Tomorrow...

Tomorrow is grab it day

over at Scrapagogo

and Septembers kit is so awesome

so if you want any of the Grab it your gonna have to be fast...

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Just a quick one ...

I saw this sketch over on Creative Scrappers,

and set about scrapping with it yesterday.

The photos & journalling document how difficult

I found it to get into the rings in the wave pool on holiday !!

The more I laughed the worse I got !!

& Paul kindly captured it on film.

The papers are Crate Paper - Brook

with added ricrac, gems and alpha.

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Another year older...

This year I feel a little like the Queen !!!

We were away in Genoa on my actual birthday,

I had a fab day that started with chocolate coated strawberries

for breakfast in our cabin, a relaxed day sightseeing at our own pace

& ended with birthday cake :)

On our return home I was greeted by these beauties

that Mum & Matt had made,

they were so tasty.

We took my cards on our trip.

I had loads of lovely gifts from family & friends

which I opened on return.

My thanks to you all xxx

Heres some pics.

Loads to do/read/watch here.

I really wanted this Nike +

I'll tell you more in a later post.

The silver bead is Pandora & the glass 2 are troll.

The boys carefully brought these back from their Czech trip.

These cuties were from Harriet x

my collection is growing, we have managed

to replace most of the ones I lost :)

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more August Lo's

To be a Butterfly.

There are so many beautiful butterflies in this months

Scrapagogo kit

& I've used a number of them on this page.

To create the stamped background I adhered a Maya Rd

chipboard butterfly to an acrylic

block, having given it a coat of nail varnish

and then used it in the normal way.

I'm really pleased with the results.

Beautiful Lanterns.

When I saw the wonderful lantern stamps,

I knew immediately what photo I wanted to use.

This was taken at the tea cups ride at Disneyland LA.

I trapped pieces of the KI Memories lace paper between the images

stamped on acetate, to give a patterned look.

The flowers and labels are from the hybrid sheets.

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our holiday in a nutshell...

Not wanting to bore anyone !

I've posted 1 pic a day from our cruise

as a snap shot of our week.

Enjoy x

Where the sky meets the sea.

Our home for a week

Ocean Village.

The Harbour

Palma.

A sea day

In the jacuzzi.

The Souks.

Tunis.

The Trevi Fountain

Rome.

Largest Aquarium in Europe.

Genoa.

The fish market

St Tropez

My favourite all time place- Park Guell

Barcelona

Saying goodbye to the boat at Palma.

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Photo Challenge

Over the weekend on Shimelles blog, there has been an on line crop.

For a number of reasons I have been just too busy

to take part in the scrapbooking side

but had a go at a few of her photo challenges.

PHOTO CHALLENGE: GET CLOSE

Can you guess what we had for tea on friday evening !!

PHOTO CHALLENGE: THROUGH GLASS

This pic was taken from inside our car,

looking out at the garden fence through all the rain !

PHOTO CHALLENGE: NIGHT LIGHT

This pic was also taken from the car, late friday night.

I messed with the shutter speed and the zoom to achieve this.

PS I wasn't driving !

PHOTO CHALLENGE : NATURE

This was taken in our front garden and only cropped slightly.

really pleased with this image.

I've really enjoyed taking these pics

hope you like them too

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Creating a little...

Pick Your Own.

For this page I used the August sketch from Create & Co

I took 2 of the children strawberry picking & we had such a great afternoon

picking & eating !

I used Maya Rd chipboard bunting to mount my title on

from July's Scrapagogo Kit, painted and strung on ribbon.

These are my GoGo yearbook pages for July

including a GoGo day event, our holiday in Corfu,

the boys watching England V. Bangladesh at Edgebaston

& Harriet & I completing the Race for Life.

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Scrapagogo August kit

Where is this month going !

I've never known a summer holiday go so fast.

Hope you are having a good one despite the fluctuating weather.

This is what I've been making with this fabulous kit.

Momiji Love

I have been receiving these little dolls as presents

for a few years now & thought this kits feel was perfect to showcase a few.

The accordion flowers are so easy to make & add an oriental touch,

this months hybrids are a great addition to the kit & I've used 3 on this page.

Harley & Me

I wanted to show that this kit wasn't just for girls,

& here's a pic of Matthew trying a Harley out for size !

in their shop window in Florida !

The photo mount was made using this months lantern stamp

& the torn distressed edges and stapes add to the masculine feel.

I used the August greetings kit for this card.

The sentiment stamp gives a good crisp image

& the felt flower co ordinates beautifully with the patterned paper.

Thank you for looking

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Quick trip up North

I have just spent a lovely couple of days at the home of a friend whom I first met at an

aqua-natal swimming class 16 years ago !!

She lives in a rural community in Saddleworth

( not far from Manchester) and we lived there too until 1998.

I took Dan with me as my friend has a son the same age.

I really had a chance to relax and came away feeling positive about the rebuild

( the plans are at the council as we speak)

and with loads of ideas for the decor,

and over a glass of wine & a curry with more local mums

laughed till I cried, literally !!!

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Have you seen this ??

Scrapagogo have introduced a Loyalty Stamp Scheme.

Starting with the September 2010 Kit

Check out here for all the details.

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