Looking forward

The weekly challenge this week looked quite difficult - here it is:
With the weather swinging from rain to sunshine all month and the inevitable rain at Wimbledon, we’d like to reflect this in the design. Please use clouds or weather related pattern paper / embellishments in your LO.

To help keep ourselves cheerful, let’s use zesty zingy colours too (oranges, yellows, lime greens, bright pinks, summer blues) ~ pick a few or a lot and have fun placing them in your LO.

Finally for the topic of the LO, let’s take a look backward or forward to mark the half way point of 2012. What have you done in the past 6 months or what do you plan to do going forward? Use photos and journaling to tell the story looking backwards or forwards.

Points:
10 points for weather related paper and/or embellishments
10 points for zesty zingy happy colours
10 points for telling a story with photos and journaling looking back or forward over 6 months

In the end it wasn't too difficult at all.

This is the place we are going to as a family in September and we are all looking forward to it.  It's a big holiday home, right on the beach, perfect for us :)

Lunch is served

Two more simple pages for my holiday album:)

The journalling is in the little folder here:

Northumberland

I've just finished 4 simple pages for my Northumberland holiday album.  I'm doing this in 6" x 6" and using my new Authentique papers:)

I might add some more embellies as the album progresses.  I don't find it as easy to decorate such small pages.

Even Mums were cute once

I was sorting out some of my photos and came across this one and as there were more than one of the same photo I decided I'd crop it and scrap it.

A couple of close ups too:

I haven't stuck the journalling tag down yet as I'm not sure if I want it on the front, I might stick it on the back  - not that it's got anything private on it, I just don't like it where it is!  I should have thought about it a bit more and then I could have done a hidden tag.  Too late when it's all stuck down.

Taking a break

I'm making a mini album of our Jubilee afternoon party and have done 4 pages so far.  I'm not doing them in any particular order but here they are:

This next page is a full sized layout and the photos were taken a couple of days before the party when we were putting up the marquee.

The reason I used a tree as an embellishment is that if you look to the bottom right of the photo of Chris, there is a very dead Christmas tree.  It has now been recycled and a new one will be going in it's place in due course!

Love our dogs

The weekly challenge has been done and here it is:

This is the criteria and I have managed to fulfill it - the swirl I struggled with but I stamped a couple under the lucky ticket and you can just see a bit of it peeking out.

Tinks got her nickname from Tinkerbell...as she was so delicate when she was a few years old however I always felt Tinkerbell was feisty and strong.

For 10 points please use a Patterned Paper with either a delicate feel or a very strong feel

For another 10 points...Tinks is very quirky and individual...to reflect this please use a cluster of embellishments that reflect your own style. 

For 5 points...Tinks' favourite colour is navy so please include blue on your LO

For 5 points...Tinks' hair is starting to go curly so please use a swirl somewhere on your page.

There is some journalling under the Animal tag.

Huge giveaway

Have a look at this blog for a superb giveaway:)

Colours of Spring

I made this page today for the UKs weekly challenge and it seems to fit with the sketch on Scrapology so I am going to enter it for that.

This is the lovely sketch..

The Queen's Diamond Jubilee

I decided in a moment of madness that I would organise an Afternoon Tea party for some of our neighbours to celebrate the Jubilee and at the same time, try and raise some money for a local charity, Willen Hospice.  Those of you who know me, know that I shy away for social gatherings so it was totally out of character for me and at times I wished I'd never sent out the invitations but I had and we had about 30 people coming so I had to make the best of it.  Of course none of it would have happened without my lovely family helping all the way.

The monthly challenge on UKs was JUBILATION so I made this page showing some of the photos from our party which incidently raised £148.33!

As I have lots more pictures I would like to use I might make this into a double page.

The weekly challenge was on a similar theme - use red, white and blue, 2 or more photos and journalling so I thought I'd use these photos which I took on saturday.  We were putting up the marquee in the front when we saw this "bike" coming towards us.  It was an entry into the local carnival and won first prize.  It was awesome, 4 people sitting down and 2 dogs in a cage at the back!

My girls

It's the first saturday of the month so it's Scrap map time over at Creative Craft World and here it is.

and here is my interpretation of it.

