Be My Valentine?

Happy Sunday!

It was Valentine's Day yesterday and Nathan and I just stayed in and ordered pizza.

But I wanted to take a selfie because I had an idea for a lovely scrapbook page...

Here it is!

I made this little sequin heart with some clear plastic packaging. I cut out a heart from paper to use as a template, put it inside the packaging and sewed around it with the sewing machine. I left a little gap so I could remove the template and insert the sequins, then sewed the gap up and cut off excess plastic. 

Products used:

Papermania: Simply Floral paper and buttons

Vintage Notes diecuts

Wild Rose lace paper

Coloured cardstock and metallic paper

Madame Payraud lace

Xcut Alice alphabet and hearts embossing folder

Sizzix Life Made Simple Forever & A Day die

Kaisercraft collectables

Katie Castillo Love paper

Mother's Day cards!

I've made 3 Mother's Day cards - one for my mum, one for my grandma and one for Nathan's mum.
(I don't know which card is for who yet!) All using Papermania Bellisima (sp?) decoupage.

(Xcut butterfly, circle and ornate frames dies

Papermania cardstock, mother's day diecut, Wild Rose paper)

Papermania French Lavender diecut and Bellisima ribbon

Anita's 3d butterfly sticker

Papermania French Lavender ribbon

A Day In London!

Last week Nathan and I went to London for the day. Here are the scrapbook pages I made using the photos I took!

One Fine Day:

The Works travel and texture papers and cameo

Studio Calico wood veneers

Prima flowers

Papermania chalk arrow and Madame Payraud tape

Kaisercraft collectables

Hobbycraft paper bow

K&Co bird embellishment

Cake!: (Patisserie Valerie is my favourite place EVER)

Dovecraft Curiosity Corner paper

Papermania vellum and Botnaicals/Simply Floral tags

The Works journal card

Prima flowers

My Mind's Eye 'ooh la la' topper

Paper with cakes on, is a box from Betty's Tea Rooms! 

Natural History Museum:

Papermania Botanicals/Wild Rose/Simply Floral/pearlescent papers/cork alphabet/notelet

K&Co Flora & Fauna embellishments

Hobbycraft nature stickers

Rose sticker came with the new scrapbook I bought from Paperchase

Covent Garden:

La-de-dah photo frame

Kaisercraft collectables

Papermania Madame Payraud and All Aboard tape

Studio Calico wood veneers

Dovecraft doily

K&Co Flora & Fauna borders

Hi everyone,
Been getting back into scrapping this week. I haven't been anywhere really to take pictures this month, but I printed off the few I did take and die cut them into hexagon shapes. I'm starting a new scrapbook and I thought this made a great page to start off the year.

Backing paper - DCWV Gilded Paper (this has been so useful to me, so glad I won it!)

Metallic blue spray ink

Xcut hexagon dies

Papermania coloured paper and buttons

Various patterned papers (some are Studio Calico Darling Dear)

The Works accordion flower and wooden embellishment

Hot Off The Press feather die (I bought Simply Cards & Papercraft just to get this die! Haha)

I took this to show some new goodies I've bought. The scrapbook was from my grandparents for Christmas but though I chose it myself, it's turned out to be too small width-wise, so it's going to be a sketchbook instead.

I also went to The Works last weekend they have Papermania paper packs really cheap so I topped up my stash. I've also ordered bits off ebay.

In other news, I went to London yesterday with Nathan. I bought a new scrapbook from the Paperchase in Covent Garden. It's PERFECT! Here it is along with a couple books I bought.

Something a little different..!

A few months ago I was inspired to have a go at some embroidery. I took one of my drawings, of a pair of Mandarinfish, and transferred it onto some fabric and stitched it. I coloured the background with a soft pastel. 

It's something I've had on the go to do in between other projects, but yesterday I finally finished it. It's not bad to say I've not done anything like this before.

(I do want to make the border a bit more interesting, though)

A Valentine's card!

A Valentine's card for my boyfriend. I wasn't going to bother, but that kitten decoupage that came with docrafts mag this month will melt him...!

For now I'm going to do more card making. There's family birthdays coming up, plus Mother's day, so I want to get some together while I've not got much scrapbooking to do.
But Nathan and I have submitted all our university work for the moment (y'know, until we go back next week) so we might go out and do something today that I can scrapbook.

Also, I started driving lessons yesterday. I was really nervous, but then a bright red Mini turned up outside and I've never shot out of the door so fast in my LIFE.

Top Hat Pin Cushion!

I'm having a pretty bad day today (nothing to do, ASOS being absolute rubbish, fed up of waiting til 4pm+ for the postman and him not bring me anything I was expecting). I wanted to do something crafty but I've no pictures to scrapbook.
So I browsed on docrafts.com and came across this cute pin cushion and made it for my mum.
Tutorial found HERE

Note to self - Invest in better adhesive. Supermarker glue stick is useless, and double sided tape cannot be used for everything...!