Melman in Glasgow

Here's Melman holding the umbrella for us when we got so wet in the grounds of Pollockshaws Country Park. He's such a helpful giraffe! I've used some of the giraffe print ribbon that he got for me from Michael's last week.

More layering practice!

I've started following Christine Middlecamp who is a genius at layering (not to mention on the DT for one of my favourite paper ranges, Crate Paper) and am especially impressed with this: Embellished Paper Doily. I have them all tagged in Delicious to read and study later.

John brought a Somerset Studio magazine back from the States and that is full of inspiring things. Makes me want to get a proper journal and start an Art Journal properly rather than just messing around at it.

Scrap, Paper Scissors

Here's the layout that I made for the Saturday Sketch on the Scrap, Paper, Scissors Blog. I made a special effort in taking the photo... outside on one of John's small easels!

My parents, with their granny-grabbers, go blackberry picking. I should have been blackberry picking, but instead I took a lot of close up photos of interesting things in the hedgerows.

I've been trying to use the old stash to thin it out and get myself some space in my paper box. I can't break out of that box, I don't have the room! So I used my final full sheet of the gorgeous Wild Saffron.

Two of the butterflies have been painted and the other has been Distress inked. They've all been Stickled.

Twisted Sketches #49

This week the Twist is "colour", here's my take:


This is Tiddles. He was one of the cats that lived next-door-but-one when I was little. His real name was Linus, but I wanted to call him Tiddles.

One day my parents told me that Tiddles had moved house and gone to live at an old people's home... of course, that's not what had happened to Tiddles. :(

Oops!

I seem to have been abandoning my scrapping blog rather a lot. But there does seem to be an end in sight with the house remodelling, so here are a couple of layouts (paper ones!) from the last two UKS weekly challenges:

It was extremely windy at Elephant Butte, New Mexico. I had to hold my juice carton in my mouth to stop it blowing away!



The railway at Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

Pensford

More catching up. My parents and I took a trip to Pensford - I think it was last year! - these are the layouts for that trip:

Mmm... tuna light lunch.


The tour bus - we had free cereal bars afterwards as Pensford is owned by Jordans, the cereal bar people.


Brilliant tree-art, metal caterpillars and butterflies.

John Layouts

A few old layouts. This bunch all feature my Other Half!

Our fabulous barbecue with homemade rosemary kebab sticks - yum.

An inter-team layout from our early days as a team. I'm not really sure I like it. :(

Cambridge Botanical Garden.

Ferry Trip

Playing catch up with some old paper layouts that I've not uploaded. These are two from a ferry trip I went on in Scotland last year.

Nutmeg - claws

I've made this one for Rachael's Class at the Scrummy Stash Cafe.

I'm sadly running out of new pictures of Nutmeg to scrap and scrapping her is still making me a bit sniffly, but I know I'm going to love having these LOs to look back on.

Guggenheim

I used the inspiration on the Scrap Schemes blog to make the flowers - they were fun, but took AGES! I've never done so much stitching or button-stacking before.



Picture taken at the Guggenheim in New York where they had a mirror installation at the time (2004).

Here are some close-ups because I've finally figured out that setting on my camera!

Wet Day at Blenheim Palace

This is my take on PencilLines.com sketch #90.


I oversharpened this one when I saved it, which is a shame, but this was the first time I had ever added hand-stitching to a layout.

A Few Hours in Maine

On our trip back to Boston from New Hampshire we decided to take a detour and visit a new State. We got a little lost, but eventually ended up in Maine - although I have no idea whereabouts in Maine this actually is, we fell off the map! Somewhere near the border though.

There was a nice man selling ice creams and this lovely beach, so it was very picturesque, even if I have no idea where it is.