Dolly's Dreamings

Gorgeous new releases

It's the release of the new Berry Big Deals at Pickleberrypop today and oh my the colours are so utterly gorgeous. I love them and they all coordinate.

 

Remeber I get these for free in order to promote them as part of the creative team

 

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Big Dreams Bundle by Fayette Designs
You can get the entire collection for just $8 through Friday. That's a 79%
Discount!

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Wildflower BBD Bundle by Bellisae Designs

 

 

 

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Free Spirit Bundle by TirAmisu Designs

 

 

 

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Do Your Thing Bundle by Chunlin Designs

 

 

 

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Small Joys Bundle by Lorie M

 

 

 

Kim thank you or your lovely comments and you sked about flair. Yes they are the little round embellishments. Think small badge/buttons without the pins int hem. They do add a bit of bulk but not oo much and they fit very easily into page protectors. Adam, who runs the company, is here in the UK but he has lot of customers int he USA. Several of the new design team are also in America and Canada. The web site is DOTTY ABOUT FLAIR and that should be a clickable link  and there is also a fabulous facebook group called Dotty About Flair full of ideas and such a happy community

 

Exciting News

I am so thrilled I can share my exciting news at last - it has been so hard keeping it quiet.

I am one of the new 2022 Design Team over at Dotty About Flair.

 

I have been a huge fan of flair for a long time now, since Natalie started DAF, and my obsession has gown plus the DAF group on facebook is such a lovely friendly happy and supportive community. I am thrilled to be working with Adam and so many other talented scrappers. It's a whole new thing and I am very excited.

 

 

 

So watch this space.

 

I have some new pages to share that I have made today that - as it happens - include flair of course. And they are also for various challenges at Under the Influence of Scrappy Adam, Scrap a Sketch and Scrap Squad

 

 

 

 

I have also made another page using Paige Evans Splendid which I was given as part of my Design Team work for A Trip Down Memory Lane

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• people believing in me ... I am actually a very simple scrapper and blessed to be on the design team for three companies I have huge respect and admiration for; Dotty About Flair, A Trip Down Memory Lane  and Pickleberrypop

(all of those are now clickable links to the companies themselves)

 

A 'SPLENDID' day

The title refers to scrapping, which I will come to. Today was an odd job day. We started off buying Nigel's Apple watch. It has taken me three months to convince him to get one. Finally!

Then we went to Hobbycraft as I had a voucher to spend and went to Haskins to enquire about our dead bamboo. They offer a guarantee on plants and as this was over £80 and it has died already we wanted a refund. They assured us - didn't really want to see the photos we took - it wasn't dead but poorly and would come back to life. They asked us to give it a chance for another few weeks. We are not convinced but will wait and see.

Other than that we have been sat in the garden and I have been scrapping.

My free design team kit from A Trip Down Memory Lane was a selection of papers from Paige Evans new range, Splendid. (Now the title makes sense!)

One of the papers was a gorgeous floral wreath which I wanted to use, but I scrap largely A4 and so had to do some creative cutting. And it means I have flowers left over. Result.

 

 

 

 

 

and I also made this page from out trip to Burley a week ago

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful that

• Nigel has an apple watch at last
• that I have nice DT stuff to play with

and these made me smile ... cat owners will understand

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A couple of glorious days

We have had a couple of beautiful days. Yesterday we walked round Creekmore Lakes and the light was gorgeous and then, a complete surprise, my lovely cousin Ann turned up as she was visiting from 'oop north' and so we spent a lovely time with her.

 

 

Whilst she was here and we were all sat enjoying lunch and the sunshine on the balcony, the contractors working on the heath had a bit of a to do with our wall and the upshot is we have to have a new wall! Thankfully not at our expense but still tedious to have to have it done.

 

Today we went for a walk to the bluebell woods which was lovely and then I have largely been scrapping.

 

 

 

 

 

I had a lovely selection of Vicki Bourtin Sugar Rush papers given to me in order to promote them as part of my design team work and these are four of the pages. The papers are bright for me but I did enjoy using them.

