December Daily...

I am thrilled to put the finishing touches to my December Daily from 2012!  My intention is to display it every Christmas on the coffee table.

It is a converted notebook, painted in acrylic white with ModPodge smeared over the top. I used pretty papers and a Prima flower to decorate the cover.


Here are a selection of my favourite pages.  The majority of papers are from Fancy Pants Designs Saint Nick 6x6 scrap pad.  I used embellishments from various sources including general craft items, from Studio Calico kits I subscibe to and scraps of paper floating around my desk.

What fabulous memories this book captures! I am not at all up-to-date with my photos so it is great to have fairly recent memories scrapped.  I am starting my DD for 2013.

Thanks for coming into my garden...
                                                    Jan x

Project Life layout...

Mary, my 14yo, took to making a scrapbook layout using the Project Life core kits, like a duck takes to water. She chose cards from the core kits Honey, Kraft and Midnight editions and combined them into what I think is a fab design. The photos she used are from 2006 taken in London with her travelling Beanie Kid, Fairy Floss. What do you think?

Stitching on the beach...

Beach stitching has been plentiful during this holiday! The sun has been shining this Spring so between sandcastle building and board games, stitching has been had.

Here is the progress on the Shepherds Bush Christmas stocking. It is stitched on 18 ct natural linen with DMC Pearl Cotton no 5.

Jan x

New Use for Washi Tape...

This pale-pink cursive writing washi tape came with my September Studio Calico main kit. I fell totally in love with it!

Who would have thought that the first time it was used would be to hold fishing line in place? There was no sticky tape at the beach house so luckily I had bought some scrapping gear with me on our holiday and we could use the washi instead!

Jan x

First Scrapbooking YouTube video!!!

Hello lovely readers,

It has been a dream of mine for a while to have a crafty YouTube channel. My 12yo son made that a reality by setting up a YouTube channel for me for my birthday!  What a special gift. He made the banner, thumbnails and music himself.

I have made two cross stitch videos and now have uploaded my third video which is a scrapbooking video.

Check out my Studio Calico August 2013 main kit review:

here

 

The August Marks & Co Studio Calico main kit was up there with being one of my favourite kits I have received over the last 12 months.  It is equal first with the February 2013 main kit called Front Row.

 

Happy scrapping...

                          Jan x

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Mail eye candy...

Look what arrived in the post today...

 

 

Isn't this the prettiest envelope?  It is from Kellie at Give a Girl a...Stamp Shop. Check out her sweet blog and shop.

 

Next was the unwrapping.  I will definitely use the envelope and embellishments in a scrapbooking layout.

 

Then finally the unveiling of the delicious stamps inside. This was a prize I won for sketch the layout at Life Project Scrapbook.

 

 I am in total love with these stamps. They will be so useful on my layouts particularly as I seem to use date stamps nearly all of the time.  The tag and arrow stamps are so cute  and versatile too.

 

To all those Aussie mums out there...happy Mother's Day on Sunday. Maybe you will be spoilt with crafty time over the weekend.

 

                                                                                                         Jan x