Building works and scrapping

I have managed to get some scrapping done lately but I'm tending to use similar designs on my layouts. This one I did of Jamie's 6th Birthday and used lots of layering and old bits and pieces including a red label I had cut off an old t-shirt of his and a badge from one of his birthday cards.

On the next layout I punched squares out from his cards and made a layout from them, this is something I do for all the family birthdays and Christmas cards and it is an idea with I got from Ali Edwards.

This layout is based on a sketch at Shimelle's blog for the week of the 22nd June.


It was so easy to put together and used up lots of die-cuts I have also used it on this layout:



and also on this layout;


I have also done this layout which was fun to do, using some of the Love Elsie Cody range. The more I use this range the more I like it. It is double sided and is really versatile as, although it is based around sports, it is double sided with lots of dots and stripes going on on the reverse.


In non-scrapping news we have started today on an extension to our house. We are making the kitchen larger, getting rid of the conservatory and having a proper roof put on it so we can use it as a den. I took photos this morning of how it looked which was this:


And now it looks like this:-







And from this:-

To this:-

I am planning to take photos every day to show how things are moving on so I'll post as often as I can.

More of my Lapland Album

Here are a few more photos of the Lapland album I am scrapping at the moment. I am really pleased with the way that it is coming together and has just sort of clicked into place. I am using white cardstock throughout the album and minimal paper and embellishments. I am using some old Basicgrey papers and putting strips of paper on the edges.

Whilst I am scrapping I am keeping in mind the way I want the album to flow through the days. These photos are of the 15 December.



I typed up my journalling in Photoshop and on the other side I added in more photos. When the album is finished I will cut the page protector and sew in the journalling using red thread.








I really like the next photo so blew it up and gave it a page all of its own.

Scrapping without photos

Scrapping without photos - not sure about this, what is the point? That's what I thought when I first came across the idea a few years ago, but the more I think about this I do think that scrapping without photos is ok - who says it's not? Since then I have been jotting things down stories I want to record, random thoughts etc. and then just typing them, adding a few embellishments and I'm good to go.

I think of all those stories that I have in my memory from when I was younger, holidays, relationships, details of when I went to school etc. and that I haven't got photos of but would like to share and so I pull out my computer and get typing and do you know what - I love them! I love the fact that the story is recorded for my children. Here is one story that I wanted to scrap which happened in April.


I used Bazzill cardstock, Scenic Route paper and the digital element from Ali Edwards.

Here is another one that I did last year - paper by Blonde Moments and again a element by Ali Edwards.


And another:


These kinds of layouts come together very quickly as I don't think about matching colour to the photo and what kind of embellishment would be suitable. I just add a little bit of paper and that's it.

Let me know what you think.

Jo

A bit of this and that.

Right now I'm listening to my IPod and Angel by Sarah Mclachen is playing - I love that song it's so haunting. Next it's Robbie Williams (Angels) followed by Lady Gaga (Bad Romance)! I think I may do a list of what's on there for an layout. I think it would be really interesting to know, what my parents and grandparents listened to and that is what I want to share with generations of my family to come. I'm sure IPods will be antiques by then!

I still haven't done my layout for how we celebrated the Royal Wedding and I want to get this done this weekend.

Those of you who follow my blog will know that way back in October I took part in a challenge set over on Elsie Flannigan's blog of 4 things to do before the end of the year. One of mine was to get my photographs for 2010 up to date. I got to October but then life got in the way and, of course, my December Daily.

Well, last week I sat in front of my computer and was determined to chose and upload my photos. I used Tesco as I hadn't used them before and there are 50 free prints of offer if you sign up. The quality isn't as good as if I had printed them at home but for my photo album they are great, although I will probably use my home printer when I scrap them.

I'm going to try and have some me time over the weekend and get some scrapping done.

Here's a layout I did about a fortnight ago. It's of my daughter when she was 18 months old and mobile telephones had just been banned for drivers - yet here she is in the car, talking on her mobile! I used Bazzill Swiss Dot cardstock and papers from Little Yellow Bicycle.


Have a great weekend.

Jo

The Royal Wedding

I have spent the afternoon scrapping the Royal Wedding. I printed off all the photos and then the layout just came together. I added in the cute bunting after downloading it from the internet and re-sizing it in Photoshop Elements. Here is the layout in full (I have tried to crop it and enlarge it but for some reason Blogger is not letting me up-load it).


I think the bunting looks cute.

A bit of bling was a must on this layout. The bling brads are by Delish Designs and the Union Jack strips are, again, a download from the internet.




I haven't added any journaling to the layout as I am going to do another one which documents what we were doing at the time and how we celebrated - watch this space!

Jo

Up-date and Royal Wedding

I know I haven't posted for ages, but life has just got in the way - know what I mean? I have been doing some scrapping, such as my Christmas cards (better late than never!) on this layout.

I have also been making some in roads into my Lapland album with these layouts.




Now to the Royal Wedding, I watched every minute of it with my two girls and we all loved it. I thought about how I was going to scrap it without photos, but then I decided to take photos from the TV. They are not 100% sharp but that's fine. Here are a few of the best ones.





I am planning on scrapping these fairly soon and will post them as soon as I can.

Jo
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A couple of layouts

Sorry, I've been awol for a while, but life really is hectic at the moment.

I have managed to do a bit of scrapping though, such as this one:


The photo of the layout is really dull and it looks much better than this in real life. It is about my son and how much he loves playing with Go Go's.

I've also done this layout:

I'm not entirely pleased with it, but hey, it's done. It was about a toy museum the year did at school and what he wrote about the toy he took in, which was mine.

In December 2009 we took a family holiday to Lapland. It was a fantastic experience and one I would really recommend. I took hundreds of photos like this;

and this;




and really want to get them into an album along with the tickets, receipts and lots of other bits and bobs. I kept a diary whilst I was there and so I have lots to get onto the pages.

Because of the sheer volume of this work I have spent lots of time thinking about how I wanted this album to work. I started off thinking that an 8 x 11.5 album was the way to go, but as I started getting everything together I've decided on a 12 x 12. I'm still planning on using other sizes within the album but that it what I'm going for so far.

I have started the album and I'll try and take some photos of it to get onto the blog.

Have a great weekend!