In the Garden

This week I have entered the Passion for Promarkers challenge where the theme was @In the Garden.' I just love this Penny Black stamp. It's so versatile and can be used for so many different occassions.

Hope you like it

Ally

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On my travels again

Yet another holiday photo - ho hum!
Watchet is a little harbour village in Somerset and Simon and I really like it there. We'vre wandered around the quay many times, watched the steam train come in and once visited a little craft fair. In there was a lady demonstrating parchment craft. I was totally transfixed watching her and that led me on to me buying my first ever crafting magazing along with making my first ever card. I used a huge chipboard flower in the corner. It's a basic grey one I think and then added a button in the middle. (Ihave a thing about buttons at the mo!)

I still can't yet manage to delve that little bit deeper with my jouranlling. Hopefully as time goes on, I'll get better at it.

These are just little prima flowers with buttons in the middle.

Quite a busy page this one, but I like it. I hope you do too.

Ally

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Tag swap

Over on UKs we had a tag swap within our team. We all made a tag, sent it off to our 'team captain' who then shared them out and sent them back so we had one each from evryone who took part.

As you can see, I now have a lovely variety of tags showing each members individual talent and style.

You can tell I'm back at school as the blog posts become more sporadic. I've only been back 3 days and I feel like I need a holiday!!
Ally
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More ATCs

So I've made a couple more ATCs. I'm really enjoying coming back to this small size. The hope tag is one of Sir Tims adage tickets whuch I've just edged with distress ink.

The face stamp was free on Craft Stamper magazine.

These have reached their new owners now so I hope they like them as much as I enjoyed making them.

Ally

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Another 8x8 of Ryan

So I promised another LO of my beautiful son (you can tell I'm his mum can't you!). This one was taken in 2006 when Ryan was playing for Trimley Red Devils. Ryan eat, drank, lived and breathed for his football. I said that I was going to keep these 8x8 LOs really simple because I want the photo to be the main element.

These little gems are each slightly smaller than the one to the left and the third was put on a little wonky. Hmph!

This is a chipboard embellishment that came with the kit.

Some of you may be thinking that the backgrounds and embellies are a bit too flowery for pages all about a boy, but these pages are for me, just so that I can pick them up and flick through whenever I want to.

Hope you like it.

Ally

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Blog award!

Yippee! This is my first ever blog award and I'm supposed to now tell you 7 crafty facts about me. 1. I don't have a desk or a craft room. I have a cupboard and boxes in the corner of my living room and I work on my coffee table (when my back allows) or on a lap table.
2. I've made cards for a few years now and that's where my crafting obssession started.
3. Years ago I made and swapped ATC's. I found the appeal of them again lately and have got back into this and started swapping again.
4. I find it really diificult to transfer my craft skills and knowledge into my teaching. I'm just find it really hard to be creative at school and this is something that really gets on my nerves!
5. My uncle and my cousin are both artists.
6. My mum used to make all of me and my sisters clothes. We were always dressed identically!
7. I also dabble in cross stitch and currently have a latch hook rug on the go.

I now have to pass this award on to 3 people. Hmmm... who to choose?
These are the people I'm going to pass the award on to:
1. Debra at http://debscards.blogspot.com/
2. Sandra at http://allthingspretty-sandra.blogspot.com/
3. Cath at http://2010-theyearforchange.blogspot.com/

Thank you Alana for the award.
Ally
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Scrapping my son

As many of you know, I'm new to the worl of scrapbooking, coming from a card making background, and I am totally hooked! Lots of you out there who have been doing this for years will have already scrapped your children, but obviously I haven't but now I've made a start!
I'm going to call it 'The many faces of Ryan' and I have 2 8x8 cosmo cricket albums that I'm going to use. It is going to be slightly different to regular pages though in that I'm not giving each one a title and journalling, I'm just adding the year (and month if I have it).
So this is my first page.The page is a lot browner in real life than the photo shows.
Now I think I had an absolute bargain from QVC. I don't tend to buy that much from them as they can be quite expensive but every now and then something comes along that you think 'I must have that!' and this was one of those things. It's a 9000 piece Cosmo Cricket set for £35. There's so much in there, including 2 boxed 8x8 albums, a cube to make, brag books, magnetic frames, alphas, double sided papers, adhesive ribbons, ordinary ribbons, embellies etc etc This flower I had from my own stash.

As are these little gem flowers. I used my MArtha Stewart punch for the border.

So watch out for more pages and you'll see how he's changed over the years.

Hope you like it.

Ally

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