SCRAPPINGMABEL :)

gingerbread house

2011-12-27T09:25:00.001-08:00

This year for a change the whole family had a hand in making this gingerbread house. I purchased the cutters for the house on sale last year so we used them and after a few little mishaps this is what we ended up with! hope you like it!!!!

christmas santa photos

2011-12-04T10:43:00.000-08:00

It has been so long since I last blogged life is so busy! As usual this year at the school fair I took photos of all the children with Santa and mounted them on card all 51 of them glad to have them finished only one more year as my little girl moves to big school how quick time goes.. working on my christmas journal will post some pics later x

actually finished layout!!!

2011-09-08T05:55:00.000-07:00

love this layout of Bethany and her paper lantern. The paper is not new trying to use what I have in my stash as I have way to much!!!! This is my first time using kraft cardstock but love how it turned out. Well of to tackle some more of my paper mountain let me know what you think girls x

my craftroom

2011-08-27T15:42:00.000-07:00

Took this short video on my nikon coolpix camera not sure what way it would turn out first time doing it!! Let me know what you think girls!! My dear husband has put all the expedit storage items up he did a good job!! My dear friend Sam has helped me organise all my scrapbooking papers I have way to many!! :)

7 gyspies alterted tray

2011-07-01T15:33:00.000-07:00

I altered this tray for my niece Katrina to give to a friend for her birthday.Love how it turned out!!! It took a lot of hours and I am sorry to have to part with it.I used a mixture of papers and some items that have been in a box in a drawer just crying out to be used!!! Think all of us have drawers with things we don't use at least I have. Well girls of to bed my brain needs a rest after thinking for way to many hours to day!!! Let me know what you think girls x

felt flowers

2011-06-22T02:25:00.000-07:00

Got these yesterday in the post from Samuel Taylor's. The big flowers are 85p each and for two of the small flowers they are 85p what a bargain and arrived the next day in the post such quick service.

They come in all different colours check them out well worth a visit and postage is only £1.95 or if you spend £40 it is free.

finished a layout at last!!!

2011-06-21T14:21:00.000-07:00

got my new scrapping table up and have just finished my first layout on it yay!!!

let me know what you think girls need to keep scrapping my photos are endless!!!

craftroom update!!

2011-06-18T14:10:00.000-07:00

Have at last got some pics of my new table and my fab red sofa my hubby bought me. Love my room just not enough hours in the day to sit in it!!! My dressform has got some ribbons on it not all of them but there are lots so will be a while!!! Well girls till next time let me know what you think xo

my newest craft room addition!!

2011-04-25T08:39:00.001-07:00

my dear hubby came home with this the other day found it in a skip what a find!! It was brown and a bit rusted but with a bit of time and effort from my other half it soon scrubbed up well. I have a smaller one in my craft room for ribbons not sure what to do with this one!! Tk Max have these at £65.00 but all mine cost was the price of a can of spray paint!!Let me know what you think girls x

Making Rosettes

2011-04-25T08:30:00.001-07:00

Went to the show at the Kings Hall in Belfast and had a great day with my two favourite girls Sam and Kate. I found it hard to buy things as lets face it my craft room is full of so many things but I did manage to buy something I didn't have a Tim Holtz rosette die fab is all I can say love it have taken a photo of rosettes to let you see them. You can make your own but why bother with all the hassle when this die does it for you till next time girls hope you all had a lovely Easter x

Easter Bonnet

2011-04-03T10:54:00.000-07:00

so many layouts to finish so little time!!!

2011-03-15T15:44:00.000-07:00

Had this layout in my craft room unfinished so am trying to get into the habit of finishing them of first before I move onto another new layout. This is another lovely kit i had from forgetmenot crafts in Belfast the paper line is echo park life is good and i love this paper!! The photo was taken when we were on holiday in the south of France last year and it is one of my favourite family photos.Hope you all like it let me know what you think!!! x

My monthly crop layout....

2011-03-02T06:38:00.000-08:00

Can't believe we are at the start of another month! The only good thing is that I was at my monthly scrapbooking nite at Forgetmenot Papercrafts in Belfast. Love going to this and what a great bunch of friends I have made we laugh lots.. scrap a little... drink tea and of coarse enjoy the odd biscuit or two!!! So if you are in that area check it out. Well girls hope you like my layout Faith was in a bad mood when I took this picture so just had to scrap it don't think she will thank me in twenty years time!!! x

my girl.......

