Your looking at a Scrappy Chic!

What a fantastic birthday gift! I made the DT over at ScrappyChics 
I can't wait to play with these wonderful kits and (hopefully) inspire you all
Thankyou so much Melinda for choosing me to be a part of a great team
                                                     Toodle Pip xxx

Sketchabilities 59

I have such great skypy friends! We had a party for my birthday (more to follow on that tomorrow)
Fi set some challenges and one of them was Sketchabilities sketch 59 with some added twists
This was the sketch

Added to this we had to use

Black & White with 1 other colour

Die cuts

Stamping

Transparencies

Fi being Fi marched onward and upward with hers here

I got on with it after a small amount of arguing that kraft was a neutral (of course I lost!) here

And Debbi after lots and lots of moaning was the first to get hers up on her blog here LOL

I think I maybe strayed a little from the sketch but I am very happy with the result
The pictures are of my Grandad, my grandads sister and her hubby and my Uncle at my wedding in 2001
Supplies used
american crafts a la carte for the background
echo park for the record
Maya Road kraft printed doilies
MME brad
Basic grey chipboard swirls
Hambly tansparency
Prima stamp
AC thickers

Hope you like it
Toodle Pip xxx

MME Nov Card Challenge

Another great sketch from MME

 

Here is my take

I really enjoyed making this one and it's another crossed off the christmas card list lol 

Supplies used:

MME - Holly Jolly collection

MME - Andre Victoria collection

MME - I beleive brads

MME - Holly Jolly collection chipboard 

MME twine

Tools:

Martha Stewart snowflake punch

EK success border punch

Spellbinders labels dies

Small circle punch

Hope you like it

Toodle Pip X

AAM Flashback challenge My Five

See THIS post for the whole challenge

I decided to have a different take on this challenge and scrap My Top 5 things I like to use on layouts at the moment. I might do one for each year as I think it will be nice to look back at these as with most things there are trends that we cant help but follow (well maybe that's just me lol)
My top 5 are
1.Banners
2.Circles
3.Clusters
4.Butterflies
5.Stitching

It's not very often I do a layout without pics, in fact I'm not sure as tho I have ever done one lol
Most of the bits I used are from my scraps box where I have all sorts of items from circles to borders, I dragged my underused cricut out and cut out all the letters.
I also used a few other things that are faves on a layout for me such as twine, pins and doilies
Hope you like my take and that it encourages you to play along too!
Toodle pip

AAM flashback challenge

Flashback Challenge: #32 My Five

Hi everyone!

I hope you had fun reading more about the Creative Team. I'm sure you can see why I'm definitely looking forward to finally getting our new challenges going with the inspiration from these talented women. We have only ONE MORE MONTH until the new site launches. Are you as excited as me?

I'm still finalizing some details and little changes will be taking place on the blog. Then, December it will be full steam ahead and fabulous sponsor. You won't want to miss it!

Let's continue to warm up our AAM layout making muscles. How about taking another flash back into time with me? This time we'll go back to Challenge #32, which appeared on the blog in December 2010. It's a fun one. Here's the original text:

Inspired by the cell phone marketing scheme to make unlimited phone calls to your favorite 5 people, I challenge you to create a layout about YOUR 5. It could be your top friends, places to vacation, or memories from the past year. Wherever you choose to go, as long as you show us YOUR 5!!!

Do you remember that? Do the mobile phone providers still have the Top 5 feature or did it go kapoot? Well, I still LOVE the approach to a good AAM layout. Did you create a layout way back when that you'd like to share? Or perhaps, you need to dig into your stash and create one NOW.

If you choose to create something, which you totally should, share with us in the link area below and YOU could be eligible to win a $10 gift certificate to Two Peas in a Bucket.  You just never know when a prize will appear. :)

Hope your November is off to a lovely start!
Hope you will all come along and join in
Tracee x

Sketchy Thursdays 10.27

Loved the sketch this week so had to play along
This was the sketch





and this was my take

I used crate paper random collection, the little girl is a prima stamp and I think she is so cute, other bits and bobs from my stash

Hope you like it

Toodle Pip X

My Creative sketches

I didn't see this for month 1 but am joining in for month 2 of their grand sketch contest
They have great prizes on offer why don't you hop on over here and join in too.
This was the sketch

And here is my take using Echo Park - for the record collection

                                                                            Toodle Pip