Thursday 29 November 2007

Dare #73 - Childhood Favourites


I knew immediately what my subject was going to be for this one; it's something I've been wanting to scrap for a while before it gets forgotten & is one of those corkers that little kids come out with, that just leave you gawping. Hopefully you can read the journaling, but in case you can't, the LO is about a pony that Danielle named herself - "Strawberry Heartburn". Journaling was done on the pc and printed straight onto the background cardstock - first time I've done it (I think) and my LO came out slightly different to how I'd planned because of it but it's all good. The title looks wonky but it's all straight irl - another of my rubbish scans lol.

Materials: SR Papers, KI Memories lace cardstock, AC chipboard photo corners and a couple of other bits and bobs.

As always, check the rest out on the blog - there are some crackers. ;)

Below are a couple more very quick pages using older photos. I keep finding more that I want to scrap though so my "to scrap" pile is getting bigger instead of smaller. Ho Hum.


Sunday 25 November 2007

Happy birthday to Casey


My little girl is 12 today.

I haven't posted in over a week, so am sharing everything I've done since my last post. First up is a 6x4 Bare Book made for me by the lovely Gertie - check out the links to the right if you want some. Mine's only taken me about 2 months to get round to doing lol.














Next up 3 pages that I managed to complete this week.





I think that's it. I've done a couple of things for upcoming DC projects but, of course, they're top secret.

Thursday 15 November 2007

Dare #71 ~ Chipboard in Abundance

This week's theme was to use chipboard; I could have wimped out and just stuck to my usual chipboard title lol but I wanted to do something a bit different.




Sooooo, I used lots of chipboard circles (from a Fancy Pants pack) - I covered them in K&Co Amy Butler paper scraps and then sanded the edges. It was quite a labour intensive job, and I had RSI from all the sanding, but I like the finished effect. The LO itself is pretty simple; this was just a photo I really like and so there was no journaling to go with it. That might get the journaling police on my back, but in my opinion not every photo needs journaling. Check out the CY blog to see what the rest of the ladies did.

The next page was for the weekly challenge on UKS, and these are some older pics of Danielle scoffing her face. I used yummy SR Loveland papers for this one.

Friday 9 November 2007

Dare #70 - Girls Aloud

I can't believe it's dare #70 on the Collectively Yours blog already - where do all the weeks go? I used lots of Fancy Pants felt plus Prima & Scenic Route papers for my little dressing up queen.



The next one is Charlie, looking not-quite-so glamorous after Danielle had been cutting his hair. I probably should have been mad when I saw what she'd done but I couldn't help but giggle. I used sketch #27 from the Sketch This blog for this one.

Sunday 4 November 2007

Not speeding, but still going...

Just one layout completed yesterday but that's good going, considering we had to go to the optician's in the morning, my mum was round half the afternoon and we went to Adventure Island in the evening.

The photo is of Casey and I've been wanting to scrap it for a long while but never really knew what papers etc, Plus, I couldn't think of a title so I asked my UKS team mates for help and Marja (who is the queen of great titles) came up with this one.



We picked up Danielle's new glasses yesterday and she's struggling a bit with them. After a change of opticians (we're with Boots now), the man there discovered that Danielle also has a very slight squint in her right eye. It's not noticeable enough to see when you look at her, but it needs to be corrected. He's hoping that the right prescription will do it, without the need for patching, but is going to monitor her regularly to assess. Anyhow, the upshot is these glasses are VERY strong (+5 in the right and +3-point-something in the left) and it's going to take her eyes a few days to adjust. I keep catching her with her head tipped right back so that she can see out from underneath the glasses rather than through the lenses.

We went to Adventure Island in Southend last night and the glasses were soon forgotten about though. Casey didn't want to come (??) so stayed with her nan but Danielle and Charlie loved it. We met up with friends there & they have a daughter 3 mths older than Dan, so the 3 girls had a blast - they felt very grown up because it was the first time they were tall enough to go on the rides without an adult. They were on all these various trains, elephants etc (going about a mile an hour if that) and they had their arms up in the air like they were on some really scary rollercoaster. The min waltzer was their definite fave and I think they would have just spent the whole few hours on that one ride.

Friday 2 November 2007

Still speeding along.....

..........and I managed another 4 pages. I abandoned the Scenic Route for most of these and finally used some of the Love Elsie stuff that I bought AGES ago. I love the embossed cardstock, especially when it's sanded back; I'm not so impressed with the alpha stickers though - STICKer is definitely not a good description because they keep lifting up off the page. *humph* I can't believe how much Danielle and Charlie have changed. *sob*





Dare 69 on Collectively Yours went live last night - check it out for lots of spooky Halloween themed delights. I swapped out (Halloween isn't my 'thang') so I'll be up next week instead; I'm so organised that I even did my page for it over a week ago lol!

Speeding up








I decided that I need to speed up a little; I've gotten into the habit of faffing around for far too long, trying to make each page perfect. Choosing embellishments for just one page can sometimes take me half an hour or more, and I'm geting nowhere fast. My need for perfection has also meant that I've been putting off scrapping a lot of my less perfect photos, because I know that I can't 'do them justice.'

So, last night I just got out my box full of Scenic Route papers and decided to do the pages from that box alone (cutting down on paper selection time) & adding very simple embellishments to each. Most of the pages are pretty similar, I know, and that's fine. I managed to get a page done in the afternoon and the other 5 took about 2 1/2 hours last night.

Thursday 1 November 2007

Pony Mad

I finally got round to scrapping some more older pics - these are from last year, when Danielle was still in her 'I'm a horse called Clippery' phase. Papers are SR Sumner, black alpha stickers are also SR and the blue alpha is vinyl, by AC. Journaling tag from Etsy.



I haven't scrapped anything else this week, but I've been working on a few bits and pieces for the Design Collective christmas extras. I'm just waiting for the SR Roxbury papers to arrive so that I can complete one more thing. We are entering another new month at the DC and we will be announcng the winner of our October prize draw very soon. ;)

I've been tagged by the lovely Maria so here goes:
(I wasn't hibernating, just didn't have anything to bore you with lol, but lots of love to you and Gertie for missing me)

1. If you could have £100 worth of scrapbook paper or assorted embellishments, which would you choose? I think I would go for papers - I have tons of embellies that would probably last me a lifetime because I use so few of them on each page.

2. If you had to choose between using only stamps or rubons, which would you choose? Rubons. (As long as money was no object lol) Stamps are cheaper in the long run but rub ons are so much less hassle to use.

3. If you knew how to do both awesome cards and layouts but could only do one for a whole year...which would you do? Layouts, for definite.

4. Would you rather own a scrapbooking store or have your own scrapping room at home? My own scrapping room - I'm fed up of my little corner in the kitchen and squishing onto one small worktop space to scrap.

5. And last but not least, what is your CURRENT cardmaking or scrapping style? Non-existent lol. Joking aside, I'm always swinging between very plain, minimally embellished pages and those with ever so slightly more embellishment.

I will now tag:

Marja
Gertie
Gems
Eleni
Paula
Sharon
Sue