Crop Layouts.

I went to Merly Impressions crop on Saturday. Super day as usual with a fab kit together with instructions to make two LO's designed by Chrissy. not to mention the yummy cakes that we are always supplied with.All in all a lovely day. I thought I would share the two classes that I made. Papers used are the Kaisercrafts Miss Match that can be found here

Love the fact that these two layouts are from the same range of papers but are so totally different. Shows how versatile a pack of these papers can be. Lovely and sunny here today but with a very cold wind so I've decided that clearing up in the garden ready for the winter can wait !!!! Thanks for visiting, bye for now :)

Seems a long time ago now !

Don't you think this year has gone very quickly? quicker than normal I think or is it must be me getting old to think that LOL ! It won't be long until Christmas and I'm still waiting for summer to arrive ! Anyhow I took loads of photos at the street party I went to in June for the Diamond Jubilee and this is only the second layout I've done. First one I didn't like, but I'm pleased to say I was quite happy how this one turned out. After the instant dislike to the Papermania Jubilee Paper I went on a retail therapy outing one night over the net to Sarah's Cards and bought some Ruby Rocket Vintedge papers and a few stickers. The monthly challenge over atMerley Impressions Blog this month is to use just paper - no cardstock, just paper. So using two sheets of paper, one for cutting the cogs and clocks out and one for the background, a few stickers, mini alphas and thickers for the title and voila ! another page done and three photos less to scrap from that pile LOL !

Anyone know why blogger doesn't post with paragraphs in ? It's driving me batty, not noticed it before. There are paragraphs in my post but obviously blogger doesn't like them !!! Hope you've had a nice week-end and thanks for poping by :)

Really bad blogger !!!

Yes, that is me. I can't believe that it's been two months since I've done any blogging. I really don't know where the time has gone. In all honesty I haven't really done any scrapbooking either. So I had nothing to blog about !!!! I went to the Merly Impressions crop in July and put together two layouts that was from the kit at the crop, came home with a bit of inspiration and put together another three layouts and that's it I'm afraid. I've been gardening,sorted some unwanted clothing for the charity shop, looking after children, feeling sorry for myself as both girls went on holiday at the same time and left me on my own - not that's not really nice is it ?( ha ha )In some ways it was nice and peaceful without the phone calls of " Mum, are you doing anything, can you blah blah blah" !! not to mention being glued to the TV because of the Olympics. Went to my God-daughters wedding the Saturday before bank holiday. Then last week I went up to Wales for a week to visit my sister. Weather wasn't too bad but a bit chilly, fairly sunny with a couple of days when it was raining but had a lovely week catching up with her and her family. So I'm back now :) Sian went to Florida for three weeks with a list of punches !!! She managed to get all four punch around the page Martha Stewart ones that was on the list for buy one and get another with 50% off. So I had all four of them for just under £60 - now that's what I call a bargain! I sent her back to get some more after she phoned and told me about the deal but the offer had finished. She still managed to get two border punches and a 3 in 1 hydragea flower one for me though and they were still cheaper than they are over here. So I've now got lots of punches to use when I get going again. In the meantime here are the two layouts that were done with the kit from the crop. Chrissy's layouts are right up my street every time with all the lovely fussy cutting and the gorgeous Kaisercraft papers.

and these are the three that I did over that week-end. I'm positive I used a sketch from somewhere for the one of Sophie "So Happy" but for the life of me I can't remember from where. So I apologize that I haven't given it credit.

This one is the same photo as the page from the crop one but I wanted to make two layouts, one each for Jack & Charlie's albums.

Thanks for calling in and I apologize that there hasn't been anything to share if you've popped in over the last few weeks, hopefully I'll get back into the groove from now on.