Elephants.

As I said previously I recently brought a new elephant template, which I just love, so I thought I'd show you some of the crafting I've done with it.

I made some lovely cards using the elephant template, some beautiful patterned paper and some peel off stickers or greetings I got from a magazine. The result is simple, elegant yet fun cards for any occasion.

National History Museum

I really love buttons at the moment and thought these wooden ones were perfect for this page.

Roseberry Topping

This page was made using the most beautiful paper(which is actually from a Christmas selection) which has glittered stripes and beutiful colours. I used a photo for my title by cutting it out and sticking letters onto it The journalling was written onto a beautiful blue and red notelet.

Baby Mickey

I used different sized and fonts of lettering and layered them in papers which match the mat of the photo. I kept the layout quite simple because I was using such lovely paper.

Vintage Page

I love this page, the background paper has a vintage, faded look to it and I added journalling, a photo and a beautiful 3D flower embellishment to keep the layout quite simple, and not overpower the beautiful paper.

Cocktails in the sun.

I made this page after my sisters came to celebrate my birthday with me oin April. I love the cherry print background paper behind the photos and have been looking for a way to incorporate it into one of my pages for a while. We all sat in the garden and had some cocktails, so I put the journalling into a cocktail glass for an unuaual effect. It was a really fun day so i used fun prints and bright colours to reflect this.

My Parents.

As you can tell I'm really into my scrapping at the moment. I loved this picture of my Mum and Dad together, they just looked so happy and in love so I decided to use it on the first page of my new scrapbook. I used a title sticker, a quote sticker by Helen Keller which is beautiful adnd some butterflies to fly up one side of the picture, I put them on the RHS so that they looked balanced with the photo as my Mum is leaning to the left into my Dad. The background paper has a beautiful vintage feel to it and such a soft colouring that worked well with the tones of the photo. I love scrapping picturesof Mum and Dad as I think they contain wonderful memories to share with future generations.

A day on the lake.....

I love the paper I used on this page, in fact it inspired my whole layout. I'd had it for a while from a papermania goody bag and wanted to use it for a water themed page because the blue swirls made me think of waves, so when I looked at these pictures of James and I on the lake my page started to take shape. The brown of the paper has quite a vintage look to it so I stuck with this theme and used some metal Papermania letters for my title. I added my journalling onto a notelet with blue swirls on it that complimented my theme and printed my pictures with a white background to make them stand out. I really loved scrapping these pictures as we had such a great day, and think the page turned out really well.

Spring is here....

I love this page I think the colours I used here really catches the mood of the pictures that spring is finally here. At the minute I'm loving papermania metal letters. I've had them in my stash for a while but haven't used them recently until this page. The chipboard shapes were a free gift from a craft magazine last year which I've never found a use for. I love the backgroound paper because it's quite vintage and unusual.  

London Page.

My mum brought me a beautiful scrapbook for my birthday in April, so I've started to fill it with some beautiful pages of what I've been up to over the past couple of months. I really love this page about a trip I took into London with James. I've tried to do something a litttle different with this page by putting together a square of photos and writing my journalling around the outside of that square. I used a beautiful background paper with some of the dots being foiled and added an unusual title.

2010 Scrapbook

This year I decide to try and do a layout a week in my scrapbook so I didn't miss any key events. Here's some of my pages so far......

Front cover.

Engagement page:

Walking in the snow double page:

My mum and Dad:

Honey and Hugs.

I've not had much time to craft this week. But I'm going to spend tonight doing some serious catching up with my 2010 scrapbook and making a start on my Easter cards (I know it's a bit early but I love the chick and bunny embellishments I've got in my stash to use up)

I just love the new Honey and hugs collection from Papermania, (not only is it beautiful it also has a fab name).

It comes in notelets, papers, stamps, stickers, embellishments and decoupage.

I think that the pretty pastel colours are just perfect for spring and I love the notelets for adding journalling to scrapbook pages, the characters are so cute and fun too (my favourite is the little chick)

I'm hoping to make some cards and scrapbook layouts with these products tonight, so I'll post the results shortly.

The Beach...

This page was made with some pretty old photos from a few years back after James and I had a day on the beach.

The paper is DCWV Once Upon A Time paper. This is my absolute favourite range of paper. I then wrote my title and journalling on sandy coloured paper which I mounted onto blue cardstock. I put three small bronze brads in the corner of each photo as an accent.

Tomorrowland!

This is a layout of my last holiday in Florida.  I used a lovely starry paper for my background. and paper pieced a planet as a mount for the lovely picture of Tor, my sister underneath the Tomorrowland entrance.

The stickers are from Disneyland and were of the two rides in tommorrowland and Minnie and Goofy riding one of them!

I love the paper I used to paper piece the planet as it's still starry in keeping with my outer space theme, and the blue colour is so summery and reminds me of how warm it was in Florida. (Sorry about the glare on the next photo)

I like to collect things to use in my scrapbook layouts when ever I go anywhere interesting. In this case a map from Magic Kingdom. It's worth thinking about this when you go on days out so you've always got things to use on your layouts.

Wrap it up!

I like to take pictures of all the getting ready for Christmas, this page is based on the wrapping up of the presents.

The background paper is a nice icy blue which ties in with the blue of my scarf in the pictures and also the cold season.

The title is made of odd letters in a cool colour scheme placed at jaunty and random angles.

I stuck random stickers with a present theme all over the page as interesting embellishmants.

I mounted the photos onto striipy paper and topped them with a beautiful snowflake bow.

London Trip Layout

This is one of my favourite double page layouts. This is from when James and I went to London back when we first started dating. We went to see Sunderland v Tottenham (James supports Sunderland) and went to see the lion knig show (I'm a BIG Disney fan), which is the best show I've ever seen. We stayed in a beautiful hotel and had an amazing indian meal too.

More DCWV paper. I love this paper so much...

I kept this page quite simple with just the pictures surrounding the central picture of a glittering knight on horseback.

I did the journalling on strips of coloured paper to match the floral strip down the right hand side. I made it interesting by sticking them on at jaunty angles.

I mounted the my Lion King ticket onto tiger print paper for a bit of extra interest.