Weekly projects

This week I made a layout for one of my weekly Kanban projects. I don't 'do' green very often,but it just seemed to come together with a bit of sparkly acetate round the photo and a bit of green.Most of this was done with card and acetate from the gorgeous girly 'Sugar Buttons' range- you can't see but the cream background is very swirly and sparkly.I can't believe we've been back a week already.

The next one was a little card made with'In the Garden' range-green again!

Last but not least is using 'Bella Italiano' -this is a relatively new range and I've really used this kit a lot..Most of this one is using the paper pad -the toppers are Visions of Beauty in Aqua and Square window.

                                     Thanks for popping by :-)

Cracking Christmas Crop

Yesterday was just what I needed,a fun day of scrapping up a storm,great company,some fabulous festive food and it all sped by far too quickly...Courtesy of these lovely ladies..
who worked very hard all day making it perfect

Photo above borrowed from Karen - hope she doesn't mind..

Here's Santa Ann with her class

this was Karen's class -AND i finished it!

 Then it was time for lunch - yum- full Christmas dinner

 Santa and her helpers were busy all day

 I caught up on making some cards with Graphic45 Nutcracker papers

Then it was afternoon tea- Snowflake Cakes made by Karen 

Thank you ladies - you rock !

Kanban makes

I'm a bit behind with blogging projects for this weeks Kanban ...due to  the fact that we were flitting about round Germany!
The  first one is a fold out card/mini book using a piece of 12 x 12 cardstock - this is similar to the make and take I did last week and is using Nordic snowflakes background card and Christmas Friends toppers,also some ribbons and buttons from my stash

 The second one is using the Lavender Rose papers and toppers

I made another 'Tim' style tag too -back with that tomorrow.

Thanks for popping by as always!

More Germany and a make and take

I didn't plan very well this year.I missed the Eclectic Keepsakes Christmas crop as we were in Germany and as I'd agreed to do a class for Karen -I  decided to do a make and take.

I used Simple Stories for this one. It involved a bit of folding of a 12 x 12 sheet of paper and some Christmassy buttons. I made some tags from the journalling squares to slot into the tops at the sides. It all folded up nicely and was tied with a  nice bit of ribbon.I really hope they all liked it. 

On to more Germany....this was what we arrived to at the airport and it certainly made us feel Christmassy! Such a cute display..

This was our hotel

and we were fascinated by the Reindeer chairs ! We never found out if the antlers were real or synthetic 

and this was the first castle we went to before Neuschwanstein- I've never walked so much in my life !

It was a long way up....but truly beautiful.

December 1st - a magical day

Would you like to see how I've spent my December 1st today ? Well, there are -ahem a few photos to follow...what a way to start the countdown to Christmas...

We arrived here is snowy Germany yesterday and have spent today in a winter wonderland.We can't believe how lucky we are (so far) that the snow has been just right - not too much but enough to make it pretty and magical..
We arrived in Munich - it was cold and there was a tiny dusting of snow - then as we were making our way to Bavaria- this is how it was looking..

We stopped off at Oberammergau and went to the ' all year round' Christmas shop...I took lots of photos in here - and bought a 'toy soldier' ( had to didn't I?)

Then we made tracks to our hotel and arrived late afternoon.

Today we've visited two castles and I'm absolutely shattered this evening.

It was all worth it though - the Neuschwanstein castle is truly beautiful - I did feel sorry for the poor horses taking everyone up to the castle though - and ours looked like he needed a haircut - it was SO cold - we thought we might bump into Mr Tumnus at one point..

When we got to the top where the castle actually was - it was shrouded in mist but I managed to get some lovely photos of it as we were wandering around waiting for the horse and carriages to arrive- it was a truly wonderful  way to spend December 1st- AND I've got loads more photos too - be warned!

I took lots of the castle - it was awesome in the snow..  this one was looking across from the first castle - you can just see the yellowy turret on the left...it was really high up- and Neuschwanstein was almost level...

 You can see how high up the castle sits here - above the rooftop of one of the shops..

Anyway,I think I've gone on long enough -time to rest the weary body ready for Christmas market tomorrow.

Kanban day

I hope this works as I've scheduled this to post for me. This week I worked with the gorgeous new kit 'Bella Italiano'.It's very Art Deco and the colours are all colours I love. The ladies were all designed for Kanban by a very talented lady called Yvette Jordan - hope she does some more for them as I think they're gorgeous.
This one is using some of the new acetate in the aperture- I glittered her hat and criss cross lacy bits but you can't see it too well

Thought I'd try a patchwork effect with the paper pad on this one

 Back to a bit of stamping with the lovely Kanban rubber stamp tree

                                               and this one is using the paper pad again

As always - thank you for popping by - and have a great weekend...back soon with another 'Tim ' style tag..I am definitely on a roll making them and intend to keep going through December with them!

More GoGo photos

Here's round two of some of the lovely layouts we did at the recent GoGo retreat...

This was a class with Sam Ball - we stamped on acetate and embossed - loved this, it was one of those where I hadn't really got a photo sorted and didn't pick it until half way through the class- but it was just perfect for me in a hat! ( not something you see very often)

This was another of Sam's classes - again I loved it.We used wax beads and ironed them through parchment to melt and coat some of the papers .

This was Rebekah's class - if you look you can see tiny little aeroplanes - it took a while to construct but ended up being a 'shaker' layout with the little planes flying about inside..

Something that surprised me a bit.last week..the reindeer card I made  for the weekly Design Team - the brown one.....well - I've had an order for 36 of them - all different colours- so I'd better get my brain into gear and get stamping!

I've made  one colourway the lady has asked for - dark blue and silver ...

                              Not quite sure how I'm going to do shocking pink and black yet tho' !!

Thanks for popping by x