Hobbies and Crafts

Thank you for the good wishes Linda, I found once I had started and provided I kept it simple, as I said like a decorated photo album, I couldn't leave it until it was finished.

Thanks for the info re Sissix and cuttlebug.

I think October and November are going to be manic here with cards and scrap book to do!!

Seems along time since we chatted about our crafts, but do a fair amount of crafting according to other threads....lol....so here is a good place to share our hobbies... like Ann said the months leading up to christmas are usually the busiest, like most other folk cards are the favourite occupation, I am well into sorting a selection of christmas cards, as I am sure many others are so it would be nice to hear about them and perhaps swap photos and tips...look forward to hear from you all...

love Jean xx

A very basic album....using old childrens books, the ones with hard(thick) pages. Cover each page with gloss paint (takes a while and each page must be dry), thin fabric or coloured card. Then stick photo's and decorate. Doing one each for grandchildren, photo's from birth. Mines not very neat but you can be as posh as you like. Some of the card is abit thick so can't close book now, but that does'nt matter, the g/children are only 3yrs old:o))

jude xx

Altered books Jude. Sounds like fun, only problem I think my Grandchildren are too old for board books. I hae to get going on second eldest grandson's scrap book as he will be 21 in December, then there are christmas cards and we have a lot of birthdays in October/November so birthday cards to make, then there is a long weekend away (Our Golden wedding gift from the family, then a week in Cyprus. There are not enough days left.

I wonder how Scatty (Jan) is getting on. She was moving house so i wonder if she has internet access, I expect she and Sarah will return to us soon.
Thank you jean for bringing this back to the top, don't like to keep doing it myself.

I have not done any scrapping in ages though I did buy 4 mini chipboard books including papers and embelishments in T*e W**ks the other day...a bargain at 99p each. I am thinking of making them into albums of our grandchildren to give as extra little Christmas presents. I have never attempted to do this before so heaven knows how they will turn out lol.

Lovely to see the thread back by the way it just may give me the inspiration I really need.

Linda x

I'm pleased to see that this thread has kept going - not that I do scrapbooking, but I do make cards, which carries with it a very similar obsession with paper, card, and bits 'n' pieces! Keep up teh good work all!

hi, all I have just made a floral christmas tree card,it is one of Anna Marie,s templates, makes a change from a traditional one... if you havent seen her cards, just google the name Anna Marie designs, they are amazing ...

Jean x

Thanks Jean, just about to start making some cards this afternoon. It is too dark today to take photos but I have not forgotten.

Gerrybear, stay with us. I started with cards and progressed to scrapping. Doing both I amass a trmendous amount of bits of paper and other bits.

I posted a commnet on here a couple of days ago, and it's vanished! Anyway, well done all crafters on here. I'm actually a card maker, rahter than being into scrapbooks, but it still involves pretty papers and 'bits'. : )

Thanks for the welcome, Ann. I can see where scrapbooking and family trees are connected, though, and MAYBE one day I'll do something involving both, you never know. Trouble is, I have way too many hobbies already!

I think we are all the same and this time of year it all catches up with me. But yes, I love the scrap book I did of my family tree. And it is surprising how the things you use on cards transfer easily to scrapping.

There are some good Christmas card ideas in the Quick cards made easy magazine November edition number 80.

Ann, many thanks for your pics the cards are lovely , I have only just had a look, I have been busy putting some of mine in cello bags, so they can be seen easily...I have another scrap book to start soon, so want the carrds to be done before then, thanks again.

love Jean xx

Sent you another one today did you get it?

Yes thanks Ann, its very much like a template I recieved off Anna Marie Designs, so I will save it for summer time I think, but I do love bird cages and boxes, you can do so much with them, good on you...

love Jean xx

Hello everyone and hi gerrybear from another obsessive who loves papers etc lol.

Arrived home today after spending a few days in Whitby, Yorkshire....it is well over 40 years since we were over on the east coast and we just loved it.

We travelled home via Goathland, Aidensfield in Heartbeat...so sad to think the series is no more.

I have taken loads of photos to scrap which have surprisingly turned out pretty good for my standard lol. Now I can't wait to get started...just need to order some ink cartridges and find some spare time!

We found a craft shop in Whitby Shambles indoor market and of course I just had to buy more stash! Sarah if you are looking in my newly bought stash included 2 12x12 Tim Holtz paper pads...how could I resist lol.

Linda x

glad you liked it Jean.

Linda, always improves a holiday when you find a craft shop or two doesn't it?

I made eleven cards today (Christmas) so feeling quite pleased with myself.

Phew, I made 13 cards today. I have made several cards this year using my photos, used to do this a lot but hadn't for a few years, it made a change.

Still making Christmas cards, made 16 today. Really have to start Grandsons scrap book soon.

Does anyone else find that some of the Christmas greeting peel offs break as you try to take them off the sheet?