Extreme Makeover!

A couple of weeks ago I purchased a 7Gypsies printer tray to alter (photos to follow soon). I really enjoyed altering it so I started looking on ebay for a real printers tray. After losing my first bid I bought a buy it now one for £30. My sister then wanted one so went browsing around all the junk shops. She found this one man who said he had some and would sell them for £10 each to us, but he could not remeber where they were stored! He turned up at my sisters the next day with 4 trays (we had to get one for Paige and our other crafty friend, and of course I thought id have another one for that bargin price!). They are original trays so we could not believe the bargin price.

We spent all day yesterday scrubbing with methalayted spirit, woodworm treatment and bees wax polish to try and restore these beautiful trays.

Here they are before we started work on them.

They now look great and ready to use! I will post some more photos later. This project is definately going to take a while, we are all bidding all over ebay for vintage stuff to use in them!

If you have any ideas or links to printer trays you have altered please let me know. There are a lot of little holes to fill!!

Thanks for looking

Sam x

WCC challenge

This weeks Scrap with us challenge from the Wight Craft Circle blog is

Scrap your family

Here is my LO

The photos were taken last week on Easter sunday. I used My minds eye, penny lane papers and stamps and the gorgous new Jillibean soup corragated alphas (expensive but so lush!). I scrap lifted the LO from Scrapbook trends spring 2010 magazine

It was our monthly crop yesterday and I got 2 more LO's done aswell.

This is a photo of my Dad last week on his birthday wearing his new Ben Sherman scooter t shirt we bought him.

I don't know what the paper is as I have had it for sooo long. This is another sort of scrap lift from the same mag but I have added a pull out tab which is attached to the top chipboard bracket and pulls out from behind the journalling card. My Dad's going through chemo treatment at the moment and I wanted to write something about that but didn't want it on display for everyone to see.

This is my now, teenage son, taken on his birthday a couple of weeks ago.
The PP is prima, Dude collection and the stamp which matched perfectly is stamps away.
If you want to play along with our weekly challenge use the link to our WCC blog in the top right hand corner.
Thanks for looking,
Sam x

WCC Scrap with us wk 6

This weeks Wight Craft Circles challenge is

Lace and stamps

This is my LO

This is a photo of my Grandparents.

The PP is my trusty Costco and some October afternoon. I got the lace from a local haberdashery for 50p and I made the crochet flowers (yes!!!Made!) from some very fine crochet wool my sister and I picked up yesterday from a jumble sale. The flourish stamps are Basic grey, journal stamp is PM and alpha stamps are see D's.

It's not finished yet as I need to find out the date of Grandparents wedding.

Thanks for looking

Sam x

WCC challenge

This is last weeks WCC challenge, scrap from the sketch

I used scrap papers for this challenge, a range of cosmo cricket and kaisercraft (I think!), Chipboard flower and bird and little embellishment i have no idea where they are from.

I took this photo when we went for a walk to Newtown nature reserve. The boat house was really old and falling apart but had a lot of charm.

Thanks for looking

Sam x

New LO's

It has been a very hectic couple of weeks so I am late posting these.

This is a photo of me cooking xmas lunch. I used my new papers from Cosmo Cricket-material girl, basic grey and thicker alphas, ribbon, 7 gypsies journalling card and a journal spot that Paige gave me.

This is my husband on xmas day with the house brick I gave him. No Im not joking, that was his prezzie! Ok theres a bit more to it...I bought him an engraved brick in the wall of the stadium of light (sunderlands footie ground). As the brick can't be removed from the stadium wall I wrote the engraved message on a house brick to give him...he was confussed untill he unwrapped the certificate!
PP is making memories falala, auntie sarahs bloomers, ticket, ribbon and a journal spot printed off the computer.

This was my surprise birthday dinner my sister did for me. I have no idea what the PP is as I got it from the lovely ladies at the retreat. The title was cut on my slice.
This is my LO for the WCC challenge, use 4 photos.

Photo of my Dad and my son on Dads lambretta, before they set off for the ride out. PP and die cuts are Fancypants rough and tough, chipboard arrow, Autumn leaves talking in circles stamp and clear plastic ribbon with arrows on.

A photo from the 1st WCC retreat. PP, die cuts and stamps are october afternoon
alphas are MM, adornit and doodlebug, buttons and bloom.

This is my document 2010 mini book. I didn't want to do a whole album as my life is just not that interesting!

Front two pages

I made 12 envelopes from Kraft paper, one for each month. I am keeping some memrobilia to put in the envelopes but I am also writing a letter every month about what I have done, how I am feeling etc.

I have a page for photos, the envelope.....

...then the back of the envelope for a calender tag and another larger photo and then another page for a list of events that month.

The months were cut out on Paiges cricut

And thats all for the moment. I will be working on this weeks WCC challenge tomorrow (Paige!!) and will hopefully get it posted on the WCC blog.

If you would like to take part in the challenge pop over to our blog, link at top of page.

Thanks for looking x

New Stash

I got my new Cosmo cricket papers yesterday and loved the one with the veg on! My son has an allotment with his grandad so I knew that I had this photo somewhere. Its not a great photo as it was taken by grandad (not with a scrappers eye!).

PP is Cosmo Cricket Garden variety, Journal card and stickers are October afternoon. I painted a little chipboard apple and turned it into a tomato and painted the chipboard letters and glossy accented them. I finished it off with garden string.

This is my LO for our WCC weekly challenge, scrap with us. This week was

Flowers, leaves or trees

and I have managed to use all 3.

PP is Cosmo Cricket, early bird, serendipity sunshine lollipop.October afternoon journal card, some flowers, ribbon and buttons and a chipboard tree from Riffraff.

If you want to join our challenge click on the link in the top right corner, then post a comment so we can have a look at your challenge LO.

Thanks for looking x

Scrap with us

Over on our Wight craft circle blog we are running a weekly challenge. Paige and I have been disscussing this for a while as we really miss Shimmels scrap like you mean it. We found that challenge a really good way of inspiring us to scrap at least one LO a week.

So we have come up with our own list of 52 challenges. A new challenge will be posted every monday over on the WCC blog (link in top right corner of this blog).

The first weeks was

Be musical

and here is my LO, all about my lovely ipod i got for xmas!

The second challenge is now up and is

Flowers, trees or leaves

Feel free to join in this challenge, just leave us a comment on the WCC blog with a link to your blog so we can come and have a nosey at your LO's!

Thanks for looking x