Romping through some LO's

Well- with the wedding over I now have some time to play with all my lovely stash so here is a LO I have just made with a lovely kit I got from Karen at Total Papercrafts consisting of Kaisercraft papers- Fantasy, Vision and Deja-Vu with some Prima canvas alphas.

I have wanted to scrap this photo for some time but needed the right inspiration to do so. This month over on UKS they have set a challenge for June with the following quotes as inspiration and it was just the prompt I needed!

1. Happiness is a journey not a destination
2. Smile and the world smiles with you
3. Whatever you decide to do, make sure it makes you happy.

I confess, my DH always makes me smile and so I created this LO for him. There is some discreet journalling in the bottom right hand corner beneath the roses- but it is a bit mushy for public viewing so I won't type it out here.

I hope you enjoy my LO's as much as I enjoy creating them. 

Love and happiness

Well as you may know by now my darling son, Adam, married his fiancee on Saturday and I now have a beautiful daughter in law- and I am so pleased to welcome such a lovely young lady in to our family. 

I will soon have a mountain of wedding pictures to wade through but until they are mailed to me I have made a LO of a recent photograph of them at a friends wedding which, I think, shows their love for each other.

The papers are mainly from Prima but I don't have the names of them all I'm afraid. 

This will finalise their 'Story so Far' album that I made them which is all about their previous four years together prior to their marriage. I gave them the album 2 weeks before they got married but I always intended to give them this one last LO too.

Thanks for looking!

Wedding day photos

Lovely, lovely day on Saturday at my sons wedding..

I now have the most beautiful Daughter in Law and the happiest son in the world. Everything went brilliantly well and we received so many compliments. I'm not going to bore you with too many photos but I know some of you have asked to see the photos so here goes.

The happy couple

I'm the one in the hat!                                                                The beautiful bride

 DH, DIL, DS, me, DS2 & my Mum (aged 83)

  

and then we became 5!

Me and my two nieces

The first kiss

The first dance

The room

The tables (the top table was dressed later)

The brides bouquet

The back of the dress

The bridesmaids

Me leaving the ceremony

So happy together

The Venue

Wedding table planner

My, my how the weeks fly by!

Here is a wedding table planner that I have just made for DS wedding on Saturday. My friend Mel (thanks Mel) kindly cut out the silver circles on her Cricut and then I cut the rest and mounted it myself. DH then sprayed the frame as it had been gold previously.

We have a Royal them going on as our surname is King, The Hotel is called The Royal Wells and he's getting married in Royal Tunbridge Wells.. hence the crowns.

Last weekends Crop

As you may all know by now... it is my sons 30th birthday on Friday (and my 33rd wedding anniversary) and he is getting married on Saturday- I've been madly scrapping a 'Story so far' album for him and his fiance and a '30th birthday' album for him. Here are two pages I made last Saturday for the latter and have only just got around to blogging.. there's more to follow at some point.. but I must finish that album first.

Two very different Lo's but both big parts of his life. He loved BMXing as a teenager and the other one shows him and DS2 as page boys at my nieces wedding in 1995.

Thanks for stopping by!

CJ Theme 'Quotes'

Good morning... it is still early but I am grabbing the opportunity to pop on here and blog my latest CJ pages that have just been received by the recipient so I can now share them with you.

This one was for my dear friend and Teamie on UKS- Tink ... I hope she will enjoy them as much as I enjoyed doing them. Here CJ theme was 'Quotes' and I'm rather partial to the quote that Ginger Rogers is reported to have said:

I did everything that Fred Astaire did but backwards and in high heels!

I totally understand what she means as I too spend my working life in a mans world and yet never get the recognition that I would if I were a man.. so here are my two 8 x 8 CJ pages.

As the images I used were printed from the internet and the papers I wanted to use were soft creams, blacks and greys, I decided to adjust the images to sepia to blend them all together better. I mainly used leftover scraps from a kit I had used a few weeks back (see the previous post April Week 3 challenge) They are mainly Prima papers with some other scraps of cardstock ... anyway... enough waffle here are the images.

As you can see, I layered the papers together and used a film strip die cut and then stamped the chandelier and scrolls and added random embellishments that went together. I really enjoyed doing this one and am looking forward to having some more time again after my sons wedding, next week, to spend more time working in 8 x 8 as I am comfortable with the size. Thanks for looking  

UKS May week 4 challenge

Here is my take on this weeks UKS Week 4 challenge.

This is a quick post as I'm off out soon, but I wanted to get this blog going again so here goes:

It shows my DH when we were on holiday in Norfolk in 2011.. we had a lovely time with our two dogs. 

