50th Paper Bag Album

 This is for a friend and colleague. I bought the bags ages ago and have been looking for an excuse to make something with them and I now have it. The above along with some Tena when they are purchased - oh and the matter of the main gift, are the contents of the 5 bags :o)

The back pages have been left for all of us to sign when I provide the white card to everyone to write their insults  best wishes on.

This also completes the missing week on 52 Card Challenge for which the word Happy was the prompt - I'm happy it's finished although not sure recipient will be as happy :p

52 card challenge

Behind again!!!! gah, will I ever keep up - doubt it! These are from Week 7's prompt  pastel colours.

I wasn't sure of these to start with and had little bits of each one done at different stages but once I finished them all I love them! These are cute little cards that will come in handy when you just need a card!

I started with a 12 x 12 in blue and decided to use it all up and made 3 cards. I'm stash busting this year and they are all inkeeping with this - the acetate is one I've had stamped for a few months in my handmade box, the flower is some circles I cut from scraps a while back as a way of using them onlyIi never have! the ribbon is what dh cut from the bandage he wrapped round my thumb on Saturday after I sliced it with my craft knife. oh and the butterfly decal is from a set of laptop stickers I thought might be useful one day. the stamps are mainly from a large set I got a while back which included a box full of die cut matts and I used one of these on the birdie one. Most of the stamps are Kanban.

Oh, can I also point out, Mrs Thrift here salvaged the bandage from the bin, they were about to be thrown as they don't comply with health and safety as they are past the use by date - bonkers!!!!

This is just too cute!!!!!!

I was taking Adam to my local craft group and needed something for him to be entertained with and found this fab Captain Jack image by Octopode and since he is Adams current hero it was perfect. Adam loved being allowed to colour his copy with free range of the ProMarkers! He also managed to help me choose new ones to add to the collection :o

This is for a friend who loves films, hence the film strip. The wax seal was once a crayola crayon gathering dust in Adams play room. I loved making the backing for this - lots of Dylusions (really hoping the old collection of colours gets transferred to Ranger asap as I just couldn't stretch to them before they disappeared.

This is also the first real image I have coloured in and I'm quite proud of it!

Oh, I almost forgot the thrifty bits. The craft card is a left over from another project i.e. the Black Pearl ship card, the script matt is one I played at a long while back and was lonely in my box of handmade paper/card and the coin and chain were donated to me from a friend who no longer wanted her necklace - lucky me!

Love is in the air!!!!

This is my Week 5 card for UKScrappers 52 card challenge. The prompt was simply 'aperture'! I was playing making an acetate backing paper with alcohol inks and pearl glue. I hand drew the hearts in the glue then added the inks - I can't remember the ink names but there is a pale pink (maybe pink sherbet), cranberry (I think) and green lettuce (again I think). Then I panicked a bit when I realised next Tuesday was valentines and I ought to make something for Mark. Looked at the cards I needed to make for the challenge, I'm still behind, and chose wk 5. I hand drew the heart and cut it out (rather smug and a little more than pleased with it!) then panicked again with where this was going. Looked at stamping and settled on masking. I had cut out flowers with the remaining acetate but a: the punch DID not like that, I had to put it between post its, b: looked yuk when I put them on. So I quickly tore a spiral rose and inked it to match the inks on and around the card and found the die cut leaf in my now nicely sorted die cuts!

My Own Challenge(s)

I set this challenge for my crafty friends. The prompts were 1) Use something you have had in your stash for a long time and never used, 2) bunting 3) circles. This paper is off, I think, Scrapbook Factory's disc and I printed it off a lifetime ago to use and never did, when I've been sorting my scrap paper out recently I found it and still find it so beautiful. Along with the idea of trying oh so hard to use up stash I've had for an age, I'm also trying to make cards that have a purpose - I have such a collection sitting sad and lonely that I don't want to add to it, so this will find it's way to my friends on their Anniversary! I have to say, after last nights update and this one, I'm surprised to find just how much crafting I have achieved this year given I didn't think I'd done very much at all!

Savvy!

This is my darling at the moment! The one you just can't stop looking at - you all know what I mean! To some it may not look much, to some you may wonder what I see in it but to me it is my baby! It was initially an idea I had for the 52 card challenge on UKS where the promp was bunting/pennants/flags and I drew a sketch of a boat. Adam got the Pirates of the Caribbean 'Black Pearl' for Christmas and I thought it would be cool to be different - no tea party bunting here, no sir!!!! Then I kind of got carried away and set to making it as close to the Black Pearl as I could with my limited or should I say, complete lack of artistic talent! Oh, don't get me wrong, I can glue and stick and sometimes make pretty papers with ink, but art, nope! I can't draw, paint or colour in. But I did manage to draw this boat, cut it out, work out just how the sails needed to be drawn and cut out and although the Jolly Roger isn't perfect, I think I did a fairly good job for an amateur! Adam is as blown away with it as I am - only problem is a: his birthday isn't until August, b: he's seen it!

This is also a 2012 thrift item as all card stock was from my scrap (even the 8 x8 was the other half to one chopped up for tags), the cannons are very old peel-offs and the sentiment I don't even remember getting but they have been in a folder for a very long time!

I may have a few of these to do

Given there is currently around 4 inches of snow just landed today and last year we were convinced we had been abducted by aliens and moved to Siberia, there are just one or two photos of child and hound playing in the snow in the Lillipad family albums! These photos are just a small amount from 2009 and one of the downsides to scrapping is not being able to use them all - well, you could if you locked all the doors, unplugged the phone, gave up eating and didn't sleep I suppose!

I love the photo of Cherie pulling the branches of a tree, she really is trying to get it to play with! Snowballed out, only so many 'magic disappearing balls' will keep her entertained before she's in search of new fun!

I do have another photo from this collection I'd like to scrap so this may have to become a double layout!

Oh, one of my missions for 2012 was to use old stash to make some room for new, which in turn helps pennies wise as I can't spend until I have the room to house. Well, the trees and journo scrap were from my Christmas box I keep adding to and never using and the bling flakes were removed from Christmas crackers a few years back - way too pretty to bin!!!! I really could do with a tag for 2012 thrift.