New Goodies :)

Just a quick Post for now just to say look at what goodies arrived today :) I put in an order on Sunday with Craft Island as I wanted to get some bits to so I could start my BOM as I need to play catch up and I came across some other bargains too :) Can't wait to get some crafty time. Got a few bits to get started.

GB Cyber Crop Class

Just the one Layout to share this evening, My take on another GB Cyber Crop Class over on Ukscrappers. I made the circles and Ice Cream using old scraps of paper from my Scrap Box and I inked each circle with black ink so they stood out better.

For the Ice cream I used some cream hand made paper stuff which I backed on to white Card Stock for extra strength, I used Glossy Accents on the Ice Cream part to give it a bit of shine, not really used it before so wasn't sure how it would turn out but it turned out ok. :)

I seem to be on a roll with scrapping, trying to get at least one Layout done a day :)

Halloween Prep and GB Class LO

Finished my attempt at the Green Buttons Cyber Crop - Use your Scraps challenge over on Ukscrappers. love the way the layout turned out but feel in away I ruined it by drawing in the letter Ts for the title, but didn't really have a choice as I desperatly wanted to use my lettering stickers and the Ts wouldn't have fitted and I only had one when I need two. And I wanted to complete the layout so I could move on to another lol. Had fun using my scraps and as I have a whole Pizza Box full I'm desperatly trying to get through useing them all :)

Close up of photo used and title.

I have a clear album that I haven't used yet and decided to draw round one of the flourishes on to scrap black cardstock and use my white Sukura pen to do false stitching, with out them think the Layout looked to plain.

Next up is my cakes, I used an Annabel Karmel Birthday cake recipe to make up the mix which was enough for these ghosts which didn't look as good as Annabel Karmels but sure tasted good :)

And this spider Sandwhich cake which we have yet to tuck into, may have a slice in a bit me thinks hehehe.

heres a top view of the spider cake.

And here are my three boys dressed up in the costumes and masks I made for the Space Party :) they did turn out well. Eldest and Middle Son had a fab time at the party and werent fussed about going trick or treating which was great.

As youngest was unable to go to the party due to his age I took him Trick or Treating but only to a friends and to my parents in law and a couple of houses that we knew, and he wanted to take his alien costume off and where a skeleton one instead, but insisted on wearing his deeley boppers which made him looke even more cute bless him.

Sewing, Mask Making & Craft Time With My Boys

Hi guys, had a bit of crafty time with the boys today. We made what middle son calls stick men lol. I bought three small woolen mop sticks for 29p each and a couple of packs of face feature stickers for 99p and a pack of pipecleaners for 99p a while back in a local shop and finally got round to getting them out and helping the boys to make their stickmen. Here is Middle son with his:

Youngest with his:

And last of all Eldest with his:

And the three stickmen together:

Can see the boys wanting to make a stage next for their stickmen, better keep my eyes peeled for the perfect box lol.

Well finally I can reveal what I have been making all week , can you guess what the bucket of newspaper choppings are for?.................yep you got it, its for papermache.

I got three balloons and blew them up to the same size of each of my boys faces and covered half of the balloon in the papermache and last of all modroc and set them aside to dry.

Once the modroc had hardened I popped the balloon, but I felt that it needed a layer of modroc inside too to make it more stronger.

The mask at the ready for decoration:

I painted each of the masks in stripes to go with their costumes. Eldest - Blue and Green, Middleson - Orange and Green and youngest a mix of all three colours - Blue, Orange and Green. I then covered the masks in glue:

I then Covered the masks in the threads and bits that came off the fabric used for the costumes, Here are the masks finished:
Youngests:

Eldests:

And last of all middle sons mask:

I want to try and get hold of some sequin waste to use in the eyes, but if can't get hold of any then I don't think it matters to much. Here is the eldest with his Costume on, I made his a jumper style top and managed to get some fab Deeley Boppers in Claires Accessories :)

Eldest again but without his mask:

Here is my middle son with his costume on, I made him a tabbard style costume. Still need to stick the velcro to the sides and I have a pair of knee high socks in Orange and Green that I'm going to cut the toes part off for fingers and make a whole for his thumb. :) Got him some pink Deeley Boppers, Well truth is he choose them and they worked well so I got them.

Here's Middle son again but without his mask:

Last up is my youngest, again I made a tabbard style costume basically because they are easier to make and I found Eldests a bit of a struggle to make. Like middle son's costume I still need to put the velcro on the sides. Youngest also has some Deeley Boppers in white to wear.

I also need to add some elastic to the masks so they stay on without haveing to be held.

I found a leaflet advertising a Space Theamed party at the Christian Centre for School aged children in Eldests book bag and decided to put Eldest and Youngest's name down for it :) Unforunantly my youngest isn't old enough to go and I didn't want him to feel too left out so I made him a costume too.

So What Am I Going To Make? Little peek

Well the boys are going to Party on the 31st and its Space Theamed, So when I found this pattern I thought it was perfect.

Unfortunantly I struggled to choose a Fabric that would look good and to make three costumes, one each for the boys it would have become to costly. And also my mum thought I had bitten off more than I could chew. So It was back to the drawing bord and I didn't want to leave the fabric shop til I knew what I was going to do as I wasn't sure I'd get to come back if I had needed too as I don't drive. So here is what I have bought :) Watch this space as I'm not going to say what I'm going to do its a surprise hehehe :) let the guessing begin.

Decorating :)

Hi guys, Here's my reason for why I haven't done any scrapping this week. I took on the challenge of decorating my youngests room. Here are some pics of the bedroom as the blank canvas and ready to start.

The painting is done and It's onto the border.

finally fourth day and I finnished :)



One fab Thomas the Tank Engine bedroom equals one very happy excited little boy :)

I'm so pleased with how Connor's room turned out, this being my second attempt at decorating lol,I had to ask a friend to come over and help do the Thomas border as I had never done one before and it was a non adheasive so didn't want to mess up but other than that I did it all on my own. And what makes me more happy is Connor loves it :)

UKS Cyber Crop LO

finished Alex's today, I didn't do everything the same as I didn't have all the stash I needed. But I think the LO turned out ok.



I used some chipboard flowers that I cut using a bigshot some time a go at a crop and inked each flower black and then for the bottom one heat embossed it with a red embossing powder

and for the top flowers and all the big daisy flowers I heat embossed with a red glitter embossing powder

I used a white flower brad for each centre to attach the flowers to the page.
That's it for tonight. Thankyou for looking.