Fiskateers has landed

My free fiskars scissors courtesy of fiskateers arrived this morning. Beautifully wrapped. Still under the weather so am keeping a low profile. Have completed the current pencillines sketch #51.

Sue

Lovely day

Despite the lovely weather outside, I'm feeling distinctly under the weather. Elizabeth has gone to play with Fiona and Nick and Matthew have gone to the ATC open day. I'm going to put the chicken in the oven and go back to bed. I'm very disappointed as I was due to help with the Antony Nolan Cycle Challenge this afternoon, but they wouldn't want me as I am.

Thank you to Liz for the use of her cricut. All three layouts I did yesterday included Cricut cut titles. The finished products can be seen above.

looking forward to the crop

Sketch #5 from nycscraps September class. This afternoon I need to concentrate on getting ready for tomorrow's crop. I had hoped to have this month's Scrap Room kits to use, but it looks like it's my turn to receive the kit at the end of the month. Never mind, it's not like I have no stash to use, I just need to sort through and match some photos with some paper and cardstock.

See you tomorrow.

Glad to be back

Poor weather for the first week and Nick's lack of mobility meant a less than perfect holiday, so I'm glad to be back. No cooking today as Nick's work had their annual BBQ, though Nick elected not to go. I planned not to cook today so not going was not an option.

I managed about 6 pages whilst I was away and have more page kits ready for the nycscraps.com skecth class which starts next weekend. I'll put up some pictures tomorrow. The classes for Scrap Camp are revealed this evening so have drawn up a draft schedule for myself. Only 5 weeks to go.

Sue

Blossom love

No new layouts, but Ching bought the new revolution Blossom alpha for me which arrived yesterday. It comes in its own lovely box folder and Joanne and I have cut loads of titles today. Joanne has finished a couple of layouts with this font and the Pizazzil from Creative Imaginations for their sweepstakes. I have put some titles with kits to do whilst on holiday.


See you in September


PS I pinched a piccie of Joanne's layout from the Pizzazil website

Au revoir

Last image before our holidays. I need to make up 15 page kits but have done 0 so far. Packing just about done apart from a few last minute additions.

Can everyone let me know if they are coming to the September crop by 5 September please,

Found it!!

This is the layout I'd photographed the other day and then couldn't find on my computer. I was printing out some photos for Joanne and there it was, so I thought I'd share it.



I've done this layout from scratch today, much to Joanne's surprise. I guess she's implying I'm a slow scrapper!!



This layout is using the class kit I bought from Scenic Route. All I had to do was add the photos, title and journalling as the rest was ready to go. I have part organised my embellishments by colour, so when I needed something to cover a mistake on the LHS, I just opened the cream box to pull out the flower. I'm actually using up stuff that came from who knows where and who knows when!!

Another sketch

#44 from pencillines.com

See everyone on Tuesday evening.

Summer Scrapping 2007 day 1

Yesterday was the first day of five days of classes at Ukscrappers. Less full on than a three day cybercrop, but plenty of variety nonetheless. This is my version of the first class of Wednesday.

Free font

I forgot to tell you about this free handwriting font

My photos arrived

So I have added the photos to three layouts I'd planned and put together apart from the photos. I can't find the photo of the third layout so that will come tomorrow.

The first layout is using a pencil lines sketch # 40 using papers and flower from a Scrapping Angels kit

The second layout is from the Easy patterns book using the contents of the round robin kit which is going around for the second time. Joanne has it at the moment and perhaps she will be ready to pass it on to someone on Tuesday when we next meet.

Goodbye my friends

Firstly a hello and to let you know issue 2 of www.freecraftmag.com is available to download. The two competitions on the website mentioned on page 75 will be on the website soon too. Look out for my contribution to the magazine on page 87. If you sign up, you could win £100 of crafting goodies and when they contact you, don't forget it was me who told you about the magazine as I can win the same prize.


This is another pencillines.com sketch using a photo given to Matthew and his classmates at their leavers assembly. The focus of the leavers' assembly was "Goodbye my friends", hence the title.

