WOYWW

Wednesday again means it is time for Whats on your workdesk Wednesday!

This week I am  making my CCT card so if you want to see it finished you can to pop back tomorrow, here is a sneak peek though.....

Admittedly, I did take the picture yesterday as at this time in the morning it is horribly dark and I guessed you might like to see the sunshine streaming in. Those are blinds by the way, not prison bars!

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 Here is the finished layout I was deciding on last week, I finally picked out some Bo Bunny papers that matched my son's shirt!  I had such a job matching papers to my Christmas photos this year, next year I am going to make everyone wear black and white on Christmas Day!

I used a fabulous sketch from the Scrapbook Steals Midweek Mojo, this one is Garnet 1, they are now up to Garnet 7 so I am a little behind!  

 So, last week I was preparing for the snow and boy, did it come!

 This shovel became buried just on Saturday night, the kids had played with it on Saturday afternoon and left it there, when we got back from our basketball game we found over a foot of snow on our drive!  Hubby had to snow blow just to put the car away!  He would have driven through the foot and a bit but the winds had formed a snow dune right in front of his garage which was more like 4 foot high!

 Brenda commented last week that we should have a snow blower, well we do but it is a monster that runs away with me so I still prefer to shovel.  Anyway, we have steps up the front and to the back yard so we have to shovel those bits. 

(These pics taken first thing Sunday morning, before the shoveling!)

 Thankfully our snow tends to be very light and powdery so it is very easy to shovel.  The greatest snow on earth you know!

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Hope you will join us in our weekly nose around, if you would like to play along pop on over to Julia Dunnit's blog for the deets!

Cute Card Thursday ~ Fireworks

Our theme for Cute Card Thursday this week is 

Fireworks!

Those of you who are not from the UK may not know that it is Bonfire Night on Saturday 5th November.  If you want to know a little more about it take a look here! The history behind the celebrations is fascinating!

We are sponsored this week by the Stamp Shoppe

Interpret as you will or use firework colours, we will also allow fire and candles to make it a little easier!

I always seem to see shades of purple in fireworks so I opted to use my Bo Bunny Winter Joy, seemed a shame not to when it was still on my desk from a layout!

 I opted to alter a small notebook to create a journal to send to my daughter in her care package.

The image is Belles 'n Whistles coloured with copics and prismacolor pencils.

I decided against stick out embellishments as they always seem to fall off a heavily used item like a notebook.  Simple and practical!

I added some stickles glitter to the star so I can enter the 

Totally Papercrafts challenge which asks you to 'glitter it'!

Winter Wonderland want CAS cards with little embellishments, well this is pretty CAS for me!

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Hope you will play along with us this week!  For more inspiring ideas check out the amazing DT makes!

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For those in the UK (and ex pats who will be celebrating abroad, like us) have a fun Bonfire Night and keep safe!

Thanks so much for dropping by!

Scrapbook Steals Opal 4

 Here is my entry to ScrapbookSteals blog challenge Opal 4

this week was a double page layout which took a little more time although having the fabulous sketch made it a lot quicker!It is always the embellishments that take the most time for me!

If you haven't found Scrapbook Steals yet you should really take a look, you will find twice daily bargains in all your favourite products!

I stalk them every day at 9am!

 The papers I used here are Bo Bunny ' Winter Joy' a pack I got from Scrapbook Steals for a song!

 There is a new sketch every Wednesday over on the Scrapbook Steals blog.  Can you imagine my surprise last week when I went to check out the new sketch and discovered I won a prize from the week before!  

Thank you so much Kristy, my prize arrived this weekend and I love it, already planning some new makes with it!

Thank you so much for dropping in, hope you are keeping warm and have lots of fun tomorrow night trick or treating!  

WOYWW and LIM

What's on your workdesk Wednesday?

For once I feel Wednesday came slowly this week, but I think it is because I have been under the weather and not had the energy to do much.  My desk is actually clear at the moment, although I do intend to scrap today so thought I would show my latest bits that I bought.  Hope to get started on these packs later!

These are the new Simple Stories packs, absolutely love everything SS brings out!

Back in August I was lucky enough to win a Simple Stories pack '100 days of summer' and this is what I created with some of it last week (excuse the wonky shot, not used to photographing double paged layouts)

It certainly feels like the end of summer now!  The cold hasn't hit us yet but it is literally around the corner, lots of storminess coming for us in the next couple of days along with the dreaded white stuff - yes, the joy of living in the mountains is it comes early!  still, rather that than rain!

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 this little goody pack was a freebie along with my buys from Emma's Paperie, they wrap everything up in tissue too, so lovely!

oh and I just happened upon this bargain Bo Bunny kit that I couldn't miss out on! 

Time to scrap some Christmas pics I think!

 here is a card I struggled with this week

I love the Less is More challenge but it is so out of my comfort zone, not altogether happy with this, it looks so bare!  The good thing about these cards is they mail so easily, no bits and pieces to poke through the envelopes and they are cheap to mail too, a perfect size.  Maybe I will challenge myself to keep making them and send them to the troops through Operation Write Home.  You send blank cards for the military stationed abroad to use to send to their family and friends. 

Anyway, the LIM challenge this week was to use mainly the colour of your eyes, mine are blue hence, this little blue boy!

Thanks for dropping by, if you would like to participate in WOYWW please pop over to visit Julia for more details and to add your link (lots more desks to snoop at too)!

Bo Bunny Sketch Challenge

You can find my Whimsy Stamps Blog Hop here!

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I came across a fantastic sketch over on the Bo Bunny Blog designed by Irene Tan for their layout sketch challenge.  

I love that Bo Bunny has these fabulous papers already die cut, it made following the sketch so simple!

The background papers are Olivia and I also cut the butterflies out of some leftover Gabrielle.

These photos are some of my favourites from when my guys were younger. When we lived in Scotland (the first time) my wellies were always by the door, it is a very wet place!  These two little imps were always putting them on and this day decided to do little dances while wearing them.

Supplies:

Papers ~ Bo Bunny 'Olivia' and Gabrielle

dies ~ marianne creatables

title ~ Thickers

Embellishments ~ Prima flowers, Basic Grey buttons, lace, 

tags from  kit by Colorbok

Hope you have a fabulous weekend, thanks for dropping by!