#Bao Burger | UK Scrap Addicts

I'm up on the UK Scrap Addicts blog today with my layout using small photos.

This layout has loads of my favourites (food, paint, stamping, fussy cutting, aqua and pink!). What more could a scrapbooker want?!

Happy Crafting!

National Scrapbooking Day | Take 2

I've had such a crazy few months and it's hard to make yourself slow down when you are used to being busy. Not being able to drive or do any housework post op has meant that I've been able to spend time in my craft room between naps and TV programmes. The National Scrapbooking Day challenges gave me plenty of inspiration.

I'm totally in love with this Cocoa Vanilla Studio 'Wild at Heart' collection. It isn't quite as pastel as previous collection and the mix of watercolour ephemera and bold patterns is great. To create this layout I used a Hip Kit Club sketch, a Moodboard from the Hey Little Magpie challenges and a title that came from the 'Film or Song' challenge over on For the love of pretty paper Facebook group. 

This layout was for the big title challenge for NSD. I wanted to document my love of Thai food. I wasn't sure about this page but the more I see it the more it is growing on me.

This started life quite a few weeks ago when we were away in North Yorkshire. I sat one evening and fussy cut out the flowers from the Shimelle 'Little by Little' paper. This was quite a simple layout to create once I'd cut out the flowers.

I love this photo of the ladies at the last 'Like For Ever' retreat. I still feel sad that the kit club had to close but excited to be getting together with some of these lovely ladies for a getaway next year.

Happy Crafting!

Terri

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~ Like For Ever - November Moodboard ~

Good morning from a cold and dreary UK! Its a good job Christmas is during winter otherwise I would be totally over this season! Although its a little early to have Christmas decorations up in November, mine go up the first weekend in December.

Every month Nicola compiles a Moodboard to give us inspiration with our Like For Ever Kit. This month's is right down my street. Will you just look at those pinks and blues!!! I'm squealing slightly at the thought of them. 

I used mostly the 'Stargazer' kit to create this 12x12 page but added in a few bits and pieces from my stash. I used the colour scheme, florals, glitzy dress and script from the Moodboard as my inspiration.

I'm so in love with these beautiful teal blue glittery thicker words, the script font is perfect. I added quite a few gold texture paste stars to add interest to the plain background. The pink patterned paper has some pale pink flowers and I used the butterfly paper as I imagine my cat is dreaming of chasing butterflies.

I've left a lot of white space on this layout but I tried really hard not to add anything extra to it. I'm really pleased with how it looks. I've had these photos of my little boy cat asleep on our bed for a while and have been waiting for inspiration to get it scrapped. He is such a little cutie!!

Happy Crafting!

Terri

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~ {Inter}National Scrapbook Day Round Up! ~

Happy Monday!

Well I hope you all had a fun filled {Inter}National Scrapbooking Day, I certainly did. I managed to get 6 layouts completed using the online challenges over at Like For Ever & For the Love of Pretty Paper (UK scrapbooking Facebook Group).

The first challenge over on Like For Ever was to scrap lift yourself. I chose a layout from my India 2015 album and scrapped photos to go in my Vietnam & Cambodia 2012 album. I'm impressed at how different they look.

I used papers from the January Like For Ever Kit 'Twenty Sixteen' along with embellishments from my stash. Love that I'm starting to use some of my papers up.

If you've seen any photos from my recent trip to Latvia over on my Instagram account you will note that I do like a good cocktail. That certainly hasn't changed since these photos were taken.

The next challenge I attempted was this lovely sketch created by Laura from Beads, Buttons & Birds Blog. I had a great time looking back to my birthday in March for this one.

I used the current Like For Ever Kit 'Live out Loud'. Before I received this kit I wasn't excited by the Pink Paislee Paige Evans 'Fancy Free' Collection. But in real life it is super gorgeous!!! I am a total convert, just wish I had more of it!

I wouldn't usually use a mix of colour and black & white photos on a layout but I didn't have the colour version of the pic I wanted to use. I'm actually really pleased with the result. I'm hoarding the pretty 'Fancy Free' papers so this was ideal for only using the branding strips.

Ironically, when looking at last years album I noted that we had Pizza on my birthday last year too!

