OLW - Dream - (with mega give-away)

I have a little treat for you today.
Are you ready??

For those of you who follow the OLW challenge blog. You may have noticed that Februarys challenge got missed. Ronda hasn't been well for a while, but the good news is that she is back : )
Not only is she back but she's back with prizes.

We are making up for lost time at OLW. Not only have we got a challenge for you, but we now have 2 challenges plus prizes.  Each of us on the team is doing a give away. Cool eh?!
All you need to do is play along with us.
You can see the actual challenge on the OLW blog here.
You just need to be inspired by the 'one little word' and upload your LO/Project to the OLW blog. Easy!

So the words are: DREAM & CALM

I'll start with Dream.
I got sent some very lovely Simple Stories paper from a very sweet friend this month and knew instantly it was going to be a mini book.
I've now made a Disney Dream Book.  Everything we dream for, for our 2014 trip (207 days to go!!)
I'm so pleased with this.

It's quite a tall mini book and something I will continue to fill in these next few months before we go. These Simple Stories - Say Cheese papers are just so perfect!!

 

I'd had some personalised ribbon printed as a fun family gift at Christmas. At has 'The Abbott-Saunders Family printed on in Disney font with Mickey Heads. So I used some of this on the book.

 

 

The book is full of layers, all the pages are different sizes with something fun on every page.

 

 

Some favourite photos from the previous 2012 trip.

 

 

I used my new Mickey Punch quite a bit on this : )

 

 

We plan to be here on the first morning of our trip in October.

We are hoping to book breakfast with Winnie the Pooh which will give us early entry in to Magic Kingdom.

 

 

Everything is now booked and paid for. I've documented everything that has been booked.

 

 

 

Some journaling of our dreams for this trip.

 

 

 

 

  

Yay!! My Mickey Dreams Book!!!

And now for my Feb project :Calm
This was a little art therapy when things were a little crazy last month.

We'd love you to play along.  Just add your word inspired work related to Dream, Calm or both to OLW here.
Please leave a comment here when you have played and I will pick one lucky winner who will win this little lot.
There are 6 Cocoa Daisy Stamps plus Alpha Stickers, Lots of Journal Tags & Stickers, Wood Veneer, Doilees & some Chic Tags Goodies.
 

All the other OLW team members have give-ways too, so take a look here.
I hope you feel inspired.

Thanks for stopping by and good luck xxx

Blog Hop with SCRAP365 & PanPastels

Hello and welcome to our Back to Basics Blog Hop - part II...Awash With Colour!

Joining us on this hop are the lovely ladies from the Pan Pastel UK design team who work with these glorious dry pigment colours on a daily basis. 

 

We were lucky enough at SCRAP365 to be given some PanPastels to play with - think chalk (without the dust) but creamier and easy to blend, in a host of colours each with four tonal shades; Pan Pastels have had us all ooh and aahing at Scrap365 HQ!

Premium Craft Brands have donated a fantastic set of Donna Downey Pan Pastels for the lucky winner of our Blog Hop prize draw :)

Here is the list just in case you get lost:
 

Scrap365 and Ali's post - HERE!
 

Nikky Hall - http://nikkyhall.com/
 

Riikka Kovasin - http://paperiliitin.blogspot.co.uk/

Lou Sims - http://lulucardmaking.blogspot.com/

Sandra Przbylska - http://sandrap2206.blogspot.co.uk/

Tracy Easson -  http://queeniesscrapmad.blogspot.co.uk/

Lisa Saunders - http://scrappyfairies.blogspot.co.uk/

Terry Wietma Gerbes - http://www.cardscreativity.blogspot.co.uk/

Tracee Provis - http://stresstickled.blogspot.co.uk/

Claire Chapman - http://clairescraftycreations.blogspot.co.uk/

Natalie Macdonald - http://njmacs.blogspot.co.uk/

RETURN to Scrap365 to leave a comment for the prize draw :) -

http://scrap365.blogspot.com/


When choosing our PanPastels that we wanted to use we got asked to pick a colour combo.I went with this one.

It's funny people often assume that I'm a pinky person, but I'm not at all, I love blues and greens. I guess I am a water sign afterall.

I've made a couple of LO's for this blog hop using the PanPastels.
This is the first.

This is how it all started.
I had a couple of pieces of card that I'd kept. I used it to cut some circles and knew it would come in handy for this purpose.

 

Using the sponge I've applied the pastels.

And them moving it around, careful not to smudge, I got this.

 

 

I also took another sponge and my favourite sunburst mask to make this sun with a yellow pastel.

If you do smudge a little you can just use a rubber (eraser) to clean.

I've then worked on top of my pastels with some cute October Afternoon & Simple Stories Goodies.

 

 

The pastels really work well and feel great to use. I love how vibrant the colours are.

 

 

I made second LO here.

 

 

 I used a lime green and blended down the sides of my LO to add an extra touch of colour and them used the same lime green pastel through a star mask.

I love how this worked.

 

I can really see myself getting hooked on these pastels now. They are so fun to use.

I hope you've enjoyed your time on my blog.
It's now time for you to visit:

Terry Wietma Gerbes - http://www.cardscreativity.blogspot.co.uk/

And a big thank you from me to PanPastel for the wonderful pastels. A big thumbs up from me : )

Lisa xx 

My Lovely Scrappy Friend

Her name is Curlywiggles and this is she.

