Because sometimes you just want to play

That's what this LO was all about.

I usually love to scrap a story, but there are those time where you just want to play.

This was one of those times.

It was about the paints and the pastels and the stencils and the mists and the pretty papers and that gorgeous washi tape.   

I just fancied getting messy fingers.

And the funny thing is. I only scrapped that photo a couple of weeks ago and I didn't even realise until I put it in my Orlando 2014 album and saw the other LO.

Sometimes you just get carried away with pretty product.

The March Cocoa Daisy Kit is on sale now.

Don't miss out!!   

Have a wonderful Wednesday xxx

Crazy Chipmunks & a Sketch

Hello!!!!


I have some crazy chipmunks for you today.
Chip & Dale.
The kids love meeting these two at Disney.
It's my turn to host this months sketch challenge over at Cocoa Daisy.
This sketch was perfect for me to adapt to include all my photos.

There was a time when I would usually only scrap the one photo. Funny how you change over time. 

The few whimsy pieces in this months CD kit was just right for my page. That's something that I love about getting a kit. Pulling out bits and pieces. I think if you were to look at my previous LO on my blog and then this one, you wouldn't think that they were from the same kit.   

 

These two were so funny. When it was our turn, Chip came up right close to Ade's camera and then started messing around with Hollie's hair. Dale was with Louis. When it was time for the main photo Chip tried to push Louis out of the photo. It was so much fun watching the kids laugh and mess around. Something I love about Disney. They can turn from being stroppy teens to giggly 6yr olds again. I love it!!   

We'd love you to join us and play along with this sketch challenge.

See here for full details.

You have 2 weeks to play and 1 winner gets a $10 coupon to spend in the Daisy store.

Have fun xxx 

 

Hello Again - Happy Moments Here

The Cocoa Daisy March reveal was last night.
Being a shorter month the 'Hello Again' kit goes on sale today.
You can view it here.

I loved this kit so much.
This is the first LO that I made with it this month.

 

I painted watercolours as my base and then cut up the Crate Paper in to triangles. I then took a Crafters Workshop Stencil and spread moulding paste through and let dry before adding the photos and the other bits and pieces. I also stitched around the outside.

 

 

I made a cute little flag too with a cocktail stick.

I love the excited feeling heading out on a trip.

Happy times!!!

 

Lisa xx

 

 

  

Family Treats

Hello : )

I'm still here, or just about anyway.
I have to except I think that I don't scrap or blog well during my busy work months.
I should just be happy and enjoy the moments that I do get instead of stressing about it.

I did mange to do a LO and 3 cards this week.
I still had so much of my June Cocoa Daisy kit left and it's so beautiful this month that I couldn't just leave it sitting there.
So today I have put together a new blog post for Cocoa Daisy all about using frames on our work. What they do and different ways to use them.
I have used several pieces from different Cocoa Daisy designers so please come and check it out here.

As a taster, here's my piece.

 

 

All about our favourite family treat.

We go to our local hotel 'The Village' and get wings and fries. We take our Florida Books and ipad and plan our Florida trips .In the summer we sit outside and in the colder months we cozy up near the fire. We love it here.

 

I also made some cards for this blog post which are on the Cocoa Daisy blog today.

 

Thanks for staying with me during my busy times.

Have a great day xx  

Having some kinda Crate Paper fun

Yes I have been doing just that.
I love the collection 'Fourteen' by Crate.
It's me.
Hearts, pinks, some blue. Fun with a little vintage thrown in.
Love it.

Ade and I are throwing a Valentines dinner party in a couple of weeks.
You can read more about it here as I'm making and blogging for Papermaze today.
Here's a little look at what I've been making with the lush 'Fourteen' goodies.

So much fun and I love party planning.
I have a navy dress that would be perfect for this night. It has a heart shape cut out on the chest, but I would need to loose a little weight first. Might just have ti wear something else instead : )

Please leave me some love on Papermaze today, thanks xxx

Introducing 'Love Letters' - Cocoa Daisy

I'm so proud of this little project kit that I've put together for Cocoa Daisy.

It's so special to me.

I've just posted all about it on the Cocoa Daisy blog here if you fancy seeing more photos, hearing the story behind it and finding out how to buy it.

Please let me know what you think after you read the post.

Thanks : )

Lisa xx

Scrapping the Everyday

Hello to you on this fine Autumn day.
The sun is shining, the sky is blue and the leaves outside my studio are orange.
Love!!

Being a scrapper, it's always fun to scrap the main events in life.
The birthdays, the lovely days out, the special moments, but sometimes it's really easy to not bother with the everyday.
I scrapped this LO for Papermaze recently.