The challenge was to use a sketch and add pink or blue (guess which one I used!) and then use stamps or punches.. so I used punches. The 'flower' on the right is a die cut and I joined 3 together to make it tall enough. I then added flower 'chips' and the die cut humming bird.. the good thing was that I could use some scraps up on this one. Even the background paper was a 'random' piece of paper left over from a kit. I then used a small ink pad to smudge the ink behind the photo.

I did 7 other LO's at a 12 hour crop I squeezed in yesterday and I will blog them as and when I can.

Garden party

Wow where did that month fly by to?

Sorry I've been absent.. I have been uber busy with my sons wedding preparations. We  held a pre-wedding garden party last weekend and I made lots of decorations, paper chains, Pom poms, bunting etc and I had asked all of my friends to collect all the jars for me so I decorated 200 jam/pickle jars with lace and popped tea lights into them for the evening. I had a great time so please forgive my absence. Here are some of the images.

The bride and groom who the party is in honour of are here

Less than 2 weeks to the big day so forgive my absence over the coming weeks! I'm off to London for a wedding dress fitting with DIL to be but I'll be back later I hope. 

Achievement

Today's LO is about achievement!

This LO is called Just 19 because that was the age I was when I got married. I have now been married for 33 years and in my book that's an achievement!

The challenge on UKS was to use yellow and include a butterfly.

I therefore decided to make mine all yellow

and white with just the tiniest hint of green inking on the edges.

The tag tucked behind the photo says:

They said it would never last- they were wrong
33 years and still going strong

The photograph was taken n my honeymoon in Italy

More red, white and blue?

Hi all

Just when you though you'd seen the last of all the Jubilee and Olympic themed LO's along comes another challenge on UKS that asked for red, white and blue to be featured.. this time in honour of St.Georges day.. which of course is proper and right!

So, I didn't have any St Georges photos I wanted to scrap so here is another Lo for 'The Story so Far' album that you may already know I'm doing.

I had saved the tiny, pretty bunting from some M & S food packaging from last summer.. I just knew it would come in handy some time! lol.. and the Union Jack heart was from a Really Useful Storage Box that I bought last summer too. I then used a die cut heart and some lace and coloured cardstock to create a simple, white space LO with faux stitching around the key element of the heart.

Thanks for looking

April week 3 UKS challenge

I took a look at this weeks challenge on UKS and decided it was right up my street!

A colour challenge and scrap someone you love! Easy! The colours were gorgeous too.. plum, pink, green and white.

I'm currently in the middle of a 'The Story So Far' album for my dear son and fiancee which I plan to give them before they get married in June.

I chose this picture of them because it was a really special day- taken at my other sons passing out parade on a freezing cold day in January 2011. I have journaled all about the day on the reverse of the lacy clock on the top right hand corner.

There was a lot of fussy cutting for this LO and I confess I used a kit from Total Papercrafts but I did my own take on it. The patterned papers were Prima: Overture, Prelude, Box Office and another (sorry can't remember)

I used Maya Mists- Pink Lemonade to add further plummy/pinks and inked all of the edges in black.

Thanks for looking!

Wedding favours

What an industrious day I had yesterday.

I spent all morning blitzing the house and then felt I deserved some crafting time. With my sons wedding looming I have several items to make and one of the mammoth tasks was to make the wedding favours for the tables. These are to be in the form of wine glass charms in organza bags.

So DIL to be and I sat down and worked out our bead 'arrangement' and off we went.. not as easy as you might think believe me! lol

After a few nightmares and giggles we cane up with these.. 50 for the men with crowns on- to follow the them of the wedding (which is Kings- due to my surname) and 50 for the girls with hearts on with a little crown embossed on them. The girls have pearls and crystals on and the boys have just crystals.

Then of course we had to make the little inserts to go inside the bags and cut to fit... it was a propoer little sweat shop for a few hours.

Here is the end result... and the whole thing came to less than £20 for 100 guests.. rather good value I think and it was precious bonding time with DIL to be.

Have a great Monday everyone

Yesterdays scrapping

Morning all!

Today I'm uploading my latest LO's from two challenges set by UKS.

The first is to create a LO from a sketch which I flipped to suit my own LO and papers here

Secondly I made a LO that was set from a challenge set by THe Green Buttons House at UKS. It was a fab idea.. it asked us to take the third letter of our user name (in my case A) and look at the member galleries of everyone starting with that letter, I found a member called AnniB. She has a very uncluttered style which I appreciate and so I used one of her LO's.. here

I then made my selection of photos, papers and card and set about using up some of my scraps. I matted all of the pps too and ended up with this  LO.. which I am really pleased with. Thanks AnniB

Counterfeit Challenge Fab Five

I'm so thrilled to be chosen as one of March's FabFive from the Counterfiet Challenge blog! The first month I've joined in and was selected... Yay.. Go me... For more of the Fab Five see here! 

http://counterfeitkitchallenge.blogspot.co.uk/

Counterfeit Challenge no 2

Here is another LO I have made from my counterfeit Kit for March. As the colours I chose were very summery I am having great fun going back over old photos finding pictures of my dear Son in his childhood.. it is bringing back so many happy memories and I can't wait to delve into the box of photos again.

