Leavers day celebrations

Thought I'd share a few pics with you from my boy's Leavers day Parade. He had his prom tonight! Can't believe he's left school, really hitting home now. Anyway here they are - 

Can't believe how grown up Keagan looks here!

Posing next to the car he arrived in (a friend's very posh BMW)

Can you tell how proud I am!!

Boys!

Keagan and his 2 friends he's walked to school with since day 1.

One of Keagan's best mates and their tutor. Ms Allan has been an amazing support to me and Keagan during his time at Somervale. 

This is Keagan's oldest friend, Rhia. They met at playschool!!

Sinead and Keagan. A girl after my own heart. Loving her blue hair!! 

Keagan with Joe and Sam who happen to be twins! Really. Obviously not identical!!

So there you go. A peek into my personal world for once. 

Enjoy your weekend.

Take care Zo xx

WOYWW 314

Good day desk dashers!

I'm here to share my desk as per our wonderful leader Julia's rules so here we are - 

Stuff lying around - papers, printed embellishments and card.

This is how I left it last night, trying to decide which paper to use as a background in my album

I'm now adding photos from after Wembley from when we went to the Rovers ground for the celebrations. Now I know many of you may have missed my post re my pages to do with the crop so you can find them HERE

SO that's me. Short & sweet. Bit like me eh?! 

Take care Zo xx

Male cards at Crafty Boots!

Good afternoon everyone.

I'm back to share my Crafty Boots DT project which involves anything male-related. As it's Father's Day later in the month I've made a card for my dad.

I've created this design in Craft Artist Pro and printed onto watercolour card which works well with such inky designs. Once printed I've added some glossy details. I've deliberately chosen to do this project to show how you can still create a fabulous design while keeping everything totally flat. Perfect to keep those postage costs down!!

Hope you'll have fun coming up with any male projects you like to join in. Pop over to our blog to link up!

Take care Zo xx

The Album - WOYWW pages

Good afternoon!

I'm back to share a few more of my pages from my birthday week album. This time it's the pages featuring the WOYWW crop!!

As a double spread.

I confess these photos were taken by LLJ's husband, Gordon, who takes wonderful photos.

I've added a bit of journalling to detail the day. The doily reminds me of cake!

As you can see it's not all flat.

I took selfies!! Lol

Another doily and I found my large letters so added the WOYWW. 

Across both.

You'll notice throughout my album that I mat and layer my photos depending on what I want to stand out of the photo. In these selfies I want our faces to be the main focus so I mat them onto light pink. If I didn't the blue and black would be prominent. However as we go through you'll notice different colour mats. So keep an eye out. I learnt this trick from a scrapbooking show on tv.

I really didn't realise what a difference the colour of the mats make till I tried it myself. 

Let me know what you think! I'm working on the pages that show my trip to Wembley now!

Take care Zo xx

WOYWW 313 - an album to share

Well hello desk dashers and all who else pops by. You are very welcome!

Am linking up with Julia at her desk (Stamping Ground) to share mine -

So right side shows my typewriter under sheets of printed embellishments. I often print then add glossy accents, stickles or crackle to create my own accents for projects. Especially albums or Smash books where I don't want too many bulky items. And of course, there's my pens. 

My Wembley tickets waiting to be included in my album on top of Dylusions stamps. You can also see my Ebosser and my Pogo printer. That wooden storage block (left) is what I was given at the WOYWW crop for my birthday. Made by our Julia! It's perfect for all my bits and bobs.

Photos. Lots of them. All from my birthday week ready to go in my album I am creating. 

I shared the start of said album in a post HERE

I was going to blog another post to share the next pages, but I thought nah let's do it here!

So here's the next double spread detailing my actual birthday.  

Spot of journalling, selfie and other pics. 

More pics of presents and cards

Inside the main cover I've added this introduction it tells exactly what I did during my birthday week. I added these gorgeous embellishments. 

Here's the full page. I love how it looks and that girl image is from Some Odd Girl. I actually only used half the image. Only wanted her top half. Coloured her to be a bit like me! Lol 

Right that's me; I'm working on the pages that share our WOYWW crop. I have so many photos and things to include. Will share next time! 

Take care Zo xx

Starting my album...

So you all know it was my 40th birthday a couple of weeks ago, and it turned out to be a very memorable week. I celebrated my birthday with friends, family, WOYWW desk dashers and at Wembley with Bristol Rovers. 

At the WOYWW crop many said I should do something to document that week. A few years ago I bought an album from Paperchase. It is a decent size with black pages. I decided I would use this album so I set about designing a cover for it. The black and white flag design wasn't quite right! So here's some pictures of what I've done so far - 

This is the original cover design.

This is the cover I've designed. It's a mixture of digital & paper. I've included some photos from my birthday, my actual birthday badge is now stuck onto the front. The letters are from a Dylusions set. I coloured them with a blue Copic then covered with Mod Podge clear to finish. I had fun with glossy accents too.

It's hard to see the various layers and textures I've added. 

I've used Craft Artist Pro to do any digital work. I intend to mix actual papers and embellishments with those I've printed. Here's my first page. It's shows the meal out I had with my best friends.  

Again a mix of digital and paper. There's washi tape, a doily and accents. I used a white pen to journal. 

I love spectacles and buttons and often use them as accents to pages. Words too. 

I'm looking forward to filling the album with photos of the week, I'll include my tickets from Wembley and will add ATC's from the crop too. There are a lot of pages so I can fill it to bursting to create an album of wonderful memories! 

I will share the pages over the following weeks as I do them.

That's it for now.

Take care Zo 

WOYWW 312 - special edition!

Well it's here - the 6th anniversary of our wonderful WOYWW, Julia has brought so many people together with her idea of us all sharing our desks regularly. I may not get here every week, but boy do I enjoy it when I do. I've made online friends and some of those have now become real friends. That's what makes this special.

Right my desk - 

So there's stuff! Under the blue ink is an album I bought from Paperchase ages ago. It's for scrapbooking, has black pages and is perfect for me to document my 40th birthday week so I've started gathering bits for the cover and deciding how to go about it all.

Window side - there's papers and an image ready to make my niece's birthday card and those boxes?! Well I'm very excited. I picked up this beauty from my local charity shop. It's a Polaroid Pogo. A mini printer that you can print 2 x 3 inch photos with and it's a Zink product (Zero ink). I've wanted either one of these or one of those cameras that prints pics but couldn't afford one. These pics are perfect for Smash books and scrapbooking. And the paper is photo but with peel and stick backs! Couldn't believe my eyes when I saw this for £15. (They're normally anything between £30 - £50). Took me a while to suss how to send pics from my phone but I got there and it works beautifully. Very happy Zoe! 

Now I wanted to share this pic with you of my Fundraising page I was finally well enough to go to the bank to pay in the money raised from the WOYWW crop plus extras as I sold a couple bits kindly donated too. So earlier I made the donation. I want to THANK everyone who went to the crop for your generosity and kindness. To have raised this amount by the end of May is absolutely amazing. I'm over the moon as you can imagine. This money will help so many people who have any of the Hypermobility syndromes including Ehlers-Danlos Hypermobility like me. 

 Okay so that's me for now - I'm off to link up. I do have some extra ATCs to share as well as my * one so let me know if you'd like one leaving your email so I can contact you!

Take care Zo xx