Brother-in-Laws 50th

Well my Brother-in-Law was 50th this month, and decided to have an open house party, thought I would show you the card I made him...

and in the inside was (mirror card)...

didn't know what to buy him, (he did say a new motorbike but was a little out of my league), so settled for a bottle of his favourite drink and 50 x 50p stuck on with double side foam tape, lol.

Boxed Layout

I did this layout for one of my son's friends, for his 21st Birthday, I searched through all the photos I had of him taken at various places and chose the photos I liked best. Then using pieces of paper as templates, I juggled them around on a 12 x 12 sheet of paper till I was happy with the layout, then cut the photos down to the size of the templates. When all this was done, I found a 12 x 12 piece of paper out my collection to complement the photos, matted the photos onto plain card and stuck them down.

I decided to leave 3 of the 6 boxes blank at the bottom left, in case the mum wants to give me some photos of him when he was younger, I will be able to add them. (did add some bowling stickers, as it looked a little plain).

I then went through my embellishments to see what I could add, I remembered that the young lad in question loves balloons and bowling, so added them, a 3d 'friends' sticker on the prom photo and because of it being a 21st present, added a little wooded key, which I bought last year from here .

I then placed it in a boxed 12 x 12 frame bought from The Range, adding some confetti at the bottom.

(I've pixellated the name of the young lad, if you wondered why you couldn't read his name).

Crafty start...

Well, what a crafting start to the year I made so far, have done a 50th Birthday card for BIL and a framed 21st L/O for a friend of my son, photos to follow...

I've also made 6 Birthday cards for friends and relatives, and got another 3 for this month still to do.

I've committed myself to do the 52questions (see link on left side of blog, 'on places I like to visit') for journalling skills, OK not actually done the first 2 questions yet, but I intend to, in fact going to cut some tags out tonight for it., using some old stash.

and on do-crafts, Gina (MRS TSV) set a challenge for us to make a Christmas item every 2 weeks for Christmas 2009, so have taken that up too. First thing to be made by next weekend, and I dare not lapse on that challenge, (as that Gina is such a slave driver, lol).

on CC blog, she has sent a challenge to use one of your old kits up, so I'm aiming to use and make one item a month, even if it's just one of my old cards kits.

so with all these ideas and challenges I should be well stocked up for Birthdays, Christmas and my journalling skills in 2009, lol

watch this space...

Did you guess right?

At the beginning of December we visited Didcot Railway, where we met up with the Fat Controller




http://www.didcotrailwaycentre.org.uk/

Thomas the Tank

and the man in red, lol









We had a lovely the day, the weather was rather fresh but dry which was the main thing,

Why projects take me so long to do....

Well, I think the reason that is because of the way I work, I tend to get everything out while working, all over the floor, and then it takes me ages to put it all away before going to bed, that I have very little time in between to actually scrap, lol

Here are a couple of photos of the floor while looking for the embellishments for the wedding scrapbooks that I did for my niece and nephew..

...and here is how tidy I keep my ribbons, and that is before I bought some more from craftyribbons, lol...

...think I need some of your sweetie jars Sue-bubbles...

Happy New Year

Hope everyone is having a good evening....

We are not doing anything special to Celebrate it, Sam and boyfriend are already round my nephew Shane's house to see the New Year in with them.

We are sitting here watching Thomas the Tank on DVD, but think in the next hour or so, Steven will have had a shower and be in bed, as he is yawning away...

As for Clive and I, not sure, I've been nipping onto do-crafts to the scrapping section as they are having a virtual New Year Eve party, lol. Clive's on Sam's old laptop (she got a new PINK one for Christmas from her BF) watching some youtubes of people sculpturing faces, to give him ideas for when he gets back to making his train figures.

Thought as I don't know what the rest of the evening will bring, I would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year, and hope it's all want you want it to be...


so all is left for me to say is, see you next year, lol

Niece's album

This was a 12 x 12 one, it had a plain cream front, which I added the photo with AG photo corners, cream rose and glitter butterfly, the ribbon was the colour of her bridesmaid's dresses and the slider was in a wedding kit that I bought while in America. I've given them a few blank sleeves for her to either add her own photos or if she wants will add them for her of her evening do here in England, as we were unable to attend it as Steven was poorly that weekend.
Also I gave her some journalling pads for her to add her own comments and again if she wants me to put them in that's fine, or she can do it herself, I did the same for my nephews album.

This wedding took place in Orlando on the 24th September 2007, and Clive and I had decided that as we had already had a couple of holidays on Orlando, that we fancied seeing bit more of the area, so Clive, Steven and I went over and spent a week at Fort Lauderdale (as always wanted to do the Everglades) first then flew onto Orlando where we met up with the wedding party and our daughter who was to be their bridesmaid, but loves Orlando so much that she had been there for 3 weeks, lol

PS my son Steven is on page one, on the top right with the groom at the stag night, and daughter Sam is at the top left, in her bridesmade dress on page two