We met at a local crop last year : )
She scrapped this photo of us earlier on in the week and instagrammed it, so I thought I would scarp the photo too.
I used the new sketch on the Chic Tags blog for inspiration along with lots of cute Chic Tags goodies.
  

 

The sketch is a 2 photo sketch, but I replaced the other photo with a journal card.

 

 

You can see the sketch I used here.

 

I'm having one of those crazy busy weeks. Lots going on in every direction. But it's all good. No complaints, just busy trying to be superwoman.

Hey!! Maybe I should make myself a cape??!!

 

Lots of love xxx 

 

I had an idea

Back in 2003.
Patrica, who I work alongside at Cocoa Daisy set us a challenge this month. To scrap about ourselves and use circles too. This is what I came up with.

 

I had so much messy fun making this LO.

 

 

You can read more about this LO here and see Paricia's LO too. 

Lots of love xxx

 

Time Together

Hello.
I hope you had a good weekend.
Ikea, lunch with friends, new bedlinen and a little Spring Cleaning sums my weekend up!

I'm designing for Papermaze today.
Spring is having an effect on my scrapbooking.

You can read about the LO's over on Papermaze here today.

Thanks for stopping by xxx

Hello!! (I have a freebie for you)

It funny how sometimes cousins can be more alike than their siblings.
Hollie and Millie are a great example of that.
Millie, my 5yr old niece is just like Hollie was at that age.
Not only do they look like sisters, but they are so alike in many ways.

 

It's funny as Hollie doesn't like little children, but she is so good with Millie and wants to spend time and to play with her.

These very cool arrows and tags come from the very talented Martha. Martha designs for Cocoa Daisy along with me and is the owner of 'Panda Eight'.

 

These were printables via Cocoa Daisy that I just printed off myself, cut out and stuck to the page with 3d foam tape.

 

 

Martha has a free printable available for you here.

I'm just printing mine off now. They are really cute little journal cards.

 

 

 I hope you like the freebie.
Martha's stuff is pretty cool, I think you'll agree : )

The Cocoa Daisy girls have been playing with these printable too this week.
Come and see here. You can see the link for the same free printables there too.

Enjoy the freebie xxx

A Day in the Life

What does a day in your life look like?
Do you document it?

I'm up to mid Feb in my PL Album.
I really regretted not getting the 'day in the life' kit from Cocoa Daisy this month, but made my page using my main kit and bits and pieces from the Blue Ridge addon.

It was a pretty uneventful week. The rain was still coming down. I took a photo out the front of our house one day. It was so bad.

I documented how awful the late night storms had been and how scary and all the trees that had come down in the village. There was a visit to my sister for her birthday. (that's our hands making a heart together)

 

I love the October Afternoon Washi so much. It's so cool!! 

I made a little pocket with the glassine envelope from the kit.

 

 

So that's what this week looks like.

Pretty uneventful, but I like looking back on the album as it's increasing in size. I'm so pleased that I started it.

 

 

There are some great tips for Project Life on the Cocoa Daisy blog today. 

Thanks for popping in xxx

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

My Favourite Girls & an Urge to Scrap!

Do you ever find, the less time you have to scrap, the more you feel the need and want to scrap?

That always seems to happen to me.
Take yesterday as an example.
Crazy busy day. A couple of bad nights sleep. Hollie came home from school sick again and my scrappy mojo suddenly kicks in. I need to make pancakes before Louis goes to footy training, I have work to do in the evening, Louis comes home from training hurt.....and my head wants to scrap.

I gave in and allowed myself little scrappy breaks early in the evening.
I went on to the Chic Tags Blog, found a challenge.
Just a few minutes at a time.
And I made this. 

 

The challenge was to use 'green'.

Hollie took this selfie on my IG when we were last at my sister's of her, my Mum and my little niece. Looking at this, my other fave girl isn't there : (   My sis.

 

  

 

Hollie and Millie could pass as sisters. They are so alike in so many ways.

I used lots of Chic Tags goodies on this LO. I love all the tags and bits and pieces. The circles below were made using a punch and the Chic Tags packaging.
Nothing quite like a little recycling!!

It just goes to show that you don't have to spend hours when you have the urge to scrap.
Having a scrap space does help as you can come and go and leave a project out, but this LO was made in just a short space of time in several little scrappy bursts and I finished off with the sewing at the end of the day when the kids were in bed and I'd finished work.
I'm glad I allowed myself this time.
I needed it : )

Hope you are feeling creative and get a scrappy fix today.
Here's that Chic Tags challenge if you fancy a little boost too.

xxx

March Sketch Challenge - He is 12

It's time for another sketch challenge.
The Cocoa Daisy sketch is up here.

I am partial to the odd circle : )
Here's my take using this months lovely kit.

This challenge runs until 18th March if you want to play.
Come and join in.

xxx

Our Gallery Wall

Yes, it's finally finished!!
After months and months of preparation, it's finally finished and up.

I've shared a whole blog post on the stories behind the pieces and how it all came together on Cocoa Daisy here.

Everything has a meaning.... like want to know why foxes?

 

Or the story behind the map?

It's all here.

 

 

And I added an extra bit about using a piece on this wall from this months March Cocoa Daisy kit too.

 

 

I hope you enjoy.

Happy Monday xxx