Scrappy Sunday (20 January 2013)

Loved the scrapping round up I did last Sunday.  It was so much easier on my time than doing separate posts.  I did post on Monday but that was as part of an entry to a craft challenge.  I think apart from craft challenge posts I am going to continue with a weekly round up. 

 

These are the LO's I have completed this week:

 

 

 

This LO is taken from this gorgeous LO made by Stephanie Howell.  Just love her work and her LO's are so beautiful.

 

 



 

This week I have made 4 LO's including the Sarah's Cards Challenge LO:

 

Thanks for looking and enjoy your snowy weekend x



 

Sunday Scrapping

I managed to complete two LO's on Sunday afternoon after I decided that I really had enough of the housework and gardening this weekend.  One is for the Chinese Whispers group so I can't show you it in full but here is a little sneak:

This is the other LO:

This design is taken from a LO created by Jen.  I've had a look on her blog and I can't find her LO; I think it was one created for Sarah's Cards Monthly kits.

I also managed this afternoon while sat in the garden to read through some of the prompts from Shimelle's Cover to Cover online course that is currently being run.  I have always kept my albums in chronological order and just never thought to store them any other way.  I must admit I am very surprised how many people don't store they LO's this way.  This has helped greatly with this class as I have skipped huge sections as I already stored my LO's like Shimelle was suggesting.  

I ordered a couple of new albums and put in my LO's for Freya for Volume 2 of 2010 and both volumes for 2011.  I also have looked where the gaps are in Freya's albums for these years and put the page protectors in place with relevant photos.  I had already done these for previous years for Freya and all of Liam's albums already had lists made for what LO's I wanted to make.  I must be psychic!

As well as albums for Liam and Freya I also have the Document 2010 and 2011 plus this years project life.  There are 3 other wip albums; our European holiday last year, my Brothers wedding also from last year and Thomas' first year album.  Then I have JYC 2010 & 2011 plus a Learn Something New Everyday album from 2010 (didn't have time to do one last year).  These are as close to an upgrade albums I have and to be honest there really are no other big events to put in separate albums.

One thing I don't have however, is an album about me.  Just hate having my photo taken in fact I have only ever scrapped 1 LO about me alone and that was this year at the retreat.  Think I may have to scrap some more and buy an album to store them in!

TFL x

Day Three Of The Crafty Spa Weekend (Sunday)

Another 2 classes today.  First up was Through The Window by Natalie Grant:

I just loved this LO so much that I made a boy version this evening:

The final class was Flying The Flag by Rachel Ward:

In total I produced 9 LO's, a decorative peg and two sweetie boxes:

All with thanks to these lovely talented ladies:

Sunday Scrapping

Have luckily had the opportunity to spend sometime scrapping this morning before I start on the task of Sunday Lunch and school lunch box baking.

I have completed a page using Shimelle's starting point:

Shimelle set the challenge to use a stripy background.  I wanted to use my Sarah's Cards April kit up as I am nearly at the stage where its time to turn the kit over to my stash and scraps box and I felt there was possibly another one or two LO's left in the kit.  Sadly I did not have any paper uncut so have used a piece of red cardstock as my base.  This is my starting point:

And this is my finished LO:

I have taken inspiration from Miss Smith who recently celebrated 200 posts by sending her readers an embellishment to use on a craft project.  Then she hosted this lovely blog hop yesterday so we could all see what everybody had made.  There really were some lovely L's and other craft projects made.  I read Kirsty's blog post offering these embellishments to her readers but did not have time that day to send an email.  Well with one thing and another I missed sending a request for one and having seen yesterday's blog hop I so wished I had made time to send that e-mail.  

I thought I could have a go and would like to say thank you Kirsty for inspiring me to make some of my own embellishments.  

I have so many bits and pieces its something I really would like and should do but just needed that little push for me to begin.  Now the real work begins and I have to try to think of some ideas of my own.