I want to tell my Two Peas Story

I have been itching to share the news I had this week.

I am officially a member of the new creative digital team on 2Peas. I am so lucky to be working with not only Shimelle and the Bakers Dozen but these fine ladies as well.

(Does a little happy dance in my corner of the UK)

Check out the announcement and I hope to share some more hybrid and digi layouts real soon.

The inaugural Two Peas Digital Creative Team :


Alice Wertz : Alice W
Audrey Neal : aneal
Barb Hogan : Barb Hogan
Christie Jurgens : chrispy_314
Christina Smith : soaring2him
Jennifer Hignite : mom2dylanNdrew
Holly Koenigsfeld : Holly Koenigsfeld
Iara Gomes-Bae : baersgarten
Janelle Miller : janellemllr
Karen Cole : coley k
Kathy Racoosin : kathyrac
Kerry Stewart : Busy.Butterfly
Lucy Abrams : Lucy Abrams
Mary Jo Johnston : mj.johnston
Mary Rogers : SuperiorPea
Cheryl Manz Ametewee : Cheryl Manz Ametewee
Nicole LeBlanc : NicoleLeBlanc
Raven Edwards : flossiemae
Vanessa Matthyssen : Maithe
Wilna Furstenberg : Wilna


Congratulations ladies! Thanks Two Peas and I am also happy and looking forward to beginning this new journey with you!

Ages and Stages

Here is my last post for the day, Ages and Stages.





The 2Peas digi/hybrid challenge was to journal around a shape. Does round the treee and round the rectangle count? The fun is in the making, right?

Digi papers and elements came from HERE - Travel Journal and from HERE - The Long and Winding Road Kit.

I love the acorns on this page. They came from a Anna Griffin kit, I split up the layered embellishment to make it stretch that bit further!

Captains Travel Log 2009

This photo of me was taken at Universal Studio's. (If you've been it was at the waterside near the giant globe.

If you know me, you will know that I dont do suntans, I am very pale and hide myself in the shade at every opportunity. So here I am in 92 degree heat, in a cardigan. Having taken off my glasses for a photo, I have to shade my eyes from the sun and end up looking like I am saluting. Duh.

And so the aye, aye captain jokes started!


The layout itself combines a technique as highlighted by 2Peas. Its a challenge to tint your photos and add them to your layout. Once I electronically made them black and white I was able to tint in blue and pink and added them to my project.

This is a little hybrid layout. It combines elements from Shimellles digi and printables kits>

The travel log and Day Seven token are from HERE - Travel Journal

The background papers are from HERE - The Long and Winding Road Kit.






I like the hybrid version of this challenge as you dont have to stray too far away from paper and glue to get a little bit more techincal with your layouts. It's also fun to play with the colours on your pictures.

2Peas Challenge - A project Inspired from a DVD or CD case

OK, here is a little hybrid challenge that I took on board.

I used Shimelles The Long and Winding Road Mini kit to create this card.


My inspiration came from here:




Its my artistic interpretation (gotta love that term) of the cover. I created boxes or areas using the papers to mimic the photos and then added some other items in lieu of the text and logos.

Pretty papers just waiting to be dressed up. The set makes wonderful cards and projects. x

Meercats

I know its an advert that you either love or hate, but I couldnt resist the title! I am not entirely sure that my sense of humour transfers well to cyberworld, but hey, it made me chuckle!



In Busch Gardens we whiled away a few hours looking at the animals, I am a sucker for a good zoo and conservation centre. They had an amazing open meercate warren and I was able to get some fab photos with a zoom lens.

I stuck to the crossword theme as pre empted by the SC papers. When I finished my layout, it hung around in my room for a day or two while I decided what to do with the left hand edge. It was a bit plain and needed some extra ooomph. This was my starter for ten. I always find the first project of the day is a little hard to get in to, I also confess to having a moment with the stamping on the title area too!

The Martha Stewart chequerboard punch came to my resuce and the rest as they say is history. (Simples!)

I also had a little play with some of the journalling cards from an old SC kit and made this very candy coloured birthday card.

Studio Calico Old Kits

I confess to having a (small) backlog of kits to get through. Sometimes I throw caution to the wind (!) and pull one out randomly and try my best to work through it so there is nothing left.

This weekend I have been having a lttle play with March 09. Here are a few projects to share with you....

My first is a card on which I have also used some stamps from this months Unity Stamps KOTM. Who can resist a little sock monkey?!





Here is a layout of a photo of Megan I took earlier in the year. This is one of those two stage layouts created over two days. It started off quite angular and square. On day two it morphed into something with waves and circles. In the end I threw lots of brads at the lines as well to give it some ooomph. My favourite thing about this page is that the circle started off as a beige colour. I added some blue mist which changed the feel of the page completely.





My final layout is one of Molly and Grace mucking about in my MIL's garden, I love the cute smiles captured on the girls faces.
Mostly stuff from the March kit, with the addition of a letterpress card from PaperSource and a few chipboard clocks. I even used some of the product packaging on this layout too.





I'm off to London for some Christmas shopping for the rest of the day and to the O2 to see Michael McIntyre. The small camera is on charge and there is an Anthropolgie in Regent Street that I must visit. Hope to update with some pictures tomorrow.

(Edited so you can see the pictures - rather than squinting as they are so small)

Hambly on your Wall

I am in love with these Hambly Wall Art Transfers. Apparently they have been designed so not to ruin the surface you put them on.

I am hankering after the Roccoco frame. Sadly I havent got a spare inch of wall in my craft room so I will have to figure out a)where I can put it b)how I can convince DH that it dosent look too feminine!

Check out the lovelies in the Hambly online shop HERE