky Earl Grey. Yuk!

We buy a $1 Starbucks takeaway mug when we are on holiday in the US and when we lay around the pool, we take it in turn to go back to the condo to make a fresh brew. Yes it may be 90F, but there’s nothing quite like a good cup of tea no matter the weather.

So my Cocoa Daisy Challenge this month is to scrap your beverage story.

You have until 4th August 11pm EST to play along. Please see here for full details. No Cocoa Daisy Kit required. One lucky scrapper will win a $10 gift card to spend in the Daisy store.

 

 

Ready for a sketch

I do love a sketch.
You can view the new Cocoa Daisy Sketch Challenge here.

I used this sketch to create this LO here using the new July kit.

You have 2 weeks to come and play along.

A little Bistro in your Life

This months Cocoa Daisy Kit is called 'Bistro'.
There are some really cute elements to this kit.
I've had a lot of fun playing with it.

We went to see the new Jurassic World movie when it first came out so I scrapped this LO and made a pocket for the cinema tickets.

I also made this pocket page for my Project Life Album.

 

And recently we had an instagram hop and I made this canvas here.

 

 

I have so many more ideas using this months kit.

 

The kit is now on sale here.

 

Enjoy your weekend xxx

 

 

Taking a Sneak in to July

My July Cocoa Daisy Kit has arrived.

I do love it when I answer the door to my postie holding my big CD box.
I've been getting the kit for goodness knows how many years and the novelty has never worn off.

The reveal for this kit is June 28th. 9PM EST.
Until then I can share these sneaks with you.

Bistro

And if planners are your thing, here are a sneak of the July planner kits.

 

So far I have made 2 LO's with this kit.

Here are a couple of sneaks until the 28th.

 

 

 

 

I can't wait to create some more.

xx

 

 

 

 

 

Go Rainbow

I set a challenge this week at Cocoa Daisy to use as many bright colours as you can.
I love bright happy pages.
I picked my way through 3 Cocoa Daisy Kits and made this.

I've documented the next big trip that we are planning.
Exciting!!!!

xx

This months Cocoa Daisy Sketch

This month's Cocoa Daisy Sketch looks like this.

And this is my take on it using this months kit.

 

Please join us here and upload by June 18th.

One lucky will win a $10 gift card to spend in the Daisy Store. 

Time for a Catch Up!!

I don't know where the days are going lately.
Everything seems to be on fast forward.
I though it was time for a good ol' catch up.

So, latest news...
My next Lollipop Box Club Kit has gone on sale today.
You can read all about it here.

Last month went so well and this month has gotten off to a great start too.
I'm loving making these kits. It's just so much fun and I have such a wonderful response from those who have received them too.

Next news, the new Cocoa Daisy Kit has gone on sale today.
You can view the kit here.
This was my favourite LO that I made with the kit this month.

I love those colours.

Other news, the kids have just had a week off school. I worked all week so nothing exciting happened. Hollie studied lots and Louis saw friends.
We did take a trip out to see the new Tomorrowland movie at the cinema and had a trip to the mall at Basingstoke for a little shopping and dinner at Wagamamas.

And on the 22nd May, Hollie left school.

This was her last day. She's got going in for a few exams over the next couple of weeks now.
So it's been a busy couple of weeks.

Thanks for stopping by today.
Have a lovely Monday wherever you are xxx
 

Disney LO's....

Last weekend we had a little crop over at Cocoa Daisy.
It was so nice to spend some time chatting online with friend and scrapbooking a little too.

Using my May Kit I made a couple of LO's.

 

I'm loving the pretty pastels in this kit.

 

xxx

A Sketch & A Gator

I had some super cute photos to use on this months Cocoa Daisy sketch.
(Although my Mum would highly disagree)

 

 

I've used the new May Kit.

You can play along with the sketch challenge here.

 

Lisa x

 

 

Pineapple Floats

We love the Pineapple Floats from Aloha Isle in Disney Magic Kingdom.
They are a highlight of the trip for us.

There's nothing we like more than to have one of these in the heat and sit in the shade and watch the magic go by.

The pineapples in this months Cocoa Daisy Kit were just what I needed to scrap these photos.
Some may be scrapping cocktails, for us it's Pineapple Floats.

What's your tipple????

