The Big One - My Creative Scrapbooking!!!!!!

For a final chance on the big prize over at the MY CREATIVE SKETCHES BLOG you only have to place all three sketches in one post,one very lucky winner will win an awesome prize, so I am keeping my fingers and toes crossed, hoping it will be me, me, me.

So here they come.
Here are my takes on the sketches from My Creative Scrapbooking, loved working from the sketches and had lots of fun along the way and loved all the inspiration from the DT Team.

Happy New Year!!!!!

*****HAPPY NEW YEAR***** everyone!
May the year ahead be a good one,I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012 and thanks for all my blog comments, they are all very much appreciated.

See you in 2012!!!! *****HAPPY SCRAPPY 2012 *****

Happy Christmas !!!! Feliz Navidad!!!!

I have managed to do a little crafting in the past few days, here are a few photos. I made these very quick gift bags for the girls at my Spanish school, they have yummy lindt lindor chocolates in them.

I treated myself to some crafting goodies the other week and they arrived all nicely wrapped in very nice christmassy tissue paper with cute reindeers on.

And here is a layout I made from some of my new crafting goodies, the layout is of my Hubbie and our King Charles Cavaliers, who are both not with us anymore,miss you boys. The photo was taken in the UK our last Christmas there before we moved to Spain.

Wishing all my crafting friends a very Happy Christmas!!!!!!!!!!! I hope you all have a fabulous day with your Family and Friends and thanks once again for all your wonderful comments on my blog, they are very much appreciated. I will leave you with a photo of my pooch Albie, aka The Grinch, he was not too happy having to wear this Santa hat for this photo.

Challenge Time!!!!!

Here is my layout for the third sketch contest at My Creative Scrapbook, using this sketch,which I have rotated and only used two photos. I have really enjoyed doing these challenges each month and there are some fabulous prizes, so why don't you go and check out their blog.

The layout is one of my beautiful Niece, Sophie. I have used the lovely Bo Bunny papers, Gabrielle range, also used lots of prima flowers and cut the butterflies from the Bo Bunny papers then used my stickles around the edges of the butterflies, I have distressed the papers and then inked and embossed with some copper embossing powders also I have done a lot of hand sewing on the layout. Hope you like it and many thanks for looking.

Feliz Navidad!!!!

Here are a couple of layouts I have been working on over the last week, the first layout is of me with my beautiful furbaby Albie, isn't he adorable, I used papers from my last months kit from My Creative Scrapbook. The second layout is of my gorgeous little Niece Ruby Anne,and her Mummy when she was only a few months old.

Beautiful!!!

This Beautiful layout by the very talented lady Rachael Elliott

I enjoyed doing this page, I have made a few alterations to my layout, but as the layout was so lovely, I did not have to change it that much. Many thanks to Rachael for letting me lift her beautiful work. I hope I have done it justice, here is my layout.

......... and a few close ups.

Autumn has arrived!!!

Well I can definitley say Autumn is here, the days are much cooler which is very pleasant after our very hot summer. The cooler days means catch up time with all those little jobs that we were not able to do during the hot summer and hopefully a little more scrapping on those cold winter nights.

I have been trying to keep myself busy with going back to school to master the Spanish language, one day I will understand the jargon of subject pronouns, reflexive pronouns and whatever else is thrown at me, hopefully I will grasp this language one fine day.

The last few days I have been finishing some layouts I started a couple of weeks ago, putting the finishing touches to them.


The first layout I did was for a scrapping challenge over on My Creative Scrapbooking, this was a sewing challenge, of which I like doing on most of my layouts. The photo is of my dear little Niece Ruby.

..... and here are a few close ups, hope you enjoy.

The next couple of layouts are scraplifts from the very talented lady Emma Trout who I met for the very first time at this years Scrapstars retreat where she was teaching, her work is awesome, pop over and have a look at her Blog

These are Emma's pages,

These are my interpretation of Emma's pages.