Fairy Desk Calendar

Morning everyone!  Hope your all well and keeping nice and warm in this cold weather!!  I've another creation for four challenges today.  This has taken me ages to do due to the migraine I STILL can't shake off!!  Could only craft for 5 minutes at a time before having to leave it for at least an hour!!  I genuinely didn't feel stressed when I saw the doc - now I do cos it's preventing me from crafting!!!  It doesn't actually feel as bad right now so I'm really hoping the end is in sight - I have had it for about a week now!!

Wanted to do this for the second part of  Mellie's challenge over on Charmed Craft Talk Forum.  She wanted a calendar with punched or die cut shapes, bling, doodling and sewing!  Had to give this some thought and due to my awful head, decided not to do a page per month!  The image is stamped on a punched shape. There is some coloured bling in the top corner and though I haven't done any actual sewing, I have doodled some stitching on the papers and card!

This creation also fits the following five challenges;

Magical Crafts Fortnightly Challenge - Sketch

The Corrosive Challenge - Red and Green

Cupcake Craft Challenges - Red and Green

Incy Wincy Designs - Red and Green

Crafty Catz - Angels and Fairies

I've joined in all challenges for MCFC so far but I'm totally new to the other four.  Being quite new to blogging, it's taking me a while to get round them.  I discover new ones every week and these look fab!!  The sketch was great to work with, red and green is one of my favourite colour schemes and I LOVE fairies.  As I'm starting to get a bit bored with Christmas images having done most of the cards I need this year, I thought it would be fun to try and combine them all!!  So, with the New Year rapidly approaching I've created a desk calendar using one of my favourite flower fairy stamps!!  I've mounted the paper onto an old CD cover and borrowed this idea from my favourite sister-in-law, Jo.

I'm sorry for the picture quality, I couldn't quite get the exposure right and was faffing for ages!!

RECIPE

Stamp - Inca, 3026P The Zinnia Fairy 

Papers - Basic Grey

Cardstock - Sizzix

Sentiment - Crafwork Cards

Ribbon - stash

Green gems - stash

Flowers - Hobbycraft

Calendar label - Hobbycraft

Emmy took pity on me because of my headache so she cut all the papers for me and helped stick everything down.  She loves this image so am going to donate it to her - she wants to use it to mark off when her pocket moneys due LOL!  

Thankyou for stopping by.  Please feel free to leave me a comment so I know you dropped in.  I'm currently not blog hopping much due to my head but when it lifts, I'll be back on form and will pop by your blog in return.  Hello to my friends on the forums - I'll see you all soon!!

Take care everyone and happy crafting!

Mel X

Christmas Scrapbook 2009

Morning everybody. It's well nippy here, there's even a ground frost. Have whacked the fire and the heating on this morning! Hope your all well and looking forward to the weekend. I'm collecting the motor from the garage today with Mr Blogger who's home for just one day!! The heaters all fixed so the car should get lovely and toasty on my early morning starts!!

My early New Year Resolution as you may know is to crack on and catch up with scrapping my photos. I just don't seem to have the time most of the time!! Well, this year I have a cunning plan. I bought an 8x8 chipboard album by Papermania and plan to scrap as Christmas rolls along this year!! I've already covered both the front and back covers. Here's the end result for the cover...

I've had a book of papers for at least two years and didn't want to cut them up cos I liked the too much (sad I know) . But I've set to and used it for the album. Each page inside has been covered with initial background paper from Hot of the Press Christmas Pack and the scraps I've stashed safely for later. All they need are photos and embellies! So within hours of the tree going up - I can have it scrapped. I plan to continue like this and cover all our Christmas activities and get togethers this year. Gosh I've never been so organised!

My two have already started their Christmas lists and they revisit them every other day just about, LOL!!! I have scrapped this as a double page LO using the inside cover and first page. I have a little container full of Xmas stickers, scraps of paper and things I've collected over the last few years and have now begun to put them to good use! I also enjoy using stamps on my LOs.


I love the 2nd part of the layout. At this point I was entertained by their conversation. They were oblivious to my presence and their discussion revolved around whether or not Ethan has been good enough NOT to be placed on the naughty list this year!!! He rounded it off by saying he would tell Santa that he had never been naughty on purpose or without good reason!! The letter and angels are stamps. The halo has slipped on the angel alongside the letter, appropriate I thought!! The angel in the bottom corner is placed on an envelope. When their final draft is complete, I plan to place inside a Wishlist Top Ten for each of them to look back on in years to come!

I hope you like it so far. Sorry for the picture quality, I couldn't get the exposure right!.

Please feel free to leave a post! Happy crafting and enjoy your day!

Mel X

"Going Round in Circles"

This was the second in the challenge competition and was posted on 4th October. It was open to interpretation but circles were a must - papers, card shape, apertures - whatever you fancied. Again, the only rule being at least one Charmed download be used. I got quite excited by this one as I had wanted to decorate a little box for Emmy to store her cheerleading medals. Therefore I simply HAD to use the gorgeous cheerleader Dottie in her squad colours. I'm quite chuffed with the result, the only thing is - could I have used MORE circles?? LOL!!

RECIPE

1 circle box (of course) - from local haberdashery

Cheerleader Dottie - Charmed Cards and Crafts

Papers - from my stash

Silver ribbon - my stash

Dotty Ribbon - DCWV

Paper Punch - Martha Stewart

Card Candy - Craftwork Cards

Colouring Medium - watercolour pencils, sakura pens and copics

Thank you for stopping by!

Mel X