jump, bounce, POSE!

February came and went in a flash didnt it ?  Cant believe it is already past the middle of March! Mind you I am counting down the days of the next 2 weeks as I am going away on a weekend retreat with some lovely ladies I met online at UKScrappers.  I am hoping to beat my personal best of 2 LO’s at a  retreat although  at the rate I chat and eat cake whilst sipping on a glass or two of wine, I dont hold much hope.

I did manage to have a go at the March House Challenge on UKScrappers this week. The challenge was to do a monochrome LO.

I have used these photo’s of Amy playing on the trampoline last spring. As per usual she was even posing for the camera while bouncing! 

My girl loves to be in front of a camera. Can you tell ?

I chose to use shades of grey taking inspiration from Amy’s skirt and shoes. I stamped out the base with grey ink and then went over it with a paler grey acrylic paint to add some texture. The flowers were cut from a co-ordinating paper which is from a Papermania Range I think.

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Dee
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It’s Only Taken Me 5 Months . . . . .

to finish this mini album!!  The album was made at a class run by Cleo Crafts way back in October 2010. I knew I wanted to use the album for my photo’s of The Chocolate Drops but somehow just never got round to printing out the photo’s.

Then in February 2011 I printed out the photo’s and took the album to the Twilighters Retreat at Peace Haven. Well, I made good progress at the retreat and managed to mount all the photo’s and place them in how I wanted them but then ran out of time to do the journaling and finishing touches.

So now in March 2011 I’ve finished it!!  Not bad eh!

Well I got there in the end. Another WIP bites the dust!

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Dee
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Fun & Play

Happy Monday!!  Well the sun is trying to shine here this morning without much luck although the rain and hail has stopped so that’s a positive.

OK I must confess to being a little bit naughty this morning! I logged on to UKScrappers to have a look at the weekly challenge and I loved it, so much so that I started on it straight away instead of doing the housework! Well its was a quick LO as the criteria was ‘White Space’  so there is still plenty of time for me to do the breakfast dishes and the laundry before I have to go out.

Here’s my LO featuring the ever adorable Madison Babycakes playing in the cat tunnel.

Fun & Play

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No Longer WIP’s . . . . Now Finished and Filed!

The weather has been awful here, really awful. We have had sleet, snow, hail, wind – you name it we’ve had it!  So it’s been a perfect weekend for staying in and crafting snug and warm which is exactly what I have done. As I mentioned in my last post I had several WIP’s laying about which really needed to be finished so I decided to use this weekend to get those done.

First up is my  January LO for Project 12. Here’s the sketch we are working with:

And here is my take on it. January was quite a busy month for us so I had a good few photo’s to chose from. I used the journaling block to summarise the month’s goings on.

The Left Hand page :

The right hand page:

ext up is the LO I started way back at the beginning of February at the Peace Haven Retreat! I had an idea of how I wanted this to turn out and it was just one of those that didnt really come together so I ended up cutting it up and changing my idea altogether!

This is my beautiful Lola La’Finkle:

Simply Adorable

The papers are MME Lost & Found and the pink blooms are by Prima. The small green flower is a paper flower that I made a while ago for a mini album but I made too many so have a few still laying round.

Finally is a ‘quick’ LO I started at the Craft Club (I’ve started a club in our local village to introduce people to scrapbooking and card making as there is nothing like it here at the moment). I say ‘quick’ as it was intended to be started and finished within an hour to show a few ladies about scrapbooking in the hope that they would want to have go. Well, I spent so much time chatting and drinking coffee that I hardly got anything stuck down at all. I kept the LO simple so that the ladies new to scrapbooking could follow and produce LO’s of their own.

The photo is of Amy & Tony last summer on the water shoot slide at Pleasurewood Hills Theme Park in Norfolk while we were over visiting my brother.

Whoosh!

So there's the fruits of my crafty weekend!  No longer WIP's . . .  but finished and filed.

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Dee
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