Just a few cards...

Hi Everyone!

I have actually made some cards over the past few weeks which is something I haven't done for ages! I wanted to try out my new Stampin' Up! stamp set and punch so case'd a card from Pinterest here (. This is what I came up with...

I made a couple of Father's Day cards and I also case'd the design from Pinterest here...

Thanks for looking!

Kirei x

UKS June House Challenge...

Hi Everyone!

Isn't this weather amazing, it is so nice to have sunny days, warm evenings, wear sandals, skirts without stockings, eat salads and drink icy cold coolers from Costa!

The June monthly challenge over at UKS was to use the following pretty summery colours and I had some lovely photos from a recent visit to one of the open houses for the National Gardens Scheme.

The garden was in Old Welwyn and was stunning, so much hard work had been put into it and it really showed. There were so many varieties of tulips which are my favourite flower. Lots of lovely details throughout the garden, everywhere you turned there was something new to look at. We got talking to the owner and he told us it was all down to his wife! I got some fab photos as I was trying out my new DSLR for the first time...

Some close ups of the embellishments...

The title and journaling...

Thanks for looking!

Kirei x

UK Scrappers June Week 2 challenge...

Evening Everyone!

I used the UKS Week 2 challenge for this layout.... we were challenged to use: primary colours, follow a sketch and use the following rhyme for inspiration:

All things bright and beautiful
All creatures great and small
All things wise and wonderful
The Lord God made them all!

I think I captured them all though the rhyme link is a little loose, I just used photos of Lee and Eliza!

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

Project Life - March 2014...

Hi Everyone!

Just realised that I am a little behind with posting my Project Life, oops! So here are my pages for March... beware this is a photo heavy post!

Week 10...

Week 11...

We added an extra photo by using some washi tape to create a flap...

Week 12...

Week 13...

A little stitched sequin pocket...

And that was March... April is finished but need to take photos so will get that done on the weekend! Then just need to finish off May's pages as I was only able to do half of Niki's class as we were going away for the weekend. Almost caught up!

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x

UK Scrappers June Weekly Challenge...

Hi Everyone!

I have been a bit slack with posting lately... we were on 2 weeks holidays at the beginning of May and since we got back just have not got back into scrapping too much (and blogging as you can see!). Anyway getting back on track now and have finished the first weeks challenge for UKS...

We had to use three of the following:
1) Rose, turquoise and green colour pallet 
2) Red, white and blue colour pallet 
3) Celebrate a marriage, birth or birthday
4) Celebrate an island holiday, visit, heritage ~ note we are not specifying small islands so as to allow our own islands of United Kingdom to be included
5) Use a summery outdoor picture
6) Add turquoise, pearl or moonstone like embellishments

So we had plenty of options to choose from which is always good! I had a cute photo of my friend Andrea's daughter Amy which worked as option 4) as it was from a holiday weekend and it worked perfectly with the first lot of colours suggested (rose/turquoise/green). I added some candy dots in turquoise which covered off option 6). Job done!

Amy proudly displaying her completed picture of a boat and desert island...

The little clusters of embellishments...

I have had the Thickers alpha for ages and have just not had chance to use it before now. I think it worked well with the papers and photo. 

Thanks for looking!
Kirei x