2011-02-04T15:46:00.000-08:00

Have just finished this layout of Bethany in portglenone forest last May.She has grown so much since then and is turning into quite the young lady!!! Make-up and nail varnish, hair curlers the list could go on.I just need to add a little bit of journaling and it is finished but as usual my brown marker pen has disappeared!!! The paper I used was from my minds eye little boy blue and I have had it for quite a while but am pleased it went so well with this photograph.

My two cute Girls!!!!

2011-01-15T14:19:00.001-08:00

These pictures were taken in 2007 and boy have my two girls grown up so much since then!!!

I am only getting round to scrapping these now. I enjoyed doing this page as I just love the BO bunny papers and am trying to scrap more and try and wade through my many boxes of photos.

Till next time Sandra x

christmas layout

2011-01-12T06:34:00.001-08:00

Have at last had time to finish a layout!! My two girls are growing up so fast and you don't see that until you actually take a photo and see how much they have changed since last year.

The paper was from my monthly kit and the paper line is called tinsel&twig from a company called thegirlspaperie.Loved this paper!! Till next time girls let me know what you think!! X

Frosty the snowman!!!

2010-12-17T14:13:00.000-08:00

We have a lot of snow here to-day well over 12incs so the girls and their Dad went to build a snowman and this is what they ended up with a rather big snowman!!! Girls hope the snow will last as they would like to build some more to-morrow.Snowed in here well if we get hungry we can always eat the snowman!!!! lol

Tree is up!!

2010-12-17T13:57:00.000-08:00

Tree is up at last only getting round to posting this pic.Two sets of lights would not work so not as many to take of again Ken is pleased!!! My two girls decorated this year and what a great job they did.Every year their two Granny's buy them a tree bauble and they have been doing this since they were born so my tree is pretty full!!Girls out building a snowman here,had over 12 incs of snow to-day will post a pic later.x

I have been so good this year Santa!!!!

2010-12-05T16:21:00.000-08:00

Have been so busy this year again with making cards to display the Santa photos I have taken at school for the fund raising Santa breakfast.Just finished them to-day hooray!!!!

Let me know what you think girls took so long to decide what to do with them.x

I wanna be a rockstar!!!

2010-09-19T08:50:00.000-07:00

Bethany got her new guitar,we all got earplugs!!! Taking lessons for a year think I will be deaf by the end of the year! Oh to be young and so full of life!!

Happy Birthday Cupcakes!!!!

2010-09-10T04:08:00.000-07:00

To-day is my daughter's 12th birthday so instead of a cake I thought I would make cupcakes in the shape of her age. So this morning after she went to school my mixer was on and this is what the end result looks like can't wait till she comes home from school to see what she thinks!!! x

Faith's Journal

2010-08-27T13:29:00.000-07:00

Faith saw a lovely book while out shopping to-day but it was so expensive!!! So we bought this one for 99p and she decorated it with a little help from Mum and this is what we ended up with!!

Faith was very happy with the book as you can tell from her happy little face!!

Hope you like it!

some new stash items from tk max......

2010-08-26T15:33:00.000-07:00

I have been at tk max a few times now and have picked up a few bargains!! Here are some of them.They seem to be getting new items in all the time so check your local store you never know what you might find!!!

Teachers Card.......

2010-06-28T15:57:00.001-07:00

My two girls wanted to make cards for their teachers so this is what we came up with at short notice.Bethany stayed up late to help me and we both enjoyed spending time together making this card.Hope you like it girls let me know what you think!! Of to bed now eyes are closing!!!

My scraproom kit has arrived!!!

2010-06-27T07:36:00.000-07:00

This kit contains 4 separate page kits,extra papers and embellishments plus an idea sheet this is my first one!
I joined this kit club on-line and the kits come from Amercia with postage and all the extras it costs 34.00 .
You also get access to a forum where you can download recipe cards to use with all your paper.Every month there is a prize for the best layout using your papers.

a hanger for my ribbon..........

2010-06-19T11:31:00.000-07:00

Have been out all day with my two girls shopping what a long day!!

Bethany needed clothes for her holidays but would she try anything on not a CHANCE!!!

So needless to say home with no clothes but did pick this dress form made out of metal and thought I would put my ribbon and things on it love it!! Going to hang it on the wall will post a pick when it is up.Going to put my feet up now let me know what you think girls!!Sandra X

Blowing dandelions.....