This next challenge used both the Mood Board over at Like For Ever & a scrap lift challenge from the Facebook group.

Below is Beth Moloney's layout which we were challenged to scrap lift.

This was the very pretty looking mood board by Elsie over o Like For Ever. As soon as I saw this my brain was shouting COCOA VANILLA STUDIO 'FREE SPIRIT'.

So I obliged and created a very pretty, girly page about me and my friend's love of hot chocolate and cake!

The next layout I did was for the 'Coffee' Challenge over on the facebook group. The challenge was to use coffee as inspiration, whether it be colour or content.

I had this photo of the cute spring Starbucks takeaway coffee cup that I had been waiting to scrapbook and then I remembered some Stampin' Up stamps which would fit in perfectly too! The new textures set even has a coffee ring stamp which I used on the background.

Nicola over at Like For Ever gave us access to this 'Just Smile' cut file and asked us to use it as inspiration. I have again used the lovely May 'Live out Loud' Kit and there will be a process video for this layout in the next week.

I was clearly enjoying outlining my layouts this weekend as I've done it to quite a few!

My final layout was for the Like For Ever challenge to scrap a selfie & use a song on the page.

I used the Silhouette Cameo to cut out this background (which I love!) and added selfies from different times over the last few months. They all show me looking happy and enjoying my life. So I used some lyrics from Avril Lavigne's song Innocence as my title. The Little Things that make Life Great.

Thanks for stopping by today and having a read. Over the next week I'm hoping to be able to blog my 'Week in the Life' as I join in with Ale Edwards documenting class.

Happy Crafting!

Terri

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~ Back to reality - post retreat! ~

Back from a fantastic weekend at Like For Ever's first retreat held at the gorgeous 'The Woodlands @ Hothorpe Hall' near Market Harborough. I was fantastic to meet to other 25 subscribers and Nicola the owner. I had a very productive weekend, managing 14 layouts and a mini album.

Our crop space and dining room for the weekend.

These were the lodge rooms that I was in, It was absolutely beautiful lit up at night.

The Wi-Fi and mobile signal was a bit patchy so I didn't manage to update during the retreat but I will put up some posts over this week so show you what we got up to.

Nicola set us three challenges for over the weekend and I managed to get them all done. I love a good challenge and the possibility of winning a prize is always a bonus.

The first challenge was to use this mood board to create a Page/Card/Project Life layout. 

I managed to save my Cocoa Vanilla Studio 'Free Spirit' collection whilst I went on retreat and I'm glad I did because the colours are perfect for this mood board. I had this layout in mind before going away so it came together really quickly on Friday night.

Oscar is such a cuddly cat and most evenings spends his time said on me sleeping. I wanted to document this 'everyday' occurrence and he always takes a good photo.

The second challenge was to use the sketch to create a Page/Card/Project Life layout.

Again I've used the 'Free Spirit' collection here with a few added bits of washi tape from my stash. The photo below doesn't really do the layout justice as the colours look very pale and you can't see the texture paste zigzags in top right and bottom left corners.

I don't scrap Millie as often as my other cat as she isn't as interested in things. She spends most of her time in one place sleeping. However, she has taken to getting in bed with us for morning cuddles and I managed to snap this pic on my phone.

The third was to use this quote to create a Page/Card/Project Life layout.

Oh my I didn't half struggle with this challenge. Everyone was scrapping Disney and Harry Potter Studio layouts and I hadn't brought any photos like that. But inspiration struck me Saturday night (after a glass of wine!). I used a play on words and scrapped my craft room at home. Despite moving house over a year ago this is only the second house page I have created.

I used Simple Stories 'Life in Colour' for this layout. I love the bright bold colours and it was a welcome change after using the more pastel colours from 'Free Spirit'. 

Nicola did an amazing job at the weekend and hope for more to come. I'll be back over the next few days with more posts and hopefully a video of all my retreat work.

Happy Crafting!

Terri

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~ Joking around on out travels ~

I thought I'd share this fun layout on a very busy weekend for me. Tomorrow I'm running a Girl Guide Team Challenge Day. I've spent the last few days putting the activities together. 

