Wallpaper Birthday banner

Its was my daughter 4th birthday recently so decided to make her a Birthday banner........:)

I skipped off to my fav diy shop to gather wallpaper samples.
I made some card templates from a cereal box, and went to work cutting out the triangles.

TAD AA...........my finished banner!

I used card letters that I painted brown to coordinate with the green, beige and pink.

My happy little Pirate Princess girl xx

Thanks for looking

Sadie x

FREE digi magazine and new lay outs..............x

Here are a few new Lay outs that I've recently done................

Guess how much I love you?

I recently came across a great website with a fab FREE yes FREE digi magazine.

 It's released quarterly and is called Scrapbook and cards today.

 Its a Canadian site and is filled with great ideas and projects.

Lol sorry pics were taken on my phone...........

I got my inspiration for my above Lo from the current spring mag.

here is the Lo I scrap lifted.

I rotated my background papers and used a portrait photo.

This is the Lo that inspired my Vanessa Lo.

Vanessa........

This Lo is about my childhood doll,

 that I passed down to my daughter and now my youngest daughter plays with it. I loved this doll she has such a cute face.

       Loyal friend................

my lovely little cat Albie(who thinks he's a dog). xx

This is Papermaze's March crop kit.

Love it! found the perfect pic to go with this months colours.

Euro camp Paris.

This is the crop kit for April.

I really liked this kit and decided to use one of my many Xmas photos.

This wasn't an Xmas Lo but I thought the colours went well.

I also replaced the flower punch for a snowflake one to give it an Xmas feel.

Thanks for looking

Sadie x

hope you enjoy Scrapbook and cards today :)

quick and easy photo editing

Hi all just wanted to share how I quickly edit most of my photos with just a couple of clicks.

I use PICASA a free Google program its so simple to use.

I have shown an example bellow.

This is the original photo that I took of my girls in the garden.

I wanted to have it enlarged and to be printed onto a canvas for my living room.

I decided to not have the photo colour and I'd quite like to go neutral so changed the photo to B&W.

I simply clicked on the photo in my library . Then selected the picture of the 1st paint brush to bring up the toolbox. I selected B&W and applied to my photo.

I liked this much better but decided as my living room is decorated in soft browns and creams that B&W would look to harsh so decided to try out sepia.

Again select photo and toolbox. simply undo B&W and apply sepia.

I love that you can undo and redo as many times as you like without loosing the original photo. You can always go back and undo at a later stage.

I liked the softer colours, but still wasn't quite happy.

My girls have pale blue eyes and the sepia effect made them look an odd colour.

I undid the sepia and had a little play and found that B&W followed by warmify had a much better result.

Next simply export and save to device ready for printing.

 Keep the image quality at maximum for the best printing result.

Happy playing

Sadie x

spring garden

I was inspired to create this Lo by the way my garden looks in spring.

 I love the colours and new life that Spring brings.

I used flowers, buttons, ribbon and doodled swirls.

I added a little bling with some flat back pearls...

Just wanted to share my FAB new yankee candle shade and plate.

Very pleased with it!!!

Loving all the little bugs and butterflys. It brightens my room up lovely x

Thanks for looking

Sadie x

Great find :)

I just wanted to share what I think to be a great find to an on going problem of mine.......

When I finish a scrapbook page I show it off to those in the house at the time, then promptly put it into an album so it doesn't get "Messed up".

Nobody gets to see my Layouts so I've been looking for a way to display them.

I looked into box frames but decided it to timely and a total pain to keep taking the back off the frame to replace the LO.

I also looked at plate stands and artist easels but quickly found there was not enough support to the top edges.

Then I came across THIS!!!

Nice metal book stand............. PERFECT

 xx happy little me :)

Here you can see Papermazes Feb crop kit being displayed.

I love that you can see the scrolls.

Detail of the hand cut star embellishment.

Thanks for looking

Sadie x

long awaited!!! Fab uniforms

New Cheerleading uniforms for Ipswich Academy's Cheer squad.....:)

I love how the girls look in their new uniform, they deserve it so much xx

I had taken quite a few pics of the girls performing and wanted to do a multi photo lo.

I made a photo collage and used a team photo too.

I wanted to use star for the embellishements as they truely are!

I also made a pompom in the team colours and finished with a bling.....

GO EXPLOSSIONS GO!

Sadie x

Peppa pig world Yay!!!

April last year we took the girls to the newly opened Peppa Pig World.

 Lowny loves Peppa pig!  Dayna especially loved the jumping bean and the edge rides.

We all had a great time as lots to do for all ages.

 

This Lo is a great way of using your scraps of patterned paper as its mostly strips!

I created a double page Lo as had so many pics.

I always seem to take alot and then cant decide which ones to print.

TIP- When wanting to scrap lots of photos try making a collage of your photos.

I did mine at Snap fish.



I made this embellishment from a pre cut Peppa Pig, I cut it to size to fit my Lo.

I added prima flowers and glued buttons in the middles.

I found some large buttons and bakers twine to make the balloons.

I am pleased with this fun page. It's bright and colourful with lots of photos. :)

Thanks for looking

Sadie x