21st Birthday Card

I made this card for my daughter's 21st birthday next month. I used one of the Prima Doll Stamps and layered up the skirt on the dress, adding some antique lace to the underside of the top layer of the skirt.  The cardstock with the text on is packaging from some Prima flowers.  The papers underneath are also Prima but from a paper pad and the flower is also Prima.  The "daughter" stamp is from Lili of The Valley and the hearts are punched with various punches and dies.  I inked all the edges with Brushed Corduroy distress ink and coloured the dolls hair with Pro-Markers.

Owl Slippers

This layout is for my Journal Your Christmas/December Daily project.  I decided that for Christmas Day and Boxing Day I would do full size layouts instead of the 4" x 6" mini layouts I have been doing for the rest of December.  This one is about the lovely owl slippers my husband bought me for Christmas.  I used to be a Brownie Guide leader so I have had a variety of owl names and I love cute owls so these owl slippers were perfect. 

As always, I started off with white paper (it is honest), this was in the fabulous Christmas kit I bought from Shimelle Laine and she had written festive phrases on it in red and green which I love.  The tags and owl wrapping were from various gifts I received at Christmas and I made the little Joy badge using my fabby little badge maker.  The other patterned papers are from the Shimelle kit.

A Journey Concertina Tag Album

I started 2014 as I mean to go on, I woke up, sat up, grabbed a bag of stash from the side of the bed and made this little concertina tag mini album before I ventured out from under my lovely warm duvet.

A couple of days ago I was telling my friend Kathy that I have dozens and dozens of unstarted and unfinished class kits from retreats as long ago as Scrapaganza in 2006 up to the present day.  She challenged me to go grab one and do something with it.  So off I went and the first kit I found was an old Rusty Pickle travel album kit that must be at least five years old, if not older.  The papers were not really to my taste so I grabbed another part kit which contained some left over Glitz papers from a class at Scrapstars a few years ago, taught by the wonderful Rachael Elliott.  I constructed the chipboard album and inner envelope concertina from the Rusty Pickle kit and covered it with the Glitz papers and embellishments.  I am going to use it to record my weight loss journey in 2013 and 2014 with a photo each month on a tag with some journaling about how I feel.  Since mid August I have lost 2 stone so I already have a few photos to put in and I look forward to completing the album and my weight loss journey soon.