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!

A loved up layout!

My kids were really into Valentine's Day this year. I don't know why because we don't really celebrate it in our house. This year was a little different (who says advertising doesn't work!). The children were very excited and had made cards and bought small gifts for us. I wanted to record all this on a layout and this is the result. I used Bazzill cardstock and Scenic Route paper. I made a pocket on the bottom of the layout to slip in the little love notes they had sent and other bits and bobs like a label and the back of a chocolate wrapper which had lovely hearts on. I added a few sparkly hearts by Making Memories and called it done. Let me know what you think.

Exercise Boy!

This is just a quick layout I put together featuring my son. I found him in his swimming cap and peddling on the exercise bike, I just had to grab my camera to record it.



I used a sheet of white bazzill as the base and added on some Scenic Route Kraft cardstock, which has the circles on it. I then added in some Basicgrey Obscure paper and a Maya Road cog calender. I journalled down the middle and finished off with a black hand drawn frame.

Ok, ok - I know that I haven't posted for at least a month and I'm now ready to get back into the swing of things with my scrapping and blog - or at least I think I am!

Since the New Year I have been getting myself into a routine of getting the kids up early, dropping them off at Breakfast Club at school, getting myself to my school, doing a days work and getting back home to collect the kids. Then it has been the usual after school routine of swimming, dancing and a whole host of other things to organise before I eventually sit down at around 9pm. By then I'm really not in the mood to scrap.

I have now finished my December Daily album and am really pleased with the way it has turned out. It was quite a challenge scrapping for a 6 x 6 album, and I'm not sure that I'd do it again, but it really made me think about what I wanted to record and what exactly to put in the journalling.

So here are the rest of the photos of my album.

Day 22




The wreath for the front door. Every year I raid the garden for greenery and hand make the wreath. It has become a tradition now and I love it!


How it looks in the album. I've added in the receipt for the main Christmas shop as well.




Day 23

This year I dotted little piles of presents around the house. This pile was in our bedroom.





How it looks in the album.



Day 24

Christmas Eve and three very excited children. I added in the tickets at the bottom as digital elements before printing.

Lots of journalling today with paper by Basicgrey and a sticker by Scenic Route.



How it looks in the album. The transparency is one I made myself and it is of 'T'was the night before Christmas'.


Day 25


The first picture is of some very excited kids on Christmas morning. I love the movement in this photo and the soft light as well as the tree lights and their pj's.



The journalling is on the opposite page and I've added a Santa hat, sticker and some ribbon.


How it looks in the album.


We had such a fun day on Boxing Day I've added in a page for that as well.

Day 26

This is of my mum and my daughter on the beach. You can just make out the sea in the distance but the whole of the beach was covered in snow and it looked amazing.


The compilation page included a photo I took with the camera held at arms length, and more of the beach.


How it looks in the album.
I hope you liked following the progress of my album I really enjoyed making it.