Egg Hunt

My kids are all in their twenties, but still love an Easter egg hunt in the spring.

This year was no different!
Papers are by Dear Lizzy, title uses an ancient alphabet stencil by Tim Holtz, stitched around and coloured. 

Engaged.

My eldest daughter gets married in October, here is a page of her with her fiance earlier this year.

A quick layout with a central design, papers are by Shimelle ( I think, it's been so long since I made the page).

Title is hand cut from papers.

Mrs P

Hannah has had two hamster during the past two years, her current pet is called Mrs P.  She is a very chubby little rodent!

She is so greedy one of the photos has her sitting in her food bowl! 

Again, I used the woodland stash and am delighted to say I finished the paper pad!

As hamsters are not long lived, I think it is important to get a few photos of it into Hannah's scrapbook. 

Hello NYC

A page with a variety of photos of famous New York landmarks on this layout.

More use of old stash, the NYC map on the background paper is probably around 7 or 8 years old at least.

The embellishments are cut from Passport patterned papers.

I was happy to get these random photos onto a layout and not just being left to rattle about in an old shoe box

Times Square.

Hannah and her fiance visited Times Square at night during their trip last summer.

Because of this, the photos were not great quality.

 To get around this problem,  I cut up a couple of the postcards they bought to add to the layout, along with the single good picture they took in the centre.

The papers are from an old Tim Holtz paper pad, with lots of Ali Edwards stamps cut out to embellish the page.

Play!

When the children were small, we used to take them to a local wood to walk and play.

Hannah and I revisited this old haunt last spring at the beginning of May.

As it was midweek, the woods were almost empty, so she had a great time in the playground without any children there!

Again I used old woodland themed papers for the layout. Glad to get these silly photos into her album.

Bluebell Woods

I took Hannah to the local bluebell woods in full flower after a long winter last year.

As ever, I took many photos including this selfie of the two of us.


Very old stash used to make the page, with an ideal woodland theme.

The fox was cut from the patterned papers.

Making use of poor photos

Whilst in New York, Hannah and Chris borrowed an Instax camera to take additional snaps.

Although the photos are immediate, the quality isn't great, so I just added them all to one page, good, bad and indifferent to make a feature of them.

 The title and embellishments are about the camera too.

Central Park

I made a pocket on this pa

ge behind the photos to include the map of the park that Hannah and Chris used.

The papers are mainly Maggie Holmes Carousel with an old Kaisercraft backing paper.

I cut the title using the Sizzix Deco XL die from green fun foam with paper from the pad glued on top.
I had the 12x12 chipboard sheet, along with a pack of die cut picked up in the sale, so (for once) I didn't have to fussy cut my embellishments.

Just Before...

A photo taken at the top of the Rockefeller Center of Hannah and Chris.

It was taken just before he proposed,  so I think that's why he's looking a little nervous!

The backing paper is very old, I thought is was ideal as it was an 'answer sheet'.

I made the title from a PL card, part brush script, part Thickers.

More NYC pages

I spent Mother's Day last month pleasing myself...scrapbooking!

I spent time catching up with Hannah's scrapbook completing some of the photos she took in New York last summer. 

This page is about the 9/11 Memorial Museum that they visited at the end of their visit.

As Hannah was at home on Mother's Day, she told me all about it so I could journal accurately.

The Ivy.

During February half term we took a day out to Birmingham on the hunt for wedding clothes.

We had breakfast in the Ivy, Hannah made the most of the photo opportunity outside the restaurant.

The papers are by Amy Tan, I also added Snarky word strips by Tim Holtz. 

The title is die cut with a Sizzix XL die, I also cut and punched embellishments from the paper pad.

Empire State Building.

I've been busy scrapbooking the photos my daughter and her fiance took on their trip to New York last summer.

I used a Tim Holtz die to cut the word 'explore', the papers are from old stash, I also tucked their tickets behind the photos.

The title is die cut from glittered fun b foam in gunmetal that I picked up in Hobby craft.

Still lots more NYC pages to make.

The Empire State Building.

Last August, my eldest daughter got engaged whilst on a trip to New York.

These photos and tickets are from their visit to the most famous skyscraper.

The papers are from the Passport range, along with an older paper pad in the background.

I cut the title using a Sizzix XL die (Deco) and some pewter glitter foam I bought in Hobby craft.  Great for making titles.
I made a pocket behind the page to slide tickets into too.

Below Stairs

Whenever we visit National Trust houses, I always enjoys seeing the areas below stairs, Wightwick Manor before Christmas was no exception.   The servant's hall was beautifully but simply decorated in comparison to the upstairs of the house.

Decorations were homemade, parcels wrapped in brown paper... it all made me think of how my ancestors probably celebrated Christmas.

I'm getting to the end of my Christmas crafting now, nearly time to clear the 12x12 Really Useful Box,  ready for next year!

  Just one more page to go.

The Ivy

I had a busy half term break, during the middle of it I went on a girls day shopping to Birmingham looking for wedding clothes and shoes.

Just three of us went along, my sister, daughter and I.

We started at The Ivy next to the cathedral for a lovely breakfast.

The food and service were both fabulous...well worth the price.

Although little was bought in the way of clothes, we did enjoy the day...

and even had cocktails back in Coventry before heading for home.

Shocking!

My eldest daughter reaches 27 today.  I know it's a cliché, but the years seem to fly by as the children have become adults. It's obvious she is grown up now as she asked for new bedding for her birthday!

I made her a card using Altenew layering dies (free with a Papercraft magazine), daffodils are perfect for the early spring...with the weather being unseasonably warm, they are growing quickly this year.

On the plus side, I made lots of flowers, enough to make Easter cards too.