Cybercrop Sunday

It has been a productive and unrushed CC Sunday. The first few cybercrops, Joanne and I tried to do everything and I got all stressed up trying to upload photos for both of us. Now I photgraph my work rather than use the scanner which is quicker, also there are more mini book and altered items classes, which don't appeal to me so there is less temptation to rush and try and do it all.

Today I've done four layouts with photos from our Egypt holiday and using my Scarlet Lime kits again:






Nick is home and pain free and fairly mobile. My activities will however be curtailed this week as he will be at home and expecting me to be back to have lunch with him. Fingers crossed for a quick recovery.

Next job is to get ready for the crop next Saturday and I will probably put together the April page of Shimelle's scrap your day class for the cybercrop.

Cybercrop Saturday

And it has been very quiet once we dropped Nick off to the hospital and Elizabeth's friend was picked up. We visited the Guide Dogs for the Blind book sale and I bought about 30 books, one of which I read this afternoon.

My calendar arrived yesterday as hoped, thanks to lorraine for taking in my parcel. So I just need to add photos from yesterday to the April pages of the calendar. Other than that I've only done one layout and one card from the cybercrop. Those that I was hoping to do didn't appeal to me but I have another set of instructions which I have printed off to do tomorrow morning.


Tomorrow will be busy with the St George's Day scout parade, Fiona is carrying a banner and Matthew is accompanying another banner. Matthew was asked to read at the service but he declined, just as well as there was a practice today.

Tomorrow is now today

And I really want the MM calendar today not tomorrow. I can ring Kars in 15 minutes so they can track my delivery. Fingers crossed.

First Egypt layout

My photos arrived this morning from Truprint, envelope was torn but photos were still in good condition.


This is a pre-crop challenge for the UkScrappers cybercrop which starts tomorrow. The challenge was to use a specific Pagemaps sketch. I also used the Scarlet Lime March kit with papers and cardstock stickers from Making Memories. The black chipboard is from Cosmo Cricket

Getting ready for the Oscars

Friday evening sees the start of the Ukscrappers Cybercrop of the theme of the Oscars. The organising team seem to have taken on board comments from earlier cybercrops and one of the changes is fewer kits. For the mystery kit you can either buy a kit or make up your own. I used some of the products from this month's scarlet lime kit for my "Comedy Kings" themed layout.

In preparation for Friday night I want to get the sketch challenge done and at the moment I'm planning on doing one of my Egpyt photos with the April Scarlet Lime kit which is Making Memories 5th Avenue. Not that my Egypt photos have arrived yet which I ordered from truprint on Monday. At the moment Truprint are doing 4p a print for 4 by 6 prints which is much cheaper than printing at home.

The other class I'm definitely doing is Shimelle's photos a day calendar. I have ordered the calendar and I'm hoping it will be delivered tomorrow. The reason being once I'm behind I never quite catch up and lose enthusiasm.

And if you'd like to join in the cybercrop go to http://www.ukscrappers.co.uk/boards/forumdisplay.php?f=220 If you haven't registered on UKS before, that will be the first point of call, then click on the register button in the cybercrop area and you will be allocated to a team, then go to the bingo thread and choose 12 words and e-mail them off. Then enjoy.

Bad blogger

Veronica is getting bored of not seeing anything new on the blog, so these will have to suffice for the next two weeks!!! It's nice to know someone reads the blog.

This layout was for Elizabeth's friend whose 10th birthday it was in March. I used the Love Elsie kit I won from Scrapdreamie. I have a similar layout in progress for Elizabeth. I sanded the embossed cardstock to reveal the white core.

An old layout which needed 10 minutes of journalling.

Scrap room kit from October afternoon. Scenic Route chipboard letter, Making memories journalling die cut which I'm enjoying using regularly.

I did this layout at last Saturday's crop. I had found the scrap of green and pink patterned paper on my desk and the rest followed. Thank you to Lorraine for the funky foam flower centre and button

I think this was a pencil lines sketch from two months ago.

See everyone in two weeks time.

Buzzted?

Need inspiration pop over to scrapdreamie

Sneaky

This is a geocache container use by the Jersey Royals, very sneaky.

I found it

At Saturday's crop I was bemoaning the second page of a two page layout that I couldn't find. I lifted up my huge craft mat to dust and lo and behold I'd put the page under there to stick some bits down. So you can see my Portelet Common page above.


