Crafting Challenge

For all you crafting/scrap-booking friends who may be getting crafting withdrawal symptoms over the Christmas/New Year period with spare time on your hands or who fancy a challenge......here we go!

Create a 12 x 12" scrapbook page on one  the following Well known Children's Books.
Pages must be 12 x 12" and contain the title and author of the book somewhere on the page.  It can be designed as a cover or contain parts of the story, using any techniques you like....altered art, stamping, die-cuts, etc. it's up to you and your imagination.
Please leave at Scrapbook Sisters for me to pick up....hopefully I can make an album of the pages.

Here is a list of titles (please let me know what you have chosen so I can delete those chosen)

1.  Peter Pan - J.M.Barrie
2.  The Jungle Book - Rudyard Kipling
3.  Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
4.  Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
5.  The Hobbit - J.R.R.Tolkien
6.  Pippi Longstocking - Astrid Lindgren
7.  Black Beauty - Anna Sewell
8.  Treasure Island - Robert Louis Stevenson
9.  Heidi - Johanna Spyri
10. Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
11. Robin Hood - Roger Lancelyn Green
12. The Wizard of Oz - L. Frank Baum
13. The Railway Children - E. Nesbit
14. The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
15. 101 Dalmatians - Dodie Smith
16. Doctor Dolittle - Hugh Lofting
17. The Magic Faraway Tree - Enid Blyton
18. Around The World in 80 Days - Jules Verne
19. Winnie the Pooh - A.A.Milne
20. The Adventures of the Moomins - Tove Jansson
21. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - Jules Verne
22. Stories of Beatrix Potter
23. Stories of Roald Dahl
24. Paddington Bear - Michael Bond
25. ...............................................

Dad's birthday

It was my dad's birthday yesterday, so I needed to make a card for him.  This has given me a chance to make a card for the Scrapbook Sisters challenge and use my new Cuddle Upz CD.

The giraffe images were printed on photo paper then cut out and mounted on beige A4 card folded into a gate-fold card.  Dark brown pearl card was used inside and then message and sentiment added on top of this.

altered art journal pics

 a few pages from my altered art journal

Long time

  Well it's been rather too long since I've posted anything on here.  Main reason is.....no internet connection on downstairs pc....still waiting for eldest son to fix it....( won't be happening in the foreseeable future then!!!)
  Was busy making Halloween costumes for shop crop, which included not only my spider outfit, but also Karen's pumpkin one too.......still had some laughs doing so and also at crop itself........well worth the lack of sleep!!
  Have finished some of my 'in miniature projects' from Karen's classes which I only recently started and have finished several scrapbook pages from various classes, so my ufo's aren't as numerous as they could be. 
  Also attended Julie's altered art class which has again made me realise I miss painting and need to do more of it.
  Will add photos hopefully later today of finished items.....

Scrapbook Sisters card challenge

I've managed to do it.  Create a card for the pink and black card challenge, within the deadline too!!
I coloured the background card with a Twilight-Brilliance ink pad.  I stamped on it with the stamps from  my Stamping Extravagance class, with black memento and StazOn ink pads.  Mounted on black card and finished with a black organza ribbon bow.

At Last

After  being nagged by Karen on Wednesday night I have now sat and taken the time to set up a blog.  How often I manage to post anything will remain to be seen.  Between work, classes at Scrapbook Sisters and the boring tasks of housework there aren't many hours left in the week, unless of course I decide to completely forego sleep.