And two of them are photos from today!!

This was from today

 

 

 

 

 

and this

 

 

 

 

 

 

and these two from photos earlier in the month

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What a difference a week makes

Just a week ago we were in tee shirts enjoying ice-cream on the beach. This morning, after a very early start, we were wrapped up warm on the beach in 2 degrees. But it was stunning down there, clear and crisp and bright and I couldn't live anywhere else.

 

 

 

 

I have some scrapping to share and 30 minute painting (actually it was 28 minutes but heck - I was just playing around)

 

A gorgeous retro van from Winchester

 

 

 

 

another day at the beach in March (yes we do go a lot - yes I DO need it!)

 

 

 

 

and whoops - another beach!

 

 

I made a total of 72 pages in March bringing my total for 2022 up to 227 which I am quite chuffed with. I managed to complete all of the 30 days of sketches challenges along with many other challenges from a variety of sites. I do wish I wasn't quite as addicted to challenges as I am but heck - it is at least using up some of the stash.

 

I have a couple of pages made today too, they were using the gorgeous new Simple Stories Simply Vintage Indigo Garden and made for challenges and as part of my DT work for A Trip Down memory lane

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• the beach
• the fact that we have now cancelled a project we had doubts about. As it happened we were right to have those doubts. All is well that ends well
• Central heating in this cold but Lord knows how much it is going to cost us.

 

 

A Trip Down Memory Lane day today

I am very very lucky to be on the design team for A Trip Down Memory Lane

I am very proud to have been working with Mel and Jill for some 15 years (with a break for a few years when life became crazy) and they are just so wonderful to work with. In return for creating class pages they send me wonderful goodies to creat the classes with and also send me Design Team goodies so I can showcase new products they stock. They have a facebook group and a blog too.

I have spent today making class pages with a whole new selection of goodies and obviously, I am NOT going to share those, but I can now share the class pages from December using wonderful Graphic 45 papers and stickers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Do go and check the store out.

Yesterday we had a wonderful day out. we did a treasure trail in Gosport...  place I had never visited. And it was freezing cold but such bright sunshine my nose was sunburnt! Gorgeous day to be out. They said it was a two mile trail - we ended up walking almost 5 miles and no - we didn't do a lot of backtracking!

These are a few photos from the day

View across the Solent to the Spinnaker Tower

 

 

a beautiful Georgian street we walked down

 

 

 

 

 

and some other scrapping - my first 2022 page

 

 

and I still have some 2021 photos on my pile to scrap so this is one of those

 

Today I am thankful for

• working for Mel and Jill - it is a real privilege
• my new Apple Watch - I am loving it

 

 

 

A Design team sort of day

I am starting to feel a bit better and am a happy girl this morning as I can share something I have been excited about.

 

I was so thrilled to be asked to be a guest designer for Dotty About Flair for the special Happy Holiday event running all month.  Owned by the utterly amazing Adam Westwood, Dotty About Flair has to be the home of the greatest flair in the scrapbooking world. Adam makes all the flair himself and each month there are quite literally dozens and dozens of new flair released. They are always shipped so beautifully packages and nothing is too much trouble for him. But even more than that the Dotty about Flair facebook group is a really fun, vibrant and supportive community so if you are one of my many scrapping friends and you haven't checked it - go do so NOW! And I know I have American readers too - he ships world wide and lots of American and Canadian friends are regular members.

 

I have to do a bit of a shout out for Adam too as I genuinely believe he is a real gem for the scrapping community. He is a huge supporter of small independent businesses and regularly promotes them in his own groups. He is an excellent scrapper (look for Scrappyadam on You tube, Instagram etc) and he is one of the nicest most genuine people I have come across. He is one of those special people - a genuinely good guy. So putting all of that together you can see why I was so thrilled.

In the interests of transparency I need to state that I was given flair free of charge as a guest designer to promote the flair.