Turning 40 - Project Life

So yes, 40 was my number last month.
I wasn't happy about it, but hey!! What can you do???!!

I decided to make a pocket page about my actual birthday using my April Cocoa Daisy Kit.

 

I'm planning a LO too right now.
It's one that needs to be in the album I guess.

Lisa xx

My Creative Addiction

I have plenty!
Today's is about framing.
I do love to frame my work.

- I print my photos with frames
- I add frames to my LO's
- I frame my work with doodles, sewing, painting, stamping and today is washi tape.

I have a mini tutorial on how to do this (without going wonky... Rachel C.... I am thinking of you!!) over on the Cocoa Daisy blog today.

 

Happy Sunday all xxx

Life in Progress

That's the name of this LO here.

This photo was taken the week of my 40th birthday.
I'm now the shortest in the family, which to be fair isn't hard when you are 4ft10 : )

I've used this months sketch from the challenge over at Cocoa Daisy which you can find here if you want to play along.

So life right now.
It's crazy, totally crazy.
I'm talking getting up at 6am to come down to the studio to start work and finish around midnight.
Trying to put laundry on, vacuum, clean bathrooms and fix dinners in between.

I'm setting up a new business right now.
You can read a little about it here.
Lollipop Box Club
Ade's taken this week off to build a website for me.
We've never done this before, so it's been an interesting week : )
We are getting there.

Funky Fairies is busy, so that on top is hard going, but good.

Kids are off school. Hollie is working hard on her GCSE's and going in extra to school lots.
We are so proud of her.

Her prom dress arrives this week.
Customs have had their hands on it unfortunately, not only cutting the bag open that it came in so it was hanging out when it arrived with the courier and really dirty, but they cut the insides of it too open. How upsetting!!
A new one is being made, we just hope it arrives in time.

So crazy and stressful.
That's how things are right now.
We will get there : )

Hugs xxx

What time is it???

It's 5'o clock!!
That's the April Cocoa Daisy Kit.
Don't miss reveal tonight.
8pm EST.


Check out some of the sneaks here.
Have fun and enjoy your weekend xxx

March cards

Hi,

I made a few cards with my Cocoa Daisy Scraps from my leftover March Kit.

It's a great way to use up kit scraps.

 

 

 

 

Happy Cards!!

 

Lisa x

Hello Hello!! Pleased to meet you baby raccoon

I love these photos of this baby raccoon.
Ade spotted him in a tree by our condo in Orlando.
He called us over and we stood watching it for so long.
It was a highlight of our trip.

 

This LO was made for this month's The theme to this challenge is 'hello'.

It could be:
- meeting someone
- a get-together
- seeing friends or family
- a reunion
- it could be the title of your page
- it could be a telephone conversation
There are many possibilities.

Come and join us with your LO here.

You can view the challenge details in full here.

 

 

So cute!!

I hope you come and play with us.

 

Lisa xx

 

Here's One I Made Earlier

Hello!!

I was going through my Orlando 2014 album recently and realised that I'd missed this LO that I made last year.

We had a fun afternoon at Epcot wandering in the heat. It was a scorching afternoon. We (Louis and I) took part in Agent P's Adventure. It's really cool. You get these little things that look like phones and you go on a mission answering questions and finding clues. It was so much fun. Louis really enjoyed it.



 

I'm battling a headache today and I have loads of work on so I'm keeping this short.

Hope you are well xxx 

 

Project Life - Happy Talk

I'm loving getting back into Project Life again.
Here is a page that I made with my March Cocoa Daisy Kit.

 

 

These colours just shout out Spring!!

 

You can view the other Cocoa Daisy DT Project Life pages here.

There's loads of inspiration.

Do you also scrap PL???

Let me know : )

 

xxx



You & Me .....On the go

I was going through my Florida photos and thought ' I like that one, I'll print it'.
And then realised that we were in the rest room and the loo was visible.
Nice!!

So I ended up making a thing about it rather than trying to hide it as I thought I may originally do.

 

I used the Heidi Swapp 'Love this' stamp as a border.

We have a Cocoa Daisy blog post here featuring this months stamps.

 

 

 

I hope you are having a good weekend.

It's a little of everything here.

Work, house chores, decorating, blog scheduling, an exciting trip planning and I'd like to squeeze in some scrapping too.

 

Have fun xxx