colour challenge

This month is a colour challenge at Truly, Madly, Crafty challenges,


gorgeous spring colours to give some inspiration!

I knew straight away that I would A use some new Dear Lizzy Neopolitan papers and B photos I took of Freya on her birthday holding a yellow balloon! Here is what I came up with:


If you'd like to join in with the challenge there are two prizes on offer this month, make sure you leave a link on the challenge page!

new kits at Truly, MAdly, Crafty

I had the pleasure of working with the new kits available at Truly, Madly, Crafty this month, loved all the products in there, so check out what I did with it here and go grab your self a little box of happy!

Here's a little tag I made using the kit:


Have a happy weekend,

Annie x

OWOT week 7!

Bit late posting this as it was from last weekend, but trying to get caught up...

February Technique - Stamping

This Week's Word - Love

I don't do a lot of stamping, although I do own quite a few stamps as I do love them! But I wouldn't normally stamp on a layout, so I thought I would take this approach for this weeks prompt. I decided to take a slightly different path for the 'love ' prompt and rather than a page about the people I love I decided to do one on my love of ITALY!!

Here's a photo taken as I was putting the page together. I used a heart stamp to create a background on the blue card stock, a small alphabet stamp set to create the title, a foam heart stamp to make the smaller hearts.


I used an Amy Tangerine paper for the background, some bakers twine from My Minds Eye, Crate Paper Farmhouse paper, a very old Imaginisce paper and some pink and brown ink and an Elles Studio date tag! I added the word happiness stamped with brown ink using an old Heidi Swapp library stamp around the journalling.


Here's a close up of the stamping.


So, hope you join us in using your stamps this week and if you make something lovely, please link us up!

Happy creating!

Annie x

Scrapbook Magazine

I have a layout commission in the new issue of Scrapbook magazine, which I loved doing. I was sent a little kit from Pickleberry papercrafts and we could use it how we liked. I had these lovely photos of Freya in a poppy field and I knew they would go great together.


The mag is full of great pages, ideas and lovely papers and embellishments to drool over!

OWOT prompt 3!

is up over at Truly, Madly, Crafty! This week it was my turn and I just had fun with paint, book pages, quotes and words. It was nice just to let go with the paint, not really worry about what was going on the page and building up layers and texture. Here's some pics of what I did.

January Technique - Paint

This Week's Word - Relax

I have decided to use an old A4 diary to house all my pages for this project, so whether they be scrapbook or more art journal focused they will all be together, which is fine.

I started off by covering my page with some acrylic paint (parchment)

Next I grabbed some watercolour paints and roughly painted over the base paint in blues.

then I added some greens

To add some interest and texture I ripped some strips from an old book and stuck them down, used a lid with white paint on to add some circles and used paint on a piece of card to squish some paint patches onto the page too. I just had fun and did what I felt like to add texture to the pages.

I found a quote I wanted to use, typed it up, printed it out and stuck it the right hand page and added some journalling on a piece of notepaper. I printed out a small photo of my family and stuck this in too. I used a Jenni Bowlin paint dabber in cough syrup around the left edge and made circles across the bottom. I added an Elles studio tab to the top too. To finish off I used some Maya mist in silver and rose pink.

Here is the finished page below:



Leave a comment if you create something!

Annie x

Saying goodbye to 2011

The new challenge up at Truly, Madly, Crafty is 'anything goes' for the month of Jan, so basically a free reign on this one. But seeing as it was the end of the year i decided to do a page about 2011 and some of the memorable things we did. I really enjoyed going through my photos and choosing which ones to put on the page, that in itself was a good thing to do. I was really pleased with how it turned out and it is now stuck on the wall in our kitchen/dining room for all to see! Why don't you go and make something and join in the challenge!



There is also a new year long challenge going on, which is the ONE WORD, ONE TECHNIQUE challenge, you can read all about it here. I am really looking forward to getting started on this new journey and hope to do each one so it builds into a nice set of pages/projects! Let me know if you are going to join us!

2.01.12

Really, I thought I'd posted more recently than that?!!!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!! Where did 2011 go?

Looking forward to a year filled with lots of crafty things, new projects and making time for more things here! You are welcome to follow the journey through 2012!