It's the birthday of my husband's aunt this weekend, Halloween infact, so I grabbed a few pieces of card and paper from my scraps box and my Copic Markers and made this card using one of the lovely Lili of the Valley rubber stamps. I love this stamp cos it can be used for so many different cards, for people of different ages. I have to confess to being a bit of a Lili of the Valley addict, I bought a couple on line to make specific cards for workmates, then went to the Harrogate show and bought about ten more then when I got home I went on line and bought another dozen or so and then some more a few days later - eek!! I think I have about thirty different ones now and I believe there are some new stamps being released in November so I might be getting hubby to buy me some for Christmas.

This week there was no live broadcast for Kirsty Wiseman's Wednesday Night On Line Crop but she did provide a sketch and above is my version of the sketch. There were supposed to be five big flowers across the bottom of the page but I replaced mine with five letters instead as flowers would have made it very girlie and my nephews are cute but not girlie.

That's it, my Document 2010 project is finally up to date. I finished the above pages today and the October pages aren't due until the end of November so I can concentrate on making the layouts and mini pages better, instead of rushing them. There does seem to be a bit of a pink theme going on.

After a mad morning of juggling bottles of brown hair dye, the vacuum cleaner and various cleaning products I managed to find a little time this afternoon to try get the rest of my Document 2010 project up to date Above are my finished August pages, yay!!! Most of my September pages are done, I just have 2 photos to stick down on the last page then I am totally up to date with the project - yay again!! Must remember next year to do it as I go along instead of getting behind and having to rush to catch up.

I watched the DVD of Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland last week and it totally blew me away. I've never really been a fan of the story but I loved the imagery of this film, the effects were amazing. I have been making a mini book using a kit I bought from Mr Rusty Pickle, Lance Anderson, at a retreat earlier this year and these papers were left over so I downloaded some of the images from the film and got to work on this double layout. It's taken me about four days to finished and I've enjoyed every minute of it, from seaching for the images on line to making the playing cards. The only worrying part was when I was cutting out the page protector so that the little door with the white rabbit hiding behind it could open up and I stabbed myself with the craft knife and was convinced I'd bled on the layout but luckily I'd missed the layout and hit the table instead.

All this year I've been taking part in the UKScrappers/Shimelle Laine project - Document 2010 and I have to confess I am rubbish at doing year round projects, I get to May and get bored. So this year I got to May and guess what? Yep, I got bored and the project ground to a holt. Luckily my mate Caroline is doing it too so she nattered at me and I finally got around to completing the pages for July (yes I know it's October now).

I choise the Twilight Eclipse film to go on the collection page, along with cinema tickets etc, lots of photos of other stuff from July for the first of the photo pages, the second photo page I filled with photos from the Royal International Air Tattoo that we go to every July and I finished it off with a collage of airshow photos on a painted and stamped page. I might get August finished by 2015!!!!!

Henry Wants Bacon

This week's sketch for Kirsty Wiseman's On-line Crop was a rectangle photo, an oval photo or embellishment and two flowers. I had been looking at this photo of my friend Caroline's cat Henry all day wondering what kind of layout I could use it on so it was perfect for this one. I

did the layout whilst Kirsty was doing hers and downloaded the photo of the bacon butty from the internet cos that is what was making Henry make sad eyes through the dining room door, he wanted bacon from our bacons butties so we locked him out. Poor Henry. If I had more time I would have grunged the edge of the patterned paper, torn it a bit and inked it a bit more but the challenge is doing it along with Kirsty so it is what it is.

This week I took part in Kirsty Wiseman's Wednesday Night Crop, an online crop where Kirsty first posts a sketch of a layout and then broadcasts a webcast of her putting the layout together. What a hoot, we got to see her craft room, her dog Eddy, her flip flops and a lovely layout she put together. I didn't complete my layout during the crop as it was my first time and I wanted to watch what went on without stabbing myself with my scissors and bleeding all over my layout. I put the layout together a couple of days later and I love the simplicity of it. It didn't cost much to do the layout as I only used one sheet of textured white cardstock (not Bazzill), a few left over bits of patterned paper from my scraps box and inked some plain flowers to match the colours of the card candy (pretend brads). The photo is my daughter at an open day for Sunderland University in August.

Twillight Album Few Pages

Here are a few more of the pages in my Twilight Album.

More Twilight Pages

Another prompt from the Shimelle Lane on line class is using buttons. This is another Twilight layout with lots and lots of buttons.

This is my second attempt at using up my metal embellishments. The layout is from a Rusty Pickle class kit, again from last weeks Inspired Retreat, It was a very manly layout and was sports themed so it just had to be the Cullens playing baseball.

Shimelle's Something From Almost Nothing Project

Last week I signed up for one of Shimelle Laine's on-line scrapbooking classes. It runs for most of March 2010 and its all about using up lots of the scrapbooking stash that all scrapbookers have. The first prompt this week was to dig out all the metal embellishments and create some metal rich layouts. This was my first attempt. I've used a love heart, some beads and some metal washers that were part of a mini kit from last weeks Inspired Retreat in Chester. I dug out some old metal words, some wire and some acrylic paint and off I went. The ph0to is of my daughter doing some modelling for the photography art students at school.

So...What's It All About?

What is it all about? I read everyone else's blogs and think they are amazing but I've never thought of having a go myself, why would I, I don't have anything to say that anyone else will want to hear so why bother? I want to try and see if I can do it so please bare with me.