My first Guest Designer layout

I am really nervous about this! Once a month I go to a local scrapping club and for this month I am the designer of the layout. In the kit was a large brown patterned scallopped circle which I was not keen on so I decided to cover up the centre by cutting a circle out of another sheet from the kit and placing it over the top. For the border strip I cut small lengths of brown ribbon and attached them alternately through the border holes and then wove in the blue ribbon. The tag idea came from a past issue of Papercrafts Inspiration. All the shapes were cut with the Cricut E. The photo is of my Grandchildren. Wish me luck tomorrow!

My Beautiful Granddaughters

I am so proud of my granddaughters (they are cousins not sisters). The first layout includes a picture of Hannah taken last year. Hannah is at university in London studying art and design. She has just been selected out of 2,500 students for a degree course. Only 6 out the total students applying get on this degree course. She is a fantastic artist and I know she will do well. Congratulations Hannah.

The second layout features Sammy who is at present travelling the world. Sammy has just spent a month in Africa helping out at an animal reserve. She has posted several photos, on her Facebook travel site, where she is among the lions and they will make great scrapbook pages and I intend to make her an album for when she returns home. She is now in India for 2 months helping out at a school for young children and has seen the Taj Mahal among other wonderful sites. I am so proud that she has taken on this venture and wish her well in her travels.

Christmas page for 8" x 8" baby Album

It's the first time I have made an 8 x 8 album and only my second baby album, it is also the first page that I have finished for the album. I have used the tree from the SU Snow Swirled stamps that I bought from Gina, aka GRKIDDO, and a dear friend, who is an SU demonstrator in the USA. First I stamped it on vellum with Stazon Cotton White ink, then added gold pen to the dots.

A neat tip I learnt from Stephanie of CreateandCraft.TV was to cut a V in the wedged nib of a Calligrapher pen, it makes it so much easier to put a border round the page. I only have Gold and Silver pens at the moment but will certainly be investing in more colours

I must add that I scraplifted the page idea but can't remember where from.

Further pages will be added as they are completed.

Thanks for looking.

My favourite LO - for scrapbook.com challenge GHI

This is my most favourite LO. I love the K & Company background paper and it goes so well with the pink pearlised card, another favourite of mine. The Jornalling says "IMAGINE what changes Mum saw in her life and what changes Sammy will see in hers". My mum was born in 1919 and Sammy in 1989.
I have entered this LO into the GHI challenge over on the scrapbook.com, but as I am a newbie I do not expect to win. The criteria was to use G = gold, H = hexagon and I = the word Imagine.

My Favourite Sister in Law

This LO was done for another challenge on the Scrapbook.com website. The LO had to have Weaving and a title to include a Verb. Weaving the paper took some time but the effect was worth the effort. The circle was cut from Accent Essentials and embossed using the Stylized Flowers Cuttlebug folder, and then chalked to match the backgound paper which I also chalked.

Added a couple of layered flowers and some stickles. This LO is one that will go in an album I am making for her Birthday.

Super Star Rock Star

This LO is for a challenge over on the www.scrapbook.com website. The challenge was to do a layout using X - shape, Y - yellow patterned paper and Z - zoom in on part of a photograph.

I had a few problems getting this LO done, first I ran out of printer ink so had to go and buy a new cartridge, them my camera was playing up but I finally managed to get it all sorted and posted on the website. If you are looking at this today please go and vote for me at http://www.scrapbook.com/forums/showtopic.php?tid/1484061/post/9205173/hl//#9205173

Note: I cut the film strip using SCAL.

OOYCZ 2nd Challenge

When I saw these photo's on my daughter's fridge I knew I had to use them on a scrapbook page. Thanks to his dad I got copies. My daughter wrote the tag for 'Smiley Riley' and I did one for 'Love me Love my boots'. The papers were made using Photoshop Elements and the embossing was done with the Cuttlebug Paisley folder. I copied the boot and as there was only the left one showing I matted two to look like a pair. I was supposed to use ribbon but the embroidery silk matched so well I used it. All the cutting was done with my Cricut E.
I think I managed to fulfil the challenge except I did not use my alcohol inks. (maybe next time)

My Layout for OOYCZ challenge on the Cricut MB

The first page is a picture of me and my brothers and was taken at my youngest brother's wedding. I love the way one brother has his jacket buttoned up wrongly, and the way my hair was fluffed out by the wind. The groom's long hair and my older brother's pose as he was trying to keep his tie down. The second page has school photographs of my brothers and an older picture of me outside Hampton Court Palace.