~ A Week in the Lakes ~

At the Like For Ever retreat I took Jackie's 'A Day in the Park' class, although mine was 'A Week in the Lakes' instead!

My Thailand & Laos 9x12 album has some pocket pages included and I really wanted to see if I could get to grips with adding them in to my regular scrapping. This class was perfect for me especially as I hadn't gotten round to scrapping any Lake District photos yet.

The kit had some beautiful papers and the Crate Paper Maggie Holmes 'Shine' chipboard. Jackie added a couple of die cut film reels and a white border cut from her Silhouette Cameo. I'm so excited to pick mine up this weekend.  

I think this is Project Life Design P and it has 9 4x4 pockets. I was really impressed with how quickly these pages came together. I added the chipboard birds to tie it in to the 12x12 layout which will sit opposite this page in my album.

I used a mixture of 4x4 and 3x2 photos for the pockets and love how many I managed to use. Its a great way to document one event quickly.

Happy Crafting!

x

~ 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!

 

~ Time is flying by ~

I can't believe we are already in the middle of June. This year is flying by super quick. May was mostly taken up by a lovely holiday in Tunisia. We had a lovely time although it now seems like an age ago.

I've been enjoying doing quite abit of crafting recently but just not got round to blogging it to be honest. I don't really like using the blogger app on my ipad as the options for your posts are very limited.

 



 

I've been continuing my Project Life layouts although I'm over a month behind. I really enjoy the speed at which you can create something which documents the everyday happenings. In April we had quite a busy month. My Other Half ran the Sheffield Half Marathon in aid of Crohn's and Colitis UK. I went to York twice, once for a Girlguiding Senior section Teams Day and then for my ward manager's retirement celebration. We had a great time at Jamie's Italian and then 2 of us queued to get in to Betty's Tearoom. The coffee and cake was devine!

 

I'm really hoping for some fantastic weather over the summer as I want to get out and about as much as possible.

 

Happy Crafting!

~ Project Life - take one! ~

Wow! I can't believe it has been so long since my last post. No idea where the time has gone. Since Gogogetaway I have been having a little play around with my Project Life Stash that I bought. So here goes my first attempt at documenting March:

What I found great about this concept was the ability to scrap everyday life as well as outings and events. I was able to encorporate some souvenirs of things as well. I will certainly be doing more of this but I'm not sure it will overtake my love of creating layouts. I have found it easy to work on this in a spare 15mins where as I never used to do that with layouts. April will be coming soon!

Another reason I haven't been around is that I have been on two weeks of nights with a night away in between. Then there is the fact that we decided to decorate our bedroom. It's been needing doing for ages as the cats took a liking to the previous owners wallpaper. So, knowing what the walls in the house are like we decided to have our first go at wallpapering. I'm really pleased with the outcome.

So the other half is off playing cricket so I'm leaving the mess and heading to my craft room. I hope everyone is enjoying the Easter bank holiday.