Go on - have a guess...

who has a layout in this months Scrapbook Inspirations Magazine, go on have a guess ;)

Taylor Made Spotlight Challenge Entries

Taylor Made Designs is in the O'scraps spotlight this week with some great freebies for taking part. Theres three parts to the challenge - here are my entries...


My entry for the O'scraps Designer Spotlight Challenge (Taylor Made Challenge I-Modern)
Everything from the spotlight challenge freebie "Mere Modesty Add-On" by Taylor Made at Oscraps HERE


My entry for the O'scraps Designer Spotlight Challenge (Taylor Made Challenge II-Expressive)
Word art freebie (Unscripted No3) from the challenge HERE
Paper from 'Freckles and Giggles' by Kim De Smet
Frame from 'Mamarazzi' by Holliewood Studios
Magical Swirls (Winter) by Kitty design
Butterfly from 'Cherish Happiness' by Kim De Smet.
All at O'scraps.


My entry for the O'scraps Designer Spotlight Challenge (Taylor Made Challenge III-Timeless)
Template (Timeless Sketch) and Word arts (Expressive in Theory and Unscripted no3) by Taylor Made (freebie from the challenge) HERE
Paper from 'Frogs and Sticks' by Kim De Smet
'Splash' O'scaps birthday week freebie by Kim De Smet
Cherries and frame from 'Sugar Bee' by Holliewood Studios
all O'scraps products.

First Lost Tooth

Last Friday my youngest daughter lost her first tooth. I was searching for a tooth related kit to scrap the event with and found a competition to win the perfect kit. Thank you so much Trixie Scraps for picking me to get your fantastic kit for free.



It was ...
I Lost My Tooth by Trixie Scraps at Digital Candy.

NEW Designer !!!

Jane, one of my fellow CT'ers on Michelle Batton's Team has launched her first kits as a designer. She opened her shop yesterday, selling under the name '4 Shades Of Blue', at Michelle's Mellow Butterfly Shoppe.
These are the kits I have had the opportunity to play with ...


And here are my pages...



I found them really easy to work with. Wish you all the best on your new venture Jane :)

New Braces

It's taken so long to get this far with Zoe's teeth, including having to have teeth out under general anaesthetic (and also some out awake). Finally she has her braces fitted and is on her way to a perfect smile


I used:
My Kind Of Rocket by the designers at Digital Candy - it was a Blog train Freebie but is now available to buy HERE.

Also my second page with Gisela B's Morning Kiss kit.



I used Morning Kiss by Gisela B at scrap-heaven.


Word art from O'scraps current designer challenge (this week only-ends Sunday) by Kim De Smet - check it out HERE

Dance Like You Mean It

Yay! Kim De Smet's in the spotlight for the Oscraps Designer Challenge HERE. Its all about making your own word art and there's a freebie to get you started, and some great prizes on offer.
I used:
Word art templates (shaped) **25% off**during spotlight week,
Cherish Happiness also by Kim de Smet.



Also Gisela B has a new kit out called ***Morning Kiss***...


and a new page using Michelle Batton's products...

I used Cloudy Sky Backgrounds
Touch of Japan
My Little Goldfish
Surprise Party (stars)
Lost Notes Alpha
All by Michelle Batton at Mellow Butterfly

This Is Me

My This Is Me page for the UKS Scrapgoddesses monthly team challenge.
I used:
Madame Mim - Urban Medley (Background)
Kim Jensen - Damaged Goods
Lillian C - Voyage Kit
Festivities Collab - (spatters)ON Design
Gisela B - Magic of Myths and Fairytales
Createwings and Catherine Design - Creation 23
Kate Hadfield - Doodled Paper Arrows.

You Make Me Feel Like I'm Wasting my Time

This is for the Out Of The Box Challenge over on the Out Of The Box blog. We had to take inspiration from a You Tube video. My inspiration was You Get Me Down by John Callaghan (thanks for letting me use it John!).

I used Mamarazzi paper by Holliewood Studios,andFestivities Alpha by Amy Hutchinson and Tiny Glitter Paper Alpha by Angela Powers from Festivities combo.

Garden

Some old old photos here! Zoe in our first little garden in Bolton. She must have just turned 3.

Everything except the mud is from Gisela B's new February Grab Bag (mud is re-coloured sand from Pacific Grove by Paint the Moon at Oscraps)

Imagine

I used Creation 23 by Createwings and Catherine Designs at Oscraps

My Dream

I used Wauff kit and Falling Into The Box both by MK Designs at Digi Chick, and Creation 23 by Createwings and Catherine Designs at Oscraps. Red buttons from Sweet Cherries by Gisela B Design at Scrap-Heaven

Snowflakes

There's been a lot of snow about this week!



I used: Winters Kiss and Magical Swirls 3 - both by Kitty Designs.

Birthday Girl

Well it was a couple of weeks ago, but I just got round to scrapping Kittys birthday photos...