2010-06-16T10:30:00.000-07:00

This picture was taken in the wood that surrounds our home.The picture is quite an old picture of Bethany and I had these pictures on another page that I didn't have finished!!!

I used the left over papers and chipboard items I had left from my other page I posted yesterday.Hope you like it let me know what you think!

Sandra X

can't think of a title........

2010-06-15T17:35:00.000-07:00

This is a layout of us on our holidays in France.

The paper I used is crate paper and I just love the colours!!

I can't think of a title so maybe you girls could help me out...

photo card......

2010-06-15T03:22:00.000-07:00

I made this card for pictures I took at my kids school for the school funds,if you look close enough you will see an eagle in the picture.

Yum....Yum...

2010-05-25T14:17:00.000-07:00

Had another day where I could actually find time to scrap so here is my latest page.

Last summer my two girls planted their own strawberries and this is a photo of Faith with her first crop boy was she delighted with them!!!

Hang in there.......

2010-05-22T13:24:00.000-07:00

Got round to doing some

scrapbooking to-day for the first in my new scraproom.Wow it is so easy to finish a layout when you have the space and also everything you have has a place!! Well for now anyway!This layout is of Bethany at Portstewart going it alone on the monkey bars for the first time and boy was she pleased with herself when she made it to the end of the monkey bars.

I used francy pants papers and bo bunny swiss dot.Well hope to have another layout soon let me know what you think of my latest effort Sandra x

From one home to another....

2010-05-09T15:37:00.001-07:00

Have never really been a cardmaker but my hubby wanted me to make him a card for a workmate who has just moved house so here it is.I used a set of stamps from stamp in up that I got and the cardstock is from stampin up as well.The patterened is mellow by basic grey and the little key and lock came from Lucille from the scrapbeach.Hope you like it let know what you think of my attempts at stamping. x

A craft room at last........

2010-04-29T04:52:00.000-07:00

This is my new craftroom and it won't stay tidy for to long so thought I would post a picture.

The storage is from Ikea and so is all the boxes, the green boxes fit the 12x12 scrapbooking paper so I keep my paper in these free from dust.

Let me know what you think of it.

Sandra X

glimmer mist tag....

2010-04-21T13:56:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone it has been a while since I have crafted and actually finished something!!

Bought some cosmic shimmer mist and loved it, so I have made my first tag.

Did the both sides of the tag hope you like it X

no glue required.......

2010-03-01T05:00:00.000-08:00

Made this little book and box at a friends house used no glue it involved folding the paper different ways.Really enjoyed making it.

Birds eye view...........

2010-02-24T11:56:00.000-08:00

photo of my house from the sky got these photos yesterday can't wait to see them blown up a lot bigger!!

crciut expression has arrived.............

2010-01-29T06:30:00.000-08:00

My cricut arrived t0-day in the post!! I am so excited I cannot wait to have a go on it!!

I bought it from the website ohmycrafts.com and they are giving you 20% off at the minute.

My cricut with 5 cartridges plus postage worked out at 234.00 what a bargain and they marked it as a gift so I didn't have to pay anything to customs. Will post some pictures when I have it up and going Sandra x

2010-01-12T06:22:00.000-08:00

This is my first attempt at doing a bit of crochet!! Bought the new magazine that is out and thought I would have a try at it.Really hope I can do it as I would love to be able to make the blanket they are showing you in the magazine. Wish me luck will post my first square when I get it finished!!

Here comes Santa Claus......

2010-01-02T06:22:00.000-08:00

This is a picture of my oldest girl Bethany who is eleven, I made these little cards to display

photographs I had taken of the children at Bethanys school for school funds.Each child got to see Santa and got a lovely book as a present.It was well worth doing and all the money went to the school.

snow is falling....

2009-12-21T12:57:00.000-08:00

Took these pictures on Sunday morning just after the heavy snow fall, everything was snow white and looking down the lane of our house the scene that I saw is something you would see on a Christmas card, I am so lucky to live where I live!!

Hope everyone has a nice Christmas and a Happy New Year.. X

2009-11-04T08:19:00.000-08:00

I have started to make my Christmas cards this is my first one.I used a hero arts stamp and the ribbon and card I bought from a friend who is a stamp in up demo.I am more of a scrapbooker and don't make to many cards.

2009-11-04T08:16:00.000-08:00

Here is my other half of my double layout kept it quite simple, my friend Sam had a picture of me bobbing apples but I think its more fun to see Kens bald patch!!

