Fun in the Snow

is the title I gave the snow book I had used the photos that my son had taken of Kaity playing in the snow near where they live. I downloaded the poems from the internet, and added some of my own embellishments.

Black and White Photos

are not always the easiest to scrap. These layouts are of my Mums second wedding (she was widowed in 1966) where I had the honour of being her Bridesmaid, were completed at Oyster stamps, where they hold a drop in every Wednesday. Strangely it wasn't until I had completed the layouts that I realised that I had not used any patterned paper, which I had mentioned in my Faith scrap-booking post I find difficult to do. Using plain card-stock and bling gave these pictures the subtlety I was trying to obtain. As Mums dress was lemon, I used plain yellow and dimpled black bazzill for the matting, this was then placed on plain cream card stock. They never got round to having an wedding album compiled, so I have decided to create one in their memory, Dad having passed away in 2002 and Mum 2006.

Valentines Day

I managed to complete a layout for my son and daughter in law, whilst looking after my grand- daughter, as I had a large amount of photos of them taken over the years, in a very similar pose. I decided to incorporate the best of them on a layout, what a better theme than Valentines day. I tried to keep the layout as simple as I could using hearts as embellishments, the only difficulty I encountered that all pictures were landscape, with the exception of one, and I wanted to use it. I am pleased with the final result, and they were thrilled with it.

Imaginisce

I have been working on a couple of layouts using papers from the Imaginisce range, they are really beautiful, ideal for all the little princesses in your life. Which is why I just had to use them with pictures of my Grand-daughter taken on my Nikon D40 camera.

The picture on Dream was taken on my birthday last year at the Rare Breeds Centre in Kent, and I was just getting used to the camera. I like the slight fuzzy effect of the picture and feel that it goes well with the papers. I had an idea of creating a 'glass coach' and cut it out of acetate using the Happy Ever After cartridge,on the Cricut Expressions. The Princess was embossed onto acetate using the Cuttlebug, this gave a nice white raised edge to the image, I then coloured it on the reverse using Saura Gel pens. The frame was cut out using a plastic template.

Sugar and Spice was created with a larger picture in mind. Kaity was so pleased that she was wearing her Snow White dress, which was made by her Granny Jane, it really is a lovely costume. I just love the photo, and used the blue of Kaitlyn's eyes and hair-slide to accent the layout. I then hand cut the flowers from one of the papers to create a small focal point without losing the impact of the picture.

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Faith Scrapbooking

I was fortunate enough to be invited to participate in The Christ Church craft group Scrapbooking day yesterday. I've been wanting to look into faith scrapping in more depth and this was an ideal opportunity for me. I had previously met up with Sue who organised the day through FSUK Fellowship, and pleased that I went along.

The day started with a simple layout as some of the ladies were new to scrapping using the theme of family or friends.






After the morning break, we then tackled our second layout, using the theme scenery or scenic. We were provided with a sketch and full instructions to follow, the idea to produce a double layout using 4 photos and 2 pieces of cardstock, this was a bit more difficult as I am used to using patterned paper on my layouts.




Following lunch, we then tackled our 3rd project this proved to be the most challenging as we had to scrap ourselves and link the provided scripture verses to our selected photos, and create a tag book , this is one that I will have to work on.
The final layout was based upon one of the Psalms, I chose Psalm 24, as I had an idea of what I was going to use