Two totally different styles of Layouts!

Using up some waste from the other two LO's I made this layout with the Echo Park For the Record kit. Most of it has now gone except for a couple of half sheets. Cutting into papers to get certain elements out of the design uses more paper I think than cutting them in straight lines so to speak !I had a lot of the flowers left in smaller bits to use up - shame to waste them, so I cut them all out and layered the left side of this LO with them !
Photo is of Molly busy colouring in the goodies that they give children while they're waiting for their lunch at the Rainforest Cafe in London.

I then decided to make a tearing & inking LO, totally different style to the Echo Park LO, using a bit of a mixture of Websters Pages, again bits left over from previous work. I do hate waste,it's no wonder that my stash doesn't seem to go down in quantity very much !!!
There's lots of layering on this LO and I've used some punches to make the flowers & butterflies and added a bit of bling. The photo isn't mine, believe it or not it was taken by a professional photographer at the Dance Festival earlier this year. The white balance on it is totally out and I have tried to improve it as much as I can in photoshop but my knowledge of Photoshop isn't that great ! But it does record her Perfect Saute ( a ballet technique)that she performed when it mattered ! It actually looks as if she's on pointe ( ha ha she wishes ! ) but she's actually up in the air.

Some more Echo Park.

Rather than clearing it all away and forgetting about what is left in the April kit from Sarah's Cards I thought I would carry on using more of it while it was all out -everywhere!
The photos on this LO are not the best,in actual fact they're quite dire ! They were taken on my camera phone and my phone isn't the most up to date all singing all dancing one by any stretch of the imagination! Guess who forgot to take the real camera with her when we went up to London to see the Wizard of Oz in February half term !!
I need to make another two LO's with the same photos at a later date. That's the problem when each of the grandchildren have their own albums !

Do you like Sketches?

I find sketches very useful when you're having a bit of a blank moment and I'm sure many scrapbookers experience this at some time or another.
I'm sure most scrapbookers have also got a few favourite sites that they visit on a regular basis to fill the need. Well, there's a brand new site to add to your list - have a look here where you'll find this super sketch to get your creative juices flowing and a chance to win some gorgeous goodies into the bargain, can't be bad can it ?
Here's the sketch

and this is what I came up with using the Echo Park For the Record range of papers. The photo is of Charlie who has the most amazing length eyelashes. How come that it's always the boys that have the lovely eyelashes and all the girls have to eventually succumb to using long lash mascara in an attempt to get theirs anywhere near a decent length?

So if you fancy a go at the sketch pop over and have a go.......you've got to be in it to win it so they say !

Some more My Minds Eye with Prima !

I'm still on the mission of using some past My Minds Eye papers from my stash! On this LO I've used some Stella & Rose Gertie with some lovely Prima flowers. The photo is my eldest daughter when she reluctantly posed for me when I did an on-line portraiture course recently.

My Minds Eye Blog Sketch Challenge

Over the week-end I was catching up on some blog visits and saw this sketch on the MME blog

As this photo of Sophie was in landscape mode I turned the sketch 90deg to the right and this is what I came up with. Everything on this LO has come from the newly released Lost & Found 2 Blush collection.

Challenge Time !

Each month over at Sarah's Cards' blog (scroll down to the post on the 10th August) they set a challenge. This months challenge was to do a layout using 5 different papers.
I started out with a photo of Charlie when he fell on his arm on the trampoline and for a few days we were not sure if he had broken it or not, thankfully he had only badly bruised it. The challenge was to use five different papers for the LO and I chose the My Mind Eye Quite Contrary Little Boy Blue collection - told you I had quite a nice stock of "old" MME. I've made a conscious decision to use these papers instead of stroking them !!!

Once I made this LO I found I quite enjoyed this challenge of using five papers so went ahead and made another one with a sheet of 3 Bugs in the rug Chloe range, which I used for the cut out flowers and some Echo Park Little Girl for the background and the borders down the bottom. The photo is of Sophie having her first taste of " real" food and took to it like a duck to water!

Well that's it for today. I'll be back tomorrow with another LO using some more of the new Lost & Found 2 papers from My Minds Eye !

Some more My Minds Eye !

Here's another LO that I put together last night using some more of my recently bought My Minds Eye Lost & Found 2.
This is Sophie my little grandaughter who was 6 months old last month.

The Old and the New !

Most people know by now that I have a great affection for My Minds Eye paper. One of my favourite manufacturers.
Needless to say I've got quite a collection that needs using up so last week I decided to use some of the very old " stock" that I had for these photos of Jack way back in 2007. He used to love playing with empty boxes when he was a toddler.
This LO is pretty clean and simple to what I usually put together. Not sure that I could make too many though but I do quite like this one.

I was in heaven the other day when the e-mail came through from Sarah that the new Lost & Found 2 had arrived at the shop so I just had to have a little shop - little being the operative word !! What do you leave out of your order when the whole lot are so beautiful?
Anyhow the minute I saw them I just knew that they would be the ideal papers to scrap these photos of Molly at the All England Dance Final last week.

Need to have a look at some more photos now for the rest of it.