CSI 46 This weeks challenge

Loving this weeks challenge of purple, had just the right photos for this challenge, needed to add just a touch to it with the journaling - the hardest part each week. i wish I was so much better at writing stuff up to fit on each page, Sarah Mckenna is an expert and I'm very tempted to get her to write all my journaling.

Oooo Look, I'm mentioned in Scrap365 !

http://scrap365.blogspot.co.uk/ - my thriftyness has been recognised !

Swindon Next Weekend

Unfortunately I will probably not be able to teach at the 48hr Crop in Swindon, but here is the layout that somebody will be teaching for me.
I've used photos of Harry at Bristol Zoo, the green leaves in the background I thought would be good with the theme.
Of course there is a little bit of cutting out, some stamping, inking and embossing for definitiaon on the leaves.
I hope you all have fun and I think there are a couple of kits left if you want to have a go!

Sketchbook365

Here's this months offering for the November sketch at sketchbook365.

Some old photos of Harry and his dad on a trip to Barry Island after dropping off his big sis at Cardiff Airport. Its amazing to see how much he has grown in the past few years.

I used my masks from Tim Holtz, the cogs diecut from Tim too, and a little set of cog stamps that I think are from Maya Road.

Back from Scrap365

Yahooooo, I got some of my layouts back. I was really excited to meet Katy Fox editor of Scrap365 at the Paperartsontour retreat a couple of weeks ago. Katy was even brave enough to take one of my classes, although she did opt for the one with the least cutting out ! She returned loads of my layouts that have been featured in Scrap365, I hadn't realized how many I'd done !!! (I can't show you them all yet), I've still got quite a few to be shown yet too.

What excuse this time

I was going to teach this layout at the Swindon crop, unfortunately I wasn't able to attend so I used it for a class I taught at Paperarts instead. I love using corrugated cardboard as an extra on my layouts, possibly because its free - you know how thrifty I like to be! Hoping to get another layout sorted so I can teach at Paperarts - I'm missing my scrapping buddies!

My poor neglected blog!

For those of you who know me personally will know the last few months have been traumatic for the family. We're hoping there will be an improvement and normalish life can resume for a while, fingers X'd.
So a couple of things I taught at the Paperartsontour retreat, which I must say was brilliant, looking forward to next years already! There was only a smigin of cutting out for our intrepid scrappers, most took to it like ducks to water, I was really pleased with the results and I hope everybody got to finish what they started!