January Journal....Late..Late..Late!!!

Evening everyone....Hope you are all well.
I've had a busy week so far and not much time for card making or scrap booking but I did finish this journal page at the weekend. I missed the January link up for Kate Cranes 366 art calender over at The Kathryn Wheel but I'm already working on my February page.....
A few weeks ago I spent a lovely evening at my friend Polly's along with Sandra and Jacqui crafting and getting inky. Polly had already created her January journal page and I got very inky creating mine....I wanted my January page to have a wintery feel but after inking and spritzing it was definitely lending itself more towards a sea theme.....so that's how it turned out.

This photo was taken before I added any writing to the journal.
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Scrap Book Mad!!!!

Morning everyone......Well its freezing this morning but none of the promised snow yet.....I don't tend to bother with the weather forecasts any more.....I tend to stick to 'If you want to know what the weather's like....Look out of the window!!!'
Today I have yet another finished scrap book page to share...

As always this is a page that was designed and taught by the 'Oh So Talented' Polly at the class I attend on a Thursday evening at my local craft shop. I love these papers and the colours. 
The photo is of my grandparents taken at their home in Lancashire in 1965.....check out the haircuts and the fashion!!! 
I remember my Nan saying that before these photos were taken....(they had a bit of a photo shoot from what I gather) she went out and bought plastic Daffodils and Tulips to stick around the garden, her theory being that as the photos would be in black and white no-one would know the difference....
'Thats My Nan' xx
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My Way ~ ATC's

Good afternoon everyone.....well I have a good excuse to stay indoors today....It's freezing outside and we woke to a light covering of snow.....so I plan a few hours in my craft room.
Today I have my January ATC's to share. These are for the swap over at Ali's ATC Swap~Stop!....This month the theme was 'My Way'....this was to create an ATC in what we felt was our 'Signature' style. I'm not that sure what my 'Style' actually is so I decided to choose things I like....
The colours yellow and green....Floral papers....Butterflies....Gems and Pearls and Flowers.
And this is what I came up with....

Not my best creation but I have managed to stick to my own personal challenge this year of trying to create my ATC's from all my leftover scraps, bits and pieces.
There still aren't many of us taking part in the swap so if you would like to join us just pop over to Ali's ATC Swap~Stop to see what its all about.
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Christmas Crafting! February Challenge

Good evening everyone....I hope you are all managing to keep warm and toastie.
This is my second post of the day....This time I want to share my DT card for this month's challenge over at Christmas Crafting!.

This month's theme has been chosen by Sara from our DT and she has chosen a colour combination of Blue, White and Silver.
Our challenge this month is being sponsored by Paper Pretties and they are offering 6 Digi images to the winner of this month's challenge.
Here is my DT card.

I have used this cute image from Paper Pretties and coloured with 

 Promarkers,the sentiment is LOTV and I have added snowflakes and pearls to the acetate.
This card didn't quite turn out how I wanted it to....but it's growing on me.
So please pop over to Christmas Crafting! and take a look at the wonderful cards the DT have have come up with this month. We would love for you to come and join in the fun and we look forward to seeing your lovely creations in our challenge.
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Celebration Time...

Good morning everyone.....
Today it is our 1st Birthday over at Sparkles Christmas Challenges and we are celebrating with a Blog Hop.
The theme this month is 'Anything Goes'.BUT it must be a Christmas creation.
There are lots of prizes to be won along the way from each of our DT members.
Here is my Birthday Blog Hop DT card.

So on to the Blog Hop

If you have arrived here from Jacqui's Blog you are heading in the right direction.

1. You need to start the hop from Sparkles Christmas Challenge Blog and follow each of the DT members in order.

2. Each DT member has a prize to win along the way, so make sure you leave a comment on each of their Blogs to be in with a chance of winning.

Here is the fabulous prize that I have been given for the lucky winner on my Blog.

5 Digi Images ~ Whimsy Stamps

How wonderful is this....

3. To complete the Hop you need to link your project/creation on the Sparkles Christmas Challenge Blog.

4. The Blog Hop ends on the 27th February and the winners will be announced shortly after so you have plenty of time to enter.

From here you need to hop over to my Fab Teamie Shell's Blog.

We look forward to seeing all your wonderful creations.

&

GOOD LUCK

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Don't forget to leave me a comment to be eligible for the prize.

Told You I Was On A Roll.....

Evening everyone....I can't believe how cold it was when I was walking home from work this evening...and I was so pleased to get home after a very long shift I can tell you.....
Well as I said I'm on a roll when it comes to finishing things off at the moment and here is yet another completed scrapbook page.

This is another page taught by Polly at the class I attend at my local craft shop. This photo was taken for our local paper quite a few years ago. Brogan had been picked to be a model for the day which was a weekly feature. She was allowed to pick 3 outfits for the little photo shoot. I didn't think she was going to perform.....but perform she did.....and she was given one of the outfits as a gift and I ended up buying the other two outfits.
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Surprise...Surprise...

Good evening everyone....I hope you are all well and have had a lovely weekend.
I have had a lovely week this last week considering the month started out badly....I was lucky enough to win a beautiful image from Teddy Bo this week in their Blog Hop and on Saturday my card won first prize in The Squirrel and the Fox Challenge and I won 5 images from Robyn's Fetish.
Then yesterday while I was shopping I picked up a copy of Simply Homemade magazine and later as I was browsing through over a cup of tea I spied on their Into The Blogosphere page (for inspirational blogs) my blog banner....first I was amazed to see it there and then delighted....can't imagine how it got there but there it is..................I'm thrilled to think that anyone would ever think my little space in Blogland was 'inspirational'.

Today I also have another finished scrapbook page....I'm on a roll with this finishing projects off thing.

Yes I know....its another photo of my daughter at her prom last year but this does happen to be my favourite photo. The page again was created and taught by the very talented Polly. This page has too many embellishments to put in a scrapbook so I'm going to put it in a box frame.

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