Summer Challene #10 & #11

 

 

Hi everyone! Are you alright? Today, I'm sharing my Summer challenges #10 & #11 which is "Watch and review a Christmas movie" and "Watch and review another Christmas movie" I love watching Christmas movies because it makes me feel really festive and in the Christmas mood! The movies I watched are "I'll be home for Christmas" and "Winter Wonderland."

 

 I'll be home for Christmas is such a good film and it made me feel so Christmassy! It's about a boy named Jake and he's really spoiled and always finds an excuse to stay at his boarding school rather than go home for Christmas. Then when his dad offers him the family Porsche if he comes home by Christmas eve, he rushes to get home but then some kids that he's been mean to before, puts him into a Santa costume, glues his beard and hat onto his head and stranded him in the middle of a desert. He tries everything to get home but things keep getting in they way but then eventually he gets home for Christmas and learns that not everything is about the presents.

 

Winter Wonderland is the first Christmas film that I watched this year and I will probably watch it again because I really like it! It's about a family who goes Christmas shopping and the dad leaves his 2 sons to look after his daughter Mary. The oldest son laves them waiting in line to see Santa. After seeing Santa, they go around looking in shops and they find a bag of money and lots of it! They decide to spend most of it and then give the rest of their dad. The money turns out to be fake and the owners REALLY want the money back!

 

Thanks for visiting my blog, I'll see you soon!

 

Love From Rebecca xx

Anything Goes with Crafty Calendars!

 

 

 Hi everyone! Guess what! I am now on the Crafty Calendars Design Team!

I am so excited to be making for Crafty Calendars so thank you all for

having me! The challenge is the first Saturday of every month and for

my first challenge with them, the theme is anything goes. The sponsor is

Robyn's Fetish who is giving away 3 digital stamps of the winners choice.

Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps Robyn's Fetish Digital Stamps And More, a division of I Did It Creations, was created and is owned by Robyn Weinrib. Robyn offers a wonderful variety of digital stamps and digital papers, designed to meet the needs of all digital paper crafting addicts for every occasion. For this challenge, we got given the choice of 3 images to use and I chose this one. I

made a tag using some woodland papers and coloured the image with some of

my pencils. This was easy and simple to make and I think it looks quite good! The

 rest of the girls the design team have made some gorgeous creations so you

 should go over to the crafty calendars challenge blog and have a look.

 

I hope you have a nice weekend, thanks for visiting my blog and I'll see you soon!

Love From Rebecca xx

 



Summer Challenge #9

 

 

Hi everyone, are you alright? It's the first of September

already! I don't go back to school until the 10th so I'm trying

to get in as much crafty time as possible! Today I'm sharing

Summer Challenge #9 I'm already half way done with my

challenges! Challenge #9 is "Decorate a mug". I love everything

Paris and for this mug I used a paris skyline die, die-cut it in

paper, stuck it onto the mug and drew round it with a fine liner. I

filled it in with a sharpie and wrote Paris with a love heart. I baked it in

 the oven for half and hour and then once it was cooled down, I went

over it again. This was so easy to make and I love the fact that you can

decorate it however you want and make it your own. I'll definitely

be doing some more of these!

 

Thanks for visiting my blog and I'll see you soon!

Love From Rebecca xx



Summr Challenge #7 and #8

 

 

Hiya, have you all had a good weekend? I've spent the weekend with my friend

Jess at a caravan site and although it was fun and we had a good time; it's

good to be home! So today I'm sharing Summer Challenge #7 and #8 which

is "Write a book review" and "Write another book review" and seen as

though, they're they same thing I thought I'd put them both on the same post. 

 

The first book I reviewed is The Fault In Our Star by John Green.

It didn't take me long to read this book because I really enjoyed it and

I didn't want it to end! It starts with a girl called Hazel who is a 17 year old

girl with cancer. She isn't very social and is obsessed with a book called An

Imperial Affliction. She goes to support group to please her parents and while

there she meets a boy called Augustus/Gus. They end up becoming best friends

and Gus ends up reading An Imperial Affliction and loves it as much as

Hazel. Every child/teenager with cancer gets one wish and as long as it's

realistic; the founders of the charity will make it happen if it's possible.

Hazel already used her wish when she was younger to go to Disney land

with her parents. Gus uses his wish to take him, hazel and her parents

to Amsterdam to meet the author of An Imperial Affliction. While

in Amsterdam, they visit Anne Frank's house, go for a fancy dinner and

meet the author of An Imperial Affliction-Peter Van Houten. Although

the visit to meet Peter Van Houten wasn't as they expected, they still

ended up having a great time! I'm not going to spoil the ending but

if you're going to read it, make sure you've got a box of tissues

close by!

I rate this book a 9/10

 

The other book I reviewed is Gone by Michael Grant. I couldn't

properly get into this book because although the storyline was so well

thought out and interesting, it didn't grab my attention. In the book;

everyone over the age of 15 disappears, leaving all of the children

by themselves. There's also a huge, tall barrier/wall that goes

around in a circle, separating them from the outside world. On top

of all of that, there are certain kids with powers for example; the

main character Sam can shoot beams of light out of his hands and

it will burn a hole through anything. Then as well as dealing with

 all of that; they need to find a way out and be re-united with their

families before vanishing when they turn 15. So Sam and his friends

have definitely got their work cut out for them!

I rate this book an 8/10

 

Well, those are my two book reviews! I'm sorry this post was

long but thanks for visiting my blog and I'll see you soon!

 

Love From Rebecca xx

 

 

Summer Challenge #6

 

 

 

Hi everyone! I hope you've had a nice weekend! Today I'm sharing a journal
 page that I made for one of my summer challenges which is "Write a short
 story." For this challenge I wrote a story about a vampire named Fabian that
 haunts a forest and for my journal page I wanted to try and recreate what I
 think Fabian's Forest would look like. I used some pastels onto a piece
 of black card for the background and die-cut some trees, a moon, some bats
and then I cut some black scraps to make the little sign. I typed and printed
my story and stuck it onto the back but because it is quite long for
a short story I don't really want to type it all out and its a couple of pages
long anyway and I wouldn't want to bore you with such a long post!
I really liked making this page and im going to keep going with them!

Thanks for visiting my blog see you soon!

Love From Rebecca xx

Share An Oldie this Friday!

 

 

 

Hi everyone! I hope you're all well and have had a good week!

 It's Friday, which means it's time to Share An Oldie with Erika over at

snappycrafts. Today, my oldie is a Halloween card that I made in 2011,

following a sketch. I love Halloween and I loved making this card!

 The monster image came from lili of the valley ages ago and the rest

 came from mum's stash! I still love these images and papers and I

 might even use them again this year! I quite like how this card turned out and

 it was my first Halloween card! I'm gonna keep this short and sweet

because im off to go watch a bit of Coronation Street!

 

Thanks for visiting my blog, see you soon!

Love From Rebecca xx

 

 



Summer Challenge #5

 

 

Hi everyone! Are you having a good week? Today I'm sharing a

homemade brooch that I made for summer challenge #5 which is

"Make a piece of jewellery"  I made this by die-cutting a flower out of

felt, then I die-cut 4 smaller flowers out of net, folded them into

quarters and sewed them all to the felt.  I die-cut a smaller flower out

of felt and sewed it on top. Because the back was quite messy, I die-cut

another felt flower to stick on the back to make it look neater. I sewed

a brooch pin onto the back and then stuck a big gem into the middle

of the top flower.  This was so quick and easy to make and I really

like it! 

 

Well, thanks for visiting my blog today,

see you soon!

 

Love From Rebecca xx