As you can see it is very different from my last kit LO but I have used the same/similar papers here. I used up the final piece of cardstock that I had inked to change it to match my dress in the last kit LO I did. There's none left now so there isn't any chance you'll get bored with it..lol

Week 3 UKS challenge

Here is a LO that I created tonight for a challenge on UKS set by Weaselwise aka Woozle from my team, Scrap Happy in the Green Buttons House on UKS.

I used a kit supplied by Total Papercrafts but adapted it from the LO that they had devised as I wanted to go 'off piste' and do my own thing.

Thanks for looking

Pre-wedding Garden Party stationery

Morning...

Todays blog features some invitations I have made to a garden party I am hosting in May.

As I am mother of the groom rather than the bride I am playing a rather hands off approach to it on account of the fact that the brides parents want to take charge (lots of lip biting going on!) lol

So... to put my 'organising gene' to good use I decided to host a garden party 2 weeks prior to the big day for the actual wedding 'party'. I call it my pre-wedding 'wedding party' party... not easy to say when you've had a glass of wine on two! lol

I used an embossing folder from Couture Creations called 'Butterfly Hugs' and cropped it down to fit a 5" square card and matted it on teal CS as that is their accent colour for the big day and then added three crystals and a stamped 'invitation'.. such a simple card that anyone could do. I don;t often 'do' cards so it had to be simple!

I am having great fun making decorations for the party (please God let the sun shine) or all my paper decorations will be papier mache! Paper chains, tissue pom poms, jam jar candles-the list goes on. I'm having a great time. The table planner is next for the actual wedding.

While surfing the net for some ideas I came across these rather gorgeous free printable labels/tickets that are wedding themed. I thought I'd share them on here in case anyone can make good use of them too. I've printed a few off for the post wedding scrapbook album. Enjoy these here.

U R My Son shine....Counterfeit Challenge 2

I have made my first LO from my Counterfeit Challenge kit, as below.

As my son is 30 in June and he will be getting married the day after his birthday I wanted to do a LO that reflects how I have always felt about him.

Both my boys are my pride and joy- and yet, no, I'm not one of those clingy Mums! lol

I do however, want him to know how I feel so I have created a hidden pocket with the following words:

When you were very, very small
I used to dance with you cradled in my arms
You were my precious angel and when I held you close
love overwhelmed me....

I used to wonder what kind of life you'd lead
What would be your first word, your first job?
What kind of man would you become?
and would your life take you far away from me?

Then I'd hold you even closer.
I'd give you an extra kiss and an extra squeeze
and whisper 'I love You' one more time.

I knew you were too young to remember my words
but I prayed you would never forget them
Now you are a man
There are days when I still long to cradle you in my arms
and dance with you once again

Although I miss my little boy I am so proud of the man you are
and who you will become

When I think of you love still overwhelms me.
And as we both grow older and memories fade,
please never forget these words that you were once too small to remember

"I Love You"

The papers are predominantly We R Memory Keepers and I sponged the photo mat to match my dress.

The photo was taken at an industry awards night for Estate Agents (my son is also an Estate Agent) and I won best overall Estate Agent.. so we celebrated and partied quite hard that night!

Favorite Song Lyrics CJ pages

Here are my pages for my CJ. Batgirl21 from UKS chose Favourite song lyrics and I chose Mr Blue Sky by ELO as it brings back so many happy memories of the 1970's when I was first dating my husband. Aaahh.... happy memories. The photos flap open and the lyrics for the songs are hidden underneath.
The last verse of the song tells the story of the sun going down so I incorporated a picture of the setting sun. Both photos were taken in St Lucia to celebrate my 50th birthday

Happy Mother's Day

Hey all

Here is my latest LO for the March challenge on UKS where we have been challenged to create a LO using mauve, orange, yellow and green... Not my usual type if palette but it is good to scrap outside your comfort zone sometimes... That's why I like to accept the challenges laid down sometimes.

As it is Mother's Day he's in the UK I have made another LO featuring my son as he cooked my scrumptious lunch today he's 9 in this picture and now he's 29

Counterfeit Kit challenge

Here is my counterfeit kit from UKS that I have made for the March challenge. Now all I have to do is make a few LO's with it. Can anyone tell me where I can find an extra couple of hours a day?

Another busy weekend

Just one last blog before I head off back to work for 4 days.... so probably no time to blog until Friday.

Here are two of the LO's I made at the crop I attended in Golden Green, Tonbridge, Kent on Saturday.

They are both of my son.. the first one when he was 10 months old and the other when he was 23 at my nephews wedding.