Central Park using sketch by Tamara

This was the other layout I did at Saturdays crop.  I used a sketch I came across on facebook  Sketches! {by Tamara}  I used to be regular visitor to her blog and was even a guest designer once but I seem to have got out of the habit - not sure why and I will have to make sure I visit regularly again.

Mothers Day

I have to share this fantastic Mothers Day 'Card' my 15 year old daughter made for me.  Completely on her own with most of the usual tools missing (I was at a crop) she sat and made this.  No idea where the idea came from. As it isn't clear from the picture it is stuck to a wall and the 2 strips of photos are just connected by the ribbons with the letters on.

Shimelles Class - prompt 2

Prompt 2 from Shimelles class arrived on Friday morning.  This one was about using up patterned papers.  As I was going to a crop on Saturday I decided to use the prompt as inspiration.  So here are 2 layouts inspired by the class.

Another LO using metal

I was on a roll yesterday so did a second layout trying to incorporate metal as per Shimelle's prompt.  Photos were taken from the balcony of the place we stayed in Florida last October.

New Class

A couple of days ago I came across a new class from Shimelle that starts today.  The title is Something from {almost} nothing and is based around using some of the stash mountain we have all acquired.  Now I have to admit that the last Shimelle class didn't go so well for me...nothing wrong with the course just in the run up to Christmas and starting a new job meant I didn't get past the first few prompts.  But this one will be different!!  So here is my first layout.

The idea is to use up metal!  There was a fab example layout by Piradee which started me off although the finished LO looks nothing like it!!  I was inspired to get out the old metal rimmed tags and with a bit of playing discovered layering them and adding some MM journalling stickers worked.  The words on the Tim Holtz metal  tags don't show on the photo so they are giggle, memories, silly, treasure, friendship, always.  The gorgeous cardstock is from creative imaginations and came in a scrapagogo kit.  Thanks Shimelle for making me use it - it is one of those that was too nice to use!!!

Final Crop Layouts

Here are the other 3 layouts I did at the new year crop - it was a productive day.

The first was using the December gogo kit and photos taken during one of the days the kids had off school due to the snow.

The next layout uses photos taken at this years New Years Day swim that Graeme and Katherine did.  

They also did the Christmas Day swim along with Becky but I was cooking dinner so wasn't there with the camera!

And the final layout is a simple one using a picture of Graeme taken in New York last year.

Zoo photos

We went to the zoo on Boxing day and obviously the camera went too.  When the girls went to stand next to the statue of Jambo it just reminded us of when they were little and we had to help them up to sit on top...not quite the case now as they are far bigger than him!

Again more gogo kits were used along with the fabulous Xcut butterfly punch.

At our New Years crop we had some challenges and one was to use a kit and sketch provided - thanks Sue and Joanne for the goodies and inspiration.  Again I used photos from the same trip to the zoo.  The meerkats were being particulary co-operative that day!

Another Yosemite

I am still going through photos from Yosemite - I took so many when we went in 2008 and I really must check and make sure that I am not duplicating them, but I found this photo lying around and thought I would use it!

I used the technique of cutting out the butterflies I learnt in a fab class at the last gogo getaway.  Again everything was from gogo kits!

Last Crop

As it is a lovely bright day for a change and I had my camera out to take photos of the card I have also taken photos of the layouts from the last couple of crops which I will publish over the next few days.

I am really pleased with this layout - I think it is my favourite for a long time - other than ones done in classes!!

I really wanted to use some of my punches so went a bit mad with the Martha Stewart around the page punch !

Papers and embellishments are from scrapagogo kits - not sure if they were all from the same box or not as I was mixing and matching a few kits at the crop and lost track!

Papertake Weekly Card

For a while I have been seeing lots of easel cards and I fancied having a go.  It was very easy to make and I enjoyed working on a smaller size than normal too - although I could still have made it bigger it didn't seem so necessary for some reason!

I used the sketch on this weeks Papertake Weekly challenge blog.  I did rotate it as it worked better with the rectangular image.

Papers are Basic Grey Porcellain and the magnolia image is coloured with my copics.  I probably could have taken a better photo to show how the easel card works - sorry!