Sketchy Thursdays 11.10

Super quick post today as it's 11.23 on Saturday morning and I am still in my pj's!!!!

I was so keen to do some scrapbooking that I got up at 7 and finished off this layout and then did another one that I shall post in a minute. There is so much going on at the moment that my Turkey scrapbook has been on the back burner for far too long so I am on a mission to get it completed before the engagement party photos take over!

This week's sketch from ST is another corker :0)



and here is my take:

Papers are October Afternoon - primarily Sidewalks. The chipboard bird is GCD Studios and has been glittered with MS glitter.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Ali x

October Afternoon Fest :0)

Helloooo again,

thought I would share some of the things I have been doing with my scraps - my mission continues to use up collections I have started and never seem to finish!

It was tricky to get a good photo of the shadow bow because of the acetate - it looks much nicer in real life, lol.

For some reason all these candles had got wierd dents in them - think they must have been  too warm ! Still they look prettier now :0)

Saw this idea on Pinterest and whizzed up into the loft for an old frame. Rubbed it down added some dabbers  on the frame and the back board and cut the birds using the Silhouette - easy peasy :0)

Thanks for stopping by, off to Ikea this morning for some new candles :0)

Ali x 

Sketchy Thursday 11.3 Challenge

Hello,

before I start
*****SUE DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER*****!!!!!!

My BF has asked that I make sure she knows not to look at any posts that show photos of the layouts for her birthday album - I think that's clear enough!!

This week's sketch and the GDT challenge sketch are both delightful :0) I have used the GDT sketch but I am not entering it as although I am more than grateful for my BF and her friendship throughout the last 22 years I haven't made a reference to it on the layout itself .

   

This layout is of BF's sons about 17 years ago. They are playing in the park that we have all spent many happy hours in. I am loving this trip down memory lane using photos that I haven't necessarily seen before. I did smile when going through the photos BF had chosen. This album is supposed to be about her and yet 75% of the photos she has chosen are of the boys - I guess we are all the same, it's so much easier to choose photos of the ones we love rather than ourselves :0)

Papers are Anna Griffin Darcy collection - thought the mustard was a perfect match to  my godson's coat :0)

Anna Griffin again! This time it's from the collection with the flocked butterfly paper (don't know the name as it came from QVC and doesn't have a cover) I used one of the Spellbinders dies to cut out the frame. The letters are from the Cecile wedding collection and the butterfly and flowers are from iamroses.com. The stars and rubon are from my stash. Our hair may be lighter, the wrinkles have moved in and the pounds have crept on but we are still BF's forever!

Thanks for stopping by and have a great day,

Ali x

Creative Scrappers #180

Hello all,

I had to have a break from making banners.......still got 20 yards to go :0( but it will be worth it as the rooms will be bedecked in loveliness for the engagement party :0)

I was trawling through the blogs that I follow and I found Creative Scrappers on someone's blog (not sure who, but I owe them!) Beautiful sketches and inspiration layouts.

Here is this week's sketch



My take is using photos of my BF and her parents. She is going to be 50 in February and wants a scrapbook of her life, fine with me, I love vintage photos!!

All the papers are Anna Griffin's 'Francesca' as is the rosette and banner,  which has been stamped by curling the  acrylic stamp round to match the curve of the stamp. The butterflies have been cut with a Tim Holtz die or punched with a Martha Stewart punch. The butterflies have also had Perfect Pearls in Opal White added to the middles.

They say 'delight in the detail' and I love the formal photo, but no-one thought to move the milk bottles!! Lovely :0)

Thanks so much for stopping by,

Ali x

Whit woo I am an official DT member of Frosted Designs!!

Morning,

I was thrilled to get the email from Debbie asking if I would like to join the team, she said to think about it, so I did for all of 1 second and promptly emailed back to say I would  love to!

The sketch for today is another of Debbie's lovely creations and here it is:

I have used photos from our recent holiday to Turkey for my take. Now, I know we look as though we should be auditioning for Wicked but we were under a green canopy and the flash didn't want to play ball!! It was such an amazing day on the River Dim, eating fish that had been caught that morning, so rather than not include them in our holiday scrapbook I decided to just go with the flow and use dodgy photos :0)

The papers are Pink Paislee 'Hometown Summer' as are the embellies, save for the Prima yellow resin flower and 'got flowers?' the fish was cut on the Cricut (I am trying to use it more)

Thanks so much for stopping by. Really looking forward to my time with the lovely FD girlies :0)

Ali x