Scrapping my five favourites from February

And so quickly, before the month ends, here are my layouts using my five favourite photos off my phone for February.

Loved this 'I am' paper which was in one of my Noel Mignon kits. Also loved fussy cutting all the flowers out to create the embellishment cluster.

Saw a sketch using a circle and as I had this paper with pre-printed circles on decided to go with it! Loved piling on the embellishments here!

And my last layout uses two photos as they really go together! The stamps from the latest Noel Mignon kit were really apt for Penny's chosen profession!

I am really enjoying scrapping my favourite photos from my phone each month! Do come back later this week to see which photos I have chosen from my March batch.

I forgot to share these!

I thought that I had shared these pages I made back at the beginning of March, but looking back I only shared them on the Noel Mignon Facebook page!

I used her kits to create these and actually scraplifted this layout from .... oh, I can’t remember! If it was you, please let me know in the comments below!

The photo on this page was also taken at Penny’s birthday celebrations at my Mum’s last year. Ben and my Dad get on so well and are always messing around together and this perfectly captures their relationship.

These last photos were taken on our holiday to Wales last year. We really felt as if we were walking in Middle Earth from Lord of the Rings!

I am sorry that the quality of the photos isn’t great. I took them using my phone as I didn’t have my camera handy. At least I have been able to share them though!

 

 

Three layouts to share

Quite a while back I made up a kit with bits and pieces I had and made one layout from it and then promptly forgot I had made it! Whilst looking through my stash the other day I rediscovered it and decided to use it to make some layouts. It is a real mish mash of manufacturers and includes some of Shimelle's line.

The first two layouts will be a double page spread about Ben moving into his new house last year. By the time I have got around to scrapping about this event he is just about ready to move out as the lease has run out and he is moving again! Oh well, that will give me more to scrap about!

 

When I was doing this last layout I wanted some blue patterned paper which I didn't have in the kit, so I raided my stash and found this shaped piece which is ages old! I was really pleased to use it up!

The funny thing with some of the embellishments in this pack is that I bought them for the holiday in 2013 as the forecast for the week had not been good and most of them seem to be about rain, rainbows, always look on the bright side of life etc, and then each holiday we have had in the UK the weather has been fine and I have not been able to use them lol! Anyway, I managed to find enough ones about sun to complete this layout.

Weekend Scrapbooking

After finishing my chores nice and early Saturday morning it meant that I had ALL of Saurday afternoon to play!

I knew that I wanted to create a page for New Years Day 2014 to start that section of my chronological album. I still had a few pieces left from my Cable Knit kit and was very pleased with the layout I came up with. It was based on a Shimelle layout from way back!

I then scrapped the monthly photo which Wendy and I do. I can't share that here just in case she reads my blog as we do a year's worth and then share with each other to see how differently we scrap! Another thing I can't share is the birthday card I then made for my Mum! I will take photos of it though and share after her birthday!

What I can share are two layouts I made at Sue's on Tuesday when she, Wendy and I got together. 

Again I used up some more of those Websters Pages papers.

These are from our holiday to Wales last year.

I also completed another three pages on Sunday afternoon, but will share them another day!

I am hopping about scrapping photos from the past 14 months or so, but I then file them chronologically. I may even scrap old family photos from time to time and then these go in their own special album. There has been a lot of discussion recently on Facebook and various blogs on how people scrapbook their photos and it has made fascinating reading! How about you - how do you scrap/store photos?

Early Autumn Kit Round Up

Well, I have nearly used up all my Early Autumn kit from Noel Mignon. I have one full sheet of patterned paper and one of card and some bits and pieces. I will make something with them as I like to try and use them all up!

So here I am sharing what I have made this month with the kit. It was very 'autumnal'. However, by using the 'B' sides of the paper I have been able to use the kit for many different layouts, showing how versatile the kits can be.

This is a layout all about the trip Penny and I took on her birthday to see Pentatonix in concert. The library card holder was great for all the jouranlling.

This layout is with photos from June, on Father's Day. I used the white rub ons in a couple of places on this layout - they didn't go down particularly well and I ended up drawing bits in with a white pen!

I took LOADS of photos when we went on the Harry Potter Studio Tour for my birthday and I have hardly started to scrap them! I liked this layout by Becky Williams on the Noel Mignon blog and used it as inspiration for my layout.

