Wow a third post today for you all, that's a rarity for me lol. But I wanted to share with you all my boy's Canvas paintings they have done today.

First up is My Eldest Todd

He has gone for a Beach scene and he has painted Me and Daddy and himself :) I love the colours and I love the Beach :)

Next is my Middle son Oscar,

This painting reminds me of an Artist but I can't think who right now lol. When I asked Oscar what the painting was of he said they were lots of doors and Me and Him were at the bottom going through them all to try and get to the top. :)

And last of all my little man Connor,

He hasn't said his painting is of but it still looks cool to me :)

I have little budding artists in the making and it was really nice to see them being creative and having fun, I will be defiantly doing this activity with them again soon :)

The Canvas came from the £1 shop along with the Acrylic Paints included and I thought perfect when I saw them and I'm so glad I got them.

Here's my finished attempt at February's 4x6 Photo Love. I used Bella Blvd's Mr Boy kit. The photos were of my Middle Son wanting to be just like me when I used to carry my youngest in his Nubigo.

I thought my attempt looked rather flat and I have run out of my Black Sukura Pen, so couldn't do my fake stitching I had wanted to do, so decided to have a go at giving the layout some dimension by adding rolled up paper. Once I had done that they kept unrolling so I decided to add some ribbon but putting a slit at each end of the rolled paper and thread some reddish brown ribbon through and stick each of the ends on the back of the LO.

I wanted to use the Chipboard Heart from the kit but felt it didn't quite look right or stand out so added some yellow ribbon to it and stuck it on to the LO using 3d foam pads.

I feel I'm on a roll and inspired since joining in with the 4X6 Photo Love over on Two Peas In A Bucket, there are other free classes which I may attempt one day, but at the moment I don't want to make my hobby a chore with lots of to do and finish lists as I feel that may have been some reason I lost my Mojo for this craft.

Here is my March 4x6 Photo Love attempt :)

I used some Kaisercraft Topaz Rhinestones, some large green fabric flowers which I cut in to quaters and stuck in place.

I stuck a Blank Note Card on with 3d foam pads and used a black bird cut from card stock.

I used Heidi Swapp Care Free - School Stripe Card Stock for the background as I loved the swirls. To be honest I wasn't sure how to use this Card Stock so I gave it some glitz using Star Dust Stickles, which I added to the Flowers, to the Ribbon and the bird also :)

I added a strip of Ribbon down the Right hand side as I thought it looked a bit bare with out.

Hope to attempt another LO today, but will see how the day goes what with Half Term lol.

Wow were in to June already, this year is going fast. Well with the help of a page maps I created this LO, Simple but was desperate to create a LO using Bella BLVD's All Boy collection. I just love the bight colours and is perfect for those boy LO's and what with having three boys in my family I this kit is perfect and so versatile :)

Recently when looking at Shimelle Laine's Blog I came across her free 4x6 Photo Love with video walk through I thought this was perfect to get me scrapping again. This is my first ever Double LO and think it turned out rather well. I used Echo Park's Splash Kit, another kit I was desperate to get as I have quite a few beach photos and recently some photos of the boys playing with their water guns. :)

There are 3 classes up so far so I thought I'd join in and catch up :)

Hi folks, its been along time. I think my Mojo was in order for a stern telling off lol but think it may be back, will have to see lol.

I decided to do some blog hopping over the time of my absence to see if I could get any inspiration along with some motivation to get back in to crafting. On looking I found that alot of people have taken to doing Art Journals and decided I'd like to have a go :)

It's early days but I've found doing the pages I have so far that I'm wanting to get scrapping again :) So anyway here are the pages I've done so far for my Art Journal :

My first page was Hope - I was feeling rather positve that day and felt things were coming together for me, so this page portrays my hopes and I need to be more positive in life. I did a watercolour back ground and used a black felt tip and whisper pens.

My second Page, well lets just say since my decision to get back to my driving lessons, haveing a car is all that has been on my mind lol I've always had a dream of having a sporty family car with metalic blue running into metalic green and then either a tribal or dragon design down the side. I have another idea for colours too which I may do a page to show eventually which is a black sporty car with flames around the bottom and bonet. I like different.

I did the page using chalks as a base then black pen round edges and I used my whispers pens again (finally putting them to use).

