Growing In Unity - Day One

Hello everyone,

Welcome to my little corner of the cyber world. I am very excited to be the GIU Gal this week and can't wait to share my projects with you. I have loved Unity Stamps for a long time and have quite the collection. I sold a lot of my craft supplies earlier this year, however, I would not part with any of my Unity Stamps! I am starting off my week quick and easy with my little hello card!

I have used an Itty Bitty stamp for this card, it's IB-939 hello Daisy. I love the simplicity of the stamp and I stamped it two times for effect. I coloured it in with colouring pencils and then applied a layer of white colouring pencil to blend it all together. I created the background by covering the card with strips of washi tape.

Well that's it for my first card. Please leave a comment below to go in the running for a prize. at the end of the week I will randomly choose two people from the comments left to win a prize pack from the very generous Unity Stamps.

Thanks for visiting. Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx

Stick It Down July Challenge

Hello all,

This month we have a sketch challenge over at Stick It Down. This is the sketch:

This is the layout that I made:

I used some items from Pink Paislee Summer Lights and from a couple of Dear Lizzy's ranges. I also used some colours from Twinkling H2O and some Lindy Stamp Gang sprays. I must admit I quite like it.

I also recorded the process and made a video:

Thanks for stopping by. I hope you find some time to craft.
Take care,
Helen xx

One Week of Holidays Done!

Hello everyone,

As the title says the first week of the July school holidays is nearly over and luckily I have managed to squeeze in some scrapbooking plus some couch surfing and school work! I have managed to get a few layouts and videos completed plus the week before the holidays I made a layout for my little friend Daisy. Actually I've scrapped this photo twice already as I made one layout for Daisy and one for me.

Here is that layout I gave Daisy followed by the one I've kept which I used for the latest Studio Challenges DT task.

This week I made my third layout/video for Kitaholic Kits using the June kits - I also made the fourth but can't share that one until next week.

Finally, I made a layout/video for The Crafty Maven Getaway Channel for Sketch It Out Thursday, I used a sketch from the June Page Maps collection and cute photos of my great nephew Noah.

Click here if you wish to watch any of my YouTube videos.

Well that's it for today, I'll be back before the end of my holidays with more sharing.

Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx

Life Update

Hello everyone,

It's a big day in my household today as eighteen years ago I gave birth to two beautiful little babies and I mean little! They were around 6 pounds each and just pure bundles of joy.

Now my little babies have just celebrated becoming adults, one with the customary beer and the other with a glass of Lift! I am so proud to be their mum.

Happy 18th my darlings, may your future be bright and full of love, laughter and adventures.

Now on to other news, well news for me. Last year I made the goal to start posting YouTube videos and become a design team member for at least one group, now a year and bit on I am currently on 4 design teams and have grown my subscriber numbers to 444! Last May I was so excited to reach 100 subscribers and now a year later I have quadrupled that. I know for some this may not be a big increase but starting out and finding followers is not the easiest thing especially when you work full time in a very demanding job and only have a few hours each week to spend on your hobby. All in all I am chuffed with this, next goal 500 then 1000 subscribers.

Well that's it for me, it's getting late and I need some beauty sleep.

Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx

June Catch Up!

Hi everyone,

You blink and before you know it another month has passed! Wow it is almost July and in a few days my babies are turning 18! They are growing into wonderful men and have already started their adult journey (albeit a bit bumpy . . . uni changes, TAFE fun!). Here is a layout I made a few weeks ago about my babies and I:

This was one of my layouts for The Crafty Maven Getaway for the month of May.

The layouts for Kitaholic Kits I've made since my last share are:

For The Studio Challenges I have created these two pages:

And lastly, for Stick It Down I created this layout:

Well that's it for now. Let's see if it takes another month for me to update once again!

Take care and happy scrapping,
Helen xx

May Catch Up!

Hello All,

Boy oh Boy May has turned into a busy month! I had a birthday, a special one I turned 50 and got spoilt from my workplace, family and friends - well still getting spoilt as I'm going out for high tea tomorrow with a group of girlfriends. Plus added to this I've been sick😒 even had to have time off work. I have managed to get a few pages created although I still have one or two to get completed this weekend.

To finish off April's pages for Kitaholic Kits I created this page:

The its arrived for May containing lots of yumminess from Simple Stories and so far I have created these two pages, two more will be highlighted in the following weeks whilst we wait the arrival of the June kits:

For The Studio Challenges I created this page for our Stencils and Masks challenge:

For Stick It Down we had a sketch challenge this month and this is the page I created:

Here are the remaining layouts I have created the last few weeks, some for National scrapbooking Day and some for The Crafty Maven Getaway channel:

To celebrate my birthday I had a video go live on the actual day so I made a layout with photos of me over the years. I've also got some closeups of the clusters:

Wow!! That's a lot of layouts. Thanks for taking a look.

Take care and happy crafting,
Helen xx

(Inter)national Scrapbook Day

Hi all,

Happy NSD to you all! I'm having a blast taking part in all the challenges on the Kitahloic Kits fan page, my first challenge will be up soon.

I took part in Morgyn's Tic Tac Toe challenge and came up with this page:

I will be posting a few videos over the weekend and even one where it is just me talking arrgghhh!!

I also have a video going up for The Crafty Maven Getaway. I hope everyone is having a great day.

take care,
Helen xx