I don't do much for Halloween, or have many autumnal photos these days - there were a lot more when the children were small! However, at work we celebrate Halloween with a pumpkin carving competition and dressing up, so I was able to document it and add the spider which I had had in my stash for ever and a day!

Now the next two layouts I simply LOVE! I knew when I opened the kit that I needed to find these photos of the children taken 20 odd years ago! I scanned them in and printed them out so I kept the originals. I really enjoyed scrapping these and they will go into the 'Ben and Penny when they were little' album!

I enjoyed fussy cutting the leaves out of the paper and sticking them down onto this layout. Great fun!

And then there are these two layouts which I have already shared with you!

So that is the end of this kit - well apart perhaps from a couple more with the scraps! I have already received the next kit and if you pop onto the blog you can see what I have received - the video is here. It is autumn related again, but I think I can use it all up using 'B' sides again!

Frosty Festivities Inspiration Number 2

There has been so much inspiration on Jennifer's blog this weekend. I don't like to pick out favourites as it seems unfair, but I did like this guest post from Julie Kirk.

One of the inspiration ideas from this post was to 'Stencil all over the background of a layout or project'.

So that is what I decided to do! I didn't have a 12x12 stencil in the shape I wanted, stars, so the first thing I did was to create one using my Cricut.

I then sponged Versamark through all the stars as I had decided to emboss the patter onto the card. I chose silver and gold embossing powder - the gold worked better, but I still liked the effect.

And then it was just a case of creating my layout on top of the stencilled pattern.

 I am enjoying getting my Christmas 201 photos scrapped this weekend!

I'll be back later with another project inspired by the blog event. Hope you are having a relaxing weekend!

Jennifer's Frosty Festivities

Jennifer Grace at Jennifer Grace Creates, is holding her Frosty Festivities blog event this weekend. Do hop on over to see all the wonderful things she and her guest bloggers have created.

I will probably be posting more frequently over the next few days as I complete projects inspired by the event and because I AM ON HOLIDAY! Yes, no work for me for a WEEK! So looking forward to it! Hugh is also off for the week, so we are going to leisurely do some jobs around the house, visit my Mum and Dad and go out for a couple of meals.

So, what has inspired me so far? Well, Jennifer created this decoration, but what inspired me from it was to use glitter through a stencil, using modge podge. I didn't want to make a decoration, but used the idea on this layout.

I used a dotty stencil I had and some blue glitter. I love the effect and will definitely be doing this again!

I love how it is nice and glittery, but at the same time you get even more texture from the modge podge.,

Off to have another look at her blog to see what else inspires me!

'Tea for Two' Final Two!

And so here I am with the other two layouts I made from this kit. This is based on the Scrap365 sketch for this month.

When I showed this layout to Penny she really liked it - especially the little bird and the pencil by the poem.

And a close up of the journalling:

It surprised me that I was able to create this next layout with such a 'ladylike' kit.

However, the word paper was perfect for this photo and I highlighted the sentence by outlining the words with a black pen and then filling in three of the words with the glitter glue which was included in the kit.

In this close up you can see the outlined words and the word filled in with the glitter glue.

So that finishes off this kit - just in time for me to be receiving my third! And I haven't really started on my second one yet! How many layouts did I make with it? Eleven! Can't believe that I've actually created 11 layouts this month! This kit is obviously very good for me lol! All I added to it was one extra piece of white cardstock to enable me to use up the scraps of paper. So this is extremely good value for me and good for my soul too, as when I scrapbook I really relax.

Big kid!

I recently spent a very happy evening scrapbooking with my two lovely friends Wendy and Sue. I have found that if I make up a kit from my own stash before I go and put photos with the kit then I am very productive! I actually made two layouts that evening and wished I had taken more photos with me as I ran out of pages to make!

Anyway, here is the first layout I made that evening.

The photos are from our holiday in Wales earlier this year.

I love this little chipboard camera and had been itching to use it!

A close up of the journalling. I remembered that I had a little roller stamp and so used that on the edge of the journalling paper, stamping two different phrases. I quite liked the effect and must remember to use it more frequently!

Thanks for dropping by. I'll be sharing more layouts again soon!