Page 3, Inspired after looking at a tatoo magazine (love tatoo designs but wouldn't get a tatoo, not brave enough either lol) saw the Angle wings and it reminded me of how I was so good at school and in general, did everything I was told and had my future planned. But came 18 and things changed. Hubby says this page is cheesey but so what lol.

I used chalks for the base and black pen and Whisper pens for the rest.

Page 4, This page came from Just the feeling of never having enough time and Im sure everyone feels like this at times.

I used green watercolours for the background and as usual my black pen and Whispers pens.

My last page to show you is my bird one, I love my drawing I found a picture after googling where the artist used watercolours, I used colouring pencils to copy it as I wanted to record in my journal of how I rescued two starlings and also that day I did this page I rescued one and released it only to witness a cat come out of know where trying to get it. Not sure the poor mite escaped or not but I felt so sorry for it.

So that's it for the time being but Im sure I will have more to share soon.

Just a quick two LOs from me today, first up is my LO of our Giant African Land Snail, Ok he/she isn't giant as of yet, but he's growing fast.

I used a snail stamp and a pearl embossing powder and some bug paper

I wrote on some card and stuck it onto 3D foam pads and I also mounted the photos on to green cardstock.

Next and last up is my LO I spent all of yesterday putting together for the UKscrappers February Challenge to use the sketch posted and include fabric or fibre on the LO. So this is what I came up with.

I had a lot of fun playing with my Clear Ink Pad and Red Glitter Embossing Powder. I even had a play with stamping and embossing on a strip of plain white cotton. The effect came out well. Once I had heat embossed the fabric I ran it over with a Canery Chalk Ink Pad to give a bit of colour.

I used wooden letters for the title which I coloured Yellow using My Whisper Pens and then Clear inked some bubble wrap which I had stuck to an Acrylic Block and stamped it on to the letters and poared Red Glitter Embossing Powder over, tapped off the excess powder and heat embossed each letter. I was also impressed with the effect.

I used Bubble Wrap printing again around the edges of the cardstock using Yellow paint and then Heat Embossed with the Red Glitter Embossing Powder again.

So that's it for now.

Hi peeps been along time, thought I'd share some pics of what I have been up the past week. I have been organising my Middle Son's Birthday Party :) He wanted a Penguin theme so I booked a party to be held at a Local Soft Play Center caller Coolplay, as it had a North Pole setting and made a Penguin Birthday Cake.

The cake Started of it's life as a bear, Using a wilton 3D cuddley bear pan and 3 mixtures of an Annabel Cake recipe, which I love, as do the family.

I was very worried that the cake wasn't going to make it out of the pan one piece as I had tried it making the cake once before and it didn't work. This time round I bought some Cake release which worked a treat :)

I then cut of the bears ears and made some butter icing in a black, white and yellow. and I used 2 chocolate buttons with Jelly Tots stuck on with writing Icing.

For the wings I used black Icing that I rolled out and cut to a wing shape. And for the Beak I used yellow Icing and molded it into shape. I then attached the Wings and Beak to the body using cocktail sticks :)



I also made up some little boxes for the cake to be taken home in. Helen over at http://itsallfiddlefart.blogspot.com/ was really kind and cut me some boxes using her bigshot XL box die and kindly let me use her idea for my boxes :) Mine are slightly different as I used my snowflake embossing folder to give the snow part some texture and used stickles to give a bit of sparkle. I was a bit late in buying some penguin stickers like the ones Helen used, But was lucky to find some other penguin stickers in Poole Gallery in Poole.

All 8 boxes made up :)

I found these fab 3" plastic cups for 85p each for the party bags, so I bought 10. But as only 8 friends came me and hubby have a cup each of our own now lol

http://www.partypacks.co.uk/penguin-mug-3andquot;-pid74357.html

I also asked my MIL to pick up some bubbles and chocolate penguins for the party bags too and she got some little jungle puzzles where you mix the picture and then try and get it back to normal again.

I made up the invitations using

and they turned out like this:

I found the poem some where online and adjusted it to suit the invitation :)

Everyone had fun and loved the party bags and little cake boxes and the staff at Coolplay said they thought the cake looked fab and thought it was store bought lol. I definantly need to improve my icing skills though as I think it could been a little better.