The Happy Holidays event has also been running in conjunction with Scrap a Sketch 

I used today's promote of diagonal design, snowflakes and a large title of more than four words, alongside the sketch, to make my page and, like so many of my pages, it included Flair of course

 

 

 

 

 

I am also sharing my CT work this week for Pickleberrypop (again I am given the kits for free to play with and promote as part of their creative team)

 

It is Berry Big Deal week and the collections are awesome and all snowy and winter and snuggly. These are 4 collections I worked with this week.

 

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Wintry BBD by Heather T

 

 

 

 

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December BBD Bundle by Natali Designs

 

 

 

 

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December Hygge Bundle by TirAmisu Designs

 

 

 

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White Winter Dream BBD by Chunlin Designs

 

 

I have daily pages too but will leave those until tomorrow

 

Today I am thankful for

• being a part of the guest design team at Dotty About Flair
• being a permanent CT member at Pickleberrypop
• feeling a bit better
• Finally finding the cat litter we use - you have no idea how thankful for that. Think toilet paper shortage then feline it!

 

 

More of Vicky Boutin Fernwood

I have loved my DT kit this month from A Trip Down Memory Lane.

I had great fun today fussy cutting like no tomorrow.

The papers are beautiful but I needed them to work in the way I wanted

 

 

 

 

 

 

And this one had to be cut up into different bits to work for A4 but it was fun

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• a quiet day with a walk and scrapping
• lovely DT stuff to play with

 

Today has been better

Yesterday - for all sorts of reasons - wasn't a great day. Today has been much better.

 

We had a trip out to Christchurch to run an errand we needed to do and then had a wander around which was nice. And I have had a scrappy afternoon which is always good.

 

I have been working with my November Design Team kit from ATDML - it is Vicky Boutin Fernwood and is lush lush lush

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• a better day
• wandering
• scrapping
• DT kits - lucky girl

A bit of scrapping

The good news is the cats are still OK. We are hoping and praying that will continue and we will be out of this state of permanent worry. The numbers reported on the RVC site are still rising - up almost another 100 today on Friday's figures. The worst thing is not knowing if they are still at risk though they have stopped the food. We are hoping not.

 

I have been scrapping the last couple of days and have even made a start on the holiday.

 

This one of Caernarfon was using a Scrap Squad sketch

 

 

The was for my Dolly's Dastardly Dare - it uses all the things I hate about making a page - so I felt I had to do it as I set it.

 

a beach selfie from the holiday

These three pages are for my DT work for ATDML using the wonders mini swatch book and Simple Stories Sunkissed

 

 

 

 

 

The first of many Portmeirion pages

 

 

 

 

 

and just a little bit of stamping on this one!

 

 

 

 

Another little seaside town - and another scrap squad sketch

 

 

and Portmeirion at night

Today I am thankful for

• the cats still being well
• a nice quiet time at home.

 

 

A little bit of normal

It is taking a  while but life is slowly slowly getting back to being a little tiny bit normal.

Yesterday we went for a walk to Longham Lakes which was lovely and then - shock of shocks - we went out to eat, to a restaurant. First time since September. We went to pizza express and went at 3.00 pm as we figured we would be the only ones as it was too late for lunch and too early for dinner. We were the only ones in their outside area. It was warm enough and oh my goodness the pizza was delicious. Let's be honest- it is just nice to have something you haven't cooked yourself.

I was going to take a photo as I was so excited but I was so excited when the food came I forgot!!! It was THAT good.

 

 

Then today we went to Lyme Regis - still in our own county. I have only been twice and so it felt new and like we were on holiday. We had a lovely walk and then - shock of shocks - we had lunch on the beach at a cafe - and yes - forgot to take that too!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The remains of dinner!!

 

 

 

 

and a little scrapping for ATDML using the new Vicki Boutin Colour Study which is way way brighter than I would normally use but I kind of like it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today I am thankful for

• little bits of normal - for the first time this week we ate out (twice) and I didn't wash the shopping!
• beautiful places and perfect company
• Nigel getting his second jab tomorrow