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.

CHALLENGE TIME

This is the second month of the big sketch contest over on My Creative Sketches, this is the sketch I worked from, the Layout is a photo of my dear Niece Sophie. I used Websters papers which were in my last months amazing kit by My Creative Scrapbook.

DAY AT THE BEACH

Today we decided to have a day at the beach in Mojacar, as the weather is getting cooler and more pleasant, its still in the late 70's here and October has been a lovely month.

Albie and I had a run on the beach and in the sea and it was still nice and warm. He was not too sure about the waves he prefers to run on dry land.

SCRAPSTARS CLASSES

Here are a few of the layouts from my fabby weekend in Leeds at the Scrapstars retreat, I still have a few of the projects to finish but,
I have been a little bit poorly, with a bad chest and cold and today is the
only day I have felt like doing any scrapping and felt like I am back in the land of living again!!!

This class was taught by the ever talented lady, Kirsty Wiseman. It is a canvas using cosmic glimmer mists, love the colours and I think they go so well with my photo of my ever gorgeous dog Albie.


This is the layout from Rachael Elliot's class, she is such an inspiration,check out her blog. I love her work, like all the handcutting and the velum on this page. My photo is of my Niece Sophie, using the gorgeous Websters pages.

TRAVIS - THANKFUL FOR YOU

This class was taught by another talented lady, Emma Trout. I found her class very exciting, loved the concept of this class with the idea of the memory jar on the page, the layout is of my dearly beloved dog Travis who sadly I lost this year in May, this page will definitely be treasured.

Another class by Emma Trout, using the ever gorgous Websters pages, my layout is of a recent trip to Egypt in a hot air balloon.

Balloon Trip - Journey

Hope you have enjoyed my layouts and thanks for taking the time to look at my blog.

MY CREATIVE SKETCHES

If you have not already checked out MY CREATIVE SKETCHES blog, go and check it out. They have some amazing challenges and the design team is so inspirational, also they have some fabulous prizes, got to be in it to win it.

Here is my Layout from the sketch and a few close ups using the beautfiul papers My Minds Eye, love these papers. The photo is of my Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, Charlie who is no longer with us, he died suddenly in August 2008, he was my baby and only 7 years old, miss him so much.

Hope you like my Layout and many thanks for taking the time to look at my blog.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME!!!

It's so nice to back home, missed my boys and I suppose I missed the old man, we celebrated our wedding anniversary on Friday the 30th, 28 years.

I spent 6 days in the UK, at the weekend I was in Leeds at the Scrapstars retreat and had a great time, scrapping, eating and lots of talking. It was so lovely to meet old friends from past retreats and make new friends who I had only spoke to over the Internet.

The weekend was packed with 8 classes starting on the Friday night through to the Sunday, and the classes and teachers were amazing with their stunning creations. I only managed to complete 2 of the classes, might have been because I spent more time chatting and eating, I had a fab time and will definitely do it all again.