I really need to print out and organise some photos to scrap so I can be more effective. So today I'll print out:
* Elizabeth's birthday party
* Miscellaneous end of term photos
* Bathtub challenge pirates
I also need to get out the Florida photos from 1980s

Later in the week I must go through the scans I've done of Mum's green photo album to see what I haven't scrapped yet.

The sky is blue at the moment, but it's not due to be nice today?

Go otters

We are now officially on school holidays, the end of year party for the boys has happened and the decorators have finished. Oh yes, I've also finished the last Harry Potter book. So it was time to finish this layout from Elizabeth's sports day which has been sat on my table for about 5 days. I had tried orange squares of patterned paper for the three blocks but they were too dominating, so printed off some sayings onto the turquoise vellum which I like. It adds something and you can still see the patterned paper below. This is a rouge de garance paper which I thought was the only time I would use a paper with an outline of a sneaker??? Either that or cover it up.


The sketch I used for this layout is from
pencillines.com


Tried to book a trip to Egypt for myself and the children yesterday but there are no flights available in the band that the holiday includes which is with British Airways and they want a £90 supplement for flying Egypt Air. I'd want a discount for flying with them not a supplement!! Hopefully BA will release more cheaper flights in the coming weeks and months.

End of term - almost

and where is the sun?? Here is a layout of a family picnic in the garden on a rare sunny evening earlier this month. I used one of the class kits I bought from Scenic Route and which Elizabeth helped me to put together over the weekend.

It is a frenzy of end of term assemblies and concerts at the moment, particularly for Matthew as he leaves the junior school. The boys were each presented with a photo of everyone in his year and the two teachers last night for which I am most grateful. Especially as I had to redo the teachers' cards last night as the person who offered to get the cards signed asked one of the boys to do it and didn't tell him only those listed on the envelopes were to sign. Only one day to go!! and one more concert tonight.

Rouge de Garance

Yesterday I received a lovely parcel of papers from Rouge de Garance which was a prize from their National Scrapbooking Day activities in May. They sent me two of everything so I've split the parcel with Joanne.

Sue

A photo

Not a scrapbooking photo, but something I've been working on for the last week. Just need to slipstitch the inside cover around the zip.

Provisional dates for autumn crops. Saturday 22 September and Saturday 20 October - subject to booking the Eastern good Companions. We have asked Dee to show us how she made her lovely crocheted flowers at the September crop.

Big photos

Aother layout using a big photo and fun serif. This was the first liberation day celebration I've ever been to and I was surprised how close to the action you could get.

Need to go to quilting this morning and get a quilt ready for quilting.

Another layout from the crop

Which contains no journalling so actually finished at the crop. these are pictures of Fiona's 7th birthday.

Exactly a month after Fiona's birthday is Elizabeth's birthday. There'll be a definite cupcake theme to her birthday layout as the invites and party ware which we bought in England are as cute as cupcakes. I've seen some china with cupcakes on them at M&S so I might have to buy some.

Some journalling to do at the crop this evening and two more Paris layouts. If I finish the journalling that would be an achievement.

Grid lock

The access road to the harbour was gridlocked this morning with parents from at least 6 schools dropping off children for the Condor sailing to France. This chaos will probably be repeated on Friday too.



Another layout using Creative Imagination scalloped paper and Lorraine's scalloped circle punches. Funs serif with chipboard again!! I organised my Paris photos to scrap them at the crop on Saturday but worked slower than I'd hoped so I will get them out today and make a start on Versailles.

Glorious day

Both yesterday and today. I completely finished two layouts at the crop yesterday and here is the first one. Inspired by a layout by Shimelle, I'm loving those scalloped punches with the journalling stamp or circle stamp. Thanks Lorraine for loaning them to me.



This photo was from my Snapfish order. I liked the matt finish and the photos looked good blown up.

A minor heart in mouth moment at the crop when my troll beads hit the floor, but I spent an hour this morning listing my purchases and none were missing. It was lovely looking at each individual bead again.

Matthew is off to France with the school tomorrow. His suitcase and rucksack are packed. It'll be an early start with a 6.45am drop at the harbour. Matthew has two disposable cameras to use. He kindly asked what I'd like him to bring back from France and my reply of course was loads of good photos. I will no doubt embarass him by taking photos as he departs, but what's new!!