More Florida pages...

I've finished my second UKS Summer Scrapbooking challenge.  This time number 5 - Use a sketch and typography.

Sticking with the same Gossamer Blue kit as my last page I chose to scrap about our villa in Florida.  I didn't have any PL cards to use for the typography element which meant me heading over to Pinterest (My nemisis! I really don't go on it as it's such a time stealer!) and finding some free printables to download.  I couldn't believe how many were out there!  I found some great ones from Plant Your Story that fitted with both the theme and the colour scheme.

I added a lot of my own embellishments as I seem to have decimated the kit of these!  Plus some stars and some clear, patterned ribbon from my "Must use it up" dish.

I made the facing page to co-ordinate from the same kit and completed my Sketchy Scrappers July challenge.  The sketch was set by Karen this month and was based on a project life type spread...

 I decided to flip the page to use some portrait photos from our "pool days" at the house - we needed one every few days just to recover from the park days which were fun filled, action packed and very tiring!

I do love scrapping out of order. These photos are 6 years old but it's great to scrap them now as it brings back all the memories too.  

Still struggling with a virus and very bad cough so no day out for us today which probably means more scrapping for me :)  The UKS Summer Challenge is open until 30th September if you want to take part.

Pool Pals

A quick post today to share a page I made last week with the last full sheet from my Gossamer Blue kit from December 2012.   This was the kit...

and it was so bright and full of bits to embellish :)  Although by the end of it I was craving some pastel colours to work with!  Anyway, I threw my last lot of June photos onto the paper and added some stickers and enamel dots from my own stash plus some stickers from the kit - love the little lady and man!

This was Alex and Josh in the pool at my brother's house in Portugal.  The lucky devil has just moved out there permanently.  Am I jealous?  Of course I am!!

I made a couple of other pocket pages to finish off the month (but not photographed those) and then I thought I'd do a look back on all the pages made with this kit so here they are...

Six 12 x 12 pages, two 6 x 12 and two pocketed pages.  Pretty good going for one kit!

3 kits killed!

I managed 7 layouts at Meadow Barn and three were the remnants of past Sarah's Cards' kits.  One I've posted already which was the Epcot layout and here are two more...

Spongebob Squarepants using Fancy Pants - Be you

 and Our Fur Babies using Cosmo Cricket - Tea for Two

I added a few bits from my own stash.  Mostly from the pot of odds and ends that I need to reduce down too!  A real stash busting session if ever there was one.  The second one was also a sketchy scrappers sketch challenge.

I also made a few cards with the leftovers which I'll share soon and then I threw the scraps away as I thought there was nothing more I could do with them.  But oh no!  Tara, who I was sat next too, decided to empty them out of the bin and make another card or two.  After that point I just passed the scraps straight over to save her rummaging!!!

An Epcot scraplift

Ever since I spotted  Louise's Epcot layout I knew I wanted to recreate it with our own family photo from the same park. Killing another Sarah's Cards kit - Cosmo Cricket ~ Early Bird - in the process and adding some embellies from a pot of "oddments" I have left from other kits.  I challenged myself to use some on everything I made at the retreat and I think I did that about 80% of the time!

And here is Louise's beautiful original...

I would thoroughly recommend you follow her blog to see all the fabulous pages she makes.

Whilst our Florida trip was nearly 5 years ago I still have several photos left to scrap and it's so lovely to go back and relive the memories through scrapping.

UKS Weekly challenge - Flip Flop Fail!

The challenge on UKS a few weeks back was an interesting one that involved clothing or footwear which got me thinking about a story I wanted to tell from our holiday in Greece last year so I based my page on the criteria of A photo of clothes or accessories including shoes and I put this page together about how Josh got flip flops to wear around on holiday for the first time and could not get the hang of them!  On many occasion he either fell over his own feet or left one on the path behind him!

I used Fancy Pants - Be You papers from a Sarah's Cards kit and added some enamel dots, some wood veneer shapes and sprinkles of mist.  I really love how this page has turned out - my favourite for quite a while :)

Finished one Shimelle class - now on to another!

I had a great time at Leannie's Lovelies Crop in St Helens on Sunday.  So friendly and civilised (with lunch delivered including gorgeous lemon cup cakes!) I will definitely be going again :)


Anyway, I'm normally quite productive at crops but had set myself the challenge of finishing 4x6 Photo Love which meant December's page using 12 photos!  It took most of the day but I am so pleased with it - it was worth it!  I have used photos of our day at Disney Hollywood Studios in 2009.  We were lucky to be there when they were hosting one of the Star Wars weekends and with all of us being aid fans in this house it was a must!

The page is quite difficult to explain but essentially it is 6 double sided papers with a photo either side and they get a little bit larger with each layer.  They are then all tied with twine (thanks to the lovely Claire for that!) and attached to the page.

So having ticked that box and done all 12 of the challenges from last year (albeit a little later than planned) I am now really excited that Cover to Cover is starting soon.  This is Shimelle's new class based on organising your albums and getting them to flow. Something I have been thinking about lot lately.

I'm really hoping this will get me more organised and find a way to fill in the gaps in my album - I know they are there!  I'd love to hear from anyone else who has signed up to this.

Today was a day off, now I have my new four day week, which was unusual but very enjoyable and a chance to catch up on jobs and do some stash sorting which went quite well :).  Just as well I had nothing special planned as the weather was plain awful!

Hope it may be have been sunny in your neck of the woods!

