Design Recollections

Halloween Preparations

Ok kids are all talking about it and building toward Halloween so I made an effort to add a new banner decoration to our ever growing collection of Halloween decorations.
This one is made from digital papers and oh so cute little Halloween ‘Trick or Treaters’ by Kate Hadfield and Alpha buttons by Jenna Desai both of [...]

October 10th, 2008

Lilypad Feast

Today over at The Lilypad it is a feast of news and new srummy products. 
First up a new fabulous designer in Kaye Winiecki. She has designed the most amazing digital collections that are released today :D 
The card to the left features on of the frames from Karah Fredricks. Love this set, these are already on sale.
Also released [...]

August 29th, 2008

While You Were Sleeping

This week is passing in a blur with so much on the calendar and so much on my to do list, can hardly believe its Friday already!!!
I have projects unfinished and untouched and this weekend will see a concerted effort to get some of that done and out the way. Next week its knuckle down [...]

June 6th, 2008

Friday Releases at the Lilypad

 This bright and funky kit from Natalie Braxton is released today and I have to say I love it, I created a mad traditional layout in these colours last weekend at the Angel Crafts crop for the sketch challenge from Angela and I love the colours (also featuring in a ribbon kit available soon!) 
 Also released [...]

May 23rd, 2008

Special Days

 When I saw this pack of paper pieces ‘Sail Away’  from Jacque over at the Lilypad (released today) I immediately thought of these photographs from a day out I had with Nicholas last spring.
This photograph was taken at the Marina in Largs, what a fabulous day out we had. Its filled with lovely memories and [...]

May 16th, 2008

Curls - Hybrid Layout

 This layout is for my friends babies album covering her first year. This little gorgeous girl just turned one recently and her Mum has often said that the little one will curse her when she is older for passing on her curls. Me, I love her little curls and snapped a shot to go in [...]

May 13th, 2008

21st Birthday & Fab Tree Templates

This weekend my little Rainbow Guides and  I are off to a 21st Birthday party. It is this youngest section of Girlguiding UK that is 21 years old this year. All the girls are very excited and raring to party! All the girls have to have a badge with there name and unit on it [...]

May 10th, 2008

Using Scraps

No matter how hard I try to use scraps from my scrap boxes why is it that the pile grows and never shrinks? I think its terminal and common among crafters but I still can’t stop myself keeping all those pretty strips of paper ‘just in case’. The Lilypad blog challenge this week, set by [...]

May 8th, 2008

Printing Transparencies

This week over on the Lilypad Blog I have a transparency printing tutorial published. Some of the Lilypad CT members had asked some time back about printing their own so I set about providing some help on that which turned into a tutorial. This is where hybrid really comes into its own. I think being [...]

May 1st, 2008

Lilypad Blog Challenge

This page was created for todays Lilypad Blog challenge.
Kate and Jacque produced these fab doodles for release last Friday and the blog challenge was to create a layout with them and a black & white photograph.

Ok my photograph is not entirely black and white but close enough
My youngest girlie got this keyboard [...]

March 31st, 2008