circles

Another prompt from the Just One Sketch class here was to change our sketch to circles. I’ve tried to do this by punching circles out of my squares which gave me a good place to add embellishments!

I miss

the LOAD prompt today was - i miss and I decided to focus on the fact I never knew my Grandad. I feel I missed out quite a lot being the youngest in the family, I never really knew any of my relatives very well.

I’m enjoying combining prompts with the Just One Sketch class here, I’ve used the monochrome idea for this one. I‘m loving all the prompts, just need to find time to do them all. The beauty of this class is that I can see me using the ideas on lots of layouts in the future.

dreams

Today I combined the prompt from the LOAD class with one from Miss Smith’s sketch class here. The idea was to stretch your sketch so I made my blocks of paper bigger to fill the page.

day 4–LOAD

The prompt for today was about change and my layout, following on from my story is really about change in a good way. We look back over our lives sometimes with sadness, where have all the years gone, those early years with our husband, starting a little family, such happy times. Time moves on and we enter a new stage,  back to being a couple again, but our children are still there and hopefully grandchildren too giving us more memories to record with love.

a layout a day

the prompt for yesterday was then and now and as I wanted to include a layout about mum in my album it was ideal. Looking at her in that photo taken so many years ago I wonder what her dreams were. I bet she didn’t think she’d still be going strong with 3 daughters, 10 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren to keep her young.

On a slightly different note, am I the only one who finds webster’s pages papers so hard to use? I got them in a Sarah’s Cards kit recently and don’t really know what to do with them.

day 2

In the LOAD class today we had to use a favourite photo. I love the one of Ian and Evalina but also wanted to show him with David over 30yrs ago.

a layout a day in February

Some of you might remember I won a class from Shimelle, LOAD, a layout a day by Lain Ehmann. The first prompt was about meals and as I’m trying to make an album about our family I searched through the photos to find early ones of the children at mealtimes. I already feel like I’m going to love this class and look forward to telling our story.

tiger cubs

Last year we took the children to see two baby tiger cubs, adopted by a little zoo not too far away. I wanted to scrap a lot of the photos from that visit and loved this class from Shimelle, perfect for scrapping a special outing.

and now for something completely different

Shimelle has a new free class over on UKS, you can find it on her blog too here

As you know I’ve been trying to keep things simple, but I had great fun trying something different.

daddy’s girl

I scraplifted a layout by Jen Gallacher over on the 2peas website using the November Sarah’s Cards kit – Crate Paper – Random. The photo is of my son and his new daughter.

sketch of the week

my take on Shimelle’s sketch of the week which you can find here. The papers are from a Sarah’s cards kit, echo park for the record collection.

sketch of the week

my take on Shimelle’s sketch of the week, using another old photo.

You can find the sketch here

griditup challenge

For this challenge I decided to print out some recently acquired old slides photos. So many of my early married life was captured on slides, it’s been great looking back on them.

The papers are all GCD – Ava from the April Sarah’s Cards kit

To find out more about these challenges go to Shimelle’s blog here

starting point challenge

challenge to be found on Shimelle’s blog here

not had as much time as I wanted to scrap today but I’ve managed this layout using pebbles happy go lucky papers from a recent Sarah’s cards kit

online scrapbooking weekend

if you fancy a bit of fun then do try out Shimelle’s blog here . I’ve just done the first challenge, to use this sketch

and here is my layout

I used a Sarah’s Cards kit,  April Echo park – For the record

I’m hoping to do a lot more challenges over the weekend.

pure attitude

having played around a bit yesterday with my photos I saw a class on 2peas by Nichol Maqouirk here which used a collage of photos. I’ve wanted to use these photos for ages and although they were taken at Christmas I decided to use papers from the latest Sarah’s Cards kit – pebbles inc – happy go lucky.

credits: frame by Simply Sarah Designs

adventure

another great class from Shimelle  http://www.shimelle.com/. I followed her video as I had the papers, the June kit – cosmo cricket – social club from Sarah’s Cards http://www.sarahscardsltd.blogspot.com/. last week we had to write about an adventure so I did our holiday in Scotland, quite an adventure for me as I hate car journeys!

credits: frame by Simply Sarah Designs

crafty day!

I’ve been busy with Shimelle’s class

and did this class on 2peas. In fact I’ve been enjoying myself today!

 

credits: frame by Simply Sarah Designs

weekly sketch

 

the weekly sketch over on Shimelle’s blog here is up and I’ve been playing along.

papers used are kaisercraft, peachy keen collection from a Sarah’s Cards Kit.

credits: frame by Simply Sarah Designs

 

Ian and Peter have been to Sandwich to watch the golf so after doing the housework I’ve had a nice lazy afternoon just pleasing myself!

Sketch challenge

 a bit late but I did manage the sketch challenge over on Shimelle's blog here, if you go on there you will see this weeks sketch which looks like a good one!

papers were my minds eye stella and rose, from a Sarah's Cards kit