HLM - Blogpost August 2016

My blogpost is up over on the Hey Little Magpie blog today, using papers from Jillibean Soup - Mushroom Medley, please hop over and have a look and also visit the Hey Little Magpie shop to see this collection and tonnes more.

Happy Scrapping.

Hey Little Magpie - July 2016 Blogpost

My layouts are up today over on the Hey Little Magpie Blog (here).  This month I used the lovely collection from Fancy Pants Design - Life is Beautiful.  The quality of these papers are lovely, each paper is textured and a good quality - i would rate them as a similar weight to American Craft Cardstock, so very substantial.

Hope over to the blog and see my 4 layouts I've managed to do this month, and better still why not purchase some of this lovely collection from the store. - here

Happy scrapping everyone

More layouts from my Retreat

These are a selection of layouts I did to add to my NY album.

using Crate Paper - Wonder Collection - here

 using  Seven paper (Studio Calico) - Golden Collection and Heidi Swapp Empherma pack.

I love how this one came out, simply but effective using the black cardstock as my background.  the cut file is from Kerri Bradford Design.  Paper are from Cocoa Vanilla - Free Spirit here

Another scrap lift, this time from one Julie did for one of her Cut Shoppe post.  Papers are a mixture of travel themed papers I had in my stash.


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Retreat Layouts

Here are some of my layouts I managed to do whilst away in April.

This was using a LFE kit - Pink Paislee - Cedar Lane Collection    There are a few of the sheets still available.

This was  a scraplift, I found on Pinterest - using Simple Stories - Lets Party collection - here

Another layout using a LFE kit -

I scrapliffted this from one Sheena was doing.  Using some papers from LFE Kit, April 2015.

and I did this in a 9x12 format, using a photographs that I had taken the same day, I can never remember ever scrapping a photograph so quickly.  Me and Sheena at Chatsworth, photograph taken by Sam.  Papers used My Minds Eye - On Trend 2 collection here.

A simple one using up bits from a kit that included Seven Paper (Studio Calico) Golden Collection.

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HLM Blogpost - June 2016

I'm up today on the HLM blogpost.  This month I've used stamps  from Pink Fresh Studio on my layouts.  Please hop over  here and  see what I've done.

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HLM Team Retreat 2016

As I said I'd organised a 10 day crafting break, it started with a long-weekend with the Solihull girls, then a few days in between with just me and Sam, then it was time for the HLM DT Team Retreat.

So the for days in-between, me and Sam decided to go out and about on each day and do some crafting or even relaxing at night.

We went to Buxton for the day, very cold but lovely to have a walk around.

then we had a Spa day - OMG! it was totally fab, we had 3 treatments during our stay as well as breakfast and lunch

My first Spa day experience and I'm hoping its not going to be my last - felt a bit strange to start with walking around the building in a fluffy dressing gown, but we soon got used to it.

The weather was lovely that we spent the time between are treatments and eating sitting outside on the patio in the sunshine.

The next day we visited Trentham Monkey Forest - lovely to have a walk around the forest amongst the monkeys and get some lovely shots of them at rest and play.

Then Sheena joined us for our visit to Chatsworths House and Gardens

As more of the team arrived, it was time to go into Ashbourne and get some food shopping done ...

well that was the main objective, but we couldn't resist doing a spot of shopping whilst there, and taking some photos.

We even managed brunch in the sunshine.

and us being scrapbookers, we just had to take loads of photographs of the Afternoon Tea we had prepared.

It was lovely getting together with the team and our bosses, some of the team couldn't make it and where missed the those who where there we had a great time.

Then I was home with my boy again, I think he missed me - lol x 

Thank you for staying with me with my catch - up.  My next couple of blogpost will be scrapbooking related, and less of my waffling.

See you soon

Hey Little Magpie - March 2016 Blogpost

Just wanted to put on that my layouts for this month are up on the Hey Little Magpie blog (here).


I've used the lovely collection from Pink Paislee - Cest La Vie.

Hope over the the blog to see how I put this and the two other layouts together.

Please note that at the time of writing some of the products are out of stock, but as Pink Paislee is under the umbrella of American Crafts, re-stocking of all the new products had been put on hold whilst AC moved warehouses in the USA.  Hopefully by the end of March AC should be back to shipping products to all stores.

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HLM February 2016 Blogpost

Hi everyone, my blogpost for this month is now live over on the Hey Little Magpie blog .

This month I did 3 different sized layouts using the lovely collection from Pebbles by Jen Hadfield - Everyday, and it truly is an everyday collection.

The full blogpost can be found here


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All Change for my January 2016 HLM blogpost

I know I'm not the only one to do this, and mange to save the layout without throwing it into the bin in frustration.  So for my HLM January blogpost I decided to use this lovely collection from Basic Grey - Type Set .

For my birthday Julie, had got me a manual typewriter, oh how I love it, not used it yet ! but I've stroked it a few times and took loads of photographs - as you do.  

Anyway, having this paper collection I know I had the perfect papers to document my lovely gift.  I had decided that I would use a couple of smaller photos down one side of the page and set about putting my layout together.

The layout came together relatively quickly, but then it came to the title - something that I sometime struggle with.  And when I'd finished I know I hated the title and the position of it, the saying everything, and everything was 'super' struck down - ahhh !!!

Title says ' Hello my beauty'

So after my initial panic I asked for advice and I got a few replies, saying the title was OK, and then Julie suggested added some more words underneath what I'd put already.  Great I thought, so left it on my desk for a day or two to decide what to do with it - without throwing it away.  

Then I came up with the idea if I work really slowly then I sure I can get the struck down letters off and perhaps in someway cover over the mess.

The chipboard came off easily, but the alpha stickers didn't as you can see - ripping the paper and even leaving the backing of the alpha stickers on the page.

When I first started crafting as a card maker,  the lady teacher, Ann, showed so how to removed glue from your paper with an heat gun  from the back - and it worked, but I was still left with the 'ripped areas'

This collection comes with a sticker sheet and the large one fitted over the 'ripped area' perfectly - I added a large wood veneer from my stash, some mini alphas from Jillibean Soup and the lovely Thickers from a Dear Lizzy Collection.

And my page was saved.

Here are a few close ups 

The collection also had some lovely flair badges.

The full blogpost can be found here.

I was so glad I was able to save it as I was running out of time for it to be uploaded.

I'll be back soon