I’ve continued my mini house creating in a Christmas theme! First I made a little Peppermint House, a variation on a Gingerbread House. I used red striped paper as the base of the house wall colour and then added window frames and candy canes painted with stripes and covered with Glossy Accents, and I covered…
Welcome to my first post for Southern Girls Challenge Design Team! The theme for this challenge is ‘Anything Goes’ so I thought I’d share with you my December Daily. My book is 4 inches square, and I used Distress Oxides for the background of this cover. I added die cuts of the ornaments and gingerbread…
It is that time of year again – getting my December Daily ready! This year I’ve chosen to use Simple Stories Claus & Co range, a lovely clean colour range. I did an Album-in-a-Day class with Vicki Boutin, and I used some of the techniques I learned with her. And I matched with with Barn…
I still have some quite old photos in need of layouts! I found these photos from the first Blenheim Toy Run in 2009. I found a Creative Scrappers Sketch, number 276 that I thought would be perfect for these photos (with a few tweaks)Using Making Memories Mistletoe Big Red Dot paper and black cardstock as the base,…
Here are the last four tags from my 12 Tags of Christmas inspired by Tim Holtz 2011 12 Tags of Christmas, I finished the off on Christmas Eve – it was great to spend a hot afternoon, in my cool studio! Tag number 9 uses a faux enamel technique with Distress Ink and heat embossing,…
Welcome to our last Imagine If…Blog Hop for the year! If you have come from Carol’s Blog you are in the right place, and if you want to start at the beginning you can go to the Imagine If… Blog. We are doing books and boxes this week, so I took this opportunity to document…
Welcome to our Imagine If…Stocking Blog Hop, if you’ve come from Lillian’s blog you’re in the right spot, and you can start at the beginning with Jo’s post at the Imagine If…Blog. This week Jo at Imagine If… gave us a challenge: she sent us all a lovely burlap stocking each, and we were to…
As promised, here are the first two tags from Tim Holtz 12 Tags of Christmas 2011 that I’m doing over December this year. I love Tag number 1, all the gorgeous greenery and the pinecones with the glitter above! I reduced the wintery look a bit with a swirl embossing folder rather than snowflakes, and…
We have another Imagine If… Blog Hop today, more Christmas Trees, and some special Christmas projects. If you’vee come from Tash’s Christmas Tree Blog then you’re in the right place, and you can start at the beginning at the Imagine If…Blog. I’ve made a few Jacob’s Ladder books in the past, but not for a…
Last year was the first year I did a December Daily, a similar concept to the travel journals I do when we go away. This year I had a Tim Holtz Small Folio that I decided to use, and I chose Basic Grey Evergreen for my Christmas theme this year – I love the colours…
