Catch a Wave - Scrapbook Tuesday

Hello Friends

Another photograph which was lying around in my Craft Room.  I was procraftinating (this is my word of the year!) whether to do something with it or bin it.  I had thought about cropping the photo but it did not look right.  Hubby challenged me to scrap it.  So scrap it I did!

I took a sheet of Basic Grey cardstock, bubblewrap wrapped round a block, an adhesive lid and some white acrylic paint and set to on the background.  I wanted to echo the dots and circles in the blue paper.

The blue dotty paper is a Fancy Pants paper with the journalling cards on the reverse side on which I got the title for the layout.  The stripey paper is from my Snippets Box and the reverse side was used as the background for the orange journalling card.  That Strip across the photo reminded me of starfish and has been in my Snippet box for ages!

The plain orange cardstock was punched with Martha Stewart punch, score lines added then stitched to the layout using my trusty sewing machine. 

I also stitched the ribbon and punched some bunting to put down the side of the photo using Snippets of the papers used.  A little Play ticket as well as a Go For It tag as Dobby sure did enjoy his running around the beach for the first time!  Though I must say he was not keen on the water itself!  I bought a paw stamp in Hobbycraft the day I finished this and you can just see it on the red paper which I embossed with white embossing powder!

I shall be sharing this at the Playground as it contains Snippets!

Thanks for calling by.

Hettie

Scrapbooking Layout - Too Busy to Notice

Hello Bloggers

Well, I had a whole heap of plans for what I was going to achieve today but so far I have only managed one!  Best laid plans.... springs to mind.  However, what I have achieved I am very happy with and I will share with you tomorrow.  But for now I thought I would share a layout from PB days!  No.  Not Penny Black but Pre-Blogging days.  They seem such a long time ago but in reality they aren't that long!

These photos were taken when I went on a retreat in Cornwall with Linda at Just Scrapbooking.  I arrived the afternoon before the retreat was due to start as it was a 5 hour drive and I didn't want to be worried about getting there on time and I also wanted some rest before I started.  So after Dinner I went for a wander in the gardens and sure enough a photo opportunity presented itself!

Hope you like.....

Funny enough this was before we had our bees!  Thanks to my little notebook I can tell you I completed this layout on 20th July 2010.

Back to work tomorrow and scary thought.....this is the last Bank Holiday until December 25th!  

Have a great week everyone!

Hugs

Hettie

CC2C - Configurations - Oh I do like to be beside the seaside!

Hello Peeps

Well I just want to start off my post with a Well Done to all the Wimbledon finalists who made it through to the finals this weekend!  You were all winners in my book!  What a fantastic weekend of tennis you have given us.  And Andy - hold your head up high and be proud!  You fought a good fight!

Now, back to business of tonight's post.  The Compendium of Curiosities 2 Challenge.  The Lovely Linda has given us the task of creating our own piece of art using the Configurations boxes (pages 32 and 34 of the BOOK).  It didn't matter whether we used a configurations box or printer's tray, nor did it matter what size we used.  And this week there is a whole bunch of goodies to be won which were kindly donated by Mario himself!  

I have been wanting to make a box with a seaside theme for ages, for it to go into my bathroom.  I do love to be beside the seaside after all!  Here it is.....

Now where do I start?  The Lighthouse on the top is from Spain when I went to the Quilt Expo in 2002 and has been in my bathroom since.

Here I have made a windbreak using a scrap of fabric and some cocktail sticks.  The mussel and little white shells you can see here I picked up off the beach in Cornwall last September, I bought the other shells you can see here in St Ives, Cornwall on my visit there at a Scrapbooking retreat.  There is also a vial full of golden sand but you can hardly see it in this photo.  The beads to the right are some I have had for a while and the green bead was in a box of nik naks which belonged to Hubby's Great Aunts - no doubt part of a broken necklace.  The pearls were once white but were coloured with alcohol ink in a plastic bag (the beads not me!).

This little box was an "under the sea" theme.  Unfortunately the photo is a little bleached.  At the back you can see some recycled packaging stamped with a sea plant (p62 of the BOOK).  The dark "rocks" are out of the candle bowl in my living room. Some glossy accents to adhere them and a sprinkling of gold micro beads as sand.  The white rock is a piece of abalone from the collection of shells in my bathroom and a pewter shell charm and some word beads.  

