Upstairs Downstairs

Here is a page I started yesterday and finished this afternoon. It's of when we went to Dumbarton Castle in Scotland with my Aunt & Uncle from England. We had a great time there and I do like these pictures and they turned out well on this page. I called it "Upstairs Downstairs" as we climbed a lot of stairs that day! I started with sage green cardstock and 2 different patterned papers. For one of them I used Artiste to cut out the great half scallop piece with the holes. I also used Artiste to cut out the scalloped circle with the journalling and the font. I tied some twine through the holes and used Life's a Party to cut out the little castle. I went around it with glitter gel pen to make it sparkle a bit. I used some Epoxy stickers to finish.

Glasgow Cathedral

Here is a page I did today, I'm continuing on with Scotland, I still haven't finished Christmas last year yet but a few of our lovely photos are a bit blurry so Greg ♥ is going to fix them in photoshop so I can continue so in the meantime it's on with bonny Scotland! I really love this photo of Greg and I outside Glasgow Cathedral so it was enjoyable to scrapbook. I started with a reddy coloured paper and then used Artiste (wonderful cartridge) to cut out the fancy circle shape in a blue tartan paper. I layered on a strip of fawn coloured paper and used Artiste to cut out the title. I love faux stitching, so I did this in white gel pen around my letters, I showed it to Greg and we were both amazed at how it makes the letters stand out! I then cut out the really nice blue accent from Artiste and used an "enjoy" sticker inside of that. I used some blue and brown adhesive tape along the bottom and yes you guessed it I used Artiste to cut out lovely floral accent. I added a round epoxy sticker and a banner tab and added the date.

Cupcake card from the Artiste Cartridge

I got all the housework done, washing done and dogs walked so I had some time this afternoon to make a card for my friend Conny's birthday in October, she will be visiting us so I can give it to her then. I was really excited to try out the new Artiste cartridge, it's jam packed full of great images, cards, boxes, tags etc and I just loved this Cupcake card, it's so cute and perfect for a birthday. So I cut the matching envelope out first at 4.34 inches in pink. Then the cupcake was cut out of brown card at 4.5 inches. It didn't have any layers so I cut another one out of white and just chopped off the top part for the icing. I cut a third one out in pink floral for the cupcake liner and just cut that part out. Then I cut out the cherry in both red and black and just cut off the stem from the red one. I glittered this (love this!). I added some pink gemstones for "sprinkles" and a paper flower. To finish I stamped greetings both on the outside and inside. - very cute!

Where's Nessie?

Another page I did this morning, I'm glad I got chance to do some scrapping today before I head off to the gym as tomorrow is housework day and the rest of the week I may or may not get chance as our holiday is coming up so for this one I went back to our holiday in Scotland last year as I love this photo of Greg ♥ and I on my birthday in Inverness near Loch Ness. I was looking forward to using my new Martha Stewart Punch around the page punch that I picked up for a bargain price of only $6 at TJ Maxx. I punched the whole border around the page, it's so pretty I love it. I punched that out of blue cardstock and matted it onto some check blue paper. I didn't feel like using my Cricut for the title so my lovely husband came up with the idea of using Publisher and some clipart for the title, I do love it, it's so cute! I did my strip of journalling in Publisher too. I had a die cut from a Pebbles Inc Sunnyside sheet I have in my stash "It's a good day" which was a perfect cut to use. Then on the bottom I used the Cricut Craft Room to weld together some hearts from Art Philosophy, I used the outline for that and then cut various coloured pieces for behind. I embellished with buttons, twine and paper flowers and a metal saying.

Trdelnik in Prague

Here is a page I started Friday and finished this morning. My lovely Greg bought me a little pack of glittered and die cut pages last week when he was out, they were so pretty and Christmassy that I thought they would be perfect for these photos of me trying "Trdelnik" at the Christmas market in Prague. The base is glittery white then the die cut red glittery on top. I cut a 9" scalloped circle from Art Philosophy in a nice Christmas floral paper to go on top. I used Art Philosophy again (yes I use this cartridge more than anything I love it) to cut the half semi circle in brown. I did my journaling in Publisher. I cut the font from the same cartridge. I decided not to do any more embellishing on this page as I think it's perfect the way it is.

Embossed card

I have decided to keep my blog, I don't have a huge amount of followers by any means but It means a lot when the people that are interested look or comment so for now I'll keep it as it's a good way to share my projects.

Greg recently bought me a lovely embossing folder he found on clearance at Joann's for only $0.97 cents!! It's really lovely (I have such a thoughtful hubby!) so I decided to make a card for my friend Melanie for her birthday coming up in November. After embossing the card I coloured in the raised parts with chalks, it looks soft and really nice. I used my Art Philosophy cartridge to cut out the scalloped circles and threaded through some nice ribbon. I stamped Happy Birthday and then used Flower Shoppe to cut out the flowers, I inked them around the sides. My second favourite part to this card is the centre of the flower. I discovered "flower soft" and saw a good tutorial video on how to use it for centres of flowers. I got a regular silver brad, put hot glue on it and then rolled it around the flower soft to create a furry looking centre of the flower, it turned out great. Hope you like my card!