Crop time......

On Saturday I spent a great day at Otley village Hall at the monthly Papermaze crop.

I haven't been since September , so I was determined to make the most of it......after catching up with friends,a  bit of shopping, drinking coffee and eating cake of course!

The crop kit was made up of Basic Grey Picadilly papers and I had promised my daughter Fay, that the next layout I made would be of her, and as luck would have it, the colours were perfect. The only additions I made were for the title.

Although I used the kit, I made my own Layout from the supplies provided. 

The fabulous Crop Kit layout was designed by Lou Collins shown here.

Thanks for stopping by

Karen x

Best Buds..........

The January sketch challenge on the Scrap 365 Magazine blog caught my eye, and so with very few supplies and some 3D flower embellishments, I made some time ago and wasn't really sure what to do with, I created this layout.

I made the flowers using 3 sizes of retro flower punch, and the very pretty paper is from Gazpacho soup by Jillibean soup.

The sketch can be found HERE and is open for entries till 20th Jan, there's a great prize on offer too!

Thanks for stopping by..

Karen x

Multi-photo......

Looking back, I see that just about all my layouts have only one photo.

So,when the request came for a page with a " Happily ever after" theme for issue 59 of The Scrapbook Magazine, I challenged myself to  use more than 1 photo.

The photos I had in mind were pre-digital and not really great quality but brought back some treasured memories from summer 2003.

So, not content with 2 photos, I went for 5!

The typewriter words are from Scrap Rat, and come in a cute little vintage matchbox.

The patterned papers are October Afternoon and The Girl's paperie. 

Thanks for stopping by
Karen x

" House Guest "

We had this little cutee to stay for 10 days in August.

 She gets on really well with our own dog but is less than 1/4 of the size, so she did lots of running to keep up with Bazzil's walking!  

She is extremely lovable and was also very cooperative when having her photo taken !

This layout was made entirely from the crop kit from the September Crop at Papermaze.

 I don't usually buy the kit so it made a lovely change to have everything chosen and coordinated for me!! 

I didn't follow the example layout however, I just did my own thing.

The original  12 x12 layout by Vanessa is below.

All  the " Authentique"  papers  are available from Papermaze.

Thanks for stopping by

Karen x

"Bonkers"....

Following on from my last post, I decided that I liked the challenge of using 5 different patterned papers on a layout.....so I had another go.

 These papers are from Cosmo Cricket and October afternoon, and I love the colours.

 I struggled a bit with deciding on the lettering for the title but when I spotted these American Crafts Thickers at Papermaze last Saturday, I had to have them!

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Karen x

A Wedding ......

I was recently asked to make some "pretty things" for a friends wedding.

We decided on round cards for the table numbers,square background cards for the individual table plans- to be attached to a bird cage with decorated wooden pegs, and some gift boxes to hold the Bridesmaid's presents.

The Wedding  colour scheme was green, ivory and plum and I manged to match up the colour of the bridesmaids dresses to "Tangy Taffy" Bazzil cardstock.

The only extra card I needed was "Extravagance" from the  Eva basic Grey range.

And after lots and lots of cutting, punching, inking and gluing,here are the results....

Fingers crossed for a beautiful sunny day on the 17th !

Thanks for stopping by.

Karen x