LOAD DAY 7

OMG thats a week gone - how did that happen? Another LO done at the retreat - this one involved a lot of layering and playing with ribbon! I thoroughly enjoyed adding the faux stitching as Sewing on your LO was the theme of today's prompt!!!

Another Vietnam photo from August, when we took all the family to Ho Chi Minh - This photo is taken outside the water puppet theatre! The colours went so well with the kit which was full of beautiful papers from Theresa Collins!

LOAD DAY 6

Im not big on stickers and Alphas these days, but it wasnt always that way! When I first started scrapbooking I bought about a million Creative Memories Alphas and Stickers, I am trying to use them all up - but its going to take me quite a while I think!!!!

 

This prompt was designed to get you to use up some of those things that had been hanging around in your stash and pre - make titles by vetting letters you hadnt found a way to use, to turn them into letters you could use!

 

I am truly in awe of people who can mix Alphas - and make them look effortlessly artistic - me well I tended to run out of vowels, when I routinely used letter stickers before I got my electronic cutters,  and whenever I attempt to compose an ecclectic title using different alphas - it looks like I have run out of vowels and Ive never got past this! So I used the waste from the letter sheet of some of those Creative Memories Alphas - I could have started a new sheet - Goodness knows I have enough of them, but in the spirit of the prompt and in the interest of showing I can use everything I used the waste and I also used some very old Christmas stickers to scrap these photos from 2007 - and I made a DLO! When I was doing this LO, I thought how I couldnt believe how much the kids have grown since then - feels like yesterday - how scary is that?

 

 

LOAD DAY 5

Today's prompt was to use wood or woodgrain, or a LO about trees etc. You get the picture? I used some wooden butterflies on this LO - they are the blue ones, finished off with some stickles! I also used shrink plastic for the first time ever - they are the ones on the luggage tag, at the bottom of the page and the one half way up the right hand side! There are so many techniques on this page that we did at the retreat - embossing, folding, inking, distressing, die cutting, cutting out the butterflies cutting the title! - It took ages but I really like it - thanks to Jo for doing a great job on this class and a fab retreat!

LOAD DAY 4

Our prompt today was about a journey! Today I scrapbooked about visiting Wat Arun - The Temple of the Dawn in Bangkok, Thailand. I have wanted to go for ages and got the chance this August with my son and his girlfriend! From the moment we walked past these scary looking temple guards we were wowed by the beauty of the place!

 

LOAD DAY 3

Well today we were challenged to use the colour inspiration from  http://theplaydatecafe.blogspot.com/ I love using colour inspiration sites and this one produced some beautiful autumnal LO's - I think I might use it again when I have had a chance to get out with my camera to take some photos of the beautiful autumn colours I am seeing in England at the moment! For this LO - I used a photo of Peugeot Park in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam that we found completely by accident on our first visit there, when we were lost - looking for somewhere else!!!

Another place you can find beautiful colour inspiration is designseeds.com - so here's an idea from that site to use similar autumnal colours - Im going to have to have a play with this one too!

LOAD DAY 2

Day 2 gave me a chance to do a companion page to the day one page - AND use what was left of my simple stories kit!!!! Alison Day challenged us today to use a pocket page, using a great starting point she had designed! My page is below and you can see how Alison put her page together on her blog here http://adayinthelifeor5.blogspot.ca/ - she is a really talented lady who is currently on two Design Teams - Practical scrappers (http://www.practicalscrappers.com/)  - you'll find lots of great ideas and inspiration in there! And also, she's on the design team for Lets get sketchy - where you can find even more great inspiration  (http://letsgetsketchy.blogspot.ca/)

LOAD-ING UP! DAY ONE

Its been quiet round here - but thats not because I havent been scrapping - on the contrary! Ive been doing LOAD and Ive been to a retreat - so I have been scrapping like a mad woman!! This prompt was about using a song title - I had been listening to Katy Perry in the car, and had TGIF on the brain which fitted the photo for this page perfectly - I love it when we spend long weekends away and this photo - was taken on a Friday with a rather declicious Happy Saigon Cocktail!! I absolutely love the simple stories line and this page gave me a chance to use it!!!!