Smash book Super Hero Challenge!

This week's challenge was set by Kage and was to create a page about what powers we would have if we were superheros. She had the added catch that we had to draw ourselves! Now, I am totally pants at drawing so this challenge really was just that, a challenge!

I had the Studio Calico skyscraper stamp that I thought would work and then when I found this page in the red Smash book it was perfect. My body was a Gorjuss stamp that I bought recently and I thought the boots were just perfect for a super hero! Plus she had long hair that I could blend in with mine on the photo. The cute shooting stars are from a Paperchase sticker set. The title is made with some lovely sparkly Thickers.

The two little monsters are my boys terrorizing the town! The Pow pops up to reveal my powers, which are: 

• flight
• invisible forecefield
• cloak of invisibility
• ability to stop time
• ability to be in two places at once! 

All of which are useful powers for any Mum! I hope you like it and apologies for the terrible photos on my carpet. I really need to work on my presentation skills!

My bucket list!

Over on Smash*ing UK we are running weekly Smash book challenges which I have completed neglected to upload onto my blog! The first challenge was set by Louise Wilson and it was for us to create our Bucket List. I have to admit that I have never really had a bucket list and as I have no wild desires to jump out of a plane or swim with dolphins, this challenge kept me puzzling for a while (which is all good!). In the end I realised that most of the things that I would like to do involve travel in one way or another, so with that in mind I set to work. It so happened that DoCrafts had just bought out there All Aboard range which would be perfect for this project! The little suitcase was cut using my birthday toy, a Silhouette Cameo. 

I'm  not sure that you can read the tags, but they say:

• To meet one of my penpals - this map has button markers for some of my penpals against the countries they live in. 
• Places I want to visit: American road trip, Italy (again), Japan, Hawaii (yes, some of these tags may be in the wrong place but they weren't all on the map!)
• Attend a Tim Holtz class.

There is one more tag that I need to add to that suitcase, and that is to be able to ride on the Orient Express. But having seen the prices, I think that might be a bit of a pipedream!

Anyway, I hope you like it, and please leave a comment to let me know you stopped by!

I'm back!

Since I started my SU blog this one has become dormant, but with my new smash obsession, I thought it might be good to breathe new life back into this one again. I'll still have my SU blog but this will be for all things non-SU. It looks like the design has gone walkabout so I kinda need to fix that!

In the meantime I wanted to share one of my first Smash pages with you.

I did this layout for a blog challenge over on facebook. We had to use buttons (which I used to tie shut the little bird card), bow (under the hydrangea, although it appears to have fallen off in the photo) and shimmer (I liberally spritzed with my lovely Tattered Angel mists). Despite all the pink, this page is actually dedicated to becoming a mum for the first time to my firstborn son, but as the page is more about me I figured I could get away with it!

A couple of close-ups for you! Typically, it wasn't until after I took the photo of the first page that I noticed the cotton bow had come off! The hydrangea also has really tiny pearls on it.
I've also circled the date that my son was born on the little calender at the bottom of the page.