This is my first go at the front cover for our envelope book! Other members of 7th Heaven (and anyone else!!) I would love to know what you think!

3 Challenges

First of all I would like to thank you all for all of your lovely comments. It really is nice to get some feedback from fellow crafters. Todays entry is all about challenge blogs - I have entered 3! I am really loving having to do something different and thinking outside my normal crafting abilities.


This card was made for the Scrummy Stash Cafe challenge blog. The challenge this week was "Something Different." No normal shaped cards or scrapbook layouts allowed!!!! So seeing as I had a 40th birthday card to make for someone on Crafting Corner Forum I thought that I would incorporate this. The picture doesnt really show the card vary well though.

This is my very first go at a scrapbook page. I love this photo of my mum and stapdad at their wedding with all of mum's side of the family. I wanted to keep it really simple because really the photo and the title say it all. Eventually I am going to make mum a scrapbook of the family (hopefully before she decides to move to Crete!) As I have used just a small bit of ribbon on this (I usually use more!) I thought that I would enter it into the "My Time To Craft Challenge" which is ribbons this week.
Finally (for today anyway!) the "Funky Fairys Challenge Blog" this week the challenge is "going Dotty." I ordered a crop a dile and recieved it yesterday (I know I'm probably the last crafter in the country to get one!) so I used it on this ATC. I think that the paper is from Papermania and so is the paper flower.

New Envelope!

I decided that I didn't like my envelope for the CSF 2nd birthday so I remade it. I feel better about it this time. The stamped images are from a stamp that I recently bought from my local craft shop and its my new favourite stamp! (Everytime I buy a new one it seems to be my favourite though!!) The epoxy stickers I bought from my local poundland! (bargain!!!!) I hope that you like it!

Geomatric ATC

This weeks ATC challenge on Craft Swap is Geometric Shapes! I actually found this quite difficult until I remembered that I had this paper and found this sheet of peel offs too! I decoupaged some of the shapes on the paper :)

An exploding box (sort of!!)

Hi everyone thanks for all of your lovely comments :) its really nice to get some feedback!

Yesterday I did a variation on an exploding box. Its a template that I got from The Scrapbook Lounge (http://sbl.tvweekly.com/player.php?ee6957ec2ef4ba9b864fd2693439ce45x1378) Its called a "surprise box." I made it for a very good friend of mine who is 50 today! I wasn't sure how this would turn out because all of my other goes at doing exploding boxes failed (I'm not really sure why though!) however I am really pleased with this one! I'm going to enter it into the Arty Girlz blog challenge this week as it has an open theme :)