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Don’t be afraid..

Happy Easter Everyone!

Sooo could get use to this Easter Eggs in bed for breakfast malarky!!! Although the kids made a right ole mess!

I had a nice night last night creating this page…Think I’m a little addicted to this Art Journaling…..

Thankyou for all your lovely comments on yesterdays post, I loved receiving each one, you are all so sweet and made me a very happy girl 🙂

Fingers crossed, I have a little sneaky time for scrapbooking later today, so there may be a possible layout to show you tomorrow!

Nibbling on Easter eggs, happy happy happy kids and Scrapbooking…..Good Times!


Art Journaling in Super Sonic Speed!!!

Wanna see me make this Art Journal page in super sonic speed?!!!! Well here’s your chance!

This is a video of me creating the page which I’ve added some music to and speeded up….so you can see my whole process from start to finish in under 3minutes. Hope you enjoy!!

Untitled from Claire Smillie on Vimeo.


What a week!!

Wow!!! What a busy, busy week!!! I have been very lucky to have been involved with working behind the scenes on some GREAT projects going on at UKScrappers. Simple Recipes, a monthly scrapbook challenge and the UKS Art Journey.

On Tuesday, the Simple Recipe I devised for the month of February was launched, which you can find here. Below, is one of my example pages for the class.

Oooh and ^^^ THAT ^^^ background paper…couple people have asked where I got it from and I am so excited
to have been asked because its mine….alllllll mine!!! Lol, that’s because it my baby….part of a collection I have designed which you should be able to buy very soon….as soon as you can I will certainly be posting more details here 🙂 Exciting times!! Gee…did I ever say how much I LOVE my job?!? Such a lucky, lucky girl.

And today, the PDF I devised on doodling has been uploaded as this weeks Art Journey 🙂 Hence the pictures of art journal pages in this post! These are one’s that I have created and used as example’s! Can’t wait to see what you guys make! Link me up to your blogs, I’d LOVE to see,