Not a favourite of Hugh's!

This is a layout I completed a couple of weeks ago. It's a scraplift from one I had seen on a blog, but as per usual I have forgotten which blog! On the one I saw there was stitching on all the paper segments, but as it is not easy for me to get to my sewing machine I did 'pretend' sewing'! I actually pricked holes round all the edges of the paper pieces and then joined them up with a fine black pen.

I quite like the effect, but my thumb and finger were really sore by the time I had finished pricking all the holes through!

Hugh didn't pose for this photo. I knew what raki tasted like and knew that he wouldn't like the flavour so was waiting with the camera poised to photograph his reaction.... and it was a classic one!

Looking forward to this weekend as Ben is home for an unexpected visit and I will be relaxing after the past four weeks and celebrating my release from my job! Hope that whatever you are up to you have a nice weekend.

Recuperation scrapbooking!

Whilst I was recuperating last week I managed to squeeze into the conservatory and make a couple of layouts.

I bought this collection of paper with the intention of using them for all my summer pages and then promptly forgot I had them! I was looking through my papers last week and found them, so decided to use as many of them as I could on the layouts.

I had bought quite a few of the printed vellum sheets, so cut them up and used them on this layout. The papers are all Websters pages, either Ocean Melody, or in the other layout below, Strawberry Fields.

There were also some Project Life type cards on a sheet which I also cut apart to use up.

I've still got quite a few sheets left, so watch out for more layouts being created using them in the future!

I really like these lines of papers, but actually find them quite difficult to use! I am hoping that now the conservatory is back to normal I can find some plainer papers to mix with them and use them all up.

Do you like photo realistic papers or do you find them difficult to use too?

Love this moment

This is another layout I did at our crafting evening a couple of weeks ago. Again I used the Hey Girl kit, but this time the photo is from our holiday to Crete last July.

When I heard what the kit was called I was worried it would be too 'girly' to scrap male photos, but in fact it is perfect for any photos! I have loads of it left and just need more time to do some scrapping!

The circle with 'love' in it is actually a rub on, as are the two green splodges. I don't usually like rub ons, but these went on well and I like the effect.

A holiday in Crete

We had the most wonderfully relaxing week in Crete, back in July. And I realised the other day that I hadn't shared any photos with you! So, this is a rather photo heavy post!

 Hugh at the hotel with the view to the sea

 Evening view of the pool from our balcony

 We visited Heraklion Archaeological Museum - me with some Minoan pottery

 Hugh at the museum with some Roman statuery

 We took walks along by the sea

 We ate LOTS of delicious food

 We watched the sun set every evening from the taverna whilst eating the delicious food

 We went for a ride on the little road train

 We visited the Palace at Knossos and had a guided tour

 We found some shade at Knossos and used the self timer!

 We watched another sunset!

 I drank a complimentary glass of ouzo every night

 We swam in the pool at the hotel

We swam in the sea

 We visited the Creteaquarium

 We took a selfie and tried to get the shark in it too (just)!

Hugh took a photo of me with the sunset in the background

We used the timer again on our last night on our balcony

And because I can, because it's my blog, here is another sunset photo!

(not the best, but I still like it!)

No doubt these photos (and more) will be showing up on my scrapbook pages when I get some time to start scrapping again. That's the problem with summer - too much time is taken up with making the memories to scrap, that I don't have the time to scrap! Actually, I have been having a great summer making memories and will love reliving them during the cold, grey winter months when I will have plenty of time to scrap!

A layout at last!

I actually got an hour to scrap this afternoon and completed this layout.

It was based on the sketch for August over on the Scrap365 blog.

Here is a close up of the journalling

And one of some of the embellishment

The photo itself is slightly blurry, but was one I really wanted to scrap, so printing it fairly small worked quite well. My layout is not exactly the same as the sketch, but I like to use sketches as a jumping off point.

Hope you have been having a nice weekend and I will be back tomorrow with 'Me on Monday' and a round up of my weekend.