Our Christmas Tree

 We put the tree up last night, we are white and silver for this years colours

Close up

Mulberry Wood Christmas

 This is another Double step card, the toppers and papers are all Mulberry Woods from Crafter`s Companion

There is a free studio cut file for the base of this card and I have also added the fence to it , you can download it from

HERE

I also added lots of glitter to the image and used a Martha Stewart punch for the stopper

Thanks for looking

Double Step Fold Easel

This card was made for a Challenge over on our friends for life forum

I designed the card base and fence in design studio , I have the files free for you to download 

HERE

The little girl topper is from Crafter`s Companion Paintbox poppet CD

The flowers are all prima, with some glitter glue for the centres 

The punch is one of Martha Stewarts.
I am also entering it into some blog challenges, It been a long time since I have been able to have the time to craft and take part in blog challenges.
It feels great to be back and looking at everyone's blogs again 

Challenges entered  

Lady Anne`s Challenges - anything goes

Make it Monday- Anything goes

My Grafico - Anything Goes

Paper Playtime - Anything goes

Challenges 4 everybody- Anything goes

Dream Valley- Anything goes

Glitter and sparkle- lots of layers

Squirrel and fox- Anything goes

Craft Punked - Anything goes

Inspire me Friday - Anything goes

Scrapbooking With Silhouette Cameo

I have been having fun following Kerri Bradford`s designing with the Silhouette Cameo Courses over at
Jessica Sprague
I thought I had mastered  my cameo and design studio , but still learnt a lot from doing these courses, you just follow along with the Video Tutorials at your own pace.
This last course was all about how to use colour in your designs

 Here are a few layouts that we worked on during this course.

My darling granddaughter Perrie was the subject that I used in my Photos

 Love the idea of cutting out the flowery background, it looks like a lace overlay

 This one is my Favourite I will be using this again, 

I love the pattern papers showing through the main page, a simple idea but stunning, lots of ideas for shapes to use doing this.

 This layout was our class homework to take what we have learnt, and Kerri teaches you how to make from scratch all the banners, tags etc that you have seen in these layouts and go design your own

For this layout I used a flower background that I had bought from the Silhouette online store.

I made the banners and took the colours from the oranges in the photo, also the tag on the photo and the sentiment were coloured to match colours in the main photo.

Really enjoyed doing this and will be using my Cameo to make more embellishments for future layouts .

if you are new to the Silhouette Cameo do check out these courses.

Jessica Sprague

They walk you through in baby steps everything you would want to know about designing in silhouette studio.

Kerri gives you a lot of freebies to play with also

Blue flight

 My mother in laws Birthday is tomorrow and here is the card that i have made for her.

It was all cut on my Silhouette Cameo, using a few files from the silhouette store and Birds designs ( A link to birds blog  is in my side bar), All the white card is Core-dinations , the blue was printed onto crafter`s companion light white card and the pattern is a download from pink petticoats, I used the for the mat and also to cut out my flowers.

To finish it all off I used some pale blue seam binding, punched two butterfly from my favourite Martha Stewart Punch, just could not do without this punch a must have in your collection

A close up of the sentiment , another of birds designs for the mat, the sentiment is from TLC ( link to blog in my side bar) sorry its a bit blurry , a new camera, still trying to get the hang of it, not very forgiving if you shake a little while snapping the photo

Sorrento Holiday

Just came back from a fabulous 10 days in Sorrento.

I have just uploaded some photobook layouts of holiday, click the link below

http://wendysscrappingdays.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/sorrento-holiday.html

A Sample page more on my scrapbooking blog

Baby Boy Rattle set

 So enjoyed making this set.

It is from a cut file by Tina Fitch and has been cut on my Cameo

 The card I have used for this is from crafter`s companion, I have used white Centura Pearl and and blue core`dinations

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Butterfly Birthday

 This beautiful card was cut on my Silhouette Cameo using a file from Tina Fitch that I slightly adjusted for my needs

 I used pink Centura and white Core`dinations card available from Crafter`s Companion

 After cutting I ran each side of the card through my bigshot with a cuttlebug embossing folder

This is how the inside of the card looks

MoreHead Pick of the Week

          Moreheads POTW – a huge announcement

pop on over to Leann`s blog to find out all the news of an early launch

Perrie`s Name Plate

Managed to have a play today with Ellie May aka my Silhouette Cameo cutting machine.
I have made a wall Name plate to go in our new granddaughter Perrie`s nursery

 The pink papers are from pink petticoats and have been printed out onto thick 300gsm card.

this was then cut on my Cameo, I designed the file using Alphas from Tina Fitch designs 

This small card below is for my sister in law ready for her birthday next week

Again I have designed it all in studio, cut out using 300gsm card and mirri card.

 The top layer I ran through my Swiss dots embossing folder, then finished with a bunch of flowers

Perrie`s First Photo Session

 My daughter took little Perrie for her first photo session last week.

here is a sneak peek at some of the photos, will post more when we get them all back 

 I did not know you could get these in Tesco.

Sleeping peacefully  in a shopping basket .

How cute is this

Will post more when we get the prints back

Scrapbook layouts

I have added a few layouts of Baby Perrie Grace to my scrap booking blog

http://wendysscrappingdays.blogspot.co.uk/

If anyone would like to have a look

Its a Girl

 Its a Girl our Granddaughter Perrie Grace was born yesterday at 4.15 she weight 8lb 4oz .

Here she was a few minutes after with her Mummy

An a close up view, she has a few little marks from birth on her head , Aleysha need a bit of help to get her out, But they will soon fade, she loves to tuck her little hands under her chin as she sleeps, so cute

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Penarth Day Out for Keaton

 A double page spread to remember our day out at Penarth

I took a photo of the pebble beach, I took this into craft artist and faded it to turn into a background.

I then enlarged and cropped a photo of the pier, this I then faded and added to the top of the page.

I took the photos turned them into frames cropped until I was happy with them , then i feathered the edges of each photo before arranging on my layout

This one has the pier removed again I have turned the photos into frames and feathered the edges.

I then added text to a tag to remind us of our day on the pier

New Baby Cardand free file

 Another card made for our new grandchild due next week.

This has been designed by me and cut out on Ellis-may ( silhouette Cameo).

I went for lemon amd white Centura pearl and Core`dinations card stock , because if you read my other post we don't know what we are having its going to be a nice surprise for us all.

The free files for this have been uploaded to my SkyDrive and you can get them

HERE

They are only in studio files but I am trying to work out how to convert to SVG, 

you will need the

Circle doily Card and the New baby topper to make this card

thanks for stopping by

Gemstone trees

Two Wire and Gemstone trees

 The first tree is gold and silver wire with rose quarts Nuggets and shell branches, the silver shell tree has been wound around the gold rose quarts tree 

This second tree is Amethyst Nuggets  

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