Othe LOs from the "Around the Houses" CJ

Heres a pic of the finished first part of the " Favourite Things" CJ. I added the little rosette as well as the title afterwards. I think the title really suits the subject!


I was also impressed with layout, as it looks simple and clean as well as quite smart








The products i used:





The background: Red Core'dinations card





The papers: White paper with a random design stamped on it.





The Inks: Stazon black ink and Clearsnap petal pad, brown





The Title: White chipboard letters (not sure of the make as i misplaced the packet)





The Corners: Xcut Silhouette corner punch





The Transfers: Hampstead by Docrafts/papermania





Templates: Rosette by papermania











Baking has been a newer thing with me, in the fact that I wasn't very good at it. My friend made the mistake of buying me a cake book for last christmas, after I tried some internet cake recipes. She was one of my "tasters", (I really mean guinea pigs! ;)) before christmas last year.





I took these butterfly cakes to my local crop a few months back and the group liked those along with my victoria sponge cake. However, there was enough left to take home to my family, who were happy with both the butterfly cakes and the victoria sponge cake. I mean that before I went home, there was only crumbs left!














'Bucket List'



This is the second LO for the member CJ "Bucket List". I had to scrap two things i thought the participant had to do, for example spend time pampering themselves.

The two things i decided the participant should do were, "pamper yourself" and have "some me time". I used two recipes for home made beauty products. I know that this member didn't have lots of time to herself with family and work commitments. So I thought this would be totally appropriate. Plus all the things needed for the recipes were all things she either had at home or able to buy from the supermarket.

The products I used:

The backgrounds:Henbury Lane A4 paper pack

The top layer: Vellum A4 pack

The Title: Papermania black glitteration stickers

The Images: Me Time Anya, The Greeting Farm digi stamps

Pens: Promarkers:

For Bath Anya: Hair yellow (Y657), hair band: Antique pink (R346), Skin: Blush (O729)Bubbles: Amethyst (V626), Bath:Mint green (G637).

For Me Time Anya: Bathrobe (including hair towel) Amethyst (V626) & Lilac (), Face pack: Caramel (O727), Hair: Spice (O346)

Brads: glittery and black papermania

I really like Promarkers for the fact that I'm able to colour over and over and the colour doesn't get wrecked :)

And I can add shades by just going over the area.

aww im just gushing about Promarkers sad eh? ;)

Will be adding more of my LOs later. I'm also going to be adding some of my cards and I'd like to know what you think of them ok?

Other LOs from the "Around the Houses CJ on UKS

Hey all!

Thought I'd put the rest of the "Around the Houses" CJ LOs on here. The ones I've done obviously. Some I'm really proud of, and some I wish I'd done more, but still it's my work. We're our own worst critics :)

So here are the other LOs in chronological order (aka the order in which I did them)

and the members' CJ titles.

So the first one is "Favourite Things"

For this page i used:

The background: Red Core'dinations card

The papers: Plain white paper with stamped image printed randomly over it

The clear stamps: Hampstead clear stamps, Docrafts

For this layout i used:

The papers: Hampstead 8x8 paper pack, Docrafts

The stickers: Hampstead roll of patterned stickers, Docrafts

Clear sticky gems papermania

The stamps: Daisy and dandelion the cook (i cant remember the name :()

Clare Curd Stamps butterflies and flowers

The Ink: Stazon inkpad

Crayons: Papermania watercolour crayons

Punches: Xcut silhouette corner punch

When I find the other LOs I will add them on here as it seems I've put them on another disc :)

Look at me all "organized" :)

Pictures of my work for the CJ

Part One of my Layout:

This is a picture of the first part of my double layout (DLO). It was the easiest of the two parts to do and the ideas came easiest after I looked at the colours involved. It looked smart so I was quite happy with it once I'd finished.

The products I used for this part of the layout:

The background: Black Zutter card pages.
The papers: Dovecraft Eastern Promise paper pack.
Stickers: Vinyl stickers from the Docrafts Signature Range.
Ribbon: White Docrafts ribbon trios.
Buttons: Pink and white from the Red hot and Monochromatic Capsule
Collections by Docrafts.
Title: Thick chipboard letters (i'm not sure what make as I've misplaced the packet :( )

*second part coming in a minute :) *

Pictures of my DLO

Part Two of the Layout:

This one is the part I had the most difficulty with, not because of the colours involved, but because I had TOO many ideas and they wouldn't work together! Once I sat down, painted some, then stuck some bits down, it started looking halfway decent. Actually more than halfway decent :). I'm actually glad that I didn't add more to it :)

The products I used for this part of the layout:

The background: black Zutter card pages.

The papers: yellow dash patterned paper,

(I think they're called either sensations or temptations 200 piece pack)

Blue patterned paper from A5 Persimmons range by Docrafts.

Stickers: Vinyl Stickers from the Signature Range,

Gem sparkling stars by Docrafts.

Paint: True Red acrylic paint by Anita's.

Ribbon: Red from local haberdashery.

Buttons: Blue, from my random tin of odds and ends.

Title: Thick chipboard (I don't know the make as I have misplaced the packet :( )

I'd appreciate it if you guys would let me know what you think, I like to know what people think of my work ;)

CJ on UKS :)

hey all!
im involved in a circle journal (CJ) on ukscrappers (www.ukscrappers.co.uk), and was having an issue with ideas for the most recent CJ i'd received. It's going to be sent to the next member tomorrow so i thought I would work on it tonight (well i said to myself I'd work on it all weekend but life never seems to go according to plan at any point, right? :) ).
So i looked at the photos, chose them and then decided to raid my stash collection to see what i had available to use.
At first i went with the colours. The first part of the layout was easy, as there was a beautiful design on the dress of one of the people in the picture so i went with that, and found a gorgeous flowered design which went perfectly like it was made for that purpose!
I then found vinyl stickers that are in kind of a posh design, to use for the corners of the picture i was using, which i didn't notice had glitter in until i looked closely.
The rest of the first part seemed to fall into place. I love it when that happens!
Ideas kept snap, snap, snapping into place so within about 15 minutes i had all the pieces for that part of the layout.

The second part wasn't difficult either but the colours in the second part are yellow and blue. Should be pretty simple right? Not exactly...
You know that feeling that the stash you want is around somewhere but you can't remember where it is in that "organized" crafting space?
I swear its always the way for me.

I eventually found the cardstock I wanted with everything else and am now messing up my front room floor with all the bits for the double layout (DLO) for the CJ. All the bits came together down the little bits i need to finish it off. I was so happy to get it sorted. Now im just creating the pages and will post pics when im done

My first post :)

well this is my first attempt at a blog (attempt being the operative word :)), I've seen other crafters' blogs and how they show their work and i thought, "well maybe i should give it a try".

I don't have any particular favourite crafting tools or stamps, but I am liking ProMarkers and The Greeting Farm stamps. I was introduced to ProMarkers at a crop and have loved them since.

Here's a card i made using both products. It was for my son's teacher after he left reception at the end of term.

I also used Anita's square cards and envelopes and ribbon,
black Stazon inkpad,
red Core'dinations card
buttons from the following docrafts Capsule sets: Verde, Red Hot and Sunshine.

The ProMarker colours i used were:

Skin: Satin, Blush (O729)
Eyes (eyeshadow): Lilac (V327)
Hair: Caramel (O727)
Top: Poppy (R565)
Skirt: Moss (Y334)

*has a phew moment*

well that wasn't too bad...




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