April Crop

I had a productive evening at this months crop on Tuesday almost completing 2 layouts.  Didn't finish either because I had taken no alpahabets with me and no Cricut either!  So I have just added the titles now.

For both of them I used sketches from the Triple the Sketch blog.  The first one is this weeks sketch.  NAG stands for national age group and was the name of the swimming squad - hence the title.

All the papers, chipboard and rik-rak were from last months studio calico kit.

The second layout was an older sketch I hadn't used yet.  For this one I used scenic route papers from a scrap-room kit.  The title comes from the fact I have no idea at all where this is as it was taken at a stopping point whilst driving from Paris to Spain so could be anywhere in the middle of France!

UKS weekly challenge

I did this layout on Monday for the UKS weekly challenge.  The challenge was to work to a sketch which only had one small photo on it and add ribbon, stamping and doodling.

I am not sure about this one - It was outside of my comfort zone leaving this much space.  I did like the photo of Katherine taken earlier this year - a nice natural shot.

Playing with Water

This is the second layout I did today.  This time the inspiration was this weeks challenge on UKS.  It meant I had to find a photo with me in it so I went back to 1999 the earliest digi photos I have to find one!  Used the pink paislee paper from my studio calico kit along with the journalling block and the bling on the tree.

Becky Bouncing

I have had another productive day.  My inspiration for this layout was this weeks sketch on Triple the Sketch.

When looking through my photos I found loads taken of my daughter on the trampoline so I decided to use a whole string of them to give the idea of movement.  Unfortunately as the pictures are so small they don't show up well on here.

Mostly used some of the final remnants of last months scrapagogo kit with a couple of extra bits.

A walk to Ouaisne

Today is national scrapbooking day and Triple the Sketch have a special sketch challenge.  This is my layout for this challenge.  I used last months Studio Calico kit.

Unfortunately this isn't a great picture as it was taken with a flash rather than waiting till the morning.  The colours are sharper in real life and there is stitching round the edge which doesn't really show up.

Last night I did another cj entry for my UKS team cj and then today I went to our local crop.  I was working on the mission impossible class from last weeks cc on uks but I haven't finished that yet.

Cards

This morning I made 2 cards for Katherine's friends.  I saw the idea of the tag cards in this months gogo greetings booklet but decided to use an older kit for the more feminine colours.  They are for two 15 year old girls!

Here they are with the tags out and one has some money attached too which is the reason I liked the idea of the tags so I could hide the money inside! 

I also did a cj - our UKS team cj and without wanting to give too much away these cards inspired the design of that too!

Holes

Here is a layout I did last night.  It is Cleo's layout class for the CC.  I bought the kit for this one from mod scraps and followed the instructions to start with but I wasn't sure about the windows on cleo's layout as I prefer the photos to stand out and I didn't do the mini book either so mine is a simpler version but I am pleased with the outcome.

The photos were taken by Katherines friend Tash last month.

UKS Oscars CC pre crop classes

As I won't be able to do a lot over the weekend as there is a swimming gala I thought I would do a couple of the pre crop classes to get some points for my team the Comedy Kings.

This is a mini book made with my bind-it-all.  Very straight forward and each page has one of the plastic atc holders on it so I can fill it with some of the atc's I have collected so far.

Have to say although it is a simple idea I would never have thought of it myself as a way of storing atc's and much cheaper than a binder.  The layout is a sketch class using a pagemaps sketch.  Used this months scrapagogo kit and my cricut to create the circles and patterns.

Scrap your Day

I have decided to do Shimelle's UKS CC class to scrap your day once a month for a year. There are a few flaws in the plan at the minute - the calendar I am going to base it on hasn't arrived yet so I can't actually start the book yet!  Secondly today was the first day and I still forgot to take pictures first thing this morning so hopefully I will get better.  But there are ways of fudging photos of the alarm clock and I doubt dh would be very happy if I had started taking photos of it at 4.40 anyway!  So thanks to Sue for putting Shimelles picture on her blog as it reminded me before too late in the day to get the camera out,

Rebecca - Age 4

My google recently updated itself and now I have a bar down the side of my screen with all sorts on it including scrolling randomly through photos.  So I keep seeing all these old cute photos of the kids so decided to do a layout with some of these old photos for a change. The inspiration came from the ScrapDreamie blog who have a challenge to scrap lift one of the layouts of their new design team.  I chose a layout by Michele Beck to scrap lift and then used this months scrapagogo kit.  For a change I went for 11 x 8.5 - I love this size for quicker layouts.