Catching up on 2011 Part 3

There have been wedding layouts aplenty given that the official photographer took 1600 photos and there were more from Tony and our guests.

'Father of the Bride' with a photo of my Dad:
I created this layout using the ScrapaGoGo hybrids for November:
And these two using the November kit:

This one is one of the ScrapaGoGo Chinese Whispers lifts:
And this one was using ScrapaGoGo's September kit:
Here I stamped an image and then painted the colour into them:
I saw some beautiful Aruna Seth shoes in my pre-wedding search but they were £550. I decided to fashion my own version in purple with some £12 shoes from Shoe Direct and some butterfly brooches from ebay for £2 each :) Here is my layout recording that fact.
At the GoGo Getaway in October I was looking at Lisa's laouts and saw how she'd splattered some paint very thickly so that it was raised off of the page. I love it and gave it a go on my wedding cake layout here.

I made my own cake with layers of coloured cake covered in cream icing with a cascade of printed acetate butterflies.

Catching up on 2011 Part 2

In November I entered The Scrapbook Magazine'Scrapbooker of the Year' Competition. I created two new layouts for this competition and entered one of my ScrapaGoGo layouts.

The first layout is 'Here comes the Bride'. I made lots of handmade flowers for this one and used a black and white photo from the wedding (obviously).

And the paper embellishment continued with a ruffled circle for my second layout 'pretty kitty'. I won a whole load of wonderful stash and it was like Christmas when it arrived.

Happy Christmas

I wish you and your families a very merry Christmas. We shall be enjoying a turkey lunch at my Mum's today before picking Connor up from his Dad's house. Judging from the pile of presents under the tree, Connor will be opening presents until bedtime!

Catching up on 2011 Part 1

I've been backing up my photos for 2011 and clearing my laptop ready for 2012 and have realised just how many layouts I've not blogged. Time to share some :) So, in October I taught four classes at the ScrapaGoGo GoGo Getaway. It was great to meet some more members and I had a really great time.

My first class was 'Love you to the Moon & Back'. The concept was using lots of shiny things.
That included some fab foil Thickers from American Crafts...
...and some kitchen foil layered with October Afternoon 'Rocket Age' paper.

Next up, with a focus on a tiny little paperclay food mixer, was my Recipes canvas.

The mixer was made using a silicone mold from etsy and some paperclay which we painted silver using acrylic paint.
I was amused during my next class when some lovely ladies came fully prepared for the mess in aprons and gloves. But by the end of the lesson the joke was on me and I was covered in paint, even though I wasn't doing any painting!! This class was inspired by a graffiti wall and was based on the Hambly Brick Wall transparency. There was lots of paint and a really grungy feel to this class.
The concept behind my final class was the colour wheel. We went with 'hot' red and 'cold' green.


Before the delegates arrived we met and decided on March 2012 Getaway concepts, which was very exciting. March 2012 is a sell out and October 2012 only had a few spaces left last time I heard. The wonderful ladies at ScrapaGoGo are already taking bookings for 2013 though so why not treat yourselves here ?? :)

An Early Present

I was given a very early Christmas present today and asked to join the 'Scrap365' Design Team :) I am so excited!!

'Tis the season to be GoGo

So did you catch the ''Tis the season to be GoGo' projects on the GoGo blog this month? If not, then do stop by and have a look at the ways in which we used some of our kit scraps for Christmas projects.

Here is mine, a paper flower covered wreath. I found it quite therapeutic making all those flowers :)

It's really pretty in real life and the photos don't quite do it justice. I was going to give it away as a present but Connor wouldn't let me. He wanted it in his room instead. Bless him!

Another quarter of a year gone in the blink of an eye

I don't know where the time has gone! Christmas is only a few weeks away and I've not updated my blog in a while. I deactivated my Facebook account this week and now my blog is one of my home tags instead so it'll remind me that I've been neglecting this page. So much has happened in the last few months. There's a GoGo Getaway to report on, Wedding layouts to share and Connor's been up to alsorts of LOs with him as the subject too. Today was Connor's school fair. I volunteered to do a scrapbooking table for the children. I decided to lift the LO I did in January and use the photo that we've used for our Christmas cards this year. I precut pieces of patterned paper and gave the children some buttons and stars and let them get messy with glue. They seemed to enjoy themselves and they were all concentrating so much it was nice and calm and quiet in our little corner. You might be wondering who the little Father Christmas is in the photo. That would be Minx. Sadly, Bailey bit me one too many times and we decided that it was only a matter of time before Connot got bitten and we weren't going to take that chance. The breeder kindly took him back for us and is trying to sort him out and then rehome him. Bailey was fine when he was at my Dad's house and he saw no signs of aggression so we're hoping that with a fresh start away from whatever it was in this house that made him act aggressively, he'll be the cute and cuddly pet that he could be all the time instead of just some of the time. Anyway, Bailey and Milly were thick as theives, chasing around the house after each other and curling up together on the back of the sofa and Milly was lonely with Bailey gone. Enter Minx. As the name might suggest, Minx is a little horror. She climbs up my curtains, pinches food off the plate when noone is looking and generally has a lot of personality. We were saying 'You little Minx' so often that it stuck ;) She is quite cute though. Not as gorgeous as Milly, but cute. We thought that Milly was still quite a small cat until we got Minx though. Now she looks big and fluffy with the fluffiest tail you've ever seen.

I have scrapped my first picture of Minx and I'll share it with you another time.

It's all getting exciting over at ScrapaGoGo as we get in to the spirit of it all. The December kit is stunning! I haven't dared get started on it yet because I want to have the time to enjoy it. We have a little Christmas treat planned though so that should be fun.

Time to watch X-factor now. Bye!