The weekly challenge - August week 5

Here is my layout of the weekly challenge set by The Blooming Pages, you had to use the sketch below, add butterflies or blooms somewhere on the layout and it had to be about a holiday, the pics I used where of us visiting The Reef in Newquay in Sept 2001 - our first holiday with Tessa.











































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Lisa

The weekly challenge - August week 4

Here's my layout using the latest kit from Sarah's Cards























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Lisa
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He Ain't Heavy

Here's a layout that I sat and worked on for most of yesterday afternoon til about midnight!!!




















I did intend to use patterned papers on it but got stuck into making flowers using mothers day bouquet cricut cartridge instead! The background cardstock was originally white but I inked it to within an inch and now is red, green and frayed burlap coloured..

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Lisa
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While the kids went to the Grandparents for the day

I scrapped this layout, I've loved these lilybee french couture papers since i first saw them being used on a layout by another scrapper and i've finally got round to using them! The pics are of Ethan on his 6th and 7th birthdays...























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Lisa
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This weeks challenge on UKS - August week 3

I really like this weeks challenge set by the Ruby Snippers, in fact I liked it so much I did it straight away!! Its been ages since a challenge has inspired me to do this!























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Lisa
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Something's afoot!

I did this layout about me qualifying as a reflexologist and ordering a pair of plastic feet to help with explaining to clients how different parts of the feet correspond to different parts of the body in holistic therapy.... anyway the feet duly arrived and in the process of examining them I discovered a flaw......Parat Hyroid instead of Parathyroid! So this led me to do the layout below and add the close-ups too!






































































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Lisa

Tag book for the Twins

My lovely friend Alison had the most gorgeous twin boys last month and we (the uks social group of twilight addicts) thought it would be nice for her to receive a little book and some vouchers, some of the tags are still lost in the RM postal system :-( but i'm hoping they'll turn up eventually and I can forward them on to Alison but in the meantime here are some pics of the tags and the cover that I took the time to keep away two nights in a row to cross-stitch and sew together then bind too.































































































With thanks to Carin, Judith, Karen and Paula, Denise, Gemma and Jess for sending tags but not to Royal Mail (cos the last 3 have yet to arrive to me!!)

I also want to include this last pic below that another friend sent to me of the card she made for Alison too!! how spooky that Heather and myself chose the same book and same design (altho altered slightly from the original) when we realised what had happened we had to laugh altho Mr Wonderful and Heathers friend who saw both pics where both a bit shocked that we had chosen the same design to sew as we live over 300 miles apart!!



















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Lisa
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This weeks challenge on UKS - August week 2

I've managed to do the weekly challenge alot earlier this week... and also two more layouts...with close-ups of the details too























































































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Lisa
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Thank goodness all that fabric is used up!!

The kids didn't want outfits made out of it so its just as well!

Off to Ikea then on to pick up the visitor!

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Lisa
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Well... I had some fabric left over!

So I made this cover for my expression to match the cartridge holder I made!









Now, I'm going to see if I've enough fabric left to make a cover for Billy the Bigshot! Wish me luck!

Lisa
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This weeks challenge on UKS - August week 1

This weeks challenge layout was inpired by Lesley although she doesn't know it! Last year when I was laid up with my back (late June, July, August, September and most of October!) Lesley sent me this gorgeous bouquet of flowers, really tropical blooms that I have never even heard of before and I was so pleased, I took loads of pics from all angles,, (actually Alun did as I was in agony every time I moved)
I wanted to scrap these pics for ages and the challenge came along when I had just printed the pics off!
























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Lisa
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my dilemma!! - Sorted!

So ever since Mr Wonderful moved all my crafting stash/tools and desk up into our bedroom last year when I was laid up I've been wondering how I can store my cricut and cartridges... A few weeks ago the man bought me a second desk and the cricut now resides there... but what about the cartridges you ask...? Well the boxes were stacked up on the bedroom floor spine up so I could see what I needed...














Then, I found this seagrass container




















in Tesco and thought yes that's just the ticket for the overlays and books but what to do about the little cartridges? well they resided in a lunch box for a few months and then last night while trying to sleep in the heat and humidity... I had an idea.... If I could find what I needed to store the cartridges I'd make one! - Necessity is the mother of thingumy whatsit strikes again!!
well anyway I drew this in the middle of the night so I knew that I wanted it to kind of look like this...





















So with my trusty sewing machine, all I needed was some thread, one of the kids Ikea clothes hangers and 3 yards of fabric approximately 15 inches wide (this girl is strictly Imperial!)

































I ended up with this! -- Ta-dah!!









































It may not be everyone's cup of chai but its mine and I am pleased with it and it does what its meant to do!

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Lisa
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WOYWW 113 - not alot today...

I'm trying to think of a layout and title to go with the pics of DS2... from a beavers walk a few weeks ago... consequently there isn't alot of extra stuff on my desk this morning! (only 2 photos and some paper from the Fancy Pants rough and tough range, last of the secret santa stash!) and my other desk has my laptop on it with the cricut design studio and expression waiting for me to tell it what to cut... any suggestions? And you can always visit The Stamping Ground here












































































In anticipation....
Lisa
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sketch and scrap

Here is my layout for the sketch and scrap group challenge:D Heather set the challenge for this month and it took me ages to get the layout together, I had the pics and the title, its was trying to decide which papers to use!
Dominic left me a message on the family computer for Mothers Day earlier this year...

























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Lisa
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