I love this photo that I took of my button jars that line the window ledge in my studio.
I just love this window. I find the colours so inspiring. A burst of colour really does lift my mood.
I think that's why most of my Lo's tend to be so colourful. It makes me happy. All of my favourite projects I make are the bright colourful ones.



I used papers from Crate Peppermint and drew around a small plate to get my circle and then stitched all the way around.
Then using glossy accents, I stuck all these buttons in place.
You can read the full blog post at Papermaze here.

Papermaze are still sorting out after the fire.
The remainder of stock is still half prize. You can see what's left here.



My teamies at LESSology have been busy making mobiles.
You can check out what they've made and play along here.
This challenge is sponsored by the lovely Nikki Sivils.



Back to work for me now : )
Thanks for stopping by xxx

Scrapping with Lists

Hiya,

Just a quick one today as I need to rush off to school.
I wanted to share with you this LO I made using Crate Paper 'peppermint'.
It's actually a christmas collection, but I'm not big into Christmas scrapping so I like a line that can be used as non christmas too.
This is line is perfect for this.


What I love about the Crate collections are the accent cards that come on the one 12x12 paper.
I decided my journaling was going to be in list form for this LO.
I'm a big fan of journaling, but if you do struggle, lists are a great way to combat this problem.


I love the circles on this pp. I handcut some out and then stitched loosely.


You can read more details on the Papermaze blog here.

Better go wrap up now and get that raincoat out : (

Lots of love xxx

Summer 2011 Mini Book

For those of you who haven't heard, sadly, there was a fire at the Papermaze premises last week. You can read about it on their blog here.
Thankfully no ones was hurt, but due to the loss of stock, the website and shop are closed whilst they get themselves sorted.

The blog is still running though.
I made this mini recently using the Accent Cards which come in a 12x12 sheet from Crate Paper - Emma's Shoppe. You can see it on the blog here.


I've used 2 sheets of this paper and cut the cards up and backed them up with the doubles. The sheets are double sided, this this way you get to see both sides and it makes the mini book feel sturdier.



This is a gift for my neice Millie after she came to stay with us for a few days in August.


I love that these cards offer plenty of space for journaling.



But not too much that you feel you need to write essays.



Ans space for photos too.



And sweet picture cards.



I teamed this paper up with the alpha sticker sheet that matches. Giving lots of alphas and cute stickers too. The perfect ingredients to make a quick mini book.



Thanks for stopping by xxx

Loving Random and a Winner

Isn't this sunshine just fab!!
I made the decision to change tonight menu from lamb meatballs and persian rice to a bbq : ) Peri Peri chicken, cous cous salad and green salad now.
Got to make thos most out of this hot weather.

I have the latest Sketchy Thursdays Sketch today.
This is what I made.



I love this photo taken on a water ride with Louis at legoland.
And here's the sketch.


I love this Crate collection 'Random' from Crate. This colours are so me. I love that blue.
I bought a 12x12 sticker sheet to match with the alphas, words, tags and allsorts.



We are sponsored by Freehand Scraps this week. A yummy kit is up for grabs.


I also have my winner to announce.
Thanks again for all the sweet comments re the new SCRAP365 venture.
One person was picked at random.

Blogger Lisa-Jane said...
Every time I visit a blog I'm getting more excited about the new mag. I'm new to inky hands but I love your style and I'm enjoying playing.
22 September 2011 22:08

Lisa-Jane, please email me at : lisa@funkyfairies.co.uk with your address and I'll pop your goodies in the post to you : )

Enjoy the weekend. It's going to be a hot one in the UK.
love

lisa xxx

Something to Share

I do, today I have something to share.
First off is our lovely new sketch from Sketchy Thursdays.
I love this weeks and will be using it over and over.
I created this using some Crate loveliness.
(click to enlarge)


I feel so happy to have been asked to stay on at Sketchy Thursdays again.
I love this family so much. I think I must be into my second year with them now.
Their sketches never disappoint and Heidi and Diana are two of the sweetest girls ever.
Thank you for having me again.
You can join in this week here. We are sponsored this week by 'Your Memories here'.
Who have donated some Tim Holtz limited addition Distress Inks.
The new Sketchy Thursdays Team was announced yesterday. Congratulations to our new girls. Looking forward to playing along side you x Really pleased to see The Green Horned Unicorn lady joining us again : ) I just love Antonia's blog. Her style is so different to mine. Really clean. But I'm so drawn in and find her so inspirational. They say opposites attract eh?!!


So, back to my LO. I've sidetracked.
I have these cute photos of Hollie and our neice Millie taken last month. We all went strawberry picking whilst Dad was over. Hollie and Millie were sitting in the field, all alone and Hollie fed Millie strawberries. (Much to Louis' disapprovable as they were obvioulsy stolen) It is normal to test a few when you PYO though isn't it?!! Louis really struggles with this.

