Family History Favourite

Morning All!
  Today I'd like to share a scrapbook layout and am sharing it on the Use Your Craft Stash site on FB.
   I love crafting but one of my other passions is researching my family history. So...a while back... I decided to create a layout featuring one of my ancestors - it is now finished, framed and hangs on our wall. James (Jimmy) MacDonald - was the Head of Sound at Disney and the voice of Mickey Mouse for over 30 years.

  I created the layout using two of my favourite paper lines - Graphic 45 and Bo Bunny - and designed it in a mosaic style which also enabled me to show our shared ancestors and created a secret panel in the middle where I have added all my journalling.

I have also used metal embellishments, gems and film reel cut from the paper to add decoration.

   Anyway, hope you like my layout and thanks for popping by!
Best wishes
Karen x

Gone Veggie

Hi Everyone! 
Just popping by to join in with the Gardening Challenge over at Use Your Craft Stash on FB.

 I dug around in my stash and remembered I had the lovely Graphic 45 Home Sweet Home collection, so I cut out all the veggies and came up with these cards. I'm thinking they would make great cards for my two uncles later in the year. I couldn't help but add a few pearls in the corner - not very masculine I know - but they are brown and not to girly so I may just get away with it lol!

Happy Easter Gift Boxes

I thought I would share these little Easter Cards and Mini Gift Boxes that I made for our elderly neighbours who can't get out at the moment during lockdown. I filled the boxes with little cartons of Mini Eggs. I also ended up making some for a few of the girls from work to cheer them up, and created 12 boxes in the end - they were such fun to make!

The stamps are from the Hello Bluebird range and most of the papers used were from an older My Mind's Eye 6x6 pad called 'Bluebell'. I coloured the images with my favourite Spectrum Noir Triblend pens.

Hope you like them!
Happy Easter everyone!

Life is Good Pop Up Box

Hi Everyone!

Well its been an absolute age since I've posted on here so I thought I'd pop along and update things.

I'm still lucky enough to be crafting regularly for Crafter's Companion and was asked along to the Creative World show in Frankfurt in January to demonstrate on their stand. It was a fabulous experience and I loved every minute of it.

I've also been demonstrating for them regularly in North Wales and Cheshire - which I really enjoy - along with catching up with regular customers and having a good old crafty chat!

Unfortunately life for us all has drastically changed at present with the Coronavirus and as we are on lockdown I've decided to get out some of my crafty stash, dust it off and make some things.

The first is using the Lawn Fawn stamps called 'Life is Good' - which sadly it isn't right now, but hopefully this cheery card makes us hope for things to come when we have beaten this awful virus. I coloured the images with my Spectrum Noir pens and used Distress Oxides for the beachy backgrounds.

I hope you like my little pop up card.

Stay safe all xx

More Nautical Inspiration

Afternoon All!
I hope you are having a great Bank Holiday here in the UK. Today I'm back with some more Nautical inspiration for you. Already launched here on Create and Craft in the UK, Sara Davies from Crafter's Companion is bringing it to the US this week on HSN.
Here is some more inspiration for everyone and for those ladies at my demo at Gillies Crafts this weekend who bought this fan collection!
Hope you like them! :)

International Scrapbook Day with Graphic 45

Hi Everyone!
Today I thought I'd share a couple of Graphic 45 layouts to join in with International Scrapbooking Day.
The first features G45 Mon Amour and a photo of my Great Grandparents. The second features one of my favourite G45 lines - Home Sweet Home along with a photo of three generations of my family - from my Grandmother to her Grandmother.
Hope you like them as much as I enjoyed creating them :)

Ship Ahoy - Nautical Themed Crafting

Hi Everyone!
Have you been watching the launch of Crafter's Companion's Sara Davies' new Nautical Signature Collection on Create and Craft today?
This is such a fabulous range of dies, stamps and papers that its perfect for all your holiday scrapbooking and beach/sealife themed cardmaking...its also ideal for those makes for the men in your life too!

Here are a few samples I made. Be sure to tune in at 3pm and 7pm today to see more great shows with the lovely Craig to get loads more crafty inspiration :)