Smash Book?

I like the idea of Smash Books, but buying all the "proper" bits and pieces? Nah. Seems a little silly when you can use existing stash and a nice book from Paperchase. So here it is. Well, a little sampling of what I've done so far.

I bought some coloured envelopes and some decorative paperclips so I could display my photos. As they're originals, rather than digitals, this way I don't have to risk scrapping them and potentially ending up with layouts I don't like or grow out of.

The only photo I have from my Open University Summer School to Brighton. I still had part of the diary I kept, so I've included that as well.

Bits and pieces from our trip to York last year. I've included some October Afternoon stickers on this page. On the next few pages I've added in some photos that I know I'll find really hard to scrap, but ones that I love. This way they're somewhere I'll be able to look at. I've added journalling around all the photos that I put into the book.

Duxford and Fleet Air Arm tickets and flyers. This page has been embellished with matching Cosmo Cricket papers and stickers.

Bits and Bobs from a lunch at Loch Fyne and the Bits and Bobs from hunting pigs in Bath. Added in some more October Afternoon and KesiArt.

Duxford

My layout of the day for yesterday. Propped this one up on John's easel to try and get a better shot of it. Tried.

{My favourite plane, the Vought F4U Corsair. Also the Breitling Wing Walkers, a shot of the Balbo & Daddy and I in the beanfield}

Based very loosely on a page map sketch. I wanted a jumping off point to help me with scrapping so many photos at once, not something I'm terribly good at!

Had to do this just to use that gorgeous aeroplance paper. I love Cosmo Cricket, maybe it shows?!

Project 12 - July

Once again I've had to take photos in less than perfect conditions, which is a shame, because I'm actually really happy with the way this Project 12 turned out. Best one in my album so far.

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I left some gaps for stuff I don't necessarily want plastered over the net, they're filled in now.

Up Up and Away!

Haven't touched anything but the Kaisercraft for days! Here are the latest three - you need to click to enlarge:

The Breitling Wing Walkers do their wing walking at Duxford before the Flying Legends fly past. It all looked like great fun until you realise that they have to climb off the wings and back into the planes in mid-flight!

One of the balloons at Albuquerque. I took this one especially because of its patchwork look and thought it would be a fun one to scrap. It's taken me almost two years to get round to scrapping it! Used my Martha Stewart butterfly for the first time and adapted an idea from the Studio Calico blog. They suggested creating faux washi tape using the material tape you get from the pharmacy, I thought I'd give it a go by stamping onto masking tape. Seems to work!

Another balloon from Albuquerque. For more information on the Zia of New Mexico click here.

Very bizarrely all the photos on the layouts have brightened after I took their pictures! On the layouts the colours in the photos are much more muted as I used the desaturation technique on them. Running them through Picasa to sharpen them up seems to have brightened them up as well...

Plastic Bullet

After a couple of recommendations on The Paperclipping Roundtable I bought myself Plastic Bullet for the iPhone and had a play last night with some of the photos I already had stored on her and I love it already!

Wing Walkers at Duxford.

Alex the Lion at Houghton Mill.

John and I on the Seine.

Duxford 2010

One of the pictures that Daddy took at Duxford on the Sunday. The wing walkers getting off the wings and back into the planes!

Project 12 - May

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This months layout features a fuzzy picture from the Diana Vickers concert, an Elephant on South Bank, London, an incoming plane in Duxford, some swans in St Ives (not the Cornish one) and a postcard for the Summer Evening at the Fitzwilliam Musuem.

Sketchy Thursdays 6.10

I've decided to try and combine some other challenges with the Weekly Challenge that is set on UKS and to not stress too much about getting the WC (as we call it) done fully each week. I usually try and cover all the bases to get the points for the Team, but I often end up with layouts that I'm not 100% happy with.

So this is the first of the combined efforts and I've combined with Sketchy Thursdays! I'm still not 100% happy with it as I decided to use my own handwriting on it (to make a difference, to not keep using up those darned pricey alphas...) and I've never liked my handwriting. Still, makes it unique!

I am happy with the background paper, however, which started off as an 8x8 piece of white that you get slipped into page protectors in new albums. I abused it with stamps, Distress Ink (and Reinker in a spray) and then some more Distress Ink. Then I covered it all up with the Crate Paper! Oh well, it was fun and very messy.

This is another photo from Duxford last month where Daddy and I were stood under the flight path with all of the other crazy fools who don't want to fork out the money to go to the display properly. This plane was so close its wingtips didn't fit in the shot...

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!

Duxford 2009

Well, what with installing kitchens, doing assignments and entertaining my Father, I've not had much time to scrap. So I'm back to doing Weekly challenges the old-fashioned way... digitally!

This week had many elements. Stars, squares, blue, "white" space, celebration picture and birds.

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The celebration I have chose to scrap is my father's birthday. My present to him was to go to Duxford for both days over the Flying Legends weekend and watch the balbo flypast. The best part for him was watching the Focke-Wulf 190 flying as he'd never seen one in the air before. I've overlaid the warbird (see what I did there with the birds!) onto the layout.

I wasn't quite so happy as my favourite warbird, the Corsair, didn't fly this year. :(

Kit: Space Cadet by Stacey Towers
Font (the squares): Kfon

Duxford

My take on Maria's Class at the Scrummy Stash Cafe Blog.

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I've used Crate Paper Blue Hill and my paints are acrylics rather than the watercolours that Maria used - so my clouds are a lot brighter!

Digital Layouts

I'm still trying to decide how I feel about digital scrapbooking. I know that I prefer getting covered in glue and bits of scrap paper to being glued to the pc screen. On the other hand they're a good way of sending your layouts to other people, especially to people who don't scrap and are confused by what it is. They do make a nice change from e-cards as they are easy to personalise.

Last night I did five layouts in digital while my OH was busy watching the football. I suppose I could have vanished into my "craft room" and done a few paper versions instead, but I was quite curious to see if Spain would be able to beat Germany, so I stayed and digiscrapped.

Here's a few of them: