The Little Book of #Dogstagram

Hello there, how are you?

Happy Bank Holiday Monday!!

It's Claire S here with a mini book, I don't usually do mini books, I tend to get stuck about half way through, I think I've got about 7 unfinished ones knocking about somewhere, but last year Sarah sent me one of her daybooks and I thought, "oooh", then I thought "aah" an idea had formed, then I thought, "I need photos" so that was that for a while, anyhow, a couple of weeks ago I had all of the photos I needed so I grabbed my big box of Sarah stash and got to work and here it is....

Bailey's #dogstagram Book....

I wanted to keep a similar style throughout the book so that it all went together well, so for each page I used a small amount of Sarah's patterned papers, a selection of journaling cards from Sarah's kits and her Everyday Sayings stamp set...

I also wanted to use my Instagram photos of Bailey so that all the photos would be the same size and shape (I really do have OCD issues lol)

The journaling on each page tells the story from Bailey's point of view, and he thought that "I'm Bailey the Dog & this is my story" was a good place to start.

Bailey was pretty befuddled on his first day in his new home, which is to be expected and he was only 8 weeks old but he was very interested in what was going on, he couldn't work out what the squeaky burger was all about though... "my first day in my new home, my new family have given me a burger that squeaks"

I can't believe how tiny he was in that doggy bed, within weeks he'd outgrown it then chewed it to pieces., He was also the same size as his bear - which has since been chewed to pieces. 

I've used various stickers and Thickers for my titles on all of the pages.

As you can see in the next picture this puppy likes to sleep, he found a spot in the corner by my chair - "I found a quiet corner to curl up and snooze in, I was snoozing in mums knitting bag on the cardigan she was knitting but she moved the bag so I couldn't climb into it anymore" And the the sneaky boy made himself at home on the sofa.

This next page is one of my favourite pages in the album, these are 2 of my top ten Bailey photos and the "For the love of Bacon" stamp is pretty appropriate, although I do know that it wasn't bacon he'd just eaten. The journaling reads " I don't know what that was I just ate, but it sure was tasty"

The naughty pup also has a thing for peoples slippers, these ones belonged to Hubs (please note use of the word belonged - the slippers have since been chewed to pieces - there seems to be a theme here) 

One thing Bailey is good at is posing, but he refuses to look at the camera... "I will sit like a good boy whilst you take my photo but I'm not going to look at the camera"

I hope you've enjoyed browsing through my mini book, I'll be back with the second half of it on 31st August.

Thanks for stopping by and hope to see you again soon.

Claire xx

Washi tape love.

This was my inspiration piece for the current challenge which you can find here called 'Favourite things' and is still running so you have time to enter.

As promised I said I'd show you a really easy and fun way to make your own washi tape like the bits I've used on the front of my mini album.

 So lets get started.....

You'll need a piece of tissue paper, I kept all of mine from the monthly kits so I have quite a bit.  Try to choose a piece with as few wrinkles as possible (I've been known to iron it) and lay it out on some news paper, scrap paper or anything which won't matter if it gets inky which it will, and spray randomly. Don't do this on your bare table please! Several colours together are good for some funky colourways.

Leave it to dry somewhere.  I lifted mine up and hung it by the corners from the washing line but if you do this be very gentle with it as the tissue is extra delicate when wet. It's a good idea to leave it flat for a while then try lifting it once some of the excess ink has seeped into the protective under layer.

Once it's dry turn it over to the reverse side and add strips of double sided tape. Try not to get any wrinkles in the tissue when you do this.

Cut out the strips.

Now stamp some of your favourite designs onto the tape.  I've used a mixture of border stamps (Zendoodle Borders and Bits) larger stamps and mini stamps. The numbers are from the Zendoodle Alphabet set and the words are from a kit club stamp which I masked off as I went along so as just to capture the part I wanted.

Those larger stamps can be used too and in fact are good for doing several at one time like the Woodgrain here. 

Try making your own washi tape it's great fun and you can make colours and designs to match what your working on.

Jaine x

My Favourite Things Creation.

Hello, it's Carol today and I am going to share my creation for this months Favourite Things Challenge. As usual I was indecisive about what to make, so rather than just use some of my favourite stash I opted to put my favourite things into my PL layout.

I am VERY new to PL and thought  a monthly layout would be better for me, rather than trying to keep up with weekly, stressing myself out and ending up not enjoying it. So here is Februarys Layout in great detail. 

This is a 4x6 card, with a cropped 4x3 journaling card, it has brands and a resin heart and I used love heart hearts, all of which came from AFOMFT kits. The month stamp is from the Today Stamp Set.

This is a 4x6 card, with a couple of wee layered pictures, and a sprinkling of pretty sequins and a small journaling card in the corner.

This is a 3x4 journaling card with a teal heart on it. I got the Love Journaling Card by Sarah, from the Silhouette Online Store, and cut it out on my Cameo and layered it onto the heart. I just love how they fit together. 

This is a 3x4 card with a smaller one layered on top. Sometimes it is nice just to leave things simple.

This is a 3x4 card with a picture of my hubby and great niece, I have layered it up and added some lovely brads from the AFOMFT kits.

This is a 3x4 card with my naughty cat Aggie eyeing up my Tunnocks Teacake!! The stamp is from the Today Stamp Set.