I used 'Cake and Friends' by Damayanti Designs.

Love

I mostly used Sweet Melody by Jofia Defoe with white butterflies and rain from Invisible World by Newlife Design.

Stone Giants

Been tinkering with some photos, one of the Ring Of Brodgar on Orkney and another of Zoe. I had a quote in my 'inspiration' notebook I copied from a book in the cottage we stayed in when we went to Orkney and I wanted to use it on a page.

Journalling reads:

The standing stones that are everywhere in Orkney were giants. They did their business and held their revels by night.They were great stupid, blundering, fighting creatures. The sun was death to them, so they had heard, and therefore they didn’t go about in the daytime. What happened to the giants nobody knows for sure. But their last night on earth must have been spent in some kind of celebration. What is the Ring Of Brodgar but the giants going round in a dance? The dancing had gone on since the previous sunset, and was scheduled to end half-an hour before dawn. All the giants of Orkney were there. They drank hogshead after hogshead of heather ale, and the mirth waxed fast and furious round about midnight - it was like thunder rolling among the hills. Whatever giantess it was who brewed the ale she had never made it stronger. Dance followed dance; the pipe music was like the howling of a tempest. Presently the soberest giant there said, “It’s a half-hour till sunrise” and he lurched off home over the hills. Others left singly or in groups of two or three. Three lugged an inebriate one off in the direction of Maeshowe... “Fools!” shouted Megalith the host. “Cowards! Afraid of a blink of sunlight!” And he led the dancers who were left round in a rejoicing circle. Then the sun rose and turned every giant in Orkney to stone - not only the dancers, but those who were speeding or staggering homewards. The tallest giant of them all was standing by the Loch of Stenness thinking how delicious a drink of cold loch water would be after all that ale, when a sunbeam petrified him. The gods were merciful in the case of that giant - every new years morning they allow him to stoop down and take a sip of Loch Stenness.

By George Mackay Brown from Letters from Hamnavoe.

Ring Of Brodgar

Background - from Melody of your Heart and A Little Bit of Autumn both by Bluebell Scraps (blended together)

Magical Swirls 3 - Winter (Kitty Design)

Moss by Dawn Createwings (gift in Enchanted Forest by Madame Mim and Milla)

Clouds - Weather Station (Dawn Inskip)

Sparkles on face - Stroke of Midnight (Paint the Moon and Jofia Defoe)

Stones from September Days by Michelle Batton (at Mellow Butterfly) (engraved by me)

Moss on stones from Pacific Grove (Paint the Moon)

Alpha from Funky Junky (Kate Hadfield)

Lets Have Fun

Gisela B has a new kit out too, called ***Lets Have Fun***

I used it here (baby bead alpha by Danielle at catscrap)

And here (Dreamy Antique Photo Action by Paint the Moon at Oscraps)

Cherish Happiness

A Brand new kit from Kim De Smet ***Cherish Happiness***! Available at Oscraps.

Fear

Blackdog has pointed me in the direction of her challenge blog Out Of The Box - current challenge is entitled fear. My layout is not subtle in telling you what my biggest phobia is. Really creeped me out doing this as I have issues with even pictures of the things. I opted for a toy one from a kit by Gisela B because I really couldn't face searching for something more realistic than that. Oooh shudder.

Credits..

Background from Mamarazzi by Holliewood Studios

You know what from Pocketful of Treasures by Gisela B (scrap-heaven.de)

Web and ray of light from Enchanted Forest by Milla and Madame Mim,

Stormy Sea

I have been much admiring the layouts (feel that that word isn't enough - they're art) of Black Dog. She is seriously creative and uses so many elements of vast numbers of kits in each of her works. I generally keep to one kit when I make a page - mainly because most of my stuff is CT stuff and is meant to highlight each kit. So for a change I wanted to make a layout (purely inspired by Black Dog) using lots of different kits. I found stuff on my hard drive I didn't even remember I had. The boat I extracted from a photo I took on Orkney.

Credits (big list here!)...

Background from Winter's Kiss by Kitty Designs

Background (blended) Weathered Backgrounds 2 by Paint the Moon

Water and rain from Need Some Water by Jofia Defoe

Birds and mast from Painted With The Autumn Sun by Jofia Defoe

Rope (on boat) from Urban Medley by Madame Mim

Fog - cloud from Diamond Rain by Jofia Defoe

Cloud from The Invisible World by Newlife Design

Sand, Net, Rocks and Moss from Pacific Grove by Paint The Moon

Darkest Clouds from Weather Station by Dawn Inskip

Bottle and Hook (on boat) from Bottle It Up by Maya Design

Ray of light from Enchanted Forest by Milla and Madame Mim.

Capture The Moment

Last summer a friend of mine came over and we were 'playing' with our cameras in the garden. While I was snapping she lent her camera to Kitty and while Kitty was snapping I got some lovely shots of her doing a bit of a papparazzi.

Everything is from Mamarazzi by Holliewood Studios at Oscraps.