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Hi everyone,
It is SO hot here today! I can't wait till tonight when it cools down.

Just popping in to let you know that there is 10% off on Tim Holtz Distress Markers over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies store.

Go grab some savings.

Happy paper crafting & colouring.
xx Lisa xx

My Project Monday #2

It has been a great week so far! Mind you it's only Tuesday :)

We are supposed to be having rain all week so I think it's a great time to get some crafty things happening.

This year I have promised myself to get a lot of my un-finished projects completed as I have quite a few stored away that I have been meaning to finish.  You can read more about it over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog. 

I am going to take part in this weeks My Project Monday over at DCS by working on a project I started back in 2014!  Yep, it was a while ago but I did put a lot of work into it before putting it away. I didn't finish it as I moved house that week.

I started making a little album. I wasn't too sure what I was going to do with it after putting it together but it was something completely out of my comfort zone & I had never created anything like this before. I was & still am quite happy with the way it turned out hence why I kept it in my cupboard & planned to complete it one day.  Well, finally that day is here.

My Mum's birthday is in April & I would like to have it ready by then to give to her as a birthday present. She hasn't got a creative bone in her body nor the patience but she loves the projects that I design. Maybe one day she will sit down with me & try her hand at paper crafting. Hmmm probably not lol. One can only hope :)

I went through two boxes of old photos that I had stored in my wardrobe & wow, so many I threw out! Just ones that were way too blurry to rescue, scenic ones that I can't even remember where I took them & animal pics from Zoo's that we went to when the kids were young that simply have no relevance to us now & they are all probably dead by now anyway...horrible thought but more than likely true.

I remember when I first created the album that I had the intention of creating it with as many paper & embellishment scraps (which I call challenge pieces) as I could. For my challenge pieces I have three different containers full of odds & bobs that I feel could come in handy one day (more on that another time), so I dug through it & found a few pieces that I could possibly use on the first page of the album.

Hopefully, it will all come together nicely.  Wish me luck :)

Thanks so much for visiting & why don't you join me in My Project Monday? Surely you have some un-finished projects that you have been meaning to complete? Go have a look, I bet you do. I challenge you :)

Happy crafting
xx Lisa xx

DCS: Show Us Saturday #1

Happy New Year to all of you :)

I hope you all had a fantastic time & enjoyed celebrations.

This last week has been quite hectic with trying to relax & enjoy the festive season with my family & friends but now that my business is up & running it's a bit hard to not think about all the things that need to be done. However, I tried my best with not touching my laptop :)  Now I can get back into it again.

Last week I participated in the My Project Monday over at Dreamtime Craft Supplies blog & showed you that I was hopefully going to find the time to pretty up my planner pages. I am happy to say that I did actually do it.

I bought my planner last year but didn't get to use it much so I figured why not re-model it for 2016?!

I first needed to find a planner printable that co-ordinated with the planner page colours. Luckily, I found a blog called Laughing & Losing It where Christina has made this gorgeous hedgehog planner printable. I just had to have it in my planner :) Thanks so much Christina for making this available.

I have to admit that it took me a while to figure out what I was going to do to change the dates but after a little bit of thinking & looking at all those pretty planners on my Pinterest board, I came up with a solution.

I used my Little Lizzie font Die-Versions die to create the days & dates of the week & stuck everything down with Ranger Glossy Accents...wow, do you know how strong that stuff is as a glue? Talk about dry fast! lol

I only wrote in a few things on the planner pages that are in accordance to my business blog but I will write in all the other to-do items later.  I just didn't want to bore you with my business stuff lol.

I had a good time putting together my planner pages & will definitely be doing it again. Even though this is the first time I have done this to any planner of mine, I am pretty happy with the outcome. It was good to finally get some time to get some crafting done even if it was to decorate a planner lol.

Have you created anything in the last week?
Enter it into Show Us Saturday over at Dreamtime Craft Designs blog?
You may just get your project featured on the blog. Go check it out.

I really hope you had a great Christmas & New Year.
Here's to a fantastic 2016!

Thanks for popping by & happy crafting

xx Lisa xx

P.S  I really need to update the design of this blog as it's driving me crazy lol.