This is a 4x6 card with an adorable wee picture of my great niece and her super cute "crinkly" nose she gets when she is giggling! The gorgeous flourish in the corner is the Doodle Heart Corner Flourish by Sarah in her Silhouette Store.

I love this 4x6 card with Aggie making noise!

 And here is the completed layout. I like to think that each card tells a wee story, and it really does encapsulate my "Favourite Things"

Thanks for popping by today, remember there is still a week to enter our Favourite Things Challenge.

Altered Clipboard

Morning all. Hope the weather is good where you are. I’m hoping it’s gorgeous and sunny in Cornwall as that’s where I will be when you read this post, enjoying a nice little holiday :-)

We have a fabulous challenge of Favourite Things this month (click the button on the right to go and read all about it). For me I find it so very hard to chose favourites of anything as I’m such a ditherer, but I have a bit of a thing for the colour grey at the moment so I combined that with another fave of mine….making to do lists and used Sarah’s fabulous AFOMFT kit papers to decorate this clipboard.

I have put off decorating this for quite a while as I knew I would get carried away and want to embellish it which would end up making it vey impractical to use. Sarah’s papers are so pretty and perfect for this as it looked fabulous without the need to add anything else.

The clipboard was painted with several coats of yellow acrylic paint and then sanded at the edges and inked with Weathered wood Distress Ink. The papers were stuck to the clipboard with PVA Glue. Lastly adding the ribbon right around the clipboard using Hi-Tac tape and tying a bow at the top.

Supplies:

• A Few of My Favourite Things Kit (Ribbon and Paper)
• MDF Clipboard (a bargain from a Pound Shop, think it was supposed to be a bingo board)
• Yellow Acrylic Paint
• Glitter Glue
• PVA Glue
• Hi-Tac Tape

Thanks for stopping by

Lisa

Mini Card Fun!

Hi all,

Nicole here today to share a fun project using the journaling cards from the May A Few of my Favourite things kit. I love the journaling cards but as I have said previously I am not a documenter so I love finding new uses! I also had a bunch of those long narrow cards, 10.5cm wide and 21.5cm tall - and I struggle to make anything with them. So put the two together and you get really cute mini cards!

I cut the tall cards in half so I ended up with an almost square 10.5 x 10.5 card.

These mini cards were the perfect size for the journaling cards....

                          

I used a raindrop stencil and inked up the background of the cards.... 

 I then just had fun combining the cards and sentiments on them. Some I combined to make background paper....

And others I tore up to combine sentiments on journaling cards.  I embellished them all with staples and some fun green gems too. I then ended up with a set of 4 really cute mini journaling cards. I plan on making more of these with some cute envelopes to give out as little gift sets.

Flamingo love

Hello everyone! It's Ria here today.

I'm sharing a card project today using Sarah Hurley's A Few of my Favourite Things July - Tropical Favourites kit.

I fell in-love with the pink Flamingo the first time I saw that in the set, what a better way than to do highlight her in today's project.

So here are a quick look of the supplies I used

One thing I love above Sarah's kit is the that it includes a Snip 'n' Stick sheet with great print images ready to use in just any project. I love combining different collection to make as embellishment. See how I can just select the element I wanted to use?

I used one of the journaling card with life is beautiful already printed on it. I just added a white embossed sentiment from the July's Add-on Exclusive stamp. Love the chalk board look of that journal card.

I then took a pink paper and emboss the piece with hearts from the Be Mine collection. 

Adding a clear embossing powder add some texture to a plain paper piece. 

Love how the clear embossed piece add life to a plain paper.

I also cut the paper strips I'll be using for my card background. I also used a paper from the Neopolitan set. Love that Love print background :) Just perfect for my pink flamingo love.

I assembled my card pieces: my paper strips, embossed journal card, and my cut embellishments.

I just arranged the rest of the cut pieces in the main card, popping them with some dimensional. Fussy cutting may be a challenge to some but I find it therapeutic? Cutting those small sections of the flamingo just makes me concentrate on what I do, keeping my mind off to stress. Love fussy cutting, or is it just me?

So here's a detail of the arranged pieces. Makes me smile :)

and the finish card..

That's it for now. I'll catch up with you again soon!

     

Life Through A Lens

Hi It's Clare here today and I'd thought I'd show a little insight into how I  created a PL page for my week 3. Once again I have used paper from Sarah's AFOMFT kit. I know I'm a little behind but it's never too late to start!

My first layout always includes my week number but this time I also added a January callendar highlighting the exact week.

For those that know me I like to run...a lot! However on my training days I don't normally take pictures but it's a huge part and important part of my life and I was struggling how exactly I would record my runs. After much thought I came up with the idea of using a motivational quotes and this one is my favourite.

I'm not from a scrap booking background so I don't have lots of stickers or printed sentiments at hand. So instead I decided to cut up a journalling card.....shhh don't tell Becky Higgins lol The arrow stamped at the bottom is from Sarah's Today stamp set

Using sentiment stamps are another fab way and this little star one is just perfect

Pinterest is a great way of sharing layouts and I fell in love with the idea of just using single words to sum up a day or event. So simple but very effective don't you think?

It's not always the big things that need to be recorded the little things count too! I find using small dies are perfect for adding a little journalling

So after all my individual layouts were created I popped them in my wallet and it looks like this. I've photographed my week in full and a couple of close ups.

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully you have picked up a few tips.

Clare