I usually scrap one or two photos per page but occasionally I want to document something which takes more photos to tell the story. This layout is from my trip to India in January. We went walking in a tea plantation and whilst a fellow traveller was taking our photo my fiancé started messing around. We managed to get some great real life photos.

This layout uses the Pinkfresh 'Happy Things' collection. I absolutely love the ombré canvas tags. Because the photos take up much of the page I didn't want to add too many layers or big embellishments. I wasn't sure about the coloured alpha stickers in the collection but I do really like how they look on this layout.

My fingers are crossed for good weather tomorrow and I'm hoping everyone has a good time. Scrapbooking is on my agenda for Monday as I think I will need to relax before starting back at work.

Happy Crafting!

Terri

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~ India Part 1 ~

Hi all, so this January we headed off to Southern India for a spot of adventure. We travelled with G Adventures around the states of Kerala, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. Obviously as a scrapbooker I took way too many photos but I'm trying to scrap the important/meaningful ones.

 

 

This layout uses a photo of my fiance at a lovely little Art Gallery/Cafe in Kochi but the theme behind the layout is more his love of travel. He gets itchy feet as soon as he's back home. I bought some papers and embellishements from the 'Hello World' collection which I absolutely love. 

 

This layout was from another sketch at GogoGetaway and it encompassed 4 photos which really suited the story I wanted to portray. The photos show how tea is made from the plantation, picking the leaves, the factory and the drinking it.

 

My week off is going far too quickly for my liking, I wish time would slow down a little. I'm not really being very productive but its nice to rest and catch up on some TV. I've loved watching 'Safe House' on ITV. Pop back ove the next few days for more layouts.

 

Happy Crafting!

 

~ A few spare GoGoGetaway Classes ~

When I was at GogoGetaway in March I managed to pick up a few spare class kits. Mum and I had a scrapping day a few weeks ago and completed a couple of pages.

 

The first is a Project Life style page designed by Sheena Rowlands. However, I did alter it slightly from her original and used a few different sides of the journalling cards to fit my trip.

 

Travel is one of my favourite subjects to scrap and I have piles of photos frm lots of trips left to create with. Last year alone we went on 4 holidays abroad.

 

Then next class I did was by Sam Ball. I haven't added any journalling yet as I'm still trying to think of things for each number that happened last year.

 

I love this photo from our trip to Italy last October. So far for my journalling I have:

 

1. 30th Birthday Celebration

2. Crafting retreats attended

3. Engagements for friends and family (me included)

4. Trips abroad (India, Krakow, Italy, Budapest)

5.

6.

7.

8.

9.

(I'll add them as I think of more!)

 

Happy Crafting!

 

~ Mojo back on track ~

Since GogoGetaway I've had a surge of mojo and enthusiasm for crafting. It made me realise how much of a big part of my life it is and I must make more time for it. So today I tidied my craft room and sorted the stuff I took away with me. I then sat down and got some scrapping done.

I have had these papers for ages. They were from an old ScrapaGoGo kit I had lying around. I knew exactly what I wanted to do with the photo frame strip. The photos are from a charity ball I attended last year where they had a fun photo booth. We really enjoyed having a laugh with the photos. This was easier after a few glasses of wine.

Might even get back in my craft room this afternoon for round two of crafting.

~ A warm welcome ~

Well I must admit that although this layout was quite simple to put together using the sketch over on Sketches: Creatively Yours I have really stretched myself by actually doodling straight on to the page! Argh! However, I am really pleased with how it turned out.

The photos show the Welcome ceremony @ the guiding world centre Sangam, India. Each participant of the event is welcomed in a traditional Indian ceremony which includes have rice thrown over your head, being blessed with a nut and lighting a wick on the lamp seen in the bottom photos.

As an extra little touch I have used some gemstone bindis that I bought on a shopping spree in India.

Happy Scrapping Everyone!

~ A place away from hustle and bustle ~

This is my favourite layout, that I have done recently. This was created using the sketch over on sketches:creatively yours. Hop over and show me your sketch inspired creations.

I made this layout using the Cleo Crafts July kit, which contained gorgeous MME 'So Sophie' papers. They match perfectly to the Indian style I wanted for these photos.

Be back soon.