Showing posts with label pocket. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pocket. Show all posts

Sunday, 9 February 2014

PTI 7th Anniversary Journaling Card

Hello everyone!

Yes, I am still alive. Not quite dead, though I haven't blogged anything or made much in over a year.

Things have been rather busy on this side of the world (well, in my little world anyway). A big news on my life would be that I bought a house!!! Long story, but it somehow happened. The house is still in development and settlement hasn't occurred so it technically isn't mine yet. They are well overdue but I think they might be another 2 months or so away.  Exciting but also daunting that I will sooner or later have a mortgage - and I just thought I'd be a bit more free now that I'd paid off the Student Loan too!

Work has been keeping me busy and I've sort of lost a bit of inspiration and motivation to make cards the last little while.

However, I did finally get myself Project Life. I had been meaning to for a long time but it is a rather expensive little thing and I thought I'd bide my time. Having a well paying job certainly helps, but being on night shift for the first time didn't help my self control and I finally caved in around 5am at work. Haha. Not to mention that was followed by clothes shopping on ASOS two weeks later on another set of night shift. Lol.

Anyway, I have been keeping up with PTI releases, but just have been quiet. I see and am thrilled that PTI is releasing things to go with pocket scrapbooking trend. Great (and bad for my wallet) because big 12x12 pages scare me. Anyway, I had done  my own first page with lots of difficulty a couple of weeks ago, so I may as well share and get in a chance to win something ;)


So yes, I cheated. I got the journaling cards from the core kit and added my little touch.


 This is my under-used SU! Fox & Friends set. I feel like I've finally put it to good use. Actually looking at this now, I feel that it would also make good background for kids' birthday cards.


And voila! This is my first ever pocket scrapbooking page. It took an awful lot of time and thought before I arrived at this. It appears that I struggle with pocket scrapbooking almost as much as the old-fashioned 12x12 page scrapbooking.

Anyway, things are going to be ridiculously busy for me the next few months now that I've started a postgraduate diploma (only till June!). Perhaps I will go back into that old habit of getting sidetracked and crafting the week before exams ;)

Thanks for coming by!

SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
{3 Monkeys Journaling Card}
PAPER: [Project Life] Midnight Core Kit, [Papertrey Ink] Summer Sunrise, Orange Zest
OTHER: [Papertrey Ink] By the Numbers die collection, Headline Alphabet die collection

{Fox & Friends Journaling Card}
STAMPS: [Stampin' Up!] Fox & Friends
INK: [Papertrey Ink] Dark Chocolate, Orange Zest, Summer Sunrise, New Leaf, Simply Chartreuse
PAPER: [Project Life] Midnight Core Kit

Thursday, 5 January 2012

Make It Monday #47

Hello everyone. I'm joining in on the latest Papertrey Ink Make It Monday. This one's just looking back at 2011 and all the different MIMs we've done and going back to what we may have missed or doing over again!
So today I made a card using Edgers die pockets from Make It Monday #23: Pockets with Edger Dies. I only started my blog a few months ago as well as participating in challenges online recently, so I missed a lot of previous MIMs. So this is a good chance for me to see what I've missed out or couldn't do at the time due to not having enough things to improvise with!

Apologies for poor photo qualities. I will be getting a DSLR once I've paid my brother off for my recent car purchase!

I made pockets with Berry Sorbet cardstock using Edgers #3 die. I chucked in a Spiral Notebook Page die cut with sentiment from Modern Wood Mats. It's a fairly simple card all in all.

I'm horrendously tired today and I'm supposed to be in ED (aka A&E) all day tomorrow (all day and all night more like), so I may hit the haystack early tonight. Thank you for coming by! :)
   
SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
STAMP: [PTI] Modern Wood Mats, Background Basics: Text Style
INK: [PTI] Fresh Snow, Spring Moss; [SU!] Early Espresso
PAPER: [PTI] Vintage Cream, Berry Sorbet, Melon Berry
OTHER: [PTI] Swiss Dot Satin Ribbon (Melon Berry), Spiral Notebook Page die, Edgers #3 die, Diamonds Impression Plate