Friends

A page from a journal on the circle journal I'm on over on UKScrappers. The background's coloured with Aquatone pencils and I decided to give my Stampotique girls a day out! The phrase is one of my favourites and reflects my weekly latte sessions with the girls from work!

I really enjoyed doing this and made a note to self - Journal more! 

Happy Birthday Sarah!

Happy Birthday Sarah! I hope you have a fabulous day and are thoroughly pampered and spoilt as a girl should be on her birthday! You deserve it after all your hard work and this little hop is to celebrate your birthday and to wish you loads more success in the future x 

You should have come here from Lisa and Candice and now it's on to Nicole. Enjoy the journey and thank you so much for having me on your DT! 

For anyone reading this and wondering what's going on, this is our Sarah Hurley Blog Hop for Sarah on her birthday and I'd love for you to join in and play along!

A bit of Gold and a Blog Hop!

I've been neglecting my blog lately-too much running around and not enough crafting time but I really hope this is me getting back on track again!

It's all gone golden over at Sarah Hurley's Challenge Blog. We want to see glitter,gold and sparkly twinkly things! I have started a few things but nothing's been turning out as I wanted so I've made an ATC (staying safe in my comfort zone). It's a decorative ATC for hanging on my wall and I used paper from Bookworm and I Love Paris with Wish Upon a Star Girl stamps (am loving these new stamps!)

Please come along and join us-can't wait to see the sparkle!

I'm linking this over at Handmade Monday-come along and join this fabulous community of crafters.

And now for the blog hop!

I love a blog hop. What better way to get around blogland and discover blogs and crafters you've never seen before.

Elaine, my fellow design team member at Sarah Hurley is relaunching her All Crafts Challenge at Sparkling Black Rose-Craft My Life and I'm pleased to be a part of her relaunch blog hop.

If you're on the blog hop trail you'll have arrived here via the fabulous Jaine's blog and her gorgeous notebook.. Next on the trail is Natalie so please pop along and see her fab layout.

I hope you have fun along the way and good luck!

Shades of Blue

It's exciting times over at Sarah Hurley. Not only is it time for a new challenge but Look Book Volume 3 is out and is exploding with lots of crafting inspiration-more of that later!

The challenge theme is Shades of Blue which straight away made me think of Sarah's I Love Paris kit (I'm so predictable!). My DT make is a fold out ATC book using paper,digi-stamp and embellishments from the kit. It's going to be part of a birthday present for a friend who loves Paris as much as I do.

Front of book

Folded out

Casually open!

I think this will make a nice alternative to a birthday card!

Now...the Look Book!

You can find the Look Book here on Sarah's blog. It's crammed pack of some fantastic crafting using a variety of Sarah's products and is a fabulous source of inspiration. Unfortunately I was ill (don't ask!) and didn't get my things finished in time but if I make a start now, I'll be more than ready for the next!

April Showers

Well the brief 'sunny' spell didn't last long and now we have rain again-which is good for us as the latest challenge theme over at ATCs with Attitude is April Showers!

Here's my ATC for the design team.

Come along and join us in our celebration of the good old English tradition  of rain. I'm just hoping that one the weather bucks up my mojo comes back from whichever sunny corner of the globe it's hiding in!

Sparkle!

Here I am late again and desperately searching for my mojo at the moment! I think it all ties in with this miserable winter weather. It's been anything but sparkly recently but we're asking for sparkly creations over at ATCs with Attitude.

I'm lucky to have the fabulous My Fair lady image by Sassy Studio Designs to work with. I had the best time colouring her and deciding on the right kind of sparkle for her! The lucky winner of this fortnight's challenge gets to chose four digi-images from Sassy.

I'm hoping that it's just my mojo that's gone walkies and we get to see some fabulous sparkly entries. I'm linking over at Handmade Monday because I know the wonderful crafters over there will inspire me to get a move on and get crafting!

The new challenge is up at Sarah Hurley - it's sponsored by Letraset and is all about character! We're looking forward to seeing all sorts of different characters, human, animal...vegetable?!

I made a thank you card using an image and papers from The Secret Rose Garden.

I really need to work on my colouring skills but I enjoy it and isn't that what counts?! Come along and join in-look forward to seeing some amazing characters.