Phoenix Inspirations

That's right folks you heard it here first - more details can be found over on the blog it's self click  HERE  to take a look. The subject this time has been chosen by  Victoria  and it's HOLIDAYS Here's my page These are pics of me, my husband and my two children on the beach at Weston - Super - Mare. Just look at that blue sky  - obviously these photos were taken back in the good old days when we used to have sun! I have used Kraft card stock for my base, some blue card stock on to which I have mounted some Kaisercraft patterned paper. My clouds have been drawn freehand and cut from white paper and my bunting is made from scraps attached to twine. I will be adding this page to my  Scrapbook Blog  tomorrow along with a tip for positioning photos on your layouts. In the meantime please pop over to  Addicted to Stamps  and check out the fabulous work created by my fellow dt friends - Jacqueline xx

I've just got back from visiting my mum and dad. Dad's been having some more of his chemo treatment. He also has to have some radiotherapy as his cancer has moved to his neck. It's been very hard this last visit as my poor old dad has had to have 12 teeth out to prevent any infection via his teeth to the bone in his jaw - he's been in a lot of pain to say the least. So I got home late last night - missing Valentine's Day with my husband only to find that he would be leaving for Stockholm at 4am this morning, it's our wedding anniversary tomorrow too and we will miss it. Hopefully we can celebrate when he gets home on Friday. I did manage to do a little crafting today as my friend Louise came round to play. We had decided that we would try and make the Moving Pictures card from this month's Craft Stamper mag - I will show you the results of that tomorrow - it's safe to say that I probably won't be making it again any time soon as it was quite a com...

If you read yesterday's post you will remember I showed you some pictures from my Coffee Filter Mini Album. Well those pages are well and truly dry now so I have finished the reverse sides - take a look For a materials list please refer to yesterday's post or click here . o.k - from the top left we have the inside cover - this album mainly holds pictures of the female part of my family - mostly on my mum's side but there is a small picture of my dad'a mum. Next is a photo of mum with her parents. my mum as a little girl and then my Grandma and Grandpa. The little girl in the green dress is me on my first day of school and then a photo of our wedding day. Tomorrow I will show you the cover page and the journaling pages - have to make my daughter's birthday card too - she is 19 tomorrow - yikes that makes me feel sooooo old! - Bye for now Jacqueline xx.

As promised - here are some pics of what we did today at my workshop . We made today a 'Coffee Filter Mini Album'. That is - we took some coffee filter bags and covered them top and bottom. This made a pocket into which we inserted some tabbed file pages ready to be journaled. These are the first six finished pages of my album - I will show you the reverse side tomorrow. I used some Cosmo Cricket scrap book pages and inked the edges with some Distress Inks. The embellishments are all Cosmo Cricket as are the words and ribbon. So the pictures are (from top left) - my Great Gran Rose, my Grandma Hilda - both of these ladies are no-longer with us, and my Mum and Dad on their wedding day. Bottom left - me as a baby (eek!) me on my wedding day and my two children This is such a fun project to do and next week at my Thursday night workshop we will be making Paper Bag Albums - can't wait. See you soon - Jacqueline xx.

Hello folks - hope you all had a lovely weekend. I have had a lovely day today, my husband (who normally works from home) has been away on business and I have been locked in my craft room scrapbooking. As you can see in my side bar I am drawing attention to a new monthly scrapbook challenge. It's set by Victoria over on Blue Jelly Stampin'  and the first challenge is a sketch There were two optional extras - use Black and White and one other colour and have a family theme. Here are my pages - I used mainly stuff from my scraps box but I did use my Stampin' Up Butterfly Punch.   So, my optional colour was Pink and the pages are family themed as they are of my daughter Briony. She was all pink and squidgy when she was born so my husband nick-named her Polly Pinkle and that has stuck although it does get shortened to Pinkie now and then. (Do you think I have embarrassed her enough yet?!) Well anyway that little bundle of pink loveliness turns 19 this Thursday - I can'...

Hello everyone - happy March to you all. Well it's been a week since I last posted - as you know I've been away visiting my Dad as he was having some top-up chemo treatment. Whilst I was there I managed to take this picture of Mum and Dad's cat eating Dad's head! Hee hee - I thought this was very funny. So - I came home and went straight round to my friend Bev's house for some emergency crafting. I did do a bit while I was away but not much. We decided that this week we would use the Loads of Love stamp set and also the accessories set that go with it. Bev made a fab little pull card with a tab and I made a 'Penny Slider' card. Here it is The truck starts and the right, and drives along I will try and put some instructions up together for this - it's not that hard a card to make and - it's for a Man! I have to go now as I also came home to meetings and paper work which is all very boring but needs to be done :(  See you soon - Jacqueline xx.

Hi there folks - thought you might like to see some things I made for a family lunch I organised the other day. The invitations only went out to the ladies of the family - eight of us. I made us all a little goody bag as a memento of the occasion - take a look Inside were lip balm holders and post it note holders with mini pens ( made using my Stampin' Up set - Pocket Silhouettes).   Here they all are waiting to be placed around the table We had the best time and we ranged in age from 18 to nearly 80. It has been a difficult time lately as we have all experienced hard times. My father-in-law died very suddenly, my dad's cancer came back, my husband's uncle has had major heart surgery and my nephew has been diagnosed with a brain tumour - and although some of us are hopefully through the bad stuff now I thought we all deservered a treat. We talked and laughed and nobody mentioned any of the hard times and I think everybody left with a smile - well worth all the effort. See...