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I have been busy scrapbooking of late.   Here is a page featuring myself when I was a baby.  I used a craft kit with embellishments cut out from printed pages.  This is not my preferred method as I like using separate stickers and tags, however I think the effect is rather good.

Also pictured is one of my favourite toys at the time, an inflatable elephant (naturally) called Nelly.   I have written about this in the hidden journalling panel where the mini cut out folder is.  I like to use hidden journalling because sometimes too much text can overwhelm a scrapbook page, and yet at the same time I still want to preserve a particular memory.

I have grown up a lot since this photo was taken - in fact I’m not in black and white anymore

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I needed to make a birthday card for a teenage cousin and didn’t have a lot of time. I decided against embossing, fancy ink work, or rubber stamping and just used stickers and coloured pencils.

To make this card:

1. Take a standard card. I used a nice cream coloured one, and turn to ‘landscape’.
2. Using a ready cut frame (you can buy these or cut them out from card yourself if you are good at fiddly stuff!), attach 3D foam pads and carefully line up, and stick to the card at about the centre.
3. Now comes the really easy part just stick on: two corner stickers to the top corners (I used epoxy stickers), 3 flower sticks in the spaces allowed by the frame (as the flower stickers were larger than the frame they sat on top of the frame, which I think looks good), a Happy Birthday peel off (I used a cocktail stick to hold the peel off before positioning it), 5 equally spaced peel offs and a couple of tiny glitter flower sticks (place on the lower third of the card.
4. Colour in the spaces on the 5 equally spaced peel offs with coloured pencils (to match the flower stickers). Be careful and don’t press down too hard.

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