2009-11-03T13:59:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone,had a great weekend.I had a halloween party and some friends came over we had a ball!! Here is a layout I have just finished to-nite of pictures from the party.It is a double layout but this is the first part the second part shows pictures of us bobbing apples, will post it later when I finish it x

more photos of the pages inside

2009-10-23T16:32:00.000-07:00

This is a little book I made at a class in Cookstown I went with a friend.

It was a really cool shop called doodlecrafts just on the road to Dungannon well worth a visit.
I could have spent and spent!!

Excuse my poor uploading of photos just getting the hang of it again after having no computer

since the start of the summer.

Holiday Book

2009-10-23T16:14:00.000-07:00

2009-10-23T02:22:00.000-07:00

Hi I am back!!
Hi everyone glad to be back and running again! Have my new computer and new broadband and am really enjoying not having to wait a lifetime to load everything!!
Well have some nice pages to upload and will be adding these to my blog later.
Sandra x

computer broke

2009-08-05T08:43:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone,
Have had no computer that is why I have not been blogging. Going to France on my holidays and hope to buy myself a new laptop when I get back.I am using my sisters computer so I am not fit to blog as often. Hope to be back to blogging soon X

2009-07-25T14:07:00.000-07:00

2009-05-15T08:30:00.000-07:00

This scrapbook page is of my daughter Faith. Late at night I went in and found her sleeping standing up ,not to miss a photo opportunity I grabbed my camera and captured this cute photo.

All the paper is Fancy Pants and the little crystals are papermania.

Sandra X

2009-05-13T06:21:00.000-07:00

This is one of my scrapbook pages of Bethany horse riding on nipper.The paper was from a kit I got at forgetmenot crafts in Belfast and is my favourite scrapbook page to date. Sandra X

2009-05-13T05:57:00.000-07:00

This is a beautiful photo of my daughter Bethany. It was taken on Sundy afternoon in a field near our home.

Stanley and Kate friends of mine came over to walk around the small wood that surronds our house and Stanley kindly lent Ken a long lens which captured this photograph.

Sandra X

busy busy!!

2009-05-11T13:47:00.000-07:00

Had a very busy weekend. My cat Mia had her kittens and sadly all 6 died. My two girls shed a few tears and so did I.
To-day the girls and I took Mia to the vet as she hasn't been eating or drinking they have kept her at the vets and to-morrow she is having an operation to remove a cat that is stuck so what a weekend I have had!!
Have been tidying my stash all day never knew I had so many papers!!!
Sandra X

so many stamps so little money!!

2009-05-04T03:31:00.002-07:00

Hi there,

Have had a very busy weekend, my friend Sam who is a stamp it up demonstrator had a party at my house on Friday.

I had 10 people who came and we had a great evening, there were so many stamps I wanted as well as papers, ink pads I could go on and on.We made a lovely card with a butterfly stamp and a lovely ladybird it was so nice I ended up buying this set of stamps and a whole heap of other things!!

On Saturday I went to a great shop in Ballymoney which sadly is closing all the items were half price and I came away with a lot of nice items 2 scrapbooking albums, stamps, papers and a few other nice things.

Daddy's Girls

2009-04-19T12:14:00.000-07:00

This is a picture of my hubby Ken and my two girls Bethany and Faith .This is my first picture i have posted on my blog so am going to upload some of my cards and scrapbooking pages later now that I can do it . Sandra x

2009-04-17T10:33:00.000-07:00

Had a great day yesterday went to the show in the Kings Hall, really big crowd. Bought a cuttlebug for the amazing price of £15.00 wow you say, well it was an ex demo one ,have tried it out already works perfectly.
Ordered some stamp it up items from my friend Sam came yesterday wow what a day I had.The stamps all come from Amercia and you cannot buy them in the shops. I am having my own party soon so can't wait to order more!!
Sandra x

some many photos so little time

2009-04-14T06:22:00.000-07:00

Having a really tough time getting my photos to load on!! Maybe has something to do with all the photos I have saved on my computer!! Well hopefully going to work on that this week and post some photos soon.
Kids driving me crazy to-day, can't wait till school starts. Has anyone got any tips is it easier to load straight from youe camera? Sandra X

hi there

2009-04-10T13:51:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone my name is Sandra and I have been scrapping for over four years.
I have been married to my hubby Ken for 13 years and have two great girls Bethany 10,
and Faith 7.