Jan Week 2 - City Walls

My take on the UKS weekly challenge for this week:


John climbing about on the York city walls last August.

Scrap Map Saturday

My entry for Scrap Map Saturday over at Creative Craft World. My father at the top of Glastonbury Tor.



My mojo is slowly returning to me, so I've decided to try and use up some of my bits and pieces rather than cutting straight into new purchases. I wanted to double mount this picture, but didn't have enough pieces of a large size, so the background is actually lots of small strips layered up and then cut down to size.

I've even started to use my Thickers, rather than just looking at them!

Paris Again and The South Bank

This first one I've made as a Companion Piece (oh yes, I watch too much Project Runway!) to Paris Monmartre
. There were quite a few offcuts that I wanted to use up rather than refile in my paper box and potentially forget all about.



I also used the negative image that I accidentally created when inking a doily for a layout that I seem to have forgotten to post. Anyway, I kept the inked paper as I figured I could use it at some point!

I can see now that it is massively missing journalling, so I may have to sort that out.




These are some of the elephants that we saw on the South Bank (we're in London now) after our trip to Macbeth at the Globe. The little elephants were on a paper of zoo creatures that I original bought because it has giraffes on, but now I've used the elephants and the lions!

This Castle Hath a Pleasant Seat...

The UKS weekly challenge involved using a Shakespeare quote. Well, of course, it had to be Macbeth. What else is there?! So I went for this quote:


The picture is John writing his postcards in the cafe at Edinburgh Castle. This took ages (to me anyway!) over three hours. Just finished it in time to watch the England v Slovenia match in the World Cup.

Father's Day Challenge

Here's my entry for the lastest Creative Craft World Challenge!

Well, the biggest challenge was choosing which picture of my Father to use and trying to avoid doing yet another Road Trip layout as those albums are full to bursting! So I decided to pick one of the most recent. I took this last month on a trip to Duxford. Each year we go and stand in 'Farmer Bob's* Field' and take pictures of the planes.

This year the Parentals are going to be away during the Flying Legends display, so we went during the Spring Airshow instead. Different sorts of planes than the ones we usually see, no Corsair and more modern fast things.

Here is Daddy, taking pictures:


and here's a close up of the plane. I think it's Sally B, but I might be wrong:


As you can see, I've chosen to do this Challenge as an 8.5x11.

EDIT: I won!

*no idea if his name is really Bob, but it's somethig to call him!

Project 12 - April

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April is represented by:

• Melman in Lizzy's Cafe, Risby Barns
• John being happy that we have started to clear out the garden ready for the new turf and new pond.
• The Oldest Inn in England, Nottingham - beautifully huge Sunday dinners!
• La Roux concert
• An old Bus at the Nene Steam Railway
• Tatty 2 and Tatty 1 in the flowering "Tat's Money"

Each month I do try to use new paper stash from that month. Of course, I really shouldn't have so much new paper stash, but heyho!

Sketchy Thursdays 4.29

Getting at the last minute with this one, although I made it last week. Forgot all about it in my layout tidying session and filed it away. These are a couple of the pictures my father took as slides way back in my childhood and as recently had made up into digital copies so they can be printed off as 'normal' photos.


This layout proves that there was a time when I was able to run races, win them and wear leotards. Those days, however, are looong gone!

Have started using Glossy Accents more now that I'm figuring out how to use. There's a pleat in the strip across the bottom and I've GA'd the flower element and stuck it on for height. Should've taken a close up of it as it looks a lot better in real life.