Viva Italia!

Happy Friday to you all and hello and thank you to my new followers!


I am really getting into my scrapbooking now and made this page last week. I really broke open some stash and decided that I cannot keep looking and stroking it all, its much better on a page than in a packet :-)

The papers are all K & Co Cara Marie paper pack and the embellishments are from the same range.

I used alot of embelishments!

I used a few of the stickers that came with the paper stack to make a 3d flower. 

The photograph is from a side street in Cortona, Italy, the shops are all so prettily decorated and I love the colours on this one. They have the best ice cream shop, handbag shops, home accessories shop and restaurants. We always visit there when we are away.

Now I am really getting into my scrapping I am regularly visiting the UK Scrappers website for ideas and inspiration, there is so much talent out there! If you are a member please add me as a friend, I am currently friendless over there! My user name is Tracey White.

Have a wonderful week all!

Tracey 

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Scrapbooking at Autumn Cottage

Sometimes it's hard to find the time to scrapbook at home and that's why I love going to Autumn Cottage on a Friday morning where there is nothing to do but relax, chat to lots of lovely ladies, and scrapbook!  

Debbie at Becky Lou Memories runs lots of different classes from her wonderful craft studio overlooking the fields of Fambridge, click on her website here for more details.

She covers a wide range of crafts and is always on hand to offer advice and let you use her fantastic range of craft supplies. 

Last week amongst the chatting, coffee and biscuits I made this page. I saw the layout on this blog here whilst browsing through Pinterest, my new hobby!

It's a really good way to use up your scraps of paper which is what I did here, with a bit of faux stitching to make it stand out a bit more, I was finished.

I can't wait to go back tomorrow!

Have a great weekend.

Tracey

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Craft Storage

I love pretty storage in my craft room and around the house you can find baskets galore all making the every day stuff look that little bit tidier or pretty!

I love this basket which I use to store some of my card and scrapbooking embelishments.

I looove embelishments!

This pretty heart shaped basket stores my embossing powders and glitters.

This wire vegetable rack stores other scrapbooking supplies.

I have organised the baskets into chip board elements, rub ons, stickers, and flowers.

How do you organised your craft goodies?

Have a great weekend!

Tracey

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Altered Book

I made this wonderful altered book at the Scrapagogo Retreat. The class was called First Edition and was run by Nicola Kerridge.


I decided to use a photo of my eldest when he was a baby, he is fourteen now and hates having his photo taken so I do not make as many scrapbook pages of him as I do my youngest.

We covered the book and distressed the edges to make it look worn and a bit vintage.

We used a metal embellishment and ribbon to decorate the front and I added some butterflies layered up with left over paper.

We were given a book to alter, we pulled out out alot of pages at the front and added a frame which we covered with the torn out pages. The inside of the front of the book was covered with paper and I added a huge photo of my son asleep on our bed when he was little. Yes is was a thumb sucker!

We then decorated a tag to insert into the book and I added a couple of butterflies to hold it snuggly in place.

A little note on the back of the tag, I wonder if he will ever read this?

I loved making this project and decorating it, the papers were gorgeous too!

I have a little home project in mind to use the left over paper which I will show you when I have finished if it turns out alright!

Hope you are having fun, where ever you are!

Tracey 

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Some More Scrapagogo Piccies

 Here are a few photos of some other pages that I made at the Scrapagogo Retreat. 


This class was called When I Was a Child by Lisa Griffin. I don't have any photos of when I was a child so I decided to use one of my little  fella on his first day back at school last year and printed it in sepia to give it a vintage look.

We also had a great time in the class eating the sweets before we could place the wrappings on the page!

In the middle of the colourful wheel I put things about him that I want him to remember, his best friends, his favourite clubs and sports and of course his love of bugs!

Another class was Tagged to Transfer by Sheena Rowlands who showed us how to transfer  copyright free images printed onto a laser printer, onto a tag or scrapbook page. 

This butterfly image turned out really well and I coloured it with Distress Inks to match the colour of the fab paper that we used.

See that little crotchet butterfly? Sheena made one for each member of the class to use on their project, how cool is that!

Have a great week!

Tracey x

A Fantastic Few Weeks

It's been a fantastic few weeks, the kids have been on Easter holidays, I have been on the Scrapagogo Retreat and had a day out on the Orient Express!

The kids have just gone back to school so I have opened the door on my craft room again and sat down to finish the few little bits that I didn't quite finish at the retreat.

This book was made in the Cotton and Calico Chronicles Class with Sheena Rowlands. We had a fabric book and were shown how to use misting sprays and our own made stencils to create a background to each page.

I finished at home with some pretty lace and buttons sewn on to the side of the book and some chipboard buttons sewn onto the tree.

The photos were taken on a trip to Hyde Hall in Chelmsford, one of my favourite ways to spend a Sunday is going there with the dog for a lovely walk and lunch in the cafe.

I decide to use my sharpie pens to add some journalling and changed the colours just like a child's fabric book.

I did a little bit of sewing and made this little flower.

We were shown how to use the positive and negative of our stencils to get the most out of them.

I had such fun making this little book and it looks even sweeter in real life. It was a fab class on a fantastic retreat, I can't wait until I go back in March next year.

Have a fantastic weekend all!

Tracey x

A Smashing Day!

Last weekend my friend and I went to a fantastic Smash Book Day run by the lovely Nina at  Sugar and Spice Crafts in Barleylands Craft Centre, Billericay. I have had my books for a few months now but have been too scared to write in them, nuts aren't I!

They are full of luscious papers a full description can be seen on

their You Tube page here.

Anyway I managed to start a few pages amoungst the tea drinking and nattering. I have made a start on the pink book which is just stuff for me but was also a bit naughty and bought the green and yellow ones too!

A page about my birthday...

And one about my birthday cake which was made by with the help of my friend Jennifer. It was scrummy and full of chocolate goodness!

More work to be done on this one about my love of colour, says she who is sitting here with grey trousers and a black top! 

A page about Harvey or fluffy no nuts as we call him, our lovely Norfolk Terrier..

Some of my little fellas drawings that he has given me, he loves drawing a landscape!

I am so glad I went on this class and saw some of the wonderful work that the other girls had created on their books.

Since then I have been I have been collecting ticket stubs and all sorts of bits and pieces and just quickly sticking them in.

I have also bought a few books to help with decorative writing and some to create ideas for doodling on the pages so once I have read them I will let you know if they are any good.

Have a great week!

Tracey x