Happy Daze at the sea-side....

This months challenge theme at Happy Daze is the beach..it couldn't have been more timely, what with the "mini heatwave" we have had.....I love how the English have mini heatwaves...basically it means 2-3 days of good warm weather!! lol.

I borrowed a friends photo of her daughter Lucie for this "Queen of the Sandcastle" layout.

The papers are Pink Paislee and the ephemera and trim are still available in the Happy Daze shop.

"Oh I do like to be beside the Seaside" is the theme for the August challenge.

You can enter in one of 3 ways:

Blog your entry and use the Linky widget here to link to your blog entry

Load to the Happy Daze Facebook Page

Sent a pic by email to info@happy-daze.net

The current challenge ends at Midnight Wednesday 31 August 2011. Any type of work based on the theme is fine. One entry will be drawn at random to win a £15.00 Gift Voucher plus free P&P for the Happy Daze shop. Maximum of 3 entries per person. Entries must use at least one product which can be purchased in the Happy Daze shop.

Love and sandcastles

Ruth xxx



Blowing Bubbles with Ben

The one thing I am always fascinated with in my little boy is that he always puts his heart and soul into figuring out exactly how things work and he never gives up.

These Websters Pages Wonderfall Collection papers combined with Ephemera from Happy Daze embrace the sort of adventurous outdoors life that boys love so much.

I added the images to fill in the white space and layered them where needed.

..and finished off the title with some bunting flags.
 The epoxy stickers are beautifully detailed and are from the Pink Paislee Butterfly Collection.

love and bubbles

Ruth xxx

Altered Tin

I found this little tin in a charity shop back in February when Georgia was in hospital, it had a vintage postcard style picture glued onto it but it had faded over the years (probably only since the late 1980's to early 1990's..lol!).

After soaking and de-greasing it I glued on the front picture taken from a Pink Paislee sheet from the Butterfly Garden Collection at Happy Daze.




The silver tassel is from Happy Daze and their current Dangly Things challenge theme along with attending a beading jewellery course inspired me to use up some bling for the top.
Thanks once again to the kind ladies at my work and my mother in law who keep on donating me their broken and unwanted jewellery.

Love and beads
Ruth xxx

FLEETING MOMENTS IN THE BUTTERFLY GARDEN

Moira from Happy Daze kindly sent me these beautiful papers by Pink Paisley called Butterfly Garden....they are truly divine.
I knew exactly what I wanted to do with them, the month before I had
picked up this old calendar from a junk shop for £2.50 and loved the nicotine stained yellowed days, numbers and months immediately, but they contrasted with the green 1980's style country calendar.
I endevoured to alter it into something worthy of such lovely old dates.

After researching some butterfly poems I settled on calling it Fleeting Moments which is also what time is made of.

I stitched the ribbon into a circle to make the flower and added the 3 pearl beads with wire.


All the papers, additional layers and alphabet stickers have been mod podged so that I can wipe it clean as it will probably live in the kitchen.

I just love the whimsical feel to these papers!

Gesso and acrylic paint for the visible wooden bits turned it from this.............into the finished product.

Love and junk

Ruth xxx

Pretty papers capturing the end of summer....

Alas winter has fallen from the sky with a thud.....Autumn passes us by in a week.

Is it because we aren't American that we don't get the pleasure of a lingering season, and we are punished with the cold winds from the North Pole the minute summer has finished?

And so it was with great joy that I scrapped with these "sweetness" papers by Pink Paislee from Happy Daze..

Who needs cold dull Autumn when you can remember what the English call "the back end of summer" (not the most polite way to put it!!)

I simply used a marker to pen to write on the photo the place and date. (for my local friends it is the supersized deck-chair at Butlins holiday camp!).

Love and sunshine

Ruth xxx

B.E.W.A.R.E......

Halloween is around the corner and that means hiding in your house and turning all the lights off!!

Do you think my banner will frighten away any undesirables?

With it's mean looking Pumpkins...lol

...and scary skeletons



Creepy spiders....





........and flying bats!!

I did have fun making it though...or should I say "we" because Ben thinks it's his as he chose the Pumpkin stickers.

The mini papers by Pink Paislee are called Hocus Pocus and you get 30 in a pad for less than a fiver from Happy Daze.

Love and peel-off bats

Ruth xxx