What's In A Title?

The blog title is my take on my favourite quote from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novel, when Bella realises she is in love with vampire Edward. My version is slightly less impressive than that in the book but never the less true:


"About three things I was absolutely positive, first I was an obsessed crafter, second, there was a part of me - and I didn't know how potent that part might be, that thirsted for beautiful craft materials, dies, stamps, papers, cardstock etc, and third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with scrapbooking and cardmaking"







Sunday 29 May 2011

Admit It...I Am Cute!

I signed up for the monthly kit from Sarah's Cards kits last month and my first kit came through last week and is the Stella Rose collection by My Minds Eye. I had bought some of this range of papers at a retreat in March this year so I now have lots of it. I sat and looked at the papers and tried to think of what photos I had that had some orange and/or green in them and I came up with this cute photo of Matilda, one of our late guinea pigs nibbling grass in our garden a few years back. I went mad with my Martha Stewart butterfly punches and lots of bling to go on them, made a tag for some journalling and made some paper bead leaves.

Monday 23 May 2011

Stash Diet













I've been on a stash diet this month....allegedly!! I could not resist buying the Happy Go Lucky mini kit sold by Bellaboo (http://www.bellaboo.co.uk). The papers are from My Minds Eye's "Lime Twist" range. As soon as the postman handed me the pizza box with the Bellaboo label on I went straight to my craft room, opened the box and got scrapping with a photo I'd printed off when I ordered the kit. I love the kits from Bellaboo, especially the mini ones cos you get lots of stash for not alot of money, this one was £10.99 and had two sheets of bazzill, five sheets of MME papers, ribbon, twine, a die cut butterfly, 5 Prima flowers, some webbed weave and I got a bag of lovely buttons in with the parcel too. The photo is of my daughter and her friend in 2009 in their prom dresses and the colours of the dresses went really well with the colours of the papers. I blinged up the wings of the butterfly die cut and wrapped some of the twine around it's middle. I struggled to get the webbed weave to stick to the page with glue so I had to add a couple of stitches on each end of the weave to hold it in place. I love making photo corners so added a couple of these to the photo. I am really happy with the layout, just hope that the butterflies don't get squashed when I pop it in my 2011 album.

Thursday 19 May 2011







Busy, busy today so just had time to make a couple of cards, one for a friend's birthday tomorrow and one for an upcoming wedding anniversary. For the birthday card I used one of the new Lili of the Valley stamps and some scraps of cardstock and paper from my scraps box. For the anniversary card I used some downloaded images, can't remember where I bought them but they make me laugh. All the images were coloured with a mixture of Copics and Promarkers.

Wednesday 18 May 2011










Like alot of my fellow scrapbookers I have a huge amount of projects that I've started but are just abandoned, unfinished, in the back of a cupboard. Today I dragged a few old kits out and looked at what needed to be done to finish them. The kit for the above double layout was a Karen Burniston kit from Scrap-a-Ganza in Holland in June 2008. I love Karen's work cos she is a qualified engineer and used her knowledge to make amazing interactive, 3D designs. The second page of this layout opens up to reveal a pop up tower of playing cards with photos attached. I themed it around the joke playing card cos my husband is always playing the joker, pulling faces or putting on silly outfits. Right, that's one unfinished kit completed, about 31 more to go.

Monday 16 May 2011












My lovely husband and I (and our cuddly PG Tips Monkey) have just spent a lovely weekend in London. I took over 500 photos and I am planning a number of scrapbooking projects using these photos. On our way home on Sunday afternoon we called in at St Pancras railway station cos my hubby is a bit of a train anorak and he wanted a look. Whilst we were there I sneaked away to look in Paperchase and found this gorgeous A5 Travel Journal for only £7. I thought it was fantastic as it has pages to write on, pages with pockets to hold documents, some A5 plastic pages and A5 divided into 4 plastic pages to pop photos or documents in and at the back it has a zipped wallet type page to save memorabilia. This will be a fantastic journal to record the amazing weekend and the journal reminds me of the new Smash Books that are due to be released shortly and are supposed to be the next "best thing since sliced bread" in the scrapbooking world.









Wednesday 11 May 2011




Not posted for a couple of days due to the house being in bits. On the last day of our Easter break hubby walked through the lounge carrying a crow bar and a few minutes later I heard an almighty cracking sound and rushed into the hallway to find hubby smashing all the wood off of our enclosed staircase. Apparently he had decided that he wanted to put a spindle staircase in and without any warning he started removing all the wooden parts of the existing staircase and pulling off large strips of wallpaper. Obviously we've been back at work since so it is in exactly the same state now as it was then - nightmare!!!



Anyway, to wind hubby up I decided to use these Blast Off papers from Bo Bunny to scrap a photo of him a few years back when he took part in a scuba diving competition at a local waterpark. His dive suit always reminds me of the uniforms of the officers on the Starship Enterprise on Star Trek, although theirs are nice and tight and hubby's is really, really baggy. Around the edge of the papers are the words for Star Trekkin by The Firm. I've hidden some journalling on a tag behind the planet and added a spaceship to the top of the tag.