What's In A Title?

The blog title is my take on my favourite quote from Stephenie Meyer's Twilight novel, when Bella realises she is in love with vampire Edward. My version is slightly less impressive than that in the book but never the less true:


"About three things I was absolutely positive, first I was an obsessed crafter, second, there was a part of me - and I didn't know how potent that part might be, that thirsted for beautiful craft materials, dies, stamps, papers, cardstock etc, and third, I was unconditionally and irrevocably in love with scrapbooking and cardmaking"







Wednesday 24 August 2011

At Low Tide - Scrapping Wednesday



It's Wednesday again, ahhhh I love my day off. Spent most of today messing about in my craft room. Completed the At Low Tide layout using some of the papers in this months kit from Sarah's Cards. The colours seemed to shout out "beach" so I lifted part of a layout from the booklet of layouts that come with the kit, sorry, can't remember which one of the Design Team ladies created the layout, sorry. I found a few shell embellishments and some beach pebbles at the back of a drawers so I inked the shells and added them all to the layout. I also found some starfish embellishments but they were a baby pink colour so I coloured them with rusty red coloured acrylic paint and then inked them a bit with some distress inks. I added some bling and a tag with the date and place the photos was taken, 31/07/11 Hornsea Beach.


The card I made using one of the new Molly Bloom stamps that I bought last week. I love them, they are so cute. It's my mothers birthday at the beginning of September so just for once I am early making her card, usually it's a last minute scramble to get it finished. Shame I haven't done the same with my brother's birthday card cos that's a couple of days before my mother's and I haven't started it yet - oops!




Wednesday 17 August 2011

Scrapping Wednesday









As I have probably mentioned on here a million times I don't work Wednesdays. Actually, let me be more specific, I don't go to my paid job on Wednesdays. Recently I have found myself spending most Wednesdays working around the house, following around after everyone else but not today. Today I was determined to spend the whole day, from getting up around 8.30am to Mr Grumpy coming home at 6pm, in my craft room doing some crafting. I was waylaid this morning by my daughter asking me to help her put the last coat of paint on her bedroom walls so that took me up until lunchtime, a quick break for my favourite low fat, tomato and red pepper humous with 6 water crackers (dieting again!) then locked myself in my little craft room.



I wanted to do something with the latest montly kit from Sarah's Cards as the kits are starting to stack up now as I never seem to have time to do anything with them and the next one is due to be posted out in a few days time. So I dug out this old photo of my now 18 year old daughter (A'Level results tomorrow, OMG!!) and got to work and created the bottom layout. She always wanted it to be "Teddy's Turn", I'm sure she didn't like going on the springy things herself!



The top layout "Icebox Bear" is a joke layout for my husband Phil, aka Mr Grumpy, aka The Teddy Bear Collector. He has over 300 of them all over the house, it drives me mad, but I'm sure I've said that before so sorry to bore you. My hubby loves the Birds Eye bear, I believe he is called Clarence. Every time an advert comes on featuring Clarence he asks me when the bear will be available to buy, like I'm the font of all knowledge! Anyway I saw this photo on the internet and couldn't resist printing it off. I saw these papers in a sale and snapped them up cos I knew exactly what I was going to do with them. Actually, what I was going to do with them was use them as backing papers for some Christmas cards (I like to start early) but when I saw the papers and the photo on my desk at the same time I couldn't resist creating this layout. To try to make the papers go a bit further as I'd only bought a few odd sheets, I gutted some of the patterned paper and I have to ask....why are craft knives so flipping sharp? I not only managed to slice the paper but my finger also which bled profusely, so much so that I spent several seconds swearing under my breath whilst biting down on the end of my finger to try numb the pain and stop the bleed, taped it up with a bit of tissue and some low tack masking tape and got on with the layout. Hope you like them.

Wednesday 10 August 2011

Meet Me At The Gate

Still out of my comfort zone, scrapping photos of nature with not a person in sight. I took the photo outside a churchyard in Hornsea, East Yorkshire a couple of weeks ago when I went over to my parents to practise using my camera.
I wanted to use up the last few pieces of the mini Bellaboo kit I bought a few months back. I've done two layouts with it so there was only one gutted piece of bazzill, a smaller piece of the teal striped paper and a few small pieces of teal and purple patterned papers left. As usual I went a bit mad with the flowers and butterflies, using punches and the Tim Holtz Tattered Florals die and a large Mariane butterfly die. The best part of doing this layout was trying to photograph it, it was really windy and I put it on the driveway in the best light and it kept blowing away, got it eventually.



Thursday 4 August 2011

A Bit of Nature

I think this is a first for me, I think all my layouts have people in them, this is possibly the first with just a bit of nature in it. The papers are Bo Bunny Vicki B that I bought in a recent on-line sale. I wanted to use this scolloped page but alot of the flowers in the pattern were pink and my wildflower is more of a lilac colour so I coloured the pink bits with a lilac pro marker and I think it looks better now. The flowers are made from lengths of ribbon with a running stitch through them which was then pulled tight and a brad added to the middle. I've put a journalling card behind the photo but it's on a brad so it swings out. The photo is one I took last week in Hornsea when I took my camera out to try take some photos using what I learnt from the fantastic Kirsty Wiseman photography class the weekend before. I had a great day snapping beach scenes, flowers, bunting, boats, sheep, you name it I snapped it, poor hubby just tagged along carrying my camera bag, bless him. The flower has a bee or similar on it and it you look closely you can see it's big eye which gives it's face an almost cartoon-like appearance. I am not one to normally shove my face near anything with a buzz and a sting but I like the effect of this one so it was worth it. The photo of the layout was taken indoors on my little compact camera cos once again Summer has vanished and it's chucking it down so the lighting is a bit on the poor side.