My photos were too green for the green Crate background, so I plastered on some moulding paste and splodged some Yellow Ranger Acrylic Paint in with it too for contrast. Once dry I misted over a Maya Road wooden heart to get that look above.
Punched some daisies from cardstock that was in the bin and added some teeny Fancy Pants buttons.
I recently found my uberlong stapler (so chuffed) so can now staple wherever I want again.


Now I do also have something rather exciting and rather big to share.
But I have to keep that to myself until after 6pm. So pop back then : ) (if you want to that is!!)
And in the meantime I shall work a little, have another latte, start a CD LO, finish a project I've started, collect kids from school and look after a friends two aswell.
I kind of wanted to bake a pear upside down cake for after school, but I think that's pushing it a little too far seeing as I have to go to school in 1hr30.

Back later xxx

Gleefully Crate

Today the sun is shining.
It's rained just about every day this week
I've had a full on work week again and have barely been near any scrappy supplies.
So today to cheer my little blog up I am posting this LO I made a short while ago.



Using a whole mish mash of Crate.
We sometimes take the ball to this park, make a goal with a couple of hoodies and play footy. Hollie is always very cautious as she doesn't want anyone to see her that knows her, but every now and then she forgets and has fun.




I punched 4 butterflies out and stuck a cocktail stick between too.



This page makes me feel rather summery.




And incase you are wondering what I'm upto this weekend....

Well, I shall be hanging out with this little lot : )



Not quite hanging out, but watching at the London O2 anyway.
A group of us are going including my lovely friend Nicky who's coming to stay the weekend with me.
Aren't we lucky??!!

I also wanted to let you know that I will be starting a weekly inspiration challenge over at Cocoa Daisy starting this Monday throughout the summer.
I hope you will join me there.

Whatever you have planned this weekend, I do hope it's a fun one.
Enjoy : )
xxx

Looking for a Pen?

I've tarted up this little pot for Papermaze this week.
It was chocolate chips and now thank to these Crate Paper 'Snow Day' papers is now a fancy little pen pot.
It will be heading my sister's way this Christmas. The colours fit her kitchen perfectly and she can never find a pen.



Please check out Papermaze blog for details of how I made it and the links for supplies.

xx

Waffling Wednesday

Hello!!!!

I'm having a bit of a catch up today.
I think I'm starting to feel back in control again after a hard few weeks.
I'm up to date with work, I have fresh groceries in the fridge, a decent family meal was cooked last night with a full menu written for this week, house is tidy (except for those usual Ade areas)Christmas cards are made and written. Tree is bought ready for next week, shopping almost done, so I'm feeling ok.
Bring it on!!!!!

I made this page a while ago for Papermaze.
Remember when Ade and I met Anna in London back in October?
This photo was taken on the London Eye. A silly snapshot, but it's one of my favourites : )
I used lots of the Crate Restoration. I still love this collection.
You can read more about this page, the layering and the supplies here.



Another project for Papermaze.
I used My Little Shoebox papers for this card, some paint for the background and this cute Martha Stewart Butterfly Border Punch.




And a card using a sketch from Card Patterns and papers from Sassafras.



And lastly here is my recent page made for Twisted Sketches. I showed a sneak from this a couple of weeks ago.
The new sketch will be up later today.



I now have some Fancy Pants projects to work on and something for Papermaze too.
I quite fancy a craft day : )

Thanks for stopping by xxx

Another week ahead.
Nothing major planned.
The sun is shining.
Work is busy this week.
And I'm still feeling very happy about getting together with such great friends at the weekend. Good friends are worth their weight in gold aren't they?!!

I managed to scrap a fair bit at Sue's. Amongst some DT projects, I joined in with The Color Room this week. I always intend to join in, but don't manage it as often as I would like. Here's this weeks colour pallete.



So here's my LO. My negative child. As often as he makes me laugh, he makes me roll my eyes. Here we go again. ''I've had the worst day ever''....''This is the worst meal I've ever eaten''.....''I hate school''.....or today quite chirpy...''I'm not going to school today Mummy''.
So quite chirpily back I just answered ''Ok, that's fine. That's a shame though as you won't be able to tell Oliver that you can't go to his party''.
I try not to react and just reply as upbeat as possible. Every now and then reminding him of all the good things.

(click photo)


I've used the Restoration Collection from Crate Paper. It arrived at the end of last week and I LOVE it. I can see me needing more of this.
I handcut these leaves, 'ruffed' up the edges with scissors, inked and then hand stitched the centres.



The background was made by laying a die cut sheet over part of the page and spray misting quite lightly.
Once the page was finished I splattered it with some Tattered Angels Sunflower glimmer mist.



Thanks for stopping by xxx