All day crop!!

Merly Impressions had an extended crop day on Saturday from 10am till 8pm. What a lovely day we had.Included in the cost was a kit with two main layout instructions and further instructions to make an additional layout out of the bits that were left. We had tea,coffee and Paul's wonderful cakes on tap all day.
To top it we had the most delicious buffet tea that was delivered late afternoon. It was lovely to catch up with friends that I last met at the retreat and have a good chat. Needless to say I didn't finish the layouts.....only one!! I was very good though and finished the other and the additional one on Sunday.
I still had some " bits" left over so I went on and made another layout with those bits,only needed to add the pink cardstock. Waste not want not is my motto LOL!
The kit used was the Secret Garden Collection by Kaisercraft

These are the two layouts that Chrissy had designed for us

Please excuse the wonky photography!!

Here is the additional one that she also designed

and to finish off this is the one that I myself did with the rest of the bits

Anyone interested in the cops that are run every other month and are near enough to Bedford to attend here are the dates for the next few months.

Crop Dates

A crafty Sunday!

I had a peaceful crafty day yesterday so I caught up with a few pages. I might do the same later on today but can't start yet otherwise I'll have a little " helper". Sophie is here for a few hours,arriving in 30 minutes, while mummy is at work.

Here are the layouts I made yesterday.

Right,better get some lunch before she arrives!

Using up scraps!

Just a very quick post today as I have a million and one things to do!! Why does everything creep up on you all at once I wonder?

Anyhow, here is a layout I put together yesterday with just some scraps of very neutral bits of paper that were actually on their way into the waste bin. I used a Tim Holtz mask and some gesso to make the random chevrons. I randomly stamped with a couple of different Kaisercraft background stamps and added a few strips of paper........voila there's a layout. I was pretty pleased at how it came out if I'm honest:)
Another page in Sophie's 2nd year album done!

That's it from me for today. Have a good day!

Love this paper!

I think thispaper must have been brought out especially for my scrapbooking. As many of you know I'm making a dance scrapbook album(s) for my dancing granddaughter Molly. I've already filled a 8.5 x 11 and having done that size once,that was enough. I really can't get the hang of this size but it was a dilemma regarding the size of the following album. 12 x 12 was a bit too big and would take up a lot of storage space so I decided to go with an 8 x 8 size instead. So, as I said these 6.5 x 6.5 paper pads from Kaisercraft are ideal for this size layouts.

Here are a couple of layouts that I made with this " On Stage" paper. The first one is a bit of a scrap lift of one that Pam Thorburn made for the Merly Impressions blog.

I can see this paper together with the "All that Glitters" that Kaisercraft have also brought out becoming very useful to have with all these dance photos!

Crop Time

I was really ready for a lovely day at Merly Impressions crop yesterday. I've had the decorator here for a couple of weeks so scrapping has been put on the back boiler. As usual we had a lovely time with two fabulous layouts designed by Chrissy using the recently released Shine Bright range

For the first time ever ( I think) I managed to virtually finish both layouts at the crop. I had a little retail therapy at the wonderfully stocked shop so I went ahead and made a couple more layouts last night.....strike while the iron is hot so to speak!!

This one I made with some of the papers I bought yesterday, another recently released range called Oh so lovely lovely lovely range and very girly and delicate.

It's hard to believe looking at this photo of Emily that she was 14 last week, how time flies!

Just one more that I made with some spare bits of paper of Sophie to fill a gap in her album.

That's it for today,thank you for popping in.

Look what I won in the raffle!!

I went to Merly Impressions crop yesterday and look what I won in the raffle

I'm so excited to get started in decorating this. I've decided to use this line of paper from Kaisercraft to do it in.I don't know how long it will take because it is quite big but I will post it when it's finished.

Again, as always it was a lovely day,chatting with friends,eating lovely cake and a lot of fussy cutting as per usual on Chrissy's kit layouts. She really does produce some beautiful layouts for us to make. Goes without saying that I didn't completely finish them before it was time to pack up ( I never do Lol!) but I was very good and finished them both off last night.

Using the gorgeous Cherry Blossom line here are the two layouts I made out of the kit.

It's a beautiful day her,sun shining and not too cold. Hope it's the same where you are and thanks for popping in.

The rest !

As promised here are the rest of the pages I've done over the last couple of weeks.

Thanks for calling in. I hope you have a good week-end even if the weather is horrible for most of us. Roll on spring!