My Favourite Bridge!

I've been playing with Craft Artist again tonight and have made a digi scrap page of 'The Iron Bridge' over the River Severn in Ironbridge, Shropshire.  I love this place, so much history and of course the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution in the UK. 

Happy Mother's Day Mum

With me always

Love you

Another Scrap page

Tettuccio Spa is one of the many Spas in Montecatini Terme. These photos show the taps where the spa water is available to drink.  Each tap had a different name.  As you can see we decided to try a little of the water - you can tell by Harry's face it wasn't too good.  At the back of this spa was the restroom area and there were at least 100 toilet cubicles in rows!  We wondered about this and did some research when we got home and discovered that one of the properties and so called benefits of this water was that it acts as a cleanser to the digestive system - that is, it gives you 'tummy troubles!!!' lol, needless to say we didn't have any more!

xxsue

2012 World Book Day

Uh, oh, it's that time again!! World Book Day this year was Thursday 1st March so that could only mean one thing .......... dressing up time!  I had to try and do better than last year's crocodile, being the school librarian, so I had a scout around the fancy dress stores and this is what I came up with:

Grrrrrrr.........

Are you scared?

I thought I'd be the Tiger Who Came to Tea from the book by Judith Kerr, complete with Tiger cakes, Daddy's beer and a large tin of Tiger Food just in case I was peckish!!   Judging by the photo I think this Tiger has been to one too many teas, don't you?  Slimming World, here I come!!!

More Scrap pages.

Some more family pages from my brother's 8x8 album.  Can't wait to give it to him.

No Cards - Scrapbook Pages Instead!!

I haven't made a card this week, half term, but have been very busy digitally scrapping our old family photos for  an album for my brother's birthday next month.  When our parents passed away 5 years ago I was lucky enough to have all the family photos for safekeeping which meant my brother can't see them.  So I have been rather busy scanning them in so that they can all be saved and passed on digitally.  These are the 8x8 pages I have done so far. I really want an A3 printer now, so that I can go bigger!!

I have room for 20 pages and the hardest part is knowing which photos to leave out!!

Another Digi Scrap Page

 

Something to look at - I've been messing around with some holiday photos from 2010 tonight although I've made a little mistake (can you spot it?).  I've also made a little card for some of my PB friends but will have to wait until tomorrow to photograph it in daylight - my card photos are pretty rubbish at the best of times and at night they'll be even worse!!

Until tomorrow then,

My New Scrapbook Pages!

Here are a few of the pages I have made so far using my Craft Artist digital scrapbook software.

 On holiday in Derbyshire

 My daughter's Graduation Day

 Whitby in October 2011

 Tuscany August 2011

I hope to make them into scrapbooks eventually when I have an A3 printer.  At the moment I can print A4 sized pages and 8x8 pages which can be made into photobooks.  The program is great, easy to use, I can make all these into greeting cards too!

Digital Scrapbooking!

This is fast developing into my next craft passion - digital scrapbooking!!  I treated myself to a piece of software by Serif -  'Craft Artist Premium' and can't stop playing!  This project is a little 6x6 shadow box which I made for a work colleague as a house warming present. The main image and the label is decoupaged and being a shadow box I managed to add a real button and some ribbon.  What I need now is an A3 printer so that I can print out all the scrapbook pages I've made so far.  I need to save up a bit first though!! lol (and cut down on my craft spends!!) 

Mother's Day Card

I made this frame card for my hubby to give to his mum for mother's day this March.  It's from a template from a My Craft Studio Cd.  The word mum is cut with one of my favourite carts - Storybook.  The small flowers are Nellie Snellen punches. My friend Pauline gave me the large one.  The picture is of her children, my hubby and his sister.

I've put this picture on too of Harry and his Mum taken about 2 months ago as she is sadly very seriously ill at this time and probably won't recover.  We have had a none too happy Easter holiday as we are just waiting to hear the news we are dreading.  I love this picture as she looked so happy when we saw her at the end of February.  She is and always will be a lovely lady very dear to our hearts.  

World Book Day 2011 !!

 Me and Mr Twit at school!

It's that time of the year again when I have to bite the bullet and fish out a costume for World Book Day.  Being our school Librarian I just have to go in something good so.... this is this year's effort!  My gorgeous daughter just happened to have a crocodile suit (like you do) so here is:

The Enormous Crocodile (literally) - a great story for kids and grown-ups too!  Good job I've been trying to stick to my diet!  Now.... what shall I go as next year?!!!

Winter Photos and a Winter Birthday Card

Ice on a pumpkin

I took some photos when we had the hoar frost and snow just before Christmas and as I had a winter birthday card to make I used one of my photos for the card. The swirls are cut on the Cricut and the flowers are those Nellie Snellen punches again.

And now some cards!!

A Penny Black card for a PBFC member. The flowers are made using my Nellie Snellen flower and embossing punches. Bp from Brenda Pinnick.