Fun at the Crop

Yesterday I was at my monthly crop and I really had a great time.  At lot of the ladies at the crop were born in September so it was a bit of a birthday party, this is what we were greeted with when we walked in:

It was made by our wonderful crop leader, Gaye, and it tasted just as good as it looked!

I got cracking on my first layout of the day, the Weekly Challenge at UKScrappers.  We had to have a beach theme, use the colour blue and 2 photos:

I used Shimelle's Starting Point from a few weeks ago and the last few bits of my Lime Twist kit.

And this little button which was one of the first things I bought when I started scrapping over 7 years ago!

Next up was the House Challenge at UKScrappers, we had to use this sketch:

And some sewing or stamping.

I did a tiny bit of hand sewing just in the top left.  I love these pictures of Maddie, she's at an age where she doesn't like to be photographed but the look in her eye tells another story.

I used Crate Paper's Farmhouse papers from this month's Gotta Craft kit.

And my new Nestabilities dies.

I did start a third layout and I'm off to finish that now, scrappy weekends are so much fun.

I hope you've had a good one

Thanks for stopping by

Jo xx

We Got Cows!

Back in July 2001 we went on our first camping trip.  In the early evening, when the sun was setting, Maddie got ready for bed, she was so excited about staying in a tent for the first time.  We were outside watching the sun setting when some cows in the next field wandered over to see her.  I love the look on her face, it shows her excitement, her amazement at the size of the cows and hope that the fence is strong enough to keep them away!

When I saw the Sketch Challenge on Shimelle's site I knew that I had to use this photo because I knew there was a lot of journalling:

The title comes from one of our my favourite films, Twister, and we both find the line "we got cows" so funny :)

I used My Minds Eye, Stella & Rose papers that came with the May Sarah's Cards Kit...May!!!  I have a plan to use my old kits and I'll share that plan soon.

Yesterday I did get to spend the day in London with Paul.  We had such a lovely time, got absolutely soaked and before I knew it I was on the train home :(  Never mind, I have a week off work soon and I'm hoping to see lots of him then.

Must dash, meant to be at my mum's for dinner in 9 minutes and still not showered!

Hope your weekend has been good
Jo xx

Over Already!

This weekend went far too quickly, as usual!  I had a great start to the weekend by going to the pub after work for a glass of wine with my friend Lauren, it was so nice I didn't want to come home!  Yesterday I did some scrapping and popped to the shops with Paul so that he could get some bits to fix his car and then I spent an hour in the garden with the dogs enjoying the sunshine.  Today has been very lazy but I did manage one layout.

I did the weekly challenge over on UKScrappers.  The challenge was to use the sketch, use a group photo, use some pink and do some sewing.  Here is the sketch we had to use:

And here is my LO: 

The photo of me with my friends Sarah and Debbie was taken a few years ago and I've been meaning to scrap it for ages, it's actually been on display for ages and every day when I see it I think it needs to be scrapped so this challenge was perfect. 

Here's the tiny bit of pink I managed to include.

The rest of the title.  I thought the papers fitted in really well with the title and I had been wondering how I would use them. 

And my tiny bit of hand sewing and of course I had to get a button on!

I've got 2 crops this week so a lovely scrappy week but I know it's going to be busy, busy, busy at work :(

Hope you've had a good weekend.

Jo x

Another Crafty Weekend

Yesterday I had a fun day playing with paper and glue.  I managed 3 layouts in total and thought I'd share a couple of them now.

Shimelle has started doing a scrapbook sketch of the week and I really loved the sketch so had to give it a go:

It was a great way to use up loads of scraps, in fact my whole weekend of scrapping used papers from my scrap bag only which is good.

The second layout was for the weekly challenge at UKScrappers.  The challenge was lots of layering, use a neglected die cut, use something that's been on your desk for ages and inking. 

I love this picture of Alfie and Maddie.  I was going away for the night and they were leaning on the gate saying goodbye to me and trying to look sad, Alfie just managed to look totally disinterested!

Today I have been a busy bee baking cakes to take to work tomorrow. 

Hope you've had a good a weekend as I have.

Jo xx