Scrapbooking Tuesday - Bring me Sunshine

Hello Friends

Welcome to another Tuesday here on Planet Earth.  As I usually try to achieve on a Tuesday, I have some scrapbooking which I would like to share with you.  

This layout came about due to Mr Hettie's Godfather visiting my MIL and bringing with him a shoebox full of old photos that he had and wanted MIL to tell him, if she could, who some of the people were.  Mr Godfather's parents and most of his older members of the family having now passed away, he wanted to know before it was too late. MIL sent the photos over with Mr Hettie for me to see as she knew I would be interested, and in there was this photo......

It was taken at Mr Hettie's cousin's wedding in August 1990.  I had never seen it before.  On seeing it I could not help but sing "Bring Me Sunshine" to myself and new I had to sit down and scrap it.  So here is what I did.......

Having cropped the photo and changing it to black and white I pulled out some of my MME The Sweetest Thing papers (must get myself another set of these as I love them so much), some Bo Bunny papers and Echo Park.  I used my TH rosette die and made some "sunflowers" and pulled out yellow and orange flowers.  Then came the procraftinating!

This large yellow flower is the last of a collection that my friend brought home from France for me - Boo hoo!.  The large orange one is a Bazzill one that has been in my stash for years and years........  the paper ones are various makes.  Who could resist using a Giggle tag.  

I stencilled using some Glimmer Mist sprays and Gathered Twigs DI.  Another Distressed Doily cut out.  The bling swirlies I bought in Cornwall about 4-5 years ago and have been waiting to use them on a "special" project. 

I liked and kept the dash of pink flowers on the paper without covering them as the colour theme was dusky pink.  A clock to show the passage of time, cut using Snippets, some more misting with stencil and another sunflower.  

I just love this little fairy house.  It was a mould I bought on a well known auction site, and I used some Martha Stewart paper clay in there for the first time.  It is great stuff and so lightweight.  Takes DI great, with a little Treasured Gold on the top.  The paper says "One of a kind" so I altered it to Two of a kind!  This flower ribbon was in with my ATC from my PIF sender.  Gorgeous isn't it?  You can also see some stamping I have done using a TH and Penny Black stamp. 

I cut the letters for the main word using the Echo Park paper and added orange stickles over the top.  The word "bring" was stamped on a near to hand Snippet.  "Me" was on the back of the Echo Park paper.  I stamped the bees on some more Snippets and coloured them in using Copics and stickles.

Thanks for calling by.  I shall be showing this off in the Playground if you would care to call by and see it!  I am also going to enter this into Simon Says Stamp as the theme is "Anything Goes"!  My lovely friend Alison has just told me I can enter this into Our Creative Corner too!  This is a new Challenge for me so wish me luck!

TTFN

Hettie

Scrappy Tuesday - When Fergus met Tim!

Hello Peeps

Time for another scrapbook layout on Tuesday and today I want to show you the other layout using some of the Echo Park papers that were in the layout I did last week.  Not all of these papers are Echo Park and some are Snippets so I can join in with the Lovely Di at the Playground - Whoopee!!  

I also used some images from my Silhouette cutter, and Monkey punched out some bunting from my Stampin' Up punch on which I used the stamps to match too!  Love that punch and stamps.  

I have used Tim Holtz stamps and Dies, as well as Martha Stewart Punches.  

A fair bit of distressing with my Distresser and some word strips cut from the paper.

Not the most flattering photo of me and my chins but Fergus enjoyed the trip, which was the Paperartsy event last year.  (I have lost at least two of those chins now!) Tim was such a good sport to have his photo with a lot of us who took part in the event, one I will never forget!!  Thanks Guys and Gals for such a fabbie day!

Don't forget to leave me a comment so I know you have been.  

Hugs

Hettie

Ingredients:  Paper - Echo Park, Snippets; Dies - Tim Holtz; Stamps - Stampin' Up, Tim Holtz; Punches  - Martha Stewart, Stampin' Up; Distress Inks - Tim Holtz; Twine - Papermania.  

Scrappy Tuesday - Dream a little Dream

Hello Peeps

Oops!  I know it is Wednesday but here is my Scrappy Tuesday posting for this week. I had every intention of posting this yesterday but you see, I was out last night - dancing the night away.  I was picked up at 6.30pm and did not get home until 11.45pm.  On a School Night too!  I know! I know!  It was rather good though and it is sooo nice to be back on the dancing scene once more.

Anyways, on to the purpose of today's posting.......my layout......

Our little Dobby sitting at the window in my Craft Room watching the world go by.  He started to pop in to my room when I was in ther so got him another cushion so he would be comfy!  All the creature comforts for the pooch ey!  Actually, I do like to sit there myself sometimes with a well earned cuppa and have been known to pull the cushion out of the way to take photos of pieces on the floor as the light is sooo good!

The majority of the papers are Echo Park - Love them!  The lampost is a Kaisercraft stamp. The paper which is not Echo Park are from the scrapbox so I am going to be cheeky and put this into the Snippets Playground.  Why not join us and use your snippets.  We have swings, roundabouts and now a BRAND NEW Go-Kart track (all virtual of course!). 

This layout was actually in a kit but unfortunately when I came to sit down to create it there were several sheets of paper missing.  I promise I had not opened the kit beforehand.  So I added some papers of my own and also jiggled things around a bit (including changing the stamped image from the original) so it is not exactly the same now and am liking it. 

It is Rudolph Day so Happy Rudolph Day to you all!  You can join in there too.  You just need to make something in readiness for Christmas whether it be a card or tags or anything else.  

Thanks for calling by and please let me know you have been by leaving a message.  

I also want to say "Hi" to my two latest followers Heidi and Rita.  Thank you for following me.

Hugs to you all

Hettie