Smile

Managed to get another layout done this week with some left overs from an old kit...the papers are Pebbles inc and the "Smile"stamp is Autumn Leaves.

Have a great weekend...hope it better than here wet and cold!!

Life Stories

Another one of Mels kits from my retreat last month.  This uses the fabulous Life stories papers from My Minds Eye.  We made the flowers from circle punches and added pearls to the bunting and the flower centres.  Very soft and subtle layout ideal for heritage photos.....the pics are of me by the way...aahhh!!

Details of my next class on the 15th May are on the side bar, we are doing the beautiful Pink Paislee Queen Bee range of cardstock and you will be doing 2 single layouts.

scary layout

I did not realise until the other day that yesterday was National scrapbooking day.....why did I think it was in October....prehaps I am getting confused with National cardmaking day..lol!!  Needless to say with card classes booked there was nothing I could do about it so I hope you had a good day if you spent it scrapping.  With the weather as its been its an ideal time to steal abit of crafty time to cheer ourselves up on a miserable weekend.  Todays layout is another one of mine that I did at my retreat....photos again that I have wanted to scrap for a few years.  The papers and die cuts are all My Minds Eye "Boo to you" and the spiders web comes from Artbase

Enjoy the rest of your weekend

Aprils class kit

Had a great class today using this months kit.....the papers and die cuts are all from the Loire Valley range from Kaisercraft.  In the kit there is enough papers etc to do a double layout and a single, you get 6 sheets of double sided papers, 2 bazzill , chipboard die cuts in a great handy zipper case for you to use again for something else and some black droplets.  I do have some kits left they are £9.00 not inc p&p and come with full instructions for both layouts.  Email me if you are interested.....I do a kit each month if you would like to be informed about what each months kit is, I can add you to my mailing list....they are usually around the £8/9 per kit.

Basic Grey Kioshi

Due to me not having the correct photos for a class at my retreat I ended up taking the kit and doing something myself. I really like this collection from Basic Grey...was not to sure at first but its lovely subtle colours and works well with black and white photos. I took some of the elements from the layout the class did, like stitching the hearts together and mounting the flower on cardstock in the top page, the rest of the design is my adaption as my photos were wrong orientation as well.
 
Hope you having the lovely weather like we are here, back at the weekend with this month class layout....I still have spaces on Saturday {details on side bar} or spare kits if you cant make it.

Cosmic Shimmer

Another class layout from my retreat that used Cosmic Shimmer's. Must admit I have quite a few of these bottles in my craft room that have never been touched but now I am looking forward to having a play!! They were sprayed through a May Arts template and I used a very light colour first then went over it with the blue/green colour and finshed off with the bronze colour. I felt it needed a simple layout on top so I just added some of the lovely Prima vines and a Prima stamp for the journaling. The title is done with some black glitter thickers.

Have a great weekend!

Catching up!

Apologies for lack of posts but decorating and general "life" has gotten in the way which is why I was so glad to finally getaway to a scrapbooking retreat last weekend. I went with the intention of completing kits/layouts that have been needing to be done for years....hence some very old papers..lol! I also had some classes whilst I was there which was great, they are almost all completed but just need photos etc so thats my next job. Over the next few days I will post the ones that are all done and dusted and ready for their albums.







The first layout I did for a sketch challenge at the retreat.....it uses SEI Grandmas kitchen. The second layout is one of my own from the rest of the kit. These papers are so old its not true but I still love it and thankfully even after 2 layouts I still have some left!!


If you are coming to my next class on saturday week, then by tonight I will have the photos sizes for you. I have posted a picture on the side bar of the papers we are using for you to get an idea on colours.