Here you see the fishermen represented where St Ives still has a small fishing fleet bringing fresh seafood into Cornwall.  Another pewter charm of a fish hanging and a mussel shell found in Cornwall.  At the back you can just about see a book plate.

A slightly better view of the book plate with faux patina (page 58 of the BOOK) effect.  Some glossy accents with some gold "sand" micro beads dropped in.  

And now the final section which represents beach life. A spade to the left (a brad with the spikes cut off and a heart.  The 46 number (no I am not admitting what that is for!), a sign to the Beach, bucket charm and some flip flops.

Another view of the same box.

Here is the side of the box with some stamping on there and showing the corners attached.  Just need to figure out how we are going to hang it up in the bathroom.  That is Hubby's problem!

The other side with some more stamping.  

Thank you Linda for bringing this Challenge into being.  I have had so much fun making it, despite having blue finger nails to go into work with and a few broken nails!

Don't forget, you have until Thursday evening to make a box and join in. It is sooo much fun!!    

Thanks for looking and don't forget to leave me a comment so I may call by and visit you.  

TTFN 

Hettie

Cornwall Mini Album

Evening Peeps

I have had a few reminders recently from people who wish to see my lickle suitcase mini album that I used on our recent holiday to Cornwall.  You might want to grab yourself a coffee (or something a little stronger here, as this is pretty photo heavy!!

In case you want a reminder of it here are some pictures of it when I finished making it.......

And here are some pictures of it complete with pictures.....

The printer I used is a Polaroid Pogo, which prints photo 3 x 2" and is portable (about the size of a compact camera).  You can either print photos straight off your camera (via a lead if you remember to take it with you - doh!) or you can send photographs via bluetooth off your mobile phone.  You can guess which option I took (the pixies hid the lead from me!!).

I am not showing all the pages as this would bore you too much, and also there is alot of journalling in there which you don't need to read!!

I hope you like my album and it gives you some ideas for albums of your own.  I can honestly say that I loved making the album and then using it on holiday and I have made a few for other people, including one for my Cousin who is (hopefully) using it in Australia as we speak!  Happy Birthday Tracey!!

I don't mind if you wish to borrow any of my ideas, and if you do, please remember where you saw them!  Let me know so that I can see what you have done!

Don't forget to leave me a comment!

TTFN

Sam

WOYWW 122 - Hi Guys I am Back!!

Hi There Peeps

Sorry Julia, I missed last Wednesday, I was on a fabulous holiday in South Cornwall.  Julia is the lovely host of the WOYWW held each week on a Wednesday.  Usually we show you pictures of our desks and then link up to Julia's so we can look at other peoples desks. I hope you don't mind if I don't show you my desk today as it is pretty boring anyway.  I thought I would share some of the photos I took last week.  We stayed in a lovely little cottage in Sancreed and just took pot luck at where we went on any given day.  No itinerary, no agenda, no idea!! 

This is where we were last Wednesday........

Levant Mine.  Look at that sky.  Wasn't it just fantastic?  We certainly chose the best week to be away. 

The  "Intrepids" were myself, my Hubby and Dobby (first time we have ever taken a dog away on holiday). 

For those of you who like to see flowers.......

I have never seen white Hydrangea before and am now going to look for one.  This was at Trevarno.  A beautiful day to spend our Wedding Anniversary.  The weather was beautiful on that day too. 

Fergus enjoying a Cornish Pasty at St Michael's Mount....

.... A Veggie one of course!

And here is something I spotted at Cape Cornwall......

I can hear you all go "Awwww" now!!

Lizard Point (most Southerly place in UK).  I stood for ages trying to get a good spray shot.  I think it was worth the wait!

Mullion Cove - the best Rum 'n' Raisin ice cream as recommended by Hels Sheridan and Me!

Well, I hope you like seeing some of my piccies from Cornwall. (I actually took 397 and I haven't even had chance to look at Hubby's camera yet!!)  It just goes to show that you don't need to go to some foreign country to enjoy yourself, if the weather is good then Great Britain is fantastic!!

Off to stop by some desks before I have a dancing lesson this afternoon, then back to stop at some more desks before I go dancing again this evening!!  I should be fit by the time I go back to work shouldn't I?  Don't forget to have a womble over to Julia's page to see other desks.

See ya!

Hettie