Meadow Barn pages

At the beginning of the month I spent a lovely DIY retreat at Meadow Barn with some of the Twilight Group over on UKS. I thought it time I shared the pages I did!

The first page was one of Shimelle's 4x6 photo love pages which used a page protector and then I added embellishment over the top of the photos and down the side. This page includes lots of photos from our day at Seaworld and is another page for the Florida album.

This page is of Alex on stage at her dance show last year. She was dancing along to "Get me to the church on time" and did a fabulous performance!

I love these photos and have another set of Alex in the same field to scrap. It's just on our estate on the walk home from school and on this day we decided to stop and blow the dandelion clocks. Two years on and we hardly walk home from school as my hours have changed at work and Alex is at high school. So glad we stopped on this day.

I haven't captured Alex's favourites for a while so this is her latest list including favourite food - Daddy's roasts and fave subject at school - maths. And she wants to be an author or artist when she grows up...
I used Sarah's Cards kits for all of these lay outs, from way back when, as I am desperately trying to use them all up so I can justify subscribing again!!

I still have a couple more to share so back later this week with the rest :)

Thanks for stopping by.

4x6 Photo Love - November

It's been a busy half term week here (more of that tomorrow) but I  managed to sneak in some scrapping on Wednesday evening and completed another of Shimelle's 4x6 Photo Love challenge.  This was November's and so we had to use 11 photos.  I picked out the photos from our Dolphin Experience at Discovery Cove in 2009.  I'm really pleased with the way this layout works with the extra "half" page in between.  The papers are Crate Paper - Season from a very old Sarah's Cards Kit. (Still working on using up that old stash lol!)

This is the page as you see it in the album...

This is the right hand side...

Either side of the middle pages...

And the left hand side...

It brought back happy memories of a brilliant day scrapping these photos :)

TFL

Pink Booby 6

Yesterday I went to the annual Pink Booby crop in aid of Breast Cancer Care with Jane and Jane. We had a fab day; scrapping, chatting and eating far too much cake.  (One was so good I am off to buy this cook book!)  The only down side was the weather outside was gorgeous and we were stuck inside.  So we snuck outside for 20 minutes at lunch time but then the lure of paper, glue and pretty things called us back in!

Before the crop I created this page as an example of what you could make with one of the page kits using MME papers and embellishments from Sarah's Cards


First up on Saturday I made the Weekly Challenge on  UKS. This week was to all about B.  Use bright papers, use embellishments beginning with B and have a title with B in it.



The next two pages were using old Sarah's Cards kits from way, way back... I am using these kits up slowly but surely! The first one was Josh's first concert at Delamere Forest last June and the second records his spell as an elf at the Christmas Grotto last year for the School Fair!



Then I bought some lovely Journey papers from Sarah, who was at the crop with her shop, from Authentique.  They are such fabulous quality and I thoroughly recommend them.  I have been waiting to scrap this picture from our trip to the Icebar in London for a year but could not find the right papers until now!



Lastly I made this page with the remainder of the papers from the crop kit I was given to work on.  Another one for the Florida album :)



All in all a very productive day spent in good company.  Just what the doctor ordered!

Let's Go Retro Challenge

The challenge this time was to scrap photos from before 2011 ideally from long long ago. Unfortunately the oldest pic I had ready to scrap was used on a previous challenge so I went with these from our holiday to Florida in May 2009.

The journalling is hidden behind and although it's all smiles in the photos these were taken after we had been on Stitch's ride in which I learnt exactly how loud my daughter can scream. It was one of the best rides we went on whilst we were there but as it was pitch black inside Alex wasn't impressed!!

I've used yet another Sarah's Cards kit from April 2009 (retro stash too!!) with MME Maggie May papers.

Think that's me for the weekend. Time for a cup of tea and some TV :)

TFL

UKS Weekly Challenge

This week's challenge was to use;

• Scrap about waiting for or expecting something


• Use 6 different pattern papers


• Scrap in blue, green and yellow


• Use blossoms or petals

I still have some photos from Florida to scrap (2 years on!!) and chose this one of Josh and me waiting to get into A bug's life show so I could journal about the time we spent queueing whilst in the parks!

Have cut into my Sarah's cards April Kit... Echo Park - For the record papers and added a little bit of red to lift the page. Plus some baker's twine which I'm loving at the moment! The design is based on an old page maps sketch.

TFL

Lots to share...

After a fabulous retreat with Sarahs Cards earlier in March I finally unpacked last weekend and managed to photograph my finished pages. I still have a couple more to go though! We were thoroughly spoilt all weekend with a delicious sweetie shop, raffles, bingo and most of all brilliant classes and make & takes. Sadly I didn't take many photos of the weekend itself (what was I thinking?!) but i did have fun playing with paper and here is the result...


The canvas challenge set on Saturday evening. Did this in about 20 minutes and Alex now has it on her windowsill.
My photos were the perfect colours for this class!

Alex and her teddy...Such a gorgeous class from Claire Wheatley.


Alex from a few years ago at the height of her modelling career (It only lasted 12 months lol!)

This was Lou's class - very creative an messy and I enjoyed it all even if I did get covered in red paint (and so did one of my photos I've just noticed - oops! )

Last weekend I also did a CJ entry for a little girl called Emily - I have never scrapped someone else's photos like this but I was really pleased with these two pages...



Thanks for looking. I should be back with more next week!

Julia