I've just got a new camera so I was just taking snap after snap.  I used a button from my shop http://www.etsy.com/shop/SusibeesButtons because I thought it looked like Millie.

Snap

Holly has just bought a new camera with some money I gave her from my Mum.  I wanted her to spend it on something that she could remember Mum by so she went for a camera.  Sooooo she took loads and loads of pictures on the first day and this is one of them.  I printed it out in black and white as the papers I was using were a tad busy.

I made this for the weekly challenge on UKs which was:

Welcome to the Glitterbugs' third team challenge. We hope you'll enjoy it as much as we have. Our criteria is as follows:

1) We've made lots of friends through being on UKScrappers and not just our team and house mates. So, we're asking you to do a LO about a friend or friends. Could be UKS or other internet friends, real life friends, four legged friends, new friends, old friends. The choice is yours - 5 points

2) A lot of people say they have too much going on, so 'put your eggs in one basket' and cluster your embellishments - 5 points

3) To keep with #2's theme of busy, busy, busy, use patterned paper or patterned card as your background - 5 points

4) We usually have something to represent our name. This time; as glitter's shiny, we're asking you to use metal on your LO as that's also shiny - 5 points

5) Your technique this week is to use one of Cal's from her Technique Thursdays which can be found here. If you're a digi scrapper, there are some techniques there that could be adapted/used as is in digi work - time to get creative. Please give credit for the one you use - 10 points.

I made the felt flowers and used alcohol inks on the metal butterfly but it's difficult to see that on here.

The technique I used was embossing - the camera is embossed using black fine detail powder.

I've just noticed the "Life is sweet" flag is on Steph's face so I have now moved it away a bit!  It's funny how you don't notice these things at the time.

The shoes

The challenge this week on UKs was to use black and white with just a hint of yellow, 2 photos, something new and something old and take inspiration from the rhyme, One for sorrow, two for joy etc.

Holly and Steph are going to the rugby club ball at the weekend and Holly bought some shoes to go with her black and white dress and was having a dress rehersal so I took these pictures.  Holly is a trainers girls so I was quite shocked when she brought home these shoes with massive heels lol!

The something old is my papers, I've had them quite a number of years and the something new is the heart buttons.  I used silver and bling as my inspiration from the rhyme.

A couple of layouts

We've been away to Scotland on holiday and while Chris was doing a bit of diving I did a bit of crafting:)

I had very limited supplies which in a way made it easier for me.  At home I dither too much simply because I have too much to chose from.

Adam will hate the fact that I have documented his haircut in a layout.  As a youngster he liked having longer hair but it looks like his fringe had got too long and someone had been busy with the scissors and given him a basin cut, poor boy lol!

How lucky am I?

We're going to be away for my birthday so Holly has just given me my present :)

Aren't these the most fabulous boots ever?

Thank you Holly :)

Life without Love

The start of another week so it's a new weekly challenge on UKs.  The criteria are: use cord/ribbon or twine, use bling, use green and white and finally some stamping.
I've had this photo in my pile for ages and wasn't sure whether I wanted to scrap it or not but here it is, dodgy hair and all:)

I tried stamping the vine at the left of the page with my picket fence distress marker but it didn't work (very disappointing) so I used a Brilliance ink pad in the end and a white journalling pen to do the faux stitching round the papers.

I haven't dated it yet because I'm not exactly sure when it was, sometime in the mid 90s I should imagine.

Father's Day

A new scrap map is available over on CCW and a lovely sketch it is too.  Designed as usual by the very talented Sue.

Here is how I have interpreted it:

If you click on the picture it will make it a bit bigger.

Why not have a go at this challenge, you could be in with a chance of a prize:)

Laura's iPad cover

Laura asked me to make her a cover for her iPad and when I saw this material I knew she would like it:)  

As I had some spare fabric I thought I'd make her a cover for her iPhone too.

I thought I'd show you a selection of some of the other phone covers I've made too.

Gifts from Laura

This weeks WC - Use the sketch 10 points
Scrap a first 10 points
Use some paper, old or new 5 points
Include bunting or stamping/inking 5 points

I don't think I uploaded last weeks wc so that's here too:

Again we had to use a sketch, scrap a man in our life, use misting or paint, different alphas and finally use some ric rac.