Another productive and sociable crop on Saturday. I did two one page layouts and two 8" pages for my Christmas journal. I misaligned a rub on and had left my adhesive eraser at home (one good thing from the Paris show!!!). The rub on came off beautifully.




I liked yesterdays pencillines.com sketch and can see that it would make a great title page for a holiday album (such as Egypt I wonder). I changed the 18 photos to 3 and used some Daisy D which isn't my cup of tea combined with some Basic Grey.

Quick on the draw

This must be an all time record fo me. The pencil lines sketch went up at 8pm, I printed the photos whilst watching Gordon Ramsay and I was finished the layout by 9.40 pm last night. Woohoo.

I used a sheet of Noteworthy paper for the background and Creative Imaginations scalloped paper as a mat.

Lovely day

How lovely to see so many people on Saturday and what great work everyone was producing. I finished three layouts completely and have one in progress.

I have now booked three crops for February and March and they are listed on the right hand side. Let me know if you can make the February crop.

Crop day

The first crop of 2008 and it's 8.43 am. So what am I doing - the usual - printing out photos at the last minute. The printer and the camera weren't cooperating last night, but a reboot sorted them out. So here are my LOAD layouts for days 8 to 11 of January. That should be four layouts if I can remember what layouts I did.

Seaworld just needed some journalling but the E fell off the disk for my big dymo so that meant I had to abandon my dymo idea and throw the disk away.

Boys will be boys just needed the title block and patterned paper on LHS.

JJC dinner I did from scratch at Tuesday's group and when I came to upload it the same night to BPS couldn't get on the internet so am out of the big prize drawing.

Science Museum inspired by a layout in the Designing with 2008 calendar.

Printer still printing but I think I need to start packing the car.

seventh day and 7 layouts finished

Here is today's from Matthew's birthday party in December. the photos of Matthew with the cake were rubbish so had to make do, never mind. Thanks to Tracy for orgainising the climbing.

Brilliant day

I almost forgot to upload this layout to the BPS daily challenge gallery. I had almost finished it yesterday morning and only had a few letters to adhere and then photograph the whole layout. We went shopping,ate lunch and then went to a geocaching event that we eventually got home from at about 8.30 pm.we were tired and damp but it was a good tired IYKWIM.

The layout is about a geocache find in Lizard Quarry. Lovely views despite the mist last weekend. Scraplifted from a new Scrapbook Trends which arrived on Friday. So busy I haven't read them all or the magazines Joanne lent me last week.

Time to take down the decrations this morning before the children go to the panto this afternoon.

Down the salt mine

Another layout from a crop last year that only required journalling but took 4 months to get around to doing and about 20 minutes to check the spelling on place names and to complete.

LayOut a Day

There is a challenge running on bigpicturescrapbooking.com to complete a layout a day in January. I have decided to finish off my Christmas journal and any other half finished layouts that I come across. One such layout is this one of Belem which I completed at a crop and hadn't done the journalling for.

Motorbiking

DHL have delivered a scrapbooking parcel to Bikers at Georgetown. I can only wonder what they were going to do with the delivery which they've had since last Thursday. Fingers crossed that it gets here safely this morning.

The walking back to happiness layout was created with the Sweetwater kit form Scraproom for November with the addition of the gorgeous felt ribbon from Queen & Co and the Sticthz Bazzill from my November Scrapagogo kit.

Found it

My scraproom kit eventually arrived so quickly pulled the layout together with lots of help from a pencillines.com sketch #59.

This morning we headed out to the Channel103 big car boot sale. Very busy and tight for space. Matthew was pleased with his Knex and Lego purchases. I found some books and a big rucksack for Elizabeth to use for her cub camp.

Then we set off with Joanne and Fiona to try and find four geocaches http://www.geocaching.com/ around town but without the aid of GPS. The first we found with the clue and help from Yvonne. Unfortunately it needs maintenance and the log was missing. The next two we didn't find but will return with GPS (once it arrives from Amazon). Bought two advent calendars from Thorntons on the way to Wests Centre where we found and logged our first find. To celebrate we had lunch at the Pomme d'Or. Perfect weather for geocaching.

Isn't this cute

Look who was visiting this afternoon. Ann Freeman (Scrapagogo Design team) was predicting at the weekend that hedgehogs will be the owl of 2008. I hope she's right. lol

That's better

I've resized the previous layout so you can actually see it.

Week 3 of jessica sprague's class. I'm getting quicker at this!! Still haven't figured how to print out the layouts yet at the size I want.