Local crop challenge.

OK, so we had a challenge at my local crop - we were given a pack of papers - not of our choice, to make a layout from. I was naughty I didn't like my first choice and swapped it for one equally awful, then somebody else didn't like theirs, so I swapped again with them....So as reparations, I decided I'd have to do 3 layouts with the pack. I only added one cardstock (with a hole in the middle) and one book page. There were 5 papers in my pack, no cardstock, and whilst the colours weren't my favourite, I did have some photos that would go with them. I think I did quite well !!

Catch up Time.

Those of you that know me personally are aware that my wonderful, strong, brave husband lost his battle with aggressive brain tumours on the 16th March 2013. We were all devastated, having been given a prognosis of 3-5 years and him only surviving 10 months. We are slowly putting our lives back together, and trying to carry on as were his wishes.....

In memory of Dave Rolfe (25July61-16Mar13)

I have started scrapping again and have found it very therapeutic, especially when going to crops. He always encouraged me to go scrapping as much as possible. I usually went on my own, so luckily I don't find it distressing going off on my own. I've also volunteered for some design work for Scrap365 in the next few weeks, and I hope to get back to teaching, this time at Funky Farm Scrapbook Barn, I just need to get my scrapping head back on!

CSI 73

We just got back from Turkey (after a two week break) and had these fab photos that tied in perfectly with this weeks challenge. I haven't got round to doing the journaling yet, but I'm sure I will when I've forgotten what we were doing ! I've been using a couple of new dies, the Tim Holtz small film strip, and the papermania travel die which includes this cute little plane, perfect for travel pages.

Sketchbook365 April Challenge

My take on this months challenge. I've done a lot of girly ones lately so thought it was about time I did one of the boys. I've had both these photos in my 'to do' pile for many months, good excuse to use both on the same layout. I can still see so much of DS5 in both photos, he doesn't seem to have changed that much, he's still a very sweet, loving boy....I'd rather he didn't grow up, but I suppose I can't change that !
 

Hope you have a go at the challenge details are here http://www.sketchbook365.blogspot.co.uk/ There's a lovely prize for the winner too, so get creating.

CSI 58, I think..

I didn't get this challenge in on time, due to my DH's health, I was otherwise occupied. But it seemed a shame not to add it late as I'd actually got round to completing a layout. The quality of the scan isn't too good, usually due to the depth of the rosettes, but also after having to re-install my laptop after a visiting child got a major virus on it, I then discovered one of my children has lost the photoshop disk, so not very impressed!

Here we go again CSI 50

This weeks colours at CSI , I loved the challenge as usual, I've got a few new dies recently so couldn't wait to try them out on this page, I'm sure you'll see a lot more of these in the future. Hoping you have time to take part in the CSI challenge, if not this week, maybe next?

This weeks offering for CSI

I really loved the colours of this weeks challenge, although the green behind the photos looks more brown than the actual green it is in real life! We are allowed to add less than 10% of an additional colour if we want, so i just added a few pink flowers to match dd3's dress.

http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/forum/topics/case-file-no-48-case-closes-on-december-9-2012