The heat is on

Sometimes you do a page and you are really pleased with it, other times you are just pleased. This is one that I was really pleased with! It all came together just as I had imagined! The colour combination is one of my favourites and I am chuffed that the keycard from the hotel (which I specifically asked to keep and the receptionist said 'are you a scrapbooker?) is the perfect colour too.

 

I wanted to put some washi tape as borders, but didn't have any the right colour. However, one of the papers had chevrons on it that were perfect, so I cut a couple of strips and used that instead.

The frame on the photo is one I have had in my stash for ages and again, the colour was perfect. I do like mixing old and new stash - doesn't make me feel so guilty for buying 2 collection packs from TKMaxx the other weekend! Well, they were only £12 each and they were one of my favourite manufacturers - American Crafts. OK, so a multipack of A/C glitter tape and another of bakers twine might have also fallen into my basket! But in my defence, I didn't get to go to Ally Pally in April as we were on holiday and I had been saving to go, not realising that the two clashed.

This has been a funny old Bank Holiday weekend. On Saturday we left home early to go down to Folkestone with Penny to start moving her out of her flat. We got down there about 10.30am and by lunchtime I had developed a major migraine. I managed to help pack boxes and load the car and then slept all the way back home. Came into the house, took my migraine medication (which I had foolishly left at home) and slept the rest of the afternoon. The evening was spent in pain and then bed, when I didn't get much sleep. So, Sunday was a complete washout as I was in so much pain. I had been looking forward to going to see my Mum and Dad in their new house, but had to postpone. Fortunately on Monday I woke up and apart from a very mild headache felt a lot better. I did some cleaning and then took it easy - a good excuse to scrap!

I have also been planning for a special blog post - so look out for that coming soon! Hope that you had a better weekend than me and that the sun shone for you.