Book of 1st's

4 that I managed to get done this morning. Nearly finished all the hospital photos thank Christ because it was getting depressing there! 

My tape dispenser rocks!

Take 1 sheet of 12x12 Lost & found from Tim Holtz ( I used the little square page for a collage look)

Roughly sand your tape dispenser (i used a nail file!) for some grip and cover in modge podge. I only have gloss, really have to get around to getting the matte

Layer on the paper, put a layer of modge podge on. I massaged with my hands as you can tell from my dirty hands. On tricky corners add slits in the paper and fold around the dispenser

Finished- now to add 3 coats of modge podge

One tres cool tape dispenser! 

*Tips- makes sure you push any pockets of MP out from behind the paper.

Don't use thin paper or too thick card, it won't work

After the first coat of MP check on it to make sure none of it has lifted

Offically in <3 with Modge Podge and now I get to peel my fingers for the afternoon!

Lil Eli

Stupid camera is playing up... but a few from my scrap date with Emma today. Even though Eli decided he didn't want me to scrap I still got 2 done, very quickly might I add :) The flash washed the colours out in the LO's

Secret Smile

I had to think how to spell Smile and shouted into DH "smile is s-l-i-m-e isn't it".Silence.
 "Think about that he says..."
I nearly gave Eli a secret slime lol

I signed up to STS (scrap, theme, sketch blog) and they have a brilliant pack they email you out monthly for inspiration. I just got mine (after I scrapped this) but the LO is nearly the same as their sketch for January.... weird!! So I'll use this :)

http://scrapthemesketch.blogspot.com/

Family first Christmas

I was going to do a sentimental page but then I though ahh hell let's go tacky!! And sometimes that's the best way for Christmas, I put the journalling on Santa's beard and used some cheap foam stickers for Christmas, still haven't got a decent family photo after 14 weeks!

Book of 1st's

Still not finished just what I got done over Christmas but I like how it's turning out :)

Birthday Card

Saw a youtube video of Rachelo113 on youtube for a halloween inspired slider card and got inspired. I had to make a card for a friend for her birthday and really wanted to get durty so just went for it.

I used the new Tim Holtz Holiday Stack *Thanks Louise I LOVE it! and stamped and gessoed it and of course stickles. Trying to make a card for a birthday this time of year is very hard not to make it festive themed but I'm sure it's horrible having a birthday so close to christmas! The lock is one I made with Anne out of clay from a Tim Holtz mould *Anne we have to get together and make aload more of them, I wont make them by myself!

Instead of stamping happy birthday I tore a page from the dictionary for B and gessoed around everything except birthday and put it on a ----yokie, cant remember the name of those little bits of plastic*mummy brain

glossy....accents....yokies....you know what I'm on about!

Start of the homemade Christmas pressies

For my aunty...her dog came second in Krufts last year. You know when you make a present and you don't know how grungy to go....so I went safe. It killed me cos I really wanted to get my hands dirty :)

Tag of Christmas

Ok so obviously I don't have enough time to play along with Tim's tags http://www.timholtz.typepad.com/ but had a go with Number 1 today. Not the same at all but it just inspired me :) I love how it turned out and it jingles, could it get any better!

If you don't have a smile I'll give you one of mine

This is a present for the nurses in SCBU, nothing I did tonight came out right. I had this in my head for ages but when I went to actually do it I couldn't....

I used a poem for premature mothers that makes me cry everytime I read it and I know it helped me so much when I read it the first time. I suppose there is only so many boxes of biscuits they can get as a present....

Even the darkest night will end

& the son will rise

Well that's it, my belly to birth album is full. Going to have to start making smaller albums or it will cost me a fortune!

Christmas card

So easy it's ridonkulous

Covered the card in dark paper, ripped a piece of card for the snow, added the gold padded embellishments (think I got them in Lidl last year)and added glossy accents for snow.

Ran out of cards then, so looks like I'll be buying the rest!

The Book Of Eli-chapter 1

Stupid iphone washed out the black and the quote on the tag that says Babies are a nice way to start life

You're my hero- in the first 5 weeks of your life you have shown more strength and determination than I have ever seen or could do myself. You inspire me during the bad days and make me look forward to the good.

Wonder

I LOVE Tim Holtz's new Lost & Found paper stack, it inspires me so much and always seem to create what I want. The stamp is from Paper Trey Ink (thanks Emma!) and they are some of the cutest stamps for babies I have ever seen!

Time Flies

A card I made for a friends birthday, not a usual birthday card! I used Lost and Found paper stack (LOVE these papers so much I dont want to use them!) UTEE'd the bird cage and stamped and inked the bird behind it (cant really see it with the bad photo). Glossy accented a clock (yo can see  missed the edge of it!) and embossed the phase time flies. I like how it came out :)

ATC

So ATC's are just like mini tags.. still don't love them but hey a girl has to try every thing once!

Big Foot

One of the last scans (one of 26) Eli kicked the scanner and we got a great shot of his big feet! I took a photo last week of his foot pushing out the incubator door, so thought it would be a great scrap opportunity!
Sketch is a creative scrappers sketch, who else!

Sorry my photo editor is out of date so can't edit it!

Baby card

No not for us, been meaning to make it for a while and it was just one of those cards that pressure on me until it was done so in the end it turned into a chore *sigh, card making just isn't for me!

Hope

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart

Sweet Dreamer

I'm back, I'm back wooooo

Journalling reads:

Wonder what you are dreaming about, all you know is incubators and needles- maybe dreaming about coming home with us

With such lovely photos I don't need to do much

Amy's reaction

Hey will you be my 365 I say, sure she says
Smile...I'm pregnant I say
A full conversation of OMG is it ok? is it ok?
I love how she went from pale and collected to purple and crying lol

Miss my embosser today, running out of techniques! I need a refresher course :)

Part deux of my duvet

I could use nothing toxic or a heat tool and pretty much just what I packed...things got strained near the end!

Daddy Practice

I love this photo of D and Fleurie, she clawed her way up on to him and plonked herself down for a nap and ever so slowly started to slide off as she was napping! I was going to do faux stitching and then I thought...what else do I have to be doing? :) Basic Grey paper, can be a bit busy but I think it works with big photos so they don't get lost in the patterns.

Hospital Scrapping

Well I've nothing better to do, do I!! I wonder will they give me another table? The doctors keep coming and plopping my file on top of all the bits and I have to do everything in my power to slap them across the head and scream "My god man, it's wet with glossy accents what's WRONG with you? Sheesh"

Flour bebe is actually a bag of flour weighed out to 690g what baby weighed last week and wrapped in a premmie baby grow. I showed a paed nurse this today and she thought it was so funny although said McDivapants wouldn't be as fat as the bag of flour!

Finally....

got some scrapping done, 2 in one hour and I'm wrecked!