My latest project...

I have decided to make a mini album of the pictures from our weekend away. I wanted to have a go at making something a bit different from my usual style and have been inspired by the lovely ladies on the docrafts forum to make an album from some corrigated card and acrylic paint. I found a heart shaped template from the Maya Road website and it seemed perfect to use as it was a romantic weekend with just Kevin and I!

I have used K & Co Double sided McKenna papers for the inside pages.

Ribbons are from a card making kit that I have recently bought from QVC but the colours matched perfectly! Now all I have to do is sort out and print off the photos!

Thanks for looking! Alyson xx

Catch up time again!!!

As usual life has been getting in the way of crafting lol!!!

No to be honest I had a lovely few days away with Kevin as part of his birthday treat! My wonderful friend flew over fron Ireland to look after the children, well mainly sophie as the boys are old enough to look after themselves!

We went to Stratford Upon Avon, Warwick, and Lemmington Spa on Friday.

Toured the beautiful Cotswolds on saturday and despite the awful weather had a lovely time!

Sunday we headed home via Bambury. All in all we had a fantastic time and I took some lovely photos which I intend to put in a mini album when I get time!

Talking of mini albums here is one I made about a month ago but this is the first chanceI have had to photograph it and add it here:

This little book and its storage box was park of a K & co kit that I purchased some time ago and I thought it would be great to do a mini book of 5 Generations of our family. It goes from the great great grand parents, through to my children today!

Sorry the photo's are a little out of sequence but I still haven't quite got the hang of this site yet!

Well Sam has almost finished his GCSE's three more to go after today! They have seemed to drag on forever mind you he had about 19 exams in total and they have been spread out with the half term break inbetween! Then an extended summer break for him before he goes back to 6th Form!I'll try to get back soon and put some of the photo's from our weekend away on!

Catch up

Things have been hectic here lately what with Sam my eldest son doing his GCSE's, my hubby's 50th birthday last Sunday and general life! Finally I have time for a catch up:

I made this 50th Birthday Album as a memento for Kevin, each of his sisters wrote a message and sent me a family photo to go in it. Quite pleased with the result I gave it to him on Saturday when we had a small family party for him!

Sunday we went to Brancaster in Norfolk. Not the best of ideas as the traffic was horrendous due to the lovely weather and we got stuck in traffic jams both there and back! Ash, my middle son had the oportunity to go flying with the Air cadetes so he did that as there were only 4 given the opportunity from the 15 that put there names down! He went to RAF cranwell. Pictures to follow when I get more time.......

Not a great start to the day......

as I found Boo our lovely cockateal dead in the bottom of her cage this morning:( Then had the job of telling the boys, not sure that Sophie would understand but will cross that bridge when we come to it. Merlin our other cockateal is now hiding away in his box he only joined us just after christmas and was a stray so he has always been with Boo since we had him.

Not the best picture but the only one I could find of her at the moment!

Green House Mini Album

Have finally got round to sitting down with Sophie for some crafting and we have made a good start on her mini greenhouse album. Must admit I made the book a couple of weeks ago and had all the photos printed, cut to size and with double sided tape on ready as her attention span is not great. Sophie loves to help pull the backing of the tape and had great fun choosing the peel offs that I found with a garden theme so suitable and easy to use in the book!

It is not finished but the intention is to add photos of the plants as they grow and hopfully of the tomatoes etc at the end! A good record for Sophie of how vegtables grow!

Time flies!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well its official my eldest son has now left school. It was his last day today and Study leave starts tomorrow with exams over the next few weeks! where have the years gone? The "children" are getting so grown up!!!! He is hoping to go to sixth form for his A levels but tells me it is different from school as he will be treated more like an adult ( he won't be 16 until august so is one of the youngest in the year)! just thought I would mark the occasion with a mention on my blog!

A Couple of cards

Since they have now reached there destinations I can now show you the two cards I made using my new Bears n Flowers CD Rom from http://www.bridgetmarsh.co.uk/. I love the images they are so cute!

Fun and easy cards to make.

Jacobs Ladder Mini Album

Its been a busy few days. We had the OT in today to see about sorting a wet room for Sophie downstairs as we are in the process of converting the garage into a downstairs bedroom for her. Hopefully it will give her a bit more independance as she gets older!

Have also been in the new greenhouse planting seeds ready for the summer! I have been taking photos as I have set a little project for Sophie and I to do, which is a mini book about the greenhouse. The only problem being at the moment that Sophie won't set foot inside it as it is plastic windows and not glass and makes a terrible noise when the wind blows! The unfortunate thing is that it has been breezy everyday so far since it has been assembled :(

One project that I have completed during the evenings is a Jacobs Ladder mini Album:

I have called it "Girls Just Want To Have Fun!" as it is filled with photo's of Sophie doing just that!

Not 100% happy with it as ribbon could do with being a bit narrower but a fun project all the same!

Sophie's mini communication book

Just a quick catch up on my latest projects:

First of all an anniversary card for my brother and sister in law.

Made using Joanna Sheen Victorian Romance CD Rom. Actually made a couple of these as sister in law also have anniversary this month!

I am also in the process of making Sophie a mini book for her to fill with photos etc about the greenhouse ( as mentioned in a previous post) as the idea is that she helps me to plant the seeds and care for them!

My final quick project was to make Sophie a mini communication book for her to use when we are out and about. Sophie uses a system called PECs and have an A4 folder of probably about 100 symbols that she uses at school and home but it isn't very convenient to take when we go out. So I thought it would be useful to have a mini book of just the basic signs that she could carry in a small bag and have access to when we are out. I have used book rings so that the signs can be added to.

Each sign is laminated to make it stronger and I have used clear sticky backed plastic on the covers to make them more hard wearing and wipeable of sticky finger marks!

I finished it last night and when I showed it to Sophie this morning she flicked through it straight away and found the snack page, cheeky thing she is always driven by food lol!

Double Lay out

Just a quick visit today to show the double lay out that I did last night. First time I have done a "proper" double lay out and I am pleased with the result. I used my cosmo cricket kit as this is the kit I am using for this holiday album. Made the embelishments by cutting out and layering up some of the flowers from the paper that I used for the central photo mat, then added a gem to some of the flower centers. So pleased with the overall effect that I will repeat this style of lay out again!

Well its bank holiday weekend and so far the sun is shining. Hubby is in the garden putting up a new greenhouse for me that we bought the end of last year in the sales. Will take some photos as will make a good scrapping page I think at a later date! Best go and help.....