NSD 2012 & Hitchhiking

I've recently signed up to Shimelle's Hitchhikers Guide class at Two Peas in a Bucket. This meant that I started looking at the Two Peas forum a lot more last week than I have been in the past. I'd kind of dismissed it as an American Shop rather than a Global Forum and had stopped visiting. However, I find the forum there and the work posted to be a lot more inspirational than UKS. Expect I'll be hanging out there a lot more in the future. Last weekend was National Scrapbooking Day in America, but they kindly threw it open to the rest of the world! I even managed to get some layouts finished. Both of these are from Shimelle's Starting Points, and tie-in with the Hitchhiking class and one of them also counts as an NSD challenge at Two Peas. 

This layout is also for the challenge - negative space. Now that it's done, I realise that I should've lifted the top layer on pop dots to make it more obvious that the stars aren't punched and laid on top, but are holes with the paper underneath showing through. Ah well. I've learnt that lesson and can use it in the future. Of course, this is now making me lust after the Martha Stewart punch anywheres, do I need two classic butterflies that do different things? I think that maybe I do... Anyway. The layout is Adam, whinging! 

This one is just a Starting Point.  It records Adam's first train ride and the fact that he fell asleep during it (and during the return trip).  I used the planes as a travel theme.  I don't have train embellies, but the planes are cut from a Glitz paper in the current Quirky Kit and a recent Glitter Girl video was about travel papers being used for other things, so I think this works.  Otherwise I'd be hanging onto the paper forever waiting for a plane theme to crop up!

Weekly Challenge Time

Another week, another challenge over on UKS.


Two photos, Stamping, Bunting and using up scraps. The paper actually came from Susi, so it's actually using up her scraps, but I'm sure that still counts. Also used up scraps of BGs Lime Rickey and Liberty by Scenic Route. The cardstock is scraps as well.

Last years summer barbecues. I got rather drunk at the first one and discovered I was pregnant a few days later! The second BBQ was a sober affair.

Road Trip... again!

Last week's challenge at UKS. I did get it done on time, I just didn't upload it to my Blog on time.

Gutter Girlz

This is my first time submitting to this challenge site and it looks like fun! I've been wanting to scrap this for a long time, well, not the picture, but the quote. It was such a memorable part of our Road Trip that I knew I'd have to eventually, but scrapbooking has always come across as so sweet and innocent that I wasn't sure I really should be using the F-Word... *horrors*!

Of course, that's crazy. Scrapping is a personal experience. I could have created this layout, put it in my album and never shared it online. Then my Teamie Sue posted the link to the Gutter Girlz and I realised that actually I can scrap what I please and can even show it off!

So, here's my entry for Prompt #35. I've used the Prompt - Road Trip, and the Product - a Map. I've not used the song as I don't know it and it won't play from the GG website here in the UK.


Let me point out that my father doesn't swear, which is why him saying this was so funny.

We'd travelled from Vegas (you know, crowded, buildings, lights) and were on the way to Mesquite. This involved going through a large expanse of nothing. Big skies, endless desert, hills that were pretty much mountains and long straight stretches of freeway. There'd been an hour or so of this when my Dad comes out with his now-classic "There's fuck-all here!"

To be honest, I think he was bit worried that we'd be stuck for two weeks looking at nothing!

Of course, we then detoured through the Valley of Fire State Park and that was that. There isn't fuck-all there after all, you just need to learn to appreciate the desert for its beauty.


The photo is actually Navajo Bridge, so I've journalled about that rather than about the Valley of Fire, but it symbolises big skies, desert, etc and shows that there are things to be seen in the desert after all.

It wasnt until after I finished this layout that I realised that I have blatantly scraplifted Gutter Girl Susan! I must have seen it, registered it and forgotten all about it. Sorry about that, Susan. :(