Colour combo bloghop-September.

So here we are again blog friends, another month has flown by and we are doing another colour combo bloghop.
If you have followed the bloghop all the way around you should have hopped over from Michelle's who has just given birth to a beautiful baby boy.............congrats to you all. She is a woman from my own heart as she loves reading and eating chocolate however I am banned from the chocs to lose weight so gggrhh.

So this months colour scheme is this one:

I have scarily decided to share with you some old scrapbook pages which I will share in the loving and caring knowledge that somewhere we all have our beginners pages hidden away.

 These 2 photos are of a LO I completed of Lil E when she was first born. Because I was first introduced to scrapbooking through Creative Memories, I had the circular shaped cutters which I tended to use alot. I used set kits with a theme, this one being a baby rather than choosing individual papers like I do now.

 I used alot of chipboard elements with the odd individual flourish of adding ribbon to a letter but other than that it was not really individual at all.

 Here again I used shaped cutters and sticky ribbon, remember that? Oh the years have changed ribbon. I love it. I did use a punch in this page to make hearts and flowers with bling centres so abit of movement.

 Now this LO isnt one I completed, it was made as part of the 12 hour crop I went to with my 2 friends Alex and Tanya. We had to choose our background paper and we were all given the same of photo of us all with Cleo. We then passed the LO and different people had to do the title, embellishments and some sewing. This was what came back. I really like it as it different to what I make now and yet it is made by friends I know sharing their skills.

 This one above I've included for the colours and also it is a lesson we did at crop. I learned how to use the crop-o-dile, how to make papers go further, distressing and distress inks and using diecutting machines. I like doing the workshops becuase even if it's something small I always learn something new.

 These 2 final pages are simple LOs taught by the wonderful Shimelle Laine called ''Everyone has a story''. I liked the class because it really pared back. The pages consisted of grids of photos or 1 photo and some patterned papers. The one above shows photos across my different ages and the one below is from my first nursing portrait. I like the class cos Shimelle made it ok to be bare.

As I am doing LSNED 2011 I suppose I should document this as my learning of the day. We all start off somewhere in scrapbooking and through constant learning and adaptation we develop our own personal style.
If you havent managed the whole hop then start at Amy's blog and follow it round. Have fun.

http://amysoto.blogspot.com/

http://www.vsws.typepad.com/

http://www.scrapworthylives.com/

http://spud-pickle.blogspot.com/

http://scribblesstickingstitchingstroking.blogspot.com/

http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/

http://alyssephotographs.blogspot.com/

http://sugarandscrap.blogspot.com/

http://scrapyourlife.net/

 http://www.snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com/

 http://www.MichelleRoycroft.blogspot.com/

 http://www.curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com/

Colour Combo Bloghop

Welcome to our third month of the Colour Combo Bloghop organised by Amy.
You should have arrived here from JO. C who I am sure delighted you with fun and crafty goodness. If you are a regular bloghopper you will know the drill, if not then basically follow all the blogs round in one big circle. You start and finish at Amy's blog. The full list is at the bottom of this post should you get lost.


I have to apologize profusely for having a slight brainstorm and doing this month's colours a month early last month, therefore I am doing the same colour combo but in a different way.

I was wracking my brain thinking what I could do which was not scrapbooking and I came across the flowers idea. It is Summer after all, well maybe on some days. My favourite flowers are cottage garden plants and roses in particular, so here are a few beautiful roses I found for your delectation.

Château de Clos Vougeot is a Climbing rose developed by David Austin famous in this counrty and abroad for his traditional roses.......

This rose is slightly more lilac than blue but it has a heavenly scent apparently...........

Royal Philharmonia is a beautiful off-white rose with a slight scent...............

The Suntory Blue rose pictured below was developed through genetic engineering in 2008 in Japan using state of the art technology.................

If you want to read about how this was achieved then follow this linK.
Then I gave in and did a digital page 

 

The template is a freebie from Cathy Zielske.

The papers are Rhonna Farrer's Sorbet Dream range and the paint splatter is also from this range. I reduced the opacity so it didn't stand out so much.


So our next stop is over here at Stephanie's blog. She is lady inspired by scrapbooking so much she wrote her sociological thesis based upon it. This should be an interesting post.




Here is the blogroll should you get lost.................

http://amysoto.blogspot.com/

http://scribblesstickingstitchingstroking.blogspot.com/

http://www.snapsandsnippets.blogspot.com/

http://scrapyourlife.net/

http://craftygoodies.blogspot.com/

http://www.MichelleRoycroft.blogspot.com/

http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/

http://www.curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com/

http://www.scrapworthylives.com/

http://www.vsws.typepad.com/

http:/handmadebykirsty.blogspot.com

http://throughthecameralens.typepad.com/

http://1200somemiles.blogspot.com/

http://helenascreativemaven.blogspot.com/

http://alyssephotographs.blogspot.com/

Colour Combo bloghop part 2.

Hello and welcome to our second Colour combo bloghop ................

 You should have arrived from the lovely Lesley who is  married to AJ and has two beautiful cats called Kiwi and Willow.
If you followed last months hop you will know what we are all about but for those of you who are new to my site or the hop then here is our resumee. We mainly met through Shimelle's class ''Beyond Blogging for scrapbookers'' and the lovely Amy asked if anyone would like to take part in a blog hop. A blog hop is were several bloggers get togehter and at a set date and time we all blog about a specific subject and link to the others on the list. For this hop we have chosen to be a group who blog about a specific colour scheme and we choose to blog about those colours in a variety of ways. So if you are hopping you could find photography, scrapbooking, craft of all sorts, card making, cooking even. As long as it included the colours you're ok.  So below is our hues for today..........................

I have decided to blog about things I have found on Pinterest. If you haven't joined in over there, why not. It's completely free and a brilliant idea. Basically you sign up for an account and you are then provided with a number of ''cyber'' pinboards. You also can get a direct link into your Internet header. All you have to do then is go on your normal travels on the Net. If you see a blogpost/craft/LO/scraplift/book, well basically anything you like then you press the ''Pin It'' button in your header and it asks you which board to pin to and to write 

something about it. 

I'll give you an example. The other days I went here to visit Clair and saw this beauty................

and pinned it to my Xmas board on Pinterest. The repinning went balistic and Clair is now Pinterest famous all because of my mad early Xmas ideas. At last count she had been repinned 27 times..............wowzers.

So here are a few things I have found around Pinterest which may tickle your fancy.

 Here is some fabulous wedding vintage card bunting

 Some beautiful vintage storage cases.

 One of my favourite kinds of quotation posters

 This lovely caravan fits the colours sort of and is a perfect picture.

Agh yes if the man of dreams arrives, this might be the perfect vintage gown to walk down the aisle to.

A beautiful field of poppies for the perfect red hues.

 Yes please would love to make this

 Scrapbooking goodness..............

And a little of the slate to finish.................

 aw bless................

 and something to make..............

And once they're pinned it's like having your own Smashbook online without the worry of losing it, too much glue etc. You click on the photo of your item and it takes you the site it came from. Clever huh? If you havent got an invite, I have 5 to give away if I can find my links.


Here is the list of lovely ladies hopping to day if you get lost:

http://amysoto.blogspot.com/

http://alyssephotographs.blogspot.com/

http://helenascreativemaven.blogspot.com/

http://istampscrapcraft.blogspot.com/

http:/handmadebykirsty.blogspot.com

http://www.vsws.typepad.com/

http://adriennefalzon.blogspot.com/

http://www.scrapworthylives.com/http://spud-pickle.blogspot.com/

http://www.curlyscrapbooker.blogspot.com/........................YOU ARE HERE

http://sugarandscrap.blogspot.com/

http://digipage-blog.everything-digital-scrapbooking.com/

http://1200somemiles.blogspot.com/

http://www.MichelleRoycroft.blogspot.com/

http://craftygoodies.blogspot.com/

http://scrapyourlife.net/

Your next stop in the hop is from here in South West England up to the North of England to another Jo  who sounds like the exam time is weighing heavily on her shoulders as she is a teacher. Let's hope she has had some free time to destress and make something lovely for us to look at. Thanx for stopping by and enjoy the rest of the hop.

Drum roll please.............

So as promised I can reveal, drum roll please, that the winner of my giveaway from the Colour Combo Hop is Cheryl.....................please send me your email to josowerby@yahoo[dot]co[dot]uk and I will get the class sorted for you.
The bloghop was such a success that Amy is already planning the next hop for next month and I am making a button/widget.

Second drumroll is for this new magazine which hit the shelves on the 12th May in the UK and should hit the USA soon. Apparently it has been so well subscribed to that the first issue has already sold out..............wow. Better subscribe I think and there is a gr8 offer for three issue as a special price of £5.00 at the moment. Each subscribed issue gets a free ''make'' gift. This months is an i-phone felt cover, which I have almost completed. Here is Nat's version. Mine is bigger as I have a bigger phone due to it's protective outer shell. Once complete I will put up the photo.
The magazine has been really well put together, there are sections for making, blog and book suggestions, shopping guides, a hopefully regular feature of craft rooms...........pretty. At £4.99 I think the magazine is well priced and has something for every crafter. Now that copies are like gold dust, you may have to check out issue 2 in June but you may get lucky.